Posted on 04/11/2025 5:04:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A Massachusetts Democrat state lawmaker was indicted on five counts of wire fraud and one count of falsification of records, the Justice Department announced on Thursday.
Christopher Flanagan, a state rep for the First Barnstable District, was arrested for using stolen funds for personal and political expenses.
“Massachusetts State Representative for the First Barnstable District has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for allegedly orchestrating a multi-faceted scheme that defrauded a local trade association of tens of thousands of dollars, used to fund personal and political expenses and falsifying records to conceal his alleged conduct,” the DOJ said.
“Christopher Flanagan, 37, of Dennis, Mass. was indicted on five counts of wire fraud and one count of falsification of records. Flanagan was arrested this morning and will appear in federal court in Boston at 2:30 p.m. today,” the DOJ said.
According to the indictment, in October 2021, facing personal financial difficulty, Flanagan stole $36,000 from the Home Builders Association (HBA) in Cape Cod while he served as the executive officer of the organization.
“FLANAGAN defrauded the HBA by (a) using his signatory authority as HBA Executive Officer to secretly withdraw tens of thousands of dollars from HBA’s bank accounts; (b) entering false information in HBA’s financial bookkeeping records; (c) providing materially false and misleading HBA financial information to the HBA Board during board meetings; and (d) creating and submitting false expense reports to the HBA Board to further conceal his fraud,” the indictment read.
For the next two years, Flanagan wired thousands of dollars to himself to fund his personal and political expenses.
In one instance, Flanagan is accused of stealing hundreds of dollars in HBA funds to pay for psychic services.
The feds also accused...
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Halp me, Grandpa Joe! I did it for you!
(DEMOCRAT Flanagan stole $36,000 from the Home Builders Association (HBA) in Cape Cod)
Oops
Democracy itself is at risk with the Trump DOJ. /s
Progress. But how about getting some big fish.
(In one instance, Flanagan is accused of
stealing hundreds of dollars in HBA
funds to pay for psychic services.)
Miss Cleo is still with us?
Not very good psychic services, apparently...
well at least the feds in some states are arresting people for fraud....
I agree, that is certainly possible, but I also agree, how about some big fish?
A Barnstable Pol is corrupt?
Ya don’t say?
Get him to talk about everything done by the others he knows.
He’s a little fish. Probably smells like one. But little.
$36,000? He’s a piker. If you’re gonna steal, steal big.
🤣😂🤣🤪😃
i guess he didnt see this coming...
In one instance, Flanagan is accused of stealing hundreds of dollars in HBA funds to pay for psychic services.
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Democrat Christopher Flanagan, a state rep for the First Barnstable District, was arrested for using stolen funds for personal and political expenses, now indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston
<><>allegedly orchestrated a multi-faceted scheme
<><>scheme defrauded a local trade association of tens of thousands of dollars,
<><>Flannagan funded personal and political expenses
<><>he falsifed records to conceal his alleged conduct
<><>this according to the DOJ.
“Not very good psychic services, apparently...”
Obviously, the psychic didn’t predict iron bars in his future...
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Now when do they do NYS?
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