Another Crook

CA-50:Another Crook: Bilbray being investigated by Grand Jury

by UTBriancl
posted at dailykos.com

cross-posted from Calitics:
the progressive community blog for California.

Brian Bilbray has been very quiet recently. Yeah, he's heavily
favored in CA-50 in the rematch with Francine Busby, but still
you'd think he'd show up somewhere, anywhere in his district. But,
according to Words
Have Power, he's been hiding out. He's not been updating
his web site, and he failed to show up at an AARP-sponsored debate.
Strange.

Or maybe not so strange. According to the San
Diego County Democratic Party, Bilbray is being investigated a
grand jury impaneled by the District Attorney. Follow me over
the flip.

• From the very beginning, there
  were questions as to where Mr. Bilbray lives. We all know
  that. But he swore, under the penalty of perjury, that he had
  multiple primary residences. One of which, was his mother's
  address in North (San Diego) County. Well, more from the party:

  
  

We've recently heard reports that the San Diego
District Attorney's Office has impaneled a Grand Jury to
investigate our complaint.

The Democratic Party had asked whether Bilbray's sworn
claims of multiple primary residences amounted to perjury or voter
fraud. If our concerns are substantiated, it would appear that
Bilbray broke the law in the very district whose past
representative is now in federal prison for betraying the public's
trust.
{snip}
Our original letter to the San Diego District
Attorney (5/17/06) refers to Bilbray's signed voter registration --
days after the Cunningham story broke -- declaring a Carlsbad
address to be his "residence and domicile" under penalty
of perjury (6/21/05).

Less than two months after re-registering, he signed a
new deed of trust for his home in Alexandria, Virginia (8/25/05).
He did not indicate that the home was anything other than his
"principal residence," which the deed would have
explicitly forbidden.

In December of 2005, Bilbray's children testified under
oath that they lived in Virginia with their father. The context was
a lawsuit in which Bilbray claimed his children were out-of-state
residents who deserved to pay the same tuition as undocumented
immigrants who lived in-state. A few months later, he signed a
formal declaration of candidacy to run for Congress (2/23/06),
citing his mother's house on Unicornio Street in Carlsbad as his
residence.

Throughout this entire period, he was receiving a
homeowner's tax exemption on his property in South County's
Imperial Beach, where neighbors had spotted him in the community
ever since he began to run for the North County seat.(SD
Cty. Dem. Party)

So, what's that 3 "primary residences" ? One of which,
and the residences where his children were living, was in Virginia.
You know, where he was a lobbyist. Oh, and residency
requirements include...well...actually living in the state.

So, CA-50 has gone from a crook who received bribes for his
votes to a perjurer . Wow, that's a huge step up.

Oh and Words
Have Power is reporting that he is scheduled (since 9/26) to
appear at a Chamber of Commerce event. Follow this Words
Have Power link for more info and to get the information to
attend. If you live in the S.D. area, please do so. You
think he'll answer any questions about the grand jury?