'This is a concerted effort': Annette Taddeo ties Florida voter registration fraud to dark money group backing Donald Trump 2/11/22 #Flapol 1/ floridapolitics.com/archives/49608…
“Another organization, Florida First — a grantee of America First Policies, a dark money group formed in 2017 by members of Trump’s presidential campaign — has also been conning unwitting Democratic seniors, Taddeo said.” 2/
“This isn’t the first time Florida First has come under fire for enrolling Democratic and independent voters as Republicans without their consent.” 3/
“In March 2020, Clermont woman Cheryl Hall was charged in Lake County with submitting 10 false voter registration forms while working for the group. At the time, Lake Supervisor of Elections Alan Hays said Hall may have submitted another 100-plus forms with false information.” 4/
“A Florida First employee Taddeo spoke with shined light on how voter registration fraudsters grift victims. The woman, whom Taddeo said quit after realizing what she was doing, was told to cover a portion of the form with her hand while holding a clipboard… 5/
… so the person filling it out only partially completed it.
‘Then when they walk away, they fill it out for them,’ Taddeo said. ‘Their training is very specific.’” 6/
This is Roger Stone’s longtime aide & apparent Proud Boys handler, Jacob Engels, on January 5 & 6. Does anyone know if Engels left DC before the riot like Stone did? 1/
Engels is known as Roger Stone’s mini me. 2/
Jacob Engels was the Proud Boys spokesperson in May 2019. 3/
👀Remember how Russia hacked Smartech which had hosted the Bush administration emails on a private server?! Remember how Comey said that Russia just got “old stuff”? Michael Ellis, general counsel to the NSA under Trump, was one of the Bush people who used Smartech… 1/
Convicted felon Roger Stone posted this photo of himself & his former business partner (convicted felon Paul Manafort) on March 10. Ten days later, Manafort tries to board a plane in Miami (Stone lives in Florida) to travel to Dubai, but is removed due to a revoked passport. 1/
“Donald Trump’s campaign and the RNC have paid at least $1.8 million to a political operative whose roster of companies include several that have been repeatedly investigated for voter registration fraud…” - 11/5/16 1/ cc: @Annette_Taddeo fortune.com/2016/11/05/tru…
2/ “Three employees of Strategic Allied Consulting, a firm owned by conservative operative Nathan Sproul, pleaded guilty in Florida 4 years ago to felony charges related to altering & destroying scores of voter registration forms. There were no formal actions against the firm.”
3/ “Yet recent federal campaign finance reports reviewed by The Associated Press show Sproul is now back on the RNC’s payroll, this time with a firm named Lincoln Strategy Group, a renamed version of his former firm Sproul & Associates, …