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2019-06-15 -Lurid Crime Tales-
How Long Can the Media Ignore the Fact That a Senior House Democrat Is Married to a Fraudster
[REDSTATE] So far the media has managed to avert its eyes and studiously ignore a major story of corruption and malfeasance in Congress because to cover said story would totally destroy a narrative and expose them to allegations that they are racist.

At the epicenter of this tale is the pustulent and rather dim Elijah Cummings
...Representative-for-life from Maryland, representing half of Baltimore City, which makes his district ultra-safe, and most of Howard County, which is out-populated by the city. His shiny pate is the reason we pronounce the city name Baldymore. Cummings' politix are so liberal they're tedious, nor is he any more honest than the next seedy professional pol...
from my current state of residence. Cummings is your typical product of the Maryland Democrat machine. The reek of corruption is always near him but never quite attaches to him because he is, as I said, the product of the Maryland Democrat machine and therefore bulletproof. Now all of that may be getting ready to change.

In late May, the National Legal and Policy Center filed an IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
complaint against Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, who is the wife of Elijah Cummings.

The Complaint describes a score of apparent Internal Revenue Code violations, including prohibited private benefit and inurement of the Cummings. CGPS has received millions in grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and, in late 2017, was granted a million-dollar contract from the General Services Administration. The funds were purportedly provided to fight childhood obesity. The Complaint asks the IRS to investigate whether "its organizers are getting fat off the grants."

At the same time she heads CGPS, Mrs. Cummings heads a for-profit consulting firm called Global Policy Solutions, LLC, whose operations appear to have been indistinguishable from those of CGPS. The two entities have shared office space, telephones, etc., all of which are flagrant violations of the Internal Revenue Code.

With a Republican, the Washington Post would have been all over this, in this case, the Post sent out a stenographer to take down the denial:

"It appears a conservative front group and a news outlet . . . are pushing a hit piece filled with faulty research, lies and innuendo in an attempt to tarnish my personal reputation, professional work and public service as well as that of my spouse," Rockeymoore Cummings said in a statement, calling the effort a "distasteful attempt to intimidate my family into silence at such a pivotal moment in our nation’s history."

She declined to answer follow-up questions about her nonprofit’s work, donors and contracts.
Posted by Fred 2019-06-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top

#1 This is how Democrats operate. Especially when they control things so long as they do in Maryland.
Posted by Dale 2019-06-15 00:58||   2019-06-15 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 How long did they ignore that they were protecting a rapist in the white house? Their blinders are firmly in place.
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-06-15 01:27||   2019-06-15 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 " What difference, at this point, does it make?"
After people like Alcee Hastings, Charles Rangel or Teddy Kennedy my Cynicism Meterâ„¢ was overloaded a long time ago from how different certain politicians are treated by the MSM.
Posted by magpie 2019-06-15 01:42||   2019-06-15 01:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Because it would give the Right something to point at. The media would rather eat broken glass than report anything negative about a black Congressman.
Posted by Herb McCoy  2019-06-15 03:02||   2019-06-15 03:02|| Front Page Top

#5 And this genius is allegedly good friends with deposed Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Posted by Clem 2019-06-15 06:06||   2019-06-15 06:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Which one?
Posted by Skidmark 2019-06-15 09:27||   2019-06-15 09:27|| Front Page Top

#7 The media would rather eat broken glass than report anything negative about a black(s) Congressman.

FIFY
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-06-15 10:48||   2019-06-15 10:48|| Front Page Top

#8 It's OK, it's an open marriage.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-06-15 11:20||   2019-06-15 11:20|| Front Page Top

#9 How long?

When's the heat death of the universe again?
Posted by charger 2019-06-15 13:25||   2019-06-15 13:25|| Front Page Top

#10 When Jawn Kerry releases is military records.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2019-06-15 14:36||   2019-06-15 14:36|| Front Page Top

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