http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/fraud/ en-us Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:27:41 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2076095/posts Sen. Joe Biden's son, Delaware Attorney General Joe Biden, III, made a big splash last June from afar when his office interrupted a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. in order to execute an arrest warrant against Larry Sinclair issued months earlier through a grand jury sealed indictment. As Sinclair was wrapping up his press conference where he laid out sex and drug allegations against Sen. Barack Obama, D.C. police, acting on an extradition order obtained by AG Biden, handcuffed Sinclair and took him into custody. He was held in a D.C. jail for days before... Advance Indiana http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2076095/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:27:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075653/posts A Clayton man convicted of lying to the government about his military service and submitting more than $18,000 in false disability claims was sentenced to 3 years in prison in a federal court in Virginia this afternoon. Randall A. Moneymaker will also serve 36 months of supervised release after his prison term and must pay $18,449 in restitution and a “special assessment” of $600 to the court. Moneymaker was convicted in March in Roanoke, Va., where he has also said he lives. Prosecutors refuted Moneymaker’s claims that he had seen combat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Panama and Grenada by producing... Raleigh News & Observer.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075653/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 23:28:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075141/posts Dear Mary, Democrats.com was born at the August 2000 Democratic convention in Los Angeles where Al Gore was nominated for President. That November, Karl Rove and Florida's Secretary of State Katherine Harris stole the election. While the theft was in progress, we organized "Count Every Vote" protests all across the country, helped the Congressional Black Caucus formally object to the counting of Florida's stolen electors (a scene made famous in "Fahrenheit 9/11"), and protested George Bush's inauguration in Washington DC. Please help our friends at the Secretary of State Project stop Republicans from stealing the 2008 election. Bob Fertik When... PUMA people voting McCain/Palin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075141/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 06:58:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074826/posts Former State GOP Chairman Forms Group To Support Democrat PORTLAND, Maine -- Maine's Sen. Barack Obama campaign has announced the formation of a group calling itself "Maine Republicans for Obama." The group is headed by former Maine Republican Party Chairman Robert Monks and former Republican state Rep. Sherry Huber. At a press conference Wednesday in Portland, Monks and Huber spoke in support of Obama in his campaign against Republican John McCain. Maine GOP Chairman fired back at Monks. He said Monks has a long history of attacking Republicans including Margaret Chase Smith. He said that if the Obama campaign wants... WBAL Baltimore http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074826/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 21:04:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073086/posts GENEVA (Reuters) - George Clooney has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama by headlining an exclusive event for Americans in Geneva, one of the world's most affluent cities. The Hollywood actor and director, fresh from the world premiere of the Coen brothers' comedy "Burn After Reading" in Venice, slipped without fanfare into the Swiss city on Tuesday for his first appearance on behalf of the Democratic nominee. Some 170 contributors have paid $1,000 a head to attend a cocktail party with Clooney at a museum in Geneva's Old Town on Tuesday evening. And 75... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073086/posts#comment Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:56:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072639/posts Consumerist reports an Associated Press release that Steve Warshak, 42, was found guilty of 93 counts of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering. His 75-year-old mother, who has cancer, was found guilty of conspiracy and other charges, and was sentenced to 2-years, but is free pending appeal. US District Judge Arthur Spiegel, in Cincinnati, OH, denied Mr. Warshak's request to remain free pending appeal, but gave him 30 days to wrap up his affairs and report to prison. Besides Enzyte, Washak's company, Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals, who also distributes products to boost energy, manage weight, reduce memory loss and aid sleep, will... slashdot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072639/posts#comment Mon, 1 Sep 2008 22:35:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071641/posts Then in 1999 an obscure young US physicist, Michael Mann, came up with a new graph like nothing seen before. Instead of the familiar rises and falls in temperature over the past 1,000 years, the line ran virtually flat, only curving up dramatically at the end in a hockey-stick shape to show recent decades as easily the hottest on record. This was just what the IPCC wanted, The Mediaeval Warming had simply been wiped from the record. When its next report came along in 2001, Mann's graph was given top billing, appearing right at the top of page one of... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071641/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:44:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070977/posts For months, Barack Obama has complained about the poverty his family suffered while earning a mere $200,000 per year. Last night he ridiculed his political opponent for a joke he had made about high-income earners qualifying as “middle class.” Last night, the man who opposed welfare reform bragged that while serving in Illinois he had “moved more families from welfare to work.” The man who misled the public for four years about his vote to let a Chicago-area hospital continue leaving premature abortion survivors to die, and who promised that his first act as president will be to re-legalize partial-birth... nationalreview.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070977/posts#comment Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:02:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070534/posts Owners of All-Med Billing Corp., the couple submitted a whopping $420 million in false Medicare claims on behalf of 85 medical equipment companies in South Florida. They collected a 5 percent commission on $148.5 million paid to those businesses by Medicare between 1998 and 2004. MiamiHerald.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070534/posts#comment Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:17:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070209/posts So government auditors have uncovered evidence of fraud in Medicare. Or rather, more fraud. The politicos lingering around Washington can barely keep a straight face as they claim to be shocked. A draft report by the inspector general of Health and Human Services -- circulating on Capitol Hill and leaked this week -- determines that Medicare may have paid $2.8 billion in improper or fake claims for medical equipment in 2006. That's an error rate of 31.5%, in a single corner of this colossal entitlement. "This report doesn't surprise me," fumed Democrat Pete Stark. Glad to hear the Congressman is... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070209/posts#comment Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:16:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070194/posts I am fairly new here. So I feel a little odd writing this. But the Republicans here in Florida do such a bad job of getting the news out about how to volunteer, I felt I had to get the word out on my own. In FL each party is allowed to have Poll watchers inside the precincts. The Republican party trains volunteers, Democrats usually use attorneys. If you are interested, you can contact the local Republican party HQ for your county. They train you in a 2-3 hour class and give you study materials. Later you are assigned a... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070194/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:52:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068854/posts Sacramento -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who promised not to sign any bills until lawmakers reach a budget deal, reversed his position today and signed a bill for a statewide bullet train system that he strongly supports. The governor also wants to make exceptions for three other proposals that he has been promoting: budget reform; changing the state lottery to allow California to borrow against future ticket sales; and a bond proposal for water infrastructure. The high-speed rail legislation will replace a $10 billion bond measure on the November ballot with a revised version of the proposal that makes the bullet... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068854/posts#comment Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:29:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068812/posts The Internet provides vast amounts of information but it can also spread vast amounts of misinformation, or even deliberately misleading disinformation. For more than two weeks, scarcely a day has gone by without e-mails pouring in to me, asking about columns that someone has written and brazenly spread around the Internet with my name on them. Most of these e-mails have come from regular readers who are savvy enough to recognize columns that have a different style and substance from my own columns. We usually think of "identity theft" as involving using someone else's name for economic fraud. But identity... GOPUSA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068812/posts#comment Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:55:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068733/posts Speaking of Minnesota . . . Stephen Spruiell is sussing out the Twin Cities in advance of the Republican National Convention, and reports on the GOP's latest platform draft over on the homepage. Spruiell finds the platform plank on immigration, for example, is worded in such a way as to avoid driving a wedge between McCain and his conservative base: The passages on global warming provide another example. The draft acknowledges that human activity is contributing to warming and calls for “measured and reasonable” steps to curtail it. Policymakers should support solutions that are “technology-driven, market-based,” and not fall prey... Planet Gore/National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068733/posts#comment Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:01:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067871/posts http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5649093&page=1 Barack Obama's vice-presidential pick complicates the Democratic hopeful's efforts to distance himself from a far-reaching Chicago patronage scandal. Vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del. (left), has been advised since 1984 by Joseph Cari (right), the Chicago lawyer and onetime mega-fundraiser who has been tied to the Antoin "Tony" Rezko patronage scandal. (ABC News)Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., brings to Obama's presidential campaign assets like foreign policy experience and a knowledge of Washington. But he also brings another tie to the Antoin "Tony" Rezko scandal, a mess that has already caused sizeable headaches for the Obama campaign. Chicago lawyer and onetime... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067871/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:23:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066968/posts In June, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate to quell speculative charges that he might not be a natural-born citizen. But the image prompted more blog-based skepticism about the document's authenticity. And recently, author Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks Obama, said in a TV interview that the birth certificate the campaign has is "fake." We beg to differ. FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a... FactCheck.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066968/posts#comment Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:09:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066123/posts LAGOS - Nigeria's anti-corruption police were questioning the head of the stock exchange after she organised a gala dinner in support of Barack Obama's U.S. presidential campaign which raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066123/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:44:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035149/posts Broad, invasive provision touches nearly every aspect of American commerce. ~~~ Hidden deep in Senator Christopher Dodd's 630-page Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America’s small businesses. The provision, which was added by the bill's managers without debate this week, would require the nation's payment systems to track, aggregate, and report information on nearly every electronic transaction to the federal government. *** Call Congress and Tell Them to Oppose The eBay Reporting Provision in the Housing Bill: 1-866-928-3035 *** FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey commented: "This is a provision with... FreedomWorks http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035149/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:04:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065845/posts A voting system used in 34 states contains a critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central tallying point, the manufacturer acknowledges. The problem was identified after complaints from Ohio elections officials following the March primary there, but the logic error that is the root of the problem has been part of the software for 10 years, said Chris Riggall, a spokesman for Premier Election Solutions, formerly known as Diebold. The flawed software is on both touch screen and optical scan voting machines made by Premier and the... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065845/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:43:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065616/posts Thousands in Africa Lied about Families To Gain U.S. Entry The State Department has suspended a humanitarian program to reunite thousands of African refugees with relatives in the U.S. after unprecedented DNA testing by the government revealed widespread fraud. The freeze affects refugees in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Guinea and Ghana, many of whom have been waiting years to emigrate. The State Department says it began DNA testing with a pilot program launched in February to verify blood ties among African refugees. Tests found some applicants lied about belonging to the same family to gain a better chance at legal entry.... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065616/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:11:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2065591/posts Bruce Watson, freelance blogger writes: When I was a student, there were many semesters when I spent less on food than on school books. I learned, from experience, that starvation is sometimes better than the 50th serving of lentils in a row, that there are only so many ways that ramen can be prepared, that $20 worth of raw materials can translate into a month's worth of hummus, and that sugar packets "liberated" from the local Burger King can be used to make Kool-aid, yielding a refreshing, almost free source of Vitamin C. I had always considered myself an expert... Wallot Pop Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2065591/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:44:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065181/posts WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2008, 6:18 p.m. By Larry Sandler City refers 32 more to DA for voter fraud Milwaukee's election chief turned 32 more voter registration workers in to the district attorney's office for possible prosecution today, after they tried to submit falsified registration cards. That brings to 39 the number of registration workers under scrutiny, and the number could grow, Election Commission Executive Director Sue Edman said. An organization warned the commission staff late this afternoon about some questionable cards in the latest batch collected by its workers, Edman said. All of the workers targeted for investigation were paid... Milwaukee Journal Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065181/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:30:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062905/posts SANTA ANA – Five men appeared in federal court Wednesday to face charges that they made and sold counterfeit identity and immigration documents, authorities said. The five men, all Mexican nationals in the United States illegally, were arrested Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Anaheim police officers, ICE officials said. Luis Rosas, 32, of Anaheim, Guillermo Ramirez-Yanez, 43, of Anaheim, Geraldo Reyes-Reyes, 40, of Fullerton, Jose Albert Reyes-Garcia, 19, of Fullerton; and Marcelo Macias-Alejo, 37, face up to 10 years in prison if convicted. [snip] The group charged $70 for a set of documents that included a... The Orange County Register (CA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062905/posts#comment Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:37:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2062578/posts Irrefutable evidence indicates that Obama’s campaign has been doing business with CSI, which appears to have been operating fraudulently in the State of Maryland and Ohio, and ACORN, which has been associated with a laundry list of fraudulent business practices. The full nature of the relationship between ACORN and Citizens Services Inc is not known but this much is clear: both share the same address in New Orleans and officials with CSI refer folks to ACORN for questions about “political consulting” and Get-Out-The-Vote” activities. These are questions that mainstream media should examine. Texas Darlin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2062578/posts#comment Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:34:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2055311/posts Jerome Corsi's expose The Obama Nation jumped to the #1 slot in most book sales charts yeterday during it's first day of release destroying competition in non-fiction and political book sales. Scrupulously sourced with more than 600 footnotes, The Obama Nation is the result of that research. By tracing... ...Meanwhile rumours circulated online of readers visiting local bookstores such as Barnes & Noble only to find that the book was no where to be found. In certain stores, Obama supportive employees are apparently... Meanwhile purchases of Nancy Pelosi's newest release continued to plummet as she maintains her low, low, low... PDOP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2055311/posts#comment Sat, 2 Aug 2008 12:30:35 GMT