[VOA News] A federal judge is expected to sentence former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown on Monday for fraud and other charges related to a purported charity for poor students that she used as a personal slush fund. It's racism, of course. That's what she said.
The 71-year-old Brown was due in court at 10 a.m. in Jacksonville, a city in the Florida district she represented in Congress during her historic, nearly 25-year career.
Brown, a Democrat who was one of the first three African-Americans to be elected to Congress from Florida since Reconstruction, could spend the rest of her life in prison.
A federal jury in May convicted her of 18 of the 22 charges against her, which included fraud, lying on her tax returns and on her congressional financial disclosures.
Prosecutors outlined a pattern of fraud by Brown and her top aide that included using hundreds of thousands of dollars from the One Door for Education Foundation for lavish parties, trips and shopping excursions.
Brown's former chief of staff, Elias "Ronnie" Simmons, and One Door's executive director Carla Wiley accepted plea deals and testified against Brown. They are also scheduled to be sentenced Monday.
Federal prosecutors said the three used One Door to bring in more than $800,000 between 2012 and 2016, including a high-profile golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass. The Virginia-based One Door only gave out one scholarship for $1,200 to an unidentified person in Florida, according to court documents.
Simmons told jurors that his boss ordered him to take cash and checks from One Door's account on dozens of occasions and deposit the money into Brown's personal account.
Brown testified in her own defense, saying she was left in the dark about the details of One Door's money, and blamed the theft on Simmons.
U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Corrigan could sentence Brown to many years in prison for each of her 18 counts.
Her attorneys argued for leniency at a hearing last month, saying Brown's community work should mitigate her crimes.
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...She got five years. Not bad.
Thanks for playing, Congresswoman, and as a parting gift here's a case of Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco treat.
Mike
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...Time to bring this up again - the 28th Amendment: "No person shall be appointed to or be permitted to stand for special election to any seat in the House of Representatives or Senate if they are related by blood or marriage to the previous officeholder."
Mike
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So adopted relatives are not covered by the 28th Amendment?
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We had a Revolution against royalty, but we keep creating family political dynasties indistinguishable from royalty - Adams, Harrison, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Clinton, Gore, Bush, etc.
One set of rules for thee, another one for me our corrupt FBI/Democrat coalition
[DailyCaller] The FBI agent who was fired from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation team for sending anti-Donald Trump text messages conducted the interviews with two Hillary Clinton aides accused of giving false statements about what they knew of the former secretary of state's private email server.
Neither of the Clinton associates, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, faced legal consequences for their misleading statements, which they made in interviews last year with former FBI section chief Peter Strzok.
But another Strzok interview subject was not so lucky.
Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser, pleaded guilty last week to lying during an interview he gave on Jan. 24 to Strzok and another FBI agent. Circa journalist Sara Carter reported on Monday that Strzok took part in that interview with the retired lieutenant general.
At the time, Strzok was the FBI's top investigator on the fledgling investigation into Russian interference in the presidential campaign. He was appointed to supervise that effort at the end of July 2016, just weeks after the conclusion of the Clinton email probe. CNN reported on Monday that as the FBI's No. 2 counterintelligence official, Strzok signed the documents that officially opened the collusion inquiry. RTWT - Clearly Mills and Abedin lied. Comey explained it away. Nothing to see here. Separate "justice"
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Trial and punishment are only for the enemies of the state.
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It's going to take some time to clean up the corruption mess left behind in the EffBeeEye. The left should not cheer or take solace for having left behind a Banana Republic in the Deep State. Such things eventually bite you in the arse during the cover-up or clean-up.
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[VOA News] A federal judge is expected to sentence former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown on Monday for fraud and other charges related to a purported charity for poor students that she used as a personal slush fund.
