Betcha don't see any of this on MSM!

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Quote: BETO’S FAMILY FELONY

Dick Morris
www.westernjournal.com [1]
17 Mar 2019

Fifteen times between May 5, 2005, and October 6, 2006, an unidentified customer walked into Charlotte’s Furniture Store in El Paso, Texas — an establishment owned by Beto O’Rourke’s mother, sitting on a site partially owned by Beto himself — to buy furniture.

He must have needed a great many sofas and chairs. On each visit to the store, he spent between $22,000 and $50,000 in cash.

Over the year and a half, this unidentified customer dropped a cool
$630,745 in cash shopping for furniture.

Then Beto’s mom divided the cash into separate piles [2] of less than
$10,000 each and recorded them as deposits.

Why $10,000? To avoid having to report the suspicious transactions to the IRS.

She was arrested, indicted, and, on May 11, 2010, convicted of “structuring transactions to avoid reporting requirements.” U.S.
District Judge Kathleen Cardone fined Mrs. O’Rourke $250,000.

Startlingly, neither the prosecutors nor the judge made her disclose the name of her customer, despite the obvious and natural implication that his (or her) cash stemmed from ill-gotten gains.

Beto lived under the protection of his father [3], Pat O’Rourke, the local political boss of El Paso County, Texas. Pat’s life was controversial.

In February 1983, sheriff’s deputies installing a two-way radio in his car “discovered a tied condom containing an off-white powder they believed to be either cocaine or heroin. The sheriff’s captain ordered the substance destroyed” and hushed it up.

The incident came to light several months later, in October 1983, when the captain was indicted by a grand jury on charges of official misconduct and tampering with evidence. The captain lamely said he believed the drugs had been planted by one of O’Rourke’s political enemies.

In yet another instance of covering up for his son, Beto faced only the basic DUI charges [4] for an incident involving so much more. Aged 26 — on the night of his birthday — O’Rourke was speeding on a Texas Interstate long after midnight (exceeding the 75 mph limit) when he struck a truck, crossed the large grassy median strip and came to a stop. He tried to leave the scene [5] of the accident, according to a police report, but a passing motorist made him stay. Police said he “was unable to be understood due to slurred speech, had glossy eyes, and smelled of alcohol.” His blood alcohol was measured at 0.134.

But he was not charged with leaving the scene nor with a more serious vehicular felony.

Instead, the charges were dismissed after O’Rourke completed a court-approved diversion program. The Washington Post noted that Beto’s father “had been El Paso Country judge from 1982 to 1986 and was running for the position again” at the time of the 1998 incident.

Pop’s intervention may have saved Beto once before. In 1995, at age 22, he was arrested on the campus of the University of Texas El Paso campus for “attempted forcible entry” of the University “Physical Plant” and had to spend the night in jail.

There is no evidence of Dad intervening in either arrest but connect the dots.

With this family history, particularly his father’s brush with the discovery of cocaine in his car, it is odd that the O’Rourkes did not have to reveal the name of her disclosure-averse furniture customer. Now that Beto is running for president — and his mother is still living — it would seem appropriate to press them for information about the tax-evader they assisted in the commission of a felony.

It is obviously relevant to know if the customer was involved in narcotics or organized crime. Her son is, after all, running for president.

_The views expressed in this opinion article are those of their author and are not necessarily either shared or endorsed by the owners of this
website._

Links:
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[1] http://www.westernjournal.com
[2]
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/archiv...deal/677376002/
[3]
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/archiv...aso/3008464002/
[4]
https://www.politifact.com/texas/stateme...rglary-and-dwi/
[5]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...m=.5fd1838e007c


[2]Quote:Charlotte's Inc. fined $250K in 2010 plea deal
El Paso Times, El Paso Times Published 11:36 a.m. MT June 6, 2018

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

EL PASO -- Charlotte's Inc. on Tuesday pleaded guilty to accepting cash payments totaling $630,745 from an unidentified customer and then altering receipts to circumvent IRS disclosure laws.

Melissa O'Rourke, 61, owner of the furniture store, entered the guilty plea on behalf of Charlotte's.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone fined O'Rourke's business $250,000 as part of the plea bargain. Her company will pay the fine over five years.

When the judge asked O'Rourke whether she had anything to say, she deferred to her attorney, Tom Stanton.

He said the criminal charge against Charlotte's -- structuring transactions to evade reporting requirements -- had nothing to do with taxes.

"Every amount of money that came in was listed on the books and was reported as income, and then the taxes were paid," Stanton said.

The U.S. attorney filed the charge against Charlotte's as a corporate entity, not against O'Rourke or any employee of her store.

Prosecutors said the furniture store received the payments from "a particular customer." Neither prosecutors nor the company has identified the customer.

By pleading guilty, Charlotte's admitted that on 15 occasions from May 12, 2005, through October 6, 2006, one or more of its employees separated cash transactions into multiple receipts. The beginning amounts ranged from $22,000 to $50,000.

But the records were manipulated by the store so every receipt listed a transaction of less than $10,000. This meant the cash sales were not reported to the IRS, as they should have been, prosecutors said.

O'Rourke is the mother of city Rep. Beto O'Rourke. Her business, started by her mother, has operated in El Paso since 1951.

Stanton described what happened at her store as a bookkeeping problem. He said 35 employees in five departments were allowed to accept payments on accounts.

"Charlotte's has put together some checks and balances to prevent this from happening again," he said. "But no individual per se had the intent to break the law. It was the system that had to be corrected."

After leaving court, O'Rourke referred questions to Stanton. Her only comment was that business would continue as normal.

"I don't think this will hurt us at all," she said.

https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/archiv...deal/677376002/

Regards,
hm
 
This was all brought out during the Cruz Beto Senate race. It didn't seem to effect his campaign. It might have if the income had not been reported for income tax purposes, but the income was reported.
 
Originally Posted By: dogcatcherThis was all brought out during the Cruz Beto Senate race. It didn't seem to effect his campaign. It might have if the income had not been reported for income tax purposes, but the income was reported.

But it would seem that it should be incumbent upon the judge and/or prosecutor to determine if other laws were broken. Hint, hint, money laundering.

Regards,
hm
 
It's time for the conservatives start launching "Special Investigations" upon the loss of office. Beto it don't take 2 years to find the Collusion.
 
Don't expect anything to stick to this man, Beto is the latest "promised one" to the msm it seems. If you watch him speak, he is the anti-Trump. Uber pc, and apologizes for everything he may have done to offend any minority at any point in his life.
 
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