All the rage in state houses, around the country, and especially in tepublican held state houses. Who are leading the charge to strip away voting rights from millions, never hearing examples of why and ignoring when reports come in of actual but with an (R) attached, and pushed on by the tepublican federal representatives and political party, if ya can call them that, of same.
Remember the busts that took place sometime ago in Florida. We hear so little about them now, that may be changing. Something tells me though that the National media outlets, especially the TV type news 24/7 ones are too busy with all them congressional investigations to pay any mind to why those millions are being stripped of their most fundamental democratic right, oh and who actually is doing the frauds.
Just ran across this interesting update:
Notes kept by accused Miami-Dade ballot broker reveal details
Deisy Pentón de Cabrera accused ballot broker, or boletera: worked for State Senator Rene Garcia (R) U.S. Rep Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R), just two of the names in the article.
05.11.13 - Notebooks kept by accused ballot broker Deisy Pentón de Cabrera have been presented as evidence in the case against her.
Deisy Pentón de Cabrera kept meticulous notes on hundreds of voters, several political campaigns between 2008 and 2012 and what appear to be payments of $50 to $1,300 that are not on any candidate’s financial reports.
Detectives confiscated three notebooks in which she wrote this and other information last summer. Finally, nine months after her arrest for alleged ballot fraud in Hialeah, the notebooks have been presented as evidence in the case.
One of the pols, listed above, political advisors had this to say:
Friends and acquaintances describe Cabrera as a “poor soul” who lives in a Section 8 apartment and has health problems.
“I always knew her as a lady with poor health who was always helping people,” said Ana Carbonell, the longtime political advisor to Diaz-Balart. “It was heart-wrenching to learn she’d been arrested. I never knew her as a hustler.”
Despite her illness, Cabrera kept working.
She updated her lists of voters with each visit and noted when they had changed address or died. Dozens of voters have told El Nuevo Herald that Cabrera visited them year after year to help them fill out their absentee ballots, although many didn’t know how they ultimately voted.
Abit further in the article another nam pops up, that of Hialeah’s former mayor Julio Robaina.
Three lines later, Cabrera noted another voter’s information and the words: “Tio Sergio Robaina Recog (sic)”.
It’s a reference to Sergio “el Tio” Robaina, uncle of Hialeah’s former mayor Julio Robaina. When asked about that particular voter, Sergio Robaina told El Nuevo Herald he had collected her ballots in the past. But he assured that he has never tampered with a ballot or gotten paid to collect them.
“I haven’t done anything wrong,” said Robaina, who was arrested on ballot fraud charges eight days after Cabrera’s own Aug. 2 arrest.
Who seems to be in as much or even bigger trouble then this uncle:
Former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina Bonds Out Of Jail
May 17, 2013 - Former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina and his wife Raiza have bonded out of jail after they surrendered to federal authorities Friday and made their first court appearance.
The Robainas are charged with fraud, conspiracy and falsifying documents and made their first court appearance shackled at the hands and feet.
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The charges are the result of an investigation, first reported by CBS4 News in 2011, stems from allegations made against Robaina by Luis Felipe Perez, who plead guilty in 2010 of operating a $45 million Ponzi scheme.
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The Robaina investigation centers on a series of loans Robaina and his wife made to Perez over an 18-month period starting in 2006 or 2007. The total amount of money Perez borrowed from the Robainas was $750,000.
Perez needed the money to keep his Ponzi scheme afloat.
The loans, some of which were made in the form of mortgages on Perez properties, stipulated on paper an interest rate of 18 percent. But Perez has reportedly told prosecutors that the actual interest rate was 36 percent – a usury rate that would be illegal.
The top report about the
boletera has some other prominent names within.
What with all these 'scandals' breaking out, especially about the creation of a political party within a political party on record they seek to take over control of and their outrage about IRS questioning of the hundreds, if not thousands seeking, seeking tax exempt status as to fund raising, I doubt the FOX will be giving this much coverage nor any of the many teabag affiliated online sites, still calling themselves republican.
Myself, I'm waiting till the final public report comes on the British Iraq War Inquiry which brought out so much in the early days about those in our government who were controlling the lies and the war drums as they quickly abandoned the reasons and missions we sent our military into that region of the planet!