Corrine Brown indicted
Roll Call reports that Corrine Brown, the ranking member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, along with her chief of staff, Elias “Ronnie” Simmons have been indicted in Florida;
The Florida Democrat and Elias “Ronnie” Simmons were charged with 24 counts, among them mail and wire fraud, theft of government property, and filing false tax returns.
Brown faces up to 357 years in prison, a fine of up to $4 million and three years of supervised release. She pleaded not guilty on all counts Friday.
Bail for the congresswoman and Simmons was set at $50,000, which they must pay only if their release terms were violated.
A trial is expected in the fall.
Roll Call also reports that she stepped down from her position on the committee.
Brown said that “due to House rules,” she is temporarily stepping down “to avoid potential distractions from the important work of this committee,” and she noted her work on homeless veterans, women’s issues and healthcare.
Maybe the committee can get something done with her gone now. I doubt it, but there’s hope.
Updated 7-11-2016 from WFTV;
Brown likened her situation to the recent police shooting deaths of two black men in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and St. Paul, Minnesota, and the deaths of five Dallas police officers during a protest march Thursday night.
“Last week was very rough,” Brown wrote. “Two black men were needlessly gunned down by police; five Dallas police officers were slain by a demented man; and on Friday I had to appear in federal court.”
Calling the indictment “very scary,” Brown said her “spirit remains unbroken.”
“My conscience is clear because I’m innocent,” she wrote. “I’m not the first black elected official to be persecuted, and, sad to say, I won’t be the last.”
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‘up to 357 years in prison’?
I’d like to see that! I really would. Arrogance and self-indulgence may be the driving force for these people, but it blinds them to the pitfalls in the road ahead, and O-O-O-OOPS!!!
Now, if only someone else will get hammered that hard…. I can dream, can’t I?
I bet she doesn’t get 357 HOURS in prison.
Is this mess in addition to that of yesterday’s post: http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=66729 ?
Typical Democrat Politician.
I think it’s an update. The other article doesn’t have the ‘357 years in prison’ included.
If she has to serve that time, do you think she’ll get to take her hair and nail products with her?
BWAHAHAHAHA !!!!
Hair & nail products with her !!!
SPEEEEWWWWWW !!!!
Damn Hon !!!
Maybe and then only if she were sent to one of those “white collar” prisons…Lompoc comes to mind…Where they will teach her to grow roses, prune bushes and mow the green lawns.
This may nail Rep. Brown particularly hard if she’s convicted. Due to recent law changes (2007 and 2012), some of what she’s been charged with doing will almost certainly cause her to forfeit her Congressional pension if she’s convicted.
https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/96-530.pdf
If any of the misconduct occurred after 2012, I’m reasonably sure her Congressional pension is automatically forfeit if she’s convicted of one of the crimes listed in the linked document. (Specifically, she loses credit for all Congressional service if convicted – and I believe that’s the only Federal employment she has.) And it’s quite likely the case if any of it occurred after 2007.
In short: because of her own greed and criminal misconduct in abusing her elected office, if convicted of the right crime she’ll have to kiss close to $69k a year for life “bye bye”. That would be . . . just too damn bad. (smile)
Just got that sneaking feeling our esteemed divider-in-chief will come to her rescue. The CBC is probably burning up the phone lines to the WH.
Might take more than that. Not sure, but don’t believe a pardon would restore the pension – it merely forgives the criminal offense and restores civil rights. The forfeiture of pension is due to a separate provision of law that a pardon might not affect.
As I recall, it took an act of Congress to restore North’s USMC pension.
His personal Narcissism will prevent him from coming to her rescue. He’s already been burned opening his mouth about others before he knew all the facts.
Just like reverend Brown, he’s going to ignore her and move along.
Maybe she can share a cell with Hillary.
Once again, GO GATA!
I certainly hope she does do the time if in fact she did the crime. Too many politicians (and not just those named Clinton) get away with shit that would put us under the jail.
For what this woman makes, one would assume she could afford a better wig.
Or hats. Maybe Frederica Wilson could hook her up.
She should have been indicted for bastardizing and generally fucking up the English language.
I’d hit it!
While blarin’ this on the radio… she got some serious BOFA goin!
What, no Bertha Butt Boogie? (smile)
From the look of her, she’d hit you first and you might not like it when both her hands are on your shoulders. Or, maybe you would. We don’t know that just yet.
Nick, Knack, Paddy Whack, I’d throw that old dog a bone.
She’ll plead to one count, get 24 months probation, and be re-elected with 87% of the vote.
Why not–Alcee Hastings does.
Exactly, SEA.
Actually, Hastings was acquitted when tried in court on bribery charges. The Senate threw him out of office anyway (he was a Federal judge at the time), because the evidence was fairly persuasive that he’d “done the deed” and gotten off on a technicality (or perhaps jury nullification).
Or she could even be mayor….
“Don’t smoke crack, you won’t be nothin!” “I could be Mayor!” – Chris Rock
Ditto
I see this as a good start. Plenty more of this going on in DC that they haven’t gotten all the evidence on yet.
I think this is the 3rd Clinton Superdelegate indicted this year.
Surprise, surprise.
Usually Republicans resign before they are indicted, democRATS get re-elected…..
Did she turn on Obama? How could he allow this to happen to a black woman? I’m sure if she didn’t do anything turn on the Democrat party that Obama would have Lynch let her off like Hillary. Maybe she should run for president to get out of it?
Well, some things are just to egregious to ignore. I’m just surprised there’s an IRS angle. It’s not like she’s Tea Party or anything like that.
Some comments above got me to thinking. There is a club and there is The Club. Brown was not a member of The Club. Only select few are, relative to the numbers of people in power who many presume, quite wrongly, to be members of The Club. I cannot think of one Black member of Congress who is in The Club. I can, however, think of some who are not in Congress who are members. The Club members are untouchable.
Fuck….ALWAYS gotta be someone from MY hometown….
Phildo has got to be frothing at the mouth.
This would be a great All-Points Logistics hire.
And in state to boot?
Maybe he could spin up Lori Benton and get her on Corrine’s team….
Actually, she’s kinda cute – reminds me of Mike Tyson without the face tattoos….although the wig may cover some of them, lol.
http://www.sptimes.com/State/72898/Rep_Brown_explains_ch.html
http://www.sptimes.com/State/41498/Lawmaker_got_10_000_f.html
Note this isn’t the first time, she has done shady things with money.
She seems to have a serious problem about money and ethics.
http://www.congressproject.org/ethics/corbrowncom.html
Hell half of her Wikipedia article is about her scandalous behavior towards money and her office.
When she gets out, she can do play by play for ESPN.
Updated 7-11-2016 from WFTV;
Aahh the Victim Card, and I was thinking she was gonna throw her Race Card first.
Looks to me like she played them both at about the same time, API.
Yeah, after looking twice I think you’re right, she’s definitely playing the “OH, Poor Me!” game.
And she also commented that the Dallas Police Officers were “slain” by a “demented man”.
Seems to me the innocent Police Officers who were doing their job were MURDERED in Cold Blood by a BLACK demented man.
Also, her choice of words, i.e. “…I won’t be the last.” Does she know something that we don’t?
Yep, Victim and Race card shuffled together along with politics. Poor, poor Corrine.
Slain by a “demented man”? Hardly. Per their killer, they were deliberately murdered in cold blood for no reason other than the color of their skin. He was quite specific about that, and acted quite rationally and deliberately throughout his crime.
In my book, that makes their murderer nothing but a racist bastard – regardless of his skin color, religion, or ethnicity.
It must have been “Ronnie”.
Even I can see that.
Come on, API.
Hell, it could have been anyone….
Corrine, Ronnie or even Two-Hole Smith.
Who knows?
Now she is bringing the Orlando shooting into it-claiming that if the agents that were investigating her had been on that case the shooting might not have occurred.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/287324-indicted-dem-orlando-victims-would-still-be-alive-if-agents
Crazy and desperate are a bad combination.
the race card has been played
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/12/indicted-florida-congresswoman-claims-persecution-by-federal-prosecutors.html?intcmp=ob_article_sidebar_video&intcmp=obinsite
“Two black men were needlessly gunned down by police; 5 Dallas police officers were slain by a demented man, and on Friday I had to appear in federal court.” That’s part of Brown’s official statement regarding her “persecution.” Not many words but they say quite a lot—-and none of it good. First, “gunned down” is another term for executed. Second, she says the two black men were “needlessly” shot. That may be true in both cases, neither case, or one of the two cases. These are horrible, inflammatory, and self-serving words she uses, all to set-up her claim that she, being black, is also being victimized. Of course, she overlooks the fact that the federal office “persecuting” her is headed up by a black woman. And that brings me to my third and last observation about her ugly statement: the “demented man” who shot the Dallas police officers, killing five of them, was B-L-A-C-K. Funny how that works. To Brown, victims and alleged victims who are black men are “black men” but perpetrators who are black men are just men. I hope she enjoys working in the prison laundry.
She’s pulling out all the stops in an attempt to save her own butt, 2/17. Do you really think she gives a damn if her public statements are (1) inflammatory, or (2) even remotely close to true?
Well she is facing 300 years in prison if she gets convicted on all 24 counts….so I am not surprised to see her comments…at age 69 she most likely won’t get that amount of time, and perhaps she won’t even get any time.
It all depends on how they defend the charges, they were ostensibly collecting monies for a non-profit, but the money never made it to the non-profit…at least not much of it. It will be interesting to watch it unfold. I wouldn’t be surprised if she explains that she had no idea what was happening, especially if a lot of subordinates have access to the bank accounts in question. I would also not be surprised to see this go away quietly at some point without any further action.
I no longer believe the justice system exists to provide justice…it’s just another form of commodity brokerage that deals in a product falsely labeled as justice.
Ask former Rep. William Jefferson how that works, VOV. But you’ll have to travel to the Federal prison in Beaumont, TX, to do that.
Sometimes justice is indeed done.