Corrine Brown under investigation for Ethics Violations

[Cheshire Cat]

Not this time Carpenter.  I have personally spent over 12 years investigating her and her actions and know what she is facing.  Corrine Brown herself is scared to death because her attorneys have already told her she is in a very, very difficult situation.  The woman who worked with her has packed up and left town.  She you may remember was also subpoenaed and has been given immunity to testify.  She will be most interested in protecting herself.  By they way, Reginald Gaffney is also going to be facing some serious charges very soon as well.

[Cheshire Cat]

Also note the political will to save Corrine Brown is not there.  She is supposed to be in Federal Court tomorrow morning.  She has rounded up a small group of protesters to support her outside.  She has become a political liability and she will not be protected by those higher up.

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it's about time!

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She's the real life Clay Davis

greatest show ever

[The_Choose_1]

WOW the sharks are ripping at Corrine Brown's as if she has already been proven Guilty. If these charges and a juror prove she is guilty then she will do time. But lets wait till we hear from the Feds.

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While the Corrine Brown era Black politicians may have started out with good intentions, if anyone thinks their intentions today have anything to do with helping out their constituents, you have not been paying attention in any way at all.

We know she is guilty.  She knows she is guilty.  The Feds know it as well.  The question becomes, can it be proven in a court of law this time? We can only hope.

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While the Corrine Brown era Black politicians may have started out with good intentions, if anyone thinks their intentions today have anything to do with helping out their constituents, you have not been paying attention in any way at all.

We know she is guilty.  She knows she is guilty.  The Feds know it as well.  The question becomes, can it be proven in a court of law this time? We can only hope.

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The CBC is made up almost exclusive of crooks that abuse their constituents.

[Cheshire Cat]

Corrine Brown and her chief of staff,  indicted on 24 federal counts.




http://www.news4jax.com/news/investigations/congresswoman-corrine-brown-in-federal-court

[Cheshire Cat]

WOW the sharks are ripping at Corrine Brown's as if she has already been proven Guilty. If these charges and a juror prove she is guilty then she will do time. But lets wait till we hear from the Feds.

That's because she is.  The feds are the reason she was indicted.  Now she can make her case at court.  She will be found guilty.  That's not ripping up Corrine Brown, its stating a fact.  The documentation and testimony against here is overwhelming.

[The_Choose_1]

WOW the sharks are ripping at Corrine Brown's as if she has already been proven Guilty. If these charges and a juror prove she is guilty then she will do time. But lets wait till we hear from the Feds.

That's because she is.  The feds are the reason she was indicted.  Now she can make her case at court.  She will be found guilty.  That's not ripping up Corrine Brown, its stating a fact.  The documentation and testimony against here is overwhelming.

We will see. I didn't vote for her because I have lived in Ortega for the last 37 years. So was the testimony for Hillary Clinton but she was never charged. The Republicans have been going after Brown since she first won. And they lost with each candidate that went up against her. So with her new troubles she may lose this time. But lets not forget your Innocent until proven Guilty in a court of law.   

[Cheshire Cat]

WOW the sharks are ripping at Corrine Brown's as if she has already been proven Guilty. If these charges and a juror prove she is guilty then she will do time. But lets wait till we hear from the Feds.

That's because she is.  The feds are the reason she was indicted.  Now she can make her case at court.  She will be found guilty.  That's not ripping up Corrine Brown, its stating a fact.  The documentation and testimony against here is overwhelming.

We will see. I didn't vote for her because I have lived in Ortega for the last 37 years. So was the testimony for Hillary Clinton but she was never charged. The Republicans have been going after Brown since she first won. And they lost with each candidate that went up against her. So with her new troubles she may lose this time. But lets not forget your Innocent until proven Guilty in a court of law.   

Not actually.  Republicans have not been going after Brown since she won and in fact her former gerrymandered district speaks to off the record agreements that put her exactly where Republicans wanted her to be. 

[Cheshire Cat]

From the Times Union moments ago:

U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, a towering and polarizing figure in Jacksonville politics and government, pleaded not guilty Friday to 24 federal charges that she helped raise about $800,000 for a bogus scholarship fund that turned out to be little more than a personal slush fund for expenses like car repairs, airplane tickets and luxury box seats to a Beyonce concert.
In their 53-page indictment, prosecutors allege Brown and a small group of her longtime confidants funneled tens of thousands of dollars in donations through outside organizations or bank accounts to obscure the fact that virtually none of the money went toward charitable causes. Instead, the money was later deposited in Brown's account or withdrawn as cash, paying for vacations in the Bahamas, Los Angeles and Miami Beach.

Prosecutors say they were only able to find two scholarships awarded by the group, One Door for Education, totaling $1,200. Brown's close relationship to One Door — and the difficulty tracking charitable work the group had claimed — was the subject of a January Times-Union report and a series of stories since.

The government also accuses Brown of fabricating charitable donations on her federal tax returns from 2008-2014, and in several cases obtaining letters verifying those bogus contributions from an unnamed nonprofit that resembles one run by another close confidant, Jacksonville City Councilman Reginald Gaffney.

For full story click link below.


http://jacksonville.com/news/2016-07-08/story/brown-indictment-alleges-charity-was-slush-fund-trips-luxury-seats-events-car?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_The_Florida_Times-Union

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From the Times Union moments ago:

U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, a towering and polarizing figure in Jacksonville politics and government, pleaded not guilty Friday to 24 federal charges that she helped raise about $800,000 for a bogus scholarship fund that turned out to be little more than a personal slush fund for expenses like car repairs, airplane tickets and luxury box seats to a Beyonce concert.
In their 53-page indictment, prosecutors allege Brown and a small group of her longtime confidants funneled tens of thousands of dollars in donations through outside organizations or bank accounts to obscure the fact that virtually none of the money went toward charitable causes. Instead, the money was later deposited in Brown's account or withdrawn as cash, paying for vacations in the Bahamas, Los Angeles and Miami Beach.

Prosecutors say they were only able to find two scholarships awarded by the group, One Door for Education, totaling $1,200. Brown's close relationship to One Door — and the difficulty tracking charitable work the group had claimed — was the subject of a January Times-Union report and a series of stories since.

The government also accuses Brown of fabricating charitable donations on her federal tax returns from 2008-2014, and in several cases obtaining letters verifying those bogus contributions from an unnamed nonprofit that resembles one run by another close confidant, Jacksonville City Councilman Reginald Gaffney.

For full story click link below.


http://jacksonville.com/news/2016-07-08/story/brown-indictment-alleges-charity-was-slush-fund-trips-luxury-seats-events-car?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_The_Florida_Times-Union

We will see. But if she is found guilty I will not lose any sleep over it. What I would like to know is why do you seem to dislike her so much? "I have personally spent over 12 years investigating her and her actions and know what she is facing."

[Cheshire Cat]

From the Times Union moments ago:

U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, a towering and polarizing figure in Jacksonville politics and government, pleaded not guilty Friday to 24 federal charges that she helped raise about $800,000 for a bogus scholarship fund that turned out to be little more than a personal slush fund for expenses like car repairs, airplane tickets and luxury box seats to a Beyonce concert.
In their 53-page indictment, prosecutors allege Brown and a small group of her longtime confidants funneled tens of thousands of dollars in donations through outside organizations or bank accounts to obscure the fact that virtually none of the money went toward charitable causes. Instead, the money was later deposited in Brown's account or withdrawn as cash, paying for vacations in the Bahamas, Los Angeles and Miami Beach.

Prosecutors say they were only able to find two scholarships awarded by the group, One Door for Education, totaling $1,200. Brown's close relationship to One Door — and the difficulty tracking charitable work the group had claimed — was the subject of a January Times-Union report and a series of stories since.

The government also accuses Brown of fabricating charitable donations on her federal tax returns from 2008-2014, and in several cases obtaining letters verifying those bogus contributions from an unnamed nonprofit that resembles one run by another close confidant, Jacksonville City Councilman Reginald Gaffney.

For full story click link below.


http://jacksonville.com/news/2016-07-08/story/brown-indictment-alleges-charity-was-slush-fund-trips-luxury-seats-events-car?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_The_Florida_Times-Union

We will see. But if she is found guilty or I will not lose any sleep over it. What I would like to know is why do you seem to dislike her so much? "I have personally spent over 12 years investigating her and her actions and know what she is facing."

I have spent more time than that researching her and interacting with authorities with regard to her actions. It is not personal.  It is about her corruption and corrupt politicians in general.  I do not cotton to corrupt politicians that make themselves rich via schemes and illegal dealings.  She has also held sway over the local election process for far too many years which has put her cronies and supporters into office in order to do her bidding while skirting campaign and election laws to do so. All of this comes at a cost to her constituents needs in many ways.  Hers is a very long story of corruption.  My question is why do more people not care about corruption in government enough to do the research and then work to expose those involved in underhanded dealings?  I have done that now for many, many years.  Its about right and wrong, not the individual.  There is a single politician who I do not like personally in addition to their politics and that is Rick Scott. It's a visceral thing for me with him.

[Cheshire Cat]

The crush of attention enveloping U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown's sweeping fraud indictment also spotlighted a man who has spent decades in her shadow.
Ronnie Simmons, who pleaded not guilty alongside her in federal court Friday, built a quarter-century career near the Jacksonville Democrat's complex web of politics and alliances.

Yet Simmons, who is Brown's chief of staff, is almost unknown in Jacksonville, where he grew up and graduated from Ribault High School.

The indictment peeled away much of the anonymity that has surrounded the 50-year-old Simmons.

Separate from detailing his connections to One Door for Education, the bogus charity for whom Brown raised money, the indictment said Simmons was responsible for a phantom employee in Brown's Jacksonville office.

The employee, a relative of Simmons who wasn't named, was paid $735,000 over 15 years as a congressional employee for doing little or no work, the indictment said.

For full article click link below.
http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2016-07-08/story/after-decades-corrine-browns-shadow-indictment-shines-light-staff-chief?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_The_Florida_Times-Union