Posted on 03/07/2018 6:46:17 AM PST by MarvinStinson
In Brazil, this would be all fine, and no one would say a word.
Poontang costs money, honey.
This won’t hurt Alcee Hastings with his constituents on bit, they love it when he sticks it to the man.
It is also possible that Hastings and his marauding band may have committed other federal crimes besides possible government fraud, serial misuse of public office, confiscation of tax dollars, etc. Hastings and his gang may have engaged in other questionable activity:
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government (involves several felonies and could include forgery);
<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and other possible offenses including civil and/or criminal RICO violations.
<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government),
<><> 18 U.S.C. §241 (Conspiracies Against Civil Rights)
Mobilization of full investigations centering on Hastings et al’s involvement in RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) they are employed by or associated with a govt enterprise (2) that engaged in undermining public safety and adversely affected interstate commerce and that (3) Hastings managed the enterprise (4) through a “pattern” (5) of racketeering activity, and that (6) taxpayers and children of taxpayers were injured by reason of a “pattern” of racketeering activity.
<><> Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §241 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.
Taxpayers should demand investigations by the following agencies commence at once:
<><> FBI — Wire Fraud Division
<><> IRS-Law Enforcement Unit
<><> DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General,
<><> Dept of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.
<><> DOJ’s Criminal Division— Public Integrity Section
<><> DOJ Criminal Division—Organized Crime Section.
<><> IRS Criminal Investigation Division
<><> Dept of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security
CONTACT: enforcement@SEC.gov
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Comment Line: 202-353-1555
Switchboard: 202-514-2000
From what I read, it sounds more like he is ‘sticking it’ to the women.
washingtonpos.com
How a congressional harassment claim led to a secret $220,000 payment
By Kimberly Kindy and Michelle Ye Hee Lee
January 14, 2018
(Black female) Winsome Packer had a plum overseas assignment, an apartment in Vienna and a six-figure salary as an adviser to a Washington congressman when it all came crashing down.
Her boss, Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-Fla.), suggested that he should stay with her when he was visiting Austria, she claimed. He made comments she considered sexually suggestive and hugged her in a way she felt inappropriate.
Hastings denies that he harassed her, and one of his attorneys claims Packer created “a fiction” with her accusations, which were made under a process Congress set up to handle sexual harassment claims against its members.
The contentious case dragged on for four years, and in the end Packer was awarded $220,000 in one of the largest secret settlements paid out in recent years by the congressional Office of Compliance.
But both sides say the process is unfair and abusive to the accuser and the accused. Packer said she has not recovered from the harrowing legal fight, and Hastings said his reputation was damaged. As lawmakers prepare to unveil bipartisan legislation as early as this week that would alter the current system for handling such claims, both Packer and Hastings said their dispute reveals a broken law that must be fixed.
Packer lost her job and is unemployed. She had to agree not to discuss her case, but she recently broke the pledge, calling it “a license to abuse and demoralize the victim completely.”
Packer: ‘Members of Congress are not induced to change their behavior’
Winsome Packer explains why she believes members of Congress accused of sexual misconduct will never change their behavior. (Video: Ashleigh Joplin/Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
Hastings believes Packer should never have received a settlement, which he said he played no role in negotiating.
“The way it is being framed is I participated in something secret,” Hastings said in a recent interview. “I wasn’t in the mediation session. I wasn’t part of the settlement negotiations. I secreted nothing. We need greater transparency. I personally have no objections to releasing any and all information.”
House Employment Counsel lawyers, who represented Hastings, declined to discuss the case because of the confidentiality agreement. However, a June 12, 2014, memo from that office shows the lead attorney on the case believed the system allowed for “manufactured legal extortion.”
The attorney said Packer took a “kernel of truth” about Hastings’s sexually tinged comments but “grossly distorted events and circumstances in order to create a fiction that she experienced sexual harassment and intimidation,” the document says. For example, the attorney alluded to an incident in which Hastings told Packer he had trouble sleeping after sex, which Hastings said he shared only because he believed they were friends, not because he was pursuing her sexually.
In the end, Packer’s doggedness played an outsized role in her securing a larger-than-average settlement, documents and interviews show. She refused to settle early, pressed forward with a lawsuit and represented herself when she could no longer afford an attorney.
A flawed process
Settling sexual harassment cases on Capitol Hill is risky for members, whose careers can derail if allegations become public, and for accusers confronting a system that victims’ advocates argue protects the powerful.
The process may run up tens of thousands of dollars in private legal bills for both parties and consume months or years of staff time.
And there is no accountability for the use of taxpayer funds to settle cases. Strict confidentiality required under the law keeps secret the names of members and terms of settlement agreements.
Congress is now considering amending the 1995 Congressional Accountability Act, the law governing how harassment cases are handled on Capitol Hill, after seven members have either resigned or said they would not seek reelection in the wake of sexual harassment allegations. Attorneys who handle these cases say most staffers take no action because they fear it could hurt their careers.
The claim Packer brought against Hastings in 2010 illustrates flaws in the process and the bitter aftereffects it can have on both the accuser and the accused.
Hastings is a criminal felon, and he will always be a criminal felon but he thinks he can get away with it because he’s a Black Congressman and knows the media and his constituents will ignore it.
We never should have allowed representation without taxation; the Founding Fathers didn’t. Democratic politics is simply the art of transferring the wealth of Republicans to Democrats, nothing more. People are paid for government jobs and for not working - and both vote the straight “D” line.
“Hot Dog” Tommy Robinson was a republican. Jerry Jones’ daughter was on his payroll and Robinson said he didn’t know what her duties were. He was a republican. More Dems do it. But the repubs enable it.
It’s Broward county folks...
I’m sure both parties do it, but I’m sure it is more widely done by urban Dems - simply because their constituents don’t care: It isn’t their money anyway. Who would complain? Why?
So, he was sticking it to women and having US pay for it ?
That’s about the size of it (smirk)......
the true hard facts.
Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings (Fla.)
A real piece of crap.
Impeached as a federal judge for taking bribes in connection with drug busts.
STill his hood feels it necessary to elect and re-elect this ass clown criminal.
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