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Al Franken’s Fraudulent Victory In Minnesota
The Wall Street Journal has an excellent piece today explaining the unbelievable inconsistencies and possible outright fraud that has taken place in the Minnesota senate race between incumbent republican Norm Coleman and democrat Stuart Smalley Al Franken.
Here’s a little sample:
Mr. Franken started the recount 215 votes behind Senator Coleman, but he now claims a 225-vote lead and suddenly the man who was insisting on “counting every vote” wants to shut the process down. He’s getting help from Mr. Ritchie and his four fellow Canvassing Board members, who have delivered inconsistent rulings and are ignoring glaring problems with the tallies.
Under Minnesota law, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as “duplicate” and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote. By some estimates this double counting has yielded Mr. Franken an additional 80 to 100 votes.
This is shaping up to be one of the most outrageous voting scandals in history. It doesn’t surprise me at all that a lying scumbag like Al Franken would cheat his way in to the senate, I’m just surprised there’s not a single honest democrat willing to speak out against what is clearly a bogus process.
Al Gore’s Personal Power Consumption Up 10%
Al Gore is the world’s biggest global warming alarmist and hypocrite. In the year since Gore took steps to make his mammoth mansion “green” his personal power consumption has risen by 10%.
In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.
The fact of the matter is that Al Gore is a fraud. The global warming hysteria he generates is based on junk science. Gore uses fear tactics and silly movies to perpetuate the global warming myth because it’s such a cash cow for him. Since leaving the White House, Gore has made an estimated $100 million dollars through speaking fees and investments related to global warming.
He started a company which conveniently sells “carbon offsets” to his rich Hollywood friends and any average citizens who’re stupid enough to buy them.
Gore lectures the world about climate change and proposes that Americans start walking or riding bicycles to work, while he continues to fly around the country on his private jet.
“Global warming” will go down in history as one of the biggest scams of all time.
-Chris Jones
Music Mogul Lou Pearlman Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison
Boy band mogul Lou Pearlman was sentenced this morning to 25 years in federal prison for running a lengthy, systematic con that artificially inflated his net worth and cheated people out of $300 million.
Pearlman was responsible for the rise of such groups as The Backstreet Boys, N’Sync, and O-Town. It turns out however, that a large portion of his wealth was derived from various Ponzi schemes and other scams.
Pearlman, 53, was once the toast of Orlando. His financial empire included popular musical acts the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync, an airplane charter business, and Church Street Station, an iconic piece of real estate in Orlando’s downtown.
The boy band impresario admitted in a March plea hearing to running the scam. He pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy, one count of money laundering and one count of making a false claim in a bankruptcy during that hearing, charges worth a maximum 25-year prison sentence.
Investors’ claims in a bankruptcy case have approached a half-billion dollars.
What amazes me is that this guy was all over TV for years as this music mogul like Simon Cowell. Besides, the music business this guy’s entire life was a giant scam. I can’t believe he was able to get away with it for so many years.
…Pearlman received a key to the city in 1998, and in 2003 arranged a deal to buy and revitalize the Church Street Station entertainment district in downtown Orlando.
But as Pearlman’s reputation grew, so did complaints about his financial dealings. Complaints first arose in 1995 about Trans Continental Airlines’ so-called “employee investment savings program,” which he promised was a safe investment insured by the FDIC and others. He admitted in March that the program was a Ponzi scheme.
Members of the bands he formed sued him throughout the late 1990s, saying he cheated them out of money. In 2002, state regulators investigated Pearlman’s modeling company, Trans Continental Talent, after allegations that the company reneged on promises to give clients modeling work in return for spending money on an online listing service. He was later cleared.
But new investigations began, and his luck ran out in December 2006, when the state Office of Financial Regulation sued Pearlman and forced him to close his airline’s “employee investment savings program,” which was open to the public.
The prosecutor rightly points out that this guy operated a “successful airline” for years, but nobody ever saw any of the planes flying around.
Pearlman pretty much committed every white collar crime on the books including falsifying bank accounts, creating falsified corporate and personal income tax documents. Pearlman missed his calling, he really should have been an Enron executive.
The interesting thing about his prison sentence is the deal the judge made him. Pearlman owes around $300 million to the investors he defrauded, and the judge sentenced him to 300 months (25 years) in a Federal prison.
However, Senior U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp told Pearlman that for every $1 million dollars he pays back he can get 1-month taken off his sentence.
So if he can come up with $300 million dollars he can avoid prison time all together. Pearlman’s attorney said that was a nice offer, but Pearlman really doesn’t have any money left. The courts have already auctioned off all of his real estate, cars, and music memorabilia.
Pearlman’s victims aren’t buying it, and claim the fraudulent music mogul has assets hidden away somewhere.
The one thing I just don’t get and maybe it all goes back to greed, is why he would become involved in all those scams?
Pearlman was responsible for creating and managing some of the biggest acts in music at the time. That alone should have made him a tremendously wealthy man, without pulling any scams. It just seems totally insane to be up to your eyeballs in crime when you have a legitimate business already worth millions.
-Chris Jones
Girl Won Hannah Montana Tickets With Fake Essay
An essay that won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert began with the powerful line: “My daddy died this year in Iraq.”
The problem is that the entire story was a big lie, and the girl may lose her tickets now that the mother has admitted it.
The sponsor of the contest was Club Libby Lu, a Chicago-based store that sells clothes, accessories and games intended for young girls.
The girl won a makeover that included a blonde Hannah Montana wig, as well as the grand prize: airfare for four to Albany, N.Y., and four tickets to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert on Jan. 9.
The mother had told company officials that the girl’s father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq, company spokeswoman Robyn Caulfield said.
“We did the essay and that’s what we did to win,” Priscilla Ceballos, the mother, said in an interview with Dallas TV station KDFW. “We did whatever we could do to win.”
She had identified the soldier as Sgt. Jonathon Menjivar, but the Department of Defense has no record of anyone with that name dying in Iraq. The mother has since admitted that she made the name up.
The store that sponsored this contest is now discussing the matter and is considering taking the tickets away.
I think the store should take the tickets away. That is such a horrible example for a mother to set for her 6-year old daughter. Not only was submitting a fake story bad, but to make it about her daughter’s father being killed in Iraq is just despicable.
I think the company taking the tickets away could potentially turn this ugly situation into a good lesson for the 6-year old. It would teach her that there’s consequences in life if you lie, cheat, and steal to get what you want. Whether it’s Enron, steroids in baseball, or pretending your father was killed in the war.
-Chris Jones
The New Republic STILL refuses to retract Beauchamp Lies
The New Republic is nothing but a joke. They literally have no credibility left to damage. Even in light of the documents we posted this week from Drudge proving Scott Beauchamp is a f*cking liar, TNR still refuses to admit the stories are bullshit.
It’s hard to believe this is really happening! Scott Beauchamp’s wife Ellie works at TNR and is desperate to keep her husband from being exposed as the lying piece of sh*t he is.
Anyone can read the transcripts and army documents we posted this week and clearly see Beauchamp is a lier, and he completely hung TNR out to dry.
Yet they STILL refuse to admit their “phony soldier” made the whole thing up.
-Chris Jones
New Republic’s Phony “Baghdad Diarist” Documents
Yesterday, Drudge posted documents proving that The New Republic’s “Baghdad Diarist” is a liar, and a “phony soldier.” We posted links to each of the documents, but for some reason the links went bad.
Here is a repost of Scott Beauchamp documents:
Document #1
Document #2
Document #3
-The Hot Joints Staff
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