Boss Tweed Would Be So Proud
This story comes to us from the Buffalo Chronicle.
It seems that a Philadelphia mobster named “Skinny Joey” Merlino has a story to tell us. Remember The Mob? Think they’re gone? Not so fast there, kids: this article says they’re not only still here (surprise, surprise!), but they’re also involved in politics. This is so very LBJ in the 1950s and 1960s in Texas….!
From the article: The innermost circles of the American mafia are abuzz. The Boss of the Philly mob — ‘Skinny Joey’ Merlino — is taking a victory strut, hobnobbing around the highest echelons of old-time mafia folk, mostly in Florida, describing what may have been the heist of the century: the 2020 presidential election.
The feat is drawing praise from far-flung corners of the Italian American business community, which sees the thanks of a grateful administration as key to the revival of the community’s political influence.
But an associate says that Merlino might just be willing to flip on Joe Biden and the Pennsylvania political operatives who ordered up some 300,000 election ballots marked for Biden. The source alleges that Merlino and a lean team of associates manufactured those ballots at a rate of $10 per ballot — a whopping $3 million for three days of work. They were then packaged into non-descript cardboard boxes and dropped off outside the Philadelphia Convention Center. – article
Anyone surprised by this?
Nah…. Me, neither!
Get a big cuppa coffee and a snack, and read the entire article. It’s a hoot!
I would not mind having Skinny Joey on my side if I needed someone like that. He knows how to organize crime pretty well.
Category: 2020 Election, America, None
Penssylvania State Supreme Court: “Um, er, nothing to see here. Case dismissed.”
It goes without saying that this asshole has a pocket full of judges.
Remember the “Untouchables” within the FBI, so-called because they were above corruption?? How far we’ve fallen…
I don’t think that organization has ever lived up to that claim. Just because the G-men weren’t on Capone’s payroll doesn’t mean they weren’t on anybody else’s.
https://youtu.be/CsfIfkPVQGQ
Don’t mean to be “that guy”, but Ness and his Untouchables were Prohibition Agents. That agency, after the 21st Amendment, morphed into the ATF.
That’s true! If a guy named Miller(If memory serves) had shown up to Federal court to fight his short barreled shotgun case(Since they hadn’t been able to gig him with bootlegging) the NFA of 34 would have been thrown out.
The judges were ready to do it when the guy didn’t show and Treasury won on default.
Had to come up with makework for all of those Treasury agents after Prohibition ended.
It’s okay to be ‘that guy’ when the information is so crucial and so largely unknown or misunderstood. Kudos!
Never seen again.
Hm.
The Miller case was cherry-picked by the FDR administration.
Miller was a career criminal. He had just testified against the rest of his “gang” in a bank robbery case at the time of his original trial on charges under the NFA (before the case was accepted by the SCOTUS). If released from custody, Miller would be forced to go into hiding after testifying against his former “colleagues” to avoid being offed.
The judge in Miller’s original trial, Heartsill Ragon, was in favor of the NFA; Ragon knew all of this. Therefore, Ragon deliberately ruled the pertinent parts of the NFA unconstitutional and ordered charges dismissed, freeing Miller. He did this in order to expedite getting the case in front the SCOTUS to “test” the National Firearms Act.
His plan worked. The government appealed the case directly to the SCOTUS – and the SCOTUS accepted it.
Not surprisingly, Miller failed to appear in any court after being released. He also failed to hire and/or pay a lawyer for his SCOTUS appeal. His appeal thus ended up before the SCOTUS with Miller having no legal representation during oral arguments. Unsurprisingly, the SCOTUS upheld the NFA.
Miller was found shot dead in Apr 1939, about a month before the SCOTUS decision. Who shot him is unknown, but his former criminal colleagues are considered likely suspects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Miller
An NFA firearm owner told me about it almost 30 years ago.
He was an some kind of attorney I think, but didn’t mention words like ‘career criminal’ or ‘bank robber.’
Frankly, I’d forgotten about it having never been an NFA owner. I met the guy one day at a range I went to back then.
Wikipedia page on it?
And here I thought it was some kind of arcane esoteric gun-guy story!
He made it sound like the guy was just some backwoods once in awhile bootlegger that they couldn’t nail for that.
I guess I need to try to get out more.
Good points all, while they were beyond “corruption” they definitely had no problem enforcing unconstitutional laws (though I guess you could argue that an amendment, no matter how misguided, is Constitutional, having gone through the process)
James Comey’s ended that, alright…
Too bad they can’t ask JFK how that whole mob connection thing worked out…or maybe Jack Ruby.
I repeat, if this past election is allowed to stand, then we will never see a true, fair election in this country again. Follow the money.
Really, it’s just another crooked election. Been going on for decades. Mayor Daley and his Cook County machine, Tammany Hall, LBJ. It’s nothing new. Doubt we’ll ever see it change.
Add Detroit and Wayne County to that list, Mason. The dems have been in control of Detroit city government since January 2, 1962. They must be doing great things for the citizens of Detroit, they keep getting elected./s
Wayne County? Everyone in elected office is a demorat, except one county commissioner. Again, they must be doing a great job.
Nothing an armor piercing round from a Barrett .50 to the cranium could not fix. Permanently.
Yes, but how many people have taken that shot from two miles away before? On a boat?
Maybe if you have one of those new fangled electronic scopes, where it does all the calculations for you…plus you can stream the shot! Blame it on Al Qaeda!
I’m sure someone who is good at computer games could do it.
I prefer Boss Shannon Tweed.
“We have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
– Joe Biden
I really don’t know why that quote isn’t used by every GOP member doing an interview on the election.
Because he simply misspoke? And the rest of the context makes it clear? And despite offering $1M for proof of voter fraud, Dan Patrick hasn’t uncovered evidence yet? And most of the allegations have already been dismissed? And some of the dead people who supposedly voted have turned up very much alive? And the Trump team keeps losing cases relating to the election?
I get it, it’s tough to accept Trump lost. But he did. And there’s no evidence of a surge in voter fraud in favor of Biden.
Do me a favor LC, since prior I said you at least were a decent counterpoint to the board because you generally engaged and avoided hyperbole as often as Lars did.
Tell me what the odds of every single computer ‘glitch’ swinging to one side. Every single weird spike in votes going 100% to one side and odd voter turnout numbers in only key areas and 140k+ votes not just for one candidate, but only that candidate and all at the same time. In an area that more Trump voters had requested mail in ballots to boot. Even if there turns out to be no corruption, it looks about as shady as you’re going to get.
I’ll happily give you my take on that, but can you point me towards the evidence? I’m not familiar with those claims.
I do tend to agree that if 140K out of 140K ballots all went to one candidate, you could reasonably say that’s suspicious as all hell, but I’m inclined to think that it is (pardon the use of the expression) ‘fake news’. For example, the claims about Dominion Voting Systems switching votes, or deleting them, have been spread far and wide on numerous sites… but even Trump’s own DHS says that’s not true:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/14/fact-check-dominion-voting-machines-didnt-delete-switch-votes/6282157002/
It’s also just surreal to me to think the Democrats would cheat… but only to remove Trump, not take the Senate. I’m not saying it’s crazy that the Democrats would cheat, period, but to do so in such an inept manner requires one to believe they’re both incredibly smart -able to do this, with nobody leaking, and get it past the courts and even Republican Secretary of States, like in GA- but also so fucking stupid as to not, say, win squeakers in the Senate that would give them the majority. They’re all on the same ballot.
And you can see what happened in the data on places like Colorado, where Sen. Cory Gardner (R) got more votes then Trump — indicating there was, quite simply, Republicans voting against Trump, despite going R down the ticket.
But again, share some evidence of what you state, and I’ll happily give you may take on it.
When that many “errors'” all go one way, it is fraud. You can dismiss that all you want, but that is how statistics work.
This wasn’t a little error. This was massive fraud.
Error follows normal distribution. Fraud doesn’t.
And you know it.
Which ‘errors’ are all going one way? If you have proof, Dan Patrick has up to $1M for people who do, though to be fair I think it’s only in $25K chunks.
And your knowledge of stats is a little rusty – random error tends to follow the distribution of what you’re sampling. In lots of natural things, that’s a normal distribution. In voting, it isn’t. Ballot bias error in heavily-red Arkansas will have a different distribution than it will in heavily-blue DC. That should be intuitive, no?
Be as willfully ignorant as you prefer. Doesnt change reality.
Right. You can’t provide any evidence. You can’t explain why nobody is claiming the money for doing so. You can’t explain why the Democrats ‘stole’ the Presidency, but failed to steal the Senate, despite being on the same ballot. You can’t explain why Trump’s lawyers aren’t even claiming fraud in their court cases. But I’m the willfully ignorant one.
At first your denial was slightly understandable at the emotional level. But then it got laughable. And now it’s gone all the way to being just sad. It’s like the personal equivalent of expecting to stay at the Four Seasons hotel, and finding yourself on a cot outside Four Seasons Total Landscaping…
As another example of disinformation, here’s an article about claims that the US military raided the German offices of Scytl, another voting company, revealing results that Trump won the EC by a landslide.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-election-syctl-military/fact-check-the-us-military-has-not-seized-election-servers-in-germany-idUSKBN27W1UW
But Scytl doesn’t even have offices in Germany. It’s disinformation, and easily falsifiable, thankfully, but still people fall for it.
Unfortunately I still can’t post links, shame. I had a nice post written up. Go hit up Tatum Report and canvas his website, he usually sites his sources well enough.
Incidentally, site admins. Any reasons I can’t post links to news sites or youtube? Didn’t used to have a problem years ago.
I’ll e-mail you so we don’t fill up the comments here.
https://directorblue.blogspot.com/2020/11/dna-level-statistical-proof-smartmatic.html?m=1
I wonder if this is disinformation. Not really. This is just a piece. The Dems cheated ugly because they are desparate. The info is out there if someone really wants to look.
I doubt that’s disinformation, in that disinformation is defined as being intentionally misleading, but it is incorrect. Well-intentioned, probably, and announced with terms like ‘DNA-level’ and ‘statistical proof’ that covey a sense of authority that isn’t born out by the reality. The biggest ‘missing variable’ is the obvious one – in Pennsylvania, mail-in votes weren’t allowed to be processed until Election Day. It is literally one of only four states with this rule, with Wisconsin being another. Why does that matter? Well, quite simple, really – per PA’s own website, mail-in ballots went for Biden at just over 77%. Source: https://www.electionreturns.pa.gov Now, that’s not just the dastardly liberals in Philly showing this, but even in bright red Bedford Country, which Trump won 83.5% to Biden’s meager 15.8%, the mail-in ballots broke a much-closer 54.2% Trump vs. Biden’s 44.7%. Remember, these votes get counted later than the in-person votes – in other words, a late spike for Biden, in the reddest county in all of PA, no less. Conspiracy? Or the magic of the GOP refusing to allow mail-in votes to be counted upon receipt? The latter seems far more likely, since this story echoes across every county. Second, even the scary-sounding 6K ‘drops’ he talks about aren’t accurate – they’re an artifact of how he’s calculating things. For example, at line #446 in the spreadsheet -corresponding to timestamp “11/06/2020 01:50 (Zulu)”, he shows a net change of 6520 votes. Easy enough, right? Except go into the JSON itself, and you’ll see that difference between that timestamp (6,579,145 votes) and the previous one (6,571,671 votes) is 7474 votes. Going a bit further, he shows for that same time Trump’s vote counts going down, which would indeed be a scandal! Except that, too, is an artifact of how he’s calculating things – the feed gives percentages with a single digit of extra precision, so in the transition in that step, Trump’s share of the total votes goes from 49.8 to 49.7% – or, specifically, 49.8% of 6,571,671 votes, then 49.7% of 6,579,145 votes. Multiply that out, and it’ll look like Trump lost… Read more »
I just looked at his page, but searching for ‘fraud’ or ‘voter’ only showed one link to a video of Ted Cruz slamming Jack Dorsey from Twitter about censoring discussion of it.
If you find other links (and can now post them), though, I’m happy to look.
Oh, now we care about context?
The left and the MSM (I repeat myself) have been mis-quoting, quite intentionally, Trump for YEARS.
I’m not the left nor the MSM – I can, and do, care about context. And I’m inclined to think that if one were to pillory the MSM and the left for failing to accurately provide context, then it’s probably best to adhere to a higher standard.
Unless when speaking of our loathing of the MSM and the left, we’re to add 11B-Mailclerk to the list. In which case I’m fully on board, of course.
By the way LC, Biden ain’t president. He didn’t win. He has not got the legal electoral college votes to win, nor at this point does Trump. And even after the election fraud the socialist dems attempted, the state legislatures of several of the contested states are republican controlled, and they control who gets to be electors. So the republicans can steal the election back very easily by appointing electors who go with Trump, you know, like the LEGAL voters of their states did?
There’s been no credible allegations of illegal votes in any capacity that would change the outcome of the election. If you can prove otherwise, again, go claim that money that Dan Patrick is offering and get your ticket to the White House to see Trump and celebrate his second term.
Otherwise, Biden will be President after being sworn in on January 20th. If you think that’s not gonna happen, what sort of bet would you like to make?
You’re being willfully obtuse. There is a ton of evidence for election fraud and it will come out in court going forward.
The GOP has an affidavit from a former Venezuelan military officer who present when Chavez ordered the creation of the Smartmatic system. When they changed votes, they did exactly what happened the night of 3 Nov when counting was halted and when the system was brought back up, the changes had been made.
Don’t piss on people’s backs and tell them it’s raining.
You’re being willfully obtuse. There is a ton of evidence for election fraud and it will come out in court going forward. Which court cases would that be? The ‘Sharpie’ one in Arizona? That was dismissed [1], and even the plaintiffs -the Trump team- insisted it wasn’t about fraud. There was a follow-up case, where none of the plaintiffs suggested any fraud either, but rather that election officials improperly pressed buttons for them. This was also the case where the Trump team said they had video from inside a polling error, … but that would be illegal, so you know, they changed their tune. And then dropped the case. [2] Or maybe you mean the Georgia case to limit counting mail-in ballots? Dismissed. [3]. Or maybe you meant one of the five or so in Michigan that were denied or dismissed? I’m gonna stop leaving references, because we get filtered after three or four links, but if you need them, I’m happy to provide them. Or, hey, maybe you meant Texas, where those evil liberals were allowed to drop ballots off from their car?! Well, that was dismissed too. Or, you know, Pennsylvania has been in the news a lot. Maybe you didn’t mean the several cases already dismissed or denied, but were rather talking about Trump’s personal lawyer showing up yesterday to argue, and not understanding basic legal terms, and going on a rant having nothing to do with the case in question? We don’t have results of that case yet, and probably won’t until at least Tuesday, but if that’s where you’re expecting massive fraud to be revealed, be advised the whole case centers on two voters who are complaining that other counties -not their own!- gave people a chance to correct erroneous ballots, whereas their county did not, and that’s somehow unfair. That doesn’t exactly sound like an earth-shaking revelation of fraud, but hey, keep those hopes up, I guess. The GOP has an affidavit from a former Venezuelan military officer who present when Chavez ordered the creation of the Smartmatic system. When they changed votes, they… Read more »
No, actually the context makes it very clear that the senile old fook meant just what he said. And as the various criminal investigations progress, it has become clear that it was the truth.
You, uh, clearly haven’t seen the context then.
As for investigations of Biden, hell, if he’s dirty, great. Arrest the asshole. But neither you nor, more importantly, Trump’s legal team, have shown any evidence of mass voter fraud on the scale necessary to swing the election. My guess is, much like all the many investigations into Clinton, there’ll be zero charges against Biden.
Even by your own logic, if he’s a senile fool, how’d he mastermind a country-wide ‘voter fraud’ organization?
Good grief.
Ukraine doesn’t have a felony charge against Joementia either, it is hilarious as I read this LC tool’s comments . Nothing is good or the truth unless she says so? And wow can she throw out some word salad. I think she is a Giglio’d LEO riding the front desk somewhere. Leadership put her there til she retires and gave her a rubber duck to carry.
The evidence was found on two, count them two, Hunter Biden laptops, and the FBI tried to suppress the evidence since January of this year by hiding them. Biden does what he hears in his earwig, because he ain’t in charge of nothing. He will never be the president, just a figurehead perhaps. Cameltoe Harris will be.
To the best of my knowledge, that evidence, if provenance bears it out, shows that Hunter Biden did some shady things -no disagreement there!- and that there’s allegations that he set ten percent aside for ‘the big guy’. But zero hard evidence that that is Joe Biden.
Hunter Biden is an absolute train-wreck, or at least was in the recent past, and I tend to be skeptical of some miraculous redemption on his part. But what evidence implicates Joe Biden? And where’s the corroboration via financial audits? A paper trail? Something?
If he’s guilty, again, that’s fine with me. But there’s gotta be compelling, corroborated evidence.
A helpful tip for everyone.
The Philly Voice has a very good reputation on local Philly stories.
The Buffalo Chronicle, on the other hand, is largely criticized by both the USA and Canada for it’s less than stellar history of rightwingnuttiness getting in the way of simple facts and truth.
TODAY’S Philly Voice story about this 3 day old Buffalo article should square this away.
How can Skinny Joey be strutting around,
when he and his lawyer are saying it never happened?
Headline – Reputed mob boss Joey Merlino roped into bizarre Philly election fraud conspiracy
Subline – Attorney for former Philly mafioso categorically denies bogus story
https://www.phillyvoice.com/joey-merlino-philadelphia-mob-trump-biden-election-fraud-lawsuits-2020/
WHO is the author of the November 14 Buffalo Chronicle story?
WHY is any story worth believing put out without an author attribution?
The author is listed on the November 17 Philly Voice story.
Of course his lawyer denies the story. Would he admit it? Not unless he wanted to not wake up dead next to his wife.
That’s as dumb as the real crime shows where the reporter asks the accused murderer, “Did you murder your wife/business partner/mistress/neighbor”? Is he going to admit it because he’s on TV?
UpNorth,
Here’s more about the Buffalo Chronicle.
Buffalo Shit, which Canadians “up north” know all about.
I’ll go with the multiple Philadelphia sources,
who have a history of getting it right with mafia stories.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumpworlds-insane-new-claim-mafia-rigged-the-vote-for-joe-biden
When someone as demonstrably corrupt as Biden, with a track record of boasting of it (Ukraine prosecutor fired), blerts out another boast
“We have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” – Joe Biden
Believe it.
-he- does.
He “misspoke.” The ol’ Freudian slip.
Weird, huh?
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/15000-people-voted-in-nevada-and-another-state/
“I’ve made up my mind, please don’t confuse me with facts!”
Rudy Gulianni and Sidney Powell are live on Fox News, doing a -huge- evidence dump on election fraud.
You may recall I predicted 200% turnout. That was exceeded. They said some locations were 300%. Some exceeded population total.
Stolen. Massively fraudulent. Major foreign involvement.
Let’s see the data. I only caught a few minutes, but I seemed to hear they mentioned Wayne County, MI – so I pulled up their data, and see zero counties over 100%. The highest was 87%, but the absentee voter counts for Detroit (which had low in-person voting, with a median value of ~14.65% across 503 precincts) are added up differently, across 134 different AVCB (Absentee Voting Counting Boards), and it’s not clear how those map to precincts, thus it’s hard to check Detroit. So hey, keep that hope alive.
I put the data in a spreadsheet since it’s a 105-page PDF, but here’s the original if you want it:
https://www.waynecounty.com/documents/clerk/nov20_votestats.pdf
All Rudy needs to do is release his data publicly, and we can all check. But he always seems to gloss over minor details like ‘proof’, and instead focuses on ranting, complaining about ‘friendly judges’, ‘the media’, and other boogeymen.
If you heard actual proof, I’m all ears.
Several of the contentious states had voter numbers reported several hundred thousand greater than the registered voters in those states. That would indicate something fishy to me.
Where? Where are the sources for this? Is it that hard to provide them?
I’m all for the prosecution of voter fraud, and would love to see it, but all I ever hear is hand-wavy, “Oh, some states / counties / whatever had massive fraud…”, and nobody can ever point to the data.
You’re absolutely correct that if voter turnout is much greater than registered voters, that’s a damn good sign of something fishy. So far, there’s no evidence of that.
There is lots of evidence and smart attorneys only produce that in the court room. Attorneys are mostly wasting their time to argue a case in the media, unless you are a BLM activist, crackhead rapist in Kenosha or a dangerous felon in MSP. I am frustrated that Trump Campaigns legal team will not share everything but I understand their reluctance. Also by not releasing everything gives them an advantage.
They’ve filed plenty of cases already … and many of them have already been dismissed for lack of evidence. The latest example of how blatantly idiotic their efforts are is they confused MI (Michigan) and MN (Minnesota) in their actual court filings.
For example, here’s the Ramsland Affidavit, filed by the President’s team, alleging voter fraud, and it lists details. The very first instance, on page 11, is Benville Township, Michigan, showing a whopping 350% turnout. Well, holy fuck! That would indeed be a problem, right?
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.283580/gov.uscourts.gand.283580.7.1_2.pdf
Except it seems someone screwed up bad – as Benville Township isn’t in Michigan (MI), it’s in Minnesota (MN). And, oh, it gets worse. We don’t have official 2020 results yet, but the unofficial ones show that Benville went 75% for
Trump, 47 votes to 16, for a grand total of 63 votes:
https://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/results/Index?ErsElectionId=136&CountyId=4&DistrictId=&Scenario=Precincts&selectprecincts=1589974&show=Show+Selected+Precincts
And in 2016, it went 70% Trump (33 votes), 19% Clinton (9 votes), and the rest 3rd-party (5 votes), for a total of 47 votes.
https://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/results/Index?ErsElectionId=100&CountyId=4&DistrictId=&Scenario=Precincts&selectprecincts=886475&show=Show+Selected+Precincts
So even if we ignore that minor little problem that they got the god damn state wrong, where is the 350% coming from? If they suddenly showed, say, 200 voters in a town of 80-90 people, sure, there’d be a point. But they don’t. The show 63 votes, period.
That’s actual data and actual court filings. And I just picked the very first of several examples. This, like most of the other cases, is going to be laughed out of court, and this flailing, whining and idiocy from the Trump team is just flat-out embarrassing.
Nope , wrong. As usual but don’t let that stop you from running your suck hole. All of these dismissed cases brought before these courts have NOT been the Trump campaign. It is real easy to find out who the plaintiffs and defendants are. Public access to court records could make you look real smart, but nope. You prefer to be the tool in the room with dog shit on their shoes wondering why no one sitting next to them. I didn’t read past this comment in your post because you are so wrong.
Well, those noted liberals at National Review (and Powerline) would argue with you. Just because Trump himself hasn’t shown up in court to argue them doesn’t mean they’re not related. Here’s the link and relevant section of NR’s own article about this:
Source: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/an-embarrassing-error-by-trumps-legal-team/
Now, in case you don’t know who Lin Wood is, here he is with some nobody:
Hell, even Tucker Carlson is saying it’s looking bad that they’re not releasing evidence:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-rudy-giuliani-sidney-powell-election-fraud
Let me guess, in addition to believing that aaaany day, there’s going to be a massive dump of never-before-seen evidence of fraud that they’re holding on to rather than providing to the many on-going court battles, you also think Santa Claus is going to drop down your chimney and deliver presents in a few weeks?
Except that Tucker is either ill informed or lying. It is entirely possible that someone on his staff simply failed to give him the affidavit that was forwarded to him. It is also possible that he doesn’t know that the affidavit sent to him IS evidence. Or he is simply lying about it, which just doesn’t seem all that likely to me. Ignorance of what he should have known seems much more likely. But that’s just one opinion.
Can’t wait for Santa’s presents. PACER is a much better source then the National Review but I will say, Mrs LC, the GIGLIO beast, Mrs Rubber Duck, I concede. You are absolutely correct thanks for sharing your brilliance with me, I truly don’t deserve your academic and legal mind.