"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
Posted on 10/20/2005 5:00:40 AM PDT by Timeout
East St. Louis political figure Kelvin Ellis admitted in court Wednesday that he plotted to discredit a potential witness in a vote fraud case against him - but he insisted it was someone else who broached the subject of killing her.
The guilty plea to three counts of obstruction of justice marked Ellis' third conviction on federal charges in four months. In June a jury found him and four others guilty of vote fraud; in August he pleaded guilty of tax evasion.
Ellis, 55, formerly a Democratic Party leader and director of regulatory affairs for the city, has been jailed since January, unable to get bond after a judge found him to be a risk to the community.
Prosecutors had portrayed the witness as a prostitute who also accused Ellis of running an escort service out of his city hall office. She has not been publicly identified, and Wednesday's hearing shed no new light on the prostitution claim.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
At least 16 Dem officials have been convicted in the last 7 months! (Pssst! Somebody tell the MSM!)
Read more background at Gateway Pundit http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2005/10/more-democrats-to-be-indicted-in-east.html
vote fraud (and murder!) ping
Hey timeout, this isn't news,this is East St. Louis. You expect these kind of things in that third world city.
Well, well, well. I've been following this on and off for a while. It's delicious.
It would be MORE delicious if it weren't the best kept secret in the world.
Ah, yes. Just another day at the office for local Democrats.
worth repeating
It would be MORE delicious if it weren't the best kept secret in the world.
November 8, 2000
...(CNN) -- The late Gov. Mel Carnahan collected enough votes to beat out incumbent Republican Sen. John Ashcroft for the U.S. Senate seat from Missouri.
The incumbent Ashcroft was left running against a dead man after his opponent, the popular sitting governor, died in a plane crash on October 16. By that time, it was too late to remove Carnahan's name from the ballot...
Ashcroft ousted in historic Senate race
November 08, 2000
...No one had ever posthumously won election to the Senate, though voters on at least three occasions chose deceased candidates for the House...
Long queues at St. Louis polling stations led a circuit court judge to hold city polling stations open past the 7 o'clock close in response to a Democratic petition. The GOP appealed and a higher court overruled, closing the polls after an additional hour of voting.
Those delayed St. Louis city returns -- long a Democratic stronghold and nearly 4-1 Democratic this year -- pushed Mel Carnahan past Ashcroft.
At Ashcroft's St. Louis party, Republicans were livid at the extended voting hours, which Ashcroft called "irregularities."...
Watcha talkin bout? Back in the Camelot Days that was "One of America's BEST!!!".........Things change? LOL!
Just another day at the office for those rascally democRAT politicians and their abettors.
Glad the MSM is so on top of this corruption and white collar crimineality.
bump.
Change the title. East St. Louis is NOT St. Louis. They are even in different states. East St. Louis IL is about as corrupt a little fiefdoom that ever existed but it is NOT St. Louis MO.
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
"... I don't think you should do that, dave... dave....Daisy, Daisy..." ...
I've come to expect that any city run by Democrats will have third world standards.
Illinois Democrats corrupt? No! Such a shock! Really though, if it wasn't for FR I never would have heard of this. Of course even here in TX our local media refuse to cover south Texas voter fraud.
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