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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Ballot fraud won’t send elderly Miami woman to jail but she will lose right to vote
[MIAMIHERALD] Everybody agreed: When Gladys Coego covertly filled in other people’s absentee ballots while working at the Miami-Dade elections headquarters, she chipped away at the integrity of the voting system.

But at 74, Coego is elderly, diabetic and depressed, her relatives told a judge on Wednesday.

She had no previous criminal record. And nobody -- not detectives, prosecutors or even Coego herself -- could say why she filled in the ballots. She had no known ties to any campaign, there was no evidence anyone paid her and she illegally filled only a few ballots before being spotted. Yet her small-time case
...that's an awful lot of protesting about so many things unknown. Perhaps someone should actually find out...
led to bigly national headlines, coming as then-candidate Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
railed about widespread national voter fraud.

"Emotionally, I am destroyed," Coego said in Spanish. "I have no explanation for what I have done. ... No one offered me anything in exchange for what I did."

For those reasons, a Miami-Dade judge on Wednesday declined to sentence Coego to jail, instead ordering her to serve two years of house arrest, plus three years of probation.

Circuit Judge Alberto Milián acknowledged that "there is a perception in this community that there is a lack of integrity in the election process, especially in the issue of absentee ballots."
Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the reason for the perception of a lack of ballot integrity is the reality of a lack of ballot integrity
Posted by: lord garth || 08/17/2017 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  A little jail time for Gladys Coego might cool the motivation of others for future ballot fraud.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/17/2017 7:27 Comments || Top||

#3  The problem is, the left is completely willing to obtain power by any means. The other side is waiting for some unknown outside force to impose fairness. It ain't gonna happen...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/17/2017 7:34 Comments || Top||

#4  The other side is waiting for some unknown outside force to impose fairness.

Waiting for the holy Constitution to smite blasphemers with lightning? :-)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/17/2017 7:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Some friggin' PMITA jail time and hefty fines to discourage their cancelling out actual American Citizen's votes
Posted by: Frank G on the Road || 08/17/2017 9:28 Comments || Top||

#6  there was no evidence anybody paid her

LBJ used to carry small bills in his car trunk on election day in Texas...
Posted by: Pappy || 08/17/2017 13:22 Comments || Top||

#7  LBJ used to carry small bills in his car trunk on election day in Texas

Everything is so expensive nowadays.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/17/2017 13:28 Comments || Top||

#8  There was a poll tax in Texas back then; the Democratic Party 'helpfully' supplied the cash to certain prospective voters. I highly doubt that receipts were asked for, but they knew what the votes would be.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/17/2017 15:08 Comments || Top||

#9  "Walkin around money."
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/17/2017 15:45 Comments || Top||

#10  LBJ used to carry small bills in his car trunk on election day in Texas...

Given inflation since then, you'd need a small semi.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/17/2017 17:20 Comments || Top||

#11  Given inflation since then, you'd need a small semi.

They use EBT cards now. That way they don't even have to use their own money!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/17/2017 20:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
FBI Investigator Leaves Mueller's Russia Probe
[Free Beacon] Robert Mueller has lost one of the members of his special counsel investigation into Russian tampering in the 2016 presidential election.

Experienced FBI investigator Peter Strzok has left the special counsel team and joined the bureau's human resources division, ABC News reports. It is unclear why Strzok decided to leave Mueller's probe.

The news has been rife with stories about Mueller's expanding probe into potential ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, and Strzok's departure marks the only known exit among Mueller's principal team.

Mueller's probe has grown increasingly aggressive in recent weeks. The FBI raided former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's home last month, and it also came out that he had impaneled a grand jury in Washington, D.C.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/17/2017 05:10 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Strzok's departure marks the only known exit among Mueller's principal team

Because he was the only real cop in Mueller's team?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/17/2017 5:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Strzok got tired of looking for unicorns?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/17/2017 7:08 Comments || Top||

#3  When a stint in HR is more appealing than a "Yuge" (and potentially career-making) case, well...
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 08/17/2017 8:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Strzok is renowned as a counterintelligence specialist. He transferred to 'human resources'.

I suspect his skills will be required elsewhere.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/17/2017 8:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Could this have been a demotion because he didn't play along?
Posted by: jvalentour || 08/17/2017 9:32 Comments || Top||

#6  If I was transferred to HR, I'd quit
Posted by: Frank G on the Road || 08/17/2017 10:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Seems likely to me that Strzok was removed from the probe because he was not willing to follow orders, but Mueller did not want to take a PR hit by firing him, so he was transferred to somewhere in hopes he would quit. All the players are probably legally bound by non-disclosure laws.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/17/2017 10:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Follow non disclosure laws??? Surly you jest. And don't call me Shirley.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/17/2017 16:31 Comments || Top||

#9  If you get moved into HR, it's punishment.
Posted by: Raj || 08/17/2017 17:20 Comments || Top||

#10  HR strikes me as an interesting place to find those who have been misbehaving -- they have all the personnnel files.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2017 18:56 Comments || Top||

#11  I have seen that is a significant promotion up the bureaucratic org chart for Strzok. It could be a good fit if he had already sold his soul.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/17/2017 20:39 Comments || Top||


Former Klingon Master: Trump's comments on Charlottesville are 'a national disgrace'
[Wash Examiner] Former CIA Director John Brennan slammed President Trump for his comments Tuesday about the violence in Charlottesville, Va., calling them "a national disgrace" and warning the president is putting the country's national security and "our collective futures at grave risk."

"Mr. Trump's words, and the beliefs they reflect, are a national disgrace, and all Americans of conscience need to repudiate his ugly and dangerous comments," Brennan said in a note sent to CNN's Wolf Blitzer, which he read on air Wednesday. "If allowed to continue along this senseless path, Mr. Trump will do lasting harm to American society and to our standing in the world.

"By his words and his actions, Mr. Trump is putting our national security and our collective futures at grave risk," Brennan added.

Brennan, who was CIA director during the Obama administration, also called Trump's comments "despicable."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/17/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I fail to see what was despicable in Trump's comments - multiple parties behaved badly and information was not yet complete enough to say more.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/17/2017 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  In 1976, he voted for Communist Party USA candidate Gus Hall in the presidential election.

The Disposition Matrix, informally known as a kill list, is a database of information for tracking, capturing, rendering, or killing suspected enemies of the United States federal government.[1] Developed by the Obama administration beginning in 2010, the "Disposition Matrix" goes beyond existing kill lists and is intended to become a permanent fixture of U.S. policy.[1] The process determining criteria for killing is not public and was heavily shaped by National Counterterrorism Director and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John O. Brennan.[2]

Wikipedia.org
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 08/17/2017 1:24 Comments || Top||

#3  To think, this guy was in Intelligence.
Posted by: newc || 08/17/2017 2:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Here is my take on Trump's debacle:

http://defendinplace.blogspot.com/2017/08/how-president-trump-should-have-handled.html?spref=tw
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 08/17/2017 3:30 Comments || Top||

#5  There are millions of Muslims in USA, and Trump is supposed to pee his pants over a few hundred Nazis?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/17/2017 4:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Link to RANGER's #4. Worthy of a reading.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/17/2017 5:03 Comments || Top||

#7  I await with anticipation similar denunciations of black, hispanic, etc supremacists.

What? you tell me they don't have a very good case. That can't be true.

And I'll note the irony of Germany eliminating the Jews who were instremental in Germany's scientific and technological success.

Be careful what you wish for.
Posted by: phil_b || 08/17/2017 6:10 Comments || Top||


#9  Time to report a huge, large-scale hate crime.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/17/2017 7:38 Comments || Top||

#10  Excellent points, Lone Ranger.
Posted by: Frank G on the Road || 08/17/2017 9:26 Comments || Top||

#11  Lone Ranger- Nice column. However, it's Charlottesville, not Charlotte. May want to fix that typo to avoid any potential confusion. Godspeed.
Posted by: Eltoroverde || 08/17/2017 9:56 Comments || Top||

#12  Hmmmmm....Communists and Nazis fighting in the streets while an ineffectual central government simply marks time, along with local authorities supporting one of the groups whose aim is to take down that national government. I've seen this movie before. It didn't end well for the audience.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/17/2017 10:20 Comments || Top||

#13  I fail to see what was despicable in Trump's comments -

I completely agree with President Trump's comments, and admire him for originally standing up to the mob. Mr. Brennan is despicable.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2017 10:27 Comments || Top||

#14  What I like about Trump, is he fights.

He said what was true that day and the swamp took this as the opportunity to pile on him, because no one will defend nazis.

But we can't spare this man. He fights.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/17/2017 10:32 Comments || Top||

#15  The PC police got all over Trump's case because he told the truth. That tells me something. The focus of the Charlottesville story should not even be Trump. In fact, Trump should not even be a part of the story. It's all about commies and nazis doing what commies and nazis do and the police standing down to let it happen. For anyone to say any differently is a damn lie and I'm getting really sick and tired of all the lies.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/17/2017 11:04 Comments || Top||

#16  The questions about paid agitators and Kessler's involvement with Obama and the Occupy movement will NOT be investigated by MSM. They will not even be mentioned. Therefore, if anyone raises these questions in polite society they will be ridiculed as kooky conspiracy theories of the alt right. That's what they do with the Seth Rich story. That's how it works.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/17/2017 11:15 Comments || Top||

#17  Classic projection. Brennan is the 'national disgrace.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/17/2017 11:25 Comments || Top||

#18  I didn't see anything in Trump's comments that could be construed as a "national disgrace."

A hundred or so neo-Nazis-- that's 100 people out of America's population of over 300,000,000-- put on a peaceful demonstration, and our entire political class goes ballistic? I smell a rat...
Posted by: Dave D. || 08/17/2017 12:08 Comments || Top||

#19  Only 100 Nazi protesters? Few of these accounts mention much about the role of AntiFa in their reporting. The lame stream media who report (or distort if you will) and amplify these events by putting them in the echo chamber to bounce around for awhile have a role in causing this riots. The MSM still have big megaphones. The small splinter groups who perpetuate the violence, say to themselves "That was successful, look how much publicity we got." Let's do it again. And thus, in a way, the media causes these events to happen again and again.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/17/2017 15:43 Comments || Top||

#20  Sure were more than a 100 tiki torches. Question is, how many Nazis? 100? That has to be less than 10%.
Posted by: KBK || 08/17/2017 16:51 Comments || Top||



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  Breaking: Barcelona Van Attack on Pedestrians.
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