Convicted Republican businessman's company targets Democrats

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press
Updated 3:40 pm, Wednesday, June 20, 2018



COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio company whose Republican owner spent more than a year in prison following a campaign finance probe has organized employees and suppliers in a retaliatory effort to bring down two prominent Democrats, The Associated Press has learned.

An explosive memo posted online lays out The Justice Association LLC's strategy for an investigation, lawsuit and ad campaign targeting U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and former U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach, the Democratic nominee for attorney general. It calls them "chief culprits" in a vast effort by Democrats to unjustly prosecute Republican-owned companies under former President Barack Obama.

The month-old association is offering "rewards" of up to $100,000 for any supporting evidence it could use to request a grand jury investigation by Republican U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, the Republican gubernatorial nominee.

The evidence also would be folded into a class-action racketeering lawsuit against the Obama-era Justice Department, alleging it politicized prosecutions.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Convicted-Republican-businessman-s-company-13009162.php

[Mc Mike]

1. Convicted repuglican felon.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Beware aging wealthy Republican Businessmen in Blue Suits and Hair Dye

Is it a required costume?

[jaysunb]

11. Add, "a cheap blue suit." n/t

[Scarsdale]

14. Add,

with a Hitler 'stache, also.

[Midnight Writer]

3. He looks nice.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. People don't get sourpusses like that without walking around 24/7 with a sour attitude. . . . nt

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

4. Snidely Whiplash...in person.

[blitzen]

12. or, Saul Goodman's evil cousin?

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

13. Better get Saul?

[yonder]

5. I wouldn't be surprised to see

that he just stepped out of '53 Hudson Hornet.

[turbinetree]

6. I just gotta ask he got nailed for witness tampering also.............

Suarez Corp. Industries is behind the effort. Its CEO, Benjamin Suarez, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for witness tampering in a 2014 investigation by Dettelbach's office and the FBI.


So who and what does this remind you of..................he's sitting in DC jail now in the VIP section.................and they had their convention is this state........................just saying....................

[FiveGoodMen]

7. Now there's a villain's face -- right from central casting

[Rebl2]

9. Got that right!

[flotsam]

10. It's nice when nature writes "weasel" across their face...

...since it saves time getting to hate them.

[csziggy]

15. His own daughter testified against him - why is he blaming Democrats?

Daughter testifies against Benjamin Suarez in campaign finance scheme trial
Published: June 4, 2014 - 11:00 AM

By Akron Beacon Journal Staff
Ed Meyer

CLEVELAND: Federal prosecutors on Wednesday called Stark County businessman Benjamin Suarez an “advertising wizard” who personally directed a scheme to use 22 corporate employees in making illegal campaign contributions before the 2012 general election.

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The SCI employees, along with matching $5,000 checks from many of their spouses, contributed as “straw donors” to one or both campaigns, using money that Suarez and SCI had given them, Rendon said.

They did it, she stressed, for two reasons. “No. 1, they knew it was a Ben thing. No. 2, they knew they didn’t have to use their own money,” Rendon said.

Sharon Suarez-Cook, one of Suarez’s two daughters, testified briefly about her contribution under a guarantee of immunity.

More: https://www.ohio.com/akron/news/daughter-testifies-against-benjamin-suarez-in-campaign-finance-scheme-trial

If you read the entire article, he was really ham handed about how he managed the donations and in the cover up of his illegal activities. As a typical Republican, he blamed everyone else until his conviction even though his actions proved consciousness of guilt

[lagomorph777]

16. Mr. Burns?