Pigford Settlements
Exceed $4B, Bonanza for Lawyers and Corrupt Congressmen
NARLO Files Criminal Complaint with FBI Charging Obama
and Former President Clinton with Criminal Collusion, Racketeering, Graft, and
Fraud
Obama's Illegal Payoffs to Minority
Farmers..... for votes.
NARLO
(National Association of Rural Landowners) has filed a Criminal Complaint with
the Department of Justice and the FBI against the Clinton and Obama
Administrations, in the matter of over $4 Billion in what NARLO alleges to be
illegal payouts to minority farmers that say they were discriminated against by
the U. S. Department of Agriculture (UDA) and we further allege that Clinton
and Obama did it to buy Democrat Party votes
Shortly after the release of our article in early May of
2013 entitled: "How Obama Illegally Bought the Black and Latino Rural
Vote", we filed an extensive and documented criminal complaint with the
Department of Justice and the FBI at their Washington DC Headquarters, alleging
corruption, racketeering, graft and fraud against former President Clinton,
President Obama, certain members of Obama's cabinet and others, in illegal
payoffs to Blacks, Latinos, Indians and women farmers under the 1999 Pigford
Class Action settlement agreement, or any extensions thereto, using public
funds to buy votes for the Democrat Party.
The Complaint is in PDF format and can be accessed at the link shown below. The reader can download the Complaint and attach their date and signature to it on the signature page, at their option, and then mail the Complaint with their date and signature to: "NARLO - FBI", P. O. Box 1031, Issaquah, WA 98027. We will use those signatures in a follow-up Addendum to the FBI. The more signatures there are, the greater the impact the Complaint will have.
The complete Criminal Complaint to the Department of Justice and the FBI can be accessed "HERE"
The Complaint is in PDF format and can be accessed at the link shown below. The reader can download the Complaint and attach their date and signature to it on the signature page, at their option, and then mail the Complaint with their date and signature to: "NARLO - FBI", P. O. Box 1031, Issaquah, WA 98027. We will use those signatures in a follow-up Addendum to the FBI. The more signatures there are, the greater the impact the Complaint will have.
The complete Criminal Complaint to the Department of Justice and the FBI can be accessed "HERE"
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NY
Times Confirms: Massive Fraud at USDA in Pigford; Breitbart Vindicated
“Pigford became a ‘magnet for fraud’ across the South
"I
had never heard of Pigford, so for the last four and half months, all I’ve been
doing is eating, breathing, sleeping Pigford, researching Pigford, finding
whistleblowers who are hiding in plain sight who have been wanting to tell the
story of how this was rigged."
-
Andrew Breitbart, December 2010, quoted in Daily Caller
by Joel B. Pollak 26 Apr 2013
The New York
Times reported Friday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) has likely enabled massive fraud in the Pigford series of legal
settlements, in which black, Hispanic, female and Native American farmers have
claimed to be victims of past discrimination.
The cost of the
settlements, which could exceed $4.4 billion, is the result of a process that "became
a runaway train, driven by racial politics, pressure from influential members
of Congress and law firms that stand to gain more than $130 million in
fees," the Times notes.
Among those
influential members of Congress was then-Senator Barack Obama, who made Pigford
payouts a priority in exchange for political support for his 2008 presidential
campaign among a coveted group of black voters in the rural South, the Times
reports.
As president,
Obama continued to support payouts for new groups of claimants while abandoning
a review process that had been used to fight fraud. The
aim was "buying the support" of minorities, according to the Times,
while middlemen created a "cottage industry" in defrauding the
government.
The Times investigation,
led by reporter Sharon LaFraniere, vindicates the late Andrew Breitbart, for
whom Pigford became a crucial issue in demonstrating the cynical use of racial
politics by the institutional left to hurt the very people they claimed to be
helping.
Breitbart directed investigations of the Pigford fraud and championed the
cause of the original black farmers in the lawsuit, arguing that many of them
had been left behind while opportunistic lawyers and fraudulent claimants
looted the federal treasury in exchange for votes and support.
The left, led by
the George Soros-funded Media Matters for America, attempted for years to
dismiss claims of fraud in Pigford, calling it Breitbart's "stupidest conspiracy
theory."
When Fox News picked up the story, Media Matters called it an attempt to attack "anti-discrimination
efforts."
In fact, the
5,529-word report by LaFraniere shows that Pigford and subsequent
settlements had little to do with redressing discrimination and everything to
do with politics and greed, while the true victims of discrimination
continued to suffer in obscurity.
In 2010,
Breitbart was accused by the left of using a dispute with the NAACP to disrupt
Pigford funding. That motivated him to investigate.
"I had
never heard of Pigford, so for the last four and half months, all I’ve been
doing is eating, breathing, sleeping Pigford, researching Pigford, finding
whistleblowers who are hiding in plain sight who have been wanting to tell the
story of how this was rigged," he told the Daily Caller in December 2010.
The Times story
credits Breitbart News and Rep. Steve King (R-IA) for drawing attention to the
issue.
LaFraniere and
colleagues conducted their own, independent investigation, "based on
thousands of pages of court and confidential government documents, as well as interviews
with dozens of claimants, lawyers, former and current government officials and
others involved in the cases over the past 14 years."
Secretary of
Agriculture Tom Vilsack told the Times that the settlements opened
"'a new chapter of civil rights at U.S.D.A," claiming that critics of
Pigford and other payouts were motivated by a "Pandora's box" of
hidden racial agendas.
Yet
the Times documents how Pigford became a "magnet for
fraud" across the South. "In 16 ZIP
codes in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and North Carolina," LaFraniere
writes, "the number of successful claimants exceeded the total number of
farms operated by people of any race in 1997, the year the lawsuit was filed.
Those applicants received nearly $100 million." The government let many of
the fraudulent claims slip by unpunished because "the bar for a successful
claim was so low that it was almost impossible to show criminality."
Much
of the fraud was enabled by the Clinton and Obama administrations, and by members
of Congress seeking to reward special interests. Then-Sen. Obama
sponsored new Pigford legislation in 2007, while Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ)
threatened in 2009 to lead protests against the administration if it did not
bend to the wishes of Hispanic claimants.
Meanwhile, whole
families, including young children, filed claims for past discrimination to
reap $50,000 each in cash payouts. As yet, Congress has failed to
investigate Pigford.
That may finally
change.
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Obama initiative
ignores corruption to redistribute wealth
EDITORIAL:
USDA’s Pigford fraud
Federal
judge’s ruling “encouraged a mad scramble for cash based on false claims.”
Race hustlers
are shaking down taxpayers for payoffs, and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
is falling for the scam.
The controversy
involves a discrimination claim against the USDA
for allegedly denying loans because of race. A federal judge approved payments
of $50,000 or more based on low levels of proof.
This
encouraged a mad scramble for cash based on false claims.
The “Pigford
Settlement,” an agreement that came out of the original 1997 lawsuit by Timothy Pigford
and 400 southern black farmers, resulted from some apparently legitimate
instances of discrimination. However, plaintiffs’ lawyers got involved, and the
number of supposedly aggrieved farmers grew exponentially.
Eventually, more
than 94,000 claims were filed even though the U.S. Census
Bureau never counted more than 33,000 black farmers in America during the
years in question.
In 2007,
then-Sen. Barack
Obama began working to pass legislation providing even more money for a
whole new class of claimants via “Pigford II.” This push ignored fraud in and
several convictions over the original settlement, but Mr. Obama was
advised his legislation could help him in a Democratic presidential primary
fight against then-Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton. As president, Mr. Obama rammed
this new, $4.6 billion boondoggle through Congress during last
year’s post-election, lame-duck session.
For months, the
liberal Huffington Post and Andrew Breitbart’s libertarian BigGovernment.com
have reported growing numbers of Pigford fraud
allegations. Numerous black farmers have complained they get short shrift while
grifters and lawyers get the loot. In January, these websites posted videos of
black farmers saying they brought fraud concerns to Rep. Sanford
Bishop, Georgia Democrat, but he advised them to stay quiet “as long as the
money was flowing” because otherwise “they’ll shut this thing down.” Three men
- including Eddie Slaughter, vice president of the Black Farmers and
Agriculturalists Association - agree Mr. Bishop
said this in his Columbus, Ga., office.
“Yes, I am aware
that there is fraud in the program, that’s why anti-fraud provisions were
written into the settlement,” Mr. Bishop
stated, according to the Jan. 20 Albany (Ga.) Herald. “It’s not my job to
monitor fraud in the program.”
New legislation
has USDA’s
inspector general conduct audits of disbursements, but it’s not clear why there
is a Pigford II when the original settlement was hampered by fraud.
The Washington
Times tried to get answers about ongoing or future investigations of fraud from
Pearlie Reed, USDA
assistant secretary for administration, but was given the run-around by
department spokesman Justin Dejong. All
questionable Pigford payments should be suspended until Congress
can conduct a full investigation.
1 comment:
I personally know of many blacks that never farmed in there life that recieved money from this. They where told that if they planted a garden in there back yard it was considered farming and they did infact recieve the money. I worked with three of the people who did get it. None lived outside a subdivision. They just sign again to get another round about six months ago.
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