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flamingdem

(40,891 posts)
Tue Sep 5, 2023, 09:55 PM Sep 2023

Whistleblower implicates Sydney Powell in NEW fake elector scheme

** Isn't is always about the grift

https://washingtonpress.com/2023/09/05/breaking-whistleblower-implicates-sydney-powell-in-new-fake-elector-scheme/

A former insider turned whistleblower just revealed ties between the Chair of Pennsylvania’s Republican fake electors and the indicted Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, implicating them in dark money cash flows to election auditors in four states with the goal of not solely contesting the 2020 results, but also tampering with future elections.

It is a scheme centered around the Chair of the Republican Party’s fake electors in Pennsylvania named William “Bill” Bachenberg. He was subpoenaed by the House Special Committee to Investigate January 6th in early 2022.

Groups Bachenberg directed were hired and paid for by attorneys acting as his cutouts starting in early 2021 and operating in Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Georgia through mid-2022.

The multi-state scheme involved Bill Bachenberg as a surreptitious paymaster and strategist funneling cash through lawyers Sidney Powell, who was at the time in Dallas, Texas, and Stephanie Lambert of Detroit, Michigan, to unlawfully obtain election tabulators. His lawyers thus delivered copies of Dominion election software and its hardware into the hands of unwitting cyber security companies who thought they were genuinely being paid to find system flaws.

It started to unravel in July 2023 when Bill Bachenberg didn’t pay his auditors, and one filed suit in federal court.

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Whistleblower implicates Sydney Powell in NEW fake elector scheme (Original Post) flamingdem Sep 2023 OP
It takes a special kind of stupidity and balls to be the auditor Scrivener7 Sep 2023 #1
That came to mind!! flamingdem Sep 2023 #3
Those wacky republiQans are at it again! Scrivener7 Sep 2023 #4
Turns out the firm hired was legit and he simply stiffed them flamingdem Sep 2023 #5
Of course they intended (intend) to meddle with future elections Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2023 #2
Well said. They have no use for democracy. Beartracks Sep 2023 #12
reminder... after almost two years of proceedings, sidney powell has STILL not been disbarred Takket Sep 2023 #6
Collin County the fascist Capital of Texas cpamomfromtexas Sep 2023 #9
Dump's not enjoying this Powell movement Blue Owl Sep 2023 #7
Tee hee...🏃‍♂️💩 rubbersole Sep 2023 #10
Snakes eating their own tails? There was another article about something like this happening. 4lbs Sep 2023 #8
Besides the utter criminality. They likely rendered unusable billions of dollars in equipment. bullimiami Sep 2023 #11
not billions, but mopinko Sep 2023 #14
The machines are public property. The reputation and business of the companies has been harmed but bullimiami Sep 2023 #19
Unless these people are actually election officials stopdiggin Sep 2023 #13
LOCK THEM ALL UP malaise Sep 2023 #15
This just gets better and better. Pretty soon all the leftyladyfrommo Sep 2023 #16
NRA Board member and Moonie Brenda Sep 2023 #17
GOP moonies with guns flamingdem Sep 2023 #18
Kick dalton99a Sep 2023 #20
Fake Electors, FAKE cardboard cutout pResident MagickMuffin Sep 2023 #21
Absolutely EVERYTHING about the Big Lie is about rigging future elections MissMillie Sep 2023 #22

Scrivener7

(59,521 posts)
1. It takes a special kind of stupidity and balls to be the auditor
Tue Sep 5, 2023, 10:02 PM
Sep 2023

who sues William "Bill" Bachenberg (so glad they told us his nickname! )in federal court because William "Bill" was behind on his "dark money cash flow" payments.

flamingdem

(40,891 posts)
3. That came to mind!!
Tue Sep 5, 2023, 10:04 PM
Sep 2023
I hope it's not just the article and there's some explanation for that mad stupidity

Scrivener7

(59,521 posts)
4. Those wacky republiQans are at it again!
Tue Sep 5, 2023, 10:05 PM
Sep 2023

Committing lots of crimes, and doing it REALLY badly.

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,631 posts)
2. Of course they intended (intend) to meddle with future elections
Tue Sep 5, 2023, 10:03 PM
Sep 2023

The radicalized Republican party hates democracy; it gets in the way of their goal of ruling.

Takket

(23,714 posts)
6. reminder... after almost two years of proceedings, sidney powell has STILL not been disbarred
Tue Sep 5, 2023, 10:12 PM
Sep 2023

the last attempt was tossed out for "procedural errors", which rather than just offering the bar the chance to correct, the judge instead chose to allow an seditionist to just walk away.

Now that she is indicted in GA, and facing another in PA, it seems absolutely insane that she has not been disbarred.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2023/05/17/lawsuit-against-sidney-powell-hits-another-wall-in-collin-county/

Powell contended that a conspiracy between Dominion Voting Systems and foreign dictators resulted in hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes cast in favor of President Joe Biden in those states. None of the cases was successful.

Unfortunately, neither has been the state bar’s case so far. State District Judge Andrea Bouressa of Collin County first tossed out the sanctions case in February, and on May 4 refused to reconsider her decision.

Even more disappointing is that Bouressa has based her rulings not on the merits of the bar’s case, but on clerical and procedural errors by the bar. In one ruling, she chastised the bar’s lawyers for not properly ordering their exhibits attached to a filing.

Regardless, we hope the bar appeals Bouressa’s most recent order to the 5th District Court of Appeals in Dallas and that it is sent back to the trial court for a full hearing of the facts. The case deserves that much.

4lbs

(7,395 posts)
8. Snakes eating their own tails? There was another article about something like this happening.
Tue Sep 5, 2023, 11:00 PM
Sep 2023
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bullimiami

(14,075 posts)
11. Besides the utter criminality. They likely rendered unusable billions of dollars in equipment.
Tue Sep 5, 2023, 11:51 PM
Sep 2023

They should be financially responsible.

mopinko

(73,726 posts)
14. not billions, but
Wed Sep 6, 2023, 08:04 AM
Sep 2023

dominion is valued at $80m.
i wonder if the voting machine co’s can take action?

bullimiami

(14,075 posts)
19. The machines are public property. The reputation and business of the companies has been harmed but
Wed Sep 6, 2023, 09:35 AM
Sep 2023

the direct damage is to publicly owned property which needs to be repaired or replaced since it has become corrupted and rendered unusable.

stopdiggin

(15,463 posts)
13. Unless these people are actually election officials
Wed Sep 6, 2023, 12:36 AM
Sep 2023

they are not authorized to either examine the machines or systems - OR, turn them over to any third party for 'forensics.' It is my understanding that this is flatly illegal. Full stop.

(and - I would hazard that any bona fide 'cyber security' firm - would be completely familiar with such law and stricture. Am I wrong about this?)

leftyladyfrommo

(20,005 posts)
16. This just gets better and better. Pretty soon all the
Wed Sep 6, 2023, 08:09 AM
Sep 2023

wealthy Republicans are going to get caught up in this.

Trump has been great for attorneys. Everyone is suing everyone or they need a good criminal attorney.

Brenda

(2,054 posts)
17. NRA Board member and Moonie
Wed Sep 6, 2023, 08:21 AM
Sep 2023
https://www.mediamatters.org/national-rifle-association/patriots-trump-event-sportsmen-trump-co-chair-laughs-audience-reacts-his

At “Patriots for Trump” event, Sportsmen for Trump co-chair laughs as audience reacts to his speech with threats to shoot Democratic politician
Bill Bachenberg, who is also an NRA board member, gave a speech at a fundraiser to benefit Trump, which was held at a festival put on by a far-right church group that uses AR-15s for worship

Special PROGRAMS
GUNS & PUBLIC SAFETY

WRITTEN BY TIMOTHY JOHNSON

PUBLISHED 10/26/20 4:34 PM EDT

Bill Bachenberg, an NRA board member and a co-chair of an official Trump campaign group Sportsmen for Trump, laughed as audience members at a fundraiser event reacted to his speech with threats to shoot a Democratic politician.

The “Patriots for Trump” fundraiser event took place on October 9 and was held as part of the second annual Rod of Iron Freedom Festival. This festival is “a gathering of far-right ideologues and Second Amendment activists organized by the sons of the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the controversial Korean religious leader.”

The festival is connected to the Rod of Iron Ministries, a religious organization that emphasizes gun ownership, has some of its young members undertake “quasi paramilitary training,” and whose members sometimes hold AR-15-style assault weapons and wear crowns made of ammunition during worship. Rod of Iron Ministries founder Sean Moon preaches his belief that the current system of government in the United States will come to an end and he will be named king. The NRA Political Victory Fund, the gun group’s political action committee, paid $180 to rent a booth at the festival.

Bachenberg, who was most recently reelected to the NRA board in 2018, opened his remarks at the fundraising event for Trump by touting his personal meeting with the president and saying, “I bring pleasure and greetings from President Trump and the Sportsmen for Trump coalition.” (Brachenberg is a co-chair of the coalition.)

snip

Bachenberg might have guessed what type reaction he would get. Moments earlier, he had told a story, with bizarre amusement, about when he was giving a speech at a 2016 Trump campaign rally and an audience member reacted to his “from my cold, dead hands” line by shouting “[fucking] bullet to her head.” He said a Secret Service agent turned around and smiled at him after the comment, causing some in the audience at the “Patriots for Trump” event to laugh.

flamingdem

(40,891 posts)
18. GOP moonies with guns
Wed Sep 6, 2023, 09:15 AM
Sep 2023

"a far-right church group that uses AR-15s for worship".

I mean we know they worship guns but use guns for worship???

Lock them up!!

MagickMuffin

(18,318 posts)
21. Fake Electors, FAKE cardboard cutout pResident
Wed Sep 6, 2023, 09:42 AM
Sep 2023









Here’s the traitor to his country. Jack here’s another one to investigate.


It appeared ALL voting machines need to be replaced. And these aholes should pay for every one of them.


And there will need to be stepped up security at all locations that store the equipment.






MissMillie

(39,652 posts)
22. Absolutely EVERYTHING about the Big Lie is about rigging future elections
Wed Sep 6, 2023, 09:47 AM
Sep 2023

Sowing distrust in elections is the whole point.

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