Kenneth Gladney DOES Have Health Insurance & He's Still Collecting Money Anyway

[Stephanie]

If you'll remember, last week Gladney attended an anti-SEIU rally in a wheelchair, trolling for donations for his "medical expenses" after claiming he'd been beaten up at a HC town hall. Well guess what? He's insured. I knew this guy was a scam artist.

http://washingtonindependent.com/54511/gladneys-lawyer-hes-unemployed-insured-and-making-money-from-the-alleged-attack

Gladney’s Lawyer: He’s Unemployed, Insured and Making Money From the Alleged Attack
By Daphne Eviatar 8/10/09 3:44 PM

I just got off the phone with David Brian Brown, the St. Louis, Mo., lawyer who has appeared with Kenneth Gladney, the black man who claims he was beaten up by a bunch of Service Employees International Union members outside a town hall meeting in St. Louis. Gladney says he was just there innocently selling Gadsden flags — those flags with the coiled snake that say “Don’t Tread On Me” and became symbols of the recent GOP Tea Party protests.

Here’s the video that shows the alleged attack — and Gladney (the one in the grey polo shirt) walking around casually after the incident, claiming that an SEIU member attacked him. Meanwhile, as Daily Kos diarist KevinNYC points out in his play-by-play of the event, there’s a big white guy in a white polo shirt yelling — “they attacked him!” The guy on the video looks strikingly like his lawyer, David Brown, who now says he was a witness to the event, so he can’t officially represent Gladney.

When I asked Brown, who was in a car with Gladney on their way to see Brown’s brother, who is going to be Gladney’s official lawyer, Brown said that there’s been lots of misinformation floating around online about this case.

For one, Brown said, contrary to recent reports like this one from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Gladney wasn’t laid off and has health insurance. “He’s just unemployed,” says Brown, and “has insurance through his wife."

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Meanwhile, though Gladney appears to be just fine in the video right after he was supposedly beaten up, he showed up the next day at a tea party event in a wheelchair. At the event, Bill Hennessy, the organizer of the St. Louis tea parties, asked the crowd to donate money to Gladney to help him pay for his injuries, despite the fact that he now says he has insurance. When I asked Brown about this, he said: “Well, who doesn’t need a donation? If people want to give him a donation because he’s injured and unemployed, that’s up to them.” Brown said Gladney has raised about $1,100 in donations so far.

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Brown said he doesn’t yet have the medical report of his client’s alleged injuries, but that his lawyer brother, Andrew Beeny, will be getting a copy for the lawsuit. Brown said he didn’t know whether his brother would release the report to the public.

Fleecing the Freepers - it should be a game show on Fox.

[Stephanie]

1. Release your hospital records, Kenneth.

How do we know you were even injured at all?

[joeybee12]

2. Kick this all the way to MSM so they finally accurately cover this shit!

[loyalkydem]

3. lying as motherfucker

It amazes me this guy can be a Black Man and act like a crazed white man. So disappointing.

[Stephanie]

6. It looks like the whole thing was a set up

I'd like to hear what the Reverend who got injured has to say. This guy looks like a classic malingerer and con artist. Why was his attorney there watching the whole thing? Stinks of a set up.

[Emit]

4. And they scrubbed all the videos where they were asking for donations

See:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6272990&mesg_id=6272990

[Stephanie]

5. Wow!

Well the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6260889

Gladney did not address Saturday's crowd of about 200 people. His attorney, David Brown, however, read a prepared statement Gladney wrote. "A few nights ago there was an assault on my liberty, and on yours, too." Brown read. "This should never happen in this country."

Supporters cheered. Brown finished by telling the crowd that Gladney is accepting donations toward his medical expenses. Gladney told reporters he was recently laid off and has no health insurance.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. St. Louie bunko squad, where are you? nt