Anonymous wrote:Former Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) sentenced today in federal court for lying to the FBI. The prosecution asked for six months in prison. Trump appointee gives him bupkis. Pathetic.

Update:

Tennessee State Senator Ken Yager, the Republican caucus chair, pissed himself during a field sobriety test after a hit and run crash.

Ah yes of course the printer in charge of my campaign brochures is perfect for a million dollar Meals on Wheels contract.

“Orange County Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento asked the county’s internal audit staff Tuesday to specifically review a county contract with DTN Tech (DTN), after an LAist investigation found Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) awarded the vendor $1.2 million in taxpayer meal funds at the same time it was printing her campaign mailers.

The directive from Sarmiento came during a Board of Supervisors meeting in Santa Ana. In a written statement following the meeting, Sarmiento said it was important to thoroughly assess potential issues and implement needed reforms.

“The LAist article uncovered that a vendor, initially engaged in printing work during the campaign, was subsequently awarded a meal contract despite not being in the food industry,” Sarmiento said. “This situation underscores the importance of continuing our internal auditing efforts, as well as bringing in an independent external auditor.”

Steel directed the money to DTN in 2020 when she was an Orange County supervisor running for Congress. The funds came from the federal government and were intended to help needy seniors access food as COVID deaths surged across the county. LAist’s reporting found that Steel agreed to use taxpayer funds to pay DTN far more than vendors billed in districts led by other supervisors. The meals in Steel’s program cost $24 per meal, three times as much as in two of the other districts.”
https://laist.com/news/politics/review-michelle-steel-campaign-mail-vendor-dtn

Robert Garrison Cheshire, 56, Republican former Angelina County commissioner, was found guilty of four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child and has been sentenced to 80 years in prison.



https://lufkindailynews.com/news/local/judge-sentences-bobby-cheshire-to-80-years-for-multiple-counts-of-aggravated-sexual-assault-of/article_f864938c-9fd8-11ef-8836-17899664ef95.html

“House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) was charged with being drunk in public at Dulles International Airport, according to a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/11/13/michael-mccaul-dulles-arrest/?utm_campaign=wp_post_local&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3fa33c0%2F6735e5171c98a41151ce73fa%2F596bc2b7ae7e8a44e7dcaab7%2F22%2F68%2F6735e5171c98a41151ce73fa

Republican former Gordon County, GA commissioner Rebecca Hood and her husband Scott have both been arrested for the physical and sexual abuse of their adopted children.

https://gbi.georgia.gov/press-releases/2024-10-31/gbi-arrests-former-gordon-county-commissioner-and-her-husband-child-abuse

Larry Lee Savage Jr., a former Republican candidate for Indiana’s 5th Congressional District

Anonymous wrote:everything the GOP does is face and projection

And fraud, since the guy owes more than $6.7 million in back taxes to the state of New York because of course he does.

Miami Herald pulls its endorsement of incumbent Republican state representative Vicki Lopez following a story published Thursday detailing how Lopez helped push a bill that benefited her family financially.

Anonymous wrote:Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel charging "Lansing powerbrokers" Anne and Rob Minard for embezzling from "numerous" political fundraising funds "to financially enrich themselves not permitted" under state law.

Nessel alleges they embezzled $525,000 from 2018-2020 while holding taxpayer-funded jobs with the House Republicans under then-Speaker Lee Chatfield.

Nessel said the alleged embezzlement by Rob and Anne Minard was discovered while the AG's was investigating ex-House Speaker Lee Chatfield, after the Michigan State Police referred an investigation that began as a sexual abuse claim by Chatfield's sister-in-law.

"We're nearing an end point" of the Chatfield probe.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/21/lee-chatfield-dana-nessel-embezzlement-campaign-fundraising-lansing-powerbrokers-rob-anne-minard/71990180007/

Update: “Anne and Robert Minard, two top staffers of former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield, are poised to face criminal trials after a judge determined Thursday there was probable cause to believe allegations they stole more than $600,000 from political fundraising accounts.

Ingham County District Court Judge Molly Hennessey Greenwalt issued a written decision, binding 21 criminal charges against the Minards, a married couple from Bath Township, over to Ingham County Circuit Court.

Chatfield, a Republican from Levering, is separately facing 13 criminal charges as Nessel's office alleges that he and his wife, Stephanie Chatfield, misused nonprofit dollars to pay off a personal credit card and fund purchases at wineries and luxury retail stores while he was the House speaker.

The Chatfields have also pleaded not guilty. Their preliminary examinations are scheduled to begin Oct. 31.”

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/09/12/judge-rules-there-is-probable-cause-to-believe-lee-chatfield-staffers-embezzled-political-cash/75188128007/

Chatfield also got his own thread since he was raping his sister-in-law for years, starting when she was a teenager.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1027407.page

everything the GOP does is face and projection

Anonymous wrote:Republican Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do, 1st District, has resigned and agreed to plead guilty to federal corruption charges.

Do funneled COVID-19 relief money into the Viet America Society, a nonprofit for which his daughter, Rhiannon Do, served as an executive.

https://x.com/cbsnews/status/1848853957030121707?s=46&t=kf1qYlCXQnKgUhJWEIu2vg

The non-profit was created in order to get this money. It was created by a friend of his and his daughter in 2020 for this reason only. One of his aides' girlfriends also got 250k of COVID money for her non-profit. That guy recently resigned too.

Republican state Assembly candidate Joseph Mastroianni, a member of the Rotterdam, NY Town Board, was caught on camera stealing his opponent’s flyer from a constituent’s mailbox, a federal offense. Mastroianni is challenging six-term Democratic Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara in the 111th district encompassing Schenectady and Montgomery counties.

Linda McMahon, Trump’s SBA Administrator, chairman of Trump SuperPAC America First Action, and loser of two different Senate races in Connecticut as the GOP nominee:

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Anonymous wrote:Bilking US taxpayers, one room at a time

This is so lame. Hilton does this to me every single time I stay at one hotel. It’s called surge pricing.

Have you been to Disneyland lately?

Uh, not the same thing. At all.