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Postal worker admits fabricating allegations of ballot tampering, officials say
By Shawn Boburg and Jacob Bogage
Washington Post Breaking News email
November 10, 2020 at 5:59 p.m. EST
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A Pennsylvania postal worker whose claims have been cited by top Republicans as potential evidence of widespread voting irregularities admitted to U.S. Postal Service investigators that he fabricated the allegations, according to three officials briefed on the investigation and a statement from a House congressional committee.
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Richard Hopkinss claim that a postmaster in Erie, Pa., instructed postal workers to backdate ballots mailed after Election Day was cited by Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) in a letter to the Justice Department calling for a federal investigation. Attorney General William P. Barr subsequently authorized federal prosecutors to open probes into credible allegations of voting irregularities and fraud, a reversal of long-standing Justice Department policy.
But on Monday, Hopkins, 32, told investigators from the U.S. Postal Services Office of Inspector General that the allegations were not true, and he signed an affidavit recanting his claims, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe an ongoing investigation. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee tweeted late Tuesday that the whistleblower completely RECANTED.
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Blue Owl
(50,270 posts)That number again is 1-888-630-1776
BigmanPigman
(51,567 posts)Lock them all up! Seriously!
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Link to tweet
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Olga Lautman
@OlgaNYC1211
Let's talk about fraud @senatemajldr bec last time I checked this is illegal.
These shameless Republicans are humiliating us on the world stage for power and greed. Not to mention endangering our national security as they watch career officials being purged/replaced w loyalists
Timothy Burke
@bubbaprog
Postal worker featured by Republicans as evidence of vote tampering admits he made it up; GOP donors gave him $130,000 https://washingtonpost.com/investigations/postal-worker-fabricated-ballot-pennsylvania/2020/11/10/99269a7c-2364-11eb-8599-406466ad1b8e_story.html
empedocles
(15,751 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Postal Job Good Bye. Hope he gets a court date soon.
dustyscamp
(2,223 posts)I don't know if I should post the twitter link or not
A HERETIC I AM
(24,362 posts)dustyscamp
(2,223 posts)Does he not have a lawyer? And if he does, why is his lawyer allowing this?
Damn this is getting bizarre - I couldnt write a better story.
Archae
(46,301 posts)"One of these days "Project Veritas" is actually going to find a factual as opposed to made-up story. And James O'Keefe's great-grandson will finally say, "We told you so!"
"Until that day 150 years from now, O'Keefe is going to make shit up, and smear people and end up in court like he did with that ACORN worker, or when he pretended to be a telephone technician."
Kingofalldems
(38,423 posts)postal inspectors on this one.
Vogon_Glory
(9,109 posts)Project Veritas deserves to get screwed. So do the fools who responded to the Go Fund Me page.