Shaun Brown
Posted on 12/25/2017 9:55:53 AM PST by blam
A Democrat running for a U.S. House seat in Virginia has been indicted on charges of fraud, embezzlement and theft in connection with events that allegedly occurred in 2012.
Shaun Brown, 58, appeared in a Norfolk courtroom last week and denied any wrongdoing, the Daily Press of Newport News, Va., reported. She said she intends to fight the charges and be exonerated, the report said.
Brown is next scheduled to appear in court Jan. 12 and will plead not guilty, her attorney, James Ellenson, told the Daily Press.
Prosecutors said Brown received about $803,000 via her nonprofit organization as a participant in a U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.
They alleged that Brown acquired funds by filing false reimbursement claims with the Virginia Department of Health.
Prosecutors said Brown and others told employees to inflate the figures for the number of meals served to low-income children, and the nonprofit would the pocket the extra reimbursements, the Washington Post reported.
According to the Daily Press, Brown acknowledged that the program had “irregularities” that she hoped to see fixed.
“I want the irregularities corrected,” she said. “I want to see the program improve.”
Earlier in December, Brown filed a suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Virginia Department of Health and others, alleging discrimination against African-Americans, delayed payments, falsified reimbursements and claims for reimbursement, the Daily Press reported.
She and her mother, Jenever Brown, who co-founded the nonprofit, are seeking $10 million in damages, the report said.
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You really have to wonder just how many politicians have their hands in cookie jars like this
Hey if Shrillary can do it unscathed why not little old her too of DemoRat royalty— minority holy female.
Bet she gets elected anyway.
Politics is a magnet for psychopaths and sociopaths.
California has that High Speed Rail, and the costs are staggering. I wonder how many politicians have their hands in THAT cookie jar.
Gee, those Democrats just can’t help themselves, can they? If they can’t steal your tax dollars directly, they just shake every one else down so they can reward them with your tax dollars via contracts and get kickbacks (uh, that is campaign contributions)...is this a great country or what?
If it had been a Republican, the charges would have been filed 2 weeks before election day.
Anyone notice that the Democrats who do get indicted or caught are black Democrats?
She has excuses. As an oppressed woman, and an oppressed black woman at that, she’s got her membership in the grievance groups which give her a pass.
Oh, of course being a Democrat is a factor too.
Just waiting for the legal excuses. Such as, she is suffering from depression or another medical problem, which resulted in her taking medications which clouded her judgement, which led her embezzlement of the money. Clouded judgement due to medical or mental problems seems to be a common excuse for illegalities in recent years. See if her attorney goes there.
A BLACK DEMOCRAT CROOK?? NO!! I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT!
The purpose of the Democrat Party is to elect thieves to public office so that they have access to the public treasuries in order to loot them.
It would be easier to ask which don’t.
And use virtue signaling, abetted by a sycophant MSM, to evade and delay prosecution.
Probably 90 percent are getting rich one way or another...
Way else spend a life time there..
Or quit and get millions working as a lobbyist
Typical LIB-loser DIM criminal...who typically denies everything: A DinDoNuthin.
A picture is worth 1,000 words!
I would support that one’s worth can not increase while in the House or Senate, nor the spouse of one. They go in as beggars and come out as millionaires.
I know. It IS shocking!
Now the next surprise, how many of her voters STILL vote for her and/or write her in.
“A picture is worth 1,000 words!”
The OTHER picture at the website is worth 10,000 words. Don’t view too close to having eaten.
ALL of them!
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