Tag Archives: Fraud

Harvey, Illinois, Can’t Make Pension Contributions, Lays off Police & Firemen

Monday, 16 April 2018 06:21

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, April 13, 2018:

Tuesday’s decision by the city of Harvey, Illinois, a Chicago suburb with a population of 24,950, to lay off nearly half of its police and fire-department workers came a day after a judge ruled against the city’s emergency motion asking the judge to keep the sales and use tax revenues collected by the state flowing to the city, instead of being diverted to pay pension-plan contributions the city has failed to make for years.

Under a state law passed in 2010, Illinois, which collects various sales and use taxes from residents of and visitors to the city in order to pay for city employees and services, can instead in effect garnish those taxes and use them to

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How Do You Spell Apocalyptic? Don’t Ask the Congressional Budget Office

Thursday, 12 April 2018 05:33

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, April 11, 2018:

All one needs to do is view the first page of the CBO’s 166-page report on its 10-year outlook for the U.S. economy and government spending that was released on Monday to see why: it features a graph that shows better than words just where we’re headed. Two lines diverge: one, showing government revenues; the other, government outlays. The gap, instead of narrowing, widens dramatically into the future. Unfortunately, the graph cuts off in 2028, leaving one wondering: what happens next?

The CBO report reflected the new law, happily called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, that was passed in December. Its previous projection, made by the CBO last June, showed a deficit of $563 billion for 2018, rising to $689 billion next year. Now, with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act behind them, the CBO now projects this year’s deficit to be $804 billion and next year’s to be just a touch below a trillion dollars, at $981 billion.

The CBO, considered by many to be less partisan than projections coming from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), covered itself with this disclaimer:

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Media Stacking the Deck for Gun Control Following Florida Shooting

Friday, 23 February 2018 06:35

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, February 22, 2018:

During the two-day White House conference on school safety, Andrew Pollack, the father of a child who was killed during the Florida school massacre last week, summed up the feelings of many: “How many schools, how many children need to get shot? I am not going to sleep until it is fixed!”

The question is, what is “it” that needs to be fixed?

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George Orwell is Right: Utah Republicans Can’t Tell Romney from Hatch

Thursday, 22 February 2018 06:30

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, February 21, 2018:

George Orwell’s Animal Farm, first published in 1945 as a satire on the Soviet Union, is now required reading by home school students being taught the dangers of the totalitarian state. Its climax came when politicians voted into power by the animals began to look awfully like the ones they were replacing: “The creatures [the voters] outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

The race to fill Utah Senator Orrin Hatch’s seat – one that he has occupied for seven very long terms – is all but over. And the winner is:

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Political Knives Resheathed, Trump Endorses Romney for Senate

Wednesday, 21 February 2018 06:31

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, February 20, 2018:

Political expediency likely forced President Trump to endorse the former presidential two-time loser for the Senate from Utah. But it was more than three days between Mitt Romney’s slick video announcement that he would run for Utah Senator Orrin Hatch’s seat and Trump’s decision to give Romney his endorsement. The president’s advisors no doubt reminded him that Romney is virtually guaranteed to win Hatch’s seat in November, with or without his endorsement, and that Trump nearly lost Utah in the presidential election in November 2016. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell weighed in on the matter as well, reminding Trump of the loss of Roy Moore in Alabama and how narrow the Republican majority is in the Senate, and urging him to support Romney.

Tweeted Trump on Monday night:

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Corrupt New Jersey Senator Dodges Another Bullet

Saturday, 03 February 2018 06:11

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, February 2, 2018:

In Monday’s article that was published here [MIA] about the corrupt senior senator from New Jersey, this writer confidently predicted that even if Menendez got off following his retrial, that justice would likely be served as that trial would be taking place during the state’s primary in June. He further predicted that Menendez wouldn’t survive the primary, setting in place the possibility that a Republican would represent New Jersey in the Senate for the first time in decades.

This writer was surprised, as many were, to learn that on Wednesday the DOJ successfully sought to dismiss its charges against Menendez, meaning that Lady Justice will have to wait a little longer to avenge his decades-long history of political corruption.

His corruption goes back decades, and is so extensive that corruption-aggregator DiscoverTheNetworks.org (DTN) has six densely-written pages on it. He’s been in New Jersey politics since he was 20 years old and has turned graft and corruption into an art form. Just two examples from DTN suffice:

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In a Surprise Move, DOJ Asks Judge to Dismiss All Charges Against NJ Senator Menendez

Friday, 02 February 2018 06:37

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, February 1, 2018:

The Justice Department, which just weeks earlier said it was planning on retrying New Jersey’s senior Senator Bob Menendez on corruption charges, asked a district court judge on Wednesday to “dismiss the … indictment[s]” against him, and hours later the judge complied. Menendez’s sigh of relief was palpable in his statement following the dismissal:

From the very beginning, I never wavered in my innocence and my belief that justice would prevail. I am grateful that the Department of Justice has taken the time to reevaluate its case and come to the appropriate conclusion.

“From the very beginning” Menendez’s political career has been plagued with charges of corruption, graft, illegal influence peddling, and lying. Just because the DOJ has decided not to press its case against him doesn’t mean he’s innocent, just lucky.

Following a hung jury in November, Menendez has been holding his breath, waiting for the date of his retrial to be announced this week. The dismissal caught many by surprise, including former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz:

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Corrupt New Jersey Democrat Senator Menendez: Justice Could Be Served Even if He’s Found Innocent

Wednesday, 31 January 2018 06:27

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, January 29, 2018:

New Jersey’s corrupt Democrat Senator Bob Menendez will know this week when his retrial on corruption charges will start. His last trial ended with a hung jury: 10-2. He might not be so lucky this time around.

It’s possible that the jurors in the first trial just gave up in exhaustion: the Department of Justice’s prosecuting attorneys threw the book at Menendez, bringing in more than 50 witnesses in an attempt to prove, through circumstance and inference, that gifts that Menendez’s friend, Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen, made to Menendez were payoffs for political favors.

The case against him looked persuasive.

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New Jersey Democrat Senator Menendez Up for Retrial on Corruption Charges

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 06:15

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, January 29, 2018:

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New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez

New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez escaped being convicted on 18 charges of corruption, self-dealing, and failures to report income last November but now the clock on his retrial has run out. It is expected that the date for his retrial on many of those same charges will be announced this week.

The judge in the case last year has recused himself from the retrial but has aided the prosecution in its new efforts to convict Menendez. Following the declaration of a hung jury last November the senator’s defense attorneys filed a motion to have that judge, Senior U.S. District Judge William Walls, dismiss all 18 charges. Walls filed a 50-page brief explaining why he would only dismiss the minor ones. He left in place the most damaging charges and then helped the Department of Justice lawyers improve their case against Menendez by explaining why:

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Venezuela Pushes Presidential Election Forward With Maduro the Only Candidate

Thursday, 25 January 2018 06:49

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, January 24, 2018:

Venezuela’s Marxist dictator Nicolas Maduro turned Tuesday’s ironic celebration of the end of Venezuela’s dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez 60 years ago into securing the continuation of his own. He told his supporters that if the United Socialist Party, which he controls, wants him to run for reelection, “I’m ready to be a candidate.”

He then turned the celebration into a political rally, declaring once again that the real enemy causing the country’s economic decline into barter and chaos is the president of the United States: “Donald Trump is not the boss of Venezuela!” said Maduro, adding that since they still hold elections in Venezuela (even if they are phony), “The people rule in Venezuela, not empires.” Then, adding irony on top of audacity, Maduro asserted: “I’m ready.… We’re going to win big.”

The only way he’ll “win big” in the elections to be held before the end of April is because

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Venezuela’s Oil Production Collapsing Along With Its Economy

Saturday, 20 January 2018 06:45

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Fatih Birol, head of the IEA

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, January 19, 2018:

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The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) reported on Friday that oil production from Venezuela’s state-owned, state-controlled, and state-operated energy company, PdVSA, dropped by 12 percent last month, following a decline by a third in 2017. The announcement avoided saying anything disparaging about the Marxist government’s ham-handed mismanagement of the company, nor did it criticize attempts to run the company with military officers with no technical training in place of the technicians who were in place earlier. Nothing was said about the arrest of dozens of top officials of the oil company in Maduro’s attempt to blame the fall in production on their corruption, mismanagement, and fraud, instead of his socialist program of Chavismo. And certainly no mention was made of the root cause of the collapse: Socialism always fails when it runs out of other people’s money.

Maduro is about out of other people’s money.

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Why do Anti-gun Politicians Continue to Push for Buyback Programs?

Thursday, 18 January 2018 06:58

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, January 17, 2018:

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Former Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie

After all, they don’t work. They are fraudulent from the very beginning, implying that a government is merely buying back firearms from private citizens that it initially sold to them. But still the failed “experiments” in reducing gun violence continue.

They lack logic. Criminals seeking to rid themselves of an offending weapon aren’t likely to show up at a police station or other public place, relying on the promise that there will be “no questions asked.” Not when a much easier alternative exists: toss it into the river.

Studies showing their failure to reduce crime don’t impress anti-gun politicians. The first gun buy-back program in the United States happened in Baltimore, Maryland in 1974. It was considered a failure when, during the program’s two-month existence, gun violence and assaults actually increased.

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New Jersey to Start Statewide Gun Buyback Program

Wednesday, 17 January 2018 06:50

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, January 16, 2018:

The state-wide gun buyback bill headed for New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s desk, A-2374, contains dangerous language. The state’s attorney general would be obligated to hold “at least” three gun buybacks every year throughout the state. The bill’s sponsor wants nine. Now that anti-gun Democrat Phil Murphy is governor, he is likely to press for even more.

State Senator Linda Greenstein (D-Middlesex) sponsored the bill and declared that

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The Unlamented Passing of a “Free Trade” Pro-illegal Immigration Fraud, Peter Sutherland

Tuesday, 16 January 2018 06:19

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, January 15, 2018:

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Peter D. Sutherland

Peter Sutherland lived just long enough to see his dream – a beige world filled with non-resistant sheeple – seriously challenged. He is quoted as saying that plans to extricate itself from the European Union by the United Kingdom (Brexit) are “insane” and “morally indefensible.” During President Trump’s first year in office, Sutherland was in declining health (he’d suffered a heart attack last year and had never fully recovered) and so quotes about his opinion of MAGA and “America First” aren’t available. But during Trump’s presidential campaign Sutherland was in full throat:

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Sen. Hatch’s Retirement Paves Way for Romney: One RINO Replacing Another

Thursday, 04 January 2018 07:14

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Utah RINO Orrin Hatch

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, January 3, 2018:

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If Mitt Romney ends up in Orrin Hatch’s Senate seat, that would mean one RINO (Republican In Name Only) replacing another.

A boxer in his youth, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah announced on Tuesday that he was hanging up his gloves for good. After 40 years in the Senate, he said that he had been fighting the good fight but that it was time for him to make his exit:

When the president visited Utah last month, he said I was a fighter. I’ve always been a fighter. I was an amateur boxer in my youth, and I brought that fighting spirit with me to Washington.

But every good fighter knows when to hang up the gloves.

He said he will leave the Senate when his current term ends at the end of this year.

It was unclear exactly what “fight” the 83-year-old senator was referring to.

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Dakota Access Pipeline Fulfilling Its Promise

Tuesday, 02 January 2018 05:58

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, January 1, 2018:

Fully operational since June, the Dakota Access Pipeline is lowering transportation costs, reducing tank car usage, reducing environmental and population risk, improving North Dakota’s financial condition, and putting the lie to the alarmist anti-pipeline propaganda.

There’s scarcely a downside.

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Craziest Idea of 2017: Let Students Pay Down Their College Loans by Delaying Their Social Security Benefits

Monday, 01 January 2018 06:18

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, January 1, 2018:

What a world! Broken promises traded for other broken promises, and offered with a straight face!

Representative Tom Garrett (R-Va.) turns 46 in March and is still paying off his student loans. In less than 20 years he’ll qualify to retire under present Social Security rules. He put two-and-two together and came up with the Student Security Act (SSA): Pay down some of his student loans by pushing back his retirement age.

Specifically, Garrett’s bill (H.R.4584, which has four co-sponsors so far) would forgive

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Another Politician Added to Mark Twain’s Criminal Class

Thursday, 14 December 2017 05:47

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, December 11, 2017:

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The lovely former Congresswoman Corrine Brown.

Mark Twain famously said, “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly Native American criminal class, except Congress.” One of those tempted to prove it was Doug Thompson, who took considerable journalistic liberties and published his results several years ago on his Capitol Hill Blue website:

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Hung Jury for New Jersey Democrat Senator Menendez in Corruption Trial

Friday, 17 November 2017 07:15

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, November 16, 2017:

Robert Menendez, U.S. Senator from New Jersey.

Robert Menendez, Democrat U.S. Senator from New Jersey

After eight weeks of listening to more than 50 witnesses in the corruption trial of New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez (D) and his friend, Florida eye surgeon Salomon Melgen, the jury couldn’t reach a verdict. This forced the judge in the trial — who has been involved in it since 2015 when the Justice Department first brought charges — to declare a mistrial: “I find that you [the jury] are unable to reach a verdict and that further deliberations would be futile and that there is no alternative but to declare a mistrial.”

When the prosecution asked Judge William Walls to have the jury consider each of the dozen charges separately (called a partial-verdict instruction), Walls declined, holding that

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Venezuela’s Maduro’s Election Victory Likely to be Short-lived

Thursday, 19 October 2017 05:29

This article was published by the McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, October 18, 2017:

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Venezuela’s Marxist dictator Nicolas Maduro celebrated the phony, fraudulent election on Sunday as if it were real and meant something:

We have won 75 percent of the country’s governorships … Chavismo [the socialist policies that have driven once-prosperous Venezuela into the ground] is alive [and] triumphant.

He rejoiced in the election’s supposed slap against foreign devils, including the United States: “This victory is a moral and political feat of the Venezuelan people who have learned to resist the onslaughts of the oligarchy’s war and who have said ‘no to sanctions,’ ‘no to interventionism.’’’

He didn’t tell his supporters that his victory is likely to be very short-lived.

That his election was clearly manipulated was spelled out by U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert:

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