New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman just released new information that points to twice as many fraudulent identity thefts connected to the net neutrality comment hack that telecom shill Ajit Pai and other Republicans continue to pretend isn’t important.
According to the attorney general’s press release:
“Millions of fake comments have corrupted the FCC public process – including two million that stole the identities of real people, a crime under New York law,” said Attorney General Schneiderman. “Yet the FCC is moving full steam ahead with a vote based on this corrupted process, while refusing to cooperate with an investigation. As we’ve told the FCC: moving forward with this vote would make a mockery of our public comment process and reward those who perpetrated this fraud to advance their own hidden agenda. The FCC must postpone this vote and work with us to get to the bottom of what happened.”
The FCC’s lawyers and chair Ajit Pai have tried to hide from Schneiderman by saying that this issue is outside of his jurisdiction. Ajit Pai has proven to be either an idiot or a liar time and again, and this is yet more proof—in the form of 2,000,000 pieces of evidence that must be investigated before any decisions about anything related to net neutrality are pursued.
Attorney General Schneiderman’s latest analysis shows that as many as two million comments misused the identities of real Americans, including over 100,000 comments per state from New York, Florida, Texas, and California. A map can be found below, highlighting the number of fake comments submitted using stolen identities by state.
Despite widespread evidence that the public comment process was corrupted, the FCC’s General Counsel has said that the agency will not cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation into the impersonation of New Yorkers, and that it will move forward with tomorrow’s scheduled vote.
There are only two possible reasons why someone or a group of someones refuse to investigate serious matters of fraud within their own system: they’re dumb or they’re corrupt as all get out.
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