Former Florida Dem Brown gonna go away for a very long time – PB/TK
Corruption Conviction of Former Rep Illuminates Larger Problem for Democrats – By • 05/12/17
On May 11, Clinton superdelegate, member of Hillary Clinton’s Florida Leadership Council, and former Democratic Congresswoman Corrine Brown was found guilty of 18 charges involving a fraudulent charity that was never registered as a nonprofit. Brown, who lost her bid for re-election in 2016 after serving 12 terms in Congress, is expected to be sentenced within 120 days. The fake charity, One Door for Education, funded Brown’s lavish lifestyle while she evaded taxes and deceived her donors and constituents. An FBI agent testified during the case that she spent over $1,400 a month more than her reported income of $175,000 a year—on top of using funds from the fake charity to pay for parties, drinks, dinners and fundraisers. She also borrowed Florida Democratic Party Chair Stephen Bittel’s private jet to go to an NFL game. Even with the overwhelming evidence, Brown had the audacity to try to maintain plausible deniability by placing all of the blame on her chief of staff.
Brown’s behavior is a symptom of the Democratic Party, which focuses on lining their own pockets while taking voters’ support for granted. Her fraudulent behavior—hardly an anomaly among Democrats—is a result of the Democratic Party’s insistence on preserving the status quo rather than taking action to purge corruption from their rank and file members.
Continue to observer.com article: http://observer.com/2017/05/corruption-conviction-corrine-brown-democratic-party/
