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发帖数: 6571 | 1 If Black Lives Matter, then why have entrenched members of the Congressional
Black Caucus spent more time enriching themselves than taking care of their
neglected constituents?
Too many social justice protesters are busy throwing shade, rocks, bottles,
concrete blocks and vicious death threats at police officers of all colors
trying to keep the peace.
Instead of moaning about "#WhitePrivilege," I invite radical racial identity
warriors to join me in taking on the black political elites selling out
their people. Help expose the most crooked members of the caucus of
Congressional Black Corruption:
Corrine Brown: This 12-term Democrat from Florida received a 24-count
federal indictment last week while her Congressional Black Caucus colleagues
tried to drown out the news with diversionary gun-control theatrics. Brown
and her chief of staff are charged with creating a fraudulent education
charity to collect over $800,000 in donations from major corporations and
philanthropies for their own private slush fund between 2012 and early 2016.
The director of the hoax group, dubbed One Door for Education, Inc., pleaded
guilty last year to fraud and conspiracy. Prosecutors say two relatives of
Brown and her chief of staff steered tens of thousands of dollars in cash
deposits to their accounts. The charitable contributions paid for lavish
galas, NFL tickets, concert luxury box seats, golf tournaments and
apparently Brown's tax bills.
Despite raising nearly a million bucks, Brown's "charity" only issued two
measly educational scholarships for minority students. So while shamelessly
claiming this week to be a martyr akin to the murdered Dallas police
officers and victims of the Orlando jihad, Brown is embroiled in a sordid
scandal that exploited black children's lives to line her own pockets.
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You can't blame righty or whitey this time, Crooked Corrine.
Chaka Fattah: This 11-term Pennsylvania Democrat was convicted in late June
on 23 charges of racketeering, money laundering and fraud, along with four
other co-defendants. His son was sentenced earlier this year to a five-year
prison term after being found guilty of 22 counts of separate federal bank
and tax fraud charges related to his misuse of business loans and federal
education contracts to pay for designer clothes, massive bar tabs and luxury
cars.
Fattah the Elder's crimes are tied to schemes to repay an illegal $1 million
campaign loan. Like his rotten apple of a son, Fattah siphoned off federal
grant money and nonprofit funds (including donations to his educational
foundation -- sound familiar?) to pay off political consultants.
The con artists inside your own communities are your own worst enemies.
Eddie Bernice Johnson: 12-term Democrat from Dallas, similarly helped steer
thousands of dollars in Congressional Black Caucus Foundation college
scholarships for four family members and two of her top aide's children in
violation of the nonprofit's rules.
Maxine Waters: This 13-term Beltway swamp queen from California and past
chair of the Congressional Black Caucus walked away with a slap on the wrist
from the toothless House Ethics Committee in 2012 after being charged with
multiple ethics violations related to her meddling in minority-owned
OneUnited Bank.
The banks' executives donated $12,500 to Mad Maxine's congressional
campaigns. Her husband, Sidney Williams, was an investor in one of the banks
that merged into OneUnited. As stockholders, they profited handsomely from
their relationship with the bank.
And vice versa. After Waters' office personally intervened and lobbied the
Treasury Department in 2008, the financial institution received $12 million
in federal TARP bailout money -- despite another government agency
concluding that the bank operated "without effective underwriting standards"
and engaged "in speculative investment practices." Top bank executive Kevin
Cohee squandered money on a company-financed Porsche and a Santa Monica,
California, beachfront mansion. After the federal bailout of Fannie/Freddie,
OneUnited's stock in the government-sponsored enterprises plunged to a
value estimated at less than $5 million. Only through Waters' intervention
was OneUnited able to secure an emergency meeting with the Treasury and its
then-Secretary Henry Paulson.
Waters' government cronyism earned her a "Most Corrupt member of Congress"
designation from the left-wing Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington.
Then there's Alcee Hastings, the 12-term Florida corruptocrat impeached
while a federal judge in 1989 for making false statements and producing
false documents in a 1983 criminal trial accusing him of seeking a $150,000
bribe. He went on to win a seat in Congress in 1992 and used his position to
enrich his various lady friends, including paying one girlfriend-turned-
congressional deputy district director more than half a million dollars in
salary and another he calls a "staff assistant" to accompany on his endless
junkets abroad.
Those three are just the start. There's Texas' Sheila Jackson Lee and the
Medicare fraud racket involving a local hospital in her district; Greg Meeks
and his $400,000 earmark for a fake health clinic in New York City and
Caribbean resort jaunts underwritten by convicted financier Allen Stanford;
and Wisconsin's Gwen Moore and her lucrative friends and family. And, of
course, the ethics violations, shady business deals and tax troubles from
New York's Charlie Rangel deserve their own encyclopedia.
My message for BLM? Put down your black power fists and weapons. Give the "#
BlueLivesMurder" and "Fry 'em up like bacon" chants a rest. Aim your outrage
at self-serving black leaders and their abject failure to improve black
people's lives.
http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2016/07/13/congressional-black-corruption-n2192012 |
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