Stupid criminals of the week
Cincinnati Councilman Jeff Pastor traded votes for cash, bribes, a trip to Miami, Feds say
FBI agents arrested Cincinnati City Councilman Jeff Pastor early Tuesday for leading what authorities describe as a brazen bribery scheme involving payoffs for help with city development projects.
Federal prosecutors say Pastor, a Republican who joined council in January 2018, began soliciting money from developers within months of taking office and, in some instances, accepted bags of cash in return for his vote or other favorable treatment.
A friend of Pastor’s, Tyran Marshall, also faces federal charges and is described by prosecutors as “a middleman” who arranged for some payments and set up a charitable nonprofit through which Pastor funneled bribes.
Prosecutors say undercover FBI agents posing as developers used electronic surveillance and at least two whistleblowers to unravel the pay-to-play scheme, which included a trip to Miami with a developer and solicitations by Pastor for cash, investment opportunities and jobs.
Throughout the investigation, prosecutors say, Pastor suggested dollar amounts for the bribes and directed the agents on how to pay them.
“Sometimes, the cash was literally handed to Pastor,” said U.S. Attorney David DeVillers, who will lead the prosecution. “Some of the things are so brazen.”
He said Pastor, who is accused of collecting $55,000 in bribes, at one point told the undercover agents he should be paid $200,000 for his help and sought a “monthly retainer” for his continuing assistance.
Much more at the source; MSN
Police: West Des Moines cop injured by driver drinking and watching a movie on vehicle dashboard
A man who seriously injured a West Des Moines police officer in a crash early Sunday admitted to investigators that he had been drinking alcohol and was playing a movie on his dashboard of his vehicle when the accident occurred.
West Des Moines police officer Jon Kaufman was waiting for a tow truck during a traffic stop near Westown Parkway on Interstate Highway 35 when a car driven by John Schwartz, 61, of Kellogg, crashed into his patrol vehicle, police said.
In addition to drinking and watching a movie, Schwartz admitted to crash investigators that he had the cruise control set and relied too much on vehicle lane assist technology, according to an Iowa State Patrol obtained incident report obtained Tuesday by the Des Moines Register.
A search warrant was obtained for blood and urine samples and charges are pending those results, said Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Alex Dinkla said.
Kaufman and Schwartz both suffered serious injuries and were hospitalized, according to police.
Kaufman’s condition had improved, West Des Moines police Sgt. Jason Bryan said Tuesday.
Schwartz is under investigation for drunken driving and distracted driving. Police did not provide an update to his condition Tuesday.
Source; MSN
Virginia doctor faces up to 465 years for fraud, performing unneeded surgeries
We may have talked about this guy when the story originally broke a while back. He was known at this hospital for doing orders of magnitude more hysterectomies than any other doctor.
The Justice Department said in a statement Monday that a federal jury convicted Javaid Perwaiz on 52 counts related to his defrauding of health insurance programs and falsely telling his patients they needed surgeries.
The Chesapeake doctor had pleaded not guilty. He could face up to 465 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled next March 31.
“Dr. Perwaiz preyed upon his trusting patients and committed horrible crimes to feed his greed,” said G. Zachary Terwilliger, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Federal prosecutors said last year that many of the procedures Perwaiz performed were unwanted and that 173 women had come forward since his arrest to report similar experiences, including repetitive surgeries they never asked for. Prosecutors said he performed the surgeries “for his own financial gain.”
Authorities said Perwaiz billed private and governmental insurers millions of dollars for irreversible hysterectomies and other procedures that were not medically necessary. Perwaiz sometimes would falsely tell his patients they needed the surgeries to avoid cancer, they said. He also billed insurers hundreds of thousands of dollars for diagnostic procedures he never performed, they added.
Prosecutors also said Perwaiz falsified the records of pregnant patients so he could induce their labor early, prior to the recommended gestational age that minimizes risk to the mother and baby, to ensure he would be reimbursed for the deliveries. Perwaiz also violated the 30-day waiting period Medicaid requires for elective sterilizations by submitting backdated forms, according to authorities.
Perwaiz’s lawyer, Lawrence Woodward Jr., had said last year that his client had received a flood of unsolicited emails from patients who described Perwaiz’s “fine qualities” and “how he helped them.”
In 1996, Perwaiz was sentenced by a federal judge to five years probation and ordered to pay more than $100,000 in fines and restitution after pleading guilty to two counts of tax fraud. Prosecutors dropped four other counts in exchange for a guilty plea in that case.
Source; Fox News
NYPD Officer Facing Federal Charges Of Conspiring To Import And Distribute Cocaine
An NYPD officer has been arrested and accused of conspiring to import and distribute cocaine.
Officer Amaury Abreu was supposed to be upholding the law while he worked at the 113th Precinct, but instead federal prosecutors say he was breaking it by allegedly helping a multinational drug operation import and distribute cocaine in New York, CBS2’s Hazel Sanchez reported Monday.
The feds say from January 2016 until October this year, 34-year-old Abreu, of Hauppauge, used his policing expertise to help a multinational drug ring stay one step ahead of the law.
While other alleged members of the operation distributed the cocaine after it arrived in New York, Abreu, while assigned to the 113th Precinct in Queens, allegedly provided them with law enforcement intel, including a head’s up on warrant checks involving members of the group.
Prosecutors say he was in regular contact with high-ranking members of the unidentified drug organization, even traveling to the Dominican Republic to meet with them.
In January 2016, Abreu allegedly reached out to the group’s leadership saying, “Today, I’m going to find out the thing I couldn’t yesterday because there were too many people at the office.”
Prosecutors say drug enforcement agents have seized more than 350 kilos of cocaine from the organization.
“By joining forces with his co-conspirators, Abreu has allegedly committed serious crimes, disgraced his NYPD badge and betrayed the public trust, as well as fellow members of law enforcement who put their lives on the line to interdict drugs that endanger our communities,” Acting U.S. Attorney Seth Ducharme said.
Added NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, “There is no place for corruption in the NYPD and it will always be prosecuted fully.”
Abreu, a nine-year veteran of the force, was arrested at his home on Monday morning and arraigned in the afternoon. He pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.
Three of his alleged co-conspirators are also under arrest.
Source; CBS New York
A 47-year-old woman impersonated an FBI agent to get free food at a Chick-fil-A in Georgia
A woman who pretended to be an FBI agent on multiple occasions was arrested for commanding free food from workers at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Georgia.
The woman, Kimberly George Ragsdale, is accused of going into a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Rockmart, Georgia, and telling workers that they would be detained if they didn’t give her free food, Rockmart Police Chief Randy Turner told the Polk County Standard Journal. After Ragsdale attempted the ruse numerous times, Chick-fil-A workers called the police on Thursday, the newspaper reported.
When officers arrived at the scene to arrest her, she was in the restaurant’s parking lot in a white van, according to a police report viewed by Insider.
When asked for identification, Ragsdale maintained her claim that she was an agent and told the officers she only had electronic credentials, according to the police report.
When police asked Ragsdale to get out of her van, she declined until a police sergeant warned that she “would be tased if she did not get out,” the report said. Ragsdale was arrested and handcuffed. As she was being taken into custody, the report said, Ragsdale “began to talking into her shirt,” pretending as though she was speaking into a hidden radio to tell someone she had been arrested.
“We are thankful for the observant and professional staff at CFA who knew what to do and gathered the info needed for us to make our case and catch her in the act,” Rockmart Police Chief Randy Turner told the Polk County Standard Journal.
According to the police report, the 47-year-old woman was charged with “impersonating a public officer or employee.”
Source; MSN
Once again, many thanks to the KoB for help in tracking down these idiots.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Crime, Guest Link, Stupid Criminals
For those of us with excellent reading comprehension skilz, this set of stories will show that (a) teh stoopid crosses all ethnic, career field, political affiliation, gender, and economic lines, and (b) that the editors/admins of TAH do not suppress or promote stories of any specific type.
This would be in contrary to what a certain unnamed spapos seagull would think. Speaking of which, Hey Dippy, before you falsely accuse our favorite Aeronautically Designated Naval Aviating Squiddly Swabbie (AW1Ed) of posting something that the Airedaled Wing Wiping Zoomie (Mason) actually posted up, read for comprehension thru the ENTIRE POST and see who might be the one that submitted the article for consideration in posting. I refere, of course to this comment:
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=107193#comment-3337822
And this one too:
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=107193#comment-3337825
And Mz Dumbass Thang that lied to get one of God’s Special Chicken Sammiches? Seems like He downloaded a rule against that whole lying thing on a coupla tablets to that Moses fellow.
Y’all mind the store/Firebase for a bit bit. I gots to run up the road to check on FOB Elizabeth and hit up the K Roger for some provisions. The TP and paper towel shortage never affected me, but this damn shortage/non resupply of critter food/treats is getting to be a hassle.
Crooked politicians should be publicly pilloried.. not figuratively, old school, locked in the stocks in the public square where the citizens can chuck rotten veggies at them.. Just as a start. Anyone in a position of power who abuses the public trust should end up in a shallow grave, after hanging by the neck until dead!
That definitely applies to the “cop” in the stories above as well (assuming of course that they are convicted in a fair trial, as they are after all, innocent until proven guilty)..Burn em all down if guilty!
It could be that Officer Abreu was simply working to develop alternative sources for funding the police department in response to the Defund the Police movement.
If drug crimes were to be decriminalized, then the police could be raise money by drug trafficking to provide funding. The police would have ample funding, and to protect their own sales they would of course have to wipe out the drug gangs, eliminating that most violent threat to society….
Dang, here I thought I was writing something satirical and it’s starting to make sense!!! The lockdown’s gettin’ to me… what’s wrong is right… I’m…I’m getting another bowl of oatmeal. F@#k it.
And of course, it becomes obvious that population made up primarily of addicts isn’t gonna work either….
Councilman Jeff Pastor isn’t the first Cincinnati council member to get arrested this year by the Feds, another was arrested earlier this year for also demanding bribes/payoffs for council votes. What do you expect from a city that elected Jerry Springer as its mayor, only to have him get arrested for trying to pay a hooker with a check, then REELECT him.
so in this article we have all of the memes covered….
greedy politico….check
greedy cop………check
greedy doc………check
Morons, one and all.
The politicos this article discusses are rank amateurs.
In a city close to me, (the largest city in the county,) members of the City Council were meeting at what was called “the Clubhouse.” There developers offered bribes and prostitutes to the Council members. One member was addicted to oxycodine, so people who wanted his vote kept him supplied. The Mayor was throwing city deals to his family members and demanded a prostitute in a trip to Tallahassee. The City Manager was accepting bribes from people. One such bribe was funded by the taxpayers. The CM arranged to have a small 1/10 of an acre that had been transferred to the city by a $10 warranty deed and was appraised at approximately $3900 was then transferred to another company for a warranty deed of $10 and then sold back to the City for $79,000. The CM got a cut of that money.
A citizen led petition drive whose language and signing requirements to be written and approved by the City Clerk was missing key information which meant the Supervisor of Elections would not verify the signatures. The Clerk, the City Attorney, and the Mayor lied to the petition group saying the petition was at the SOE’s office and they had no idea why it was not being validated. The petitions were sitting in City Hall and the time to get the item on the ballot passed.
A policy and procedure audit from the State looked at incidents over a 15 months period and found 39 critical and illegal transactions. That included an illegal “bonus” to a City Attorney that was paid for out of the City’s litigation fund.
There are so many FBI and FDLE agents in the town now that they are renting space in a building.
Like I said, rank amateurs.
If councilman Pastor were a demoRAT, he would have gotten away with it or it would have been as Curtis Sliwa used to say: hush hush mush mush.
Post on second city cop about a domestic violence call that involved fire & underwear…
Not SCW category. This wily convicted murderer had been on the lamb since 1971. The FBI finally caught up w/ him. Better late than never I guess.
https://www.wtae.com/article/fbi-announces-arrest-leonard-moses-michigan/34668051#
“Travelling pharmacist”? Is that a euphemism for drug dealer?
What I’d like to know is how the Chesapeake VA dirty doc (Perwais) kept his medical license for 25+ years after a felony conviction. I was under the impression that most professional licensing boards took a very dim view of felony convictions.
Hondo, I donno, could of been ’cause the “good doctor” had a special card he could play in his stacked deck. Maybe even, several, special cards.
It depends on the felony.
There are so many things that are felonies that are not egregious and don’t involve harm to a person or damage to property.
Most boards I know don’t like felonies that deal with crimes of “moral turpitude” which is a different animal than “paper felonies.”
Docs usually get a pass on tax crime convictions, but lawers usually get disbarred if the crime can be characterized as a crime of moral turpitude. One of my hated opponent attorneys was sentenced to the federal pound for four years for 23 counts of tax fraud and evasion, but it still took six years later for the State Bar to finally disbar him.
I don’t know, but A Chic-Fil-A spicy deluxe could be worth it…