It sounds like ‘Bobby Thompson’ still has a stash of cash
'Bobby Thompson' with House Speaker John Boehner, in the good old days before Boehner became Speaker and before Thompson was charged with running a multi-million fraud.
The U.S. Navy Veterans Association con man whose name remains unknown is still in jail in Ohio. But now he’s facing new charges, and he has a new court-appointed lawyer.
And on Monday, in a Cleveland courtroom, the new mouthpiece actually asked that a judge release the man with no name on $1 million bond.
From Cleveland.com:
[Thompson's new] charges now include identity fraud, engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, complicity to aggravated theft, money-laundering and tampering with records. Thompson was represented today by a new court-appointed attorney, Joseph Patituce, who asked Judge Robert C. McClelland to set bond at $1 million. Patituce noted that the charges are as yet unproven allegations, and said he needed Thompson out of jail to assist in review of more than 150,000 pages of documents involved in the case.
Ha! The request for bond suggests Thompson might actually be able to raise it, despite being caught with nearly $1 million in cash back when he was arrested in Portland.
His new lawyer obviously possesses a healthy amount of chutzpah, given that there is no way in the world any judge would release someone who has thus far refused to disclose his actual identity. If I was his lawyer I wouldn’t have even bothered to make the request.
But it makes you wonder: Where is the storage locker where ‘Thompson’ has his other nest egg stashed? I’d want to bid on that one when the rental comes up overdue.
July 31, 2012 - 2:00 PM
No photo with Democrat Patsy Ticer? That’s odd, because she was the bill’s sponsor and champion in getting Thompson in business in Virginia.
Re: Comment by Suzie — July 31, 2012 @ 4:04 pm
How about it, Dan?
What Virginia pols of both parties receive “donations” from “Bobby Thompson” — picture availability or non-availability not withstanding?
You upset the militant atheist and the militant christians in one fell swoop. Here is another chance at equal-opportunity journalism.
I’ve come up with the perfect echolocation test for Suzie:
–Say Bobby Thompson
–Listen for Patsy Ticer
In other news, Florida’s Stand Your Ground law becomes the defense of choice for lawyers when a Cape Coral (Fla.) homeowner is charged with killing a frozen food salesman in self-defense: http://www.news-press.com/article/20120728/CRIME/307280017
Dave H,
Of course, this blog post didn’t mention ANY Va. politicians, but you’re right, that was quite a scandal here in Virginia. And since you asked, almost ALL of the $66,500 Bobby Thompson passed around to Va. elected officials to get his slimy law passed went to Republicans.
(Then) Sen. Ken Cuccinelli (R) got $55,500
Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) got $5,000
Del. Chris Jones (R), committee chair got $2,000
Del. Bill Howell (R), house speaker, got $2,000
Del. Tom Gear (R), subcommittee chair, got $2,000
Sen. Patsy Ticer (D) got $1,000
Sen. Patsy Ticer (D) got $1,000
The only thing this means is Ticer was a chump. She did most of Thompson’s dirty work and got next to nothing for her trouble.
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I’ve come up with the perfect echolocation test for Suzie:
–Say Bobby Thompson
–Listen for Patsy Ticer
Well why not, since she did far more for Thompson than Boehner whose picture Dan always displays?
You should be saying something like “When Dan says Bobby Thompson, listen for Boehner and Cuccinelli.
Slime is slime no matter who it gives money to.
Suze,
I’ve told you this before: give me a picture of Ticer with Thompson and I’ll run it. Otherwise, you need to be quiet about your Bobby hero-boy.
Thanks, Dan
Hum?
If she was a chump, what were the others? Smart?
They knew he was a crook and still took the money? [Think of the old saw about having established what one is and now just haggling over price.]
They didn’t know he was a crook and were more of a chump for putting their ethics in question by taking 98.5% of the tainted money he spent buying politicos here in Virginia?
Wow, telling one of your readers to be quiet Dan? Hmmm, if you want posters (and you need them), they should be able to post, even in disagreement with you. If everyone who disagrees with “goes quiet”, your blog will cease to be relevant and it will take on the appearance of a facebook page with just you and your like-minded pals. Re-think the “be quiet” admonishment to Suzie, doesn’t make good sense and doesn’t fit with your “Rants/Raves being welcome” on this blog.
I think I might know Bobby Thompson’s true identity. I think he is Suzie’s husband.
Suzie, blaming the enabler instead of the offender is dangerously close to what you’d decry as a liberal tactic.
I thought modern conservatism was all about personal responsibility? And yet, you continually attempt to blame everyone’s problems/follies on liberals [and more often than not, fail horribly].
Corruption, greed, and general indecency knows no political affiliation. We’d all do well to grow up a bit and realize that.
J.M. White,
Patsy Ticer was hardly “the enabler.” She was a little old lady who got fooled into introducing the bill by two lobbyists who said they were representing a veterans group. She had known one of the lobbyists for years, and he used her as a patsy, literally.,
There’s a reason why Ken Cuccinelli got $55,500 from crook Bobby Thompson in 2009, and Patsy Ticer got $1,000. I would encourage everyone to look at it from that perspective. Follow the money.
Dan, @12, that’s hilarious. She got “fooled” into introducing legislation . . . yeah, looks more like she was just too foolish to get more money out of the guy than she did. If she is that easily fooled, should she even be in office? Let alone setting laws?
Maybe we should have some sort of gullibilty test before one is allowed to run for office.
Rick H,
She got fooled, by a lobbyist named Kenny Kling, whom she had known for years. If you believe him, he got fooled into working the bill, too. And then in March 2010, Ticer realized she got fooled, and she called the governor’s office and requested he veto her own bill. Apparently by then it was too late. McDonnell (who got $5,000) signed it. Cuccinelli (who got $55,500) later said he was fooled, too.
Ticer is not in office any more, btw. But McDonnell and Cuccinelli are. Rick, are you calling for their resignations?
I agree with Rick H about the gullibility test. I mean, can you imagine what might happen if some easily fooled politicians were tricked into thinking Iraq had yellowcake?
Re: Comment by Rick H. — August 1, 2012 @ 10:35 am
So, are you saying the Couch and others were not fooled — that they were promoters/enablers of a fraud that they knew (or should have suspected) was a fraud at the time that they took the money?
Or are you saying that they should not be in office either — because they were fooled, also?
Pick one or the other — or offer an alternative explanation.
IMHO, what applies to the one individual who took less than 3% of the total applies twice as much to those three who took twofold more than she did; fivefold more to the one who took five times as much; and fifty-five times as much to
Couch, with his fifty-fivefold take.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander — or what’s good for the gander is good for the goose, in this case. I fail to see how you can damn the lesser and exonerate the greater — be they fools or enablers.
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FWIIW, even congressional critters (with their large full-time staffs) cannot vet every donation.
IMHO, it would be ridiculous to expect State legislators to do a better job. That said, any request for exemption from reporting to oversight agencies or other special treatment should raise red flags — for everyone involved, IMHO.
Even more telling (IMHO) was the various elected officials response once red flags did finally go up — when there was probable cause to suspect the criminal nature of the enterprise.
Re: Comment by dobbs — August 1, 2012 @ 11:16 am
LOL
Or any other WMD or had actually been involved in 911?
Yeah Dan “rethink” telling Suzie to “be quiet” on her blog!
Never mind that she runs off more people than she brings in.
Am I the only one who thinks that in this photo especially, but in others from around the same time, “Thompson” looks like he had cheekbone augmentation (implants)? Even though the post-arrest photos are recognizably the same guy (aged), in the earlier photos, besides the usual changes in hair, beard and glasses, his face seems to show some work: brow lift, eye tuck, cheek implants. A con man with schemes as elaborate as “Thompson” would’ve considered it, especially since he still refuses to give his identity.
With his female conspirator in custody for awhile now, and DNA and fingerprints available since his arrest, it surprises me that they still don’t know who he really is. To me, the biographical forensics is the best part of the story. The details of who he is, and how he launched such a scam is far more interesting (if less important) than any of the corrupt pols like Coochie, McDonnell and Howell, IMO.
Like Dan said, he must have more cash hidden somewhere, and maybe other substantial cash bribes were paid that haven’t been discovered.
And to repeat, Ticer did wake up and asked that her bill be withdrawn, but McDonnell happily signed it anyway, and Coochie, who took fifty-five times more corrupt money than Ticer, resisted returning his cash far longer than the others. What a dirty Coochie!
How much would it cost to get those men to pass legislation forcing women to pay for highly invasive but non-essential procedures on their reproductive organs? Oh wait, that’s right, they’ll do that for free!
Dave, no, I am not saying the others were not fooled.
My problem is with Dan putting a price on the level of foolishness. If you got fooled to the tune of $1, it is the same as getting fooled to the level of $1 million. If you took money, you took money, and this lame brain even put forth the legislation to support the crook – without doing her homework.
Let’s face it – some jackleg, no name delegate is not going to garner the financial “support” that an AG candidate, or gubanatorial candidate is. This Ticer person was just less important to garner bigger funds being thrown at her, yet she was dumb enough to take it. I don’t care what the amount is – don’t minimalize the issue. Is it less wrong to steal $10 from somebody, as opposed to $10,000,000?
Libs don’t want to admit it, but they were stupid, too. They were just too stupid to get more money out of it. This could have easily happened when a Democratic group was in charge of the Commonwealth. They’d have fallen for it just the same.
Rick H,
Ticer is out of the legislature. So is Tom Gear. Now answer the question: Do you think Cuccinelli, McDonnell, Chris Jones and Bill Howell should resign their offices?
In the Cooch’s case, he not only took an initial contribution, but went back hat in hand and begged for more which was when he got the extra $50500. And long after the others had donated their money to legitimate chart
itable organizations, he was still holding onto his and insisting that ol’ Bobby might be innocent. Right!@
There’s a reason why Ken Cuccinelli got $55,500 from crook Bobby Thompson in 2009, and Patsy Ticer got $1,000. I would encourage everyone to look at it from that perspective. Follow the money.
We KNOW what Ticer did for her money. She sponsored Thompson’s bill and shepherded it all the way through passage. Without her, Thompson could never have done business in this state.
But what if anything did Cuccinelli do for his money? Or Boehner? Or McDonnell. Let’s hear it. Back up your claim.
I’ve told you this before: give me a picture of Ticer with Thompson and I’ll run it. Otherwise, you need to be quiet about your Bobby hero-boy.
Why do you always picture a Republican with Thompson which implies the Republican is somehow also guilty of swindling the public? Why not picture Thompson by himself?
“Why do you always picture a Republican with Thompson which implies the Republican is somehow also guilty of swindling the public?”
The question has a false premise. You’re lying again, Suze.
@ # 18 Sandi…No, I would think that would be you. Your certainly not what I would consider an ‘asset’.
Thank you Devino, considering your support of Suzie, not being an “asset” in your estimation is all the validation I need.
Pictures of Thompson & Democrats don’t exist or you would have posted it already. You know that as well as the rest of us. Give it up Suzie Q!!