WHOA🔥 South FL mayor busted in FBI sting👉🏼charged w/#MoneyLaundering‼️

[Wwcd]

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This is where it gets wild

A seemingly improbable tale of how $8,000 stuffed into a Dunkin’ Donuts bag was converted into *campaign checks* written by several #Russian🇷🇺donors.”

[Zoonart]

1. Holy CRAP!

[dalton99a]

2. The video clip is worth watching

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article196985709.html

[RKP5637]

3. K&R! n/t

[Wwcd]

7. Thanks that clip is good. Where else in 2016 was this happening?!

From twitter link. Good discussions happening on this.

Grant Stern:

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"We don't have a Mexican problem, We have Russian problem"

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[sarah FAILIN]

8. Agreed

"You don't know where to put a period."

Good stuff about the Russian involvement in money laundering get too.

[catbyte]

4. My fave reply: " Expecting cops to not look inside a donut bag--BIG mistake."

[sarah FAILIN]

9. I think the cops brought the donut bag, lol

That's what they gave the cash to the lawyer in. Too funny!

[Takket]

11. LOL!!!!!!!!!

yeah maybe they should stuff the money between the pages of a Playboy magazine and ask a 16 year old boy to deliver it next time. might have better luck! LOL

[Quixote1818]

5. These kind of stories might start popping up all over the country now. nt

[Afromania]

6. I'm looking at that Gatorade Bottle she's got on the desk there.

You have to wonder if it's actually water......

[dalton99a]

10. Costco vodka

[crazylikafox]

12. What's her party affiliation?

I can't seem to find it in any of these links.

[Codeine]

13. Shes a Democrat, unfortunately.

https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=62976

[hexola]

14. Reveal a Dem first

Might be a strategy...

[crazylikafox]

15. yep. Setting up the "both sides do it" defense

[Wwcd]

18. And From Kansas- Former Jackson County Executive, his Chief of Staff plead guilty to federal charges

Campain donations were distributed via scam.
OPEN THE BOOKS. DEMAND TRANSPARANCY & ACCOUNTING FOR EVERY DONATION GIVEN.


"Because Sanders and Williford are so connected to the Kansas City community, prosecutors came from the Department of Justice in Washington to present the case."


https://www.kshb.com/news/crime/sources-former-jackson-county-executive-facing-federal-charges


Former Jackson County Executive, his Chief of Staff plead guilty to federal charges

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Former Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders and his former Chief of Staff Calvin Williford pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to defraud political campaign funds,

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The news release from the Department of Justice said Sanders and Williford defrauded political committees that Sanders was affiliated with by converting campaign contributions for their personal use.

Sanders and Williford misappropriated the money by directing the political committees to issue checks to certain people who performed little or no campaign-related work. Instead, those people cashed the checks and then returned a portion of the money to Sanders or Williford, who used the cash at times to pay for personal expenses.

MORE...

[C_U_L8R]

27. I think we may have a blind spot...

there's no reason Russians wouldn't try to conspire with Democrats as well as Republicans. Probably a good strategy on their part... given that all our attention is on Republicans. Just sayin'.

[Wwcd]

29. Russians don't care what Party one is. They have one agenda.

Anyone who can be used, will be used.

My opinion anyway.
All crime littered roads lead to Moscow.

[dlk]

16. Have Russians Infiltrated the Entire Republican Party?

[7962]

21. Well, this woman is a Democrat, so maybe BOTH?

[Wwcd]

23. Mueller's & FBI's list of indictments includes mostly Repubs but also other political affiliations

Neither Mueller nor the Kremlin cares what Party they belong to.

If the Kremlin can use you, Mueller will find you.

This story doesn't begin nor end with one Democrat.
It's just the first name out there.

[renegade000]

25. Likely both, but...

my impression is GOP is likely in Stage 3-4 (to use a cancer analogy), whereas Dems are at Stage 0-1.

[PatrickforO]

17. This Russia treason will take down the entire Republican party

They used to be the party of Lincoln.

They used to be the Grand Old Party.

When Eisenhower was in power, and later when he wrote his brilliant essay on why he was a Republican, Republicans actually had empathy and compassion, but simply believed in less government and a wider range of market solutions.

Now they are corporate-funded, empty minded, immoral, greedy, radical libertarian traitors who will go to the trash heap of history.

It is hard to have the words to express my utter disgust with these people.

Maybe TRAITOR says it. But traitors to the whole human species, not just this country.

[Wwcd]

19. Money flowed like water into campaigns & diverted into personal pockets

I'm betting this is so widespresd. Greed and access to millions of $$$.
It bought votes, media bias, & personal property.

Wonder when accountability in every campaign, to every donor, large & small will be open to FBI & the public's eyes.
Time to open all the campaign books.

Financial fraud was clearly rampant in 2016

[BadgerMom]

20. K and R

[FakeNoose]

22. Is this really money-laundering?

To me it just looks like illegal campaign contributions - from a foreign source. Cash payments with no records kept. Yes it's illegal as hell. But money-laundering is something else and it has a different purpose entirely. When someone accepts illegal cash and exchanges it for "legal" cash or funds, that's money-laundering. When a real estate company sells an almost worthless property for a large amount of untraceable cash from an unnamed buyer, that's money-laundering. The unnamed buyer then sells the property for cash that's now legal in the US economy, and the person has funds that can be deposited in a US bank and used again. Trump's real estate company has been doing for his Russian buddies for the last 20 years.

OTOH I don't believe campaign contributions are the same as money laundering, since the funds are never returned to the original donors.

[Wwcd]

26. The story probably goes farther & deeper than this one case.

I hope she's told all she knows as the Feds make their way to bigger fish & bust open the connection to RU, Trump & his position & S Fl properties.
Looking forward to where this story leads.

[RDANGELO]

24. They probably considered this an investment for the future.

Hoping that she would eventually become a prominent Florida politician. Shows a long outlook.

[Wwcd]

28. Yup. An investment for the long outlook.

Exactly.
Feds have made their way up the chain to her & with her revealing what she knows, will make their way to the next in line till they connect it to the top dogs.
She's just another fish on their way to the final big catch.

Stay tuned.
As someone mentioned, "watch S Fla Trump properties."