A SMARTMATIC CONNECTION

C'MON MAN....and still this CONTINUES. Go figure. Money talks and 🐂💩 walks‼️

{logged August 11, 2024 at 12:20pm} #NewtonSaidIt

🚨THE BRIBERY INDICTMENT 🚨

A federal grand jury indicted executives of the voting machine company Smartmatic, along with the Philippines’ former top elections official, Thursday AUGUST 08, 2024 for participating in an “alleged bribery and money laundering scheme.” Smartmatic is currently suing conservative media outlets over their 2020 election reporting.

♦️Roger Piñate and Jorge Vasquez are accused of taking part in a scheme that involved laundering money and paying $1 million in bribes to Juan Andres Bautista, former chair of the Philippines Commission on Elections, from 2015 to 2018, according to a Department of Justice press release.

♦️The “co-conspirators” allegedly bribed Bautista to “obtain and retain business related to providing voting machines and election services for the 2016 Philippine elections and to secure payments on the contracts,” according to the release.

✅ Sounds an awful lot like the activities that Linda Lamone was associated with while she was in charge of securing contracts and software in her capacity as Maryland State Board of Elections Administrator and her service on The National Association of State Election Directors‼️🤔

https://www.nased.org/news/lamoneaward

👉🏾 See I did my "homework" and lead the way with proprietary groundbreaking research way ahead of everybody else. I provided unimpeachable evidence while officials DENIED the it.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/6x5MXUydryZNcRQZ/?mibextid=oFDknk

ANYWAY BACK TO THIS BREAKING NEWS -

♦️Bautista (and friends) allegedly “laundered funds” through banks on three continents, including in the Southern District of Florida, where Piñate and Vasquez reside.

The release did not mention Smartmatic by name, but said the indictment targeted “three executives” of an “election voting machine” company. Piñate is president and co-founder of Smartmatic and Vásquez worked as an executive. Elie Moreno, who was Smartmatic’s Philippines general manager, is also charged in the indictment.

♦️All four individuals are charged with “one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and three counts of international laundering of monetary instruments,” the release said. If convicted, they could each face a maximum sentence of 20 years for each charge.

♦️Additionally, Piñate and Vasquez are each charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and conspiring to violate the act, according to the release. The FCPA bans American citizens and companies from paying foreign officials for “obtaining or retaining” their business. They could each face a maximum sentence of five years in prison for these charges.

♦️DOJ filed money laundering charges against Bautista last fall, implicating four Smartmatic executives as “co-conspirators".

♦️Smartmatic executives allegedly used “slush funds,” false email accounts, and code words, referring to money as “salsa,” CNN reported. The original court filing claimed they “caused or attempted” to funnel $4 million to Bautista, who agreed to $199 million in contracts with Smartmatic for servicing the Philippines’ 2016 election.

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