Posted on 05/07/2016 3:04:11 PM PDT by TroutStalker
Walter E. Fauntroy was worried about spies. The renowned civil rights figure, who had left the District in 2012 amid mounting financial and legal troubles, was living in the United Arab Emirates and believed his emails were being “wiped out” by American intelligence officers assigned to block his outgoing messages, according to dozens of emails obtained by The Washington Post and acknowledged as authentic by his lawyer.
So he began using an alias email address, while still signing his messages with his real name or “The Congressman” — a reference to his nearly two decades as D.C.’s delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives
In December 2014, under the email address “Shahid Sarkar,” Fauntroy wrote to 20 friends and relatives from the Persian Gulf and asked for help: find wealthy people to lend him $105,000. He needed the money, he said, to stave off foreclosure on his Northwest Washington home and to finance his nascent humanitarian project — the establishment of emissions-free power plants in poor parts of the world.
“You should know that, for me personally, the SAD FACT IS that if we do not launch our Initiative . . . the last financial asset that I own — My Family Home for the past Forty-two Years will be Lost to Foreclosure and my wife, my two children and my infant Grandson will be ‘Homeless’ on the streets of the District of Columbia,” Fauntroy wrote. “I am asking you to help find me a ‘Ram in the Thicket’ of a ‘Spiritually Mature’ individual or group NOT to GIVE us $105,000 but to simply Provide us a ‘Bridge Loan’ in that amount.”
Fauntroy, now 83 , never did find anyone to loan the money. But the effort reveals the downward spiral of a respected activist and leader in the nation’s capital.
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What are the odds that "loan" would ever be repaid?
Typical.
Such sad delusions
What Muslim got a hold of him?0
I feel bad for this man and his family as he seems to have cracked up a good deal. But what is the purpose of this piece?
Looks like Little Lord Fauntroy ran into real money problems when he was separated from the government teat.
“...But what is the purpose of this piece?”
Filler, between the times they are pimping for Benghazi Clinton!
What this WaPo article failed to mention was that after he disappeared, his family gave up looking for him after they checked the closets and the basement and the backyard and didn’t find him. It was only after all his money ran out that they started looking for him in earnest.
And here is further proof that liberalism is a mental disease.
Liberalism, aka progressivism, is a disease and a criminal enterprise, don’t ever forget it.
Yet another DIM grifter bum. May he rot.
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