Posted on 04/04/2010 8:00:56 AM PDT by Libloather
Bad check charge dropped against Nevada Tea Party candidate
The Associated Press
Published: April 2, 2010
LAS VEGAS - Criminal bad check charges were dismissed Friday for a Tea Party of Nevada candidate seeking to unseat Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Scott Ashjian, 46, paid $5,575 to cover a disputed check and prosecution fees before Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Deborah Lippis approved withdrawing felony theft and bad check charges, court officials said.
Ashjian issued a statement later maintaining that he never bounced the $5,000 business check that was in dispute, and blamed the state Republican party for what he called "trumped up" charges brought by a prosecutor who used to be a county GOP party official.
"I believe the Republican party has targeted me and my family to get me out of the race," Ashjian told The Associated Press. "We're not going anywhere. We're going to finish this race."
Ashjian, a Las Vegas asphalt businessman, is one of 21 candidates including 12 Republicans seeking to challenge Reid in the November election. Reid is seeking a fifth term in the Senate.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Bernie Zadrowski denied his party affiliation had anything to do with the charges he filed March 26.
"The fact that I'm a former county Republican party chairman has nothing to do with my job," Zadrowski said.
Zadrowski also disputed Ashjian's claims that the disputed check, dated Dec. 7, was returned due to a mix-up with his bank. Ashjian stopped payment Dec. 11.
"The check bounced. Twice," Zadrowski said. "He stop-payment was placed on the check after the second time it bounced."
The Tea Party Express faction of the national movement has distanced itself from Ashjian, who faces a separate civil lawsuit challenging his candidacy in state court in Carson City.
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As they should.
This is a ploy to help Harry Reid.
LAS VEGAS -- A Tea Party of Nevada candidate is blaming the state's Republican party for what he calls "trumped up" charges in a bad check case.
http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/23042249/detail.html
LAS VEGAS -- It has not been a pleasant two weeks for United State Senate hopeful Jon Scott Ashjian. Three of his personal properties have been served with default notices, his Nevada Tea Party supporters will not come to his aid and national party leaders have denounced him as a fraud.
http://www.8newsnow.com/global/story.asp?s=12199446
Ashjian was never part of any Tea Party movement in the first place. Nice try, A Pee.
The Las Vegas ABC affiliate reported Tuesday that Tea Party candidate Scott Ashjian might soon go to jail.
KTNV.com says the Clark County District Attorney's office filed for an arrest warrant for Ashjian, who is running for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Senate seat in the coming mid-term elections.
ABC says that Ashjian lost his contractor's license last week when he failed to appear for a hearing. The district attorney's office then filed charges of felony theft against him, the news report said.
The report also says that the attorney general claims Asjian wrote a bad check for $5,000 to a businessman in December.
http://www.mynews4.com/story.php?id=14069&n=122
He was never part of the tea party movement.
Ashjian is a fake and a vote splitting plant.
Reid is engaged in amature hour tactices.
LAS VEGAS -- The Clark County District Attorney’s office has filed a request for an arrest warrant for Scott Ashjian, the Las Vegas businessman running for U.S. Senate as a member of the Tea Party of Nevada.
Ashjian faces charges of felony theft and drawing and passing a bad check. He’s accused of bouncing a $5,000 business check in 2009.
Bernie Zadrowski, Chief Deputy and supervisor of the Bad Check Unit, said the case is being treated like any other.
Ashjian made headlines last week when he was attacked by members of the Tea Party Express, who claimed they had never heard of him before he filed as a Tea Party candidate.
A video posted on YouTube claimed Ashjian was a fraud and told him to, “Get lost.”
A judge in Carson City has set an April 14 hearing on a lawsuit that challenging his membership in the party and his place on the ballot.
http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/22989731/detail.html
Is he Mooselip?
Pray for America
Attacked? They sure seem to be throwing that word around lightly these days. Guess I’m going to go attack my plate of pancakes.
Any conservative that would vote for Scott Ashjian needs their azz kicked. All he’s doing is trying to assure harry reid gets reelected.
A vote for this ashjian clown is a vote that doesn’t count and it doesn’t help conservative causes.
They say the charges were dropped but that doesn’t mean he didn’t owe the 5 grand. I notice they were dropped AFTER he paid the 5,000. That is common practice as it serves no purpose to send him to jail after he ponies up the money he owed. The real tea party people aren’t falling for this BS. This is a Reid tactic to try and split the vote.
I think Reid is involved in this too though the only press I hear on this guy is negative so it looks like he's getting squashed right out of the gate....so far anyway.
Even Geraldo ripped him up on his show last week so hopefully he'll be a non issue in the election.
Ashclown?
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