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NFL Player Fraudulently Obtained $1.2 Million in Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program Loan A National Football League (NFL) player has been charged for his alleged participation in a scheme to file fraudulent loan applications seeking more than $24 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan of the Southern District of Florida, Special Agent in Charge Michael J. De Palma of the IRS-Criminal Investigation (CI)...

NFL receiver Josh Bellamy has been charged and arrested for allegedly participating in a multi-million dollar Paycheck Protection Program loan fraud scheme, the Department of Justice announced Thursday. According to the Justice Department, Bellamy, along with talent management company owner Phillip J. Augustin and several others, applied for PPP loans worth more than a combined $24 million. At least 42 of the requested loans were approved to the tune of some $17.4 million, the department said. Bellamy allegedly received a loan of $1,246,565 for his company Drip Entertainment LLC. He then allegedly used the loan to buy more than $100,000...

French conservative Les Républicains leader Laurent Wauquiez is set to name hardliner François-Xavier Bellamy to lead his party’s list for May European elections. The nod has been criticised within the party for pushing LR yet further to the right. Unknown to the general public, the 33-year-old Bellamy is an unabashed conservative and a rising star in French conservative circles. A deputy mayor of Versailles since 2008, the young philosophy professor has authored two remarked-upon book-length essays. He notably also took part in the inception of Sens Commun, a political movement that grew out of the Manif Pour Tous anti-gay-marriage rallies...

Laughing & rolling on the floor.....Michael Wolff & Steve Bannon, remind me of the two "Greedy, Cheating, Nutcases" Ralph Bellamy & Don Ameche in the 1983 "Eddie Murphy & Dan Aykroyd, comedy, Blockbuster film, "Trading Places"!!! And...I can clearly imagine Wolff & Bannon, becoming homeless seeking shelter under a cardboard box in the middle of the winter with no shoes on...broke with no money, begging on the street, shunned by all people of dignity, truth and honesty. How any sane human being could spend one cent on this disgusting tome of falsehoods, is beyond me. But, millions will buy it...

There are ways many of us were taught to behave when we're in a public setting, let alone at a government meeting. All of that went out the window during the latest official gathering in Charlottesville; a gathering that decried violence while progressives disrupted and essentially took over the over six-hour hearing, requiring law enforcement to quell their "free speech". Given the props brought by some in the audience, the disruption of traditional and civil government decorum was planned in advance.

When a Republican presidential candidate says something deemed offensive, his words are never forgotten and always used against him. If a liberal says things offensive, it's not only blown off but he or she could also be a vice mayor! When offensive video of then-candidate Donald Trump was unearthed by the Washington Post as the 2016 presidential campaign "October surprise", his words have been held against him to this day. CNN only mentioned two of Bellamy's offensive Tweets and accepted his explanation instead of having him answer for each individual post they could have, and would have found had he...

Charlottesville Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy published several tweets between 2009 and 2014 using gay slurs, comments against white people, lewd slang for female genitalia and other profanities. Many of the old tweets show a stark contrast between his more recent posts lauding women’s and LGBTQ rights. Bellamy made his Twitter account private this Saturday.

On this day 71 years ago -- December 22, 1942 -- Congress got the United States out of what had turned into an unexpectedly embarrassing situation. It concerned the Pledge of Allegiance -- specifically, something called the Bellamy Salute. Most people today have likely never heard of it, but the Bellamy Salute was once a constant part of the country's life. Until 1892, there was no such thing as a Pledge of Allegiance. Daniel Sharp Ford, the owner of a magazine called Youth's Companion, was on a crusade to put American flags in every school in the country. He sensed...

Normally I would be the first to join any effort to “shake my fist in the tyrant’s face” but two recent incidents of spontaneous Pledge Of Allegiance outbreaks at League Of Women’s Voters Debates gave me pause. The Pledge Of Allegiance is one of those spooky weird artifacts of Americana that require close examination by any patriot, Three Percenter or Oathkeeper before they join or support mindless recitatives at various public functions. Read More…

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - A congressional hopeful wrecked his car and wandered a mile in a daze, swimming across a river and then huddling under leaves for warmth until he was found alive a day later, officials and relatives said. Gary Dodds, 41, was taken to a hospital to be treated for hypothermia late Thursday. His wife, Cynthia, said Friday that he was doing well but has only foggy memories of his ordeal and "definitely had a good bump to the head." Dodds crashed on the Spaulding Turnpike on Wednesday evening, but emergency workers who arrived a few minutes later found...

THE United States yesterday announced it was suspending its funding of Kenya’s anti- corruption measures, amid a mounting sleaze crisis in the country.The British government said it was also reviewing contributions, following the resignation of Kenya’s leading anti-corruption official. The announcement is the latest setback for the government of Mwai Kibaki as he attempts to roll back 24 years of rampant sleaze under the former regime of Daniel Arap Moi. His most senior corruption fighter, John Githongo, resigned on Monday amid mounting international criticism that Kenya was dragging its feet on reform. Yesterday, William Bellamy, the US ambassador to Kenya,...

<p>The big debate now before the United States Supreme Court is over whether the words "under God" should remain in the Pledge of Allegiance as recited by schoolchildren.</p> <p>I've been doing some research into the matter and after careful consideration I have to say that it's not the phrase "under God" that's troubling. It's the pledge itself.</p>