Wisconsin: Trump campaign files lawsuit to restore election integrity

The suit includes four cases with clear evidence of unlawfulness, such as:

• illegally altering absentee ballot envelopes,
• counting ballots that had no required application,
• overlooking unlawful claims of indefinite confinement, and
• holding illegal voting events called Democracy in the Park

Additionally very specific allegations pertain to directions from the Wisconsin Elections Commission that are contrary to state law. Municipal clerks issued mail ballots to voters circumventing state voter ID laws for such ballots. Furthermore Wisconsin statues allow ONLY a voter to cure a ballot.

The date, time and manner of conducting federal elections is within the purview of the state legislature --  Not a rogue governor via executive order, not a partisan activist hack Secretary of State, not one or a body of black-robed activist judges, not an unsigned consent decree.

From the press release:

President Donald J. Trump’s re-election campaign filed a lawsuit to the Wisconsin Supreme Court following the campaign's requested recount to uncover fraud and abuse that irrefutably altered the outcome of this election. Today's suit includes four cases with clear evidence of unlawfulness, such as illegally altering absentee ballot envelopes, counting ballots that had no required application, overlooking unlawful claims of indefinite confinement, and holding illegal voting events called Democracy in the Park. These unlawful actions affected no less than approximately 221,000 ballots out of over the three million ballots cast in Wisconsin. 

The Wisconsin Elections Commission directed municipal clerks to illegally alter incomplete absentee ballot envelopes contrary to Wisconsin law. Clerks were instructed that they could rely on their own “personal knowledge,” or unspecified “lists or databases at his or her disposal” to add in missing information on returned absentee ballots. Under Wisconsin law, incomplete absentee ballots must be corrected by the voter, and only the voter or they may not be counted.

In another example, municipal clerks issued absentee ballots to voters without requiring the mandatory application, in direct conflict with Wisconsin’s absentee voting safeguards. Wisconsin law expressly requires that absentee ballots may not be issued without receiving a written application requesting the ballot. Despite clear statute, clerks in Madison and Milwaukee issued thousands of absentee ballots without collecting a written application during the two-week in-person absentee voting period that ran from October 20, 2020, through November 1, 2020

Voter identification is an essential requirement in Wisconsin to ensure only eligible voters cast ballots. In Madison and Milwaukee, voters were fraudulently permitted by election officials to circumvent voter ID laws and claim an absentee voting status that is only to be used for voters who are indefinitely confined under the circumstances that they are physically ill, infirm, elderly, or disabled. More than 20,000 voters claimed that status and received and returned ballots without providing proper identification and without meeting the requirements for that status, and those ballots should not be counted in accordance with Wisconsin statute. 

Finally, the city of Madison created unlawful polling locations at over 200 parks and city locations through their Democracy in the Park voting events. These voting events were held outside of the county’s approved polling locations and did not follow the state’s strict absentee voting requirements. Not only did they not follow the law, but Joe Biden’s campaign encouraged this unlawful voting, advertising these events as opportunities to vote and telling voters to bring their completed ballot to turn in or their incomplete ballot to have a so-called “poll worker” serve as a witness. Voters are not allowed to turn in their absentee ballots anywhere other than the designated polling locations, and any ballots illegally cast there should not be counted.

“The people of Wisconsin deserve election processes with uniform enforcement of the law, plain and simple. During the recount in Dane and Milwaukee counties, we know with absolute certainty illegal ballots have unduly influenced the state's election results. Wisconsin cannot allow the over three million legal ballots to be eroded by even a single illegal ballot,” said Jim Troupis, counsel to the campaign. “We will continue fighting on behalf of the American people to defend their right to a free and fair election by helping to restore integrity and transparency in our elections.”

"As we have said from the very beginning of this process, we want all legal votes and only legal votes to be counted," said Rudy Giuliani, former New York City Mayor and Personal Attorney to President Trump. "Americans must be able to trust in our election results, and we not stop until we can ensure voters once again have faith in our electoral process."

View the suit here: 

Another aviation safety issue in Miami- this time it's bribery

A former Federal Aviation Administrator (FAA) safety inspector was sentenced to 75 months in prison after a jury convicted him of twenty-one criminal counts related to his participation in a bribery and fraud scheme, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami, Florida announced yesterday.

Over a three-year period Manuel R. Fernandez, 42, of Miami,served as a FAA Aviation Safety Inspector with the FAA South Florida Flight Standards District Office (“FSDO”). Patricia Suarez and Rolando Suarez were the co-owners, officers, and directors of AVCOM, a Miami aviation repair company, which was subject to the jurisdiction and official responsibility of the FAA South Florida FSDO.  

The evidence showed that, at the same time he was working for the FAA, Fernandez also held various positions at AVCOM, including Vice President of Operations.

Miami, Florida - In exchange for Patricia Suarez and Rolando Suarez corruptly providing over $150,000 in cash, as well as jewelry, a cruise, clothing, and approximately $15,000 funneled to Fernandez’s mother, Fernandez violated his lawful and official duties as an FAA Aviation Safety Inspector.  

Fernandez provided AVCOM with advanced notice and warnings as to pending FAA inspections of AVCOM, disclosed financial information about AVCOM’s competitors, and provided AVCOM with improperly obtained aviation repair manuals produced by original equipment manufacturers such as Honeywell and Delta, saving AVCOM from paying vast sums of money for this proprietary information.  

The evidence further showed that Fernandez provided materially false statements to the FAA and DOT in order to hide his participation in these AVCOM-related activities. Additionally, Fernandez submitted a fraudulent sick leave request to the FAA, utilizing a forged doctor’s note.

Read the rest here.

This conviction comes on the heels of County Examiners coverage here, here and here of the former American Airlines mechanic in Miami charged in Federal court with sabotage of an airline. 

A jury trial date is set for Abdul Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani on December 9, 2019. The case is 1:19-cr-20603 in United States District Court, Southern District of Florida.

Mexican national pleads guilty to illegally using social security number to obtain employment

The United States Justice Department, Eastern District of Louisiana announced on Thursday a Mexican national pled guilty and was sentenced for illegally using a social security number that was not his to obtain employment.

According to a press release Gregorio Galaviz-Zamora, age 60, a native of Mexico, was sentenced to time served and will be remanded to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for removal proceedings.

Court document show he submitted a fraudulent Form I-9 application and used a fraudulent social security card in the name of another person (emphasis mine):

"According to court documents, prior to August 14, 2019, Galaviz-Zamora submitted a fraudulent Form I-9 application in order to obtain employment with a construction company. He attested on the form that he was someone else. He used a fraudulent Social Security card in the name of the other person which also contained that person’s actual Social Security number as verification. In order to finalize employment with that company, he was required to take a safety course at another location on August 14, 2019. He once again provided the fraudulent Social Security card and number as proof of his identity, but an employee suspected the card was fraudulent and alerted Customs and Border Protection. Subsequent record checks confirmed his real identity."