Couple Collected $165,000 In Welfare While living on Yacht

Couple Allegedly Collected More Than $165,000 In Welfare While Living On A Million-Dollar Yacht

LOL, Halarious :rofllol

"A couple who collected food stamps and other public assistance from Minnesota while living on a yacht in Florida were being sought on fraud charges, prosecutors said on Friday."


http://www.businessinsider.com/r-couple ... or-2014-21

They must Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), it's hard to live in the frozen north winter after winter. They must have simply determined that they needed a change of venue and headed to Florida. Sure they collected a few entitlements along the way but that doesn't make them bad people...

LadyJazzer wrote: Wow... One person... Almost as impressive as Reagan's "Welfare Queen in a Cadillac", (which was non-existent.)

So, you hang your whole argument on finding one guy...

I suggest we use the ONE Florida GOTP Congressman that just got caught using cocaine as another good example...And make EVERY TeaBagger in Congress take a pee-in-the-cup test.

LadyJazzer wrote: Ah, yes... The standard talking-point (read: delusion) of the mythical "Reagan Welfare Queen", and the lazy shiftless millions (that don't actually exist except in the minds of the Randroids)...

The Right would rather deny access to millions, rather than let a few bad apples get through.

You're right..I'm willing to tolerate a few lazy, shiftless bad-apples to ensure that those who need it, get it...

LadyJazzer wrote: Yeah, like the stories on "welfare fraud". Not all welfare recipients are worthless dirtbags, but there's always a "[non-existent] 'Reagan welfare-queen' story" if you dig deep enough.

GO OWS'ers...

Upon further review, shouldn't this be covered by Obamacare? The couple accused of defrauding the food stamp system and other entitlements have a legitimate illness and the self diagnosed it and prescribed their own treatment. Not only did they optimize their treatment, imagine how much money the Gubment and the healthcare industry saved by not having to run them through the traditional doctor patient back and forth to determine what's wrong, how to treat it, and the mountains of administrative paperwork and red tape exacerbated by Obamacare.

Gee, I still stand by every one of those posts...

And you still stand--for NOTHING.

Just like these voter fraud cases that LJ says don't exist, these are JUST the people who were careless enough to get caught. The lady who voted for Obama 7 times was suppose to serve 5 years but just got out after 8 months. These high rollers probably won't get much time if any unless they voted the wrong way.

Rick wrote: Just like these voter fraud cases that LJ says don't exist, these are JUST the people who were careless enough to get caught. The lady who voted for Obama 7 times was suppose to serve 5 years but just got out after 8 months. These high rollers probably won't get much time if any unless they voted the wrong way.

Did you see this.

"CINCINNATI - A long-time poll worker who admitted to illegal voting was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday and received a rebuke from the judge, who cited her criminal past. Melowese Richardson, 58, pleaded no contest to four counts of illegal voting in 2009, 2011 and 2012. One count charged her with voting for her sister, who is in a coma. Four other counts were dropped in exchange for Richardson's plea. During a passionate sentencing speech, Hamilton County Judge Robert P. Ruehlman laid out a laundry list of past charges against Richardson - from witness harassment to theft to assault - as Richardson stood before him. "I'm Melowese Richardson. I take the law into my own hands. I do what I want,"Ruehlman said. "It's about criminal activity. You are a criminal."That was only eight months ago. For some reason, she has already been released. At an event that was all about voting law, Ohio Democrats invited a person guilty of multiple counts of voter fraud to speak – to "welcome her back" and applaud her. They invited her up to the stage, like some sort of hero.
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Yeah, I always hate when they find the usual (non-existent) voter-fraud...

Boy, I'm SO glad they FINALLY found a case of actual voter fraud to convict someone on!!

Jack Villamaino, Former GOP Candidate, Gets 4 Months In Jail For Felony Voter Fraud

In the midst of his 2012 GOP primary campaign for a Massachusetts state House seat, Jack Villamaino changed the party affiliation of nearly 300 people in his town of East Longmeadow. Days later, the same number of absentee ballot requests were dropped off at the town clerk’s office, a list that was almost a “name-for-name match” for those whose registration information Villamaino had altered.

Earlier this week, Villamaino pleaded guilty to felony charges of stealing ballots and changing the party affiliation of 280 Democrats during his campaign for state representative. A judge sentenced him to a year in jail, only four months of which he'll be forced to serve behind bars.

The remainder of that sentence will be suspended, and Villamaino will also be required to serve a year of probation. Villamaino's defense attorney had hoped the judge would throw out the felony conviction, while Hampden District Attorney Mark Mastroianni had sought additional felony charges for forgery and perjury.

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VA Voter Suppression Prosecution Expanding

The investigation into the destruction of valid voter registration forms by an RNC employee working for one of the many sockpuppet companies Nathan Sproul keeps creating to cover his tracks and former problems with voting rights violations is expanding to cover Sproul and perhaps even more. The Washington Post reports:

The investigation into the arrest of a man on charges of dumping voter registration forms last month in Harrisonburg, Va., has widened, with state officials probing whether a company tied to top Republican leaders had engaged in voter registration fraud in the key battleground state, according to two persons close to the case.

A former employee of Strategic Allied Consulting, a contractor for the Republican Party of Virginia, had been scheduled to appear last Tuesday before a grand jury after he was charged with tossing completed registration forms into a recycling bin. But state prosecutors canceled Colin Small’s grand jury testimony to gather more information, with their focus expanding to the firm that had employed Small, which is led by longtime GOP operative Nathan Sproul.

State authorities are seeking to learn whether any of Small’s supervisors instructed him or any of his 40 co-workers in Virginia to ask potential voters about their political leanings during registration drives, the two sources said. Asking such questions could be a violation of state election law.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/ ... expanding/

Arizona consultant in voter-registration controversy

A longtime Arizona Republican political consultant is at the center of a voter-registration controversy in Florida.

The Republican National Committee on Thursday fired Strategic Allied Consulting, run by former Arizona Republican Party executive director Nathan Sproul, as a vendor after 106 questionable new-voter registrations were submitted in Florida's Palm Beach County, the epicenter of the ballot dispute in 2000's presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore.

Sproul, who is managing partner at Tempe-based Lincoln Strategy Group and in the past has been associated with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's campaign efforts in Arizona, also came under fire in 2004 in Nevada and Oregon for his firm's role in another RNC voter-registration drive in which voter registration cards filled out by Democrats allegedly were trashed.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/ ... ck_check=1

GOP registration worker charged with voter fraud

A campaign worker linked to a controversial Republican consulting firm has been arrested in Virginia and charged with throwing voter registration forms into a dumpster.

The suspect, Colin Small, 31, was described by a local law enforcement official as a "supervisor" in a Republican Party financed operation to register voters in Rockingham County in rural Virginia, a key swing state in the Nov. 6 election. He was arrested after a local business owner in the same Harrisonburg, Va., shopping center where the local GOP campaign headquarters is located spotted Small tossing a bag into the trash, according to a statement Thursday by the Rockingham County Sheriff’s office. The bag was later found to contain eight voter registration forms, it said. The arrest was reported Thursday night by WWBT-TV in Richmond.

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/20 ... fraud?lite

Thousands of Fake Republicans Are Being Registered by Romney and the GOP

An expert in voter registration fraud is a person by the name of Nathan Sproul. In 2004, The RNC hired Sproul’s company, Sproul and Associates to register Republican voters for the Bush/Cheney campaign. Sproul and Associates was paid 8 million dollars for its services to the Bush Campaign – a fact the Bush Campaign attempted to obscure, according The Baltimore Chronicle in 2005.

Sproul’s voter registration businesses had a habit of intentionally misplacing forms they collected from people who intended to register with the Democratic Party. They also engaged in the curious tactic of harassing voters to register as Republicans.

In 2004, Salon reported on Sproul and Associates, revealing a web of deception inherent in the company’s practices on anything from recruiting canvassers to their voter registration tactics.

http://www.politicususa.com/romneys-des ... sures.html

Republican U.S. House Staffers Indicted for Felony Election Fraud as GOP Fraud Epidemic Continues
MI prosecutors: 'Blatant', 'disgraceful' aides 'lost moral compass', were 'completely indifferent to requirements of law'

As it turns out, not only is there no such epidemic of Democratic voter fraud, but the opposite is true. Over the past year, very high profile Republicans --- including this year's presumed standard bearer, Mitt Romney; the Sec. of State of Indiana (the first state to institute polling place Photo ID restrictions) Charlie White; one time GOP front-runner Newt Gingrich; MO's new GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate Todd Akin; and the group hired the Sacramento, CA Republican Party to collect voter registrations this year for Rep. Dan Lungren; among others (all detailed below) --- have each been revealed as having committed or participated in election fraud --- both voter registration fraud and actual voter fraud --- in state after state.

One might even call it "an epidemic". Or, if you prefer, "one of the greatest frauds in voter history, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy," as then GOP Presidential nominee John McCain described what Republicans pretended ACORN was doing back in 2008 (just before it was revealed he had previously been the group's keynote speaker where he told ACORN's members they were "what makes America special.")

So really, should we be surprised to learn that four aides to former long-shot GOP Presidential candidate and U.S. House Rep. Thaddeus McCotter --- Representative of the state's 11th and one of its most Republican districts --- were indicted yesterday on dozens of criminal felony and misdemeanor election fraud charges for having turned in over 1,500 forged and falsified signatures in a "blatant" and "disgraceful" attempt, as the state's Republican AG described it, to qualify the Congressman for this year's ballot?...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9467

Conviction in GOP voter-suppression scheme

Last November, there was a fairly competitive gubernatorial race in Maryland. Late on Election Day, robocalls targeted more than 100,000 Democratic households, telling voters to “relax” and not bother voting because Dems were going to win. It was one of the most blatant examples of GOP voter-suppression tactics in a long while.

Fortunately, those responsible got caught. Yesterday, a jury convicted the Republican ringleader.

Paul E. Schurick, the 2010 campaign manager for former Maryland governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., was convicted Tuesday by a Baltimore jury of four counts stemming from a robocall that prosecutors said was intended to suppress the black vote.

The call, which Schurick acknowledged authorizing, was placed on Election Day to 112,000 voters in Baltimore and Prince George’s County, the state’s two largest majority-African American jurisdictions. Recipients were told by an unidentified woman that they could “relax” because Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) had been successful.

Fortunately, other members of the former Republican governor’s team will also stand trial for their role.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/politi ... 33951.php#

Roxanne Rubin, Nevada Republican, Accepts Plea Deal After Committing Voter Fraud

A Nevada Republican arrested for voter fraud in the 2012 election, after claiming she was trying to test the system's integrity, pled guilty and accepted a plea deal Thursday, forcing her to pay almost $2,500 and promise to stay out of trouble.

Roxanne Rubin, 56, a casino worker on the Las Vegas Strip, was arrested on Nov. 3, 2012 after trying to vote twice, once at her poling site in Henderson and then at a second site in Las Vegas. The poll workers at the second site said that she had already voted, but Rubin said that she hadn't and insisted on casting a ballot, which the poll workers refused to allow her to do.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/2 ... 66297.html

The only person arrested and convicted of voter fraud in 2012 was a Republican

A Las Vegas woman, Roxanne Rubin, 56, learned her fate after being arrested for intentionally attempted to vote twice. Her conviction is believed to be the only conviction for voter fraud relating to the 2012 election.

You may remember Roxanne Rubin, a registered Republican, as she was covered in this column previously immediately following her arrest in early Nov. 2012. FBI agents descended upon her place of employment, a casino, and took her into custody.

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-onl ... republican

Republican Lawyers Group's Own Study Undercuts Vote Fraud Claims
A Republican National Lawyers Association effort to discredit the NAACP backfires by showing voter fraud - impersonating other voters - barely occurs.

The Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) in an attempt to discredit a NAACP report this week on the lack of voter fraud evidence has bolstered the view that there is no need for voter ID laws, imposed by many states. The RNLA produced data showing 46 states and various convictions for voter fraud. Presumably by their absence, 4 states and the District of Columbia had no convictions.

Viewing the data for the period 2000-2010, the report by its own account shows there is no link between voter fraud in states and the need for stricter voter ID laws. The data shows that during the entire 10 year period, 21 states had only 1 or 2 convictions for some form of voter irregularity. And some of these 21 states have the strictest form of voter ID laws based on a finding of 2 or less convictions in ten years. Five states had a total of three convictions over a ten year period. Rhode Island had 4 convictions for the same 10 years. Taking a close look at the RNLA data shows 30 states, including the District of Columbia had 3 or less voter fraud convictions for a 10 year period.

http://www.alternet.org/story/153435/re ... aud_claims

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The ‘Voter Fraud’ Fraud

As President Obama spoke about Representative Paul Ryan’s budget yesterday, Fox News broke away from the president’s remarks to cover “a stunning case in South Bend, Indiana.” The story covered an indictment by the St. Joseph County prosecutor’s office alleging that local Democratic officials forged signatures to get Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards on the Indiana Democratic Primary ballot in 2008. “Indiana State Police investigators identified a total of 22 petitions that appeared to be faked, yet sailed through the Voter Registration Board as legitimate documents,” Fox reported. Eric Shawn, of the Fox News Voter Fraud Unit, said that a local election worker was “ordered to forge presidential petitions for Barack Obama, illegally faking the names and signatures of unsuspecting voters to put the then-Illinois senator on the presidential primary ballot.”

A major probe by the Justice Department between 2002 and 2007 failed to prosecute a single person for going to the polls and impersonating an eligible voter, which the anti-fraud laws are supposedly designed to stop. Out of the 300 million votes cast in that period, federal prosecutors convicted only 86 people for voter fraud – and many of the cases involved immigrants and former felons who were simply unaware of their ineligibility. A much-hyped investigation in Wisconsin, meanwhile, led to the prosecution of only .0007 percent of the local electorate for alleged voter fraud. "Our democracy is under siege from an enemy so small it could be hiding anywhere," joked Stephen Colbert. A 2007 report by the Brennan Center for Justice, a leading advocate for voting rights at the New York University School of Law, quantified the problem in stark terms. "It is more likely that an individual will be struck by lightning," the report calculated, "than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls."

The real story in 2012 is how the myth of voter fraud has been advanced by Republicans to justify new voting restrictions in more than a dozen states, which could disenfranchise up to 5 million voters on Election Day, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. That’s a whole lot of casualties in response to a few bad actors.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/167217/voter-fraud-fraud#

GOP's fictional voter fraud charges aim to keep Democrats from voting

At a recent meeting of the Pennsylvania GOP State Committee, the top Republican in the state House of Representatives, Mike Turzai, declared that a new requirement for voters to show identification with a photograph on it “is going to allow Gov. [Mitt] Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.” He drew wild applause from Republicans in the crowd. [How'd THAT work out for ya?]

The new law being referred to won approval under the state’s Republican Governor Tom Corbett and the GOP majority in the state legislature.

The result is that 9.2 percent of the state’s 8.2 million voters are suddenly at risk of losing their right to vote. Eighteen percent of the registered voters in Philadelphia do not have government issued photographic identification.

That means they won’t be able to vote.

According to a July report from the Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth, more than 758,000 voters statewide do not have the necessary photo identification cards issued by the State Department of Transportation. President Obama won the state by about 600,000 votes in 2008.

[url=http://www]http://www[/url].foxnews.com /opinion/2012/08/03/gop-fictional-voter-fraud-charges-aim-to-keeping-democrats-from-voting/


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