Posted on 02/24/2011 10:14:27 AM PST by Libloather
I made a few phone calls myself this morning. I contacted the NY AG office, the Buffalo AG office, the Wisconsin AG office and Koch Industries.
I got as far as the press office of the NY AG and chatted with that individual for about 15 minutes. It's hard to get through to the proper division but I'll check in again later. 1-800-771-7755.
I left a long, detailed message with the Buffalo AG. 1-716-853-8404.
The Wisconsin AG office told me that if an investigation was in the works, it would be kept quiet. Fine. Anyone can file a complaint in writing or by fax. 1-608-266-1221.
The best chat was with public affairs at Koch Industries. Oh, they know ALL about it. Obviously, they are guarding themselves because of what happened but the person I talked to was very nice. She said comments can be sent to info@kochind.com and they would be read. She seemed to enjoy my remarks but could not reveal much at all - which is the way it should be. (If you've never looked up David Koch and what he's done - try it. TRULY impressive.)
They even had someone pretending to be a Republican billionaire, telephone Gov. Walker. The phone call between this fake billionaire and Scott Walker was taped.
Having falsely impersonated an important person, the fake caller did everything he could to get Scott Walker to say something embarrassing in this "off the record, private call." The liberal media has dismissed this as simply a "prank" call. It sounds potentially criminal to me to falsely impersonate someone.
These scumbags will stop at nothing, will they?
William Brohinsky Commented 1 day ago in Politics 00“
Actually, you need to read the fraud statutes. (Statues are something different.) Here is a summary: http://www.llrx.com/features/idtheftguide.htm#false
Note that there are more than one statue related to Identity Theft. Misusing David Koch's name to identify himself, Murphy violated US Code Title 18 section 1028(d)(7). The verbiage includes "or", not and, so name alone is enough to convict.
The Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act adds a paragraph making it a federal law to also use that ID in any state or local Felony crime or any Federal crime (Wire Fraud is one), so Murphy is up on 2 charges. The price? To start with, forfeiture to the Federal government of anything he used in the crime. It also, however, says that the number of victims (the whole state of Wisconsin, y'know?) is a reasonable gauge for determining penalties.
I wouldn't want to be Murphy if _any_ Federal law-enforcement agency decides to take US Law seriously. Good for him that Obama, Constitutional Scholar as he is, has proven that written law, like the Constitution, is worthless, isn't it?”
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