Florida's future Republican Speaker of the House (2014) will not explain sudden gain of assets

[seafan]

Hello, state and federal investigators? We've got another job for you in Florida.




FL State Rep. Chris Dorworth


Why won't Rep. Chris Dorworth explain $713,000 in new assets?

By Scott Maxwell
October 22, 2011

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And, according to recently filed papers, Dorworth went from having hardly any assets in 2009 to having a big one: a $713,000 stake in an out-of-state corporation that paid him $72,000 cash — in 2010.

How did he come into the money? Well, Dorworth won't say.

And that's troubling — especially because a trail of records reveals that his newly listed company and income have ties to other public officials and developments across Central Florida.

Details about his new corporation — Delaware-based Madison Christopher Holding Co. LLC — are scarce. The company has no website or listed phone number.

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... Dorworth, Batterson and Palmer all have had business ties with one another. And now, thanks partly to Dorworth, Batterson serves on the expressway board, which could help Palmer make millions.

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Sounds like the Ray Sansom case on steroids.


And, by the way, that isn't all that Ray Sansom is involved in, not by a long shot. It recently emerged:


Oct. 09, 2011

Grand jury probes Panhandle private prison deal

As legislative leaders continue the push to privatize 19 South Florida prisons, the state’s most ambitious private prison project in Northwest Florida is enmeshed in a grand jury investigation.

The federal probe into the Blackwater River Correctional Facility has a broad sweep, touching former House Speaker Ray Sansom, R-Destin, the economic development arm of Santa Rosa County, and incoming Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville.

Since March, the Pensacola-based grand jury has issued more than six subpoenas seeking documents and testimony into the $121 million state contract that cleared the way for the Boca Raton-based GEO Group to build a prison near the Panhandle city of Milton.

Neither the U.S. attorney nor the FBI will go on the record about the investigation. But subpoenas filed in court indicate they are seeking information about “Project Justice,” the 2008 code name given to the private prison project by TEAM Santa Rosa, the county’s economic development agency. The subpoenas also show that investigators are interested in TEAM Santa Rosa’s relationship with Sansom and the deal the county made to secure the land.

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Sounds like Ray Sansom is gonna be busy with the feds for a while.



Florida's state government, controlled by right wing Republicans for a decade and a half, is a cesspool of corruption that continues to grow.


It must be cleaned out from top to bottom, and the perps marched off in chains.

[hfojvt]

1. maybe the IRS should ask him

what's the number for their tip line?

There need to be some taxes reported on this gift or on this capital gain.

[alittlelark]

3. +1 the TIP # is 1-800-829-1040

Hours of Operation: Monday – Friday, 7:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. your local time (Alaska & Hawaii follow Pacific Time).


http://www.irs.gov/help/article/0,,id=96730,00.html

[Selatius]

2. He did it very crudely. It must be amateur night in crookville.

He should've had the assets shifted off-shore or pulled some other accounting trick to avoid reporting that he basically took a bribe. He could've had one of his toadies or henchmen hold the assets in the henchman's name to avoid reporting it or set up a shell company that can hold the assets without any obvious link back to him.

[Ikonoklast]

4. It fell off of a truck.

These greedy, amoral Republican criminals don't even try very hard to hide from the taxpayers that they are fucking them over and robbing them blind.

It's no longer a political party, it's Organized Crime.

[StandingInLeftField]

5. I emailed Mr. Dillwart

I asked him if he would be interested in some oceanfront property in Gainesville. Cost - $713,000.00.

A steal at twice the price.