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The Freedom Convoy --- Somebody's grift. (Original Post) 3Hotdogs Mar 2022 OP
Please correct to temper tantrum convoys bottomofthehill Mar 2022 #1
"Suckers" - Republican-Russian Grifters Achilleaze Mar 2022 #2
They put the con in convoy for a reason Johonny Mar 2022 #3
Leader has a history of fraud and exploitation Tanuki Mar 2022 #4
"$5 million collected from rubes. Truckers ain't seen any of it." Ray Bruns Mar 2022 #5

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
2. "Suckers" - Republican-Russian Grifters
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 10:38 AM
Mar 2022

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

Tanuki

(14,914 posts)
4. Leader has a history of fraud and exploitation
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 10:42 AM
Mar 2022
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 don’t 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 someone’s name, Social Security number and driver’s 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 Milacek’s arrest. The Collin County Sheriff’s Office said this week they have no record of her having been arrested."...(more)

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