Pigford Video Blockbuster: Key ‘Black Farmers’ Lawyer Admits Clients ‘Got Away With Murder’
by Lee StranahanThe mainstream media has treated accusations of large-scale fraud in the Pigford settlement with overt skepticism and a distinct lack of journalistic curiosity. The press has blindly repeated the Obama Administration’s claim that there are only a handful of fraud cases among the twenty thousand or so paid Pigford claims. Worse, the media has helped promote the narrative that those raising concerns about fraud in Pigford are racist.
You’re about to watch a video clip where Othello Cross, an attorney for Pigford claimants with about fifteen years of experience on the case, admits that he is personally aware of hundreds of cases of fraud in the state of Arkansas alone. Furthermore, he explains how easy it was to commit that fraud and receive a $50,000 check from the government; it’s appropriate to deduce from Cross’s revealing statement that the actual number of fraudulent claims is likely much higher than the hundreds he knows about.
You’re about to watch this clip for the first time, but the USDA watched it over a week ago — I sent it to them for comment about 10 days ago.
After a number of phone calls to the USDA, I was given the response that Secretary Vilsack now acknowledges around ten cases of fraud, up from his original statement that there are only three known cases. If I were inclined to spin the government’s response, I’d praise the USDA for finding 300% more instances of fraud in just a few days, but the reality is that the USDA can watch a video where a pro-Pigford claimant lawyer says in no uncertain terms that he knows about hundreds of cases of fraud — over ten million dollars worth at bare minimum — and still will only acknowledge ten cases.
As Andrew Breitbart points out, the media simply doesn’t want to cover Pigford. I also sent this video to a few major media outlets that stated they wanted to “research” this. I haven’t heard back from any of them.
You’ve watched the clip. Do you think Mr. Cross could have been any clearer that there are hundreds of cases of fraud he is personally aware of in just one state? Did the press research the charges of racism against Congressman Steve King? Did they research the government’s claim of three cases of fraud?
This is where citizen pressure can hopefully have some impact on them. If you have a blog, please embed and share this video and give your own opinion. If you have a Twitter or Facebook account, please post the video to your account.
The press and government seem to feel confident that they can ignore this story. Let’s prove them wrong. It’s time for formal hearings that will allow whistleblowers to come forward. It’s time for transparency — transparency for the black farmers who deserve justice and for the taxpayers whose government has wasted billions of their dollars. It’s time to investigate Pigford.
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Bravo, Mr. Stranahan.
Keep up the good work.
Problem is, the mainstream media has no interest spending time in states like Arkansas or Mississippi.
Glad you don't mind.
The government and MSM will not investigate fraud if committed by progressives!
Sigh. Another right-wing shill, this time bearing the name "Lee Stranahan."
Just kidding! Kudos to Lee for recognizing that the nefarious Andrew Breitbart can actually be an agent of truth, and for rejecting partisan hackery to pursue facts.
You're about to find out who your *real* friends are.
This is why we won't have another 1930's debacle under FDR's new offspring Pelosi/Reid/Barry: instant communication technology to shine the spotlight of truth on them. This isn't the 1930's with "FDR in Wash-ing-ton D-a-C a pretect'in us common folk." Listening to the radio for our next "Fireside chat".
While the monolith media continues its valiant progress toward a race war over reparations, another, more insidious reparation is making steady inroads into the populace.
Yes, soon Pigford will be a distant memory as we will be excoriated for wondering aloud how we could have allowed TB back within our borders.
Ah, borders. Such a quaint, outdated and racist notion!
Juilan Assange is the stooge whose masters will put an end to that cheery notion.
Pigford is nothing more than progressive government sanctioned theft from U.S. taxpayers, with the proceeds going to buy votes.
Mr Issa, are you listening…….?
The big problem with the Government rooting out the fraud is one crook wont rat on another crook. Thats precisely why elections matter. We cannot keep electing crooks like we have been.
Crooks like Maxine ( what this socialist is all about ) Waters.
So basically anyone who ever picked a tomato could file a claim and got paid. This Cross fellow know of hundreds of cases of fraud but the actual number is probably more than fifty thousand.
There is no way that the govt. will go back and investigate this with any real sincerity because there are too many people.
The media won't go near it no matter how many videos Mr. Stranahan makes.
I think what will happen is the USDA will stall as long as possible and unless a Republican from the new Congress holds a hearing on this they won't do a damn thing.
If they ever do get called to explain they will merely dilute the definition of a farmer so broadly that some old lady growing some cucumbers in her backyard would qualify.
Another liberal scam against the American people. Congress must insist on an indepth investigation of the whole chain of events and prosecute the persons responsible for this theft of taxpayer dollars. It's another example of liberals buying votes.
Wow! Congressman Issa, you’re going to be one busy dude. Well done BigGovernment…again.
Thank you Mr. Stranahan for your contribution.
Here is a potential lead for you to follow: Jimmy and Becky Winemiller, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Isaa is not going to do anything on Pigford.
There is more then enough evidence of fraud and this case should go directly to a Federal Grand Jury.
Bachman could have easily have done it. She didn't.
"Othello Cross, an attorney for Pigford claimants with about fifteen years of experience on the case, admits that he is personally aware of hundreds of cases of fraud in the state of Arkansas alone."
Follow-up questions: did you report this to the authorities, which you are required to do as an officer of the court? If not, why haven't you been disbarred?
Do WE honestly expect anyone who committed fraud in this case to spend time in prison?
It would be refreshing, wouldn't it!
I'd especially enjoy seeing some of the shyster lawyers who refused to represent the original
complainants, you know who I mean, the actual black farmers who really were discrimi-
nated against. There were lawyers who declined to represent them, but then turned up later
representing multiple suspicious clients in the same class.
Why would that be?
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Obama, the great divider, strikes again.
There's a special place in hell for the bribed criminals in DC who voted for Pigford knowing full well the facts from all the coverage and Americans screaming at their phones to stop the madness in the days leading up to the vote.
Even if the Republicans can repeal the funding the criminal lie-awyers will file a suit like ACORN did to force reinstatement of the "cash cow" so to speak. To progressives and lie-awyers, government wealth redistribution programs are rights.
Mr. Stranahan, have you talked to this guy? A LINCOLN COUNTY AGENT of the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated that almost all ( 90%) of the claims filed through his office in the discrimination settlement were fraudulent.
His name is John Stringfellow, loan manager for the Lincoln County Farm Service Agency ( department of the USDA) in Star City.
Othello disagreed with him at that time.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/USDA+Withheld+Evide...
I sure wish I knew how I got myself into the paying end of another punitive settlement with some group I never heard of, about some problem I never heard of, where nothing was really settled in the end.
All about the reparations, baby! Nothing more, nothing less.
Bravo. Why isn't there a conservative "60 minutes" to report this story in detail on tv?
THe Justice Dept. has made it clear that it won't take action against minorities (like Black Panther voter intimidation case). But I would like to see Eric Holder try to dismiss Mr. Cross's allegations.
I just posted to Drudge's tip line…..
Ah Andrew what goes around comes around.
I have no sympathy for the LSM not covering Pigford.
Pigford is your news baby and what goes around comes around.
Your continual ridicule of the U.S. Constitution and Obama's eligibility is now coming back to hit you hard and it is only going to get worse unless you repent.
The bad Karma that surrounds you for being a Denier will only continue and even get worse until you repent your position and attitude about Obama's eligibility and publicly apologize to the Birthers.
9/11 First Responder Bill..Accountable statistics,claims. (still waiting)
Pigford–Corruption run rampant. Unverified litigants,statistics, more claims than farmers, PC police involved.
"Let's make sure we piss away our ( I mean ,the "taxpayer") money. Settled.
Bad Karma my ass..
You lefties are tickled pinkos with a Marxist tutored illegal alien in the white house? What's next, Osama bin Laden as your prez?
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No not everyone, just those who are non white
Think about the USDA and go to the produce dept of any food store and you find most produce does not even come from the USA.
Most farms in the USA have also been taken over by non American companies, most are used to grow corn for ethanol uses in gasoline and most produce is planted and picked by machines and not people
It all adds up that we do not even control the food chain, we cannot feed ourselves anymore and that all adds up to all levels of government dictated by commies and racists like the negro and mexicans who's only dream is to own this country and us crackers so in the end the USA will be exactly like africa and mexico
No one holding office after Jan 4th will do crap as they are crooked as the ones that were kicked out and that is clear in this PIGford scandal were the US government is racist again whites and will control us through the food chain while knowlingly kickback your taxes to negros sitting on their ass watching opra all day saying how they are slaves which is due to their own kind selling them in the first place.
The problem is most people still have not heard of Pigford as the MSM is not covering this story. Most people in the US are oblivious to how the government works and how the politicians are spending their money other than quick soundbites manufactured to give the wrong impression.
The ENTIRE Pigford payout is a fraud. Anybody who says there was any racial discrimination against "black farmers" is living in a left-wing fascist fantasy land, just like Obama, that deeply stupid affirmative-action parasite. For the past 50 years, the only racial discrimination in this country has been on the part of the government against White people. This Pigford business is just another in a long, long line of scams from beginning to end. It's based on lies and false assumptions and the evil, unconstitutional left-wing laws that have been passed based on those lies and assumptions. Not a single penny should be paid out to any "black farmer" or any other parasite whether they claim to be a farmer or not.
It's "reparations". Pure and simple.
The correct name is "Marxine Waters" Gary. FIFY.
Actually, it's not reparations 'pure and simple'. Simply saying that diminishes the hard work of Stranahan, Breitbart and all others doing the journalism here.
Is reparations part of this story? Absolutely. Many of those pushing for blacks to defraud the government were pro-reparations and reparations was a way to convinced uneducated Southern blacks that their unethical fraud was justifiable.
Nevertheless, this story is about far much more than that. It's about the legal system run amuck and its corruption, about the failure of the government to investigate and prosecute fraud (especially by blacks) it's about buying votes. And now it's about the media
So no… it is not just reparations pure and simple and saying that and only that does a disservice to the work done by Big Govt.
I think it's another case of Big Brother being to big for his britches! Goverment can do what they want and feel they do not have to answer to the people, it's time the people started speaking out
gotta agree with bbfan. while it certainly can be viewed as a form of reparations, reparations would mean all black americans (descended from slaves). this looks more like a mob style robbery and hushing of the government by sheister lawyers….and leaving the vault door open for the next batch to come and rob us (for hispanic and female farmers). i guess we'll have lawsuits for years against the government proclaiming discrimination against any and every group other than white males. SHOCKING. Everybody knows white men are immune to discrimination. If whiteys want to repent, they just need to 'give them the wealth', in the words of Van Jones.
Who are you to speak out against Big Brother? Big Brother knows best and would only do what's best for us all! I'm reporting you to the thought police for treason against the republic!
I haven't heard Fox News even put up on this. I guess there is so much corruption coming out of this administration that can be shown. Disgusting.
NOOOO FRAUD? LIES? IN A GOVERNMENT GIVE AWAY?? I CANT BELIEVE IT.
the settlement to include 60,000 additional late claimants at a cost to American taxpayers of approximately $1.25 billion. THATS 1.25 BILLION THE LIBERAL, AMERICA HATING GOVERNMENT, WITH THE HELP OF OBAMA, HAS STOLEN FROM THE BROKE HARD WORKING AMERICAN TAX PAYERS.
This boils my blood, but ranks about #217 on the list things that the federal government is doing to F us into oblivion. You almost expect this kind of fraud. I mean, c'mon.
Now the FCC internet takeover tomorrow…that's gonna get my undies in a real bunch. Let's face it, it's over. "It" being the United States of America.
Obama and Vilsack has some explaining to do. So does this man as far as I'm concerned. And boy does this take the Sherrod episode so much deeper. Did Vilsack have any prior involvement or just with this administration? Damning damning video in light of the "Claim of 3" and it's a disgrace the injustice that legitimate farmers are being abused and short changed.
It is up to us to spread the word, and Andrew to uncover the maggots under the rocks.
My guess is that the horny Julian's ego will do him in. Just as it took time for Newt's A Contract With America to fall apart, I'm 95% sure Julian will self destruct (at least in many of our eyes) before we see the end of 2011.
And by thought police, I mean the FCC as of this morning.
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