Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 2:14 pm
Saw that…and immediately remembered questioning why Paul was bending over backwards to support Russia not long ago.
The Justice Department touted the jury conviction of Jesse Benton, known for his work on campaigns for GOP Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, in a press release Thursday. The department said Benton “acted as a straw donor and contributed $25,000 of the Russian foreign national’s money to the campaign, falsely identified himself as the contributor and pocketed the remaining $75,000.”
I feel like that's not a complete story about why Paul (and so many other Republicans) go out of their way to help Russia. Like $25,000 isn't enough to buy a Senator, right? So either the scale here is much larger than we are currently seeing, or there's money going to Paul / his inner circle directly, right?
Of course Trump complicates things too, because a fair number of Republicans are likely supporting Russia just by virtue of the fact that Trump supports Russia.
This is the $25,000 you know about. Corrupt politicians don’t just ask for one bribe. Or hit up one person. There is a pattern of conduct.
"A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on." -Terry Pratchett, The Truth "The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to those who think they've found it." -Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
Nothing the republicans do, the capitol riot, gerrymandering, Trump etc compares to the evil of the evil foreigner Barrack Obama and the Biden crime family. It’s time to put politics aside and pursue these massive threats to American democracy.
Zarathud wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 11:30 pm
This is the $25,000 you know about. Corrupt politicians don’t just ask for one bribe. Or hit up one person. There is a pattern of conduct.
Yeah, beat me to it. This is probably ONE of many where someone got caught/exposed. "Just $25K?" was my initial reaction as well.
MMichael Capps, a former Kansas lawmaker who once sponsored a bill to put the words “In God We Trust” in every federal building, has been found guilty of committing COVID relief fraud and money laundering.
His career wasn’t supposed to end this way. In 2018, the Republican was appointed to the Kansas State House and won his own election bid later that year. Like other members of his party, he used his time in office to push Christianity on everyone. That’s why, in addition to his anti-trans and anti-abortion bills, Capps sponsored a bill to put “In God We Trust” in public buildings, including public schools.
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Black Lives definitely Matter Lorini!
Also: There are three ways to not tell the truth: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Capps remains out on bond while he awaits his sentencing hearing, which is scheduled for March 10. He could face millions of dollars in fines and decades in prison.
New details have been revealed through recently unsealed Cook County court documents, showing how federal investigators in 2020 gained access to encrypted Telegram messages to uncover “a cross-country network of people sexually exploiting children.”
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents based in Arizona launched “Operation Swipe Left” in 2020 to investigate claims of kidnapping, livestreaming child abuse, and production and distribution of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM). That investigation led to criminal charges filed against at least 17 people. The majority of defendants were living in Arizona, but others charged were residents of Illinois, Wisconsin, Washington, DC, California, and South Africa. Ten children were rescued, including four children actively suffering abuse at the time of the rescue. The youngest victim identified was 6 months old, and the oldest was 17 years old.
The key element:
At least one federal prosecutor told a judge that authorities never would have gained access; however, one of the defendants, Adam Hageman, “fully cooperated” with investigators and granted access through his account to offending Telegram groups.
Hageman is one of two defendants with ties to the Republican Party, the Sun-Times and other outlets have reported, while other defendants include a youth soccer coach, a grocery store employee, an amusement park employee, and a police officer’s son.
Hageman was a former Turning Point USA employee, appointed by the Trump administration to work for the US Department of Commerce. In 2020, he was arrested and pled guilty to receiving CSAM. After his arrest, Hageman agreed to grant federal investigators access to his group chats on Telegram, leading to charges filed against 12 others.
Hageman has since been sentenced to five and half years in prison for “receipt of child pornography.” Hageman’s attorney, Christopher Macchiaroli, told the Sun-Times that Hageman “immediately accepted responsibility” for making a “terrible mistake” and “is paying the consequences for it.”
LordMortis wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:00 am
As much as the GOP is being infiltrated and tarnished by deviants, is it any wonder they hate the deviant left so much?
Amplified projection. As always.
" Hey OP, listen to my advice alright." -Tha General "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." -Stigler's Law of Eponymy, discovered by Robert K. Merton MYT
LordMortis wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:00 am
As much as the GOP is being infiltrated and tarnished by deviants, is it any wonder they hate the deviant left so much?
Amplified projection. As always.
It's possible they tea-leaved this whole thing and just knew a drag queen would be their demise?
LordMortis wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:00 am
As much as the GOP is being infiltrated and tarnished by deviants, is it any wonder they hate the deviant left so much?
Amplified projection. As always.
It's possible they tea-leaved this whole thing and just knew a drag queen would be their demise?
Roy McGrath, the former chief of staff to ex-Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan who became a fugitive after failing to appear at trial on wire fraud and embezzlement charges last month, was captured in Tennessee on Monday, law enforcement sources confirmed to CBS News.
McGrath was located by the FBI in a car in Knoxville around 6:30 p.m. local time. During the arrest, an "agent-involved shooting" occurred, the FBI said in a statement.
"The subject, Roy McGrath, sustained injury and was transported to the hospital," the FBI said. McGrath's condition was not immediately clear.
A federal manhunt had been underway since McGrath failed to appear in federal court in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 13. A warrant was issued for his arrest, and the FBI soon searched his house in Naples, Florida, and interviewed his relatives.
McGrath was set to be tried on federal charges stemming from his time running the Maryland Environmental Service, a quasi-governmental state agency that provides services like wastewater management, composting and recycling. Prosecutors said McGrath fraudulently obtained a severance payment of $233,647 when he left to take the job as Hogan's chief of staff in 2020, and falsified a document purporting to show the governor had approved of the payment. He was also accused of falsifying time sheets while vacationing in Europe and stealing money for tuition for classes at Harvard.
The office pool had Roy McGrath buried in landfill at the top of our 'what happened to Roy McGrath' poll so...gunned down by FBI comes as a bit of a shock. This needs to be turned into a Jeremy Strong helmed tv bio-pic.
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s one-time chief of staff Roy McGrath has died after a nationwide manhunt for him ended Monday in a confrontation with the FBI in Knoxville, Tennessee, according to McGrath’s attorney.
“The FBI has confirmed that Roy succumbed to the injuries inflicted earlier in the evening. It is a tragic ending to three weeks of uncertainty,” Attorney Joseph Murtha told CNN in a statement. “I think it is important to stress that Roy never waivered about his innocence.”
William Brennan, an attorney for McGrath’s wife, also confirmed McGrath died at a Tennessee hospital after “a confrontation with the FBI” and told CNN that his client was “absolutely distraught.”
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Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 8:44 am
What did he do?
Mr. McGrath sparked the search three weeks ago when he did not appear for his federal trial in the U.S. District Courthouse in Baltimore on March 13. The charges alleged that he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the state while he headed the government-owned nonprofit Maryland Environmental Service.
FBI agents arrested Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder on Tuesday morning at his rural farm. Householder was taken into custody in connection with a $60 million bribery scheme allegedly involving state officials and associates.
Once one of the most powerful politicians in Ohio, Householder is now a convicted felon, guilty of racketeering conspiracy and breaking the public's trust. He was immediately taken into custody in federal court in Cincinnati.
...
Householder expressed no remorse for leading an extensive bribery scheme at the Ohio Statehouse but instead focused on the harm a prison sentence would impose on his relatives and loved ones. "I would give my life in a heartbeat for my wife and any of my sons," he said.
When Householder's attorney Steven Bradley made a similar argument right before the sentencing, Black interrupted: “The harm to his family was caused by him, not by the court."
...
Bradley argued that the damage to Householder's reputation would deter plenty of politicians.
Householder expressed no remorse for leading an extensive bribery scheme at the Ohio Statehouse but instead focused on the harm a prison sentence would impose on his relatives and loved ones. "I would give my life in a heartbeat for my wife and any of my sons," he said.
LordMortis wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:00 am
As much as the GOP is being infiltrated and tarnished by deviants, is it any wonder they hate the deviant left so much?
You have top think that whatever they are accusing the democrats of doing is actually them.
Or Joe Biden has taken them over using CIA mind control devices and thus he is actually the guilty one.
A man in the US state of New Mexico has pleaded guilty to helping a defeated Republican candidate carry out drive-by shootings at the home of Democrats.
The defendant, Demetrio Trujillo, says the candidate, Solomon Peña, hired him after failing to win a seat in the state legislature in November 2022.
Over the following weeks, the residences of several Democratic officials were attacked in Albuquerque.
Mr Peña has denied the charges against him and is due to stand trial in June.
A Michigan lawmaker was arrested Thursday morning on an undisclosed charge, police confirmed with FOX 2.
State lawmaker Neil Friske, who is a Republican that represents Charlevoix and Emmet counties in northern Michigan, was taken into custody by Lansing Police.
He's expected to be arraigned on Friday.
The public information officer with Lansing police would not say what charge Friske was arrested on.
Neil Frisk is one of our MAGA Republican state lawmakers here in Michigan. Last night he solicited a local stripper and brought her home where they had a fight and he fired a gun at her.
Friske campaign said he is "always exercising his 2nd Amendment right."
So, what will Friske say now that he has been arrested for allegedly chasing a stripper from his home with a gun? Well, we already know, actually: In a Facebook post, his campaign called his arrest “highly suspect” and implied it was politically motivated. The post asked for prayers.
According to reports, Friske was arrested on Thursday by the Lansing Police Department with a gun in his possession at 2:25 a.m. near his home, after he allegedly chased an adult dancer from his home.
The dancer also supposedly works at the Déjà Vu gentlemen’s club in Lansing, which is located close to Friske’s home. The LPD said they were responding to a shots fired call.
Authorities also declined to name what exactly Friske is being charged with until he is arraigned on either Friday or Saturday.
Black Lives definitely Matter Lorini!
Also: There are three ways to not tell the truth: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
That’s my home area. Friske Orchards is one of the bigger pie-selling establishments in the rural area. My father (RIP) had plenty of run ins with this family and while the “other” brother was relatively sane, Neil was known for being absolute batshit and one of those “rules don’t apply to me” folks. (My father was charged with applying the rules when it came to state highways and public access.). Prior to MAGA my father and the Friske family would have seen eye to eye politically, but my Pops had no love for the GOP went it went towards the aggrandizement of one family. And Daddio could not stand idiots.
Zero surprises on this news. Let’s see if consequences are forthcoming. Friske and John Haggard (an unfaithful elector for MI’s 2020 presidential election) would have been buds.
"Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet." — Elontra
According to a records obtained through the Michigan State Police Internet Criminal History Access tool, Lansing Police have requested charges of felony sexual assault, assault and a weapons-related offense against Friske. ...
...During the course of the initial investigation, law enforcement officers learned of a possible sexual assault of an adult female, and they arrested a 62-year old male, Kornelius Friske, Dewane said, which is the lawmaker’s legal name.
Black Lives definitely Matter Lorini!
Also: There are three ways to not tell the truth: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
" Hey OP, listen to my advice alright." -Tha General "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." -Stigler's Law of Eponymy, discovered by Robert K. Merton MYT
A high-profile former North Dakota lawmaker who was one of the most powerful members of the Legislature pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to a charge that he traveled to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with a minor.
Ray Holmberg, 80, of Grand Forks, was indicted in October 2023 for travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual activity and receipt and attempted receipt of child sexual abuse material. The Republican served more than 45 years in the North Dakota Senate before resigning in 2022. He initially pleaded not guilty and a trial was scheduled for September.
Sasse ballooned spending under the president’s office to $17.3 million in his first year in office — up from $5.6 million in former UF President Kent Fuchs’ last year, according to publicly available administrative budget data.
A majority of the spending surge was driven by lucrative contracts with big-name consulting firms and high-salaried, remote positions for Sasse’s former U.S. Senate staff and Republican officials.
Black Lives definitely Matter Lorini!
Also: There are three ways to not tell the truth: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
