This is priceless!

Obama and the Democrat Culture of Corruption's New Bill of Rights

Scary but true!!

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Black Racist 'Poet' Maya Angelou Falsely Plays Race Card on Republicans

The racist ‘poet’ Angelou also played falsely the race card on Republicans, even though the true racists, and the people who started the KKK, are Democrats!

“I think we are going to see a number of people who say: ‘I have no racial prejudice in my heart, not in my conversation,’” Angelou says. “But in the next few months, as we wind up to the double campaign, I tell you we are going to see some nastiness, some vulgarity, I think. They’ll pull the sheets off.”

“Pull the sheets off”??? Maybe Maya needs to go back and read the history of the KKK to learn that it was actually the Democrats started the KKK, and Democrats has continued to be the largest group of racists in America, all the way up to today.

America’s first black president my ass! Obama is mixed, not black!

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Nut-Job Maxine Waters: Republicans Are "Demons" - Corrupt California Democrat Rep Belongs in Jail, Not in Congress!

Corrupt, brain-dead, Marxist Rep. Maxine Waters, is accused of using her position to help a bank in which her husband owned $350,000 in stock to obtain federal bailout funds.

We believe Maxine Waters belongs in jail, not as an accepted member of the Democrat Culture of Corruption, who, not surprisingly, is allowed to continue abusing her power by Nancy Pelosi and the other ultra-corrupt Democrats!!

Rep. Maxine Waters, no stranger to controversy, is turning heads once again, this time for describing House Republican leaders as “demons.”

The California Democrat’s comments, which surfaced Wednesday, were made last weekend at a state party convention in San Diego. Video of her speech shows her rallying Democrats to win back control of the House in November.

“I saw pictures of Boehner and Cantor on our screens (at the convention). Don’t ever let me see again, in life, those Republicans in our hall, on our screens, talking about anything. These are demons,” she told the crowd. “They are bringing down this country, destroying this country, because they’d rather do whatever they can do destroy this president rather than for the good of this country.”

Needless to say, those comments didn’t win her any friends on the other side of the aisle.

“That is a sad and unfortunate speech from a senior House Democrat, particularly at a time when we should be trying to find common ground on ways to get Americans back to work,” Cantor spokesman Brad Dayspring said Wednesday.

Waters, in her speech, also boasted that banks will be “shaking in their boots” if Democrats take back the house and she becomes the House Financial Services Committee chairwoman. She currently is the second-ranking Democrat on the committee behind Rep. Barney Frank, who isn’t running for re-election this year.

Whether Democrats would let her chair the committee is another matter, given that Waters continues to face an ethics investigation into her potential role in securing federal money for a bank with ties to her husband.

And she sparked controversy last year when she told a partisan crowd, “as far as I’m concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/15/maxine-waters-calls-republican-leaders-demons/#ixzz1mYsx21Lm

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Weakest President In History Wants to Further Decimate U.S. Safety and Security by Reducing Nuclear Weapons by 80 Percent!!

If the American People allow Obama to endanger our country in this way, we will be far more likely to be attacked or even invaded by our enemies, but Obama doesn’t care if his policies make the United States far weaker and more vulnerable, as long as he and his terrorist-loving administration get re=elected, so they can continue handing out our hard-earned tax dollars to their liberal, Socialist, and Marxist friends and supporters.

Reducing the U.S. nuclear force by 80 percent, a move under consideration by the White House, amounts to unilateral disarmament at a time when “the Iranians are nuking up,” Rush Limbaugh said today on his radio show.

“There are some things happening today that are downright scary,” Limbaugh said. “The regime, led by Barack Hussein Obama, is weighing options for reducing our U.S. nuclear force. Folks, this is staggering. Meanwhile, the Iranians are nuking up.”

The conservative talk-show host said the nuclear weapons reductions will not make the world safer and instead will shift the balance of power away from America.

“We are unilaterally disarming,” he said. “We are not requiring the Russians to go along, and even if the Russians said they would match these reductions, they lie. That is the lesson of the Russians and nukes.”

A report by The Associated Press that Limbaugh read on the air said the United States could reduce the number of deployed weapons to 300.

“The last time we had 300 warheads was in the ’50s,” he said. “If we reduce to 300, we will have fewer nuclear weapons than [China.]”

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Obama’s acting budget director Jeffrey Zients has now stated that the Obama administration’s mandate that requires people to purchase health care insurance was not a tax, which deals a huge blow to the credibility of the Democrat liars who say that it is, and makes it highly unlikely that Obamacare will hold up to the constitutionality test given by the Supreme Court.

In a September 2009 interview on ABC, Obama told George Stephanapoulos that his administration’s health care mandate was not a tax, but by the following June, his administration was arguing in court that it was a tax.

This shows how shady and spineless Obama really is. OBAMA DOESN’T CARE IF SOMETHING IS CONSTITUTIONAL OR NOT. If something Obama is trying to do is unconstitutional or illegal, Obama will just try and force it through anyway, while having everyone involved lie to increase their chances of success, and to try and cover their tracks.

Obama initially argued that his administration’s mandate that requires people to purchase health care insurance was not a tax, but now that they realize they the mandate, if seen as a tax, gives them a better chance of making their unconstitutional healthcare plan permanent.

Testifying before Congress this morning, President Obama’s acting budget director Jeffrey Zients directly undercut one of the administration’s key legal defenses of its national health care law as it nears a hearing before the Supreme Court.

In a hearing of the House Budget Committee Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., pressed Zients on whether the penalty that the health care law imposes on individuals who do not purchase health insurance constitutes a tax. Eventually, Zients said it did not.

But this directly contradicts one of the arguments the Obama administration is making before the Supreme Court in defense of the health care law, which is that the mandate is Constitutional because it’s a tax and government has taxing power.

This has always been a tricky argument for the Obama administration, because admitting that the mandate is a tax means that Obama violated his pledge not to raise taxes on those earning less than $250,000. In September 2009, Obama told ABC’s George Stephanapoulos that the mandate was not a tax. But by the following June, his administration was arguing in court that it was.

Now the administration is making both arguments simultaneously. Before Congress, Zients is arguing that it is not a tax. But before the Supreme Court next month, the administration will argue that it is, in fact, a tax.

“The practical operation of the minimum coverage provision is as a tax law,” reads the administration’s Supreme Court brief filed last month. “It is fully integrated into the tax system, will raise substantial revenue, and triggers only tax consequences for non-compliance.”

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This is completely wrong!! LAST YEAR ALONE, our wasteful, brain-dead government, led by the weak, ultra-liberal, know-nothing Obama, spent $1.6 Billion to provide free cell phones and free cell phone service to the poor.

Why is the ability of the poor to make cellular phone calls a necessity that U.S. Taxpayers have to be stuck on the hook to pay for?

Many of us grew up when there were not many cell phones, and everyone was still able to call one another.
They may not have been able to talk on the phone while away from a land line, like when driving, but we did not all die because we didn’t have cell phones.

I don’t have Netflix, so maybe the government will pay for my Netflix account as well?? I’m not a liberal piece of crap though, so I seriously doubt it..

Last year, a federal program paid out $1.6 billion to cover free cell phones and the monthly bills of 12.5 million wireless accounts. The program, overseen by the FCC and intended to help low-income Americans, is popular for obvious reasons, with participation rising steeply since 2008, when the government paid $772 million for phones and monthly bills. But observers complain that the program suffers from poor oversight, in which phones go to people who don’t qualify, and hundreds of thousands of those who do qualify have more than one phone.

Last summer, a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story shed some light on a government program that relatively few Americans knew existed. (Read more about it here.) The Lifeline program provides low-income Americans with free cell phones (basic ones such as those made by Tracfone, not smartphones) and covers up to 250 free minutes each month. As many as 5.5 million residents in Pennsylvania alone could qualify for the program, which is funded primarily by the Universal Service Fund fee added to the bills of land-line and wireless customers.

The program came to be after the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed, and the FCC created the Universal Service Fund to help “to promote the availability of quality services at just, reasonable, and affordable rates,” among other things. All telecommunications carriers must pay into the fund, and many do so by tacking on a fee to each of their customers’ bills. It’s probably added into your monthly wireless bill and your landline bill, if you still have one.

The Universal Service Fund provides discounts on phone services, or in some cases, entirely free services to low-income Americans. The fund helps pay for landlines or cell phones, whichever the recipient prefers. There’s also a one-time discount of up to $30 to cover an installation fee or a cell phone. Considering how cheap some cell phones are nowadays, the money more than covers the costs of a basic phone. Then, the fund covers phone bills to the tune of $10 a month, which typically translates as 250 minutes for wireless plans of the types of phones we’re talking about. Americans who receive food stamps, Medicaid, or other federal aid, or who earn up to 135% of the federal poverty guidelines, qualify for the program.

Now, Bloomberg Businessweek reports, we have a pretty good idea of how much the program pays out — and how quickly it’s growing as more and more people find out about it. In 2011, Lifeline paid out $1.6 billion, more than double the amount paid in 2008 ($772 million).

(MORE: Is Cell Phone ‘Bill Shock’ Going Away?)

What’s more, an FCC audit of the program last year showed that many participants in the program were taking more than their fair share. According to Businessweek:

269,000 wireless Lifeline subscribers were receiving free phones and monthly service from two or more carriers.

Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) has been taking a closer look at the program since she personally received an invitation to apply for a free, government-subsidized cell phone in the mail. McCaskill has asked the FCC to investigate Lifeline. As a result, the FCC is building a database to see if a subscriber has more than one subsidized phone. In other words, until recently, such a database didn’t exist.

(MORE: How Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android Left Blackberry in the Dust)

The FCC, which announced the changes by using the euphemism that it is “modernizing” Lifeline, has set a goal of saving $200 million on the program in 2012. After eliminating nearly 270,000 of the duplicate subscriptions discovered in the audit last year, the FCC said it has already “saved” $33 million.

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Nevada Highway Patrol troopers and Henderson police officers are shown on a Nevada Highway Patrol dashboard camera video during an October 2010 traffic stop in which motorist Adam Greene was mistaken for a drunken driver, pulled from his car by officers and kicked while in a diabetic coma on the pavement.

These power-hungry and criminal “police officers” should be put in prison for their obvious crimes in the abuse of this man!!!

Adam Greene is on his stomach as a pack of police officers pile on him, driving their knees into his back and wrenching his arms and legs. One officer knees him in the ribs; another kicks him in the face.

“Stop resisting,” officers on the video yell, but Greene, his face pushed into the pavement, hasn’t resisted. He doesn’t even move — maybe can’t move — because he’s gone into diabetic shock caused by low blood sugar.

The video, recorded more than a year ago by a police car dashboard camera, was released Tuesday by Greene’s lawyers. The same night, the Henderson City Council approved a settlement of $158,500 for Greene. His wife received $99,000 from Henderson, which is just under the minimum amount that requires council approval.

Nevada Highway Patrol troopers also participated in the traffic stop but do not appear to kick or knee Greene on the video. The state has agreed to pay $35,000 to Greene for a total of $292,500 between the two agencies.

It was a Highway Patrol vehicle camera that captured the incident.

CAUGHT ON TAPE

A Highway Patrol trooper enters the scene first, gun drawn, and kicks the driver’s window of Greene’s four-door sedan. After several moments, the trooper opens the door.

The trooper, his gun still raised, then gives Greene conflicting commands. He first tells him not to move, then tells him to come forward.

A second trooper quickly cuffs Greene’s wrist and pulls him from the car, which rolls forward until an officer stops it.

Greene flops to the ground, clearly dazed as five officers rush him. A sixth officer, with Henderson police, enters the frame late and delivers five well-placed kicks to Greene’s face.

“Stop resisting mother (expletive)!” one officer yells.

Greene doesn’t scream until a second Henderson officer knees him in the midsection — and then does it three more times. Greene was later treated for fractured ribs.

Police suspected Greene was intoxicated as he weaved among lanes about 4 a.m. on Oct. 29, 2010, and finally stopped his car near Lake Mead Parkway and Boulder Highway in Henderson.

But that wasn’t the case, which they soon discovered after they searched Greene.

“Call in medical,” one officer says in the video. “We found some insulin in his pocket. … He’s semiconscious.”

“Let’s get medical out here. He’s a diabetic, he’s probably in shock,” the officer later tells dispatch.

Greene’s lawsuit said officers then forced him to stand by a patrol car in handcuffs and blow into a Breathalyzer, despite being injured. Paramedics later arrived and treated him for low blood sugar.

Greene was released without a citation, and officers apologized to him for “beating him up,” the lawsuit said.

He immediately went to a hospital, where he was treated for the broken ribs and the bruises to his hands, neck, face and scalp, the lawsuit said.

One of the harsher moments in the video comes near the end of the clip, when one officer can be heard laughing loudly.

One officer notes that Greene “was not a small guy.” An officer laughs and says, “I couldn’t take him by myself.”

OFFICERS NOT IDENTIFIED

None of the officers was named in the lawsuit, and authorities have not released their names.

Henderson police said a sergeant involved was disciplined. The sergeant remains employed with the department.

Greene’s lawyers were planning to hold a news conference today about the incident.

Greene’s case, while shocking, is not unique.

Alan Yatvin, a legal advocate for the American Diabetes Association and a Philadelphia attorney, said police across the country frequently mistake low blood sugar — called hypoglycemia when blood sugar is exceptionally low — for intoxication in people with diabetes.

A Web search on the issue returns dozens of video clips and stories similar to Greene’s.

Symptoms of hypoglycemia include shakiness, dizziness, hunger, pale skin, moodiness, aggressive behavior, loss of consciousness and even seizures.

“You need police to be trained in what to look for,” Yatvin said. “The problem is, there’s no authority over all police departments. Every department has its own procedures, and states have different rules and training regimens.”

Henderson police said in a statement that the department’s use-of-force methods were modified after the Greene incident. The statement noted a 30 percent reduction in use-of-force incidents from 2010 to 2011. The specific policy changes were not detailed.

William Sousa, a criminal justice professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said training for crisis issues is not consistent through departments. Some departments train every officer, and some departments train just a few.

And it is unknown how effective crisis training is, Sousa said.

“Anecdotal evidence is that even officers trained for this will come upon situations they have to diagnose quickly, and act quickly, and those result in cases where you have something (like Greene’s case),” he said.

The American Diabetes Association recommends that people with diabetes wear a bracelet indicating their condition, but “police still have to look,” Yatvin said.

It is unknown whether Greene was wearing a medical bracelet, but it wasn’t mentioned in the lawsuit.

Yatvin, who specializes in police misconduct cases, added that it is “very troubling” for the average citizen to think police could arrest or assault them because of a medical condition.

“I have a hard time imagining a scenario where it’s necessary to kick an unarmed man and break his ribs,” he said.

The scenario likely would not have been seen at all had the Highway Patrol camera not been rolling.

At the time of the incident, Henderson police did not have dashboard cameras. Those were added to Henderson police vehicles in June, more than eight months after the incident with Greene.

Such an event would not have been captured on video in Las Vegas because the Metropolitan Police Department doesn’t have cameras in cars.

Sousa said the trend with agencies has been moving toward dashboard cameras.

“It works both ways,” he said. “There’s usually resistance from officers at first, but as years go by it may become no big deal, because you get an objective recording that often helps the officers.”

This wasn’t the first high-profile incident involving a medical episode in Clark County. In both cases, the Highway Patrol was involved.

Las Vegas doctor Ryan Rich, 33, died in January 2008 after trooper Loren Lazoff used a Taser on him five times.

Rich’s vehicle had crashed into two vehicles and then the center median on Interstate 15.

Lazoff said Rich appeared intoxicated, dazed and was combative, but an autopsy later revealed he only had seizure medication in his system. Rich had been diagnosed with the seizure disorder shortly before he died.

The Clark County Coroner’s inquest jury ruled the death excusable.

Rich’s family sued Taser International last year. The Highway Patrol was not named in the lawsuit.

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Obama Lies, Then Agrees To Return Dirty Campaign Contributions from Criminal Fund Raisers

The two criminal brothers, who fled the US to get away with being charged with felony drug and fraud charges, have now been working with Democrats to try and get a pardon, allowing for legal re-entry into the United States.

The criminal brothers know that the corrupt “Above the Law” Democrats are the best people to go to for help, because the Democrat Culture of Corruption shows them that the criminal brothers and the Democrat party are very similar. They also realize that Republicans would laugh in their faces, and turn them in, instead of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from the pair of criminals, as Obama did.

Two American brothers of a Mexican casino magnate who fled drug and fraud charges in the United States and has been seeking a pardon enabling him to return have emerged as major fund-raisers and donors for President Obama’s re-election campaign.

The casino owner, Juan Jose Rojas Cardona, known as Pepe, jumped bail in Iowa in 1994 and disappeared, and has since been linked to violence and corruption in Mexico. A State Department cable in 2009 said he was suspected of orchestrating the assassination of a business rival and making illegal campaign donations to Mexican officials.

When The New York Times asked the Obama campaign early Monday about the Cardonas, officials said they were unaware of the brother in Mexico. Later in the day, the campaign said it was refunding the money raised by the family, which totaled more than $200,000.

As recently as January of last year, one of Mr. Cardona’s brothers in Chicago, Carlos Rojas Cardona, arranged for the former chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party to seek a pardon from the governor for Pepe Cardona, according to prosecutors in that state. None was forthcoming.

Last fall, Carlos Cardona and another brother in Chicago, Alberto Rojas Cardona, began raising money for the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The Cardona brothers, who have no prior history of political giving, appeared seemingly out of nowhere in the world of Democratic fund-raising, Democratic activists said.

The money Alberto Cardona raised put him in the upper tiers of fund-raisers known as bundlers, according to a list released last month by the campaign. He and Carlos Cardona each gave the maximum $30,800 to the Democratic National Committee, and a lesser amount to a state victory fund. A sister, Leticia Rojas Cardona of Tennessee, donated $13,000 to the national committee, and another relative in Illinois gave $12,600, records show. There is no record of Pepe Cardona making a donation.

Although the two brothers live and work in Chicago, they maintain ties to Pepe Cardona in Mexico. Alberto Cardona operates an advertising agency in Mexico that has worked for political candidates backed by his brother, according to public records and Mexican news reports. Public records also show that the domain name for the Web site of a restaurant Pepe Cardona owns is registered to Alberto Cardona.

Obama campaign officials said most of the money raised by the Cardona brothers came from themselves and other relatives, donations of about $200,000. In addition, the campaign was identifying other donations, believed to total less than $100,000, that were bundled from other people.

“On the basis of the questions that have been raised, we will return the contributions from these individuals and from any other donors they brought to the campaign,” said Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for the Obama campaign.

Pepe Cardona is one of the largest players in Mexico’s violent and tumultuous casino trade. In 2007, he survived an assassination attempt that was attributed to members of organized crime. The State Department cable, which was part of the cache made public by WikiLeaks, said he was suspected of illegally funneling $5 million into Mexican political campaigns in 2006.

Multiple messages left for Alberto and Carlos Cardona over several days were not returned. A sister-in-law, Sarah Westall of Minnesota, said in a telephone interview that it would be wrong to tar other members of the family with the negative publicity surrounding Pepe Cardona.

Ms. Westall, who is married to another Cardona brother, Gabriel, said Alberto and Carlos took up Democratic fund-raising because their extended family had long been involved in helping the Latino community and because they supported the president. There were no other reasons beyond those, she said. “I understand that it looks real bad,” she said. “But the rest of the family are really good people. Pepe is actually a good person too.”

Whatever the family’s motivation, the president cannot pardon someone for state crimes. On Monday, Democratic fund-raisers who have had encounters with Alberto and Carlos Cardona expressed surprise upon learning about their family history. Manuel Sanchez, a Chicago lawyer who is deeply involved in Latino outreach for the Obama administration, said he first met them in December at a finance committee meeting for the president’s campaign in Washington.

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Corrupt Pa. Democrat Rep, Bill DeWeese, Convicted on 5 Felony Counts

In reality, this is just one more, among the hundreds of instances of above-the-law Democrats thinking that they can do anything they want, and get away with breaking the law, without any fear of punishment.

A jury on Monday convicted a senior Democrat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on all but one of six charges in the latest corruption trial stemming from a five-year investigation into the use of taxpayers’ resources for political purposes.

Rep. Bill DeWeese was convicted of felony counts of conspiracy, conflict of interest and three counts of theft, while the Dauphin County jury acquitted him of one other theft count.

The verdict, reached early on the third day of deliberations, struck a grave blow to the 35-year career of the former floor leader who also once served as House speaker. A woman seated with DeWeese’s family cried out when the first guilty verdict was announced.

DeWeese’s lawyer vowed to appeal. DeWeese said he intended to keep his House seat — despite a constitutional provision interpreted to bar any felon from serving in public office — and continue his re-election campaign in his southwestern Pennsylvania district.

“I certainly feel that I did nothing wrong,” the 61-year-old DeWeese told reporters.

“I believe that, in the court of public opinion, I shall be favorably received to some substantial degree. That’s up to the voters, but I certainly will continue to run,” the Greene County lawmaker said.

Lead prosecutor Ken Brown said he was pleased by the verdict and that state sentencing guidelines recommend a sentence between nine and 16 months behind bars for each count. He said the conviction will cost DeWeese his House seat and state pension.

“He’s a convicted felon and convicted felons, once they’re sentenced, can’t sit in the General Assembly,” said Brown, a senior deputy attorney general. “If he wants to spit in the face of the jury’s verdict, I guess that’s his prerogative.”

County President Judge Todd Hoover, the trial judge, set sentencing for April 24, which is also the date of Pennsylvania’s primary election.

Under House rules, if DeWeese does not resign by the time he is sentenced, a resolution calling for his expulsion will be drafted and put to a vote, according to Steve Miskin, a spokesman for the House speaker.

Any House member may introduce a resolution to expel DeWeese prior to sentencing, but “we do not consider him convicted until sentencing,” Miskin said.

During seven days of testimony, prosecutors relied heavily on testimony by people who worked for DeWeese at his Capitol office in Harrisburg and his district office that campaign work was an integral part of their jobs.

Those witnesses included DeWeese’s former chief of staff, Mike Manzo, who testified against his ex-boss and is awaiting sentencing under a plea deal in which he pleaded guilty to reduced charges. Another key witness was Kevin Sidella, a former aide who handled DeWeese’s political fundraising and was granted immunity from prosecution.

DeWeese oversaw hundreds of caucus employees during his two decades as the House Democratic leader, but said he delegated responsibility for day-to-day operations to others, including Manzo and the then-No. 2 caucus leader, Democratic whip Mike Veon of Beaver County, who is serving a six- to 14-year prison term after being convicted in a related case.

DeWeese said he advocated compliance with rules barring political activity on state time and realized only after the probe began in early 2007 that many employees were not filing required paperwork to show that their campaign activity was on their own time.

More than 30 friends and supporters turned out to testify — some collectively — in his defense, and DeWeese himself testified for more than three hours.

A two-thirds majority vote would be required to expel DeWA spokesman for House Speaker Sam Smith said

As he left the courthouse Monday, DeWeese suggested that his trial was unfair because it was held in the state capital instead of the hardscrabble, rural district he represents. He had unsuccessfully sought to have an out-of-county jury brought in to handle the case because of pre-trial publicity.

“I think that a western Pennsylvania … jury would have found me innocent,” he said following the verdict. “I believe that Mr. Fina (Chief Deputy Attorney General Frank Fina, chief of the public corruption unit in the attorney general’s office) wanted me tried by his peers, not by my own peers.”

Republican Tom Corbett launched the investigation while he was attorney general and directed it until he was sworn in as governor last year.

Prior to his trial, DeWeese made no secret of his view that the investigation was a politically motivated move by “Corbett and his cronies,” although DeWeese did not publicly criticize Corbett on Monday.

Brown said complaints by several defendants that the investigation is politically motivated are unfair.

“We’ve arrested and now convicted Democrats and Republicans. I don’t see that there’s anything partisan about that,” Brown said.

Eleven other Democrats and nine Republicans, including former House Speaker John Perzel, have been convicted or pleaded guilty in the investigation, while two defendants were acquitted and charges against another were dropped.

The other defendant, former Rep. Stephen Stetler, D-York, is slated for trial later this year.

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What do you bet that the majority of these “above the law” criminal jackasses who took fraudulent unemployment checks are Democrats??
I would bet almost anything that, out of the 90 employed D.C. government workers, who are scamming the government to get unwarranted and fraudulent unemployment checks, the majority of the criminals are Democrats.

Hopefully, the D.C. Department of Employment Services will release the names of the 90 criminal D.C. government workers, so we can see who these criminals are, and then make sure that these criminals never get another public or government job, as long as they live!

We already know what will happen when the criminals have a chance to make up their excuses for their crimes.
These above the law criminals will most likely try and save their asses by saying their crimes of unemployment fraud were just an honest mistake, and that they never meant to take the money illegally, and may even try blaming it on someone who works for them.

They should all go to jail though, no matter what their party affiliation!

Nearly 90 District government employees were placed on leave Monday in a prelude to their potential firing and prosecution after officials determined they had received fraudulent unemployment benefits while holding their city jobs.

Another 60 or so former D.C. workers cashed unemployment checks they were not entitled to, said Lisa Mallory, director of the D.C. Department of Employment Services. In all, the city has paid out about $800,000 in unemployment benefits to working city employees since 2009, Mallory said.

“By holding people accountable, that sends a clear message we’re not tolerating this behavior,” she said Monday.

D.C. Inspector General Charles J. Willoughby and Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan are involved in the probe; authorities anticipate referring at least some cases to federal prosecutors for criminal prosecution. Mallory also said she has worked with the U.S. Department of Labor to detect and prevent this type of fraud.

Jeff Lagda, a spokesman for the Labor Department’s inspector general, cited department policy Monday in not confirming or denying any ongoing investigation.

The employees accused of wrongdoing worked in various arms of the District government, including the D.C. Public Schools and the D.C. Council, according to a high-ranking official to Mayor Vincent C. Gray, who was not allowed to speak publicly on the investigation. Some of the employees, Mallory said, received as much as $20,000 or more; others received only a few hundred dollars.

The alleged fraud is not complicated nor is it uncommon in unemployment insurance programs: Workers apply for checks and receive them legitimately for a time but fail to inform authorities as soon as they go back to work.

“Some are people who come in and out of government and never stopped [receiving unemployment checks]. Some may have worked in parts of an agency where for the summer months you don’t work,” Mallory said. “There are no clear patterns that we can discern. It’s just a matter of certifying you aren’t receiving income when you are receiving income.”

A Gray spokesman declined to release workers’ names Monday, citing privacy restrictions.

Mallory said her department regularly passes cases of suspected “overpayments” fraud to the inspector general for investigation and potential prosecution, but Monday’s action represents an unprecedented crackdown among the city government’s approximately 32,000 employees.

“Our focus is really on trying to deter,” she said. “We want to make sure that individuals who owe this money are actually held accountable for these overpayments.”

Mallory said her office has launched new initiative in the past year to combat this type of fraud, cross-checking lists of unemployment recipients with city payroll records and a national database of new hires. The city unemployment office now does those comparisons several times a week, she said.

The employees placed on leave Monday were informed of the allegations against them in letters delivered at least 15 days ago, Mallory said. “They are afforded an opportunity to provide the history of what transpired,” she said. “Most of these individuals, from what we can tell, did not do that.”

Monday’s actions follow ongoing probes into the District’s unemployment office by local and federal authorities.

In September, the acting director of the Employment Services unemployment division, Gaby L. Fraser, was dismissed amid fraud allegations. The inspector general continues to investigate that case, Mallory said, and Fraser has not been charged with a crime.

Mallory said Monday’s action is not related to Fraser’s dismissal. A national search remains underway for her permanent replacement.

A financial audit of the unemployment program dating to 2009, paid for by federal administrative funds, is set to get underway Monday, Mallory said.

Investigators have taken an increasing interest in the unemployment program as the volume of claims has soared alongside the District’s unemployment rate. In fiscal 2007, with the city jobless rate under 6 percent, 17,645 residents made initial claims for unemployment checks. Two years later, joblessness had risen to about 10 percent and more than 52,000 sought checks for the first time.

In a July 2011 letter to Gray, Willoughby said his office was conducting an “ongoing special evaluation” of the unemployment compensation office and that he expected to submit a report later in the year.

The letter accompanied a management alert that found “essential safeguards” in an agency computer system were “inappropriately turned off” from February 2009 to July 2010, allowing an unknown number of checks to be mailed to ineligible recipients. According to the letter, a city contractor told investigators that a former agency manager had ordered the safeguards to be disabled, perhaps to allow officials to more easily handle a record number of claims.

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