I know there is no #coloredrevolution they can conjure up to stop the heavens from falling, even if BiBi had all the recordings of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski.
He has not once, ever, ever, ever, spoken upon that forebodden term called fraud, or anything connected to the industry of trafficking tiny humans or the children's trusts.
You would think he could at least give a recent photo.
Vivek Sankaran is director of the Child Advocacy Law
Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the
University Michigan Law School
Each fall, students in the University of Michigan Law School’s Child Welfare Appellate Clinic represent parents in termination of parental rights (TPR) appeals. We don’t cherry pick our cases for ones we’re likely to win.
Dude. Seriously. Tell us how many Termination of Parental Rights cases you have won in relation to the number of cases giving to you. The only reason I want to know is to find out how much in false claims were generated during the time in privatized custody.
Instead, at the end of July, we call up local courts and ask them to send us TPR cases in need of an appellate lawyer. We accept the first six we get. Then our students scrutinize the record, draft briefs and deliver oral arguments at the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Oh, Precious, do you just like not know about the Title IV-A Poverty Means Test criteria for eligibility of foster care funding which means that the parents cannot afford an attorney? No money; No justice.
Despite the randomness of our case assignments, every semester we discover laws being unenforced, which we bring to the attention of our appellate courts. Because of this, since 2015, our clinic has won roughly a third of our cases. We’ve gotten appellate courts to strike down a TPR statute for being unconstitutional, find that the Americans with Disabilities Act requires agencies to design service plans to accommodate the disabilities of parents in child welfare cases, and hold that incarcerated parents can plan for their children by arranging for relatives to care for them. Again, our students have done this even though our cases are randomly assigned to us.
Did you ever file a False Claims Act case on Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare for the cases you were successful in reinstating parental rights? Oh, wait, there has never been a reinstatement of parental rights. Ever talk to Dan Beaton? I have.
Our experience is not unique. In 2018, attorneys working with the Colorado Office of Respondent Counsel, a governmental agency that has overseen parent representation in the state since 2016, has gotten appellate courts in the state to find procedural violations in nearly one of out three cases. Advocates in other states with high quality appellate representation have achieved similar results.
Colorado? Oooooo..... Vivek......did you ever hear of Joseph Korbel or Claude d'Estre'e or Monica Petersen in Haiti when it comes to trafficking tiny humans? Obviously not, which makes me think you are a generic personae as you have now lowered yourself to the have the Chronicles of Social Change, the notorious Clinton Propaganda machine for Silicon Valley in the financial fraud scheme called Predictive Modeling Crap.
These results deliver a straightforward conclusion – that child welfare systems need strong appellate advocates to enforce the law. In the past decade, both the federal government and states have passed an increasing number of laws to promote the interests of children involved with the foster care system. The federal government alone has passed four major pieces of legislation – the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, the Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act, the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act and the Family First Prevention Services Act.
Vivek!!! What are you doing? You are promulgating the peculiar institution. You are advocating corporate layering of foreign private, children's trusts. Oh, wait. I got it. You are a fake ass lil bitch who would sell your soul for a bit of credibility, if you are even real.
These laws, along with those enacted by states, have created a child welfare system governed by complicated procedures.
The procedures are not complicated. The procedures are christian law of chattels. You would know about Ecclesiastical Law if you were a licensed attorney,
Yet talk to advocates on the ground, and they will describe laws that routinely go unenforced. Child welfare agencies fail to make reasonable efforts to prevent kids from entering foster care or to place siblings together. Courts don’t ask children about what sort of relationship they want with their birth parents before terminating those parents’ rights. And far too often, relatives aren’t informed about ongoing child welfare cases until it is far too late for them to get placement of their kin.
The list goes on and on. But without strong appellate advocacy, these laws – key to promoting good outcomes for children in foster care – will continue to get unenforced.
So how do we move forward? The recent federal policy change to permit states to use Title IV-E money to support the representation of parents and children in child welfare proceedings allows states to immediately increase the amount of funds to support quality appellate advocacy. States should move to create specialized appellate practices, like those that exist in New Jersey, Maryland and North Carolina, among other jurisdictions.
Money alone, however, won’t solve the problem. Appellate advocacy is a nuanced skill – involving meticulous research, writing and editing skills – and states must ensure that advocates have the necessary training to do this. Just last year, the National Legal Aid and Defender’s Association – for the first time – created a family defense track for its annual training for appellate attorneys, which provided participants with intensive feedback on their writing skills.
Based on the success of that training, this week, the Michigan Court Improvement Project is piloting a similar one for appellate attorneys. Each state’s Court Improvement Project must prioritize appellate advocacy as an essential component of the infrastructure needed in any functioning child welfare system.
In about two months, my appellate clinic will start getting new case assignments. I suspect that we’ll continue to find laws that aren’t being enforced. Each time we win a reversal or a remand from the Court of Appeals, we will continue to strengthen the legal infrastructure that is so crucial in ensuring the well-being of children. And even when we lose, we increase the legitimacy of our child welfare system by ensuring the public that it is acting in a matter consistent with statutes and the Constitution.
Vivek Sankaran is the director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University Michigan Law School. Follow him on Twitter at @vivekssankaran.
He is doing what I call "claiming the defense's flag".
In legal proceedings, you want to identify and capture all of their defensive arguments, but, in this instance of technology, you can pre-emptively capture their flags of the #coloredrevolution by just watching them coordinate #clownfests.
Russia is sitting on a treasure trove of stuff, too, you know.
I told you so.
The "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) are going to say these things because they refuse to #sayhisname.
Watergate is part of the Civil Rights History of the U.S., but the Meanies are trying really, really hard to rewrite it by what I call the #coloredrevolution because it is how they get elected and make money, of which I prefer to call stealin'.
Someone called this entire investigation years ago, in multiple venues within the law enforcement communities, and in multiple legislative actions, like the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act of 2016, which had to do with Watergate and Whitewater re-investigations and the lack of action by the FBI and DOJ.
So, what had happened was, one day, some "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) came up with the really cleaver idea of co-opting and bastardizing, proactively, mind you, any possible legal investigation of what they were about to do, and that was their Detroit #MeToo Moment to cloak their egregious election interference operations.
The "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) came up with the idea of an "anti-lynching" bill which was nothing but a propaganda project by having Kamala Harris and Corey Booker take the lead an introduce, replete with a full scaled, campaign finance, money laundering, called "Justice for Victims of Lynching Act".
The Anti-Lynching Bill, itself, was dumb because they, once again, had transmographied U.S. history by flushing the legacy of John Conyers, Jr., down the toilet to save their asses for jacking up the 2016 election.
They were running anti-lynching psyops to secure more federal grants for more propaganda to generate more revenues.
The NMAAHC operates under the Smithsonian, with over $6 Billion in assets, because it is not incorporated. I am not finding any corporate registration of the organization which leads me to believe it is a passthrough for money laundering, just like the NAACP.
The "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) destroyed the legacy of Emmet Till Act because it is about investigating stuff that went on during the civil rights era, or, for those of you who are just jumping aboard this ship of WATERGATE, for the nasty stuff that went on behind the scenes to cover up the Child Abuse Protection Treatment Act, modern day human trafficking.
These individuals are just another group of operatives who will do whatever it takes to keep their hair and nails "did".
First Assistant to the Cook County State Attorney Joseph Magats -- who replaced Kim Foxx when she recused herself from the Smollett case -- just did an interview explaining why he and his office dropped all their charges against Jussie ... but it raises more questions that answers. First off, Magats says one big factor in why they dropped the charges has to do with the fact that Jussie doesn't have a violent criminal history, not to mention that this wasn't a violent crime. Magats says his office prioritizes violent crimes in Chicago, and felt this case wouldn't be the best use of resources. For the record, he says he made this decision alone ... without consultation from Kim Foxx.
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For your historic pleasure, in the spirit of fuchsia, I have provided my "Colored" commentary, because I am quite sure there are going to be numerous media outlets, political scholars, and "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) out there who are going to claim they know everything about everything that has gone on in this hearing.
Why are some of the members so contentious and way outside the scope of the hearing?
Well, it is because the U.S. House Judiciary Committee is under the purview of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Yes, boys and girls, that is correct.
Judiciary was mean to my Sweetie.
That was not very nice because it gave me Saddy face, right Perry?
But, have no fear, there is always the original plan...by the original source.
It is just a shame that the Members of the Committee did not take the time to address the items of the national agenda that Trump outlined in his State of the Union 2019 speech.
child trafficking;
child sex trafficking;
human trafficking;
women trafficking;
drug trafficking;
slavery;
civil rights;
jobs;
justice;
peace.
But, then again, when you are facing prosecution of war crimes, you tend to forget about the children.
The following is my "Colored" Commentary of the Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice Hearing, where I have extracted my comments in conversation for a more pleasurable experience, via the castigation of the Celestial Goddess of the Woodshed.
Yes, this is about Detroit.
Perry put this hearing together because I smell the fear.
Collins just put forth a motion to dismiss the hearing.
10 - 12 motion to adjourn does not pass.
Nadler is trying to find out if he is part of the Special Investigation!
Matt just smashed Nadler when asked for the umpthenth time of what the special counsel investigation was about. He said "I believe your 5 minutes are up".
A bit of fun you can take with you. Look at the portraits in chambers on the wall. Who are they?
Lofgren asked if his views were based on conversations with the Trump Administration. Whitaker said his comments on the special investigations were made before, as a private citizen.
"In your capacity as Acting Attorney General, have you ever been asked to approve any request or action to be taken by the special counsel?" House Judiciary Chair Nadler asks.
Chabot said "Conyers" and mentioned their work on the opioid crisis.
Whitaker is trolling Her Flatulent Boviness. CoS physically stood up behind her. They are terrified.
The Her Flatulent Boviness (Sheila Jackson Lee) tried to as Whitaker about his background in Voting Rights cases. Her time expired. She was trying to get into the Russian Interference. Instead, he said voting fraud, which is his investigation of Detroit.
Cohen is about to break down in tears trying to get Whitaker to say this is a russian investigation. This is so romantic.
If anyone runs across any articles or *youtubers/investigative jounalists* running their own analysis, please drop the links so I can put them on the list.
Deutch asked about the interview to become CoS. This is going to be relevant to other CoS.
Karen Bass asked about Whitaker's background with FACT. Collins challenged that it was outside the scope of the hearing. Nadler was forced to take a vote. They tabled the issue. Karen Bass is the head of the Foster Care Caucus. Need I say more? Bass is going after FACT because she is part of CREW. I told you, Melanie Sloane is coming back.
Nadler: "we taking a 5 minute recess for lunch". Whitaker: "only 5 minutes for lunch"? <=== I need a meme.
McClinton tried to compare the Stone raid and Medenez case arrest procedure. Whitaker said there are ongoing investigations. FBI will brief in closed session,
Cedric Richmond is throwing the Civil Rights Act creation of the DOJ. Yes, who was behind creating the DOJ. #sayhisname
Richmond is standing up for the "Colored" Revolution. He is throwing the race card. DUCK!
Lesko (cannot see her name she is new) is asking about coming together. She is asking about the new infantcide laws. DOJ is looking into it. She is talking about infant mortality.
Jefferies tried to rip Whitaker about responding to a statement and a question. Now Jefferies is throwing out numbers on indictments, pleas, sentencing. He is bringing up Wikileaks, Stone, Manafort, Flynn, Cohen.
Cicilline is asking about Presidential privilege. They keep harping on if Whitaker talked to Trump or his legal team about the Mueller investigation. If Cicilline was part of this group, or just read my cases, or signed up for my blog, he would know.
Reschenthaler raised good questions in the scope of the hearing, appropriate questions.
Swawell asked if Mueller was honest and conflicted because Trump said he was running a witchhunt. He wants Whitaker to repeat his "terms and words" to the president. That was a cute set up for a violation of law.
Armstrong is asking about the First Step Act. He asked commended the pretrial release program and asked to work with DOJ for a Second Step Act.
Armstrong asked about universal understanding of "gross negligence" even under the Espionage Act.
You do know, there is a strong possibility that when they take a break, walking into the back office, they are on the phone, calling #perkinscoiesucks . There is also a distinct possibility that, due to the investigation on Judiciary, that everything has been wired up.
Raskin is getting fiesty! Smells like fear. Israel?
Whitaker tries to run out the clock instead of answering @JacksonLeeTX18's extremely straightforward question about if he's testified during an oversight hearing before.
"Mr attorney general, we are not joking here and your humor is not acceptable," she admonishes him. pic.twitter.com/LP0aaikYre
Jayapal is lying. She keeps talking about the leaked draft immigration family separation policy memo. That is a lie. The States take over. Bethany Christian. Michigan. Where is Betsy DeVos. She is using a fake memo to attack Whitaker.
The States hand out the contracts to private corporations. Jayapal has said absolutely nothing about foster care and adoption. They do not even track in the U.S.
Demmings asked about private conversations with Trump about Cohen or, District of Virginia and SDNY personel.
She is getting on him about drugs coming in from the border or ports of entry.
Correa is on white supremist out numbering islamic extremist attacks.
Scanlon is getting hard on undocumented immigrants but he cannot comment due to ongoing litigation. She is clarifying.
Garcia is asking about Zero Tolerance policy. Whitaker said Sessions implemented it. These people refuse to say foster care and adoption. The states take those kids. Michigan has the national contract. No one is even mentioning termination of parental…See More
She asked about dropping the ACA litigation. Why? He cannot discuss that. That is the decision of the president.
Neguse is asking about medical cannibis research. Whitaker said there are international treaty challenges.
He asked about confidential communications with the president. He is asking about RR being next in line to be appointed. Sessions resigned. Sessions was not fired.
McBath is asking about the Voting Rights Act, voter suppression, and evidence. The 2016 election had a VRA complaint filed before the election. Grand Juries were called before the election, in Detroit, which threw the state, which threw the entire general election.
Stanton asked about the Religious Liberty Task Force. Sessions set it up. Whitaker has said he would follow up.
Stanton brought up foster care and discriminating against a jewish adopter by a contracted agency.
Dean is asking about his private life statements on the Mueller investigation.
The Committee is setting up for impeachment hearings, from both sides of the aisle.
Mucarsal-Powell must be new because she is not very versed on 501c3s. I am calling it out now. They are prohibiting 501c3s from engaging in political activities. They are going to file charges. This is #perkinscoiesucks set up because the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) are behind the development of line of questioning.
They are going to throw Mucarsel-Powell under the bus. She is reading "their" questions under the guise that she is going to rise as a power star. I can spot grooming a thousand miles away.
Escobar is trying very nicely to tell Whitaker how to answer. She is not his legal counsel. She is new and was set up to get thrown under the bus. She dropped dead kids. Yes, she brought up the 2 kids who died at the border but refuses to speak upon the fact that congress makes law, not DOJ.
Only Congress makes law, not the Attorney General.
You would think the members of House Judiciary would know this by now.
Please, please, please, someone, anyone, tell me those property taxes were not paid through the campaign.
Garland is a plant to get up in that glorious Governor's Office so he can show off all his IT experience by allowing all these foreign corporations, if they are even incorporated, full access to all the data of the State of Michigan, because he is consistent in his positive demonstration of being completely deft when it comes to being in a position of authority.
I call him a spokestoken, but I have seen more colorful terms floating around the chatter-verse.
Anyway, I thought GG, The Tech Guru (that is his new name) was crying broke last week as the reason why he could not clean up the property, so where did he get that money to pay those taxes?
Gilchrist late on taxes for blighted building
Detroit — Garlin Gilchrist II, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, has a history of failing to pay property taxes on time for a blighted duplex apartment building he owns in Detroit and was forced to clean up this weekend.
As of Monday morning, city records showed Gilchrist owed $768.23 in taxes on the property after missing a deadline to pay an initial installment Aug. 15 or pay in full by Aug. 31. The Detroit Treasury Department considered the bill late but would not flag Gilchrist as delinquent unless he failed to pay by Feb. 28.
"The taxes will be paid in full as of today," said Zack Pohl, a spokesman for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Gretchen Whitmer's campaign. Less than 20 minutes later, he provided a receipt showing the balance had been paid.
Gilchrist was delinquent on his tax bill for the property last year and his case was sent to Wayne County for collections. He paid off $935.18 in late taxes and fees on June 5, according to county records. Whitmer announced him as her running mate Aug. 20.
Her campaign said earlier Monday that Gilchrist has provided the city with evidence he secured and cleaned up the fire-damaged duplex that he was in danger of losing due to its blighted condition.
The building has become fresh ammunition for Gilchrist's Republican opponents, who accuse him of “incompetence" as he works on a campaign that promises to "get things done." Over the weekend, GOP gubernatorial nominee Bill Schuette filmed a social media video in front of the Detroit house and called on Gilchrist to resign from the Democratic ticket.
Gilchrist bought the duplex apartment in August 2016 in the North End neighborhood for $27,000 from the Detroit Land Bank Authority, city records show.
Gilchrist's ownership of the 253 Marston St. property and its condition were first reported by Deadline Detroit. The land bank, which controls property lost in tax foreclosure and is the city's largest land owner, said Friday the condition of the property is "unacceptable" and gave him until the end of Monday to provide proof it is safe and secure.
"We sent the Land Bank all of the documentation that was requested prior to the deadline to demonstrate that the property is secured and being maintained, and we believe the property is currently in compliance," Pohl said Monday morning.
The land bank did not immediately confirm or comment on the matter.
Gilchrist issued a Friday statement saying he had "exhausted his personal resources" to do extensive repairs to the duplex and is trying to continue repairs by securing a loan. City records show Gilchrist filed permits for electrical work to be done in 2016.
"The apartment building is not in the state that I want it to be in, even with the significant progress that has been made thus far," Gilchrist's statement read.
Derrick Powers, 21, said he has lived two houses down from the complex for at least a dozen years, dating back to a time when it had been occupied.The vacant building is next door to an occupied complex with family flats.
Powers said Monday he hadn't seen any activity on the property in recent days. In the past, he has seen work trucks outside and the formerly collapsing porch has been repaired. There are also new windows and a new gate around the perimeter.
As of Monday morning, there were some bricks and cinder blocks on the grass in the front yard of the property. There no longer appeared to be any mattresses moldering the back yard, as reported last week by Deadline Detroit. But the back yard remains disheveled, and there is a pile of bricks back there.
The lawn was mowed, the fence was locked and secured, and building materials and trash that had been dumped were removed from the front and rear of the property, said Pohl, with the Whitmer campaign. "The property is safe and secure."
Powers, the neighbor, noted it’s been two years since the property was bought and said he doesn’t see a reason why it hasn't been rehabilitated.
“I don’t think it’s hard. You’ve got to put the effort in,” said Powers, who told The News he was not familiar with Gilchrist but thinks “it’s crazy” that the owner of the blighted apartment building is the running mate of the Democratic candidate for governor. “A lot of places around here have been fixed up.”
Across the street is a lot that Powers said has long been vacant. The property to the other side of the Gilchrist property is also vacant with open windows and signs that say “private property.”
Powers said overall the area is “on the rebuild” and he’s seen progress with many formerly vacant properties nearby, Powers said. On Monday morning, two work men were clearing debris from a property on the corner down from Gilchrist's dilapidated building.
Schuette visited the property Saturday and filmed a campaign video from outside a perimeter fence.
“There’s kids riding on the sidewalk nearby, no security,” Schuette said. “(Gilchrist's) not living here. How’d you like to be his neighbor? Yet he wants to be part of running the state of Michigan? You wouldn’t want to hire him because he’s not making sure this property is safe for people and his neighbors here in the city of Detroit.”
Pohl called it a "desperate" attack from Schuette that he does not think voters will buy.
“Every poll shows Bill Schuette losing badly to Gretchen Whitmer, so now he’s attacking her running mate to distract voters from the fact that Schuette filed nine lawsuits to rip health care away from Michigan families," he said, referencing legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act that Schuette was part of as attorney general.
Asked Friday if her campaign was aware of the property when it vetted Gilchrist to be her running mate, Whitmer said she had “a conversation about it” but told reporters “the imminent need to remedy it was not something we appreciated until relatively recently.”
The situation “requires immediate attention, and it’s being given that,” she said Friday. But Whitmer argued the condition of the property has little to do with Gilchrist’s ability to help run state government.
“Give me a break,” she said. “You know, Garlin wanted to come make an investment in the city of Detroit. He was excited to come back home. ... Obviously, people have bumps, and he’s trying to do his best to get it remedied, and I’m confident he will."
When she announced Gilchrist as her running mate in mid-August, the former Senate minority leader called him a “tech guru” who could help her “get things done.”
A top aide to Democrat Rep. Yvette Clarke told Capitol Hill investigators she believed the New York congresswoman’s chief of staff, Shelley Davis, was working with IT aide Abid Awan to steal equipment from the congressional office.
Clarke “wrote off” one-tenth of her annual budget after $120,000 in equipment could not be located.
She did not mention it publicly and waited to fire Abid until House officials approached her about it months later. Davis no longer works there, but has not been arrested.
Rep. Yvette Clarke’s deputy chief of staff came into the office on a Saturday in December 2015 and caught the New York Democrat’s part-time IT aide, Abid Awan, rummaging through the congresswoman’s work area with new iPods and other equipment strewn around the room, according to a House document and interviews with Hill staff.
Wendy Anderson told Abid to get out of the office, the document said. She told Capitol Hill investigators that she soon suspected Clarke’s chief of staff, Shelley Davis, was working with Abid on a theft scheme, multiple House staffers with knowledge of the situation told The Daily Caller News Foundation. They also said that Anderson pushed for Abid’s firing.
But Clarke did not fire Abid until six months after the congresswoman formally acknowledged that $120,000 in equipment was missing, records show — not until after House investigators independently announced a review that would potentially catch financial discrepancies. Even then, Anderson told investigators she believed another top staffer in Clarke’s office was subverting their efforts, a House staffer with knowledge of the investigation said.
Four months later, Anderson took a job with another congressional office. Clarke’s office declined to say under what terms she left.
Abid — known in the office as Omar — and his brothers, fellow IT workers Imran Awan and Jamal Awan, are suspected of making “unauthorized access” to congressional servers during the 2016 election and of running a theft scheme, according to the House Inspector General (IG). Together, the family had access to all the emails and files of 1 in 5 House Democrats.
Members like Clarke have refused to discuss the case. The New York congresswoman, meanwhile, has described Donald Trump’s presidency as the product of an “illegally hacked, illegitimate election.”
House Chief Administrative Officer Phil Kiko testified in a public hearing in April that “the House IG discovered evidence of procurement fraud and irregularities [and] numerous violations of House security policies” by the Awans. The alleged procurement fraud included submitting suspicious invoices to bill equipment to House offices.
Each invoice requires sign-offs from chiefs of staff or congressmen. House office budgets are tight enough that unnecessary purchases would be hard to miss, three chiefs of staff told TheDCNF.
A Feb. 3, 2017 letter from Kiko and the House’s top law enforcement officer, Sergeant-At-Arms Paul Irving, to the Committee on House Administration — kept secret by the House, but obtained by TheDCNF — quotes from notes on an interview with Anderson:
Coming in on a Saturday and finding Omar in the office with equipment everywhere. She stated, ‘it looked like Christmas with Apple TV’s, iPods, etc. scattered around the room.’ She stated that Omar told her ‘these items were not her office’s equipment but they belonged to another office.’ She told him to get them out of her member’s office.
One House staffer who said Anderson confided in them told TheDCNF of the views she expressed: “She knew it was obviously stolen … What business case would they have had for iPods? … He’s a shared employee, basically a contractor. Why would he be camped out … in her personal office?”
“Wendy was actually a truth-sayer, she wanted the right things to happen, enforce rules, and Yvette Clarke did not,” the staffer continued.
Anderson was promoted to chief of staff soon after she encountered Abid in Clarke’s office near Christmas 2015. Her predecessor, Davis, departed the payroll on Feb. 11, 2016.
Once Anderson became responsible for the office’s finances, she found that Clarke’s office had for years been ordering abnormal quantities of equipment, much with seemingly dubious business value, she later told House investigators, according to multiple congressional officials with knowledge of the probe who spoke with TheDCNF. After some investigating, Anderson told investigators she believed Davis was working with Abid to steal taxpayer funds, the officials said.
“She thought that Shelley and Omar had too tight of a relationship,” one said. “She’d been going through old email and could see that it basically smacked of Omar was ordering stuff for Shelley and there was no business reason.” Anderson gave House officials copies of those emails, the source said.
“She said to Abid, ‘I want to do an inventory of the office,’ and he couldn’t come up with $120,000 [in equipment], so he said, ‘Oh I don’t know, people lost it,” the source said.
The sum amounted to one-tenth of the office’s entire annual budget.
A lawyer for Abid’s brother Imran, Aaron Marr Page, later addressed the situation in Clarke’s office: “An outgoing chief of staff who — I don’t remember the guy’s name off the top of my head, but I think there was potentially some issues there… There may be cases on Capitol Hill of other people — certainly not Imran — who are enriching themselves who are taking devices.”
Davis answered a phone call from TheDCNF on his cell phone, but hung up after hearing Abid’s name and then apparently blocked TheDCNF’s phone number.
Clarke’s office wrote off the $120,000 of missing equipment in February 2016. A write-off is an accounting practice used to remove financial errors from the books without actually correcting the problem.
Under House rules, if a Congress member can’t account for office funds, he or she may be personally liable.
By April 2016, Chief Administrative Officer Kiko independently noticed financial anomalies in multiple congressional offices that employed Abid. He told the Administration committee, and by September the committee’s top Democratic staffer, Jamie Fleet, told employing offices that authorities would be auditing financial records connected to the Awan family, a committee source told TheDCNF.
It was only then that Clarke’s office told the committee of the circumstances surrounding the missing equipment, and House authorities began working with Clarke’s office to investigate the Awans’ activities.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong told TheDCNF the Capitol Police “requested that the shared employees be allowed to continue to use their IT credentials until [February 2017] because they didn’t want to tip off the employees.”
But Anderson soon concluded that the investigation was compromised because another high-level staffer based in New York was feeding information about authorities’ activities to Abid, a House staffer Anderson spoke with in detail about the situation told TheDCNF.
“Her district office chief, a female, was actively going against Wendy,” the staffer said. “She was good friends with Omar and was feeding him information. Clarke would tell this person and the woman was backdooring stuff to Omar. She was undermining the investigation.” Anderson told that to House investigators as well, the staffer said.
TheDCNF laid out Anderson’s allegations in this story — including that she presented evidence that Davis was involved in a fraud scheme, that Clarke declined to fire Abid for months despite Anderson’s urging, and that the office for years ordered abnormal quantities of equipment that was not present in the office — to Clarke’s spokeswoman, Christine Bennett. Bennett addressed only one, involving the suggestion that District Director Anita Taylor tampered with the investigation: “Anita Taylor vehemently denies the accusations made against her,” she said.
Clarke is up for re-election in her Brooklyn district’s primary on June 26. She is also a member of the House Committee on Ethics.
Investigators eventually interviewed Abid about the missing equipment. He blamed Clarke staffers for some and claimed the office never received others, according to a House IG presentation dated Sept. 20, 2016 that also says:
75 pieces of equipment with a purchase price of $118,416 were recently written off the House inventory for a member because one of the subjects could not produce them
Shared employee stated that the items were never received, shouldn’t have been inventoried, or the staff lost the equipment
However, equipment could not be on inventory or have asset tag unless it had arrived in office and EIN [Equipment Identification Number, a form that must be signed for a piece of equipment to be paid for] had been signed
Missing equipment includes laptops, iPads, TVs, video conferencing equipment, and computers
Clarke gave Abid the passwords to many of her personal and professional web accounts — including those for her personal credit cards — and the Democrat’s staff were concerned that he would retaliate, according to a House staffer Anderson spoke with about the situation in detail. In the days before he was finally fired on Sept. 19, 2016, a carefully-orchestrated operation took place in which House security personnel changed Clarke’s passwords and the lock on a storage locker she used, the staffer said.
“That night, after they told him that he was fired, Wendy went to the office late at night and Clarke’s office door was a little open and she felt like someone was on the other side of the door. She ran out of the office frightened,” the staffer told TheDCNF.
Even then, Clarke repeatedly spoke about her former part-time computer guy, saying she felt she needed to undo the firing, Anderson told that staffer.
Anderson continued to express concern about what she viewed as Capitol Hill crimes that seemed to be resulting in little action. Soon after, she moved to a different office — that of newly-elected Florida Rep. Val Demings.
After Abid was fired by Clarke, Abid was hired by new congressmen in early 2017, payroll records show: Democrats Stephanie Murphy and Darren Soto of Florida, and Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware. In February 2017, his family was banned from the network.
The Department of Justice has not charged Davis or Abid with any crime. TheDCNF has no way of corroborating whether what Anderson told investigators is true. However, the voluminous evidence the House IG possessed, combined with the lack of charges, has led some Republicans to allege a cover-up.
“The FBI has had the opportunity to have those invoices presented to them, and each time they have instructed, ‘Don’t bring any of those documents,'” Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said on the House floor, quoting what the FBI told him about the case. “They continue to report … ‘We’ve still found no evidence’ … Why? Because they’ve instructed, ‘We don’t want to see those documents.'”
A senior Republican congressional official with direct knowledge of the probe previously told TheDCNF, “The only reason you’re not seeing charges is because the Democrats who employed him are not cooperating.”
So, having properly identified a child welfare propaganda model, because I figured out the reason no one wanted to touch this tar baby with a ten foot pole is because, if they did actually "study" the issues identified in H.R. 40, they would find out it was child welfare.
I smelled a distraction campaign that financially rallied groups to beat that afrocentric drum to distract everyone while they were stealin'.
I got saddy face, so I reworte H.R. 40.1 for my Sweetie's birthday.
It called for reparations for the entire world by using the data already out there, so you do not have to waste the 8 million dollars that was traditionally contained in the Bill, to tell the truth.
The truth is it is child welfare and now, instead of a melanin content based model utilizing such sophisticated tools as the "brown-paper bag test" or those available heuristics that have been inserted and preserved in our Plessey v. Ferguson culture of "separate yet equal" of group association assignment, we now use intelligence to maximize revenues for one, in the best interests of the child, to "reach their fullest potential" through databases.
I was dismissed, really badly, I mean, I met with the most horrible verbal accosting, up in D.C. and in Detroit.
I thought the reasons my tires got slashed one time was because the spears chucked at me missed.
They were stealing my Sweetie's legacy.
I got really, really bad saddy face, so I preserved it in the annals of history because you cannot, no matter how hard you try, wipe the cyber universe of John Conyers, Jr.
HA. HA. HA.
Ok, now that the digressive story of preserving the institution of my Sweetie's legacy is done, because I SEO'd all over the place, for over a decade now, let us get back to how the Meanies attempted to highjack it.
I ran across this "promulgation of the checks" article and was deeply moved by the passionate case for Southern Reparations Loan Fund and froze as I read it.
2. A policy to compensate an oppressed people for historic wrongs
“For two centuries the Negro was enslaved, and robbed of any wages—potential accrued wealth which would have been the legacy of his descendants.” —Martin Luther King Jr., in a 1965
Playboy interview with Alex Haley
Who are reparations for?
Many U.S. acts of violence have spurred calls for reparations, from the colonization of the Americas to the invasion of Iraq. In 1988, the U.S. government gave Japanese-American survivors of World War II internment camps a check for $20,000 each. But here we’ll focus on Black Americans, for whom reparations are most often discussed, for centuries of enslavement, Jim Crow, segregation, redlining and mass incarceration, among other wrongs.
So would all Black Americans just get a check?
Maybe. But many leading reparations scholars think the process should be more complex. Duke professor William A. Darity Jr., for instance, points out that, given most businesses are white-owned, the checks may just further increase wealth disparities. He thinks reparations money could instead fund institution building that supports “economic improvement within the black community.” The Southern Reparations Loan Fund (SRLF) puts that theory into practice by investing in cooperative businesses owned by Black and other marginalized groups.
The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) platform has a broader vision: free college for all, a guaranteed minimum income for Black people, comprehensive Black history in school curricula and more. Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors is fond of saying any reparations package should also include a therapist.
But, c'mon, America's way too racist for this, right?
Well, yes, there’s been some foot-dragging. Former U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. introduced a bill each year for almost 30 years simply calling for a commission to look into the idea. It’s never reached a vote. In the meantime, SRLF and other groups are moving forward on a smaller scale. Many of M4BL’s proposals require only local or state action.
On the Left, some reparations skeptics believe a race-blind economic platform can best boost the poor of all races. Many reparations advocates support a similar plan, and some of their demands (e.g., free college) would help everyone. But many also believe the playing field cannot be leveled—and the past cannot be reconciled— without addressing the specific harms to Black communities. “What I’m talking about is more than recompense,” wrote Ta-Nehisi Coates in his blockbuster 2014 Atlantic piece on reparations. “What is needed is a healing of the American psyche.”
This article traumatized me because I smelled the stench of TARP. The article was ripe with NGOs, United Nations, forced migration, Social Impact Bonds, was mean and inferred a lie upon my Sweetie, and introduce complex finance fraud schemes found only in TARP. So, I decided to disprove the transposable model I am far to familiar from identifying because, in this instance, the Meanies just co-opted the reparations issue and juxtaposed the child abuse propaganda model. "Give us money to help this targeted population so we can prop up some more community strawman leaders in positions of political and social prominence to pilfer the coffers of the Social Security Trust Fund and run some complex financial fraud schemes in stealin land." They do this all the time and it started in Detroit. I was right there and so is the DOJ.
SosId: 1486931
Status: Current-Active
Citizenship: Domestic
Date Formed: 12/16/2015
Registered Agent: Whitfield, Edward L.
Behold, not only did I fail to disprove that this is not Reparations Propaganda, but I found myself another one of those complex financial fraud schemes, but this one also dealt with, or I should properly state my disclaimer that I have yet to get any verification on this one, another election fraud operation through databases.
Ed Whitfield is a social critic, writer and community activist who has lived in Greensboro since 1970. He is co-Managing Director of the Fund for Democratic Communities. Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, Ed’s political activism started with attending Little Rock Central High School and beginning to do anti-war work as a teenager. Ed retired after 30 years in industry before becoming involved with philanthropy. He now speaks and writes on issues of cooperatives and economic development while continuing to be interested in issues of war and peace, as well as education and social responses to racism. Ed serves on the boards of the New Economy Coalition, The Working World, and the Southern Reparations Loan Fund. While he spends much of his time practicing bass guitar, Ed can often be found playing jazz or blues flute along with singer-songwriters and bands in Greensboro and wherever he goes in the world. He recently won the “Plays the Most Instruments” award at Greensboro’s long-running Open Mic night.
The Fund for Democratic Communities is running under....hold on a second, I need a breather....
Of course, I am just saying, without any certainty at this time, that major stakeholders in Awan Working World, Inc., is in partnership with the Meanies, who were really, really mean to me, but even more meaner-er to my Sweetie, when it came to reparations propaganda, but I am going to wait for the OIG DOJ to broach this allegation because it is a Detroit issue.
Then, I discovered an entire industry for extractive financing to manipulate elections, with group rally and issue advocacy.
Brian is the former Executive Director of the Austin Cooperative Business Association (ACBA), a regional cross-sector trade association for cooperatives. From 2005-2013 Brian managed the Univ. of Texas Inter-Cooperative Council, a student housing cooperative. Brian serveSd on the board of NASCO Development Services for 8 years and the NASCO Board for two years. Presently he is Co-Director of The Cooperation Group, a non-profit cooperative development organization based in Detroit, Michigan. Before working in co-ops Brian worked for Apple as the manager of the Inside Sales team serving educational institutions. He also has experience working in politics in Texas including managing campaigns and organizing for ethics reform at the state level and for cooperatives at the local level. Brian recently assisted the Austin City Council in passing a resolution supporting cooperatives including $60,000 for starting and expanding the local cooperative economy. He is currently a trustee of a revolving loan fund supporting housing cooperatives: the Kagawa Student Cooperative Reinvestment Fund at Shared Capital Cooperative.
The Cooperation Group is a Michigan not-for-profit corporation and 501c3 charity. Special thanks to Joint Cities Development Corporation for allowing us to operate under their fiscal sponsorship until we received tax exempt status from the IRS.
Karen Bass asked about Whitaker's background with FACT. Collins challenged that it was outside the scope of the hearing. Nadler was forced to take a vote. They tabled the issue. Karen Bass is the head of the Foster Care Caucus. Need I say more? Bass is going after FACT because she is part of CREW. I told you, Melanie Sloane is coming back.
