BBV - Jeffrey Dean concealed assets /failed restitution

[harmonyguy]

Under a negotiated order signed last week by King County Superior Court Judge Richard McDermott, Jeffrey Dean will serve 66 days of work-release jail time and pay $612,500 to owners of a law firm he defrauded in the 1980s.
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Dean's work-release jail sentence stems in part from a declaration he made to the court in December 1999 stating he was unemployed and could not afford to make court-ordered restitution payments to his theft victims. At the time he headed a team hired by Global to write a customized election-management program for the county.
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Dean's work-release jail sentence stems in part from a declaration he made to the court in December 1999 stating he was unemployed and could not afford to make court-ordered restitution payments to his theft victims. At the time he headed a team hired by Global to write a customized election-management program for the county.
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Court filings by county prosecutors said Dean also failed to tell the court that Global agreed to pay him and his wife $1.6 million, with $600,000 in cash and the rest in three payments of $333,333 when Global purchased the Dean family's company, Spectrum Print and Mail Services, in 2000. Global hired Dean that year as a senior vice president earning $144,000 a year.

full text at:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001958023_dean17m.html

HG

[Andy_Stephenson]

1. I knew his past would...

Catch up to him!

Good Catch HG!!!!!

[harmonyguy]

4. Gotta keep checkin' on all these names .....

... to see where they go and what they're up to.
Everyone has to do their bit .....
You're doing yours, front and center, with Bev and others.
The rest of us that hide behind our 'nyms, gotta keep at it !

:grouphug:

HG

[BevHarris]

2. I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that

About 20 original source documents, including many that document the $1.6 million payout he got (while still under order to pay several hundred thousand in restitution which he did not do) are posted on the source documents for reporters page at Black Box Voting.

Gee. Jeffrey Dean had a quote in the Seattle Weekly, some whiny thing about "we are role models for every released prisoner, why don't they let us alone?"

As a convicted felon, he is not allowed to vote, but he was allowed 24-hour access to the King County central tabulator and had programming input for every system Diebold makes for more than 30 states.

Great catch, HG.

(Now where have I seen this guy before????)

Bev Harris

[Andy_Stephenson]

3. Holy Shady Character

Batman!

[harmonyguy]

5. Wondered 'bout that... nt

[RedEagle]

8. Kind of Reminds me of a Now Former State Elections Director

But maybe it's the angle of the picture or something....

[Andy_Stephenson]

9. RE were you at the league of women voters meeting in Jan?

Seems to me that Mr. Logan said something to the effect...that "we don't have any felons on our staff" "I'm certainly not a felon." Yet here is Jeff...working in the coal mine.

Seems as if the pinball machine has hit tilt. :)

[RedEagle]

10. Nope, couldn't make that meeting

Heard a lot about it though.

Hey, was that a SEATTLE paper finally picking up the ball?

When are they going to start investigating VoteHere and the long relationship with the state elections office, starting with Ralph Munro and Gary McIntosh going directly to VoteHere, do not pass any time waiting like the ethics rules would require? (But practically useless in WA)

Oh well, the more pressing problem is King County and the upcoming elections. Seems like they are making the system even more suspect.

[Andy_Stephenson]

15. What?!?

"Oh well, the more pressing problem is King County and the upcoming elections. Seems like they are making the system even more suspect."

No! How could King County be any more suspect? We are talking about the King county that is famous for "doing end run's around the database." Nothing to see there. Move along...

Edit:

BTW yes it was a Seattle Paper...finally doing their work.

[RedEagle]

17. Just Saying King County First

Could King get any more suspect? Everytime you think not, it gets worse.

Patty Murray better be thinking about recounting all of King.

Sure wish we had the old KING-TV back- whatever you thought of Dorothy Bullitt, she would have been all over this story and leading the posse nationwide.

I used to have a fair respect for the Seattle market- all gone now.

This is a huge local story with mega national implications- yet the Seattle media sits on its hands and listens to election officials rather than doing the investigative work you and Bev have done.

Maybe we could get the CBC to come down here and snoop around?

[Andy_Stephenson]

18. Patty Murray has endorsed

Ruderman.

[Andy_Stephenson]

6. John Elder

as far as I know...was transferred to San Francisco and is loosing absentee ballots there now.

[Merlin]

7. Spooky

(Besides the fact that I have a brother with the same name in Northern Ohio, also a lawyer!)

This guy has gray hair, but a naturally black stach and beard. Don't know if I've ever seen that before.

What a slimeball!

[BevHarris]

11. "Dean" is quite a name.

John Dean - villain, then whistleblower of Watergate, now a very interesting voice in the national discussion

Howard Dean - fiercely independent and rather brilliant think-outside-the-box type politician

Jeffrey Dean - 23-count embezzler who helped oversee one of the biggest electronic voting systems in the U.S.

"Merlin" Dean - and significant other -- who helped pressure the League of Women Voters to change their stance on paperless ballots. Except, they then weaseled right back to the old one. But an excellent effort, and I have great respect for Dean & Dean on this.

Oh yeah, and James Dean. vroom vrooom.

Bev Harris

[Merlin]

12. Weaseled back? But still dropped their VVPB opposition, yes?

I haven't talked to anybody who was there yet. Last I heard they voted to drop opposition to VVPBs, though didn't endorse them. They did endorse standards which can only be met thru VVPBs, though.

Is there any change from this?

I don't think their VVPB endorsement is nearly as important as removing their opposition. (I can just hear those vendor salesmen telling those purchasing committee folks how they "don't need paper trails--hell, even the LWV opposes them!" Hopefully they can't get away with that anymore.)

(James? That's another brother.)

p.s. Thanks for the :-)!

p.p.s. Your the one who deserves the kudos! We just helped with the easy part.

[BevHarris]

13. Well, the Atlanta Journal Constititution has them

endorsing the Georgia Diebold touch screen system again. Just today.

[Bushfire]

16. With all fairness, wasn't that just the GA LWV Exec. Director?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1792187

The head of Georgia's League of Women Voters said the chapter still supports the state's e-voting system, despite concerns among the group's membership over the security of such systems. - By Carlos Campos, Atlanta Journal Constitution (Story - registration required)

"We still absolutely, 100 percent, feel the system in Georgia is a good system," said Meg Smothers, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Georgia. Georgia is one of only two states that rely exclusively on electronic voting, using a system championed by Secretary of State Cathy Cox.

Smothers has been an important ally for Cox in defending the state's voting system. Smothers lobbied to defeat a bill this year that would have required Cox to outfit every voting machine with a printed receipt.

Critics of the touch-screen machines say that without such a receipt, voters are left to wonder whether their votes have been accurately tallied. Cox opposes the paper trail, saying it will cause logistical nightmares at the polls. She and Smothers say Georgia should wait until uniform national standards are developed for paper receipts before the state moves forward.

more...

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0604/16voting.html


http://www.lwv.org/about/leagues/state_search.html#ga

Ms. Elisabeth MacNamara (different than in the article/shakeup?)
LWV of Georgia
PO Box 29751
Atlanta, GA 30359-0781
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail [e-mail]


These are the people that also "need to be replaced", as shown by Bev and others who worked nationally by getting involved with their local LWV chapters. I hope GA members take note.

[Merlin]

19. Just called GA LWV. MacNamara is President. Smothers is Ex Dir.

Sounds like we need to try to organize a coup in Georgia (didn't Putin already do that? :-))

[Andy_Stephenson]

14. You Missed one

Dean Logan, Director of Records and Elections. King County, Washington.

Who also served as the State Election's Director.

Why did he say no felons worked in King County Records and Elections? He must have known. Someone must have been blowing the whistle!

Who could have known...there should be a "Paper Trail" in this case.
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Unless of course they are destroying records.