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Balrog0 01/29/18 4:21:55 PM #1: |
for pork barreling, basically
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/jan/29/arkansas-lawmaker-pleads-guilty-wire-fraud-money-l/?breaking FORT SMITH State Sen. Jake Files pleaded guilty Monday afternoon in federal court to charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering. Files was charged in a federal complaint of misusing state General Improvement Fund money and in pledging a forklift that he did not own as collateral for a bank loan in 2016. After his plea hearing, Files was released on a $5,000 signature bond pending sentencing. The FBI executed a search warrant against Files in August in relation to violation of federal wire fraud and money laundering laws, according to federal court records. An affidavit states Files put to his own use more than $25,000 in state General Improvement Fund money he had obtained for the defunct River Valley Sports Complex project on Fort Smith property. Files admitted he falsified bids for water line work for the complex that was awarded to an employee. The employee said she turned over to Files the General Improvement Fund money that Files obtained for the project and that he used it to pay workers of his construction company and give employee bonuses, pocketing the remaining cash. The Fort Smith Republican who has served in the state Senate since 2011. But scumbag FBI can't stop lying to take down good conservative people http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/jan/26/erred-in-woods-probe-fbi-agent-testifie/ The U.S. Department of Justice alleges Neal and Woods, both of Springdale, took kickbacks in return for steering a total of $550,000 in state grants to Ecclesia College in Springdale. The kickbacks, according to the government's indictment, were passed through a consulting firm owned by Randell G. Shelton Jr., a mutual friend of Woods and Ecclesia President Oren Paris III. Woods, Shelton and Paris face trial April 9. Neal and Woods, both Republicans, also accepted kickbacks in return for directing $400,000 in grants to a Bentonville nonprofit organization called AmeriWorks, according to the government's case. Neal pleaded guilty Jan. 4, 2017, to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud, admitting that he took two kickbacks totaling $38,000 in exchange for directing the grants. He has not been sentenced. Neal secretly recorded about 140 hours of conversations with Woods using a recorder disguised as a writing pen, according to his testimony Thursday. Those audio recordings have become a matter of dispute in the case. Thursday's hearing concerned a motion by defense attorneys to dismiss the indictment against Woods, Paris and Shelton because the government failed to disclose the existence of the 79 additional recordings. Neal recorded Woods from about March 30, 2016, until at least October of the same year. Some recordings were given to defense attorneys, but the defense did not learn of the 79 additional audio files until Nov. 15, 2017. --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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