Posted on 07/13/2016 5:21:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
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.
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.
The constituents of these people really don’t seem to care.
Indeed, they appear to derive some sort of vicarious satisfaction from their elected “representative” either “Beating Whitey” or “Beating the Man.”
Congressional black Caucasians.
The BLM folks blame whites, cops, ANYONE other than themselves or their elected officials because it is EASY! Easier than looking at themselves and their communities and see the REAL basis for their problems ... Failure to avail themselves to the public education in their communities .. failure to even try to better themselves with marketable job skills or maintaining a work ethic, the near total destruction of the black family with a mother AND a father, rampant black on black crime and violence ... and the list goes on.
I AM DONE with being blamed for their problems.
When the black community fixes their own problems FIRST, THEN they can look for help from me. Until then, they can get bent!
I agree with you completely
yesterday was a total embarrassment to the racist black caucus. the decrepit old black man in the congress could barely read his gun control lines when it came his time.
he was pathetic
Who..... don’t know his name
This is two-bit corruption compared to the industrial strength corruption of H->! . The prosecution of blacks v. H->! does seem to be racis’.
In Memphis when they catch them with their hands in the cookie jar, they reelect them to let them continue to commit crime. This does not take into account all the campaign spending theft the black candidates do. Harold Ford JR dipped into that to provide Armani suits for himself and hand made shoes. His daddy took cash bribes for votes in the TN Legislature, doing fed time. Council woman Janice Fullilove..FULL OF BS, got caught DUI over at the Tunica, MISS. Casinos. Had her TN DL yanked, applied for a lost TN license , lied to get it. Then violated TN judge’s orders not to drive after getting caught, I was just doing civic duty to deliver meals on wheel meals. He said NO DRIVING. Another one went to prison over theft, and they reelected him, now he’s been charged again same crime. Then you have State Sen Ophelia Ford, sister/aunt to Harold Jr, who took her brother’s spot, drunk, never attends sessions, maybe once or twice to rant about funeral business regs, and must Fly to Nashville from Memphis at tax Serfs expense besides her salary for a job she doesn’t do. So drunk fell off a bar stool in Nashville. I have anemia...that is curable you idiot take some iron shots. All black.
They missed charley rangel income tax evasion. Same crime black actor Wesley Snipes did Fed prison time over.
It is still illegal to dodge paying your income taxes!
Gov’t employees dodge taxes
http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/08/federal-employees-who-dont-pay-their-taxes-should-be-fired/
26 of these Idiots have CCW permits.
It is actually very simple.
To some people, getting elected simply means “It is our turn to loot.” That is simply their culture.
You can see this in the administrations of major US cities and in the Congressional Black Culture.
Marion Berry. Caught on video tape smoking crack as the Washington DC mayor, served some time, got out and ran again for Mayor, guess what? He won!!!
yep...... he’s the guy
at 74, I was embarrassed for the man
that photo is old
Picked that photo because it had his name on it. Saw him at the hearing, and thought the same thing you did. I live in the Detroit area. Districts have been gerrymandered many times over the years, so I was in his district for a while without ever moving.
Most CBC members are essentially gangsters.
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