MASSACHUSETTS – Last week, more than $1 million of cash, in small bundles, was found in safe deposit boxes belonging to a disgraced former Massachusetts state representative.
At least $750,000 in cash wasn't found in shoe boxes in a Springfield hotel, like the late Secretary of State Paul Powell's was in 1970. Another cache of $50,000 was found in Powell's state office. His estate was finally found two years later to have a cash value of more than $3 million, plus 61,290 shares of stock in seven Illinois racetracks.
Former Dartmouth, Massachusetts lawmaker John George, 68, has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for embezzling almost $700,000 from his taxpayer-subsidized bus company to bankroll his farm. George was convicted and sentenced to 70 months in prison.
George's sentence also required him to pay $688,772 in restitution and forfeit $1.38 million to the federal government. Following that judgment, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and U.S. Marshals obtained warrants for George's safe deposit boxes.
As a typical Democrat, he only saved all that money so he could distribute it to the poor at Christmastime. It was evil, right-wing Republicans who railroaded him into a conviction. They must have planted most of that money so they could make him look like a liar after the press report:
“George was required to disclose his financial status to the court prior to his sentencing in July 2015, but only reported about $160,000 in bank accounts and another $28,000 in cash. The Marshals say they found more than $1 million in the safe deposit boxes.”
We must help him. Please send him some money for a defense lawyer. We need him so badly as a legislator again. Please….send money NOW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3xXQcoDV_U
A Democrat, and from sophisticated Massachusetts, too.
SanityMan, I don’t see how we ignorant hicks living west of the Hudson River could be of any help to this example of superior upper-class New England patrician.
Maybe he can find a Kennedy to be his legal attorney.
I always remember that commercial jingle “What is in your wallet?” when I think of Hillary & Bill. Now it probably will also remind me of John George.