Thursday February 21, 2013
A guy from Minnesota named Gerard Cellette is facing a whopping 116 counts of fraud, money laundering and other highly illegal shenanigans related to what the Orange County, California, D.A. calls “the largest Ponzi scheme to be prosecuted in Orange County history.” Cellette is accused of defrauding 55 victims in California — “without ever entering the State of California,” notes the D.A. — out of $21 million. There’s a nice, long explanation below that details exactly what Cellette is accused of doing (and why, until he was extradited to California a couple of weeks ago, he’d been twiddling his thumbs in a Minnesota prison) — but first, let’s hit the convoluted backstory. (more…)
Tuesday July 10, 2012
In case you’ve been lucky enough never to have heard of him before, Bradley Dean Smith, a.k.a. Bradlee Dean, is a “Christian” “rocker” with a partially-appropriately-named “band,” “Junkyard Prophet” (they really suck, even by the lowest garage-band standards, which you’ll learn as soon as you start the video at left), who has said a lot of… things about gay people (and a lot of other people who don’t share his peculiar worldview).
Dean is the very public face (good gawd, what must the rest of the band look like?!) of an SPLC-officially-designated hate group (he calls it a “youth ministry”), “You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International,” out of Annandale, Minnesota. (more…)
Monday December 20, 2010
Remember Mark Buesgens, Republican Minnesota House Rep & former campaign manager for defeated gay-hating Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, who, following the lead of his ex-boss, was arrested in September for drunk driving?
The bad news is that Buesgens managed to keep his state seat — although he did resign (actually, it sounds like he was forced to resign) as chair of the House State Government and Finance Committee, and quit his extracurricular work as a GOP strategist. (more…)
Thursday September 23, 2010
Tom Emmer |
Mark Buesgens |
Tripp Emmer |
“Tom Emmer now has to deal with four separate stories involving members and former members of his campaign, and their run-ins with the law over alcohol consumption.”
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