Wow looks like FOX hired a really experienced well informed person to shovel their crap to their loyal audience.

Wonder how many posters here sat and listened to this joker when he appeared on FOX?

Laptop may hold key to high-level scam

February 7, 2009
Post-Tribune staff report
A traffic stop at Indiana Dunes State Park has led to an ongoing investigation involving a man whose past includes swindling Fox News and national political figures, local law enforcement agents say.

Joseph Cafasso, being held at Porter County Jail, was the subject of a 2002 New York Times article and has a Wikipedia page detailing his exploits.

Officials declined to talk about the ongoing case, which involves several federal agencies.

"There are a lot of things involved here that I can't get into at this point," said Officer Bob Kauffmann of the Department of Natural Resources, who initiated the investigation.

It's believed that Cafasso impersonated rescue personnel in a drowning at Lake Michigan last year.

In October, Kauffmann stopped Cafasso for speeding and driving with a suspended license.

Cafasso also provided Kauffmann with false information, including the alias "Robert Stormer."

And when Cafasso failed to appear in court last month, Kauffmann obtained a warrant for his arrest.

The curious case of Cafasso came to light Monday when a Chesterton resident turned over Cafasso's Apple laptop to Chesterton police. Kauffmann is waiting for a search warrant to access the laptop.

The mother of the Chesterton resident had been in a relationship with "Robert Stormer."

She was also in the car when "Stormer" was stopped for speeding, Kauffmann said.

The woman, who resides in Tefft, in northeastern Jasper County, met "Stormer" about a year ago through an online dating service. They later moved in together. According to the police report, he took control over some of the woman's finances before she learned he was a fraud.

According to the Chesterton police report, the woman and her son believe that Cafasso built a case against a man named Jack Idema, who also has a Wikipedia page.

The police report continues:?"Idema is allegedly a Special Forces soldier who went rogue and tortured people in Afghanistan without approval from his superiors. He was jailed in a military prison for this and he blames Cafasso for his troubles."

Police say Idema knew about Cafasso's laptop. Idema contacted the Chesterton man through a phone search and told him he wanted the computer.

So he and his mother brought it to Chesterton Police.

Cafasso was successful in duping institutions and high-profile military and political figures as a well-connected counterintelligence expert who had a high-rank career in the Special Forces, according to an April 29, 2002, story in the New York Times.

Alleged victims included the Fox News network, Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign and "several representatives, military officials and activists to whom he had sold himself for years,"?

Cafasso appeared as a military and counterterrorism expert during Fox's coverage of the invasion of Afghanistan.

"But records indicate that his total military experience was 44 days of boot camp at Fort Dix, N.J., in May and June 1976, and his honorable discharge as a private, first class."

The article states Cafasso failed to show up to provide military records and other documents to The New York Times as he had promised.

The article continues: "Mr. Cafasso, it appears, has used his story of battlefield glories to make friends, find work, and perhaps most importantly, find acceptance among people who walk the fringes of Washington's power corridors, networking his way through a community of retired military officers to arrive at Fox News."

The capability of scam artists just seems to amaze me. Its a shame that people like this use their gifts to mislead us all. The Madoff case is without doubt just mindblowing.
Maybe from their angle, they would be nothing had they not gone about things the way they chose?
Self preservation for the most part who knows

Keep in mind that CNN is no angel either. Should we have Ted Turners money we could easily flex in a method that would create a situation to come out on tops in say a news channel comparison between say FNN and CNN. I hope to not get killed by bringing this to ligaklsdhgnavjndsjkmvdnjkasvn

No, you won't get killed for speakin' your mind on this site.

However, prepare to be tar & feathered!

Well I guess I have about an 18 day grace period should anything go wrong. This is based solely on the fact you have been registered on this site 2 and a half weeks before me. I hate to admit the fact you are my parakeet in the coal mine from this point onward. LOL
On a serious note, the media system in America could be held responsible for many of the issues we face today! On top of that their job security is most likely as stable as it can get due to the concept of keeping us in fear.
I am torn between the lesser of two evils at this point. That being my government and the media. I reckon they are in cahoots with one another.
I cannot even begin to explain how pleased I would be to be proven wrong on the issues I have posted.

LOL looks like he's also on Mingle2...

http://mingle2.com/user/view/261734

UPDATE, September 2008: Cafasso's latest known aliases are Robin Storm aka Robert Stormer; he's also on dating sights as Shipdude -- "Sailing into your arms... or is it went aground on your front lawn?" -- and probably another 15 aliases on 10 other sites.

http://www.kathryncramer.com/kathryn_cramer/2006/09/joseph_a_cafass.html

sounds perfect for a cabinet position in the Obama administration...vetting ?...we don't need no stinking vetting !!...

Damn I am tired of people who's standard reply goes along the standard line of, "oh yeah well what about so-n-so"

Like that stunning simple Hassalbeck on the view who in reply to the issue of hunting wolves from airplanes in Alaska comes back with "What about abortion?" Don't like the conversation? Attempt to change it, point fingers at others and go to the "oh yeah what about" arguments.

Some posters here still fall back on "well what about Clinton getting a bj...he should have been prosecuted" line on tons of threads.


It is not the fault of the media when people on both sides of the isle and all those in between chose to purchase and support a bunch of partisan loud mouthed pundits telling us what we should think of current events rather than seeking out facts.

The evil media is serving up what we order.

Pundits who indulge our own views, prejudices and insecurities by telling us what we want to hear.

Who's fault?

OUR FAULT

This sounds familiar. Remember this guy?

Jesse MacBeth never was an Army Ranger, much less a corporal, never received a Purple Heart for wounds inflicted by a foreign foe, and neither saw nor participated in war crimes with fellow U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, claims for which he became a poster boy for the anti-war movement.

So your purpose for posting this thread was to present the facts? And by pointing out that this guy is a scammer is to point out the facts that fox is different or the same as any other news organization that has been dupped??

I guess I am in the minority then, I belive it was about UN violations that they brought on themselves..