Posted on 11/25/2015 1:41:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Clyde Fabretti, a white-collar criminal, holds a key position in Rubio's presidential campaign.
Earlier this month, when Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) named his top campaign representatives across Florida, he tapped a conservative activist named Clyde Fabretti as one of the leaders of his presidential effort in Orange County, a key district that includes Orlando. But Fabretti, the co-founder of the West Orlando Tea Party, has a sketchy background that might not reflect well on Rubio's campaign: He is a convicted white-collar criminal with a history of questionable business dealings and associations with fraudsters. Most recently, Fabretti's name surfaced in an ongoing lawsuit by investors in a tea-party-related media startup who claim he played a role in a company that allegedly defrauded them. And records show that the 67-year-old activist may have committed voter fraud by registering to vote and casting ballots in Florida elections when his criminal record rendered him ineligible to do so.
In 1997, Fabretti pleaded guilty to a single federal felony count of conspiracy to commit income tax evasion, bank fraud, mail fraud, and failing to file tax returns. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison and three years of probation. He was also ordered to pay more than $200,000 in restitution.
According to the federal indictment, Fabretti used his then-wife Susan, who worked for him, to execute an elaborate scheme to defraud First Union Corporation, the banking giant that eventually merged with Wachovia and later Wells Fargo. Prosecutors charged that in 1990 Fabretti provided his wife with false documents inflating her income and assets, which she then used to obtain a loan to buy a five-bedroom, eight-bathroom mansion in Oakton, Virginia....
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Good old Mother Jones. Who knew this Maoist waste of good ink still existed.
So he’s got the felons, and the illegal aliens on his side. How is he doing bringing in the dead people vote?
Mother Jones is still around, eh? When is the merger with the Daily Worker?
If Rubio was a Democrat, and Fabretti were a black and a murderer of, say, a cop, Mother Jones would be cheering this.
Oh dear, we're gonna have trouble distinguishing little Marco from the run-of-the-mill DemoRat, or from the run-of-the-mill DemoRat shill.
Was David Corn not available?
Rubio’s own Gang activities were enough for me to write him off.
Scheming with Schumer against the citizens and the rule of law goes beyond felonious.
At 82 years of age I have never had a conservative in the WHouse that spoke for me. My last chance, I think. If a conservative is not nominated I will stay home and just take whatever liberal goodies I can get for the rest of my time.
it’s 1819
Hillary Clinton is going to help Rubio? Oh, that’s right. She’s not been convicted.
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