Posted on 08/09/2024 5:42:53 AM PDT by george76
The Department of Justice indicted a number of executives from the voting machine company Smartmatic Thursday, including founder and President Roger Pinate, on a series of federal money laundering and bribery charges.
"A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned an indictment today charging three executives of an election voting machine and service provider company and a former Chairman of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) of the Republic of the Philippines for their roles in an alleged bribery and money laundering scheme to retain and obtain business related to the 2016 Philippine elections," DOJ released Thursday.
A federal Grand Jury found the men paid bribes in order to land contracts for Smartmatic during elections in the Philippines nearly a decade ago.
"According to the indictment, between 2015 and 2018, Roger Alejandro Pinate Martinez, 49, a Venezuelan citizen and resident of Boca Raton, Florida, and Jorge Miguel Vasquez, 62, a U.S. citizen and resident of Davie, Florida, together with others, allegedly caused at least $1 million in bribes to be paid to Juan Andres Donato Bautista, 60, the former Chairman of COMELEC. These bribes were allegedly paid to obtain and retain business related to providing voting machines and election services for the 2016 Philippine elections and to secure payments on the contracts, including the release of value added tax payments," DOJ states.
"The co-conspirators allegedly funded the bribes through a slush fund that was created by over-invoicing the cost per voting machine for the 2016 Philippine elections. To conceal and disguise the nature and purpose of the corrupt payments, the co-conspirators used coded language to refer to the slush fund and caused the creation of fraudulent contracts and sham loan agreements to justify transfers. The co-conspirators then allegedly laundered funds related to the bribery scheme through bank accounts located in Asia, Europe, and the United States, including in the Southern District of Florida," DOJ continued.
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According to DOJ, all of the men indicted face "a maximum penalty of 20 years for each count of international laundering of monetary instruments and conspiracy to commit money laundering."
crooks and criminals running our elections, that’s nice.
“According to the indictment, between 2015 and 2018, Roger Alejandro Pinate Martinez, 49, a Venezuelan citizen and resident of Boca Raton, Florida, and Jorge Miguel Vasquez, 62, a U.S. citizen and resident of Davie, Florida, together with others, allegedly caused at least $1 million in bribes to be paid to Juan Andres Donato Bautista, 60, the former Chairman of COMELEC. These bribes were allegedly paid to obtain and retain business related to providing voting machines and election services for the 2016 Philippine elections and to secure payments on the contracts, including the release of value added tax payments,” DOJ states.
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so, if smartmatic was willing tp bribe the phillipinos > $1mm; how much would they have to pay rafensperger to fix georgia 2020?
how many other states were bought off by smartmatic?
bonus question: who has an ownership in smartmatic?
And wasn’t Smartmatic originally developed in Venezuela to assist Hugo Chavez in controlling elections? Something like that. It’s been a corrupt venture from the get-go.
This is surprising.
I would expect the Deep State to protect its own.
Not to defend these guys, but this isn't something that Grand Juries can do.
eventually the truth prevails, those who where sued by dominion and these pukes should counter sue and destroy them
With the corrupt courts, the American Citizens, telling the truth, suffer.
If they serve no time in the Phillapines it is because they are a CIA front whose software is used to attack elections in countries we want to influence.
Flashback to 2020, when the Trump Campaign accused Smartmatic of providing hackable software to Dominion Voting SystemsNow thanks to a corrupt judge and a all to willing Fox/Murdoch News, Dominion is flush with cash.
Please add me if I’m not already.
Thank you.
Justice may be coming? Ha! Don’t fall for that BS.
Not a HINT of voter fraud.
Well maybe a hint.
But not enough to make a difference...
“He didn’t win did he?”
Remember how suddenly Dominion became one of the most powerful corporations after the erections? Even my favorite “conservative” blogs were getting sued and tripping over themselves to apologize.
We are so Fd. Prepare accordingly.
As with anything involved with this regime they are sending in the FIBs to erase evidence of a crime and fabricate evidence proving innocence. Every damned fed is a crooked liar not to be trusted. Without exception.
You are added. Thank you.
Got her some eagle boots.
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