GOP candidate who offered KFC and watermelon to black community is arrested in NY for rental scam
By Leslie Salzillo
Sunday Oct 16, 2016 · 3:50 PM PDT(Gee, another GOP candidate running a scam, hopefully Rump will join him as a cellmate in a few months:cripwalk:
Days after appearing in national headlines for a stereotypical and racist gesture, Republican candidate for New York’s 30th District Jon Girodes has been arrested and is facing at least nine counts of grand larceny.
Last week, an email written by Giorodes was published showing the candidate’s intent to donate KFC fried chicken, Kool Aid and watermelon to a predominately black community campaign event in Harlem. He did not deny the email and saw nothing was wrong with it. But as he was escorted in handcuffs out of a New York precinct on Friday for rental fraud charges, Girodes offered only a smug and cocky smile—and a claim that he was the victim of a conspiracy. Sarah Wallace with NBC NY reports numerous victims have come forward alleging they have been scammed by Girodes.
Attorney Pierre Gooding is representing 10 people who say they've been scammed anywhere out of $400 to $15,000 by Girodes and says there may be up to dozens more out there.
Girodes used Craigslist and posted under apartments for rent. When someone responded, he reportedly would arrange to meet them, “wine and dine them” and then take their deposits which he never returns. It’s the same apartment and the same lease every time.
It’s unknown whether Girodes will remain in the New York race, but his social media pages have been deleted and his website that uses an image of civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has been take down.
Bye, Felicia.
By Leslie Salzillo
Sunday Oct 16, 2016 · 3:50 PM PDT(Gee, another GOP candidate running a scam, hopefully Rump will join him as a cellmate in a few months:cripwalk:
Days after appearing in national headlines for a stereotypical and racist gesture, Republican candidate for New York’s 30th District Jon Girodes has been arrested and is facing at least nine counts of grand larceny.
Last week, an email written by Giorodes was published showing the candidate’s intent to donate KFC fried chicken, Kool Aid and watermelon to a predominately black community campaign event in Harlem. He did not deny the email and saw nothing was wrong with it. But as he was escorted in handcuffs out of a New York precinct on Friday for rental fraud charges, Girodes offered only a smug and cocky smile—and a claim that he was the victim of a conspiracy. Sarah Wallace with NBC NY reports numerous victims have come forward alleging they have been scammed by Girodes.
Attorney Pierre Gooding is representing 10 people who say they've been scammed anywhere out of $400 to $15,000 by Girodes and says there may be up to dozens more out there.
Girodes used Craigslist and posted under apartments for rent. When someone responded, he reportedly would arrange to meet them, “wine and dine them” and then take their deposits which he never returns. It’s the same apartment and the same lease every time.
It’s unknown whether Girodes will remain in the New York race, but his social media pages have been deleted and his website that uses an image of civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has been take down.
Bye, Felicia.
