June 3, 2020: Crooks and a Congressman Meet Their Doom

 

6/3/20: A few positive notes in a bleak time. Despite all the protests, and the unfortunate looting, these aren’t like the riots we saw in 1992. Those eruptions, after the Rodney King jury found police officers innocent in his brutal beating, often involved black vs. white violence. Nor are these current explosions nearly as bad as those in 1967 and 1968, when scores were killed. As one African American commented on Twitter last week (I forgot to note his exact wording), the issue this time isn’t, “White vs. black people. It’s everybody else against racists.” 

It’s encouraging today to see all kinds of people protesting.

 

Also, kind of cool: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has offered to allow three million Hong Kong residents, all those holding British passports, and all others eligible, to immigrate to the United Kingdom. You can tell it’s an excellent idea because Chinese communist authorities hate it.

 

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Crooks and a Congressman meet their doom.

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We also have good news on the legal front. And I’m not even counting the indictment of the four officers involved in the death of George Floyd. 

We’re talking Gary Jones – former head of the United Auto Workers. Jones has plead guilty to stealing from his union, and working out sweetheart deals with top executives of Fiat-Chrysler. In return for his cooperation, prosecutors have recommended a sentence of 57 months in prison. Jones is expected to name a number of co-conspirators, both top union men and company executives. 

As the Detroit News noted, the union boss spent $750,000 in union money on “private villas, cigars, golf equipment and apparel, meals and liquor, including $400 bottles of Louis Roederer Cristal Champagne and Canadian vodka served in a crystal skull.” To be more precise, prosecutors charged Jones with spending $60,000 in union money on cigars, over a period of five years. 

That man did love to smoke. 

And eat. Jones and a few pals also charged the union for a $6,500 steak dinner at a high-class restaurant.

Let's hope Jones got the free shipping.

 

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ONE CROOK down. Several more to go. Federal prosecutors have indicted Jayson Penn, CEO of Pilgrim’s Pride, America’s second largest chicken producer. Also indicted were three top executives, including former Pilgrim’s Pride vice president Roger Austin. Mikell Fries, the president of Claxton Poultry Farms, and Scott Brady, a vice president, were also hauled before a judge.  

Charge: price fixing. Maximum penalty: 10 years in prison and a fine of $1 million. But you figure no cop will be kneeling of Penn’s neck until he’s dead. 

After all, priorities. 

George Floyd? He passed a counterfeit $20. These guys allegedly cheated customers out of millions. 

Plus, Mr. Penn earned $4.42 million in 2019. He’ll be able to afford a really, really good lawyer. 

(If you missed it, Chris Lischewski, the former CEO of Bumble Bee Foods, was convicted last December in a case involving price fixing of tuna. He also faces up to ten years in prison.)

 

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THERE’S still more good news, this time involving idiots. It’s official. We can report that Congressman Steven King of Iowa was defeated in yesterday’s Republican primary. 

King is gone at the end of his current term. Besides being a racist, King once said he was against allowing exceptions for rape in laws banning abortion. Here’s his explanation, as reported by the Des Moines Register: 

What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled those people out that were products of rape and incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?

 

Considering all the wars and all the rapes and pillages taken place and whatever happened to culture after society? I know I can’t certify that I’m not a part of a product of that.

 

Yeah, that guy. He served multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. People voted for him.

 

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IT’S ALSO INTERESTING to note that more African Americans are buying AR-15’s and military-style firearms. In the wake of the George Floyd murder, gun sales on June 2 and June 3, hit 150,000 per day. 

Even “better,” in Louisville, Kentucky this weekend, the NFAC, an armed militia of African Americans marched in protest. (The acronym stands for the “Not F------- Around Coalition.”) A heavily-armed white militia, the Three Percenters, decided to hold a counter protest. An African American woman was inspecting her weapon when it discharged, injuring three members of her group. Imagine what might have happened when gunfire erupted without warning. 

The police had fun keeping the two militias apart.