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Beware Of Donations

  Author:  5940  Category:(News) Created:(4/24/2022 12:33:00 PM)
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Brian Kolfage, the founder of a viral campaign to pay for Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, admitted to federal prosecutors Thursday that he pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars donors gave to his cause.

Kolfage has agreed to serve 51 to 63 months in prison, return the more than $17 million he raised for his his “We Build the Wall” campaign, pay more than $140,000 in unpaid taxes and pay $20,000 to $200,000 in fines as part of a plea agreement over false income taxes he reported in 2019.

“I induced donors to opt to the new project in part through the misrepresentation that I would not profit from We Build the Wall or take a salary or compensation,” Kolfage read from a prepared statement in a virtual court appearance Thursday. “I knowingly and willingly conspired to receive money from the donations.”

The conservative activist and conspiracy theorist admitted to siphoning $350,000 away from donors ― spending it on a boat, luxury vehicles, jewelry and plastic surgery ― despite promises he made not to take a cut of the funds or take any salary for his fundraising job.

I knew what I was doing was wrong and a crime,” said Kolfage, who once insisted when the charges, filed shortly before the 2020 presidential election, were entirely “politically motivated, considering the timing of it.”

Kolfage was arrested in the summer of 2020 alongside former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and two other men involved in the scheme. While Trump pardoned Bannon of any charges in the final moments of his presidency, he did not do the same for Kolfage and the other defendants.

One of them, Andrew Badolato, also pleaded guilty to wire fraud Thursday and faces more than four years in prison. The other, Timothy Shea, has pleaded not guilty.



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Date: 4/24/2022 12:36:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 5940    I The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good.

Greed is right.

Greed works.

Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind.

And greed -- you mark my words -- will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.

Gordon Gekko
  
Date: 4/24/2022 12:45:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 5940    You can fool some of the people sometimes. And that’s more than enough to make a decent living.

W.C. Fields
  
Date: 4/24/2022 12:49:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 5940    The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

― Groucho Marx
  
Date: 4/24/2022 2:00:00 PM  From Authorid: 21435    "Money, it's a crime
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away."....."MONEY" by Pink Floyd

MONEY! All I want (at the moment, anyway) is enough to purchase 750 ml of a name brand, 23 year old, single barrel, bourbon whiskey.

"L.D."---Twenty three years old, eh? I'm sure that "they" had to put the stuff on sale, `cause it's so old.

kronk---The advertisement claims that "the deal, is a steal," at "only" $8,763. (American)

"L.D."---WHAT !!!! Do you know how many pounds of "turkey innards" you could purchase with that much money?

kronk----Oh, MONEY___MONEY___MONEY !!!
  
Date: 4/24/2022 4:27:00 PM  From Authorid: 13969    I thought Mexico was supposed to pay for that.  
Date: 4/24/2022 5:22:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 5940    LOL! I know, right? ^^^^^  
Date: 4/24/2022 6:46:00 PM  From Authorid: 21435    Hey Larry I never donate to any of those causes.

"L.D."---Oh, so you don't care?

kronk---On the contrary, my furry friend. I care a lot. I have eyes and ears, and form my "own" conclusions about "the needy" and what I may be able to do to help.

"L.D."---Sounds like a "cop-out," to me. Give me an one example, where you even offered to help?

kronk---Only one? OK, then....Earlier this year, I volunteered to station myself at one of the remote border crossing.

"L.D."---Oh...I may have misjudged you. So, you volunteered to tend to the needs of the thousands of immigrants, surging across our southern border?

kronk---No, of course not. I have no talent for such things.

"L.D."---Well, "what" did you volunteer for?

kronk---I volunteered to shoot human traffickers, drug smugglers and coyotes.

"L.D."---What a humanitarian.
  
Date: 4/25/2022 5:11:00 AM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 5940    See, that’s why you need to build a wall……. Oh.  
Date: 4/25/2022 3:13:00 PM  From Authorid: 21435    Hey Larry "L.D." here: I'm sure that it's obvious to all that kronk is a "murdering swine."

kronk---Hey, now, hold it right there, dog! I never murdered anybody. I never so much as fired a shot. Actually, I thought better of it and withdrew my proposal.

"L.D."---HA! What a crock! "They" tested your vision and determined that you'd be more of a liability, than an asset.

kronk---Where do you get your information? My vision is a perfect 20/10.

"L.D."---HA HA HA ! More like 20/500! "They" figured you'd have a 4.5 percent chance of hitting what you were aiming at, 20 feet away.

kronk---Ugh!
  
Date: 4/25/2022 3:24:00 PM  From Authorid: 21435    There's that picture of "Bridgette Bardot," in the lower left hand corner, again.

"L.D."---Forget about that! I have a "serious" question for you.

kronk---Well, spit it out.

"L.D."---Regarding that W.C. Fields quote, that Hey Larry shared: How many people do you think we'd have to fool, in order to make a decent living?

kronk---At the rate that you eat red meat; probably about a couple hundred thousand.

"L.D."---I think it's doable. How far away is Delaware?

  
Date: 4/25/2022 5:33:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 5940    You get the Bridget Bardot ads and I get the History Pictures for Mature Audiences ads. When I click on my ads I see a picture that is tastefully pixelated showing the first Pilgrim Nudist Colony when The Mayflower arrived…….  
Date: 4/26/2022 6:59:00 PM  From Authorid: 21435    Hey Larry Later, when I logged on, the ad was about a "folding kayak."  

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