Georgia Insurance Commissioner Beck Indicted

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Beck, a Republican, on Thursday sent a letter to Gov. Brian Kemp - who had called for his resignation - asking to be suspended pending the outcome of the case. Kemp then signed an order suspending Beck, and the governor is expected to name a temporary replacement.

While he is suspended, Beck will continue to draw a $120,000 commissioner’s salary.

Impressive representative of/for the conservative, christian, moral majority. Don't wish to spoil the fun for those having heard nothing about this yet. I leave the details to those who respond..

Spoiler: for the lazy

• The Republican Culture of Corruption hardly ends in D.C., however. On Tuesday, Georgia's newly elected Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck was indicted on 38 felony counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. Before reportedly being elected on Georgia's 100 percent unverifiable voting systems last November, Beck allegedly used a fraudulent scheme to embezzle money from a state-run insurance association he ran through several private companies he ran and then to the Georgia Christian Coalition. He has refused to resign but, on Thursday, the state's new (and similarly corrupt) Republican Governor Brian Kemp "suspended" him, whatever that means, while Beck fights the 38-count federal indictment;

• In Michigan on Wednesday, state Rep. Larry Inman was indicted on charges of attempted extortion, soliciting a bribe and lying to the FBI. (Trump better have plenty of ink in his pardon pen!) According to text messages included in the indictment, the GOP super-genius texted a union rep for contributions in exchange for his and his colleagues votes against a measure that would repeal a law requiring union wages, along with the text message: "We never had this discussion";

• But, of course, there are dirty Dems as well. But Republicans are so corrupt these days, they are even letting THEM off the hook...for some odd reason. A high-profile law firm in Boston was found by Federal Elections Commission staff investigators to have unlawfully reimbursed its attorneys for campaign contributions to Democrats to the tune of more than a million dollars in donations. The FEC lawyers recommended a further investigation to the FEC Commissioners, but they voted 2 to 2 on party lines to end the case without any further probe. You'll be shocked to learn the 2 Republicans on the Commission voted AGAINST the further probe, while the Democrat and Independent appointees both voted in favor of it. FEC Chair Commissioner Ellen Weintraub, the lone Democratic appointee, told the Boston Globe: "In every case, it doesn't matter whether Democrats or Republicans are subject of the complaint, the Democrats want to enforce the law and the Republicans don't. It's an ideological opposition to enforcing the law." That sounds about right. It's a Republican Culture of Corruption;

 

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Jimmy Claude Beck Sr.’s first campaign report in February of 2018 showed he’d raised $1 million in a few months, and like most politicians would, he bragged about it in a press release, promising to be an insurance commissioner “who is accountable to the people of Georgia and not the special interests.”


What the release didn’t say was that almost all the money came from loans and contributions Beck made to his own campaign.

According to a 38-count indictment released last week, some of that money may have been fraudulently obtained. Federal prosecutors say at least some of it came from an elaborate scheme to steal $2 million from his former employer.