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    From Ebsell's link:

    According to the article, the theory that Obama was born in Kenya “first emerged in the spring of 2008, as Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous email questioning Obama’s citizenship.”

    The second article, which ran several days after the Politico piece, was published by the Telegraph, a British paper, which stated: “An anonymous email circulated by supporters of Mrs Clinton, Mr Obama’s main rival for the party’s nomination, thrust a new allegation into the national spotlight — that he had not been born in Hawaii.”

    Both of those stories comport with what we here at FactCheck.org wrote two-and-a-half years earlier, on Nov. 8, 2008: “This claim was first advanced by diehard Hillary Clinton supporters as her campaign for the party’s nomination faded, and has enjoyed a revival among John McCain’s partisans as he fell substantially behind Obama in public opinion polls.”

    Claims about Obama’s birthplace appeared in chain emails bouncing around the Web, and one of the first lawsuits over Obama’s birth certificate was filed by Philip Berg, a former deputy Pennsylvania attorney general and a self-described “moderate to liberal” who supported Clinton.

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    Brown, D-Florida, and her chief of staff, Ronnie Simmons, are accused of using an unregistered charity to raise $800,000 that prosecutors said they used as a personal "slush fund."

     

    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The federal corruption trial against U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown has been delayed until at least November to give her more time to hire new lawyers after her third legal team was allowed to bow out Tuesday, after just signing on to the case last week.

    Prominent Orlando attorneys Mark NeJame and David Haas filed a motion to withdraw from the case two days after taking it on, citing “irreconcilable differences” and “an atmosphere of hostility and distrust.”

    After emptying the courtroom to discuss the specifics -- which fall under attorney-client privilege -- with NeJame, Haas and Brown, Judge James Klindt agreed to the motion Tuesday, allowing them to drop Brown as a client.

    Brown, D-Florida, and her chief of staff, Ronnie Simmons, are accused of using an unregistered charity to raise $800,000 that prosecutors said they used as a personal "slush fund."

    Among the 22 federal charges against Brown are counts of conspiracy, mail and wire fraud and violation of tax laws.

    Klindt also agreed Tuesday to push the start of Brown's federal corruption trial back to Nov. 7.

    The next status hearing, which will again address Brown's issue of retaining counsel, will be at 3 p.m. Sept. 7.

    “I have the best attorneys. That is not the issue,” Brown said. “I am putting together a team, and it's just not easy to do that, particularly when you're like me -- a lawyer want-to-be.”


    NeJame said the problem was not financial. He said the reason he and Haas are stepping down is because they are friends with Brown, and you just should not represent friends.

    “There has been a lot of speculation that she was trying to drag this case on,” NeJame said. “You heard it right from the judge himself that she is not doing that. She is making every good faith effort, and we concur that it is best for her to bring on new counsel.”

    The trio confirmed they would still be friends, and Brown even sealed it with a kiss.

    "It is simply a break-up, and sometimes you break up (kiss) and you don't talk again, and sometimes you break up because it's best to remain friends," NeJame said. "We wish her the best. We continue to be friends. We will assist the new counsel in anyway, but it was best for her in our opinion."

    Brown said the case has taken a toll on her, but she is still fighting.

    “It's causing work overtime, but that's what I do anyway,” Brown said. “I'm on-call 24/7 all the time, but I still have my constituent work and campaigns is not going to change for what I'm doing as far as what I have to do for my constituents.”

    Brown's trial now begins one week before the November election.

    "I am running my campaign, and the legal team, we are pulling it together," Brown said.
    Trouble keeping lawyers

    Prominent local civil rights attorneys Betsy White and Bill Sheppard represented her when the indictment was unsealed, and attorney Greg Kehoe of Miami-based international law firm Greenberg Traurig appeared on her behalf at a hearing.

    Simmons also might have issues with his representation. Prosecutors said Tuesday that there may be a potential conflict with Simmons' attorney.

    According to a court filing, Simmons' attorney, Anthony Suarez, represented a witness who came before the grand jury that brought the indictments against Brown and Simmons. If that person gets called to testify during a trial, and Suarez has to cross-examine the witness, their history becomes a conflict.

    Former federal prosecutor Curtis Fallgatter, who is now a criminal defense attorney, said whomever Brown's new attorney is, federal court statute is that once the trial starts, the attorney can't quit if Brown runs out of money. The case has 77,000 pages of evidence documents.

    "My last case, I had a million pages, so,you don't need a large firm to do it,” Fallgatter said. “You need at least one good lawyer that knows how to handle white collar cases in federal court."

    But Fallgatter said that attorney isn't going to want to take on a case and not get paid for it, and last week following the News4Jax debate, Brown admitted she was having financial troubles.

    "But it's very, it's very challenging to balance both, you know, running a campaign and your legal bills,” Brown said.

    Fallgatter estimates representation could cost Brown up to half a million dollars. Fallgatter said Brown could get creative in paying for her attorney.

    "If the lawyer is willing, the lawyer can say, 'Well, here's my fee. And, you've got X amount of that fee. I'll take that now and put it in my account. And you'll secure the balance with mortgages or promissory notes,'” Fallgatter said.

    Fallgatter said some attorneys might be willing to take payments and that Brown could use any type of property as collateral. But Brown's financial disclosure forms to Congress show her net assets are almost zero. She has as little as $2,000 to $30,000 in cash and three outstanding mortgages worth up to $1 million, plus a personal loan that totals between $15,000 and $50,000.

    Her salary is $174,000 but that's contingent on her winning re-election this fall.

    Supporters and some notable attorneys were on hand Tuesday to sit in on Brown's case and watch the proceedings.

    Hank Coxe and former city of Jacksonville general counsel Cindy Laquidara were among those watching.

    Mary Dennis was just one of Brown's supporters outside of the federal courthouse building Tuesday. She said she knows Brown and other politicians aren't perfect.

    “They're not going to be a miracle workers, and I really do believe that they're not miracle workers and they're not going to be all good but they're not going to be all bad,” Dennis said. “I'm all for our leaders, and I'm going to stand for our leaders, and I'm going to pray for them.

    Other Tidbits

    The company’s CEO, Heather Bresch, is the daughter of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Hillary Clinton supporter.

    Bresch became CEO of the company in Jan. 2012. Prior to that, she was a lobbyist for the company. She was appointed president in 2009.

    She has seen her salary increase from $2.4 million since 2007 to $18.9 million last year,

    12 minutes ago, Capt.Storm said:

    well i just don't think we should bash the bernine supporters on here ..they were trying to keep the bitch out of the running.

    Correct me if I'm wrong but if us rightys would have registered as independents we could have voted for bernie in the primary's right?

    You don't have to register with a party in Wisconsin to do that.  Just have to make sure you vote for strictly one party in the primary.

    Just now, SnowRider said:

    Can you post a list of the convictions..??  :snack:

     

    What has she done? :lol: She has taken advantage of capitalism that you all support :bc: 

    New Record out:

    Sweet repeats # 14:  snowbeavis sings the dnc's greatest hits. Bonus Track (Trumps Tax Returns)

    I see you can't name anything specific she has done

    8 minutes ago, SnowRider said:

    Z - why are you supporting Don the Con - a bankrupt liar?  :snack:

    OMG,

    As you support the biggest political con family ever.  40 years of clinton's in politics.  What has she ever done to earn 150 million?  snowbeavis?  Care to answer? 

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    4 minutes ago, Highmark said:

    Not exactly true.

    https://www.zanebenefits.com/blog/part-1-the-history-of-u.s.-employer-provided-health-insurance-post-world-war-ii

     

    The employer-provided health insurance industry that exists today is largely the unintended result of a temporary tax break from the early 1940s. This tax break became the basis for U.S. healthcare.

    It was never a "right" like the left wants people to believe.  It was an incentive.

     

    12 hours ago, Cold War said:

    GM should of been a wake up call for everyone.

    It was, it proved that upper management will get away with anything they want, while the regular taxpayer gets screwed, as long as you can prove that your "TO BIG TO FAIL"

    What a crock of shit that was.  More people need to ask why the cost of GM vehicles keep going up if the cost of labor has gone down?  We all know, the cost of labor was the reason for gm going bankrupt according to the GM execs.

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    Yep,

    All one has to do is connect the dots between the subjects that democrats put on the top of their list of talking points.  They always need to separate talking points, if they put them together they contradict each other.

    Example, they like to talk about how bush jr was so stupid and ignorant, yet then they talk about how he was able to manipulate hillary and the rest of the dems who voted for the war in iraq. 

    1 minute ago, Capt.Storm said:

    and last i knew bernine has raised like 6 mill since..can you fawking believe it?

    And the clinton's are helping him hide it the best way they know how.  He is starting up that non-profit.  If the people that supported him can't see through this, then I honestly have misunderstood the lack of common sense among them.

    7 minutes ago, Mileage Psycho said:

    It's a staged video with terrible actors, by any chance can I interest you in a game of Three card Monte?

     

    5 minutes ago, SnowRider said:

    Hey - but freeloader254 isn't manipulated :lmao: :nuts:

    Do you two think it is unethical or not?  Wait, your both more concerned with the clinton foundation or trump's tax returns. 

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    10 minutes ago, Mileage Psycho said:

    It's not illegal to register voters while campaigning for your candidate :lol: 

     

    Momo the stupid Canadian loser leader of FSCE Trump gang :lol: 

    https://www.register.gop/

    http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/25/us/elections/voter-registration.html?_r=0

     

    The location of where she is doing it could be illegal.

    The more important question is "Is campaigning for your candidate ethical why registering voters?".  We all know the answer to that.

     

    14 hours ago, Cold War said:

    She did.

    Really, what else needs to be said. we don't need a special prosecutor, committee, investigation. She is a liar.

    Has one media outlet pulled their head out of their ass to ask her why she lied. While she is galavanting across the country taking more bribe money from pretentious rich assholes. .

     

    Of course not.  These people are all in it together.

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