Indicted Fmr Dem Rep. Corrine Brown Spent Campaign Cash After Primary Loss
Expensed $13,476 in petty cash, hotels, travel after electoral defeat



The campaign committee of former Rep. Corrine Brown (D., Fla.), who is currently on trial for corruption charges, spent thousands on hotels and small travel expenses after Brown was defeated in the Democratic primary last year.

Brown, who lost to former Florida State Sen. Al Lawson in the August 2016 primary, spent $11,278 on "lodging" at a Marriot Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland in late September 2016, nearly one month after the election.

In addition to the hotel expenditures, the campaign disclosed three "petty cash" transactions totaling more than $2,000 during the two-week span between October 16 and November 4.

A small amount ($185) also was spent on travel expenses in Houston, Texas and Jacksonville, Florida.
Thousands more were spent on more typical transactions following an election loss, such as payments to campaign vendors.

Brown and her chief of staff, Elias "Ronnie" Simmons, were indicted in July 2016 on 24 counts of fraud stemming from a sham foundation created by the former congresswoman.

More than $800,000 was deposited into Brown's Virginia-based foundation, One Door for Education, which spent only $1,200 on charity.

Federal authorities found that Brown, Elias, and Carla Wiley, the foundation's president, spent $200,000 of the group's funds on luxury vacations, NFL tickets, plane tickets, car repairs, and lavish events.

Wiley pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud in March 2016. Simmons pleaded guilty to fraud in February.

An FBI agent testified Wednesday against Brown, saying the money was taken from her foundation and put into a bank account shared by Brown and her daughter.

Last year, the Washington Free Beacon obtained records from the Corrine Brown Legal Expense Trust, finding that Brown had accepted contributions from lobbyists, which is prohibited by House ethics rules.

Jesse Jackson, "Honest Charlie Rangel", Maxine Watters. This looks like a line up.

I'm in Jacksonville Florida and it is a big deal down here. She has been in office a lot time and it appears that it has been a " good ole boys" club down here.. forever.

Now things are getting cleaned up and this kind of stuff is being uncovered.

The word on the street is... guilty.

Seems some folks down here felt since they were in office for so long they were entitled to do this kind of stuff.

It is shaping up as a classic trial

How dare they accuse me!!, followed by: I will have my day in court!!, then the ole.." I'm sorry.. your Honor... then off to club Fed for a number of years.. but its club Fed... almost a country club.

the guy on the right looks like he sleeps in a casket

Your thread title is a little off the mark. The body of the description of the accusations against this person are plenty bad. But from what I've read, one a campaign is over, especially if the person LOST, they get to keep the donations and use them as personal funds.

At least that's the way things were for the last two hundred years. A lot of Congressmen and Senators opted to "retire" shortly before another round of campaigning, precisely because they COULD then use the funds as a personal nest egg.

I don't like it either, but that's the way the rules are written.

Brown and her chief of staff, Elias "Ronnie" Simmons, were indicted in July 2016 on 24 counts of fraud stemming from a sham foundation created by the former congresswoman.
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not campaign funds... sham foundation was set up... one already pleaded .. guilty. They are accused of using fund money as their own piggy bank.

nope doesn't look good for her... at all

I agree with Igor on this one.

What Brown's campaign committee did with left-over campaign cash is an issue separate from the fraud that Brown committed with her sham charity.

do you really thin she only committed fraud in her so called charity.. really? Why stop at that point?

they raided her private company too.. some rib restaurant.. took a lot out of there as well. the local news has much more coverage then the national news

lets see what plays out in 2 months.

my money is on guilty.. of fraud.

The Feds always take their sweet a*s time building a solid case before they even come knocking on the door.

How many of these type cases with this amount of pre Fed work involved has ever came back as .. innocent.

She has a tough road ahead of her.

found guilty today of....18 of 22 counts of fraud

Anyone surprised?.. Hmmm

She got off on 4 charges? I'm shocked lol

I think they threw her a few bones on those 4 counts because she has a big following down here.

She will get time, but it will be in a "club Fed" prison..

fact is she used donated money as her own bank account, and has been doing that for a very long time.

Hey, Al... ya following this?

Another one bites the dust
I wonder if they looked in her freezer?

I don't see AL around but Jesse looking mighty shady in this pic lol

Well, she is certainly guilty of a crabby look.. that's for sure.

I swear, I think I saw the guy on the right in "tales from the crypt"

That guy is Charlie Rangle, Mr.Ethics himself.

When I first saw that picture, I thought they were a Rap group.

Jessie must be looking for his criminal son.

ACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown could spend the rest of her life in prison after being found guilty of taking money from a charity that was purported to be giving scholarships to poor students.

Brown's indictment said the Virginia-based One Door only gave out one scholarship for $1,200 to an unidentified person in Florida.

Since her indictment last summer, she had been publicly defiant of the government's charges, saying in a statement she was among black elected officials who have been "persecuted." She had pleaded not guilty to all of the charges, including the fraud, but lost re-election last fall after her indictment.

The judge did not set a date for Brown's sentencing, which could include many years of jail time.

The worst part about this is that Jacksonville has some really smart kids who are poor. Kids who are trying like hell to get out of the ghetto. A scholarship would have helped them greatly.

And she spends that money on wine and dine and personal purchases.. she ripped the kids off.. big time.

But the most ironic part is she still has a large following within the community. They are saying she was " wronged".. set up. Its always someone else's fault Lol

Yea, she was probably greasing some palms around there.