Posted on 12/27/2015 8:17:33 AM PST by KeyLargo
Feds seize over $1 million in cash hidden by disgraced Massachusetts politician
Over $1 million was seized as part of the federal investigation into John George Jr., the disgraced former state representative and selectman from Dartmouth, who once represented the 9th Bristol District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. George hid the cash in safe deposit boxes he kept at banks in New Bedford and Fall River, according to investigators. Conor Berry cberry@repub.com
BOSTON -- More than $1 million in cash. Stuffed into safe deposit boxes. Filled to the brim with wads of $100s, $50s, $20s ...
The money was seized this week by federal authorities as part of their investigation into John George Jr., the disgraced former state representative and selectman from Dartmouth, who once represented the 9th Bristol District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
The 69-year-old Democrat was found guilty in April of embezzling federal funds from Union Street Bus Company - the taxpayer-subsidized bus company he owned - and using the money to benefit his personal farm in Dartmouth, the coastal Bristol County town just west of New Bedford.
(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...
Need a really big refrigerator/freezer to stash that load of cash...(for those that remember a certain Black politician from the great State of loozey-anna.
Who I might add was vigorously defended by the then-Republican Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, of course we knew the reason, he had his own skeletons in the closet.
Oh, the comments at the link ought to be dee-lish..
Can’t wait to click.
This schmuck could not figure out there were better places to hide your illegal money? We could probably have a good contest on this forum on how & where to stash cash.
Someone please explain how he embezzled all that cash. It looks like a drug dealer’s sock drawer. Ok, several sock drawers. Keeping it in a safety deposit box is down right stupid. Also, he could have saved some rental fees if he’d converted the $50s and $20s to larger bills. But what do I know.
Bury it in the back yard in the flower bed or under the dog house.
A home safe.
Under a floor board.
Out at his weekend home.
In a Swiss bank.
Launder it so it’s harder to trace.
Ease it into his normal spending with a new car here and a vacation there but nothing too flashy to draw attention.
I didn’t know it was possible to disgrace a politician—Particularly a DemocRAT one.
Only an idiot would think their cash is safe in a bank vault. It may not be the first place they look, but it’s the second.
I agree with the laundering. I would have endeavored to turn quite a bit of it into gold coins, platinum bars...something.
Maybe buy a car wash. :) RE: Breaking Bad.
After his demise, almost a million bucks IN CASH was found stashed away in his hotel suite in the state capitol of Springfield.
Also found were 49 cases of whiskey, 14 transistor radios and two cases of creamed corn.
Leni
Yabut....
Where’d he get the creamed corn?
Why would they think the money was illegally obtained.
Most politicians are paid to do nothing .
Especially in Massachusetts they are all crooks.
Would love to take a metal detector to his farm...lord knows how much may be buried in mason jars.
Not a bad idea. A small liquor store would not be bad either.
10 oz. gold bars would be so much more convenient.
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