Posted on 02/10/2024 11:51:12 AM PST by CFW
The independent journalist Peter Bernegger has uncovered what appears to be a massive fraud scheme related to Fulton CountyDA Fani Willis and her campaign funds.
According to Bernegger, a large number of people are being used to make campaign donations to Willis — without their knowledge.
More precisely, their names and addresses are being used — an illegal tactic known as “smurfing.” It’s structured money laundering for political campaigns.
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This is illegal in the state of Georgia.
The current count of suspicious donations stands at over $160,000 — all of it apparently “smurfed” into the Fani Willis campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at emerald.tv ...
Ya gotta love it when karma comes back and bites you in the ass. She getting the Trump curse.
well well well when you move into the light and you continue your arrogance and big mouth you tend to put your foot in it. DEI hire
Yep. BTW, there is a 12 minute video at the link explaining the donations and why it is obviously an illegal “smurfing” scheme.
Money laundering schemes...that’s the sum total of what democrat run big cities are all about, nothing more.
My schadenfreude is intensifying! Don’t stop!😎
And she's got a big ass to bite.
Time for Fani to move along, then wind up with a well-paying gig for the leftists. /s
Math, integrity, responsibility, and accountability are racist.
Dems have been laudering money out of public funds into “campaign funds” i.e. “retirement funds” (what they don’t spend on their campaign, any politician can keep whats left over ) for decades. When you control the voter electoral fraud re e;ection is a given anyway.
Oh-BTW-It has stayed under the radar for so long BTW -because the Pubbies do it too. They generally “respect” one anothers’ territory
The UniParty has been a well-oiled machine for decades
When Obama ran in 2008 his website allowed credit card donations that did not check for address or zip code verification. If I recall didn’t even check the names. It permitted people to evade campaign finance laws as there were almost no safeguards to prevent someone from buying millions of dollars in prepaid cards and having them donated in $25 increments. Donations could probably be automated using software scripts. Just pick a name from a database, pick a credit card number from the database, use those to fill in the fields and submit.
This sounds similar. They call it smurfing (which is a drug trade slang as well), but generally it’s a straw donation but in this case there is no reimbursement the donors just steal your names (or in this case, no names used at all in many cases) and make the donation. The likelihood of being caught is low unless someone actually looks, starts calling the names (or reverse check of the cc number) asking if they made a donation. If the donation never appears on a person’s bank or cc statement, they would be none the wiser.
It is interesting that in this case there are no names associated with a lot of these donations. Obviously there is almost no oversight since it took a reporter, not a regulator, to discover it. But there will be an excuse such as “oh it’s a database reporting error” and perhaps some names will be backfilled.
I think they changed the laws such that politicians can’t keep leftover money directly. But they can run perpetual campaigns, including charities, and use the funds to maintain staff (personal assistant) and drivers and cars and keep an office and phones etc. It may not go directly to their bank accounts but they can certainly eliminate a lot of personal overhead expenses and make their daily lives more cushy. Maybe they can pay themselves a salary for managing the enterprise. I’m not entirely sure but the so called “campaign finance reform” came with more loopholes than a rodeo.
I remember all those elderly people who found out they donated to Biden, Arizona’s Hobbs, and other democrats to the tune of a few bucks each transaction. Many times it was multiple transactions per day and the yearly total would be 15 to 20 thousand dollars. Of course, those people didn’t actually make those donations as they were on a fixed income and sometimes lived on that much or only a little more each year.
It was obvious it was a large and illegal donor whose donation had been broken into smaller amounts and those amounts attributed to other people.
Exactly. Just use their names. Nobody would be the wiser unless the “donor” saw the money coming from their accounts.
When you use a credit or debit card it often asks for the billing address separate from the “delivery” address. My cc bills are registered at my work address but if I order for home the ship to address is different. So they ask as a way to verify the cardholder is legit. I’m not sure that the billing address is saved or viewed by the “merchant”. So when the reports are generated they don’t print out the cc number or billing address, only the public addresss associated with the name and maybe the last 4 digits of the card.
Upping your popcorn and pop budget one would hope
The article states this like it means something. Fanni is a black woman: bulletproof!
(I hope the old saying comes true for her: the bigger they are, the harder they fall)
and no we don’t call it pop in NJ lol
My guess is that she will pull out the “rayciss” card, and also the “woman” card, blaming those who find this kind of behavior disgusting and morally wrong.
No matter what one’s skin color or sex.
And, it is time to stand up and say so - no more “equity” nonsense. We demand skill, hard work, integrity, and honesty. We are all equal in God’s plan to try to develop our talents according to our gifts. We will never be equal in achievement, because our gifts are all different in kind and calling.
While I really do hope this is all true and provable, I’ll not be holding my breath that justice will be served.
Sad. It’s sad watching America being killed off by the lefturds while the pubbies stand around with their thumbs jammed up their nether regions.
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