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A former Charlotte NC City Councilmember and BOTH of her daughters have now pleaded GUILTY to stealing over $124,000 in COVID relief money...
X ^ | 06/16/2026 | Matt Van Sworl

Posted on 06/17/2026 3:48:43 PM PDT by SmokingJoe

🚨HOLY CRAP!!!

A former Charlotte NC City Councilmember and BOTH of her daughters have now pleaded GUILTY to stealing over $124,000 in COVID relief money...

...for LAVISH BIRTHDAY PARTIES, HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGES, AND A THRONE!!!

Prosecutors say she and her daughters, Tijema Brown and Antionette Rouse, filed at least 15 FAKE loan applications for businesses that DID NOT EXIST, using forged tax documents, to drain pandemic relief funds meant for struggling Americans.

They got a mind-boggling $124,000.

They spent it on Louis Vuitton bags and a $15,000 BIRTHDAY PARTY with horses, thrones, fancy gifts.

And this isn't her first time.

Tiawana Brown is a CONVICTED FELON who already served federal prison time for fraud, years before Charlotte NC voters put her on the City Council.

This week, the last of the three, her daughter Antionette, pleaded guilty. She admitted to pocketing astonishing $51,000 by herself..

All three have now admitted it. All three are guilty.

She is looking at up to 20 years in prison.

ABSOLUTELY INSANE!!!!!

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Democrat African American politicians just never stop stealing. Imagine what America would be like if Harris were President. Pure hell. Watch video of them living it up/partying at link on X.
1 posted on 06/17/2026 3:48:43 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Tijema?


2 posted on 06/17/2026 3:52:13 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I wasn't expecting a kind of Spanish Inquisition.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Make your own money.....Aint nobody got time fo’ dat


3 posted on 06/17/2026 3:52:29 PM PDT by MoreMAGA ("See, there's three kinds of people...")
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Democrat councilman's daughters, Tijema Brown and Antionette Rouse, filed at least 15 FAKE loan applications for businesses that DID NOT EXIST, using forged tax documents, to drain pandemic relief funds meant for struggling Americans.

4 posted on 06/17/2026 3:53:33 PM PDT by Liz (Winston Churchill: “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”)
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To: SmokingJoe

Must have neglected to send the usual and customary 10%.


5 posted on 06/17/2026 3:53:41 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: EvilCapitalist

Tijema is a contraction for Tia Jemima or in English Aunt Jemima.


6 posted on 06/17/2026 3:53:51 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: SmokingJoe

I could tell just by the names the demographic of the thieves...


7 posted on 06/17/2026 3:56:58 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SmokingJoe

It’s a family affair,
it’s a family affair.
—Sly and the Family Stone.


8 posted on 06/17/2026 3:56:59 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

One child grows up to be
Somebody that just loves to learn
And another child grows up to be
Somebody you’d just love to burn


9 posted on 06/17/2026 3:57:56 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: SmokingJoe

Unreal. The whole damn thing was just unreal. If they catch even 1% of the fraudsters I’d be amazed. They are going after the big timers and the public officials because that is generally what the FBI is supposed to do - uncover big crimes and public corruption.

I got a PPP loan, and then a second one when they opened up round 2. But I paid myself and employees and only the allocated portion they said they allowed went to overhead. If I knew they were never going to audit or check I would have taken the $400 from California and $600 from the feds. My wife and I could’ve made $8000 a month and used the PPP loan to pay rent. We’re too honest for this world I guess.

But now I know why home prices skyrocketed at the time when nobody had a job!


10 posted on 06/17/2026 3:57:58 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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They either steal or kill.

BREAKING: The suspected shooter who allegedly k*lled one person at a Delaware hospital yesterday has been identified as 23-year-old John Wallace-Bey.

Story to disappear in 3...2...1...


https://x.com/i/status/2067284885803323794

11 posted on 06/17/2026 3:58:19 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Tiawana Brown is a CONVICTED FELON who served federal prison time for fraud, years BEFORE Charlotte NC voters put her on the City Council. Her daughter Antionette, admitted to pocketing an astonishing $51,000 tax dollars for herself.

12 posted on 06/17/2026 3:58:36 PM PDT by Liz (Winston Churchill: “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”)
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To: Liz

Family photo....

It all started when I took the girls down to the bank to open a savings account with their grass cutting and lemonade stand money. Then the account just grew and grew.


13 posted on 06/17/2026 3:59:06 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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...admitted to pocketing an astonishing $51,000 tax dollars for herself.

Minnesota Somalian: Astonishing alright. That little amount would be the down payment on a luxury car in our town.

14 posted on 06/17/2026 4:01:12 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: monkeyshine
No surprise Democrats were pushing Covid lock downs so hard.
They used Covid to steal hundreds of billions of tax payer dollars.
15 posted on 06/17/2026 4:01:23 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: dfwgator

And now both of us will hear the song in our heads all night.

A good one, though.


16 posted on 06/17/2026 4:02:13 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Liz

Gee, what a surprise!


17 posted on 06/17/2026 4:02:18 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: SmokingJoe

whatever happened to that town that refused to help maga supporters after thaT massive flood devastated the area? Anyone remember that? It was down south somewhere-


18 posted on 06/17/2026 4:04:06 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like a banana)
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To: frank ballenger

Minnesota Somalian: “That piddling $51,000 would
be the down payment on a luxury car in our town.”


Somalians think $big.


19 posted on 06/17/2026 4:04:48 PM PDT by Liz (Winston Churchill: “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”)
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To: Bob434

At least one (and reportedly up to four) FEMA employees were fired in connection with the allegations of skipping homes with Trump/MAGA signs during the Hurricane Helene response in western North Carolina and related efforts in Florida after Hurricane Milton.


20 posted on 06/17/2026 4:10:25 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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