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2022 Jul 6, 2:09pm   55,828 views  474 comments

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https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2022/07/hawaii-senate-dem-majority-leader-gets-3-years-daniel-greenfield/


Hawaii Senate Dem Majority Leader Gets 3 Years in Prison for Bribery

Former Senate Majority Leader J. Kalani English, 55, pleaded guilty to honest services wire fraud in February, admitting he accepted bribes from a Hawaii business owner in exchange for shaping legislation that would benefit a company involved in publicly financed cesspool conversion projects...

English “peddled the power and influence of his position as a Hawaii State Senator and Majority Leader to enrich himself and betray the trust bestowed upon him by those he was elected to serve,” U.S. prosecutors said in a sentencing memo urging the judge to send him to prison for three-and-a-half years.

The sentence, a little more than three years, must send a “stern and lasting message” that corruption of elected officials will be punished, the memo said. ...

Choy is a prolific donor, as are his immediate family members and business associates. Choy, his family members, and his employees from various companies have donated more than $356,000 to political campaigns since 2014, according to campaign finance data. Of that, Choy has contributed more than $160,000 to the elections and reelections of numerous Democrats.

Choy himself has donated to 55 campaigns — including 29 sitting lawmakers — since 2014. Money has gone to former Gov. Neil Abercrombie and current Gov. David Ige. He has most recently contributed to former Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s campaign for governor, and to Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s campaign.


"Stern and lasting message" my ass. Only life in prison will do. Singapore is a much better country than the US in this way.



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413   HeadSet   2024 Dec 6, 7:17am  

The_Deplorable says





So far just one is above the law. Biden will add to that list likely right after New Year's Day.
414   Patrick   2024 Dec 13, 10:48am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/man-up-friday-december-13-2024-c


As folks sort the stack of Biden’s 1,500 pardons, some real stinkers have surfaced. Local WGAL Pennsylvania ran a story yesterday headlined, “Kids-for-cash judge's sentence commuted by Biden.” Get ready to get angry.




Michael Conahan, 72, a former Luzerne County judge, was sentenced to prison 10 years ago for running a “kids-for-cash” racket with former judge Mark Ciavarella. While receiving $2.8 million in bribes and kickbacks from developers, the two judges funneled kids as young as 8 into a harsh private correctional facility that was paying them under the table. Under cover of a “zero tolerance” policy, the two men unlawfully jailed thousands of children with shockingly strict sentences.

For instance, Judge Conahan sentenced one teenager with no prior legal problems to three months in juvenile detention for creating a MySpace page that mocked an assistant principal at her school.

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ultimately vacated over 4,000 juvenile convictions involving more than 2,300 kids after Conahan and Ciavarella’s schemes were finally put to a stop. Conahan got 17 years and Ciavarella got 28; the two judges were ordered to pay back $200 million in restitution to the victims. I found no evidence that any payments were ever made and I doubt it happened.

The story was a pretty big deal, although you can be forgiven not having heard of it before. Here is a link to one of the documentaries. Here is a link to one of the “Kids for Cash” books, this one published this year, titled “Shackled: A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town that Looked Away.” The scandal was widely covered by local media at the time (2010-11) and for years afterward, as the civil case worked its way through the system. For example, here’s a headline from the Morning Call, 2021:

'He screwed up my life': More than 300 survivors of 'Kids for
Cash' scandal tell horror stories in civil case against judges in
Luzerne County

Unsurprisingly, useless corporate media has shown little interest in the salacious story, which should be perfect media material. Why do you suppose that is?

Anyway, the notorious, disgraced judge Conahan —while he sat on the bench, “The Boss”— was fortunate enough to be jailed in blue Miami and have high blood pressure. Ciavarella was not so lucky. He was not in a covid “high risk” category and so remains in prison in North Carolina. (Judge Ciavarella’s application for compassionate covid release was denied.)

But Judge Conahan was “compassionately” released to home confinement in 2020 as part of Pennsylvania’s pandemic mitigation strategy.

Biden’s blanket pardon broadly swept up non-violent prisoners who were on covid home release, which included Judge Conahan. Conahan is now a free man, liberated even from home confinement. Judge Conahan received the leniency he never showed to the children who appeared before the “no-nonsense” judge in his “zero tolerance” courtroom.

Looking at the cast of criminals moronically swept into Biden’s pardon, my working hypothesis is there was one particular crook who Biden wanted to pardon, but the case was so ugly that Joe pardoned 1,500 of them, to hide the one he really wanted. You know, strategic ambiguity.

I don’t want to hear any complaints from Democrats over who Trump pardons or how many.


This is why banning private prisons is a plank of my platform:

Patrick says

Ban private prisons because they bribe judges to feed them more prisoners.
417   Patrick   2024 Dec 19, 8:31pm  

https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/congressional-muddle-of-dishonor


The report falsely asserts that that the injections “saved millions of lives.”

Sickened Covid “vaxxers” know by experience, and non-vaxxers know by hearing from ill vaxxers, that the shots plainly failed, as had been firmly and repeatedly promised, to stop infection and spread. All of the dozens of injectors I know have gotten sick multiple times. Given that this infection-blocking pledge plainly failed, vaxx backers defaulted to the stance that the shots prevented hospitalizations and saved lives. But no uninjected person I know has ended up in the hospital. And as I’ve pointed out in previous posts, researchers have resorted to such cheesy tricks as counting the injected as “unvaccinated” until six weeks after their first shot; thus, the jabbed who died in those six weeks were counted as “unvaxxed.” Such chicanery, which includes but isn’t limited to, healthy vaccinee bias, nullifies such research’s findings.

The sole reference for the Subcommittee’s claim that “the shots saved millions of lives” is a single online—otherwise unpublished and not peer-reviewed—modeling exercise by a big-money, Med/Pharma promoting entity that calls itself “The Commonwealth Fund.” As public health physician David Bell has pointed out, the model’s “life-saving” estimates are based on the dubious assumption that Covid incidence would have been far higher in years 2 and 3 of the pandemic than in the first year; such an incidence curve would be highly unusual for a respiratory virus, especially one that creates natural immunity. The model also assumes that 2021 Covid variants were as potent as those found in 2019-2020. This assumption is plainly unsound: viruses typically evolve into less lethal forms. By 2021, SARS-CoV-2 had weakened into the Omicron variant, in accordance with basic biology.

No random clinical trials have been done to prove that, on a net basis, the shots saved lives over an extended period. It seems more likely that the shots have shortened lives. Many have noticed, as I have, that some of the vaxxers they know have sustained serious injuries or died of non-Covid causes, such as heart attacks, strokes or cancers. Sustained excess death rates in highly-vaxxed nations corroborate anecdotal evidence that, on balance, the shots have hastened, not delayed, death.
422   Misc   2025 Jan 15, 3:14am  

Every other State used Federal Covid funds to pay off the money the Federal government loaned the State for Unemployment benefits during Covid. Instead California used the money on illegals, homelessness and a lot of other projects where the funds weren't really accounted for. The State of California owes the Federal government about $22 billion for the loan made to the California Unemployment fund.

Newsom thinks he's gonna be able to get a Block grant from the Federal government to help with wildfire damages. He expects no federal oversight on how those funds are spent.

I think reality may intrude on his delusion.
424   TechBrosWon   2025 Jan 21, 12:36pm  

https://x.com/GurpreetSSahota/status/1881791184751960252
Three Indians, Davendar Deo, Monika Singh (National Australia Bank employee) and Srinivas Naidu Chamakuri, sentenced for trying to defraud bank of $21 million in Australia.
428   Misc   2025 Jan 28, 8:05pm  

So they think they can scam us for another $40 billion plus. This time they will get electrical production going in Africa. They promise. Well, they will at least take the money and where it goes is probably into their pockets.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/world-bank-seeks-tens-of-billions-of-dollars-for-power-in-africa/ar-AA1xYoqo

This after they sorta...welll...kinda lost about $41 billion in funds that were spent on green energy.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/41-billion-world-bank-climate-finance-unaccounted-oxfam-finds

I say we should think it over when the last $41 billion is repaid with interest.
429   Patrick   2025 Jan 31, 11:36am  

https://www.kunstler.com/p/six-ways-from-sunday/comment/90040170


When I worked in the senate (this was almost 30 years ago,) we had to, by law, have a fax line specifically for resumes and we had to "review" every resume we received. The fax machine pointed straight into a garbage can. No lie.
430   WookieMan   2025 Jan 31, 12:33pm  

The_Deplorable says





I understand the privacy point of view and respect it. But it's 100% easier to not deal with a human beings working most of those jobs. I'd rather just walk through and scan. It's not hard. Once in the TSA line I'm under 5 min through security. Customs is easy.

Also I generally just go with a backpack through airports. It's fast if you have the right credentials. Walk through security and the 2 hour prior bull shit goes away. My backpack can fit a weeks worth of stuff under the seat packed right for Cancun. I can link if anyone is interested.

Still get a carry on and two checked bags. Go to hotels where I don't have to check in and just tap the phone at the room. I'm faster at self check out lines at the grocery store. First real job was a bagger at 15.

I think scanning and printing out or whatever is soooooooo much easier. Privacy be damned for me, I don't do anything illegal or worth looking into. Don't answer my phone. Don't sign certified mail. Don't get served with anything. I'm mostly invisible and/or fuck with the data.
433   Misc   2025 Feb 1, 9:41pm  

D.C. residents are about 92% registered Democrats. The Federal government is the primary employer (there's plenty of defense contractors etc. but tons of federal employees). They are W2 employees.

The IRS loves to harass small businesses leaving the W2 folks alone. Some examples are that this year any Venmo/Paypal etc payments that a person gets that total $600 or more must be detailed on your tax return. They are doing this just to make it a regulatory nightmare for side gigs. Also, they are trying to require small businesses to put down who the beneficial owners are on a special form. If a business doesn't file this special form, they are hit with thousands of dollars in penalties and may face criminal charges.

I say we use the IRS's powers against the Washington bureaucracy just so they get a taste of the crap they make us deal with. They have about a 94% work from home workforce. Everyone knows that a very large percent of them are secretly working a 2nd job. Just use the IRS's database to track down those miscreants defrauding the Government (us taxpayers) by working the 2nd job. Then they have to pay back their ill-gotten gains and face possible criminal charges.

I will have to leave it up to y'all to forward this to DOGE, as TPTB aren't gonna give me an account at 'X'.
434   Ceffer   2025 Feb 1, 10:11pm  

Doctor after collecting bounties for killing a shit load of patients in the hospital with Remdesivir.

436   Misc   2025 Feb 3, 12:55am  

Misc says

I say we use the IRS's powers against the Washington bureaucracy just so they get a taste of the crap they make us deal with. They have about a 94% work from home workforce. Everyone knows that a very large percent of them are secretly working a 2nd job. Just use the IRS's database to track down those miscreants defrauding the Government (us taxpayers) by working the 2nd job. Then they have to pay back their ill-gotten gains and face possible criminal charges.

I will have to leave it up to y'all to forward this to DOGE, as TPTB aren't gonna give me an account at 'X'.


DOGEWontAmountToShit says






THANKS ! ! ! !

That was quick.
443   OkDOGEisAmountingToSomething   2025 Feb 5, 2:02pm  

Chelsea Clinton casually taking home $84 million


444   OkDOGEisAmountingToSomething   2025 Feb 6, 1:23pm  

Wow! Big agricorps like ADM are going to have to face the vicisstudes of the market!

Because I really doubt Joe the Family Farmer is getting USAID slush money secured by his lobbyists in DC.


447   Eric Holder   2025 Feb 6, 3:32pm  

The_Deplorable says






THERE WERE NAZIS HIDING BEHIND THESE KIDS SO IT'S OK!!!

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