Surprise! Congressional Black Caucus Involved in Pigford Scandal

Lee Stranahan has a new post regarding Pigford over at Breitbart's Big Government. To refresh your memories, the Pigford settlement stemmed from a lawsuit in which black farmers claimed they were discriminated against. The good news is that there were black farmers that rightfully deserved - and received - $50,000 each as compensation. The bad news is that the lawsuit morphed into a huge fraudulent scandal.

Here are two black farmers who rightfully received their settlement. The first is Willie Head, who makes an excellent point when asked how non-farmers who received $50,000 affects his receipt of $50,000.



Here's another black farmer who deserved his settlement. His name is Eddie Slaughter and he implicates the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) in the commission of this fraud in order to pay reparations.

Shocking stuff.



Via Big Government

VIDEO: DARRELL ISSA TALKS OBAMA ADMINISTRATION INVESTIGATIONS

There have been multiple scandals in the last two years that were ignored by multiple committee chairmen, who were all Democrats. Now that all of the House Committees are going to see Republican Chairman, we can expect - even demand - that the incoming committee leadership investigate waste, fraud, and abuse inside the Obama administration. Here, Darrell Issa, who will head the House Oversight Committee on Government Reform says he could investigate '600' scandals but has to 'leverage' his resources in deciding which ones to go after.

He's already said he will not investigate the Joe Sestak case, in which the Democrat nominee for Senate was offered a job in the administration to drop out of the race. He then explains that the Black Panther voting rights case is likely to fall to the House Judiciary Committee, which will be led by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX). He also indicated that the Pigford case will be investigated. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is a prominent member on both the Agriculture and Judiciary committees; Pigford relates to both as it is about fraudulent payouts to more black farmers than exist.

Issa interestingly points out that in leveraging his resources the committees are going to see crossover and are expected to work with each other. The important thing is that any hearings and investigations which take place be legitimate and not for show. The American people are watching very closely.

Via Big Government:

VIDEO: ANOTHER PIGFORD DOCUMENTARY CLIP

Start looking for the Pigford case to get increased attention courtesy of the Documentary that was produced by Lee Stranahan in conjunction with Andrew Breitbart. Here we have another two minute clip that exposes another layer of the fraud. Here, a man named Tom Burrell, head of the Black Farmer Agricultural Association, Inc. explains the difference between Farmer 'A' and Farmer 'B' with the former representing black farmers who had conducted work with the USDA that was backed up with documentation and the latter simply being black farmers who 'attempted to farm' and didn't necessarily have any proof.

The claim made by Burrell is made all the more egregious if his math is correct; there's no reason to believe it is. Burrell claims that 8 out of 9 black farmers who were awarded $50,000 each, consisted of the 'attempted to farm' group.

Via Big Government:

VIDEO: THE PIGFORD DOCUMENTARY

If there was something good to come out of Andrew Breitbart's release of that Shirley Sherrod video that lacked complete context, it was the opening it created relative to the Pigford scandal. Many have speculated that the reason Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was so quick to fire Sherrod was there was concern that Breitbart knew about the alleged massive fraud that was taking place with Pigford. Breitbart didn't at the time but since then, he's been learning quite a bit about it.

At the essence of the fraud is a lawsuit filed on behalf of black farmers who were discriminated against. Years later, we find that the class action became a huge fraud, with attorneys encouraging people to become claimants who had no business doing so. This fraud allowed people with potted plants to suddenly become black farmers would receive $50,000 while the attorneys increased their earnings as a result.

Now Andrew Breitbart has teamed up with a progressive Documentarian named Lee Stranahan to get out the truth about Pigford - and it's going to be big.

Via Big Journalism:

Our arrangement is simple. I trust Lee to get to the truth. He is using BigGovernment.com’s report as his road map, but he is free to come to different conclusions. We are in constant contact and I am providing the BigGovernment.com resources, including more research from Gary Hewson, Peter Schweizer and me. [For Stranahan’s Hegelian followers, it’s a Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis thing.]

As a result of our agreement, Lee and his wife, along with his three home-schooled children and cats have hit the road in the South, traveling from Dallas, Texas to Pine Bluff, Arkansas to Jackson, Mississippi to Memphis , Tennessee. And that is only the beginning.

All the Pigford principals want to talk so far, including Jimmy Dismuke, a heroic black farmer turned defiant and vocal whistleblower, to Pigford class action attorneys, Othello Cross, and former Secretary of the Agriculture, Mike Espy – who now represents thousands of those suing the agency he ran during the peak of the alleged discrimination.

Lee even reached out to Shirley Sherrod’s attorney Rose Sanders, who is one of the top Pigford attorneys, and who offered tons of new information in an hour and a half interview. Given that Sanders once accused me of being a “klansman” when Media Matters sought her for comment about my ABC NEWS election night role, I was very interested to hear what she had to say. She didn’t disappoint.

Here is a video clip from that documentary, which was posted on Big Government.

VIDEO: PIGFORD WHISTLEBLOWER'S SHOCKING CLAIMS

The Pigford settlement in 1997 required black farmers who were discriminated against to be paid $50,000 by the . Those to be awarded totaled less than 500 farmers by the US Dept of Agriculture. Magically, since then, the number of black farmers that received the $50,000 award has not only ballooned to well over the number of original claimants but it has far exceeded the actual number of black farmers.

Whistleblower Jimmy Dismuke is a real black farmer and once you hear what he has to say, you'll understand how so many non-farmers received the cash award - people were told that if they owned a potted plant, they were farmers.

Wow.

Via Big Government:



Zombie has the best analysis of the Pigford scam.

VIDEO: CONGRESSMAN STANDS UP TO RACE-BAITING

It has long been shown that when the race card is played, it means the argument is lost and a racism charge is the last arrow in the proverbial quiver. However, while Rep. Steve King (R-IA) was on Anderson Cooper, he was accused by a black farmer of being racist for using the word 'urban' to describe Barack Obama. Yes, if you call someone 'urban' - meaning that said individual comes from an urban area - you are apparently a racist. Pretty soon, the 'U' word will be taboo too, unless you ARE one, of course.

One more thing. The exchange here between King and a black farmer named John Boyd is about the recent decision to award more monetary awards for black farmers via the 'Pigford' case. King is by far and away on the right side of this issue, which was brought to light several months ago during the Shirley Sherrod episode.

First the exchange via MediaIte:



As for the merits of the Pigford case - there really aren't any left at this point. Pigford was about monetary awards to black farmers that were discriminated against. Zombie perfectly illustrated how Pigford has been overplayed back in July. Specifically, there are more claims than there are black farmers.

CHECK IT OUT.

And that was BEFORE Pigford II was passed this week.

h/t to Weasel Zippers