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Fri Apr 5, 2013, 08:23 PM Apr 2013

BREAKING: Gingrich Campaign Worker Pleads Guilty to Election Fraud Felonies in VA



Gingrich Campaign Worker Pleads Guilty to Election Fraud Felonies in VA
Co-defendant facing 42 counts; 'Additional arrests' may be coming...

In January of 2012, just as the GOP Primary election cycle for President was getting under way, The BRAD BLOG reported exclusively that the office of the Virginia Attorney General had opened a criminal election fraud investigation into the failed effort by the campaign of Newt Gingrich to appear on the primary ballot in the Commonwealth.

Now, a woman hired by the campaign has "pleaded guilty to felony counts of fraud and perjury," according to a report just out tonight from Charlottesville's NBC affiliate WVIR.

31-year old Jennifer Derrebery reportedly worked for Gingrich's election contractor Stillwater LLC and, according to prosecutors, turned in campaign petitions with some 400 signatures in the failed attempt to collect the 10,000 needed for Gingrich's name to appear on the primary ballot last year. According to WVIR, nearly all of the signatures submitted by Derrebery were fake…

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9955
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