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DEA Laundering Money for Drug Cartels

rjjrdq — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:32:31 +0000

More fuel for the fire on Thursday. As if shipping guns to Mexican cartels-and then lying about it, suing companies and school districts that refuse to succumb to sharia law, attacking states that dare to stand up to illegal immigration, dropping charges against baton wielding Black Panthers at a polling place, refusing to enforce civil rights laws when an injustice is committed against whites, and all the while calling Americans cowards, the Justice Department has once again showed either their buffoonish incompetence or their ideologically driven criminality. You decide.

Darrell Issa has his hands full as yet another tentacle of the corrupt Justice Department is exposed. This time it’s the DEA, a wing of the Justice Department, that is having its reputation soiled. As Fast and Furious was being ramped up by the Obama regime, at the same time, the DEA was embarking on an operation where where they let drug proceeds from the cartels walk into Mexico. The idea presumably, was to track where the money was going and how it got there. Sounding suspiciously like a program that went hand in hand with Fast and Furious, the fact that these operations were going on at the same time in the same country by the same Justice Department raises even more serious questions as to the competence-or criminality in the JD.

Even worse it the DEA contention that this operation is in collaboration with their corrupt Mexican counterparts.

The DEA said it had been working “collaboratively” with Mexico to fight money laundering “for years.”

Really? The cartels are growing by leaps and bounds, and it isn’t out of the realm of possibility that cartels could legally take control of Mexico in the next federal elections. They already own many cities-and even states by way of bribery and other means of imposing their will, so making an offer they can’t refuse to federal politicians-up to and including the president is not a conspiracy theory. For all we know, it may already be to a large extent.

While the DEA has had undercover operations in the past, this particular one is in Mexico, and started right around the time of Fast and Furious. Eric the coward Holder will have even more questions to answer Thursday, and if past hearings are any indicator, he’ll play stupider than he already is.

It’s a wonder Mexico hasn’t declared the actions of the United States acts of war. It certainly would be if anybody did that here. That brings up the question whether the cartels actually have taken over Mexico already. They have the money, they have the guns-all courtesy of the Obama regime.

We can expect more stonewalling from Eric Holder on Thursday, with the only consolation that they may drag this out so long that it will blow up in their face right around election time. We can hope.

Gunrunner Scandal Moves Beyond Phoenix

rjjrdq — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:23:40 +0000

I said a few days ago that Fast and Furious was getting uglier by the day. What do you know, it’s another day. What we initially believed about Project Gunrunner was bad enough, but it may be much bigger than we could have imagined.

The drug war rages unabated in Mexico. The latest blast of violence has left 40 persons dead, including 20 at one bar…in a span of 24 hours. In these cases, all of the deaths have been attributed to the drug war. From Monterrey to Mexico City, bodies litter the landscape, and the weapons used have gunrunner written all over it.

At least two men emerged from their vehicles and opened fire on the bar with AK-47s and AR-15s, Domene said.

And what kinds of weapons were being purchased by the straw buyers that the ATF allowed to walk into Mexico? That is correct, AK-47′s and AR-15′s.

Barack Obama continues to play stupid (which he does incredibly well), and Eric Holder plays stupid as well. His brand of stupidity is so convincing that I’m sold on it. He claims that he just heard of Project Gunrunner in recent weeks. Speeches he gave, and video evidence show that he knew about this scheme no later than 2009. That would make him a liar. Plenty of liars in the world, but in his case, he lied to Congress. That would put any one of us in prison, and as far as I know, Holder has no special immunity that would keep him from going to jail as well.

As if shipping thousands of guns to Mexico wasn’t a crime on an international scale by itself, new allegations are emerging that Project Gunrunner is bigger than we knew. The breaking news was that a single ATF office in Phoenix went rogue and their good intentioned operation to catch the bad guys went bad. Now we’re finding out that it wasn’t so good intentioned, and they didn’t catch any bad guys. And…It wasn’t just Phoenix. Apparently there is an operation out of Tampa, Fl. called Operation Castaway, where guns are being run down to Honduras in much the same fashion as they are being run down to Mexico. Darrell Issa and Chuck Grassley are aware of this information, and it must be sending chills down the spine of the Obama regime. A press release by A. Brian Albritton, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida confirms the operation. It isn’t speculation, it happened.

Is Holder going to deny knowledge of this too? He’s already been caught in one lie. Is Obama going to continue to play clueless? Probably. I’m a little impatient, and was wondering why Issa wasn’t making even more waves than he was. Not that I wasn’t happy with the job he was doing; I was just impatient. Now I know. Issa has this information and who knows what else. He may have already destroyed Eric Holder, but I’m thinking he has his eyes on a bigger fish.

To suggest that Barack Obama had absolutely no knowledge of these operations is either a flat out lie, or stunning incompetence. I don’t think there was any incompetence here. I think they knew exactly what they were doing. Destabilize everything South of the border, forcing millions of refugees (voters) into the United States while planting the pretext for gun control laws.

Still, it seems like an obscene plan for those ends. It seems as if they could have used much less violent means to attain their goals. Unless of course part of that goal was to create a permanent bogeyman, armed drug cartels that would require draconian laws to battle the scourge. But if that were the case, it would seem as if they could have done those things on this side of the border, and their scam would have been more effective. There has to be some other agenda.

I trust Issa will get to the bottom of it, unless the Republicans lose the house next year. At that point, this whole investigation dies. Elijah Cummings takes over for that committee, and he will cover for the Obama regime. Until then, Issa will be hard at work. I don’t know why John Boehner has been eerily silent on this issue, unless Issa told him to be quiet, I got this thing.

There’s a kind of ambivalence here. On the one hand, the bigger the better, and on the other hand, the bigger this is, the more nightmarish it is. It’s getting too big now. The media will have to take note at some point. The link to the story about the 40 murders didn’t even mention Fast and Furious. Nice going, AP. Bloggers won’t let it die though. The MSM will have to cover it sooner or later.

Fast and Furious Getting Uglier By The Day

rjjrdq — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:47:17 +0000

How this isn’t splattered across the front page of every paper in America is just more proof that the media is in the tank for the Obama regime. At the very least this was a case of bungling on a historical scale, and at worst, and act of war. If you believe the latter, you have to ask, war against who?

While the Justice Department continues with their foot dragging and lies regarding Fast and Furious, the guy chose to be thrown under the bus, acting director of the ATF Ken Melson, isn’t going under willingly. Just days before he was scheduled to testify before congress on the debacle, he snuck in for a talk with congressional investigators, and what he had to say goes beyond the ATF and the Justice Department. Melson confirmed what Darrell Issa had already suspected: The Justice Department is obstructing the investigation. What he had to say is being disseminated as we speak, but you can be sure it will be public soon.

What Melson had to say the other day is on top of what is already known. Apparently, the ATF, FBI and the DEA were all in on this scheme. In fact, the main target of the investigation was a deported drug dealer that is actually an FBI informant. So even if the ATF had actually nabbed this guy, he would have been back on the street within hours, courtesy of the FBI. The entire operation was a waste of time. The-apparently single individual the ATF coveted would never go to jail.

In the end, the ATF didn’t get anybody, and the cartels loaded up on arms that they will use for years to come. By some amazing stretch of logic, Democrats are crying for gun control laws, using this operation as justification for cracking down on Americans. It should be just the opposite. Since the Obama regime has armed the worst of the worst, Americans should be loading up on weapons in order to defend themselves.

That was never the plan. Obama and his minions want to disarm the United States, and didn’t expect to get caught running guns down to Mexico. If you think this is bad now, see what happens if Republicans lose control of the house. No more Darrell Issa, no more gunrunner investigation. You will have guys like Elijah Cummings checking it out, who thinks the Justice Department is doing just great.

Once amnesty passes there won’t be any need for these types of coverups. The left will have all the votes they need forever. That day is coming. Let’s hope it’s later rather than sooner. In the meantime, this particular group of anti-Americans need to go down hard.

Issa and Committee are Multi-tasking

rjjrdq — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:14:38 +0000

Not only is Darrell Issa doing a heck of job as chairman of the House Government oversight Committee, he’s doing it on multiple fronts. While Fast and Furious may be the single most damning investigation on the agenda, this is a big country and a bloated bureaucracy, so Issa has much work to do.

It looks like we may see the first (and hopefully not the last) casualty of the Fast and Furious debacle in the form of acting ATF head Ken Melson. If Issa has anything to say about it, he will just be the first in a line of culpability that could lead all the way to the White House. We know he has already pegged Eric Holder as a liar, and it remains to be seen if Barack Obama himself will eventually be called to testify. Even with no media traction, there are enough independent sources out there that could make the MSM latch on to the story against their will.

While that investigation takes shape, Issa is looking into other matters. We’ve all heard about how the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) went fangs out after Boeing for daring to build a new plant in South Carolina. It is a job creator, and actually a working definition of spreading the wealth. No, the union soaked Washington plant did not lose any workers. In fact, hiring is going on there as we speak. Not good enough for them, or the NLRB though. The NLRB is looking into whether Boeing built a plant in a right to work state as political retaliation for union strikes. Never mind that Boeing actually increased the workforce in Washington. The unions there want all the work, and they have the NLRB, which is loaded with Obama appointees as an ally.

Issa was grilling one of the NLRB goons in a hearing, and asked if indeed the board was overloaded with Obama appointees. The guy affirmed that, and then Issa asked if he served at the pleasure of the president, much like Janet Napolitano at DHS. Well, the guy disagreed with that-supposedly. He apparently wants us to believe that he can act independently of Barack Obama and still keep his job. Issa knew it was a lie as well, but forced the guy to say it under oath.

So while the NLRB spends our tax dollars going after Boeing, Issa is looking to see whether they have a legitimate gripe, or are serving at the pleasure of the president. You know what Issa thinks, and he isn’t going to let this go. He’s not a judge though, so he can’t actually stop the NLRB, but he can provide substantive information gleaned from the hearings that perhaps Boeing could use to defend itself.

The house committee is looking into the TARP failure, the stimulus debacle, the housing debacle, and more. Issa is a busy man. The only thing I worry about is he may stretch himself too thin. But with so much that needs to be done, I can understand Issa trying to get to all of it. I hope he works well, and I hope he works fast, because the way the political winds blow, not only in the country, but in California where Issa hails, you can be sure he won’t be there forever.

Democrats, the Rich Party

rjjrdq — Fri, 27 May 2011 08:47:48 +0000

Not the party of the rich, oh no, I mean they are the party of enriching themselves while America wades through a phony recovery. All the talk about the Republicans being in bed with big business like some kind of mob mentality actually turns out to be true-for the Democrats.

Don’t get me wrong. There are plenty of greasy hands on the Republican side, but it pales in comparison to the Democrats in Congress. A publication called Business and Politics published a study that shows that when it comes to big business, Republicans can’t hold a candle to the Dems. The report says that investments by congressional members, such as stocks and bonds, outperformed those of the average investor by 55 basis points per month. A basis point is 1/100 of a percent. Do the math. That’s over five percent every month. Republicans and Democrats both are in on the party, but the Dems are far more profitable.

Democrats beat the market by 73 basis points per month, compared to 18 for Republicans. That’s a rout anyway you look at it. Senators fare even better than house members.

Let me tell you, from someone who has invested for years, picking the right stock is a whole lot of investigating, and almost as much luck. I’ve had more of the former than the latter. 73 basis points is astounding. On a consistent basis, it seems almost impossible. In my opinion, it is impossible, unless…you’re privy to information that others don’t have. I have no proof of this, and either do the authors of the study, but the ability of congressional Democrats to pick winning stocks over and over again defies the laws of chance. Even worse, if you or I acted on insider information, we would suffer the same fate as Martha Stewart did a few years back. Apparently, those laws do not apply to Congress.

Strict laws ban corporate executives from trading on their insider knowledge, but no restrictions exist for members of Congress. Lawmakers are permitted to keep their holdings and trade shares on the market, as well as vote on legislation that could affect their portfolio values.

They must mean insider information gleaned through government channels. They can’t be immune from laws barring direct insider information, can they? Or can they? After all, the same Congress that is benefiting from these stock deals are the same ones that make the laws. They could be exempt. And unless you are familiar with jumbled legalese, they could point to thousands of pages of documents to bolster their case. That’s assuming you could even prove that they did act on insider information.

There’s nothing wrong with being rich. I aspire to that myself. But the monthly investment gains Congress enjoys means that they are cashing out when the tide is high. They come in low and cash out when the stock is high. No see-saw for Congress. I challenge anyone to pull that off consistently month to month. For the rest of us, we have to pick stocks that amounts to rolling the dice, or hope our 401k somehow shows some gains. Congress is bypassing that game of Russian Roulette.

The next time you hear a Democrat talking about the party of the rich now you’ll know that they’re referring to themselves.

Justice Department Gives Issa the Political Finger

rjjrdq — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:30:43 +0000

Again. The Obama regime is so corrupt, have put themselves so far above the law, have redefined the Constitution in such a way as to make it irrelevant and have done so much damage to this country that we may never recover that 2012 should be open and shut. So far, most Republicans haven’t taken advantage of the multitude of Obama missteps, any one of which could destroy him. That’s not the case with Darrel Issa though. He’s been exposing Obama for what he is for a while now, and he’s at it yet again.

Issa’s track record as a government watchdog is impressive. From his days of exposing ACORN-even before the infamous videos, to hammering away at the incredible waste of TARP funds, to Homeland Security’s FOIA scandal, Issa has been exposing fraud and corruption for a while. Not bad for a congressman from a state like California. Now he’s turned his sights on the Justice Department, and what comes from this ~~could~~ should take down the Obama regime once and for all.

Fast and Furious, an ATF operation that is facilitating gun running to Mexican cartels has been exposed. In short, the ATF-with orders straight from the Justice Department, are allowing purchases of high powered weapons in the United States to be taken to Mexico. The idea is that once these weapons are used in crimes, they can conceivably track who actually used them. You saw that right. The guns will actually have to be used in grisly crimes and later abandoned. Well, they already have two of those guns. They were used in the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. Oh, good, now they can track the serial number and see who bought the guns. You can’t make this up.

Issa is now demanding documents relating to Project Gunrunner from the ATF, but the agency is refusing to turn over anything. Issa has threatened contempt proceedings if he doesn’t get the documents. Not sure what that entails, but apparently, it isn’t frightening enough to get any documents. The response to Issa’s demands were from the Justice Department, not the ATF though.

But in an April 13 letter to Issa, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Welch cited the Justice Department’s policy not to disclose details about “ongoing criminal investigations” as a reason not to comply with the document demand.

The criminal investigation is not what they’re doing, it’s what the cartels are doing. In the eyes of the Justice Department, they aren’t committing any crime at all. They also have a little something they hope to use to shut the mouth of conservatives. Apparently, this program went into effect in 2005. That would make George Bush president at the time. Of course, we know that Bush did nothing but make the situation worse at the border, and now we see part of the reason why. The Bush administration was never questioned about this though. We can only speculate what their response would have been. My opinion? Impeachable offense then, impeachable now. In all fairness though, the Bush administration didn’t actually allow those guns to cross the border into Mexico. They were apparently tracking the purchasers and then nabbing them before they got away. Walking the guns into Mexico began in 2009-under Obama.

If or when this hits the front page-and it should already be on the front page, Obama’s latest pandering campaign to Latinos should go off the rails. He didn’t manage an amnesty bill, which he could have easily done up until November, and now the news that he’s facilitating the murder the Latinos across Mexico will not sit well with the voting illegal alien community. Yes they are. In the meantime, the United States government is engaging in what would be considered an act of war in any other circumstance. What else can you call it? We’re running guns down to the enemy. So far, I see Darrell Issa standing tall. Where are rest of the Republicans? Where are those so-called candidates that are clamoring for the White House? If this program really was started in 2005, I can understand why may Republicans many not be saying anything. Party politics. But as I stated earlier, it was illegal then. Anyone who has read this blog with any regularity knows that I have never been a fan of George Bush, so I certainly won’t be defending him over something like this.

It looks like the Justice Department is going to drag this thing out. Unfortunately for them, they have Darrell Issa to deal with. That’s his job Holder. He has no other function, and he won’t stop until the job is done.

Obama Trafficking Guns to Mexican Cartels

rjjrdq — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:29:49 +0000

There has been talk over the last few years of impeaching Barack Obama for various reasons. Most of that was from people unhappy with his policies, not necessarily from doing anything illegal. Now we have something concrete. Obama is a gun runner.

Anyone outside of the mainstream media knows what a sham border security is. The GAO has already detailed just how unsecure the border actually is with hard numbers. Obama rambles about his commitment to battling the drug cartels on the border. It’s a lie. Obama is actually assisting drug cartels in their bloody war. This is according to ATF federal agent John Dodson. A senior agent assigned to the Phoenix office, Dodson told CBS News that a program called Fast and Furious allowed cartels to purchase guns in the United States and take them down to Mexico to use in the drug war on the border. The idea was to track where the guns went so as to ostensibly build a case against particular cartels. The “tracking” being referred to was finding these weapons at crime scenes in Mexico-and in the United States They found a couple just recently.

When Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed by cartel thugs in Arizona, the only outrage on the part of the Obama regime was that it made the news. Already with their hands behind their backs, when Border agents confronted these thugs that night, they fired bean bags when the thugs refused to drop their weapons. Beanbags. The cartel thugs responded with AK-47′s, and now agent Terry is no more. It never had to happen.

According to Dodson, “They said, ‘Did you hear about the border patrol agent?’ And I said, ‘Yeah.’ And they said ‘Well it was one of the Fast and Furious guns.’ There’s not really much you can say after that.”

Two assault rifles ATF had let go nearly a year before were found at Terry’s murder.

According to agent Dodson, this program has approval all the way to the Justice Department. That’s right, Eric the coward has his hands all over this. If anyone is going to try and make the argument that Obama didn’t know about this…Border non-security, the SB 1070 lawsuit, the TSA gropings, the national security briefings to Muslim thugs-all of that comes from Barack Obama. It was Obama that got agent Terry killed, and it is Obama that is having Mexican citizens slaughtered as we speak. Fast and Furious.

As Mexican trucks are set to roll on U.S. soil, not only will they bringing in God knows what, but when they go, not only will they be taking union jobs with them, but the ATF will have a little something extra as well. Now that we actually need those union thugs, they’re too busy. Vote stuffing fraud Felipe Calderon doesn’t seem to care that Obama is facilitating the murder of his citizens though. Maybe he’s so busy playing pocket pool and celebrating the truck fiasco that he just hasn’t gotten the news yet.

If any of us so much as sold a Saturday Night Special to a cartel thug, we’d be looking at decades in prison. Obama is shipping assault weapons to them by the boxload. An impeachable offense? It is in my book, and if this doesn’t qualify as a crime against humanity, then there is no such thing.

Chuck Grassley is trying to get documents from the Justice Department on this matter. More than a dozen other agents are telling him the same story as Dodson. But like Darrell Issa with Homeland Security, he is being stonewalled. These documents mean impeachment for Obama, and possible jail time for Holder and Napolitano. They can’t hide forever though, and I’ll make sure this story doesn’t go away. Talk about high crimes. I think scum of the earth is an accurate assessment of these people.

SEC Hacks Rewarded for Incompetence

rjjrdq — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:08:33 +0000

The fraud perpetrated by Bernie Madoff cost investors at least $50 billion. His brazen ponzi scheme went on for years as the SEC concentrated on things like forcing companies to predict the effects of global warming on their companies in annual reports. They also let former Countrywide scum Angelo Mozilo walk away unscathed as the housing market imploded due to his significant input. In the end, a guy off the street was blowing the whistle so loudly that Madoff turned himself in. Still, there are those at the SEC that were rewarded handsomely for their incompetence.

A little known investment analyst named Harry Markopolos took a look at Bernie Madoff’s hedge fund and saw immediately that something wasn’t right. The incredible gains were just beyond reality. A few math calculations showed that indeed, they really were beyond reality. Markopolos voiced his concerns to the SEC several times, but they never took any action. Check that, the New York branch of the SEC looked into Madoff’s activities, and after 11 months found nothing and closed the case. Markopolos found something in five minutes. He was pretty detailed in what he suspected, but his pleas to the bumbling SEC fell on deaf ears.

Asked how many times he sent materials to the SEC, Markopolos told Kroft, “May 2000. October 2001. October, November, and December of 2005. Then again June 2007. And finally April 2008. So five separate SEC submissions.”

Markopolos even pointed out that major Wall Street firms had steered clear of investing with Madoff, who by outward appearances was doing much better than they were at playing the market. But they knew. Everyone in the investment world knew. The investors themselves had no clue though. And neither did the SEC, the agency the exists to weed out the potential Bernie Madoff’s of the world.

How bad was is it at the SEC? Madoff’s son-in-law worked there until just a few years ago. Oh yes. There were several others in a position to easily expose Madoff and put an end to his scheme before he wiped out so many investors. They did nothing. How about Linda Thomsen, a 14-year hack and director of enforcement? She landed a gig with the international law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, with the kind of job that pays seven figure salaries. Not sure what they saw in her, but we can speculate.

There are six other lawyers that have left the SEC and now have jobs with law firms that pay them millions. Could you have received that kind of reward at your job for the level of incompetence they displayed?

Then again, maybe they were quite competent. After all, not everybody lost out on Madoff’s scheme. There are those that cashed out before it all hit the fan, and had the SEC brought the hammer down when they should have, those that cashed out would never have reaped their millions. I’m not accusing those of cashing out of having any knowledge of Madoff’s fraud, nor am I accusing these lawyers at the SEC. Might be interesting to start matching up the names of the investors who cashed out early with these firms the SEC hacks now work for. Nobody bothered with the Madoff case, so you can’t expect the SEC to take a look at these lawyers or the firms that now line their pockets.

It’s convoluted all right. That’s the idea. The average person off the street would have no idea. That’s what Madoff counted on. The SEC on the other hand, has an abundance of resources in which to deal with these kinds of fraud. As Harry Markopolos on 60 Minutes lamented, All they had to do is pick up the phone. Ultimately, they did pick up the phone. The calls were to the highest paying employers they could find. You wonder what happened to this economy? I just shined a little light on a few of the cockroaches entrusted with keeping Wall Street on the straight and narrow. In theory, they should keep Wall Street in line. They have no other function. In reality, they’re practically useless. Makes you wonder what else they let slip by them.

ACORN Reincarnates in New York

rjjrdq — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:42:49 +0000

The Rosemary’s Baby of community organizers is back, but in reality, they never went away. They just needed a little makeover, and what better place to do that than in a bastion of liberalism like New York.

The criminals formerly known as ACORN, exposed for the prurient, race baiting, economy bashing scum that they are, were forced to disband as we knew them when the fraud, the connivery, and the race based politics that defined them finally came to a head. Dubious election results, and just as dubious voter registrations defined ACORN for even the most casual observer. Stories were popping up around the country on ACORN’s election rigging activities. Isolated incidents we were told. Darrell Issa exposed them officially with a scathing report that showed that not only were ACORN’s activities not isolated, but they were part of a much larger network of crime worthy of prosecution under the RICO statute. The voter fraud angle turned out to be just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. It led to government defunding for the criminal enterprise, but not until James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles went undercover and physically showed America the glue that held ACORN together. An activist judge rewrote American law and restored that funding, but they had become a pariah by then to all but the hardest left, and the name had become political poison.

Unfortunately, Eric the coward refused to pursue an open and shut case on a mammoth criminal enterprise, and as a result, the thugs that were formerly known as ACORN have just morphed into something else. New York Communities for Change, a New York based community organization has taken over where ACORN left off-at least in New York. Don’t be fooled by the name. The NYCC has some of the same board members that sat at ACORN, and they in fact are using ACORN’s old offices and information resources that somehow were left behind.

Those resources were never left behind. This is still ACORN, and the names, and the contacts, and the money sources are all still on the table. What ACORN is hoping for is that they can once again funnel American tax dollars into their coffers like the old days. A tough sell with the old name, but now they may be slipped into some bill without notice. Until then, they’re getting infusions of cash from various unions in the city. $300,000 last year, and they expect the number to rise this year. Just a pittance from what ACORN is used to, but still, no small potatoes. I think it’s safe to say that the NYCC is not the only ACORN spawn operating in American cities. This particular incarnation just happened to be exposed.

There’s no need to retread the machinations of ACORN. A simple internet search-or even a search of this blog will give you all the information your stomach can handle. Not that I need to, I’m sure he’s aware, but I think I’ll drop Issa a line anyway. He’s a busy man, and I want to make sure he heard about this. I’ll let him decide what to do about it. In the meantime, I’ll make sure the clowns at ACORN are not forgotten.

Democrats Sending Stimulus Money to China

rjjrdq — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:20:00 +0000

We’ve all heard the horror stories of how the stimulus money was either wasted or has gone unspent, but this is a story of how it is being stolen, and the crooks go all the way to the White House.

As Harry Reid fought for his political life in last month’s Senatorial fight with Sharron Angle, he promised to bring 1000 jobs to Nevada in the form of a wind farm, that would be built by a Chinese company. It sounded too good to be true: A Chinese company actually bringing jobs to the United States. As it turns out, it was too good to be true This gets messy, stay with me here.

A company called A-Power Energy Generation Systems, a small Chinese company is bidding for $450 million of stimulus money to build a wind farm in Texas.They are seeking even more in loan guarantees from the Department of Energy. This invoked the ire of some in Congress, such as Chuck Schumer, who was outraged that stimulus dollars would potentially be used to create jobs in China. Yes, the Texas wind farm project would have the wind turbines built in China, creating an estimated 2800 jobs. The project would create about 40 in the United States. Yes. 40 jobs. How does this small Chinese company, that hasn’t built anything of note ever, come within arms reach of $450 million of stimulus funds? In fact, their website had faked pictures of turbines being sent to the U.S. It never happened. How does what appears to be a possible shell company come so close to this money? They turned to the Democrats.

A group of powerful, behind the scenes Democratic operatives are behind the scheme, and they stand to make millions off the deal. Cappy McGarr, who could be described as the George Soros of Texas is one of them. There is also Ted Cunningham, a former executive for several companies in China in recent years, and a 2002 Democratic candidate for Senator. He also happened to be on Barack Obama’s national finance committee. There are also a few lobbyists in on it. G. John O’Hanlon, a former lap dog for former DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe, and Moses Boyd, a former Dem staffer, and current lobbyist. These clowns gave a ton of money to Obama in 2008, and it looks like they will be rewarded for the effort.

McGarr has visited the White House numerous times since Obama took office, but administration officials are refusing to say what was discussed. We’ll just use our imagination. We know that McGarr met with Pete Rouse, the acting Chief of Staff since Rahm Emanuel left. We know he went that far.

What’s in it for these guys? How about a $245 million developers fee. If they can twist arms in Washington and cut the deal, they stand to make a fortune. A-Power estimates the deal will end up being worth $2 billion in the end, so the $245m is a small price to pay. It will end up giving these guys a 51 percent stake in the wind farm, but they won’t have to actually invest anything but their time and lobbying skills. It is us that will come up with the money.

So what about that factory in Nevada? A-Power has no details. There is no plan on where to build it, and even where to sell the turbines if indeed they are actually build there. After all, that factory would be competing with the same Chinese company that is using slave labor to build turbines in China. It was good enough for Harry Reid though, and he heartily endorsed the deal. Sure he did; these guys lined his campaign coffers and may have put him over the top last month.

Check the link for details. It’s messy, and there are certainly more details that are not public knowledge. This is money that is being not only stolen, but shipped off to bolster the Chinese economy at the same time. Of course, we know that really, there are only a few that will actually benefit, but at the same time we know that none of the money will benefit the United States. We are being ripped off, and those that are handing out the money are in on it.