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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FEC Records Indicate Hillary Campaign Illegally Laundered $84 Million
[The Federalist] The mainstream media took no notice of a federal court filing that exposes a $84 million money-laundering conspiracy Democrats executed during the 2016 presidential election.

The press continues to feed the dying Russia collusion conspiracy theory, spending Friday’s news cycle regurgitating Democrat talking points from the just-filed Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act lawsuit against the Trump campaign, WikiLeaks, and Russia.

Yet the mainstream media took no notice of last week’s federal court filing that exposes an $84 million money-laundering conspiracy the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign executed during the 2016 presidential election in violation of federal campaign-finance law.

That lawsuit, filed last week in a DC district court, summarizes the DNC-Clinton conspiracy and provides detailed evidence from Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings confirming the complaint’s allegations that Democrats undertook an extensive scheme to violate federal campaign limits.

From Bundling To Money Laundering
Dan Backer, a campaign-finance lawyer and attorney-of-record in the lawsuit, explained the underlying law in an article for Investor’s Business Daily: Under federal law, "an individual donor can contribute $2,700 to any candidate, $10,000 to any state party committee, and (during the 2016 cycle) $33,400 to a national party’s main account. These groups can all get together and take a single check from a donor for the sum of those contribution limits‐it’s legal because the donor cannot exceed the base limit for any one recipient. And state parties can make unlimited transfer to their national party."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/25/2018 08:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gaming the system for personal wealth and political gain? Totally out of character. How could people with lifetime records of unparalleled, selfless contribution and dedicated service to the nation be so accused?

Their records certainly speak otherwise.

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/25/2018 8:34 Comments || Top||

#2  So what? Laws are for the little people.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/25/2018 9:11 Comments || Top||

#3  According to Donna Brazile, HildaB was the DNC. HildaB will spin this as "I can't remember or I did not take care of that-that was someone else's job."
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/25/2018 13:01 Comments || Top||

#4  I've seen numbers approaching $1.0 Billion in campaign contributions to that loathsome sociopath but for the life of me, I can't figure out how they spent it all.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 04/25/2018 15:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Where is the "special prosecutor" or DoJ full-on investigation into this? Sessions is starting to look like a swamp creature
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 04/25/2018 19:52 Comments || Top||


Husband of former Senate leader pleads not guilty to sex assaulting men
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Stan Rosenberg, the president of Massachusetts' state Senate, is relinquishing his role during a sexual misconduct investigation against husband, Bryon Hefner

  • Rosenberg informed senators just prior to a closed-door Democratic caucus that he would step aside temporarily, though he would remain in the Senate

  • Several men told the Boston Globe that Hefner sexually assaulted or harassed them, including three men who said Hefner grabbed their genitals

  • Attorney General Maura Healey and Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley, both Democrats, said they are prepared to launch an investigation

As the waiter presented the La Madeline au Truffle, from under the table I felt a socked toe in my balls.
Posted by: Fred || 04/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...including three men who said Hefner grabbed their genitals

Did their hearts and minds follow?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/25/2018 7:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Somehow I'm repulsed by this.

Of course I'll be leaving MA for NH in a few months and this kind of $hiznit is one of the reasons.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/25/2018 8:47 Comments || Top||

#3  A bit 'light in the loafers' was he ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/25/2018 8:49 Comments || Top||

#4  1) Maura Healy will broom this case, guaranteed.
2) Check out a picture of Bryon Hefner, AKA Pee-Wee Herman, Jr. My only surprise is that this clown didn't get his ass kicked after grabbin' some balls.
Posted by: Raj || 04/25/2018 9:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Raj, a reversion to the old days where a little whuppin' could be administered as needed would be an improvement in many ways.

Just think of the girls that would get protected or avenged? Not to mention the pols who should be caned.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/25/2018 11:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Did their hearts and minds follow?

No, they ran like hell for the nearest exit.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 04/25/2018 16:52 Comments || Top||


Europe
Macron in Washington
h/t Gates of Vienna
[ChroniclesMagazine] ...While Macron has earned some brownie points with Trump by pretending to treat the false-flag operation in Douma on April 8 as a real atrocity, and by joining the choreographed attack on Bashar’s non-existent "chemical weapons installations" six days later (poor De Gaulle is turning in his grave!), those two men have little in common. During the campaign Trump had manifested all the right instincts of an anti-interventionist, anti-globalist nationalist, but since coming to the White House he has succumbed to the Permanent State on many important issues (Russia, Syria, NATO etc). Nevertheless, it is still unlikely that he has internalized the global hegemonists’ Weltanschauung as such. By contrast, Macron has been in the Camp of Demons ab initio. He embodies the deracinated Western elite class, rootless, arrogant, cynical, and manipulative. He illustrates more vividly than any other European leader (save Angela Merkel) the Spenglerian loss of the will to define and defend one’s Kultur, and the pan-European loss of the desire (let alone ability) to procreate.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/25/2018 06:59 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Putin tells off Megan Kelly
Posted by: 3dc || 04/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This woman sitting across this guy is out of her league. What he says is so far out of the left's narrative that the lights in her head went out immediately.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 04/25/2018 1:37 Comments || Top||

#2  I was under the impression that he spoke fairly good English.
Posted by: Vespasian Speaking for Boskone7299 || 04/25/2018 8:08 Comments || Top||

#3  It appears all of this Russian collusion BS from the left has gotten on Vlad's last raw nerve.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 04/25/2018 10:59 Comments || Top||

#4  NBC Bet $69 Million On Megyn Kelly — Then Viewers Vanished
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/25/2018 13:11 Comments || Top||

#5  I thought he could speak English.
Posted by: Betty Hatfield5124 || 04/25/2018 19:34 Comments || Top||

#6  I'll answer the last question, Ivan, it's because the countries that have "enjoyed" Russian's camping inside their borders asked us to bring our toys and boys to their countries lest you wanted to stake out more territory.
Posted by: Roth LaDoad || 04/25/2018 22:22 Comments || Top||


Arizona Republicans Accuse Democrats Of Special Election Voter Fraud Risk
[NEWSWEEK] The Republican Party in Arizona has claimed that Democrats could disrupt Tuesday’s special election by allowing people who aren’t registered to vote to cast ballots.

In Tuesday’s eighth congressional district special election, Debbie Lesko, a Republican state senator, will go up against Hiral Tipirneni, a Democrat and an emergency room physician. Political analysts and people nationwide are closely watching the race, especially as a recent poll put the two candidates within a percentage point of each other.

Arizona Republican Party Chairman Jonathan Lines wrote in an email to constituents on Monday night, "We have received alarming reports that the Democrat official who runs elections in Maricopa County has systematically failed to enforce the voter ID law in recent elections. As a result, your help is vital in making sure the upcoming election is free and fair." The email told people to "keep your eyes peeled" and call the party "if you observe poll workers failing to check voters’ IDs."
Posted by: Fred || 04/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  AP Declares Republican Winner of Arizona Special Congressional Election So, I guess, "keep your eyes peeled" worked (I did consider the possibility that Democrats didn't try cheating, really I did!)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/25/2018 6:45 Comments || Top||

#2  I did consider the possibility that Democrats didn't try cheating, really I did!

That was a prudent thing to do Grom given the history. However, not to worry.

Lesko wins seat.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/25/2018 8:36 Comments || Top||


'Real Indian' running against Sen. Elizabeth Warren sues after city tells him to stop calling her 'Fake Indian'
[FOXNEWS] A self-described "real Indian" who is running against Mass. Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Fauxchahontas Warren
...Dem Senatrix-for-Life from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that...
is suing after city officials demanded he take down his signs calling her a "fake Indian."

The upstart independent Senate challenger, Shiva Ayyadurai, on Sunday filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the demand from the city of Cambridge violates his constitutional free speech rights, according to The Washington Times.

Since March 17, Ayyadurai's campaign bus has sported two identical signs picturing himself and a rendition of Warren wearing Indian attire. Emblazoned next to the images are the words: "Only a REAL INDIAN Can Defeat the Fake Indian."

The bus has reportedly been stationed in a parking lot in front of an office building owned by Ayyadurai, who faces exceptionally long odds, for more than a month -- just a mile from Warren's home.

Cherokee genealogist finds no evidence of Native American ancestry in Sen. Elizabeth Warren and casts doubt on her story of parents' elopement. #Tucker
Earlier this month, the campaign received a notice from Cambridge building inspector Branden Vigneault that the signs lacked the appropriate "approvals and permits," according to local reports and the Ayyadurai campaign.

Vigneault threatened fines of $300 per day plus additional legal penalties if the signs remain in place, according to Ayyadurai.

"We will not remove the slogan from our bus," Ayyadurai told The Washington Times. "We will defend the First Amendment, and we will fight this egregious attack on the First Amendment, at any cost."

Ayyadurai's campaign reportedly thinks the building code doesn't apply to the signs because they're on a bus, not a structure.

Warren has long been accused of saying she is of Native American heritage to help in securing jobs, including one as a Harvard law professor.

President Trump has repeatedly called Warren, a Wall Street critic and potential White House rival, "Pocahontas," a notable American Indian woman in colonial history, to highlight the controversy. Warren has said she ruled out challenging Trump in 2020.

When asked in March whether she’d agree to calls for genetic testing to resolve the heritage controversy, Warren launched into a family history, as purportedly told by her parents and grandparents, before saying, "It’s a part of who I am, and no one’s ever going to take that away."

Experts have cast doubt on Warren's claim.

"The problem with Warren’s story is that none of the evidence supports it," Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes wrote after researching Warren's family.

But observers have also accused Ayyadurai of puffery and distortion, as well. The attacks mostly center on his longstanding claim to be the inventor of e-mail.
Posted by: Fred || 04/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Blue on Blue.

Warren has long been accused of saying she is of Native American heritage to help in securing jobs, including one as a Harvard law professor.

Warren, Sanders, Sanders wife, former President of a university earning 6 figure income while driving the university into financial ruin, are a part of "higher education" that leaches off of deep state. Student loans aren't meant so much for getting students through college (Obama even started a Student Loan Forgiveness Program to protect the pro/college/liberal/big bucks cash flow system that was getting a black eye) but for paying liberals in professor/college administrator positions big bucks. Forgive the loans, protect these left wing indoctrination people and centers, put on the tax payers via adding to the national debt.

This is a critical part of the liberal foundation, leftist indoctrination of America's young people. They are now making huge inroads into public high schools via the war against the second amendment.

Deep State socialists gives these people the high life, and "Fauxchahontas" and company are going to fight tooth and nail to protect deep state who scratch their backs with big paychecks via federal student loan programs.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 04/25/2018 2:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Cambridge building inspector Branden Vigneault has been employed there only 1 yr 3 mos, according to his Linked In profile. So he may have no actual idea what he's doing: ignorance or stupidity, you choose.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/25/2018 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3  ...nah, the Left doesn't believe in the Bill of Rights, except for themselves, exclusively.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/25/2018 8:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Embrace the potential power of ‘and’.
Posted by: Ulavinter Glereth9590 || 04/25/2018 8:11 Comments || Top||

#5  1) I don't like Shiva - probably told you why earlier this year or sometime last year.

2) Here's Howie Carr confronting Shiva last year on a domestic violence complaint against 'The REAL INDIAN'.
Posted by: Raj || 04/25/2018 8:50 Comments || Top||

#6  The late Indian author & former Fulbright scholar Eknath Easwaram once related an hilarious story of his visit to an Indian boarding school somewhere in the US Southwest. The native children were so excited to finally see "a real Indian"!
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/25/2018 15:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Real fakers don't need no steekin' evidence!
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/25/2018 15:28 Comments || Top||



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