Democrat Election Crime
During the 2016 elections, Democrats cheated at federal, state, and local levels, for which they have been hit with record penalties. In each case, the violations provided them with an unfair advantage and in some cases violated the law. -Alex Plitsas
A top Democratic operative says voter fraud, especially with mail-in ballots, is no myth. And he knows this because he’s been doing it, on a grand scale, for decades.
-Jon Levine 
A group of Indiana Democrats were arrested in connection with submitting fraudulent voter registrations.
Prosecutors charged 11 temporary canvassers, and their supervisor, Holiday Burke, who were working for the Indiana Voter Registration Project for submitting fraudulent voter registration applications before the 2016 election, according to the Associated Press.
-Carmine Sabia
The U.S. Attorney in Chicago at the time, Daniel Webb, estimated that at least 100,000 fraudulent votes (10 percent of all votes in the city) had been cast. Sixty-five individuals were indicted for federal election crimes, and all but two (one found incompetent to stand trial and another who died) were convicted. -Hans A. von Spakovsky
Democrat, Crime, Election, Guns, Character, Corruption, Drugs, Convict
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren has agreed to resign for violating state election law during her 2017 run for re-election and will leave office by Dec. 1.
Warren, 44, was readying Monday for what was expected to be a month-long trial on felony charges that she and two assistants violated campaign contribution limits, but she pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor, admitting that she knowingly exceeded the $8,557 limit...
Prosecutors didn’t specify the scope of the alleged fraud other than to say it was in the “hundreds of thousands of dollars.” The PAC had raised about $350,000, the Democrat & Chronicle reported.
Warren’s plea deal Monday also resolved separate gun and child endangerment charges. In July, a grand jury indicted her and her estranged husband, Timothy Granison, with criminal possession of a firearm and endangering the welfare of a child and failure to lock or secure firearms in a dwelling, the newspaper reported.
The allegations were connected to a raid of their home in May that police said led to the seizure of 2 kilos of cocaine and a rifle and a pistol at the home, where their 10-year-old daughter was found alone.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character, Theft
A Democratic Virginia delegate was pulled over by police less than 24 hours before Election Day after a deputy witnessed a woman taking campaign signs and getting into a car the delegate was driving.
Delegate Chris Hurst was pulled over by police in Radford, Virginia, on Monday evening after a deputy with the Radford Sheriff's office saw a woman taking campaign signs that were on display outside the city recreation center and then getting into a car Hurst was driving, according to Radford Sheriff Mark Armentrout.
Police found that Hurst was driving the vehicle with a suspended license, and he was given a "driving while suspended notification" by a deputy, local outlets report.
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Crime, Election, Character, Fraud, Greed
According to Philadelphia magazine, Marie Beren, 67, faces federal charges for participating in a voter fraud scheme from 2015-2019. The outlet said Beren faces four charges related to voter fraud, one of which is conspiracy.
At the time of the charges, Beren was serving as a staffer for Philadelphia City Councilmember Mark Squilla. However, she has previously served in plenty of other political roles in the city.
Prosecutors said Beren and an unidentified “consultant” were involved in the voter fraud conspiracy. The complaint alleges the consultant “exercised influence and control in Philadelphia’s 39th Ward by distributing cash payments and supporting family, friends and allies for elective office in the 39th Ward, and installing Ward Leaders, Judges of Elections, and Democratic State Committee.”...
On Election Day, the consultant would drive Beren to the polling place and tell her how to cast fraudulent votes. She then allegedly engaged in multiple illegal activities such as advising in-person voters to support a certain candidate, casting votes herself in other people’s names and encouraging voters to cast additional votes for family members who were not present.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, AntiAmerican, Hoax
British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who wrote the Democrat-financed anti-Trump dossier, said in a court case that he was hired by a Democratic law firm in preparation for Hillary Clinton challenging the results of the 2016 presidential election.
He said the law firm Perkins Coie wanted to be in a position to contest the results based on evidence he unearthed on the Trump campaign conspiring with Moscow on election interference.
His scenario is contained in a sealed Aug. 2 declaration in a defamation law suit brought by three Russian bankers in London...
In an answer to interrogatories, Mr. Steele wrote: “Fusion’s immediate client was law firm Perkins Coie. It engaged Fusion to obtain information necessary for Perkins Coie LLP to provide legal advice on the potential impact of Russian involvement on the legal validity of the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential election.
“Based on that advice, parties such as the Democratic National Committee and HFACC Inc. (also known as ‘Hillary for America’) could consider steps they would be legally entitled to take to challenge the validity of the outcome of that election.”
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Immigration
An undocumented Mexican immigrant who lived for years in a rural San Antonio suburb pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of fraud and identity theft, admitting he used a stolen identity to vote in several elections.
Enrique Salazar Ortiz, 63, would not tell federal agents how many times he had voted using the name of former San Antonio resident Jesse H. Vargas Jr., but Salazar did admit casting a ballot in the 2016 general election, according to the plea agreement.
But Bexar County records show a man with Vargas’ name and date of birth voted in every general election for the past 24 years, county elections administrator Jacque Callanen said Thursday.
“He’s been voting since at least 1994,” Callanen said. “Vargas” also voted in the 2008 Democratic primary, she said.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Financial, Fraud, Convict
Frank “Pupie” Raia, the Hoboken developer on trial for orchestrating a widespread voter bribery scheme during the city’s 2013 municipal election, was found guilty Tuesday in federal court...
Raia, 67, was convicted of conspiracy to violate the federal Travel Act for using the mail for voter bribery. He now faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine... A longtime figure in Hoboken politics, Raia was first indicted by a federal grand jury in October for allegedly overseeing a scheme to pay residents $50 for their votes...
Raia, a Democrat, worked in the garment industry in his youth and began investing in real estate in 1980 when he opened his first affordable housing building.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Justice
A Fort Worth woman recently indicted on voter fraud charges paid others involved in the scheme with funds provided by a former Tarrant County Democratic Party leader, court documents filed this week say.
After learning about a state investigation, Leticia Sanchez — one of four women arrested and indicted on voter fraud charges — allegedly directed her daughter to send a text message to others in the scheme, urging them not to cooperate with investigators, state officials say.
The allegations are made in the state’s notice of intent to introduce evidence in Sanchez’s criminal case, where state officials say she was among those who collaborated to vote for certain down-ballot candidates with a number of north side residents’ mail-in ballots.
The notice, filed Tuesday, states that Sanchez engaged in organized criminal activity in collaboration with her three co-defendants; Stuart Clegg, a former executive director for the Tarrant County Democratic Party; and others.
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Election, Obama, Financial, Oops, Justice, Law
President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for campaign reporting violations — one of the largest fees ever levied against a presidential campaign, POLITICO has learned.
The fine — laid out in detail in FEC documents that have yet to be made public — arose from an audit of the campaign, which was published in April...
The major sticking point for the FEC appeared to be a series of missing 48-hour notices for nearly 1,300 contributions totaling more than $1.8 million — an issue that lawyers familiar with the commission’s work say the FEC takes seriously. The notices must be filed on contributions of $1,000 or more that are received within the 20-day window of Election Day.
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Government, Character, AntiAmerican, Bigbrother, Corruption, Trump
The Justice Department inspector general on Thursday castigated former FBI director James B. Comey for his actions during the Hillary Clinton email investigation and found that other senior bureau officials showed a “willingness to take official action” to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president...
Perhaps the most damaging revelation in the report is a previously unreported text message in which Strzok, a key investigator on both the Clinton email case and the investigation of Russia and the Trump campaign, assured an FBI lawyer in August 2016 that “we’ll stop” Trump from making it to the White House.
“[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” the lawyer, Lisa Page, wrote to Strzok.
“No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it,” Strzok responded.
“There is no real concrete evidence of voter fraud,” tweeted Donna Brazile, former acting chair of the Democratic National Committee, this week. “It’s a big ass lie.”
Democrat, Election, Fraud, Corruption
A voting data request from the Speaker of the House to both the Department of Safety and the Secretary of State has revealed that more than 5,000 people who were allowed to vote in the November 2016 general election probably don’t actually live in the state and also never became drivers or registered vehicles in New Hampshire.
On Nov. 8, 2016, 6,540 voters used an out-of-state driver’s license as identification to vote but as of Aug. 30, 2017, only 1,014 of those individuals – 15.5 percent – had been issued a New Hampshire driver’s license, according to the data...
But three races were determined by less than 5,000 votes: Gov. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, beat incumbent U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte by 1,017 votes – although many have suspected that last minute, illegal campaign mailers pushing votes to independent Aaron Day cost Ayotte the race. Hillary Clinton bested Donald Trump by 2,736, earning the state’s 4 Electoral College votes even though she ultimately lost the presidency.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Corruption, Convict
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia sentenced on Monday a James Madison University student to at least 100 days in prison for registering names of deceased persons to vote, CBS 6 WTVR reported.
Andrew J. Spiels worked for a Democrat-affiliated organization known as Harrisonburg Votes at the time he committed the crime, according to acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle .
You have a postman who is a rabid anti-Trump guy and he’s working in Bedminster or some Republican stronghold … He can take those [filled-out] ballots, and knowing 95% are going to a Republican, he can just throw those in the garbage.
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Election, Character, Vandalism, Trump
A La Crosse man admitted throwing roofing nails into driveways of residents who supported Republican candidates after someone stole his lawn sign supporting a Democratic candidate, according to La Crosse police reports. Martin Sellers, 59, of 2126 Hoeschler Drive, told police he “has done some stupid things” during his arrest Sunday for criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct, reports stated.
Five homeowners on Lincoln Avenue, Ward Avenue, Elm Drive and Springbrook Way for three years reported nails in driveways. One homeowner reported eight incidents. Sellers said he periodically targeted driveways of homes that displayed signs supporting Republicans “out of anger for the political system,” reports stated.
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Election, Financial, Murder
A Chinese-American businessman at the center of a Clinton campaign finance scandal secretly filmed a tell-all video as an 'insurance policy' - because he feared being murdered. In footage provided exclusively to DailyMail.com, Johnny Chung spills details on how he illegally funneled money from Chinese officials to Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election bid.
The Chinese-American Clinton fundraiser recorded the 'elaborate videotaped testimony' while in hiding in 2000. He smuggled it to trusted friends and family with instructions to release it to the media in the event of his untimely death because he believed he was at risk of being assassinated.
NYC Democratic Election Commissioner
Admits Democrat Vote Fraud
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Election, Violence, Character, Politics, Metaphor, Assault
During their meeting, Sam Pernick, president of the Young Democrats of Michigan, and other Sanders supporters—who nearly outnumbered the rest of the attendees at the meeting—protested the lack of transparency and openness exercised by the Michigan Democratic Party, which rigged the DNC delegate nomination process behind closed doors.
Michigan Democratic Party officials responded with force. Pernick and several others were nearly dragged out of the meeting. Pernick is pursuing charges, and the Westland Police Department recently issued Mike Stone, a senior Michigan Democratic Party official, a ticket for assault and battery.
Democrat, Election, Fraud, Corruption
In a discussion of modern electoral fraud, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Monday offered a journalistic admission: She conceded that the 1960 presidential election was “obviously” “stolen” from Richard Nixon.
It’s rare for liberal journalists to admit the electoral fraud of the dead voting for Kennedy in Illinois. (Voter fraud also occurred in Lyndon Johnson’s Texas.) JFK’s popular vote margin was just over 100,000 votes out of 70 million cast. -Scott Whitlock
Democrat, Crime, Character, Fraud, Narrative, Justice, Law
A group that had been represented by the top lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign earlier this year is now being investigated by Ohio authorities for fraudulent voter registrations, including the registration of deceased individuals. Marc Elias, an attorney at Perkins Coie who has become the go-to fixer for Democrats and is now general counsel for Clinton’s presidential campaign, became involved with the Ohio Organizing Collaborative this May when he filed a lawsuit on its behalf to challenge the state’s voter identification laws.
Now the group is being investigated by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal investigation after a local board of elections alleged that 25 to 30 of the voter-registration applications that the group submitted appeared to be fraudulent.
Democrat Election Corruption...
We've long suspected it, but Philadelphia now has direct evidence in its hands that the leader of the city's Democrats, Congressman Robert A. Brady colluded in a scheme to pay off a senior municipal court judge to drop out of a challenge to his seat for re-election.
It gets worse… it's to get rid of a black guy.
In a bombshell article in the Inquirer, senior Municipal Court judge Jimmie Moore has agreed to resign. As part of his plea deal, he admits to accepting $90,000 in payments from Brady to drop out of the race.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Teaparty, Convict
A former official in the Oakland County Democratic Party in Michigan was sentenced to one year probation for his part in a scheme last fall to split the Republican vote by putting fake Tea Party candidates on the ballot. In October, former chairman of the Oakland County Democrats Michael McGuinness pleaded no contest to the charges, which involved perjury and forgery. He was sentenced Wednesday to "one-year probation, 180 hours of community service and $1,965 in fines," according to the Detroit News.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Incitement, Character, Fraud
A Louisiana mayor whose son is Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's chief of staff told voters at a private event to vote twice, speaking to a partisan crowd 24 hours before Election Day last month. Video of Opelousas, Louisiana Mayor Don Cravins Sr.'s Nov. 3 remarks show him telling a crowd in his home town that 'if you "early voted," go vote again tomorrow. One more time’s not going to hurt.'... 'Tomorrow we’re gonna elect Earl Taylor as the D.A. so he won’t prosecute you if you vote twice,' Cravins said.
Democrats: "Vote Twice"
A Louisiana mayor whose son is Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's chief of staff told voters at a private event to vote twice, speaking to a partisan crowd 24 hours before Election Day last month.
Video of Opelousas, Louisiana Mayor Don Cravins Sr.'s Nov. 3 remarks show him telling a crowd in his home town that 'if you "early voted," go vote again tomorrow. One more time’s not going to hurt.'... 'Tomorrow we’re gonna elect Earl Taylor as the D.A. so he won’t prosecute you if you vote twice,' Cravins said.
You can always count on MSNBC for ridiculous hyperbole, but this one might take the cake. Joy Reed had this to say about voter fraud: “There’s a lot of studies that show, literally, that you’re more likely to be beamed up into a UFO or struck by lightning than to find in-person voter fraud.”
Democrat, Crime, Election, Scandal
The DNC was fined $115,000, the Clinton-Gore campaign $2,000 and the Buddhist Progress Society $120,000. In the conciliation signed by DNC lawyer Joseph Sandler, the party agreed to pay the fine and to "disgorge (another) $128,000" to the U.S. Treasury, representing illegal contributions that were not returned to donors. In over 400 pages of documents, the FEC detailed a variety of illegal fund- raising schemes in the 1996 Clinton re-election organization.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Scandal, Greed, Corruption
The FEC documents describe Democratic fund-raisers who set specific prices for foreign nationals to make illegal campaign contributions in return for meetings with then-President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. A Democratic finance vice chair, for example, said organizers would have to contribute a total of $100,000 in return for Gore's appearance at a Buddhist temple in Los Angeles.
"Five Minutes Per Ballot Tops"...
He would have his operatives fan out, going house to house, convincing voters to let them mail completed ballots on their behalf as a public service.
The fraudster and his minions would then take the sealed envelopes home and hold them over boiling water. “You have to steam it to loosen the glue,” said the insider. He then would remove the real ballot, place the counterfeit ballot inside the signed certificate, and reseal the envelope. “Five minutes per ballot tops,” said the insider.
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Election, Obama, Fraud, Convict
As Hillary Clinton prepares for a possible presidential run in 2016, it appears that she could have knocked then-candidate Barack Obama off the 2008 primary ballot in Indiana. If anyone, including her campaign, had challenged the names and signatures on the presidential petitions that put Obama on the ballot, election fraud would have been detected during the race... the four defendants who were convicted or pleaded guilty in the state's presidential petition fraud scandal were sentenced. Only one received prison time for the illegal scheme that touched the race for the White House.
Democrat Fraud And Incitement: 2016 Election
"The campaign pays DNC, DNC pays Democracy Partners, Democracy Partners pays the Foval Group, the Foval Group goes and executes the sh— on the ground."
Democrat, Crime, Election, Convict
Former Democratic Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon pleaded guilty to a felony corruption charge back in June, but that didn’t stop him from trying to vote in this year’s election. In North Carolina, it is against the law for convicted felons to vote until after serving the full length of their incarceration. Cannon is currently out on bond after being sentenced in October to 44 months in prison for accepting bribes from undercover federal agents.
Democrat, Crime, Election
A Wisconsin mailman is under investigation for dumping hundreds of letters supporting Republican candidates in the trash, according to the Wisconsin Reporter. According to the news outlet, 879 pieces of “political mail” were discarded, none of which appeared to be supporting Democratic candidates.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character
The husband of a Democratic incumbent lawmaker now up for re-election in Delaware stole Republican campaign signs under the cover of darkness, according to police... Middletown, Delaware, police issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for Dana Long following the thefts at Middletown Odessa and Silver Lake roads. "My husband is the man depicted in the video," said state Sen. Bethany Hall-Long (D-Middletown) in a prepared statement.
Democrat, Liberal, Election, Character, Fraud, Corruption
Voting machines that switch Republican votes to Democrats are being reported in Maryland. “When I first selected my candidate on the electronic machine, it would not put the ‘x’ on the candidate I chose — a Republican — but it would put the ‘x’ on the Democrat candidate above it,” Donna Hamilton said... Queen Anne County Sheriff Gary Hofmann said he encountered the problem, too, personally. “This is happening here as well. It occurred on two candidates on my machine. I am glad I checked. Many voters have reported this here as well,” Hofmann, a Republican, wrote in an email Sunday evening.
Mark Udall Advocates Condone
Voter Fraud
When he raised the issue of filling out some of the unused ballots that are mailed to every household in the state this month, he was told by Meredith Hicks, the director of Work for Progress, a liberal group funded by Democratic Super PACS.: “That is not even like lying or something, if someone throws out a ballot, like if you want to fill it out you should do it.”
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Corruption
Admitting his confidence in Cook County ballot integrity is shaken, State Representative Candidate Jim Moynihan (R-56), was shocked today when he tried to cast a vote for himself and the voting machine cast it for his opponent instead. “While early voting at the Schaumburg Public Library today, I tried to cast a vote for myself and instead it cast the vote for my opponent,” said Moynihan. “You could imagine my surprise as the same thing happened with a number of races when I tried to vote for a Republican and the machine registered a vote for a Democrat.”
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Election, Character, Fraud, Crazy, Assault
Bridgeport Democratic state representative Christina ‘Tita’ Ayala has been arrested and charged with voting in local and state elections in districts where she did not live. Ayala, 31, from Bridgeport, was charged with eight counts of fraudulent voting, 10 counts of primary or enrollment violations, and one count of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence... She was fined $350 for a hit-and-run car accident shortly after winning the 2012 Democratic primary for the House seat. She later got into a fight with her boyfriend and faced domestic violence charges, which were dropped after she completed counseling.
Even more disturbing was an election official who when asked about forging signatures covered her ears and then went on to admit, “People do that all the time.” A Battleground Texas volunteer then added, “I don’t think it’s legal but I didn’t hear you say that.”... Battleground Texas is part of the Turn Texas Blue project.
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Election, Character, Financial, Fraud, Corruption
Obama megadonor Kareem Ahmed was indicted Tuesday by a California grand jury in an alleged multimillion-dollar insurance kickback scheme, TPM reports. Ahmed was a major Obama donor during the 2012 election. He gave $1 million to Priorities USA Action in 2012. He also donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to other Democratic candidates.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character, Financial, Corruption, Convict
A wealthy hotel executive and Democratic fundraiser who supported Hilary Clinton for president pleaded guilty Thursday to charges he secretly funneled more than $180,000 in illegal campaign contributions to three unnamed candidates and coached someone to lie about it. An informant caught Sant Singh Chatwal on tape in 2010 explaining that he believed his illegal fundraising bought him access to people in power.
Wright, now rather infamously, continues to serve in the Senate despite having been found guilty by a Los Angeles jury of eight counts of perjury and voter fraud, centered around the Senator falsely saying that he lived in a place where prosecutors convinced jurors he, in fact, did not live at all.
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Crime, Election, Government, Fraud, Greed, Corruption, Convict
On paid leave as he prepares to fight felony convictions for perjury and voter fraud, state Sen. Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood) said Monday he is finding it frustrating to be away from the policy debate in Sacramento... Still, after the conviction, Wright requested and was granted a paid leave of absence pending his sentencing hearing on May 16...
Democrat, Liberal, Election, Obama, Fraud, Greed, Corruption
The donations kept pouring in: hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to President Obama and more than a dozen members of Congress, carefully routed through the families of two wealthy brothers in Florida...The two men, Roberto and William Isaias, are fugitives from Ecuador, which has angrily pressed Washington to turn them over, to no avail. A year after their relatives gave $90,000 to help re-elect Mr. Obama, the administration rejected Ecuador’s extradition request for the men, fueling accusations that such donations were helping to keep the brothers and their families safely on American soil.
Democrat, Liberal, Election, Financial, Corruption, Convict
A nonprofit group believed to be the League of United Latino American Citizens (LULAC) used illegal corporate contributions to secretly aid Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign, according to federal court documents. Democratic donor and District of Columbia businessman Jeffrey Thompson pleaded guilty on Monday to funneling millions in illegal donations to local and federal candidates, including Clinton in 2008.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Financial
Prominent Southern California lawyer Pierce O'Donnell pleaded guilty Thursday to two misdemeanor federal charges of making illegal campaign contributions... The case stems from contributions made to John Edwards' 2004 presidential bid.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Corruption, Convict
The former chief of staff of a Democratic Florida congressman will serve 90 days in jail after admitting to a voter fraud scheme during the 2012 election. WSVN reports Jeffrey Garcia pled guilty Monday to one felony charge and three misdemeanor charges after admitting he illegally requested hundreds of absentee ballots while he was running the campaign for Rep. Joe Garcia.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Financial, Convict, Ignorance, Arrogance
Ex-Nevada power broker Harvey Whittemore admitted he was "arrogant and naive" but insisted "I'm not greedy" before a judge sentenced him Monday to two years in prison for funneling more than $130,000 in illegal campaign funds to Sen. Harry Reid's re-election committee in 2007.
At least 341 convicted felons voted in Minneapolis's Hennepin County, the state's largest, and another 52 voted illegally in St. Paul's Ramsey County, the state's second largest.
Dan McGrath, head of Minnesota Majority, says that only conclusive matches were included in the group's totals. The number of felons voting in those two counties alone exceeds Mr. Franken's victory margin.
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Liberal, Crime, Election, Greed, Corruption
Former Illinois lawmaker Jesse Jackson, Jr., was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. He will also face 36 months of probation, 500 hours of community service and continued mental health care.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character, Fraud
The communications director for Rep. Joe Garcia (D-FL) resigned on Friday, amid an ongoing criminal investigation into fraudulent absentee-ballot requests, The Miami Herald reported on Monday. The first-term Democrat's now-former communications director, Giancarlo Sopo, had been on unpaid administrative leave since early June.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character, Fraud, Convict
In court, former longtime St. Joseph County Democratic Chairman Butch Morgan, Jr. was sentenced to one year behind bars, and is expected to serve half that, as well as Community Corrections and probation. Former St. Joseph County Board of Elections worker and Democratic volunteer Dustin Blythe received a sentence of one year in Community Corrections and probation, which means no jail time. In April, a jury convicted Morgan and Blythe on numerous felony conspiracy counts to commit petition fraud and felony forgery counts. Former St. Joseph County Board of Voter Registration Democratic board member Pam Brunette and Board of Voter Registration worker Beverly Shelton previously pleaded guilty and testified for prosecutors against Morgan and Blythe.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character, Fraud
Garcia dismissed Jeffrey Garcia, his chief of staff and longtime political advisor, Friday after law enforcement raided the family homes of Sopo and former campaign manager John Estes seeking computers and other electronic equipment. Jeffrey Garcia, who is not related to his boss, admitted to the congressman that he directed the campaign to submit the phantom ballot requests, Joe Garcia said. “I don’t know why,” he added, saying the operation — which ultimately failed — wasn’t needed. “During this entire election, we were polling. ... We thought we were ahead early on and from the get-go.”
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character
The chief of staff to freshman Rep. Joe Garcia (D-Fla.) resigned on Friday after he was implicated in a plot to submit hundreds of fraudulent absentee ballots during the congressman’s primary election last year. “I’m shocked and disappointed about this,” Rep. Garcia, who said he was unaware of the scheme, told the Herald.
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Election, Fraud, Lie, Convict
A former Nevada powerbroker was convicted on Wednesday of making illegal campaign contributions to U.S. Sen. Harry Reid. A federal jury reached the verdict in the case against real estate developer and once powerful lobbyist Harvey Whittemore. The jury returned unanimous guilty verdicts on charges of making excessive campaign contributions, making contributions in the name of another, and causing a false statement to be made to the Federal Election Commission... Prosecutors say Whittemore gave $150,000 to family members and employees in 2007 to make contributions he had promised to Reid...
Democrat, Crime, Character, Fraud, Convict
A Democratic researcher pleaded guilty yesterday to misrepresenting herself on a Web site as Michael S. Steele, Maryland's lieutenant governor and a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, and fraudulently obtaining his credit report last summer. Under a plea agreement reached with prosecutors, the misdemeanor charge against Lauren B. Weiner, a former staff member of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, could be dropped in a year if she completes 150 hours of community service and commits no other offenses.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Convict
Guilty on all counts -- A jury convicted Butch Morgan and Dustin Blythe of forging signatures to get Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on Indiana's 2008 primary Ballot. Morgan headed up the St. Joseph County Democratic Party and Blythe worked in the registration office.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud
The trial is underway for a former Democratic official and a Board of Elections worker who are accused of being part of a plot that has raised questions over whether President Obama's campaign -- when he was a candidate in 2008 -- submitted enough legitimate signatures to have legally qualified for the presidential primary ballot. The two face charges of orchestrating an illegal scheme to fake the petitions that enabled then-candidates Obama, and Hillary Clinton, to qualify for the race in Indiana.
During the 2016 elections, Democrats cheated at federal, state, and local levels, for which they have been hit with record penalties. In each case, the violations provided them with an unfair advantage and in some cases violated the law. -Alex Plitsas
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character, Fraud
State Sen. Malcolm Smith and city Councilman Dan Halloran were arrested this morning on charges they were plotting to rig this year’s mayoral election through fraud and bribes. The pols allegedly formed an alliance built on cash payments and fraud to get Smith — one of the state’s top Democrats — placed on the GOP mayoral ballot, sources said. FBI agents arrested them both at their Queens homes shortly after 6 a.m. “I have no idea,” Halloran, in handcuffs, told a Post reporter when asked if he knew why he was being arrested.
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Election, Obama, Character
"Yes, I voted twice," Richardson told WCPO-TV. "I, after registering thousands of people, certainly wanted my vote to count, so I voted. I voted at the polls." Authorities also are investigating if she voted in the names of four other people, too, for a total of six votes in the 2012 presidential election. "I'll fight it for Mr. Obama and for Mr. Obama's right to sit as president of the United States," Richardson vowed when asked about the voter fraud investigation that is now under way.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character, Fraud, Convict
A Massachusetts state representative has agreed to plead guilty to civil rights violations and resign from office for his role in submitting false absentee ballot applications and casting invalid ballots in 2009 and 2010, the Justice Department said in a news release Thursday. Rep. Stephen Smith, 57, of Everett, Mass. will plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of deprivation of rights. Smith, who represents the 28th Middlesex District in Massachusetts, allegedly cast invalid absentee ballots for voters who were ineligible or unaware of ballots being cast in their names.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Financial, Fraud, Convict, Theft
Federal prosecutors are seeking an eight-year prison sentence for a Democratic campaign treasurer accused of draining up to $20 million from the war chests of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and other politicians, court documents showed on Monday. Kinde Durkee, who controlled the funds of some 400 political candidates and groups, should spend 97 months in federal custody and pay an as-yet undetermined amount of restitution, a sentencing memo by prosecutors said. Durkee was arrested in September 2011 and charged with criminal mail fraud.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Corruption, Convict
A federal judge sentenced a former West Virginia county official to nearly two years in prison on Thursday, partly as a warning that election fraud in the state must stop. Thomas Ramey Jr. was ordered to serve 21 months for lying to an FBI agent about absentee ballot applications, which prosecutors say were part of a scheme to sway Lincoln County's 2010 Democratic primary. "You should have known better, and you should have educated yourself on election law," the judge told the 32-year-old Democrat.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character, Oops
A Democratic congressional candidate from Maryland has dropped out of the race after the state party said she had voted in both Maryland and Florida in the 2006 general election and in the 2008 presidential primaries. Wendy Rosen confirmed to The Associated Press that she was withdrawing from the 1st District congressional race. She did not elaborate beyond a statement citing “personal issues.”
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Election, Hate, Character, Vandalism
Police are searching for the vandals who apparently torched more than a dozen campaign signs and American flags in a Howey-in-the-Hills veteran's yard. William Overbay said someone ignited the flags and signs, which supported Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, that he had lined along his yard. The vandals also painted a sign on his driveway reading "Obama for life," at his DuPont Circle home, Overbay said.
Local police in Arlington, Va., have opened a criminal investigation after a secretly recorded video showed the son of a Democratic congressman apparently advising someone who claimed to be looking for ways to commit voter fraud. In a brief statement, the Arlington County police department and attorney's office said they were "aware" of the video "allegedly depicting" Patrick Moran, son of Virginia Rep. Jim Moran, "assisting another to vote illegally."
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character, Fraud, Law
Project Veritas released video today that exposes Representative Jim Moran’s Field Director and son, Patrick Moran, conspiring to commit election fraud.
Patrick Moran tells undercover reporter to “forge” utility bills to vote. When approached by an undercover investigator for advice on how to steal the votes of more than 100 people, Moran advised falsifying documents to satisfy Virginia’s new voter ID law. He said, “Bank statement obviously would be tough, but they can fake a utility bill with ease.” Moran went on to clarify that, “You’d have to forge it.”
The name Levar Stoney may not ring a bell to many in Wisconsin, but the new Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia and former Deputy Campaign Manager for Governor-elect Terry McAuliffe has some scandalous history in Wisconsin. In 2004, Levar Stoney was involved in covering up and lying for five Democratic campaign operatives who slashed the tires of 25 vans rented by the Republican Party for get out the vote efforts.
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Election, Obama, Character, Financial
The Obama re-election campaign has accepted at least one foreign donation in violation of the law — and does nothing to check on the provenance of millions of dollars in other contributions, a watchdog group alleges. Chris Walker, a British citizen who lives outside London, told The Post he was able to make two $5 donations to President Obama’s campaign this month through its Web site while a similar attempt to give Mitt Romney cash was rejected. It is illegal to knowingly solicit or accept money from foreign citizens. Walker said he used his actual street address in England but entered Arkansas as his state with the Schenectady, NY, ZIP code of 12345.
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Election, Character, Fraud
The Democratic National Committee has terminated the employment of Houston, Texas, Organizing For America Regional Field Director Stephanie Caballero after she was caught on camera calling voter fraud “cool” and “so funny” while advising a presumably-liberal voter how to vote twice.
Democrat, Election, Character, Fraud
A Maryland Democratic candidate quit her congressional race Monday after her own party told state officials that she had committed fraud by voting in both Maryland and Florida in recent elections. Wendy Rosen, a small-business owner running against freshman Rep. Andy Harris (R) in the Eastern Shore-based 1st Congressional District, released a statement saying that “with great regret, and much sorrow” she was resigning from the contest.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character, Fraud
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A Democratic state legislator from east Arkansas, his father and two campaign workers pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to commit election fraud after federal prosecutors said the lawmaker's campaign bribed absentee voters and destroyed ballots in a special election last year. Prosecutors said Democratic Rep. Hudson Hallum of Marion, Kent Hallum, Phillip Wayne Carter and Sam Malone acknowledged that they participated in a conspiracy to bribe voters to influence absentee votes in the Arkansas District 54 primary, runoff and general elections in 2011.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Lie, Convict
A third former West Virginia county official pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge arising from a scheme to sway a 2010 Democratic primary with fraudulent absentee ballots. Ex-Lincoln County Commissioner Thomas Ramey Jr. pleaded guilty to lying to an FBI agent investigating the plot. U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston set a Nov. 15 sentencing hearing for the 32-year-old Democrat, who faces up to five years in prison and a fine. Ramey remains free on bond.
Democrat, Crime, Election
The influence-peddling investigation directed at the congressional fundraising campaign of Democrat Christopher G. Donovan broadened Thursday with the indictments of seven men, including a longtime aide to the embattled House speaker. During two hours of hearings before federal Magistrate Judge Joan G. Margolis, five of the defendants were brought into a third-floor U.S. District Court room in handcuffs, read specific charges, pleaded not guilty to individual counts against them and arranged bail.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Justice, Law
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Lincoln County Commissioner Thomas Ramey Jr. lied to an FBI agent investigating election fraud in southern West Virginia, a criminal charge filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court said. Federal prosecutors allege the 32-year-old Democrat falsely told the agent in February he did not know who altered absentee ballot applications submitted to the county clerk. Ramey had actually caused someone to alter those applications in his presence, the felony filing said.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character, Financial, Corruption
ST. LOUIS — Roger Wilson, a Missouri Democrat who was elevated to the governor's job after the plane crash that killed Gov. Mel Carnahan, was sentenced Monday to two years of probation for misusing money to make political donations. Wilson, 63, of Columbia, pleaded guilty in April to one count of misappropriation of funds from an insurer, the same day his federal indictment was announced. He admitted that he improperly steered $8,000 to the state Democratic Party in 2009 while serving as CEO of Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance Co., a state-created workers' compensation firm. Wilson could have received up to six months in prison under federal sentencing guidelines.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Corruption, Convict
HARRISBURG — A former state representative and onetime Pennsylvania revenue secretary was convicted of corruption on Wednesday in what could be the final trial of a five-year-old state investigation. A Dauphin County jury found former Rep. Stephen Stetler, D-York, guilty on six felony counts stemming from his participation in a scheme to use public employees to do illegal campaign work. His case was the last of 25 defendants in the state attorney general’s legislative corruption probe to be resolved. The jurors convicted him on all the charges he faced: four counts of theft and one each of conspiracy and conflict of interest.
Democrat Melowese Richardson has been an official poll worker for the last quarter century and registered thousands of people to vote last year. She candidly admitted to Cincinnati’s Channel 9 this week that she voted twice in the last election... Richardson insists she has done nothing wrong and promises to contest the charges: “I’ll fight it for Mr. Obama and for Mr. Obama’s right to sit as president of the United States.” -John Fund
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character, Fraud, Corruption
On trial is former Rep. Stephen Stetler, 62, who chaired the House Democratic Policy Committee, a legislative leadership position, and the House Democratic Campaign Committee, an organization that raises outside money to help elect more Democrats to the Legislature, from 2002 to 2006. Erin Grace, the first prosecution witness, testified that she was hired by the campaign committee as a fundraiser in early 2004 and that she continued that fundraising after Stetler placed her on the legislative payroll as a legislative analyst on his staff following that year's elections. "That was the job as it was presented to me," said Grace, who testified under a grant of immunity from prosecution.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Financial, Corruption
The former chairman of the District of Columbia Council pleaded guilty Friday to lying about his income on bank loan applications, the latest blow to a city government rocked by scandal. Kwame Brown also admitted to a misdemeanor campaign finance violation, capping a tumultuous week in which he forfeited his position as one of the city's most influential powerbrokers.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Violence, Character, Assault
According to the police report filed the same day, Eighth Judicial District Court judge candidate Ernestina Cruz was having a “meet and greet” event at Plaza de Colores. At the same time, across the street, Cunnyngham and his wife were returning home from dinner to find several of Cruz’ campaign signs in front of his property... What followed was far from a fair fight, the Cunnynghams say. Cunnyngham was later checked out by a doctor who treated him for cuts and bruises, injuries to his mouth and a concussion, Cunnyngham said. “They just attacked him, all three of them,” Joni Cunnyngham said. “Someone was keeping me and my son from getting to them.”
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character
Robert Braddock, Jr., finance director for the leading Democrat in Connecticut's 5th congressional district primary, was indicted by the Department of Justice for conspiracy charges relating to campaign donations allegedly designed to influence legislation in the general assembly. "The complaint alleges that Braddock conspired with others to accept conduit campaign contributions, which are contributions made by one person in the name of another person," according to the DOJ announcement.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character, Financial, Scandal
Just before his Clinton event, Jinnah co-hosted a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry. Four days after Clinton's visit, Jinnah welcomed Boxer for an event attended by former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Noor Muhammad Jadmani, the consul general of Pakistan to Los Angeles. The campaigns say they knew nothing of Jinnah's alleged wrongdoing. Told by The Times in early March of his indictment, Clinton's PAC and Boxer's campaign returned suspect money to the U.S. Treasury or charity.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Financial, Scandal
A gushing voicemail message from Hillary Clinton to admitted swindler Norman Hsu was played for jurors Tuesday at his campaign finance violations trial. "What am I going to do with you, Norman," the then-senator said in the undated message, apparently left in the early days of her failed presidential bid. "You are working so hard for me that I just don't know what to say any more. I've never seen anybody who has been more loyal and more effective and really just having greater success supporting someone than you."
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character
A New Jersey mayor and his son were arrested Thursday by the FBI for allegedly hacking into an email account and website tied to a recall effort — and then intimidating those associated with the site. Felix Roque, 55, the Democratic mayor of West New York, N.J., and his son Joseph, 22, allegedly accessed and cancelled the domain registration for Recallroque.com, a website that was critical of the mayor and associated with a movement to recall him in early February.
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Tax, Crime, Election, Corruption, Convict
NEWARK — Bergen County insurance broker Joseph Bigica, a deep-pockets Democratic contributor who won millions in no-bid government contracts across North Jersey, pleaded guilty Wednesday to making $98,600 in illegal campaign donations to an unnamed federal official. Bigica, a 46-year-old Franklin Lakes resident who appeared in federal court here, also pleaded guilty to evading federal taxes over a 10-year period beginning in 1999 and agreed to make restitution to the government of more than $2.1 million... Bigica’s beneficiaries include leading Democrats such as U.S. Reps. Steven R. Rothman and Bill Pascrell Jr., former Gov. Jim Florio, former U.S. Sen. Robert G. Torricelli and disgraced party figures such as ex-state Sen. Joseph Coniglio and former Hudson County Executive Robert Janiszewski.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character
Leaked emails from the intelligence group Stratfor recently revealed some shocking allegations of massive Democrat voter fraud in 2008. The emails revealed by WikiLeaks say that the McCain campaign decided to ignore the wide spread voter fraud in order to avoid massive civil unrest — even though it meant he’d lose the White House. The emails say that Democrats were caught “stuffing ballot boxes in Philly and Ohio,” but the McCain campaign decided to let it all go.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius violated federal law by campaigning for President Obama on the taxpayers’ dime, but now that initial violation has the Democratic National Committee and an HHS aide in the spotlight for related alleged infractions.
Democrat, Editorial, Liberal, Crime, Election, Character
Charlie Rangel is one lucky congressman: A federal panel is citing him for election-law violations but fining him a mere $23,000 — pocket change that likely won’t even come from his own pocket. Average New Yorkers should be so lucky. After all, this wasn’t over some minor technicality. No, the Federal Election Commission found that the Manhattan Democrat for years illegally used a rent-stabilized apartment as a campaign office.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud
John Liu has said he was "stunned" by the charges against 25-year-old Jia Hou, who was arrested on charges she was part of a scheme that used stand-in donors — many tied to the city's Chinese-American business community — to funnel large, illegal contributions to his campaign.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Convict
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Lincoln County Sheriff Jerry Bowman and Clerk Donald Whitten will plead guilty to charges that they attempted to flood the 2010 Democratic primary with fraudulent absentee ballots.
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Election, Character, Fraud
For example, during the recount process a number of ballots were found in an election judge's car; one Minnesota county suddenly discovered 100 new votes for Franken and claimed that a clerical error had caused them to previously go uncounted; another county tallied 177 more votes than it had recorded on Election Day; and yet another county reported 133 fewer votes than its voting machines had tabulated. “Almost every time new ballots materialized, or tallies were updated or corrected, Franken benefited,” writes Vadum.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud
A Rensselaer County grand jury apparently wrapped up its investigation of a 2009 primary with the indictment of City Councilman Gary Galuski. Galuski, 51, is the eighth Democrat to face charges in connection with the probe of the 2009 Working Families Party primary for City Council seats.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud
MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- A man told 12 News that he has signed as many as 80 petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker. The man had the following exchange with 12 News' Kent Wainscott on Thursday: Man: "I think I signed about 80 times."
Democrat, Crime, Election
A Wake County grand jury today handed down indictments alleging that a top aide to Gov. Bev Perdue's 2008 campaign schemed to pay a staffer $32,000 for work that was kept off the books in violation of state election laws. The new charges, all felonies, are part of a long-running investigation into Perdue campaign activities that have focused on expenditures that would have triggered election law violations for exceeding the limit on personal donations if they had been reported.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud
Law enforcement officials have charged 12 people with using absentee ballots to skew an election in Georgia. “As a result of their grand jury findings, 12 individuals were indicted in that particular matter and we will be trying that case in a court of judicial law instead of a court of public opinion,” District Attorney Joe Mulholland told the local TV station, WALB. The 12 people charged are aligned with the Democratic Party.
Democrat, Crime, Election
RALEIGH — Last week, Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby let it be known that more criminal charges are expected in the investigation of Gov. Beverly Perdue’s campaign finances. Robert Lee Caldwell of Morganton, was indicted in February on obstruction of justice charges. The indictment alleges that Caldwell paid for a plane to fly Perdue to a campaign stop, had someone else report paying for it, and then reimbursed the man with cash.
Willoughby’s comments to WRAL-TV confirmed that the investigation into unreported airplane flights by the Perdue campaign is continuing.
Vote fraud likely changed the 2008 Minnesota U.S. Senate race when Al Franken won by just a 312-vote margin. After the fact, investigators discovered the election was rife with fraud. No one knows the full extent, but investigators were able to find more than 1,000 of the illegal votes cast. At least 170 of those illegal voters have been convicted -- so far. But by the time these investigations and prosecutions come to light, it is too late. Consequences? Franken was the deciding vote in favor of Obamacare. -"Publius", International Business Times
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Corruption, Convict
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12— John Huang, the former Democratic National Committee fund-raiser and Commerce Department official, pleaded guilty today to a single felony count of conspiracy.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Corruption
WASHINGTON, June 5— At least $200,000 in contributions to President Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign came from donors that Federal investigators now suspect were fictitious, including checks from several phony corporations and a $3,000 draft funneled through the account of a dead woman.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud
If McInerney pleads guilty, he will be the first person convicted in a case that has shaken up the county's Democratic Party, especially the Troy City Council. The ballot fraud investigation already has resulted in the indictment of two Democrats, Troy Councilman Michael LoPorto and Rensselaer County Board of Elections Commissioner Edward McDonough. Both pleaded not guilty to a 116-count felony indictment unsealed in January and are awaiting trial.
Democrat, Election, Fraud, Corruption
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21— An internal audit commissioned by the Democratic National Committee in the wake of questions about the party's Presidential-year fund raising has identified additional contributions that will be returned, the party announced today. The new Democratic general chairman, Gov. Roy Romer of Colorado, said through his spokeswoman that the Democrats would give back more money because the sources of it were ''unverifiable or improper.''
Democrat, Election, Financial, Fraud, Corruption
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28— After a three-month internal audit, the Democratic Party announced today that it would return nearly $1.5 million in additional contributions that it now believes may have been illegal or improper.
On the morning of President Clinton's 50th birthday party at Radio City Music Hall last August, Charlie Trie bounded into the Democratic Party's office in Manhattan and delivered an envelope stuffed with $100,000 in political contributions.
Democrat, Editorial, Crime, Election, Fraud, AntiAmerican, Corruption
The result of all this was foreseeable, including: the erosion of safeguards in U.S. election law designed to guard against political corruption, and unprecedented amounts of illegal foreign contributions making their way into Democratic coffers. The Committee uncovered strong circumstantial evidence that the Government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was involved in funding, directing, or encouraging some of these foreign contributions.
Democrat, Editorial, Crime, Election, Fraud, AntiAmerican, Corruption
The Committee uncovered a donation-laundering scheme involving a prominent Democratic fundraiser and the exploitation of a foreign religious institution that began at least as early as 1993 and continued through the 1996 election, the principal architects of which have reportedly been linked to the intelligence service of a foreign government.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Financial, Fraud, Corruption, Convict
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9— A raucous session of the House committee investigating campaign abuses heard testimony today that two big-money fund-raisers and friends of President Clinton, John Huang and Charles Yah Lin Trie, personally arranged illegal ''straw'' donations for the Democratic re-election campaign last year.
At the 1996 Hsi Lai Temple event, Democrats collected $55,000 in illegal contributions, some of them ostensibly from Buddhist nuns and monks who had taken vows of poverty. Prosecutors later proved that the nuns and monks had been illegal "straw donors" with other sources providing the money. Gore has given several different accounts of his participation but has insisted he did not know the event was a fund-raiser.
Democrat, Editorial, Crime, Election, Fraud, AntiAmerican, Corruption
''A variety of PRC entities were acting to influence U.S. elections,'' the unclassified Senate report states. A top-secret appendix containing evidence to back up these conclusions is to be locked away in inaccessible archives for decades.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Financial, Fraud, Corruption, Convict
WASHINGTON, May 21— A Democratic fund-raiser and longtime Arkansas friend of President Clinton pleaded guilty today in a Federal court in Little Rock, Ark., to two charges related to his political fund-raising, and agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department's long-running campaign finance inquiry. The fund-raiser, Yah Lin Trie, was one of the first major Democratic figures from Mr. Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign to be charged in an indictment in January 1998.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Financial, Fraud, Corruption, Convict
WASHINGTON, May 25— John Huang, the prolific fund-raiser at the center of the furor over Democratic Party financing of President Clinton's re-election, will plead guilty in Federal court to a single felony count of conspiring to make illegal contributions, the Justice Department and Mr. Huang's lawyer said today. A frequent White House visitor and prominent figure behind Democratic efforts to solicit millions of dollars in political contributions from Asian-Americans, Mr. Huang was part of a fund-raising operation later found by Congressional investigators to be tainted by questionable or illegal contributions. In at least one case, the money came from a top Chinese intelligence official.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Scandal
The DNC was fined $115,000, the Clinton-Gore campaign $2,000 and the Buddhist Progress Society $120,000. In the conciliation signed by DNC lawyer Joseph Sandler, the party agreed to pay the fine and to "disgorge (another) $128,000" to the U.S. Treasury, representing illegal contributions that were not returned to donors.
In over 400 pages of documents, the FEC detailed a variety of illegal fund- raising schemes in the 1996 Clinton re-election organization.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Scandal, Greed, Corruption
The FEC documents describe Democratic fund-raisers who set specific prices for foreign nationals to make illegal campaign contributions in return for meetings with then-President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. A Democratic finance vice chair, for example, said organizers would have to contribute a total of $100,000 in return for Gore's appearance at a Buddhist temple in Los Angeles.
Democrat, Election, Scandal, Fraud, Lie, Justice, Corruption
"There is no controlling legal authority that says this was in violation of law." -- Al Gore, seven times (in one form or another), White House news conference, March 3
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Corruption
August 1998 Gore again meets with FBI investigators about the 1995 fundraising meeting. When presented with documents that appear to contradict his earlier assertion that he was not a part of any fundraising discussions at that meeting, Gore offers what comes to be known as the "iced tea defense": "The Vice President also observed that he drank a lot of iced tea during the meetings, which could have necessitated a restroom break," which would have caused him to miss the discussions about fundraising, according to the FBI report.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Corruption
The letter was written by Maria Hsia, who was charged last week in a six-count federal indictment with having engaged in a political money-laundering scheme. The Justice Department alleges that Hsia facilitated $100,000 in illegal contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore reelection effort through a California Buddhist temple that Gore visited in a controversial April 1996 event.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Corruption
At a fundraising lunch held on April 29, 1996 at the Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, California, and attended by Vice President Gore, Buddhist monastics illegally funneled $65,000 to the DNC through "straw donors" at the instigation of Hsia, a longtime fundraiser for the Vice President. When press accounts of this donation-laundering appeared, Temple officials altered and destroyed evidence to protect the Temple, Hsia, and the Vice President from embarrassment Despite his repeated, albeit inconsistent, denials, it is reasonable to conclude that the Vice President was well aware that the Temple event was for the purpose of raising money.
In mid-1995, the President and his strategists decided that they needed to raise and spend many millions of dollars over and above the permissible limits of the Presidential campaign funding law if the President was going to be reelected. They devised a legal theory to support their needs and proceeded to raise and spend $44 million in excess of the Presidential campaign spending limits. The lengths to which the Clinton/Gore campaign and the White House-controlled Democratic National Committee were willing to go in order to raise this amount of money is essentially the story of the 1996 Presidential campaign scandal.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Corruption
At the 1996 Hsi Lai Temple event, Democrats collected $55,000 in illegal contributions, some of them ostensibly from Buddhist nuns and monks who had taken vows of poverty. Prosecutors later proved that the nuns and monks had been illegal "straw donors" with other sources providing the money. Gore has given several different accounts of his participation but has insisted he did not know the event was a fund-raiser.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud
A Rensselaer County grand jury indicted City Councilman Michael LoPorto and county Democratic Elections Commissioner Edward G. McDonough for forging and possessing absentee ballots in the 2009 city Working Families Party primary.
Democrat, Scandal
Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila was charged Thursday with 19 counts in a campaign finance probe, including conspiracy to violate U.S. federal campaign laws and giving false testimony to the FBI.
The indictment also charged 12 others associated with Acevedo's Popular Democratic Party as a result of a two-year grand jury investigation, acting U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez said.
Democrat, Election, Scandal
A federal grand jury indicted two Virginia men on Wednesday for allegedly trying to illegally reimburse donors who gave to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate and presidential campaigns.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused the two men, William Danielczyk and Eugene Biagi, of paying back $186,600 in contributions to the Senate and presidential campaign committees of a candidate for federal office, and obstructing the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the FBI.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Scandal
The Federal Election Commission disclosed Friday that it has imposed a record-setting $719,000 in fines against participants in the 1996 Democratic Party fund-raising scandals involving contributions from China, Korea and other foreign sources. The FEC documents describe Democratic fund-raisers who set specific prices for foreign nationals to make illegal campaign contributions in return for meetings with then-President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore.
Democrat, Scandal
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) said Monday that it will donate money it had received from a man charged with threatening to kill a top Republican.
Democrat, Scandal
WHO is Mark Jimenez? More importantly: Where is Mark Jimenez? And why doesn't anyone in Washington care that this fugitive businessman -- indicted in 1998 on 17 counts of illegal campaign contributions to Democrats
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Election, Fraud, Narrative
A Rensselaer County grand jury indicted City Councilman Michael LoPorto and county Democratic Elections Commissioner Edward G. McDonough for forging and possessing absentee ballots in the 2009 city Working Families Party primary.
Crime, Election, Union, Fraud
Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Sean Caddle, who also worked for the Service Employees International Union before coming to Houston. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid.
You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how. -Boris Bazhanov, Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary
Crime, Election
The Illinois State Board of Elections has been lying about the status of military absentee ballots and a lazy Department of Justice has allowed itself to be duped.
Crime, Election
Wayne Dibofsky, the associate director of the New Jersey Education Association, candidly tells a story about voter fraud in NJ.
Crime, Election, Union
Former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) member Steve Caddle of Houston, Texas has been caught registering 23,207 fake voters in Harris County alone due to the hard detective work of Catherine Engelbrecht and her “True the Vote” project.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Fraud, Teaparty
Pontiac— Two former high-ranking members of the Oakland County Democratic Party are facing various election corruption charges in a bogus tea party scheme, Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper and County Sheriff Michael Bouchard announced Wednesday.
While creating such a party in itself is not illegal, Bouchard noted that the alleged forging of documents and putting people up for political office without their involvement — including at least one "candidate" who told investigators he had no knowledge that he was on the ballot until notified — is criminal.
Crime, Election
One defendant "said it was hard work making up all those cards," and another "said he would often sit at home, smoke marijuana and fill out cards," according to a probable-cause statement written by King County sheriff's Detective Christopher Johnson.
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Election, Government, Obama, Fraud, Corruption
A former Justice Department attorney who quit his job to protest the Obama administration's handling of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case is accusing Attorney General Eric Holder of dropping the charges for racially motivated reasons. J. Christian Adams, now an attorney in Virginia and a conservative blogger for Pajamas Media, says he and the other Justice Department lawyers working on the case were ordered to dismiss it.
Crime, Election, Hate, Violence, Threats
On the day President Obama was elected, armed men wearing the black berets and jackboots of the New Black Panther Party were stationed at the entrance to a polling place in Philadelphia. They brandished a weapon and intimidated voters and poll watchers.
Crime, Election, Government, Obama, Fascism, Bigbrother, Censorship
Barack Obama is now using local law enforcement officials to carry out his campaign of legal intimidation by assembling a group of high-ranking Missouri police officials and prosecutors – including St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCullough and City of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce – to identify and target anyone the campaign determines is producing “misleading” political advertisements.
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Election, Fraud
The radical activist group ACORN “works” for the Democratic Party and deliberately promotes election fraud, ACORN employees told FBI investigators, according to an FBI document dump Wednesday. The documents obtained by Judicial Watch, a watchdog group, are FBI investigators’ reports related to the 2007 investigation and arrest of eight St. Louis, Mo., workers from ACORN’s Project Vote affiliate for violation of election laws. All eight employees involved in the scandal later pleaded guilty to voter registration fraud.
Whitten, 62, admitted to making a false statement about his role in the conspiracy, in which he provided absentee ballots. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Both men, who are Democrats, also agreed to resign from office and never seek office again.
Crime, Election
Harris called the multiple records checks "questionable" and said he awaits more answers. "It's kind of like Big Brother is looking in your pocket," he said.
Milwaukee police officers sat on their hands for months last year instead of investigating possible voter fraud cases from the 2008 general election. It's an incredible claim, but it's coming from a credible source: Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf, the Milwaukee County prosecutor responsible for overseeing campaign and election issues. "Honestly, the Milwaukee Police Department largely ignored your double voter (and other) referrals received in January 2009 for the first six months of 2009," Landgraf wrote in an e-mail to a city elections official on Jan. 26.
Crime, Election
Florida Congressional candidate Eddie Adams Jr. (R) was admitted to Tampa General Hospital Sunday suffering from severe burns on the hands and arms. He will be undergoing additional skin grafts Tuesday.
Democrat, Liberal, Election, Incitement, Violence, Obama
"If you want the next four years lookin' like the last eight, then I'm not your candidate. But if you want real change...then I need you. I need you to go out and talk to your friends, talk to your neighbors...I want you to argue with them, get in their faces...you guys are the ones who can make the change."
- Candidate Barack Obama to supporters September, 2008
Crime, Election, Violence, Protest, Vandalism
Vandals upset over the Iraq war defaced U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers' office overnight, a spokesman said Tuesday. The unknown individuals splattered red paint on the Lansing building and put up a sign saying the Republican has "blood" on his hands. They also spray painted the sidewalk with the words "no more deaths," glued shut the front door of the building and destroyed security cameras, said Andy Keiser, Rogers' chief of staff.
Democrat, Crime, Election
One of two people suspected of shattering 11 windows Tuesday morning at the state Democratic Party headquarters has an arrest record and a history of helping a Democratic political candidate, public records show.
Liberal, Crime, Election, Violence
The Air Force Reserve plans to discharge a lieutenant colonel accused of defacing cars that had pro-Bush bumper stickers, the military said Friday. Lt. Col. Alexis Fecteau, a pilot with 500 combat hours in the first Persian Gulf war and the Balkans, is charged with criminal mischief for allegedly using paint stripper to write a profanity about Bush in 18-inch-high letters on cars at Denver International Airport.
Crime, Election
The real culprits in the election day 2004 tire slashings of Republican Party vans were emotional Democratic operatives from out of state, lawyers for some of the local men charged in the crime said Tuesday at the start of their trial.
Election, Incompetence
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois may not be finished investigating those late military ballots. Members of the House Elections Committee say they're considering formal hearings into how and why 36 counties missed the deadline to send ballots to deployed servicemen and other overseas voters.
Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Sean Caddle, who also worked for the Service Employees International Union before coming to Houston. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Character, Financial, Fraud
Employees of a Washington, D.C.-based accounting firm that federal prosecutors called an “assembly line for illegal campaign contributions” donated more than $500,000 to federal candidates and committees over the past 10 years, including nearly $50,000 to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, according to a Center for Public Integrity review of records.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Financial, Fraud
Former state Sen. Ernest E. Newton, a quotable, three-time convicted felon who served nearly five years in federal prison on corruption charges, was arrested again Friday on charges of campaign finance fraud during his latest run for office. Newton was charged with "falsely obtaining thousands of dollars in public funds'' during his August 2012 Democratic primary bid against incumbent state Sen. Edwin Gomes in Bridgeport, according to the Chief State's Attorney's office.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Financial, Corruption
A Queens district leader and two-time candidate for the City Council surrendered to federal authorities on Wednesday to face corruption charges, including mail-fraud conspiracy and obstruction of justice, stemming from what prosecutors said were campaign-finance improprieties.
Democrat, Crime, Election, Corruption
Jackson is accused of offering former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) $1.5 million in campaign donations from supporters in exchange for appointment to Obama’s former seat.
Democrat, Editorial, Crime, Election, Fraud, AntiAmerican, Corruption
In mid-1995, the President and his strategists decided that they needed to raise and spend many millions of dollars over and above the permissible limits of the Presidential campaign funding law if the President was going to be reelected. They devised a legal theory to support their needs and proceeded to raise and spend $44 million in excess of the Presidential campaign spending limits. The lengths to which the Clinton/Gore campaign and the White House-controlled Democratic National Committee were willing to go in order to raise this amount of money is essentially the story of the 1996 Presidential campaign scandal.
Democrat, Election, Financial, Fraud, Lie, Convict
PERTH AMBOY — A judge is scheduled to sentence former Perth Amboy mayor and state assemblyman Joseph Vas to prison on today. Vas is to appear in federal court in Newark at 10:30 a.m. He and an associate were convicted last fall of mail fraud, election finance violations and lying to authorities.
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Tax, Crime, Election, Fraud, Greed, Convict
EAST ST. LOUIS, Il (KMOX)-Former East St. Louis City Councilman and Democratic precinct committeeman Michael Collins will spend the next 4 years and two months in prison, for tax evasion, failing to file tax returns and vote fraud.
The eleven men and one woman deliberated for three hours and 23 minutes, then brought in their verdict: Defendant Prichard was guilty of conspiracy to forge and vote illegal ballots
Crime, Election
In an odd twist of irony, Mexico has much tighter controls in place than the US. Every voter must present a tamperproof picture voter card, submit to thumbprint verification, and give their signature before they can cast a vote.
Crime, Election
A Texas woman faces trial this month in Austin on charges she threatened to kill a government informant who infiltrated an Austin-based group that planned to bomb the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., last fall. Katyanne Marie Kibby, 25,
Democrat, Crime, Election, Scandal
The Federal Election Commission disclosed Friday that it has imposed a record-setting $719,000 in fines against participants in the 1996 Democratic Party fund-raising scandals involving contributions from China, Korea and other foreign sources. The FEC documents describe Democratic fund-raisers who set specific prices for foreign nationals to make illegal campaign contributions in return for meetings with then-President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. Those penalized included the Democratic National Committee, the Clinton-Gore campaign, a Buddhist temple and nearly two dozen people and corporations acting as conduits for illegal contributions.