Posted on 04/02/2010 8:50:19 AM PDT by Nevadan
U.S. Senate hopeful Scott Ashjian will avoid being arrested on felony charges of theft and writing bad checks after he paid $5,575 to cover a bounced check and court fees.
The Tea Party of Nevada candidate told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Thursday that his campaign would release a statement regarding all of his legal woes today .
"The bottom line is, I did pay money on a stop payment check, it wasn't an insufficient funds claim like (the complaint that) was issued," Ashjian said. "At the end of the day, the facts will come out."
Chief Deputy District Attorney Bernie Zadrowski said a Las Vegas judge is expected to approve withdrawal of criminal charges against Ashjian sometime today.
If he had been convicted, the 46-year-old Ashjian would have faced up to 14 years in state prison and would have been banned from running for elected office.
"He came in (Wednesday) and made full restitution," said Zadrowski, chief of the bad check unit.
Ashjian is one of 22 candidates seeking to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat running for his fifth term.
Last week, the Nevada State Contractors Board revoked Ashjian's contractor's license for his asphalt company and ordered him to pay more than $2,600 in additional fees on top of the $37,000 to complainants, which also included a bad check written for $981.82.
As of Thursday, board spokesman Art Nadler said Ashjian had not paid the fines and fees as needed to reinstate his contractor's license.
When asked about his campaign to unseat Reid, Ashjian said voters are perceiving it "based on untrue stories."
"We plan on presenting the facts, and at the end of the day the facts will fall on our side," Ashjian said. "The GOP elitists are pulling out all stops trying to get me to check out."
The Senate candidate has had mounting legal troubles since announcing his candidacy. Public documents show Ashjian faced foreclosure on home loans totaling almost $1 million, owed a $200,000 Internal Revenue Service tax debt and faced liens and city nuisance actions.
No matter what he’s still a “Tea Party” candidate. I have a feeling that from now on any candidate that’s a little on the nutty wide will be a “Tea Party” candidate.
LOL. No school burning down so he can resuscitate his run later? You know like Willie Stark in All the King’s Men. He was used to split the vote remember?
Oh never mind. Too hard to explain.
Well it’s obvious. He stuck a TP name on himself, got donations and miracles of miracles he paid his check and charges.
Wonder if an investigation of using donations for personal use is in order?
I know. The Tea Party name is being falsely associated with fraud. This only benefits Reid.
Coffee Party Democrats. Otherwise known as the Red BULL Party.
Viacom-MTV was a part of this media collusion with the DNC. They interrupted programming to give draft “updates”.
Except all of the legislation to bring back the draft in the House and Senate was submitted by Democrats and ONLY SIGNED BY DEMOCRATS.
When young Americans learned who REALLY was supporting the legislation to bring back the draft, they said “well you can't trust EITHER side then”. I overheard a mother talking about her young mushhead.
Yes, this benefits Reid. A man who is corrupt and portrayed as corrupt in Martin Scorcese’s CASINO.
That is why they have to TRY to destroy and undermine who and what we are, but that is futile as well. rofl We are more like quick silver, you can't pin us down. ROFL Yet we can all enjoy the FUN we have in watching them try. lol.
I’ve been debating this issue with a guy on facebook who called some ladies who attend tea party rallies “tea baggers”. I gave him 3 or 4 chances to look up “tea baggers”. I kept telling him to tell me what it meant and he kept saying it’s based on the patriots in Boston but the current folks are nothing like the originals. I finally told him it was a sick sex act and that he’d obviously gotten the “tea bag” moniker from left wing press. I guess he then looked it up because he posted that he knew what it meant. So I said, “That means you intentionally insulted everyone.”
Then he went into a rant about no white people being at the rallies. More talking points. I told him that was right out of the Alinsky play book. He said he wasn’t going to respond to my posts anymore.
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