Posted on 05/05/2018 2:11:31 PM PDT by Signalman
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called for a “prompt” House ethics investigation into Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.) on Saturday, following reports of allegations that he sexually abused a 16-year-old girl in 2006. Cárdenas has vehemently denied the allegations through his attorney.
“I have spoken with Congressman Cárdenas and he appropriately asked us to withhold judgment until there is a full investigation of the facts,” Pelosi said in a statement. “As Members of Congress, we each have a responsibility to uphold the integrity of the House of Representatives, and any type of alleged misconduct must be investigated by the Ethics Committee. Congressman Cárdenas said he will fully cooperate with an ethics investigation."
Cárdenas identified himself in recent days as the subject of a lawsuit in Los Angeles County.
“My client is sickened and distraught by these horrific allegations, which are 100%, categorically untrue,” Patricia Glaser said Thursday in a statement on Cárdenas’s behalf.
“We respect victims who have found the strength to come forward and call out misconduct when it has actually occurred, but the type of baseless and reckless allegations that are contained in the complaint against my client can ruin the lives and careers of innocent people,” Glaser said.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
An what's with "Cárdenas"? Can't he spell his name the American way like other assimilated Americans? Oh, wait … he's not American or not assimilated. Take your pick.
“We respect victims who have found the strength to come forward and call out misconduct when it has actually occurred, but the type of baseless and reckless allegations that are contained in the complaint against my client can ruin the lives and careers of innocent people,” Glaser said.
“We respect victims who have found the strength to come forward and call out misconduct when it has actually occurred, but these people are LIARS!”
- paraphrased for your convenience.
This got out of control with the Roy Moore accusations. Insider Republicans didn't defend him, because they hate Deplorables and would rather co-exist with Dems. Now, it's totally crazy. Why would anyone run for political office?
grrr......
“Rep. Tony Cárdenas”
Sounds to me that Pelosi has a HUGE PROBLEM with HISPANICS in positions of power. Probably true for all of the Democrat Party. Sounds about time for them to get NEW leadership, as the bunch leading now is definitely filled with ABJECT HATRED.
(hint to Republicans: This is how you PLAY BALL against this bunch)
Ah—The DIM sacrificial lamb for the mid-terms has been identified.
Withholding judgment until all the facts have been evaluated?
If only she would make her Congressional followers extend that same Courtesy to the President and conservatives.
If Trump wasn't President, she'd turn a blind eye to it. The only reason the Dems are going after other Dems for alleged sexual abuse, is to make it easier for them to go after President Trump for similar allegations. Where was their concern over Senator Menendez? There wasn't any, because Obama was President.
She’s just protecting her power.
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IRS missing billions in ID theft
Miami Herald / By Josh Lederman / FR Posted 2012 by MrChips
WASHINGTON—The IRS Service may have delivered more than $5 billion in refund checks to identity thieves who filed fraudulent tax returns for 2011, Treasury Dept investigators said Thursday. They estimate another $21 billion could make its way to ID thieves' pockets over the next five years.
The IRS is detecting far fewer fraudulent tax refund claims than actually occur, according to a government audit that warned the widespread problem could undermine public trust in the U.S. tax system.
Although the IRS detected about 940,000 fraudulent returns for last year claiming $6.5 billion in refunds, there were potentially another 1.5 million undetected cases of thieves seeking refunds after assuming the identity of a dead person, child or someone else who normally wouldn't file a tax return.
In one example, investigators found a single address in Lansing, Mich., that was used to file 2,137 separate tax returns. The IRS issued more than $3.3 million in refunds to that address. Three addresses in Florida, the epicenter of the identity theft crisis, filed more than 500 returns totaling more than $1 million in refunds for each address.
In another troubling scenario, hundreds of refunds were deposited into the same bank account—a red flag for investigators searching for ID thieves who may be filing for refunds for multiple people. In one instance, the IRS deposited 590 refunds totaling more than $900,000 into one account. http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_21218839/irs-missing-billions-id-theft (Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...
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NOTE....most of this fraud is on the basis of earned income tax credit.....
ICE's "documents and benefits fraud task force" found a common practice among "impoverished" illegals is to buy several faked identities for several thousand dollars each----the illegal then votes and rides the US gravy train under several names.
<><> Jose Madrigal---the Washington state rapist---had some 30 identities. And probably voted and collected US benefits under every single identity.
<><> Another illegal used multiple identites to bilk UI systems of some $3.5 million.
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US Dept of the Treasury Says Illegal Aliens Collecting Billions in Tax Credits According to the US Dept of Treasury’s Inspector General, more than $4.2 billion in additional child credits were paid out in 2010 to illegal immigrants. In 2005, the pay outs totaled $924 million. This program allows low income earners to claim a $1,000 per child credit. $20 billion EITC is estimated to have been paid out to these cunning "impoverished" illegals. Most of them are collecting over and over again-----using multiple identities-----falsifying official apps---claiming children they do not have and/or falsely stating kids are back in their homelands.
REFERENCE March 8, 2012 KENNER, La. -- Kenner police arrested illegal Marvin Baca who sold false W-2 forms to another illegal immigrant for $1,500. Baca sold fraudulent W-2 forms for $1,500 to other Hispanics here illegally.
Police said that on one of the forged W-2 forms had a SS no of a person living in Virginia. Police said illegal Hispanics purchase fictitious W-2 forms and file false tax returns with the government to receive EITC refunds. Baca was charged with one count of ID theft and two counts of forgery.
Packwood’s revenge.
Pelosi should be investigated for ethics fraud considering how she and her cuckold husband have gotten rich off her influence in office. While they’re at it; do the same thing for Hairy Reid, Mitch McConnell and anyone else found to use their office and position to get rich.
Their view should be nothing but bars and the cell across the hall.
“Pelosi should be investigated for ethics fraud considering how she and her cuckold husband have gotten rich off her influence in office.”
I noticed that California just passed a law mandating all new houses in the state be built with solar panels.
It’s a safe bet Pelosi has a financial interest in solar panels.
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