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Woman Caught on O’Keefe Undercover Camera Illegally Paying People to Register to Vote on Skid Row Federally Charged
Gateway Pundit ^ | 5/18/26 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 05/18/2026 11:38:14 AM PDT by CFW

A woman who was caught on O’Keefe Media Group’s undercover camera illegally paying people to register to vote on Skid Row in Los Angeles, California, has been federally charged.

The Justice Department on Monday announced that Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong was charged with one felony count of paying another person to register to vote. She is facing a max of five years in federal prison.

“This Justice Department is committed to ensuring that all U.S. elections are fair and free from illegal meddling – so that all Americans can accept the results with confidence,” she said.

“False registrations undermine Americans’ faith in elections – even more so when payoffs are involved,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: fraud; okeefe; registration; voters

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O'Keefe had best be careful and have an excellent security team. Democrats aren't going to like this. Not at all. If this woman starts singing there is no telling where this one arrest could lead.
1 posted on 05/18/2026 11:38:14 AM PDT by CFW
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Super! Squeeze her as to who/where she got the money from.


2 posted on 05/18/2026 11:48:39 AM PDT by ryderann
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I appreciate the effort and the outcome but this is low hanging fruit, we need some real arrests and convictions of major players, not these $10/hour flunkies.


3 posted on 05/18/2026 11:49:30 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: CFW

And this is just the tip of the iceberg re: fraud in COMMIEfornia.


4 posted on 05/18/2026 11:51:29 AM PDT by DownThe405
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To: CFW

I love her name.


5 posted on 05/18/2026 11:52:19 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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Business as usual. It used to be called “walking around money”. It’s skid row, this time, so perhaps it’s enough for a couple of bottles of skid rows finest.


6 posted on 05/18/2026 11:53:18 AM PDT by jimtorr
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Any difference between her street level hustle and the democrat big wigs bribing illegals to vote with free housing, free food stamps, free medicaid, free schooling, etc. I thought not...so why is she being prosecuted and face potential jail time... and the big wigs, uh, not so much if ever.


7 posted on 05/18/2026 11:53:47 AM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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You start picking off the peons, and pretty soon the rest of the peons find more constructive things to do with their time.

The ONLY reason this wench was out there is that she NEVER thought she’d get caught; it WAS NOT a real possibility in her mind, nor in the mind of anyone else doing the same thing.

NOW it is. NOW it begins to loom on the horizon.
And NOW is the time for the DoJ to make it loom LARGE.
VERY large.


8 posted on 05/18/2026 11:57:55 AM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: john drake
so why is she being prosecuted and face potential jail time.

Because she deserves it ...

the big wigs, uh, not so much

Because they can afford fancy lawyers.

9 posted on 05/18/2026 11:58:16 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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At least she has that going for her. Man, is she ugly!


10 posted on 05/18/2026 12:01:01 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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Thanks for the warning. I won’t click.


11 posted on 05/18/2026 12:03:19 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: The Louiswu

True, but examples like this make it a lot harder for the bosses to recruit an army of these low life scumbags.


12 posted on 05/18/2026 12:10:47 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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“ she NEVER thought she’d get caught; it WAS NOT a real possibility in her mind, nor in the mind of anyone else doing the same thing.”

Exactly right. NONE of them ever expected to be caught or go to jail. It’s been an easy free ride for decades.


13 posted on 05/18/2026 12:12:27 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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Five years in federal prison.

Examples must be made


14 posted on 05/18/2026 12:12:44 PM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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They get mail-in ballots too.


15 posted on 05/18/2026 12:15:39 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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This new trend of enforcing various election laws and election corruption laws around the country by this administration has to be quite a shock to the national left, it will be a while before they think they are immune from what were long ignored legalities again.

They’ll be breaking laws but this will reduce it and slow it down, shake their confidence in never being caught out.


16 posted on 05/18/2026 12:21:48 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: The Louiswu

The low hanging fruit always comes first.

This is a sign they’re really going for it. For the SWAMP.


17 posted on 05/18/2026 12:29:45 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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18 posted on 05/18/2026 1:55:09 PM PDT by CFW
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She’ll have to talk if she wants a minimum sentence on these charges.

She’ll need to tell who gave her instructions and the “ins and outs” of the operation from her end.


19 posted on 05/18/2026 1:57:36 PM PDT by CFW
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Gee. Yet another example of something that the Dems and their lackeys in the MSM swear never happens.


20 posted on 05/18/2026 2:04:08 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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