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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Freedom Convoy --- Somebody's grift.
$5 million collected from rubes. Truckers ain't seen any of it.
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The Freedom Convoy --- Somebody's grift. (Original Post)
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bottomofthehill
(8,318 posts)1. Please correct to temper tantrum convoys
As that is what they are.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)2. "Suckers" - Republican-Russian Grifters
The Republican-Russian skumbuckket grifters behind the Trumpker Tantrum ripoff are laughing at the people they suckered all the way to the bitcoin bank. This is so Republican--to dupe their True Beeleevers into emptying their pockets for shit
Johonny
(20,820 posts)3. They put the con in convoy for a reason
Tanuki
(14,914 posts)4. Leader has a history of fraud and exploitation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/03/04/peoples-convoy-donations-fraud-afclf/
.. "They want to do something, so they give. In this case, to the AFCLF Foundation, which launched last year and names as its executive director a Texas woman named Pamela Milacek, whose arrest is sought, records show, by authorities who allege she violated the terms of her community supervision after pleading guilty to felony fraud and exploitation charges in 2020.
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They dont trust the government, but they are placing their trust in the nonprofit group, which lists among its top issues election integrity on a website decrying ideological discrimination, big tech censorship, cancel culture and forced COVID vaccinations.
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In 2020, Milacek pleaded guilty to felony exploitation of an elderly person after taking nearly $15,000 from the bank account of her then-81-year-old aunt, Collin County, Tex., court records show.
Milacek, 57, also pleaded guilty to a separate felony charge of fraudulently using someones name, Social Security number and drivers license number to apply for a PayPal credit card in 2017, court records show. The case involved a different victim.
Milacek received community supervision and deferred adjudication in the cases, court records show. In October, after authorities said she failed to report to her supervision officer, pay court costs and complete an anti-theft program, a judge ordered a warrant for Milaceks arrest. The Collin County Sheriffs Office said this week they have no record of her having been arrested."...(more)
.. "They want to do something, so they give. In this case, to the AFCLF Foundation, which launched last year and names as its executive director a Texas woman named Pamela Milacek, whose arrest is sought, records show, by authorities who allege she violated the terms of her community supervision after pleading guilty to felony fraud and exploitation charges in 2020.
...
They dont trust the government, but they are placing their trust in the nonprofit group, which lists among its top issues election integrity on a website decrying ideological discrimination, big tech censorship, cancel culture and forced COVID vaccinations.
...
In 2020, Milacek pleaded guilty to felony exploitation of an elderly person after taking nearly $15,000 from the bank account of her then-81-year-old aunt, Collin County, Tex., court records show.
Milacek, 57, also pleaded guilty to a separate felony charge of fraudulently using someones name, Social Security number and drivers license number to apply for a PayPal credit card in 2017, court records show. The case involved a different victim.
Milacek received community supervision and deferred adjudication in the cases, court records show. In October, after authorities said she failed to report to her supervision officer, pay court costs and complete an anti-theft program, a judge ordered a warrant for Milaceks arrest. The Collin County Sheriffs Office said this week they have no record of her having been arrested."...(more)
Ray Bruns
(4,081 posts)5. "$5 million collected from rubes. Truckers ain't seen any of it."
And they never will.