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2024-01-06 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Major Democrat Just Found Guilty – She's Going Down for 1 Major Crime Against Taxpayers
From just before Christmas.
[PatriotJournal] Since 2020, we’ve learned about numerous groups and individuals who cheated the federal government. These people scammed the Paycheck Protection Program, which was created to save jobs during the COVID lockdowns.

Government reports claim that most of the fraud has not yet been accounted for. Criminals stole billions of dollars meant to help working Americans.

But at least one more crook has been brought to justice. A former police officer and attorney out of Georgia was caught doing the unthinkable during COVID. And now, this one-time Democrat candidate is facing justice.

From The Post Millennial:

Shelitha Robertson, an attorney and former Atlanta police officer who once ran for office as a Democrat to become a superior court judge, was found guilty by a federal jury in Georgia on Tuesday of fraudulently obtaining over $7 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans.

In what will be a shocking revelation to many, a former police officer and attorney fraudulently took $7 million from the U.S. government during the COVID pandemic.

The funds came out of the Paycheck Protection Program, a program created to help businesses keep their workers employed. As states shut down, this money was supposed to ensure millions of Americans were put out on the streets.
I don't think that's quite right
Yet Robertson took $7 million of this money. According to prosecutors, she spent it on a Rolls-Royce, motorcycle, and even a $148,000 10-carat diamond ring. It appears she gained numerous loans through her multiple companies, despite being the only one employed.

Robertson did not appear repentant, despite being charged. She blamed her friend and attorney, Chandra Norton, for the false applications. Yet it was not Norton who spent all the money, was it?

A jury found Robertson guilty of three counts of wire fraud and one single of money laundering and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

She is awaiting sentencing, which will come next April.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-06 01:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Will someone ring up the Burg onomatology department please ?
Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-06 01:07||   2024-01-06 01:07|| Front Page Top

#2 As states shut down, this money was supposed to ensure millions of Americans were put out on the streets.

Did this journalist even go to Journalism school? Pass English? ("put out ONTO the streets")
Posted by DooDahMan 2024-01-06 02:16||   2024-01-06 02:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Shelitha Robertson - will she blame racism?
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-06 03:14||   2024-01-06 03:14|| Front Page Top

#4 ^^^ Naturally.

Yet Robertson took $7 million of this money. According to prosecutors, she spent it on a Rolls-Royce, motorcycle, and even a $148,000 10-carat diamond ring.
Posted by DooDahMan 2024-01-06 04:32||   2024-01-06 04:32|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Instead of investing it carefully - like Nancy Peloci does.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-06 04:54||   2024-01-06 04:54|| Front Page Top

#6 
Sometimes you CAN Judge a Book by looking at its cover.
"Liberal Democrat"

A list of the largest collectors Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) grants

Does it strike you odd how a vast majority of those claiming PPP had exactly 500 employees and got the Max $10M payout.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-01-06 05:00||   2024-01-06 05:00|| Front Page Top

#7 TSA director arrested by Customs and Border Protection

There's a common theme here, besides criminality...
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-06 07:03||   2024-01-06 07:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Because she's Scottish? Maxine McManaman
Posted by Frank G 2024-01-06 07:12||   2024-01-06 07:12|| Front Page Top

#9 ...Johnnie Walker Double Black - Blended Scotch?
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-06 08:19||   2024-01-06 08:19|| Front Page Top

#10 How about listing the companies and people who actually paid PPP back. I know it is a short list but I do appreciate some folks doing the right thing.
Posted by Airandee 2024-01-06 08:47||   2024-01-06 08:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Covid bling is the best bling of all.
Posted by Super Hose 2024-01-06 09:15||   2024-01-06 09:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Claw it all back from Fauxi.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-06 09:23||   2024-01-06 09:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Don't steal, the government hates competition.
Posted by EMS Artifact 2024-01-06 10:31||   2024-01-06 10:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Both these perps were part of the gummint.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-06 11:04||   2024-01-06 11:04|| Front Page Top

#15 You just know the first words out of the black bitches mouth was racism
Posted by Chris 2024-01-06 12:56||   2024-01-06 12:56|| Front Page Top

#16  As states shut down, this money was supposed to ensure millions of Americans were put out on the streets.

Reporters are often in a hurry to finish one article so they can move on to the next. Sometimes they make mistakes. But then the article is supposed to go to an editor who is also working under pressure but whose job it is to catch little goofs like this. Nobody's perfect.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-01-06 14:09||   2024-01-06 14:09|| Front Page Top

#17 She(litha) has been found guilty but not yet sentenced. We shall see...

As for Out On v Onto, mistakes like this should become less common as ChatGPT replaces reporters.
Posted by SteveS 2024-01-06 15:52||   2024-01-06 15:52|| Front Page Top

#18 mistakes like this should become less common as ChatGPT replaces reporters.

Ooooohhh, SteveS — you clearly spent some quiet time sharpening your scalpel on New Years Day.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-01-06 16:01||   2024-01-06 16:01|| Front Page Top

#19 Diversity hires are the bestest!
Posted by Crusader 2024-01-06 19:46||   2024-01-06 19:46|| Front Page Top

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