http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/wacky-obama-accuser-is-wanted-by-law.html
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Wacky Obama accuser is wanted by the law
By John Aravosis (DC)
There's a rather odd (to say the least) guy who's been claiming for
months that he has dirt on Barack Obama.
The thing is, the guy's credibility is, well, shall we say "spotty."
Ben Smith at the Politico re****ts that the guy has a 27-year criminal
record. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11164.html
And he's apparently wanted by the state of Colorado.
You can find his "WANTED" notice from the Pueblo County, Colorado Web
site.
http://www.co.pueblo.co.us/cgi-bin/webpurbroker.wsc/mostoff.html?name=135062
It's ironic that the cops are asking anyone with information about
this guy to contact them, because you can find him today at the
National Press Club in Wa****ngton, DC.
(Ben Smith did in fact contact the Sheriff, who says they can't
extradite the guy, but that he will be arrested if he steps foot in
Colorado. The Sheriff did, however, contact the FBI about the guy.)
Here's a sample of what Ben re****ts:
He was first arrested on a larceny charge in 1981 in Denver, according
to his Colorado arrest record, as filed in federal court.
In 1985, he was convicted of theft and of forging a check in Florida,
and sentenced to a year in jail, according to Florida records filed in
federal court.
After the Florida episode, according to the records, he returned to
Colorado, where he faced check fraud and credit card charges in 1986.
Then, in 1987, he was convicted in Colorado on more serious forgery
charges, and sentenced to 16 years in jail.
In prison, according to state records filed in federal court, Sinclair
was disciplined 97 times for infractions including assault, threats,
drug possession, intimidation, and verbal abuse, most recently in
1996.
"He has not institutionalized well," a spokeswoman for the Colorado
Department of Corrections, Liz McDonough, told the Denver Post in 1996
after a month-long Sinclair hunger strike.
She said he had served time in prisons in Buena Vista, Delta, Limon
and Canon City before being transferred to the state's maximum
security penitentiary in 1993.
In the summer of 1996, according to Colorado's state court database,
he began proceedings to formally change his name from LA Rye Viz.
Avila to Larry Wayne Sinclair.
By 1999, according to a mention in a local newspaper, he was out of
jail and living in Pueblo, Colo.
The Public Citizen investigator in Colorado stated that Sinclair's
outstanding legal troubles there appear to date from 2001, and that
Sinclair's effort to convince the judge in 2004 to dismiss those
charges failed.
The Pueblo County Sheriff's website, which pictures Sinclair under the
word "Wanted," cites felony theft and forgery charges.
Sinclair was also arrested and charged with disorderly conduct in
South Carolina last September, according to state records filed in
federal court.
Oh, and the guy took a polygraph - re****tedly, it didn't go so well:
This February, the website Whitehouse.com re****tedly offered Sinclair
$100,000 if he could pass a polygraph test verifying his claims.
He took them up on it, and the site said in a press release that the
polygraph organizers said his results "indicated deception."
Sinclair then suggested the polygraph's sponsors had been bribed to
skew the results against him.
Yes, the august National Press Club is hosting a known criminal (his
own lawyer admits to Politico that his criminal record "is what it
is," and that "he's not denying it") in order to help him defame a
presidential candidate with sleazy unsubstantiated rumors.
The Press Club claims they don't "censor" anyone.
Maybe we should schedule our own panel at the Press Club, and hire
some hookers and strippers to do a, uh, live presentation, and test
the Press Club's no-censor****p rules.
Oh yeah, speaking of censor****p.
The guy himself is claiming that he won't let any re****ters in to the
press conference, unless he and his agents approve of those re****ters
in advance.
For example, no "bloggers" will be allowed.
Apparently, some censor****p is permitted after all at the Press Club,
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"We all have our faults."
David Eddings
Harry
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