Good day all. About a week ago I noticed a new hashtag that was trending on several social media sites. It was #ArrestKatieHobbs. At the time, I didn’t think much of it and assumed it had to do with the way she sleazed her way into the Governors office. Then I stumbled across a story that said that Hobbs had been taking bribes from one of the Mexican drug cartels.
Needless to say, this explained the new hashtag. I haven’t had a lot of time to look into it, and it appears to be a single source story. Still, it would explain a few things if true. Here are the details from the Post Millennial:
A California-based law firm has accused Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, Runbeck Election Services, and a slew of other election officials, mayors, judges, city councilman, and county supervisors in the state of receiving bribes from the Sinaloa cartel.
Buying politicians, of both parties, has been a standard practice of all the Cartels for decades in Mexico and other Central and south American countries. There have been a few incidents in the United States. If what this story is indicating, it looks like the Sinaloa Cartel may have bought themselves a state government.
During a Thursday hearing before the Senate Elections and Municipal Oversight & Elections Joint Committee, the principal investigator for Harris/Thaler Law Corporation, Jacqueline Breger, presented their shocking findings, detailing how a money-laundering investigation in the midwest revealed alleged corruption in Arizona.
“In 2006, the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa investigated the laundering of drug cartel monies through a complex series of single-family home purchases in those states,” Breger told the committee. “By 2009, numerous real estate agents, escrow companies and title insurers had been indicted, charged and convicted of racketeering. In 2014, our office was asked to review the case files and to determine whether monies from the sales of the properties had filtered to property purchases in Arizona, specifically in Maricopa and Pima County.”
Maricopa County. Why am I not surprised?
According to the investigator, it was concluded that several real estate agents in Iowa “had set up a laundering system in Arizona and thereafter had transferred the proceeds of sales to Panamanian Corporations.”
No real surprises there of course. Anyone who watches police shows knows how this works. It’s illegal of course, and when the Feds find out about one of these scams, they love seizing all the assets and money tied into it.
“In 2018, Mr. Thaler discovered, incidental to another matter, a series of trust deeds evidencing that cash laundering through single family residences in Arizona was pervasive and ongoing,” Breger continued. “With that, a new investigation began with the focus being on money laundering and related racketeering activities in Maricopa County and several other Arizona counties. The Harris/Thaler office currently represents several parties directly damaged by the racketeering activities.”
The Post Millennial story goes on to detail how the fraud worked. Apparently, it’s been ongoing since 2014. Even better, it looks like they traced where the money was going.
The money funneled from false house deeds in midwestern states back to Arizona, went to politicians and election officials, according to the investigators. The election fraud has been going on since 2004, Breger alleged.
“Since 2004, elections within Pima County and Maricopa County have been manipulated through infiltration of the county databases resulting from bribes paid to executives at election service providers including, but not limited to, principals of Runbeck Election Services,” she said. “In addition to impacting local elections, bribes and infiltration were used to affect the outcome of the races during the November 3, 2020 election, including the outcome of the race for Maricopa County Recorder, and the outcome of the November 8, 2022 election (race for Governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney General).”
I suspect that if this all pans out, it’s not just local, (as in State), races that were affected. The Cartels certainly wanted the Greatest President of the 21st Century, Donald Trump out of office. Ms. Breger then goes on to list who was potentially bribed.
Breger continued, saying that the public officials who have received bribes include “multiple state office holders (State House/State Senate), local office holders, county supervisors, judges of the Maricopa County Superior Court, judges of several city courts (including two presiding judges), judge’s assistants, prosecutors within certain cities within Maricopa County, prosecutors for Maricopa County, peripheral legal specialists including attorneys, ‘approved’ mental healthcare providers (court appointed advisors) and related specialists.”
“In the Superior Courts for Maricopa County, Pinal County and Pima County, at least 25 percent of the active judges have accepted bribes in exchange for protecting the racketeering activities,” Breger said.
I will be blunt. If Ms. Breger doesn’t have the means to back these statements up, she will be utterly destroyed. As an attorney, I assume she understand how the libel and slander laws work. Digging the hole even deeper, if this isn’t true, she also goes on to name names as well.
On page 85 of the report, the list of Arizona officials who allegedly have falsified deeds in the purported money laundering scheme include 40 names, notably including Gov. Hobbs, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, Sen. Krysten Sinema, Rep. Ruben Gallego, Mesa Mayor John Giles, Arizona Speaker of the House Ben Toma, as well as Maricopa County Supervisors Bill Gates, Thomas Galvin, and Clint Hickman.
“This list comprises individuals where investigation has been completed. Additional officials including judges and election officials for Maricopa County and spouses are currently implicated by the evidence obtained to date,” the report notes.
Now that is a very impressive list. I believe it also crosses party lines, although I haven’t researched the people named. The “Big Names” on this list are all Democrats. I was curious regarding Gallego and Sinema since they’re federal office holders. I am guessing the alleged actions took place when they were in the state legislature. In any case, Ms. Berger better have an air tight case and a couple of truckloads of hard evidence to back up her accusations.
Then next part of the Post Millennial story goes into some interesting details regarding Ms, Berger and John Thaler. Berger and Thaler are in a relationship, and Mr. Thaler has a few interesting things in his background. Apparently, he has a son from a relationship with a woman who allegedly was with the Cartels. Mr. Thayler said he didn’t know her involvement at the time. However, it looks like the woman took their son and disappeared. (He’s working on a book detailing the alleged cartel penetration into the Arizona government)
“On September 19, 2020, McKinley Harris Thaler, nearly three years old, was abducted. The abduction was intended to extort his dad into terminating a multistate investigation concerning money laundering and public corruption,” the book’s abstract reads. “To date, neither McKinley’s dad nor dad’s family members have seen McKinley or received any communication from him. Dad does not know where his son is.”
The summary went on to say that Thaler was retained to dig into the alleged corruption in Arizona in 2019, and his “star witness” was his wife of three years, Brittany, who he says he married without knowledge of her participation in the “largest money laundering scheme in U.S. history.”
“Thaler had no idea that Brittany had known him since 2011 and had been paid to create an extortion scheme against him to disrupt an earlier investigation into organized crime. He did not know their chance meeting in 2014 was anything but an accident; he did not know the marriage was a sham,” Thaler wrote.
Oh boy. This puts a new take on things. This sounds like a very messy divorce and custody fight. Still, if they have the facts and hard evidence, the kind that would stand up in a criminal trial, his personal relationships may be put to one side. Mr. Thaler then had an interview with Lindell TV where he laid out how the Cartel’s schemes impacted the Arizona elections.
He (Thayer) continued, saying that in Arizona, “the bribe problem is not so much about somebody bringing in a suitcase full of cash. Most of the officials who we have found who have accepted bribes, accepted them very early on. Usually at the start of their career, and oftentimes take the initial position or run for the initial office. So they are bribed, in essence, to become officials, not once they have become officials. And that creates a big problem.”
This makes sense. Organized Crime has always gone after “Up and coming” people when they were just starting out. Once they’re bought, the cartels own them forever. They will use their “Employees” to make sure that their business has few disruptions. Considering the Cartels are criminals, and that honest politicians have the means to not just disrupt their business, but, in some cases, jail or kill the Cartel bosses, rigging elections is standard operating procedure.
According to Thaler, these officials include those who handled mail-in ballots.
“With the 2020 election… one of the things Ms. Chavez provided…was ballots and how mail in ballots were being handled. And that led to one of our investigators discovering actual ballots about three weeks before the 2020 election that were already filled out, that were in boxes, along with cash… I believe it was something like 17 boxes of ballots… Plus three large banker boxes of cash.”
I wonder who’s name on those those prefilled ballots was selected? Which candidate for President was doing the most damage to the Cartel’s ability to ship product across the border? I suspect they wanted the one who wouldn’t protect the border. I wonder who that may be?
Before you think that the Harris/Thaler Law Corporation was just going after Democrats, they also named a boatload of Republicans as well. Of course, those that have been accused of taking bribes and basically working for the Sinaloa Cartel are pushing back. They are basically saying “Show us your evidence!” Frankly, I agree with them.
These accusations are deep into tin foil hat territory. If Harris/Thaler doesn’t have the proof to back up their accusations, they are going to be deep fried and buried in political anthills. The Supreme Court long ago made it virtually impossible for s public figure to sue for libel and slander, (Wrongfully in my opinion, and the current court might be looking for a case to overturn the Sullivan decision), but I think that if this is just another conspiracy theory, then the people that have been accused of taking bribes have a good case to show malice. On then other hand? We have seen a lot of conspiracy theories of late actually prove to be true.
One thing is certain. We won’t see any of this being pursued by the likes of the New York Simes, The Washington Compost or any of the other Fake News organizations. That would involve things like curiosity and actually doing real investigative work, things that the MSM is loathe to do these days. Well, we’ll see what happens eventually. Besides, they will protect Hobbs unless they have no choice but to throw her under a bus.
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