Pigford Settlements Exceed $4B, Bonanza for Lawyers and Corrupt Congressmen  

NARLO Files Criminal Complaint with FBI Charging Obama and Former President Clinton with Criminal Collusion, Racketeering, Graft, and Fraud

Obama’s Illegal Payoffs to Minority Farmers….. for votes.

NARLO (National Association of Rural Landowners) has filed a Criminal Complaint with the Department of Justice and the FBI against the Clinton and Obama Administrations, in the matter of over $4 Billion in what NARLO alleges to be illegal payouts to minority farmers that say they were discriminated against by the U. S. Department of Agriculture (UDA) and we further allege that Clinton and Obama did it to buy Democrat Party votes

Shortly after the release of our article in early May of 2013 entitled: “How Obama Illegally Bought the Black and Latino Rural Vote”, we filed an extensive and documented criminal complaint with the Department of Justice and the FBI at their Washington DC Headquarters, alleging corruption, racketeering, graft and fraud against former President Clinton, President Obama, certain members of Obama’s cabinet and others, in illegal payoffs to Blacks, Latinos, Indians and women farmers under the 1999 Pigford Class Action settlement agreement, or any extensions thereto, using public funds to buy votes for the Democrat Party.

The Complaint is in PDF format and can be accessed at the link shown below. The reader can download the Complaint and attach their date and signature to it on the signature page, at their option, and then mail the Complaint with their date and signature to: “NARLO – FBI”, P. O. Box 1031, Issaquah, WA 98027. We will use those signatures in a follow-up Addendum to the FBI. The more signatures there are, the greater the impact the Complaint will have.

The complete Criminal Complaint to the Department of Justice and the FBI can be accessed “HERE”

https://www.narlo.org/fbi2013.pdf

https://www.narlo.org/

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NY Times Confirms: Massive Fraud at USDA in Pigford; Breitbart Vindicated

“Pigford became a ‘magnet for fraud’ across the South

“I had never heard of Pigford, so for the last four and half months, all I’ve been doing is eating, breathing, sleeping Pigford, researching Pigford, finding whistleblowers who are hiding in plain sight who have been wanting to tell the story of how this was rigged.”

– Andrew Breitbart, December 2010, quoted in Daily Caller

by Joel B. Pollak 26 Apr 2013

The New York Times reported Friday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has likely enabled massive fraud in the Pigford series of legal settlements, in which black, Hispanic, female and Native American farmers have claimed to be victims of past discrimination. 

The cost of the settlements, which could exceed $4.4 billion, is the result of a process that “became a runaway train, driven by racial politics, pressure from influential members of Congress and law firms that stand to gain more than $130 million in fees,” the Times notes.

Among those influential members of Congress was then-Senator Barack Obama, who made Pigford payouts a priority in exchange for political support for his 2008 presidential campaign among a coveted group of black voters in the rural South, the Times reports. 

As president, Obama continued to support payouts for new groups of claimants while abandoning a review process that had been used to fight fraud. The aim was “buying the support” of minorities, according to the Times, while middlemen created a “cottage industry” in defrauding the government.

The Times investigation, led by reporter Sharon LaFraniere, vindicates the late Andrew Breitbart, for whom Pigford became a crucial issue in demonstrating the cynical use of racial politics by the institutional left to hurt the very people they claimed to be helping.Breitbart directed investigations of the Pigford fraud and championed the cause of the original black farmers in the lawsuit, arguing that many of them had been left behind while opportunistic lawyers and fraudulent claimants looted the federal treasury in exchange for votes and support.

The left, led by the George Soros-funded Media Matters for America, attempted for years to dismiss claims of fraud in Pigford,calling it Breitbart’s “stupidest conspiracy theory.” When Fox News picked up the story, Media Matters called it an attempt to attack “anti-discrimination efforts.”

In fact, the 5,529-word report by LaFraniere shows that Pigford and subsequent settlements had little to do with redressing discrimination and everything to do with politics and greed, while the true victims of discrimination continued to suffer in obscurity.

In 2010, Breitbart was accused by the left of using a dispute with the NAACP to disrupt Pigford funding. That motivated him to investigate. 

“I had never heard of Pigford, so for the last four and half months, all I’ve been doing is eating, breathing, sleeping Pigford, researching Pigford, finding whistleblowers who are hiding in plain sight who have been wanting to tell the story of how this was rigged,” he told the Daily Caller in December 2010.

The Times story credits Breitbart News and Rep. Steve King (R-IA) for drawing attention to the issue.

LaFraniere and colleagues conducted their own, independent investigation, “based on thousands of pages of court and confidential government documents, as well as interviews with dozens of claimants, lawyers, former and current government officials and others involved in the cases over the past 14 years.”

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack told the Times that the settlements opened “‘a new chapter of civil rights at U.S.D.A,” claiming that critics of Pigford and other payouts were motivated by a “Pandora’s box” of hidden racial agendas.

Yet the Times documents how Pigford became a “magnet for fraud” across the South. “In 16 ZIP codes in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and North Carolina,” LaFraniere writes, “the number of successful claimants exceeded the total number of farms operated by people of any race in 1997, the year the lawsuit was filed. Those applicants received nearly $100 million.” The government let many of the fraudulent claims slip by unpunished because “the bar for a successful claim was so low that it was almost impossible to show criminality.”

Much of the fraud was enabled by the Clinton and Obama administrations, and by members of Congress seeking to reward special interests. Then-Sen. Obama sponsored new Pigford legislation in 2007, while Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) threatened in 2009 to lead protests against the administration if it did not bend to the wishes of Hispanic claimants.

Meanwhile, whole families, including young children, filed claims for past discrimination to reap $50,000 each in cash payouts. As yet, Congress has failed to investigate Pigford.

That may finally change.

https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/26/NYTimes-Confirms-Massive-Fraud-at-USDA-in-Pigford-Settlements-Breitbart-Vindicated

https://dailycaller.com/2010/12/09/will-pigford-vindicate-andrew-breitbart/

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Obama initiative ignores corruption to redistribute wealth

EDITORIAL: USDA’s Pigford fraud

Federal judge’s ruling “encouraged a mad scramble for cash based on false claims.”

Race hustlers are shaking down taxpayers for payoffs, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is falling for the scam.

The controversy involves a discrimination claim against the USDA for allegedly denying loans because of race. A federal judge approved payments of $50,000 or more based on low levels of proof.

This encouraged a mad scramble for cash based on false claims.

The “Pigford Settlement,” an agreement that came out of the original 1997 lawsuit by Timothy Pigford and 400 southern black farmers, resulted from some apparently legitimate instances of discrimination. However, plaintiffs’ lawyers got involved, and the number of supposedly aggrieved farmers grew exponentially.

Eventually, more than 94,000 claims were filed even though the U.S. Census Bureau never counted more than 33,000 black farmers in America during the years in question.

In 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama began working to pass legislation providing even more money for a whole new class of claimants via “Pigford II.” This push ignored fraud in and several convictions over the original settlement, but Mr. Obama was advised his legislation could help him in a Democratic presidential primary fight against then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. As president, Mr. Obama rammed this new, $4.6 billion boondoggle through Congress during last year’s post-election, lame-duck session.

For months, the liberal Huffington Post and Andrew Breitbart’s libertarian BigGovernment.com have reported growing numbers of Pigford fraud allegations. Numerous black farmers have complained they get short shrift while grifters and lawyers get the loot. In January, these websites posted videos of black farmers saying they brought fraud concerns to Rep. Sanford Bishop, Georgia Democrat, but he advised them to stay quiet “as long as the money was flowing” because otherwise “they’ll shut this thing down.” Three men – including Eddie Slaughter, vice president of the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association – agree Mr. Bishop said this in his Columbus, Ga., office.

“Yes, I am aware that there is fraud in the program, that’s why anti-fraud provisions were written into the settlement,” Mr. Bishop stated, according to the Jan. 20 Albany (Ga.) Herald. “It’s not my job to monitor fraud in the program.”

New legislation has USDA’s inspector general conduct audits of disbursements, but it’s not clear why there is a Pigford II when the original settlement was hampered by fraud.

The Washington Times tried to get answers about ongoing or future investigations of fraud from Pearlie Reed, USDA assistant secretary for administration, but was given the run-around by department spokesman Justin Dejong. All questionable Pigfordpayments should be suspended until Congress can conduct a full investigation.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/2/usda-s-pigford-fraud/