Re: Mesa County Colorado - Belinda and Tina's big adventure
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2022 3:29 pm
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Thread from Blair Miller at @denverchannel.Peters had been out on a $25,000 cash or surety bond following her indictment in March on 11 counts tied to a security breach of Mesa County elections system. Part of the bond conditions required her to receive court approval in order to leave Colorado.
Does that mean Tina just paid $25,000 to go to Vegas?Jim wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 1:58 pm Some people just beg to be thrown in jail...
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1547617044073312256
Tina Peters, the MAGA-obsessed, conspiratorial Colorado county clerk who has been indicted on 10 criminal charges, just had to go to Vegas.
The trip, however, has cost her. The Colorado Sun reported Thursday that a judge issued a warrant for Peters’ arrest after she traveled outside of her home state without notifying the court, thereby violating the terms of her bond.
Yet the lure of Vegas was apparently too strong. The following day, Peters spoke at a convention in Sin City for the right-wing Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association without court approval.
Now, with a judge issuing a warrant for her arrest, insisting that she be jailed until her next hearing, and revoking her $25,000 cash bond, Peters is likely to be more confined than ever before.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
I don't think so. The $25,000 is to insure her appearing for hearings, since she'll now be in jail, they probably just have to take her across the street to the courthouse, with a police escort. She'll probably be pretty certain to show up.Gregg wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:08 pmDoes that mean Tina just paid $25,000 to go to Vegas?Jim wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 1:58 pm Some people just beg to be thrown in jail...
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1547617044073312256
Tina Peters, the MAGA-obsessed, conspiratorial Colorado county clerk who has been indicted on 10 criminal charges, just had to go to Vegas.
The trip, however, has cost her. The Colorado Sun reported Thursday that a judge issued a warrant for Peters’ arrest after she traveled outside of her home state without notifying the court, thereby violating the terms of her bond.
Yet the lure of Vegas was apparently too strong. The following day, Peters spoke at a convention in Sin City for the right-wing Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association without court approval.
Now, with a judge issuing a warrant for her arrest, insisting that she be jailed until her next hearing, and revoking her $25,000 cash bond, Peters is likely to be more confined than ever before.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
"Cause if it does, I am totally fine with that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/us/p ... rrest.htmlJudge Issues Arrest Warrant for Tina Peters, the Colorado County Clerk Under Indictment
Ms. Peters, the Mesa County clerk accused of overseeing a breach of election equipment, went to Las Vegas this week to speak at an event. A judge said the trip violated her bond conditions.
By Nick Corasaniti July 14, 2022 Updated 5:13 p.m. ET
A judge in Colorado issued an arrest warrant on Thursday for Tina Peters, the Mesa County clerk who is under indictment in relation to a breach of election equipment after the 2020 presidential contest, for violating conditions of her bond that prevented her from traveling without court approval. The judge, Matthew D. Barrett of Colorado’s 21st Judicial District, also revoked her $25,000 cash bond and called for her to be held in jail pending a hearing. Ms. Peters traveled to Las Vegas this week to speak at an event hosted by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, a conservative group of county sheriffs and their allies. According to court documents, she did not obtain permission from the judge to travel outside Colorado.
Ms. Peters had been deemed a flight risk and was ordered to remain in the state after she was indicted in March on criminal charges, including seven felonies, that stemmed from a scheme to copy sensitive election software from county voting machines in an effort to prove that the 2020 presidential election was tainted by fraud. But because she was running for the Republican nomination for Colorado secretary of state, Ms. Peters was given permission to travel outside the state for political purposes, as long as she notified the court of her plans. She lost her primary bid last month, and on Monday, Judge Barrett ruled that she would again need the court’s approval before traveling out of state. Ms. Peters has continued to claim, without evidence, that her election loss was the result of fraud. In a sign that Ms. Peters had not yet left for Las Vegas when the Monday order arrived, Daniel P. Rubinstein, the Mesa County district attorney, said in a court filing that Ms. Peters was at the Mesa County Detention Facility that day, “nearly five hours after the court restricted any out-of-state travel.”
On Thursday afternoon, Harvey A. Steinberg, a lawyer representing Ms. Peters, filed a motion to quash the arrest warrant, arguing that she had told his office of her intent to travel and that his office had not filed the necessary notice with the court, meaning that Ms. Peters did not know the court was unaware of her travel. <-- Wait, is that a thing? “Ms. Peters has not knowingly violated bond conditions,” Mr. Steinberg wrote. Ms. Peters did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It was not clear if she was still in Las Vegas.
During her speech in Las Vegas, Ms. Peters claimed that Representative Lauren Boebert, a Republican who is also from western Colorado, had dinner with multiple people who helped carry out the plot to copy election data. Benjamin Stout, the communications director for Ms. Boebert, said on Thursday that Ms. Peters’s “claims are untrue.” Ms. Peters had previously told The New York Times that Ms. Boebert “encouraged” her to carry through with the operation. Ms. Boebert’s campaign denied those allegations.
One of Ms. Peters’s top aides, Sandra Brown, turned herself in on Monday after being indicted over her role in the alleged scheme to extract data from county election machines. Ms. Brown, who was the county’s election manager, faces several felony charges, including conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation and attempting to influence a public servant. Her arrest was earlier reported by The Daily Sentinel. Court records suggest that Ms. Brown was involved in the alleged plot from the very beginning. On April 23, Ms. Peters, Ms. Brown, another aide and Sherronna Bishop, a former campaign manager for Ms. Boebert, met with Douglas Frank*, a high school math and science teacher in Ohio whose debunked theories have been influential among election conspiracists, according to records. Court documents cite a recorded conversation in which Ms. Peters asked Mr. Frank if he could open the machines, but he said it was against the law based on county contracts. Ms. Bishop then suggested using a routine software procedure known as a “trusted build” to get inside the machines, according to the documents. Ms. Bishop has not been charged with any wrongdoing. She did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In all, three officials in Ms. Peters’s office face criminal charges related to the scheme; Belinda Knisley, Ms. Peters’s deputy, was indicted in March on six charges.
So if she is not supposed to get permission before traveling, does that mean her lawyer told her that permission had been granted? This almost reads like the lawyer admitting to a serious screw up.On Thursday afternoon, Harvey A. Steinberg, a lawyer representing Ms. Peters, filed a motion to quash the arrest warrant, arguing that she had told his office of her intent to travel and that his office had not filed the necessary notice with the court, meaning that Ms. Peters did not know the court was unaware of her travel. <-- Wait, is that a thing? “Ms. Peters has not knowingly violated bond conditions,” Mr. Steinberg wrote. Ms. Peters did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It was not clear if she was still in Las Vegas.
Wait, we have a Pantheon of Stupid?orlylicious wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:25 pm ... Foggy needs to add her bust to our Pantheon of Stupid.
Eh, lock 'em both up.neeneko wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:44 pmSo if she is not supposed to get permission before traveling, does that mean her lawyer told her that permission had been granted? This almost reads like the lawyer admitting to a serious screw up.On Thursday afternoon, Harvey A. Steinberg, a lawyer representing Ms. Peters, filed a motion to quash the arrest warrant, arguing that she had told his office of her intent to travel and that his office had not filed the necessary notice with the court, meaning that Ms. Peters did not know the court was unaware of her travel. <-- Wait, is that a thing? “Ms. Peters has not knowingly violated bond conditions,” Mr. Steinberg wrote. Ms. Peters did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It was not clear if she was still in Las Vegas.
She went to help lobby for an extradition treaty, but so far it isn't working out.bob wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 8:33 pm I'm still working on a judge previously allowing a defendant to travel provided notification was given to the court.
As opposed to the sane and logical asking for and then receiving permission before traveling.
"I don't know where my client is, Your Honor. But my client said the trip to Argentina was for political purposes."
ORLYLICIOUS!!!!!!!
The previous pantheon got lost in the last update.Foggy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:49 pmWait, we have a Pantheon of Stupid?orlylicious wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:25 pm ... Foggy needs to add her bust to our Pantheon of Stupid.
Nobody tells me anything!
Yeah that!
Moar: https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/western ... 5741f.htmlPeters attempts to circumvent SoS, asks counties to begin recount
CHARLES ASHBY Charles.Ashby@gjsentinel.com Jul 20, 2022 Updated 2 hrs ago
Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters is trying to circumvent state election officials by getting individual clerks in "selected" counties to coordinate an already rejected recount of her primary election loss for the GOP nomination for secretary of state, possibly violating the conditions of her bond in the process. In an early morning email to all 64 Colorado counties today, Peters wrote that clerks would soon be notified when that recount would be done.
Problem is, the Secretary of State's Office already rejected Peters' recount request because she did not pay the required amount — or any amount — that would cover the cost of any recount. "I am, as a candidate with standing, going forward with that request in selected counties," Peters wrote in a 2:45 a.m. email. "If you have not already been notified, and if you are on the list of those counties for a hand count, you will be notified to coordinate the day/time that is mutually agreed upon."
Dwight Shellman, county regulation and support manager in the Elections Division of the Secretary of State's Office, sent a response email to all counties telling them that no such recount has been authorized, and they cannot separately arrange or coordinate one. There is no statutory authority for Ms. Peters to request a recount of the secretary of state race on the Republican Party ballot 'in selected counties,'" Shellman wrote. "To be clear, Ms. Peters did not comply with the statutory conditions for a recount of the Republican Party secretary of state race, and there will be no recount of that race in any county."
The email Peters sent also went to Brandi Bantz, director of elections in Mesa County who has been appointed designated election official here because Peters is barred from having any contact with that office as part of her bond conditions over a 13-count criminal indictment for tampering with election equipment, identity theft and misconduct in office. It is not yet known if including Bantz in that email from Peters constitutes a violation of those bond conditions.
Maybe it's time for the judge to actually DO SOMETHING about Peters' violations of bond restrictions? Maybe?poplove wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 1:04 am Indicted Colorado clerk Tina Peters faces another arrest warrant for violating bond
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/21/politics ... index.html
https://www.denverpost.com/2022/07/22/t ... count/amp/Indicted Mesa County clerk Tina Peters turns herself in to Pitkin County Jail on arrest warrant
Maybe she can stay in the Hunter S. Thompson suite!raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:55 pm She turned herself in.https://www.denverpost.com/2022/07/22/t ... count/amp/Indicted Mesa County clerk Tina Peters turns herself in to Pitkin County Jail on arrest warrant