By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Q Link Wireless CEO Issa Asad and his company pleaded guilty on Oct.15 in Miami federal court to bilking more than $100 million from a government program that provides free or discounted phone service to people in need. The sentence prosecutors are recommending: five years, which is equal to one year for every $20 million he stole.
Ten years earlier, while the feds say Asad was in the middle of committing his enormous fraud, he got an even better deal in Broward Circuit Court.
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
While his opponents deflect Donald Trump’s lie that he won in 2020 and brace for his cries of “Fraud!” if he loses next month, Trump’s lawyers are telling a federal appeals court that Democratic conspirators tried to rig the 2016 presidential election against him.
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