Sunday’s column: ‘Bobby Thompson’ has some questions to answer
The con man known as 'Bobby Thompson' during his high-flying days as a major Republican political donor (left) and shortly following his capture in Portland, Ore. by U.S. Marshals Monday night. He contributed $67,500 to six Virginia lawmakers in 2009 in a successful effort to get a law passed by the Virginia General Assembly in 2010. | Photos courtesy the Ohio Attorney General and the U.S. Marshals Service.
Following a manhunt that lasted nearly two years, U.S. Marshals arrested ‘Bobby Thompson’ without a whimper Monday night after he left a bar in Portland, Ore.
Authorities still don’t know the alleged Florida con man’s real identity. They believe he’s in his mid 60s. He’s charged with defrauding Ohio citizens of $2 million for his phony charity, the U.S. Navy Veterans Association. It reportedly raised $100 million across the country and spent a pittance on veterans.
For that and other reasons, the feds also are investigating. And if Thompson’s capture is causing some gut rumbles in Richmond, it’s not hard to understand why.
Because it was here in the Old Dominion that the Florida man pulled off one of his most audacious flimflams. He bought himself a law in the 2010 Virginia General Assembly that would benefit his scam.
And many questions remain about how he was able to manage that.
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May 6, 2012 - 6:00 AM
Thompson also gave $1,000 to then-Sen. Patsy Ticer, a Democrat.
I will take credit for Dan finally including Ticer, since I had brought it up at least four times in every Thompson thread I saw. But I am disappointed he omitted Ticer’s role prominent role in the swindle. She wrote the bill that allowed Thompson to bilk donors in Virginia, and saw it all the way through passage.
Without her help, there is no scam.
Suzie, you get no credit. I’ve written about Ticer before this column. The first time was MAY 16, 2010. That story was where you first learned she was involved.
She got the least amount of money of any Virginia politician. The bill was written FOR her — she didn’t write it. She agreed to introduce it. And then, when she realized Thompson was a scammer, she asked the governor to veto her own bill.
It’s obvious somebody set her up like a bowling pin. I doubt it was a tequila-swilling grifter from Tampa who lived in a $600/month duplex behind a cigar factory. Now that he’s been caught, we’ll find out who it was.
Now Dan, isn’t it perfectly obvious to you thatwhen one Democrat received
1.48% of the contributions made by the con man and numerous Republicans received he remaining 98.42% that the passage of the legislation is all the fault of the Democrat and her supporters. Even though she tried to have the bill vetoed and the Governor’s office dragged its feet becasuse Bobb McD was too busy making some trip to a foreign country on the taxpayer’s dime, it’s still all her fault. She devised the whole scheme, wrote every word of the bill (just like the GA Rwpublicans wrote every word of their ultrasound and voter suppression bills this year) and she personally got it through the House of Delegates which has a 67% Republican majority without even a single dissenting vote. She is the master at engendering bipartisanship in the State Legislature. As a matter of fact, she probably would have been a far better choice for Governor with her amazing legislative skills and powers of persuasion.
Snort!
It’s obvious somebody set her up like a bowling pin. I doubt it was a tequila-swilling grifter from Tampa who lived in a $600/month duplex behind a cigar factory.
I get it. Cuccinelli and McDonnell (who gave the money to charity) didn’t know who guy the was, but they’re dirty SOBs. But Ticer was just an innocent victim for not seeing through it.
Face it. Ticer did MORE for to enable this crook than any of the Republicans you named. The only reason you excuse her is because she wasn’t smart enough to get paid more.
I used to be a Republican until I saw Cuccinelli persecuting the climate scientists and taking money from a criminal who bought himself a law.
Cuccinelli goes after prostitution, but he has sold his office to criminals and the fossil-fuel interests. He persecutes climate scientists under the color of law. I think he is part of an organized crime operation that has infiltrated the government. The FBI should get to the bottom of what he is up to.
His father’s company Quest Fore gave Cuccinelli 96,000, according to an Internet source. The father is a career lobbyist for the gas industry with clients in “Europe” and “Latin America.” I wonder if those are foreign gas industries. In his complaint to the EPA, Cuccinelli cited an article from the Russian government media. That article was an adaptation of an article that appeared in Kommersant, a business paper owned by the Russian gas mogul Alisher Usmanov. Since when do we get our climate science from Russian robber-barrons?
Thompson didn’t seem to spend his money lavishly, so I wonder if he was really working for someone else. He didn’t say one word except that he has a right to remain silent. Maybe he is not even American.
I used to be a Republican….
The third fake in the past 12 hours. Who sent these people?
We’re going to hear “I used to be a Republican” from about 5 million voters this fall. They will all be switching over to the side of light.
I didn’t see a Sunday OPEN thread.
R.I.P. George Lindsey aka Goober Pyle. Say ‘hey’ to Barney for us.
“We’re going to hear “I used to be a Republican” from about 5 million voters this fall. They will all be switching over to the side of light.”
That sounds about the right amount of Libertarian bounce.
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And I’d be perfectly happy to let them waste their votes on Gary Johnson.
Every vote he gets is one less that Mitt Romney will get.:)
“Without her help, there is no scam.”
Dumb. That’s like saying without Dick Cheney we wouldn’t have gone to War against Iraq. Oh, wait, you may be onto something….
That sounds about the right amount of Libertarian bounce.
You think libertarians are going to vote for a Communist?
This was a metro column? The only metropolis mentioned is Richmond.
Political op ed at best, and not a good one at that. This PASSED the democrat controlled Senate and PASSED the assembly without a dissenting vote. Yet Super Cooch and McDonnell get the crosshairs treatment from Dan because they are a threat to liberalism.
Without democrat support, this bill doesn’t make it through. A fact Dan doesn’t want anyone to figure out.
This cow is out of milk Dan. It ran out a long time ago.
#13 BOB H!!!! How are things going in Bedford, Pa.? School budget doing OK?
Oh, and as to the topic, it was Bobby McD who refused to listen to the bill sponsor when she told him there was something shady. And it was the Cooch who held on to his cash just as long as politically possible.
Aw c’mon, gdad. BobH made that error a long time ago, and he admitted it. It’s past time to let him off the hook for it. Happens to the best of us.
Bob, thanks for continuing to read my columns, even when they’re non “metro.” !
“You think libertarians are going to vote for a Communist?”
You think communism is the “side of light?”
No dave, I’m voting for Mitt, a candidate I’m not the least bit excited about who has very little shot of winning. I’ve never been less excited to cast my vote for someone, including Bob Dole.
Aw c’mon, gdad. BobH made that error a long time ago, and he admitted it. It’s past time to let him off the hook for it. Happens to the best of us.
Gdad tends to run things into the ground. But if you get in his face and challenge him, he’ll stop. That’s why we haven’t heard and likely won’t hear again that silly crap about the $7 mil damage at the Wisconsin Capitol building not coming from a MSM source.
#15 Sorry, Dan, but the “metro” thing is so old and stale. A broken record despite your efforts and those of others to explain things to Bob. But I will try to remember to avoid ever again mentioning Bedford, Pa. After that mention, that is.
I have given up trying to explain anything to Bob H. It’s like explaining something to a rock.
The metro thing is not old or stale if Dan keeps writing “metro” columns that are anything but metro and are obvious op eds.
Dan explained it. The columns are metro, the BLOG is whatever he wants.
I got it.
So how was this a metro column?
Suzi: Don’t worry, Gdad seldom has anything concrete so he has to Drudge up old stuff because he never has any substance. He forgets easily how he confused the sales tax with the income tax and how he told us all to prove that he didn’t say something. With Gdad, you have to consider the source. For him to bring up Pa. shows he is really reaching and desperate. I must be hitting home!
BTW Dan, still very seldom read your columns. It was raining yesterday so I actually read alot more of the Roanoke Rag than I usually do.
Odd, it didn’t rain in Roanoke. It was a great day for a bike ride.
17 Silly, suzie. I’ve commented on it more than a half dozen times since you “challenged” me on it. What really is the use of such blatant lies from you? Oh, that’s right, you got me to post again. What an accomplishment.
At least Bob H admitted he made a mistake. suzie has yet to acknowledge that there wasn’t $7 million in damages to the Wisconsin capital. Or that she linked to some obscure site weeks after even the Wisconsin Republicans had admitted the story was a lie.
#20 “He forgets easily how he confused the sales tax with the income tax and how he told us all to prove that he didn’t say something. ”
You know, Bob H, I’v asked time an time again for more about this supposed event, and you have yet to provide anything. I just have to assume you made it up.
Glad to see you have time to read more of Dan today.
Not odd Dan. It rains wherever BobH is. He’s the original Joe Bfstplk!
The guy with he perpetual cloud over his head.
suzie has yet to acknowledge that there wasn’t $7 million in damages to the Wisconsin capital. Or that she linked to some obscure site weeks after even the Wisconsin Republicans had admitted the story was a lie.
LOL. I knew I could goad him into saying it again.