Comments on: The fraud scandal grows and grows and grows https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/30/the-fraud-scandal-grows-and-grows-and-grows/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:33:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: om https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/30/the-fraud-scandal-grows-and-grows-and-grows/#comment-2835825 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:33:38 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146449#comment-2835825 Cappy, those are some Carboniferous crickets (the age of giant insects) indeed.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/30/the-fraud-scandal-grows-and-grows-and-grows/#comment-2835822 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:35:04 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146449#comment-2835822 Over the years, among people promoting various “programs”, it seems there is a surplus of compassion looking for subjects. Got to be somebody out there who needs to be compassionated or the folks are going to be feeling incomplete. Or something.
It’s hard to say what could combat that. No “program”, no matter its irrelevance and failure to address the actual problem (presuming there is one) can be contradicted by actual facts.

And making it ostentatious is even better.

And the politicians know it. It’s a boundless source of energy for their graft.

]]> By: Cappy https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/30/the-fraud-scandal-grows-and-grows-and-grows/#comment-2835819 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:21:54 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146449#comment-2835819 Any comment from Tucker? Vance? Hello.

]]> By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/30/the-fraud-scandal-grows-and-grows-and-grows/#comment-2835810 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:33:07 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146449#comment-2835810 A smiling Amy Bach, the Executive Director “mastermind” of the $270 million dollar “Feeding our Future” fraud scheme in Minnesota, has been ordered by a judge to pay back the money she earned directly from the scheme, $5.2 million dollars.*

(Perhaps she’s smiling because she has no intention of paying even a single cent of that money back?)

As I have written here before, from what I understand, quite often, after restitution is ordered, interest in following up to see if these penalties are, in fact, being paid, is just not there.

And, apparently quite often, perps do not pay back these penalties because they either do not have any assets (the smarter of them have likely squirreled away a lot of the money they stole in overseas bank accounts, hidden, or buried the cash somewhere, etc.), cannot or refuse to get a high paying job, or any job at all, or simply just refuse to pay anything.

My solution to this is that for, say, every thousand dollars which is not at least started to be paid back—and on a strict schedule, beginning a couple months after this penalty is handed down by a judge–they get to spend, say, six months in jail. Progress in their paying restitution to be assessed each year.

* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm1kTy9sJTM

]]> By: R2L https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/30/the-fraud-scandal-grows-and-grows-and-grows/#comment-2835780 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 04:16:47 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146449#comment-2835780 From Paul Nachman’s Williamson quote:
“At the apex of the dependency food chain are the highest-ranking members of a political machine ultimately dependent upon dependency and highly invested in its spread.”
Which brought to mind the adage that a democracy will only survive until the voting population realizes that they can vote personal largess from the government coffers.

I miss the pre – TDS Kevin D. Williamson. Few were better at speaking truth to power; including the presumed power of the “sovereign” We the People.

Happy New Year to Neo-land – coming in 44 minutes to the EST area.

]]> By: BJ https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/30/the-fraud-scandal-grows-and-grows-and-grows/#comment-2835760 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:33:25 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146449#comment-2835760 @Art Deco,

As I recall (it’s been a long time), Sinatra told Royko; “I’ve got a concert coming up in Chicago. Come backstage and see me. I’ll let you pull my hair once to prove it’s not a toupee. If it moves, I’ll give you five thousand dollars. If it doesn’t move, I get to punch you in the nose. Deal?”

Royko said “You’re such a big star that I’ll let you punch me in the face anyway. People would probably pay five thousand dollars just to feel my swollen lip where you punched me.”

]]> By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/30/the-fraud-scandal-grows-and-grows-and-grows/#comment-2835745 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:43:15 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146449#comment-2835745 Harris and Walz were truly the Dumb and Dumber team.

]]> By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/30/the-fraud-scandal-grows-and-grows-and-grows/#comment-2835744 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:36:23 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146449#comment-2835744 As many have commented already, but I want to whole heartedly agree and emphasize, how we all dodged a bullet when that dipshit Walz did not become VP.

]]> By: Nate Winchester https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/30/the-fraud-scandal-grows-and-grows-and-grows/#comment-2835681 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:29:45 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146449#comment-2835681

I don’t know how the Democrats recover from this.

Same way they always do. Related to what Rufus T Firefly hinted at: compliant media. As long as the corporate media runs cover and excuses, enough folks will choose to believe them over the possibility of just how bad things are.

“It’s easier to fool a man than convince him he has been fooled.” As the saying goes. You engage with some of these folks and… well they truly believe it. If the government tomorrow said the sky was plaid they would convince themselves it was true.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/30/the-fraud-scandal-grows-and-grows-and-grows/#comment-2835677 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:06:03 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146449#comment-2835677 Don’t worry we “know” it wasn’t criminal, best intentions no doubt.

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