How the Republican Party is Engaging in Racketeering, Fraud and Other Crimes

By Lauren Stephens | WeaponizedNews.Com | Jan 21, 2015

I allege that the Republican Party (National, State, County and other Affiliated Organizations) is engaging in fraud, mail fraud, immigration law violations, possibly bribery and other crimes as defined under Federal racketeering (RICO) law:

18 U.S. Code Chapter 96 – RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS

(4) “enterprise” includes any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity;

(5) “pattern of racketeering activity” requires at least two acts of racketeering activity, one of which occurred after the effective date of this chapter and the last of which occurred within ten years (excluding any period of imprisonment) after the commission of a prior act of racketeering activity;

Bribery – http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/201

Mail Fraud – http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1341

Fraud by wire, radio, or television – http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1343

Procurement of citizenship or naturalization unlawfully – http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1425

Interstate and foreign travel or transportation in aid of racketeering enterprises – http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1952

And (F) any act which is indictable under the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 274 (relating to bringing in and harboring certain aliens), section 277 (relating to aiding or assisting certain aliens to enter the United States), or section 278 (relating to importation of alien for immoral purpose) if the act indictable under such section of such Act was committed for the purpose of financial gain.

The Republican Party and its affiliates, party nominees and taxpayer paid (and party-funded) representatives are engaging in an ongoing pattern of fraud and deceit against the American people, specifically, their own members as well as prospective members.

The Republican Party is a membership and dues based organization. It is headquartered in Washington DC under the Chairmanship of Reince Priebus, from the State of Wisconsin. The Republican Party is incorporated. The Party is not afforded any immunity from legal, criminal or financial liability.

The Republican Party has an official platform. The platform designates what the Party principles and beliefs are and what they are not. The Party engages in various outreach and membership drives as well as fundraising efforts, based solely on their Platform and beliefs.

You can view the entire platform here – https://cdn.gop.com/docs/2012GOPPlatform.pdf

The Party (and its affiliates, party nominees and taxpayer paid (and party-funded) representatives) spend millions of dollars in fraudulent advertising, including advertising by mail, in an effort to get new members and to make current members believe that in exchange for their money, the Party will promote the Party’s platform and stated values.

Similarly, the affiliates, nominees and representatives engage in the same practice, with their fundraising efforts to get elected, get reelected, find new members, etc.

Example: Sally Jones is a pro-life woman who believes in traditional marriage. Mrs. Jones also believes that amnesty is a violation of the law and that it hurts Americans. Sally Jones is looking for a political party to join and like-minded candidates and/or elected officials that she can financially (and otherwise) support to represent and promote her values.

The Republican Party, thru its official Party platform indicates to Mrs. Jones that she should join their party because they have the same values and their candidates will promote those values.

Mrs. Jones joins the Republican Party, pays her membership dues, spends time volunteering, donates money to candidates and encourages her friends and family to do the same. When Mrs. Jones joined the Party, she indicated and agreed to support the official Republican Party platform. When the Republican Party accepted her support and membership, they indicated the same, in exchange.

Then days, weeks or months later – the Republican Party financially (or otherwise) supported numerous candidates and elected officials who did not, in fact, support the Republican Party platform, and subsequently, elected officials under the Republican Party membership did not promote the policies and values that they agreed to when they campaigned for their positions. Despite their refusal to support the Party platform, the Party and its affiliates refused to sanction or expel the non-conforming members/elected officials and in fact, were complicit in the fraud against their own members.

As an example, of one of the major parts of the official current Republican Party Platform states (verbatim):

The Rule of Law: Legal Immigration 

The greatest asset of the American economy is the American worker. Just as immigrant labor helped build our country in the past, today’s legal immigrants are making vital contributions in every aspect of our national life. Their industry and commitment to American values strengthens our economy, enriches our culture, and enables us to better understand and more effectively compete with the rest of the world.

Illegal immigration undermines those benefits and affects U.S. workers.

In an age of terrorism, drug cartels, human trafficking, and criminal gangs, the presence of millions of unidentified persons in this country poses grave risks to the safety and the sovereignty of the United States. Our highest priority, therefore, is to secure the rule of law both at our borders and at ports of entry.

We recognize that for most of those seeking entry into this country, the lack of respect for the rule of law in their homelands has meant economic exploitation and political oppression by corrupt elites. In this country, the rule of law guarantees equal treatment to every individual, including more than one million legal immigrants to whom we grant permanent residence every year.

That is why we oppose any form of amnesty for those who, by intentionally violating the law, disadvantage those who have obeyed it. Granting amnesty only rewards and encourages more law breaking.

We support the mandatory use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (S.A.V.E.) program—an internet-based system that verifies the lawful presence of applicants—prior to the granting of any State or federal government entitlements or IRS refunds. We insist upon enforcement at the workplace through verification systems so that jobs can be available to all legal workers.

Use of the E-verify program—an internet-based system that verifies the employment authorization and identity of employees—must be made mandatory nationwide. State enforcement efforts in the workplace must be welcomed, not attacked. When Americans need jobs, it is absolutely essential that we protect them from illegal labor in the workplace. In addition, it is why we demand tough penalties for those who practice identity theft, deal in fraudulent documents, and traffic in human beings.

It is why we support Republican legislation to give the Department of Homeland Security long-term detention authority to keep dangerous but undeportable aliens off our streets, expedite expulsion of criminal aliens, and make gang membership a deportable offense.

The current Administration’s approach to immigration has undermined the rule of law at every turn. It has lessened work-site enforcement—and even allows the illegal aliens it does uncover to walk down the street to the next employer—and challenged legitimate State efforts to keep communities safe, suing them for trying to enforce the law when the federal government refuses to do so. It has created a backdoor amnesty program unrecognized in law, granting worker authorization to illegal aliens, and shown little regard for the life-and-death situations facing the men and women of the border patrol.

Perhaps worst of all, the current Administration has failed to enforce the legal means for workers or employers who want to operate within the law.

In contrast, a Republican Administration and Congress will partner with local governments through cooperative enforcement agreements in Section287g of the Immigration and Nationality Act to make communities safer for all and will consider, in light of both current needs and historic practice, the utility of a legal and reliable source of foreign labor where needed through a new guest worker program.

We will create humane procedures to encourage illegal aliens to return home voluntarily, while enforcing the law against those who overstay their visas.

State efforts to reduce illegal immigration must be encouraged, not attacked. The pending Department of Justice lawsuits against Arizona, Alabama, South Carolina, and Utah must be dismissed immediately. The double-layered fencing on the border that was enacted by Congress in 2006, but never completed, must finally be built. In order to restore the rule of law, federal funding should be denied to sanctuary cities that violate federal law and endanger their own citizens, and federal funding should be denied to universities that provide in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens, in open defiance of federal law.

We are grateful to the thousands of new immigrants, many of them not yet citizens, who are serving in the Armed Forces. Their patriotism should encourage us all to embrace the newcomers legally among us, assist their journey to full citizenship, and help their communities avoid isolation from the mainstream of society.

To that end, while we encourage the retention and transmission of heritage tongues, we support English as the nation’s official language, a unifying force essential for the educational and economic advancement of—not only immigrant communities—but also our nation as a whole.

Additionally, the official Republican Party platform states, in writing, that it only supports traditional marriage and that it only supports the sanctity of life.

As we all know by now, for years, the Republican Party and its affiliates, have continuously made promises to its membership and to prospective members to entice them into giving more money, support and time to the party – who then uses it to support more candidates who clearly lack the willingness to adhere to important and materially significant parts of the official stated platform.

As we all know by now, for years, many of the Republican Party’s nominees, candidates and elected officials have completely ignored the official platform, and in fact, they have engaged in substantial efforts to further deceive members of the Republican party by not only lying about their true positions, but also lying about their core values. The United States Department of Justice stated that, just because someone is a candidate or an elected official, that does not give them the right to lie or to deceive and to do so is a violation of the law.

Incidentally, they have suffered no reduction in money from the Party, and have not been expelled from the Party. The Party continues to champion them and support them. There have been no consequences.

These acts fit the very definition of racketeering and fraud, under the above mentioned federal laws of the United States of America.

I believe it is in this country’s best interest for the Attorney General to pursue RICO charges against the Republican Party, its leadership and its affiliates.

 

Author: Lauren Stephens is the Owner of Conservative Campaign Consulting – Fresno California