David Lewis’s manicured hands get slapped. (* Um, surprise?*)
He took $400,000 from his donors for personal use, but only got a slap on his manicured hands:
After admitting to financial crimes like not paying taxes — as part of a scheme to take hundreds of thousands of dollars from his political supporters for his own personal use — a powerful North Carolina politician will avoid prison.
Instead of prison time, prosecutors say, former GOP Rep. David Lewis will have to pay a $1,000 fine and avoid getting in trouble again for the next two years. […]
Sources had reported that Lewis COULD have been hit with as much as 30 years worth of jail time.
MORE:
[…] Lewis, a Republican from Harnett County, served in the N.C. General Assembly from 2003 to 2020. He was one of the state’s top-ranking lawmakers until his guilty plea and resignation, which both happened on the same day a year ago.
Prosecutors wrote in one court filing that Lewis “violated the trust of his donors, voters and constituents when he used his campaign funds for personal and business expenses” — but that they gave him credit for eventually admitting it and taking responsibility.[…]
Admitting wrong-doing and taking responsibility for it? Anybody else out there avoid big jail time doing that?
MORE:
[…] The News & Observer reported in May that the federal prosecutors who took him down had agreed not to seek any prison time against him, in exchange for his guilty plea and repayment of the $365,000 he took. And on Tuesday, as first reported by WRAL-TV, a federal judge agreed to that deal and sentenced Lewis to no prison time.
Lewis’ charges and plea deal were handled by the U.S. attorney’s office in North Carolina’s Western District. On Tuesday a spokeswoman for the office, Lia Bantavani, confirmed that Lewis was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and will have two years of supervised release. […]
That’s about as good as the radio ad I heard today on Hinton’s Gv station, saluting and celebrating Tillis and Burr for their heroic vote and support of the ”infrastructure bill’. Hinton interviewed McCrory on said station this morning and McCrory was a frequent visitor to Gv and interviewee on Hinton’s station when in office. I didn’t catch the tag line at end who supported said Tillis/Burr ad, but it was something like ‘do it for us’….org (not exact) Need to research and find it and see who/what the org is about… Lewis cut quite the deal…lucky, well-connected fellow…..
Heard the Tillis/Burr ad on WPTF.
Let’s Invest in Us is the org site.
Celebrates bridges, roads, etc in the ad. Go to the website and it’s green energy, solar, etc…..
Those absolutely disgusting radio ads are playing across the state and they are paid for by “Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions”, a national special interest pressure group of the solar and wind goons. A lot of money in that fake “infrastructure” bill goes to “green energy” crapola. It is part and parcel of the Green New Deal. Tillis and Burr betrayed electric ratepayers who will get much higher electric rates and unreliable service due to the Biden energy agenda. They also betrayed taxpayers and everyone impacted by inflation.
Speaking of betraying electric ratepayers, our General Assembly may well do the same with HB 951, which has already passed the House, shamefully. That is also another Green New Deal bill, which is being foisted upon us by RINO’s. It would prematurely close coal fired power plants that provide reliable and cheap electricity, call them “stranded assets”, and force consumers to pay higher rates to cover their premature closure. Some of the replacement would be gas fired plants, also providing cheap and reliable electricity, but with the unnecessary retirement of the coal plants their construction costs will add to consumers power bills. Some of the replacement is even worse, solar and wind backed by giant batteries, a system that has been a disaster around the world. When the biggest battery in the world in South Australia was called on to try to prevent a statewide blackout when wind power went down, it dribbled out power for 15 minutes and then died. The lithium in giant batteries in three countries have so far spontaneously combusted spewing large quantities of highly toxic smoke into communities. Even climate alarmist Bill Gates admits they will not work to back up the grid, but HB951 calls on them to do just that.
Call your Senator and tell him or her to vote NO on HB951.
I should have added on the wind and solar that it is not just the unreliability that is a problem for consumers. Wind and solar are expensive power. Coal, gas, hydro, and nuclear are cheap power. Replacing coal with solar / wind is extremely anti-consumer because it will raise our electric bills. Greedy Duke Power just wants the federal subsidies that come with wind and solar, and we have too many stupid legislators who go along with them in spite of what it does to our citizens. They don’t care about the impact on the family budget from higher electric bills.
Where did you find the info on the exploding batteries. I need info like that to counter passage of the bill.
Try the Stop These Things website, which is based in Australia. There was a giant battery that caught fire in the state of Victoria, Australia only a week or so ago. Others have caught fire in Belgium and South Korea. Lithium burns extremely hot and cannot be put out with water or much of anything. They pretty much have to let the fire burn itself out. In anything except small doses, Lithium is highly toxic, and there are other toxic substances also in the smoke of a burning giant lithium battery. You might also look up video from climate alarmist Bill Gates where he admits the giant batteries do not work to secure the grid.
Only the Evil people get ahead in the USA
None of this surprises. His character has been so vile for years, it’s one of the reasons why I was one of the fifty-plus State ExComm members who signed a recall petition for his removal as NC Republican National Committeeman. A lot of his fellow travelers blocked that removal, also not surprising. He’s gone but too many Central Committee members will not address the rampant corruption still remaining within the NCGOP.
Lewis is a minor issue among the many serious problems at the NCGOP. Start at the top and work your way down. The quicker King Whatley moves to the RNC the better. Then we need to clean out the joint and tell the RNC to pound sand.
After all of the lies he told us, during our seven-year fight for voter ID, we were delighted to see Rep Lewis’ forced resignation, but let’s look at the crime for a moment: He created a company that used the Republican name while raising money that was not controlled or received by the Republican party. Who could blame him for his moral slippage, since this came AFTER he hijacked and gutted an innocent election law technical correction bill (2015-16 HB 373) to create “affiliated party committees.” Those dreadful “caucus funds” allow the House and Senate leadership from both parties to raise million$$ in their party’s name with NO accountability to the their parties. In fact, the only difference between Lewis’ criminal actions and those criminal committees is that the NCGA legalized the latter. It cost him his career, but it was a big win for Apple, Amazon, and Big Pharma. His leadership in HB 373 is the reason our lawmakers only care about pleasing those global corporations as they tell their party loyalists to go pound sand. As a result, corporate blackmail thrives in North Carolina!