Meet Gregg PHILLIPS (again) - DRUMPF's source for voter lie, a grifter in 2 Red crony States
The article is difficult to excerpt, chronicling decades of this dude's scamming State governments - Mississippi & Texas, no victims, rather Red crony states - into no-bid contracts, funneling public funds into his own and pals' companies. Get this, he has been preying on vulnerable populations via getting hired in State jobs like Administrator of the Health & Human Services Commission (of all places), then developing supposed computer programs targeting problem areas for the agencies he or his buddy worked for, getting no-bid contracts for his new companies, and then moving on to the next scam. Get this, among the vulnerable populations he has profited from are: *Immigrants*!1, welfare clients, and troubled youth - all favorite wingnut targets.
Here are previous posts: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028546222
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/28/gregg-phillips-donald-trump-s-voter-fraud-guru-blasted-as-a-revolving-door-hustler.html
[font size=5]Gregg Phillips, Donald Trump’s Voter Fraud Guru, Blasted as a ‘Revolving Door Hustler’[/font]
Making outlandish claims about illegal votes is only the latest in a long line of controversies Gregg Phillips has found himself in.
Gideon ResnickBen CollinsBrandy Zadrozny01.27.17 11:15 PM ET
.... It’s not a new strategy for Phillips. Over the past three decades, Phillips has frequently decried widespread waste, fraud, and abuse in government programs—then alleged to have created a program or software that purported to fix it all. After working to award millions in government contracts to his businesses or associates involved in those programs, they were quietly shuttered years later.
Phillips worked in Mississippi in the mid-1990s, when he led the state’s Department of Health and Human Services. At the time, he teamed with a man named Larry Temple, his deputy administrator. The two remained associates for years to come. ....
As detailed in an investigative story from The Houston Chronicle, during Temple’s tenure at the Texas Workforce Commission, he helped his former colleague Phillips at Enterject earn $2.7 million in job-training grants from the commission. Enterject also got a separate $670,000 contract managing labor certificates for immigrants. These respective incidents occurred in 2001 and 2002. ....
Phillips’s new national prominence is built in part on his voter fraud app, the origins of which date back to 2012 when Politico reported he was unveiling a new project called VoteStand. At the time, Phillips was involved with the Winning Our Future PAC, which supported Newt Gingrich’s campaign and received funding from the family of noted Republican booster Sheldon Adelson. ....
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