A.G. Gancarski
Rat on the kingpin, and avoid prison.
That’s the strategy in a sentencing memorandum from Carla Wiley, one of the co-conspirators with Corrine Brown in the One Door for Education case.
Wiley, along with her former boyfriend Ronnie Simmons (Brown’s erstwhile chief of staff), is to be sentenced along with Simmons next Wednesday — a day before the sentencing of Brown herself.
Wiley testified for the prosecution in the Brown trial, outlining how a doomed love and circumstance led to fraud on a felony scale.
She outlined something key to the prosecution case: a narrative that Brown had a key role in orchestrating the scheme.
Wiley’s charity and consulting business served as a pass-through for One Door donations, which went to lavish travel for herself and Simmons.
When asked if she engaged in “fraud” for One Door, Wiley said yes – and that Brown and Simmons did also.
Brown and Simmons were the rainmakers, raising all but “two or three thousand dollars” of the $800,000 brought in, she said. Wiley got her cut though: spending $140,000.
“Immediately after being confronted by investigating agents, Ms. Wiley obtained counsel and quickly began providing truthful cooperation in the Government’s investigation,” the memo asserts, describing her cooperation as “early and significant, leading to the indictment of a then-sitting member of Congress and her chief of staff, and ultimately to the plea and cooperation of Mr. Simmons, her testimony and his testimony at trial and the conviction of Corrine Brown.”
The memo asserts that Wiley’s “significant role” in the scheme that went on for three years is outweighed by her cooperation. Also asserted: that Wiley has “no significant risk of recidivism.”
Notable: one of Wiley’s attorneys, Justin Fairfax, will be the next Lt. Gov. of Virginia, elected in the Old Dominion’s anti-Trump wave Tuesday.
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Eunice Barnum
November 9, 2017 at 3:43 am
Wiley’s “significant role” in the scheme that went on for three years is outweighed by her cooperation. Also asserted: that Wiley has “no significant risk of recidivism.”
Notable: one of Wiley’s attorneys, Justin Fairfax, will be the next Lt. Gov. of Virginia, elected in the Old Dominion’s anti-Trump wave Tuesday.”
Questions:
So, Wiley’s “significant role” in the scheme that went on for three years is “outweighed” by her cooperation with the prosecutors.
1.) So, does that means that all of Congresswoman Corrine Brown’s great accomplishments of bringing billions, billions, and billions of dollars to her State of Florida, including $100 millions for this same Federal Courthouse, where they are trying to seal her fate; does her accomplishments “outweighs” her part in the scheme as well? Look at her long list of accomplishments; then, please advise.
http://corrinebrownlet.org/
2.) Where were all of these people who were at work daily, taking home paychecks weekly, monthly, and yearly, at the Department of Corporations, IRS, the Banks and the rest; but, allowed this to go on for so long without immediate intervention. Whose job is it to make certain that corporations are legitimate, when they are operating as a business? This seems to me that it also identifies a breakdown in the Checks and Balances, and Accountability!! It appears that folk are not doing their J-O-B-S. Where is the protection of the Public, and the Citizens? This puts the whole Public at risk of being taken advantage of. They allowed the donors to be taken advantage of far to long. Now, who is going to reimburse them their donations? It seems to me that various Heads of Departments, and certain employees should also be held as parties to these cases.
Sincerely,
Eunice Barnum
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