Brickbat: Miami Vices

Former Miami-Dade School Board vice chair Lubby Navarro has been charged with organized fraud of $50,000 or more, organized fraud of between $20,000 and $100,000, and two counts of grand theft. Prosecutors say she used her school system credit cards to make $100,000 in illegal purchases, including two fake pregnancy bellies that she used to try to convince her ex-boyfriend she was pregnant with his child.

Comments

[Stuck in California]

Two thoughts. One, a fake pregnancy belly is almost too camp, like a movie plot from back when they still made comedies.

Second, that linked article gets past the meat of the story in the first third, then spends the rest of the article trying to make it out like it's a Republican thing, pointing out that she voted against masking, etc. What the fuck, man?

[Quo Usque Tandem]

"Navarro was one of the more conservative voices on the School Board, even before the board shifted to the right over the past few years with DeSantis appointees or elected board members endorsed by DeSantis."

A lot like reading the NYT; Democrats always good, Republicans/ conservatives always bad, never mind Trump. It’s a given, and they NEVER miss an opportunity to promote their narrative.

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[SRG2]

On the other hand, one good way to avoid such stories is, yanno, not commit crimes in the first place.

[mad.casual]

False. There’s plenty of objective evidence that committing no crime is insufficient to prevent indictment while Republican, much less prevent media reporting as though you were a criminal for such.

[B G]

Earlier today I learned from a feminist lawyer I know that everyone who doesn't listen to Taylor Swift with some regularity is a misogynist working to maintain the patriarchy. All crime is thoughtcrime first.

There's no "not commit crimes" when there's no way to know in advance what is or isn't going to be deemed a crime.

Joe Rogan mentioned his Covid treatment a couple of times over the course of 20-30 hours of content. He said that he asked his doctor to "throw the kitchen sink at it", and as a result he recieved someting like 4-6 different treatments including a monoclonal antibody transfusion (which were and might still be believed to be somewhat beneficial), steroids (which were at the time considered to be proven effective), human-doses of Ivermectin (a generic drug which is so safe that it's given prophylactically millions of times per year and was thought to maybe be beneficial against Covid and like almost all other pharmaceuticals is also used for vetinary applications), and one or two other things with the result that his Covid symptoms cleared up after about 4 days; a great many people at a similar level of overall health to Rogan likely had untreated cases of covid mostly fade in about that time or less (Rogan probably didn't know that). Several weeks later there was the dust-up between Rogan and CNN involving Dr Gupta.

Several months after that, most of the people that I know (none of whom would ever deign to listen to 5 minutes of Rogan and might now refuse to watch News Radio on streaming) were absolutely certain that the main topic of Rogan's show during 2020 was repeated discussion of how he'd taken nothing but Ivermectin (a medication used exclusively to de-worm horses) and claimed to have nearly immediate disappearance of his Covid symptoms as a result.

Once you're a target, that's all that matters. Once you're protected, they'll do as much as possible to ensure that's all that matters. "Truth" is what the Party says it is anymore; at some point we somehow lost the right to insist that two plus two equals four, and I'm not even sure it was the Government who took it from us.

[jimc5499]

What did you expect? It's Yahoo. You could have a Conservative save a toddler from being eaten by a lion and the headline would be "Conservative Abuses Animals. Denies Food to Lion".

[tracerv]

^^^this!

[mad.casual]

"Conservative Activist Blocks Historic First Non-Human Transitioning Of Minor Against Expert's Wishes."

[AT]

Crap! She's a woman! And a minority!

Quick, how can we twist this to blame Republicans???

In fairness though, this is what Republicans get when they try to prove their DEI creds when they should just be flipping them the middle finger.

[Dan S.]

Those charges seem oddly specific and overlapping. If the amount of fraud was, say $75,000, then it would be both "$50,000 or more" and "between $20,000 and $100,000". Does conviction on one of those charges prevent conviction ob the other? And what is meant by "organized" fraud? Is it more or less serious than the disorganized kind?

[Adans smith]

A teachers union commenting on wasting taxpayers money is amusing.

[jimc5499]

That's a Teacher's Union complaining about a School Board member wasting taxpayer money that the Teacher's Union should be wasting.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hahahaha her ex couldn't get the deed done when they were together. THAT'S THE TAKEAWAY.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

I was thinking the takeaway was that the guy was lucky as hell to be the ex, and to have not gotten her pregnant. And a very, very clear warning about sticking it in crazy.

[Idaho-Bob]

Yep.

She likely knew where to find him, because earlier that year she used the same credit card to buy two Apple AirTag tracking devices that were later found attached with duct tape to the underside of her ex-boyfriend’s car, the investigators say. One was near a wheel. The other, under the front grill.