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BlueToTheBone

(3,747 posts)
Wed Aug 22, 2012, 11:06 PM Aug 2012

FBI, Miami-Dade police target Democratic primary candidate with possible ties to Congressman David R

Source: Miami Herald

The FBI and Miami-Dade police have opened separate criminal investigations into the campaign of a Democratic congressional candidate who, vendors say, was aided by GOP Rep. David Rivera. (A Republican of course)

Federal agents gathered campaign records, invoices and began interviewing employees at two mail and data companies used by Democrat Justin Lamar Sternad’s primary campaign. Sternad spent about $43,000 in unreported cash and checks on mail services, a witness told The Herald and authorities. Some of the money was stuffed in envelopes bulging with $100 bills.

Federal law required Sternad to quickly report any contributions — including loans —just before the Aug. 14 primary, which he lost to Democrat Joe Garcia, a longtime Rivera rival who Sternad bashed in one of his 11 mailers.

Rivera, investigators suspect, was behind the sophisticated mail campaign run by Sternad, who was an unknown political newcomer and hotel night auditor.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/22/2963954/fbi-dade-police-probe-democrats.html



Another case of election fraud. No wonder they are so concerned with it...they project.
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FBI, Miami-Dade police target Democratic primary candidate with possible ties to Congressman David R (Original Post) BlueToTheBone Aug 2012 OP
Was Sternad a DiNO? A straw man Rivera set up, hoping to knock down in the election? Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2012 #1
Of course they project election fraud... IthinkThereforeIAM Aug 2012 #2

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,002 posts)
1. Was Sternad a DiNO? A straw man Rivera set up, hoping to knock down in the election?
Wed Aug 22, 2012, 11:29 PM
Aug 2012

DiNO = Democratic in Name Only

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