FCC slaps Montana man with $9.9M fine for racist robocalls that included Adolf Hitler recording

[discocrisco01]

Source: USA Today

A Nazi sympathizer from Montana has been slapped with a $9.9 million fine from the Federal Communications Commission for racist and harassing robocalls across eight states that targeted political figures and attempted to influence the murder case against an avowed white supremacist.

Scott D. Rhodes made thousands of calls in 2018 harassing Black and Jewish politicians including Stacey Abrams, then the Democratic nominee for Georgia governor, and Andrew Gillum, the Democratic candidate for governor in Florida, as well as California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, another Democrat, according to an FCC complaint.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/01/31/fcc-fines-montana-man-scott-rhodes-racist-robocalls-nazi-sympathizer/4332690001/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories

[Chicago1980]

1. Hmmm...

It'll be interesting to see what fines Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl might get for their racist robe calls in Michigan and Ohio this past election.

[Blue Owl]

4. I hope it's in the same ballpark!

Those two shitstains should have to spend the rest of their lives paying it off

[Throck]

2. Is he behind the car warranty calls too?

[RussellCattle]

6. And the ones about my credit card? If so, throw the book at him !

[Wellstone ruled]

7. No,that warranty crap is coming out of Springfield Mo.

Part a parcel of American International Insurance and Causality. Backside of HOW home owners insurance. Someone has a Boiler room Contract for this sucker. Until the FTC steps in,we are going to keep on getting these sucker calls. BTW,the Call Centers Employee usually gets 10% of the freight and other incentives.

[Hortensis]

3. This despicable scum exploited the murder of a young white woman

in hate messages about minorities.

In a September 2018 interview with the Des Moines Register, Tibbetts' father Rob Tibbetts said he believed he was among the first to receive the message, which claimed if Mollie could be brought back to life, she would say of immigrants, "Kill them all."

"It was unbelievably painful," he said. "It was everything that’s dark and wrong in America right now."

Hopefully the DoJ will prosecute and he'll go to prison. RIP Molly.

[BobTheSubgenius]

5. Did everyone noticed that, by providing proof that one of the numbers he used actually "belonged"...

...to him, his fine was reduced from $12-something million to its current $9.9 million. What a break!

It reminds me of a story I heard about years and years ago. A convicted murderer appealed his 900 year sentence, and the appeals court ruled that it was, in fact, excessive. The court magnanimously reduced his sentence to 700 years.

[demigoddess]

8. Nazi sympathizers! Hitler admirers!!!

didn't their grandfathers fight in WWII???? Could they really love someone we fought against just a couple of generations ago???

[electric_blue68]

9. Good! Sue the hideous 😠 bastard into ultra poverty!

[Kablooie]

10. That reminds me of an evil thing I did in high school.

I checked out audio tapes used in German class and after the recording said, "repeat after me", I spliced in some recordings of Hitler speeches.
I quietly returned them to the library but never heard anything about them again.

[Initech]

11. Montana Nazis? I hate Montana Nazis!