Warning Another Senior scam

  I don't know if my MIL got on some type of list or what but she was targeted for another scam I want to warn people about.  My MIL is a Notch baby and there is a scam going around asking you to support legislation to get the notch bill passed.  It is signed by your local congressman and looks very legit.  Promises you either $5000 cash or a bigger social security check.  They ask you to send in all this personal identification like social security numbers, birth certificates, etc.......  They get your money and steal your identity.  The thing is a scam.MiSeniors.net -   Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Social Security, 7-26-01 Testimony 

       My MIL is 85 so if you have a relative that age check to see if they got this mailing.   We had told her to throw it away when she first got it but found out last night she was still holding onto it and talked about it to my gullible BIL.  You would think they would both know by now, if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is.

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   Disturbing thing number 2. The scuttlebutt circulating in Washington, DC is that Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings may become the next chairman of the House of Representative's Intelligence Committee.  Why is this disturbing? In 1989, Judge Hastings was impeached by the US House of Representatives for bribery and perjury. The Democratic-controlled Senate convicted Hastings of accepting a $150,000 bribe in 1981 in exchange for a lenient sentence and of perjury in his testimony about the case. Hastings said the charges against him smacked of racism.

He distinguished himself by being only the sixth Judge in US history to be removed from office by the USSenate. So damning was the evidence against him that Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), a founding member of the CBC, favored impeaching him.

Conyers, who is also black, said he "found no trace of racism during the investigation." He urged his colleagues to remove Hastings from the bench. He said, "[Hastings] is unfit to serve."

An editorial in South Florida Sun-Sentinel denounced Rep. Hastings with this tidbit: “Personal and political paybacks are the first order of business for Hastings.”

The biting editorial resulted from Hastings putting his girlfriend, a disgraced former lawyer who was disbarred by the Florida Supreme Court for “multiple offenses,” on the public payroll as his “office liaison and staff assistant.”

According to the Sentinel, Alcee Hastings owed her “more than $500,000 in legal fees for representing him during his 1983 bribery trial and his 1989 impeachment hearings before Congress.” Alcee Hastings continues to employ her as his scheduling assistant, paying her more money than even his chief of staff gets, causing another reporter to comment, "She must be some scheduler."

And Rep.Hastings treated his scheduler Vanessa Griddine to many perks. For instance, he spent over $14,000 on a taxpayer-paid trip to Belgium. Almost $3000 of this was listed as per diem expenses for the lucky couple and 11,400 was spent on what must have been a marvelous flight across the pond.

   One has to wonder why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now in favor of instating this judge with his history of taking bribes in such a High security position.  Things are getting even scarier then I had feared.

         Yah I know, I said I wasn't going to discuss politics on this blog again but as someone reminded me, It is my journal! Thanks.  And doesn't this disturb you also?