Bobby Harrell Responds To Indictment
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Lock his ass up and throw away the keys we need to clean house in the next elections starting with Haley.
We desperately need RECALL elections in this State. Many State’s have them and we need one too. We have the foxes guarding the hen house and the elected legislature Policing themselves! THIS NEEDS TO END!!!!!
I WILL NOT VOTE FOR AN INCUMBENT, STARYING WITH HALEY!!!!!!!!!
Bills for voter recall have been submitted before to the House. Needless to say, they died. Need I say why?
Damn right, 10 years after.
https://groups.google.com/group/abc_politics_forum/attach/bffc08a9ac35c5ad/03%20-%20Stoned%20Woman.mp3?part=0.1&authuser=0&view=1
Our prayers are with the Pinson and Harrell family, too bad we can not yet include the Benjamin family family in our prayers. 2 down many more to go.
“I’m innocent. I ain’ done nuffin.”
“JEAN, WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU????”
“JEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
HAHAHAHAAHAHA!
Check around the bars for damaged park cars tonight.
hahahaaha!! …. You know she is worried now. And so is Casey Manning.
That’s a particularly ignorant remark. Neither of these judges is running for re-election. Neither has any social, professional, or business dealings with Harrell.
Harrell should remember that the no big deal defense didn’t turn out too well for Bob McDonnell in Virginia. But, all of Harrell’s charges are misdemeanors. McDonnell’s were felonies. So, I suppose that is good for Harrell. But, from a practical political perspective, his career in elective office is over.
Felonies, Sconset …. Felonies, too.
“Bobby Harrell responds to indictment”……..wwwaaaaaaa,wwaaaaa, sobb, sooobbb, snort, sniffle, waahaahaa, sobbing uncrollably,,wawawawawawa, choke wawa.
Well that is nothing, MUSC just appointed a new interim dean who was making 400-500k per year in monies not reported in her conflict of interest statement. Pisano fired last week and moved out rapidly. Seems lots going on down there.
Etta Pisano single handedly destroyed MUSC. Drove so many good faculty away and did so in such a short time. No longer nationally ranked for any speciality. Bankrupted MUSC as well. Now she’s taking a year sabbatical on state money. What a way to f-ck the taxpayer!
Annie: you know nothing. Any staff that is gone needed to go. MUSC is still nationally ranked in many specialties. MUSC had a very good year and is not bankrupt. You need to get your facts straight before you slander or liable MUSC and it’s leadership.
It’s “libel,” not “liable,” but we get the point. Annie could be liable for libel though.
Annie: you know nothing. Any staff that is gone needed to go. MUSC is still nationally ranked in many specialties. MUSC had a very good year and is not bankrupt. You need to get your facts straight before you slander or liable MUSC and it’s leadership.
Harrell Reacts (not responds)
Harrell: — from “I have done nothing wrong” – to > “I have never intentionally …. “
The next step is “I haven’t done anything intentionally wrong that I can recall…“
Sorry, Roger Goddell already used the “that I can recall” line today. It is limited to one a day, right?
Sorry Harrell … you baboon … Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse ….. especially in your case.
When Will Harrell Be Arrested? That is the next step here.
Daniels will go down with the ship.
Bart Daniel’s 1967 Attorney General Opinion … blows dust off the almost FIVE DECADES (50) year old crumbling document ,,,,, . It’s just an opinion. that’s all. Hey Bart? Are you still trying to use Windows 95????
Hey Bart? Are you still trying to use Windows 95????
Commodore 64
From Radio Shack.
(A Tandy company.)
There’s *nothing* you can’t do with 64k! .. and a full 8″ floppy disk caddy.
I started with a Vic-20 as a kid…and a tape player…when I finally got a 64 I felt I had “arrived”…lol
I hacked in to “Wilbur” at Texas Tech in 1980 with a TRS-80 Model II, and added myself to a class of BA students so I could run WATFOR jobs with no time limit so I could debug my EE Fortran programs before submitting them. They gave us a total of one second of CPU time on the 360.
Now, I have a 2600k Intel Processor overclocked to 4.4GHz with 20GB of memory, 3 flat screen monitors, 5 TB of storage, another Windows 7 64 bit machine, a 64 bit laptop with 1TB storage and 8GB memory, all networked with a Ubuntu Linux server, printer, 2 band 300Mbs wifi, 30 Mb/s ISP down and 5 Mb/s up, Visual Studio .Net 2013 C# compiler, IAR Arm cross compiler and embedded debugger attatched to an NXP 3250 with 256k of memory running at 240Mhz….
and this shit is slow as molasses!
This post, more than any other goes a long way towards explaining the “Max” behind the mask.
Someday I’ll fill you in on the suicide mission in Croatia. Assmanistan.
Real or virtual?
I was watching the expendables.
Ahhhh
I hear rumors that Tandy Leather is going to introduce a Jenny Sanford doll. Supposedly, you work the leather, stretch it, and form it to make her face and other epidermal features.
1967? You have got to be kidding me. The prosecutor was not even born when that opinion came out. Come on Bart you are better than that. That should be the first sign Bobby is going down.
I have said all along that I have never intentionally violated any law, and I still strongly believe that statement to be accurate
Let me guess: “My heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.”
I have said all along that I can’t believe I will ever be caught.
PERRY/HARRELL 2016!
PRO TIP (for the GOP):
Go big or go home.
[shock]
what… what about Palin/Bachmann?
I bet no jail time. LOFTIS is next ….. Good luck putting cuffs over those hands!
It’s all a midlands and upstate plot to demean and degrade Charleston!!
Just read the comments.
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20140910/PC1603/140919942/1177
Its his friends down there making the comments. The NIX526 gang (6000 members) – and tens of thousands of others – about to harp all over him. Tomorrow the artillery and exchanged start. Arrest warrants are being prepared. Not sure when they will be executed. Likely Harrell will be asked to turn himself in.
Major Networks flying into to the state now to cover the story.
Damn! Those are the voices of the fucktards who keep voting him and Slimehouse back in, over and over. I wonder if the State could suspend the voting rights of anyone who voted for him more than once in recent elections for a few years, in hopes their judgment would get better.
We desperately need term limits and recall elections,,,,desperately!
Yes we do, John Boy!
Charleston is a Greenville wanna be!!!
All smoke and mirrors. Charleston is sooooooooo overrated!!!!
If convicted on all counts, Harrell faces a maximum sentence of 18 years in state prison. When federal charges are brought, he could face another 20 years. It would not be Double Jeopardy.
TV crews are out front of Harrell’s house?
Jody will take care of Bobby’s wife while he is in prison. And Big Bruce will take care of Bobby.
As Leatherman and Company rob this state blind, we are paying attention to this minor stuff. We need to look at real crimes.
Cannot a string of misdemeanors, if taken together, be consider a pattern of criminal activity that bumps it up, collectively, to a felony?
That’s the theory behind RICO, right?
Short answer: No. Predicate crimes for RICO must be felonies.
Haley is the biggest blunder in SC history ! Where’s the news ! Lapping Tax-payer money. Is this new to SC ?
It’s republican stew. SC it it’s finest. Haley and 20 others should be in prision. Treason against SC and the USA.
Hey Harrell? Don’t worry, boy …. You can still sell insurance for State Farm after you get out of prison. And Daniels and Howe can work in the prison law library! Justice is Blind, eh? But it sure as hell put a big spot like on your lawless self. Now whatcha going do? What will your circle of corrupt crony land developers do? Are they destroying their hard drives like the IRS????
Wilson certainly out foxed Harrell the Mastermind of House Corruption, and then some. You can bet Jean Toal is fuming about it, too. That woman needs to join Harrell.
Get him Att Gen Wilson … the people of South Carolina are proud of you, sir!
Harrell’s friend over at the Beach Company in Charleston will be losing a lot of sleep, I am sure.
House Speaker Bobby Harrell indicted on nine counts in corruption probe
By Jeremy Borden and Schuyler Kropf
All of the charges against Harrell are considered misdemeanors, but one misconduct in office charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in state prison. If convicted on all counts, the Charleston Republican faces a maximum sentence of 18 years in prison and close to $40,000 in fines.
Merrill added that “people are innocent until proven guilty,” but that the House pro tempore, the House’s second-in-command, Rep. Jay Lucas, R-Hartsville, could step in, as the process would allow.
Lucas said he expects Harrell to step aside.
State law calls on Harrell to essentially suspend himself because he has been indicted for a crime that carries a more than two-year sentence, Lucas said. “The speaker would have to suspend himself as a member of the House,” he said. “I fully expect the speaker to comply with the statute.”
Specifically, the charges allege that Harrell:
Reimbursed himself for “non-existent” round-trip flights from Charleston to Columbia on Jan. 8, 2009; March 13, 2009; May 4, 2009; and Sept. 9, 2009. Harrell claimed the trips were official trips on campaign finance disclosure forms. Harrell faces separate charges for each alleged made-up flight.
Unlawfully paid himself $70,286 from his campaign account, which appears to have been used to pay an assistant at his private business. “Defendant claimed these expenditures were for an administrative assistant when in fact the Defendant gained an unlawful personal benefit,” the indictment says.
According to court papers, $93,958 was used for Harrell’s private airplane. Also, $70,286 was paid to an administrative assistant for the speaker’s private State Farm business, the indictment alleges. Some travel reimbursed for $96,381 was personal, according to court papers.
The speaker also sought to cover up the payments by changing entries in his pilot logbook, creating schedules of flights for the basis of payments and “misinforming” law enforcement and the House Ethics Committee about the reasons behind the reimbursements.
In March 2009, Harrell allegedly traveled and reimbursed himself $3,874 to fly to a high school baseball tournament in Florida. He allegedly marked the trip as “legislative travel.” The indictment characterizes the trip as being on his private airplane that carried himself, friends and family.
Now with indictments secured, Harrell’s offices, his homes, his business’, the homes of his employees, his family members, the homes and offices of his business cronies in land development, highway construction, you name it, are all subjected to un-announced raids by SLED and the Richland County Police Dept with Search Warrants in hand .. not to mention SUBPOENAS.
This case is going to be staying in the headlines for a very very long time.
Bobby Harrell…….over the years ……I started taking pictures of my RENTAL CARS when I was on travel to document the condition of the cars so the rental car companies could not gouge the taxpayers..!!
You mean that you do not understand how to use the camera on your phone to document the DATES that you used your plane…??
Miles flown….gas used…..passengers…….airport location……??
Bobby…we highly suggest you call Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott and Jim Clyburn and then call a PRoSECUTOR named TREY GOWDY …..!!!
Bobby………..you may want to get Mayor Riley and Tim Goodwin and Kieth Summey and Tim Collins on a conference call….!!!
Wil Folks is going to ………OWN the Post and Courier….!!!
Lies!
I hope Howe & Daniels empty Harrell’s bank account like the outgoing tide.
His Plane … His Plane … Look, His Plane …. Expensive to operate even on an Insurance Sales Mans pay, eh? And then three 70 grand automobiles …. 2 boats …. 4 residential properties … Where Does Bobby get all of his money from?
He drives one of those little BMWs (dark blue, like the SC flag) that cost $70,000… way more than the average annual income of the households of the peasants he represents…
“I have said all along that I have never intentionally violated any law, and I still strongly believe that statement to be accurate,” Harrell said in a statement.
IGNORANCE OF THE LAW IS NO EXCUSE.