.contact_entity {font-size: 1.5em ;margin-top: 0.6em; margin-bottom: 0em;margin-right: 0.5em;} The non-profit organization was founded by Milton and Rose Friedman and promotes school vouchers and other forms of school choice. The other two judges running this year who have spent most of the past six years hearing felony cases, William Hooks and Thaddeus Wilson, have had just 15 and 17 reversals, respectively. Senator from Arizona, said Byrne's involvement undermined the "credibility" of the process, adding, "It's damaging to the Republican party and our system of government. In 2018, the appellate court reprimanded Burns for allowing the prosecution to take a rebuttal sucker punch during the murder trial of Keith Middleton. }) Itll be OK, itll all go in. They took part in a psychological operation, frankly, to try and get Americans to accept President-Elect Joe Biden, when theres way, way too many questions. He says Americans will see very clearly that the MSM was engaged in propaganda rather than seeking the truth. } They have personal legal liability. We agreed that the call would be taped:, I could set this up by explaining how for 20 years the bane of my existence has been, We are expected to believe the following set of facts regarding the recent gubernatorial race in AZ: So, For the good stuff regarding my meeting with Trump, start reading around Page 135. [104], Shortly after his graduation from Dartmouth, Byrne suffered from testicular cancer; he recovered, but several bouts of the cancer left him hospitalized for much of his 20s. "SO YOU'RE SAYING THERE'S A CHANCE?". By Eugene Scott July 13, 2022 at 1:48 p.m. EDT Former Overstock chief executive Patrick Byrne speaks at a news conference for. Looking toward the future, Billow said, Ill be back in two years when the seat is up again. } Legal experts disagree, however, that 40 reversals arent a fair measure of a trial judges performance, especially when Burns peers in this years retention class have tallied fewer than half that number. top: 0px; [33] Byrne was permanently banned from publishing these accusations. On a QAnon-related podcast in late November 2020, Bryne said: "I'm a free agent, and I'm self-funded, and I fund this army of various strange people." 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As of mid May, it had reportedly pulled in $1.7m. [54][77] The book, largely compiled of text copied-and-pasted from Byrne's blog, was hastily produced, with the print version including hyperlinks and embedded video not useful in the paper printed format. But Byrnes central role in funding the Arizona audit and how it is being run is attracting growing scrutiny. Not all reversals are created equal. .widget-row.Democratic { padding-left: 10px; Built with the Largo WordPress Theme from the Institute for Nonprofit News. margin-right: 12px; With over twenty years of legal experience, Patrick will be the first to tell you he is not your typical attorney. He says, I knew what the Bad Guys were going to do this Election and I had a reason to know that there was something big coming, that I wont go into right now.. The Deep Capture Campaign Michelle Smith (AP) and I Have a (recorded) Telephone Call A few days after our Rochester encounter, Michelle called me. [4] He is the son of John J. Byrne, former chairman of Berkshire Hathaway's GEICO insurance subsidiary and White Mountains Insurance Group. But you can win in his room as a defendant. He has settled and litigated cases in almost every area of law. The Office of the Cook County Public Defender, which is still representing Bolanos, declined an Injustice Watch request for comment. | But theyre right, it wasnt that it was widespread it was narrow and deep and the Bad Guys picked six places to do it. Patrick Michael Byrne (born November 29, 1962) is an American businessman. .race_header.republican { Biden won Maricopa County (and the State of Arizona), and the result was confirmed multiple times. [11] In the late 2010s, Overstock built a new $100 million headquarters at the base of Utah's Wasatch Mountains, although several rounds of layoffs had left part of the complex empty. [31] In addition to criticizing broker-dealers and hedge funds as corrupt, Byrne also criticized the press as corrupt and unable to understand the financial and dot.com industries, and complained that the mainstream media had "demonized" him. } text-align: center; School districts | In the early afternoon, Burns called the case of Kimberlynn Bolanos. Hes essentially a states attorney whos modified his outlook a bit but is pretty much still a states attorney, said Stu Smith, a retired defense attorney. Patrick Burns is bouncing fit and flying up and down the heavy sod like it was a July day. They take a blank ballot, check live voter rolls overseas, pick one to attribute the vote to, and accept it. Youre in court, ok! he snapped during the only moment of excitement in an otherwise tedious day. A few days after our Rochester encounter, Michelle called me. .inner_percentage.Libertarian { margin-top: 0px; Let me give you another aspect of that: If you go up to the voting booth, with your ballot all filled-out and you turn it in and they feed it into the machine, if the machine says, Oh, I find this hard to read, it gives you a warning sign. Byrne says hes had enough evidence to win these cases for over 17 days. Injustice Watch's nonpartisan guide to the November 2022 Cook County judicial elections. .votebox_legend .non_result_row { The next hearing in Bolanos case is scheduled for Nov. 10, two days after the election. [58] After encountering opposition during their visit from some Trump officials, such as White House Counsel Pat Cipollone,[58] Byrne later claimed that Trump's advisors were insufficiently loyal to him and were "mendacious mediocrities" who "want him to lose and are lying to him. In November of 2018, the Dallas elections, which were run on Dominion systems had encountered irregularities, so Texas state government had hired a cybersecurity firm to figure out and explore these irregularities. (Wilson transferred out of the courts criminal division last December.). But the Englewood Four are not the only people who have alleged that they were tortured, beaten, coerced, or denied attorneys by police officers tied to disgraced commander Jon Burge during the period from 1994 to 1997 when Burns oversaw the felony review unit. "[56] In a Twitter post, he advised Trump and his allies to "Trust Rudy [Giuliani] and Sidney [Powell] only. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph. The exchange lasted less than two minutes. } .votebox-results-cell--number { [25][26] In December 2009, the suit against Rocker, whose name had since been changed to Copper River Partners, was settled by Copper River paying $5 million. [5], The circuit courts are also served by 391 associate judges, who are limited in that they may not preside over cases in which the defendant is charged with a felony (an offense punishable by one or more years in prison). Voting rights specialists are dismayed at the haphazard and private drive in Arizona that Byrne and his cohorts are mounting. letter-spacing: 0.03em; font-weight: bold; [88], In 2022, PBS reported that Byrne had been informed that several of the persons he promoted as stating that Trump was defrauded were lying, but that he chose to promote their words anyways. [44], Byrne resigned his board seat and position as CEO of Overstock.com on August 22, 2019, after his affair with Butina was revealed; Jonathan E. Johnson served as interim CEO. .votebox-results-cell--x { width: 35px !important; This is yet another piece of evidence that the whole effort in Arizona is more of a disinformation campaign than anything else, said Larry Norden, the director of the electoral reform program at the Brennan Center for Justice. A colleague of Byrnes informed a friendly congressman about the Frankfurt data transfer. "[18] In a letter to The Wall Street Journal in April 2006, Byrne contended that "blackguards have practiced 'failure to deliver'" of securities, were "destroying businesses and (probably) destabilizing our capital markets. Follow him on Twitter@Dave_Sutor. [65], In addition to his interviews and other commentaries pushing his election theories, Byrne also funded a group of investigators to try and prove his theory. [99] In January 2008, it was reported that Byrne and his parents contributed about $4 million to the pro-voucher campaign, or three-quarters of its $5.4 million funding and equal the entire total spent by the opposing side. Johnson claimed that the torture continued after Burns left. font-weight: bold; width: 250px; Please, Municipal elections in Cook County, Illinois (2022), Illinois local trial court judicial elections, 2016, Judicial Performance Commission of Cook County sample ballot, https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Charles_Patrick_Burns&oldid=9029211, Cook County Judicial Circuit Court candidate, 2022, Illinois circuit court judges, Cook Subcircuit, Successful Illinois judicial candidates, 2010, Conflicts in school board elections, 2021-2022, Special Congressional elections (2023-2024), 2022 Congressional Competitiveness Report, State Executive Competitiveness Report, 2022, State Legislative Competitiveness Report, 2022, Partisanship in 2022 United States local elections. Injustice Watch spoke with eight defense attorneys and prosecutors whove had experience with Burns and other judges at the criminal courthouse at 26th and California. .widget-img { Byrne then set up a follow-up classified briefing and CISA, the Cyber Infrastructure and Security Administration the new department within DHS, created for the purpose of protecting the digital infrastructure of the election they REFUSED TO COME! There was a problem saving your notification. They are stand-alone, uncorroborated accusations that have either been raised and dismissed by all reviewing courts or never raised on appeal.. Burns earned a B.A. margin-bottom: 4px; $('.showResponses').show(); The defense filed a motion for a mistrial, which Burns denied. .courts-header { font-size:150%;background-color:#334aab;color:white;} } top: -5px; [64] News of the meeting led further news organizations, such as the Washington Post, to publish lengthy profiles of Byrne's election denier activities. Burns would follow up by saying the detectives explained the case to him and that Johnson should move the case along., Cook County Circuit Judge Charles P. Burns. The Deep Capture Campaign. .switcher .option::-webkit-scrollbar-track{-webkit-box-shadow:inset 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);border-radius:5px;background-color:#f5f5f5;} vertical-align: top; And again, I am not a Republican, I did not vote for Mr Trump, Im a Libertarian and I love the Constitution and thats my religionIm not coming at this from a pro-Trump thing, Im just about the truth. [94], In 2005, Byrne provided financial backing to the Class Education, whose goal is to change state laws to require schools to spend at least 65 percent of their operating budgets on classroom expenses. Patrick Byrne: pro-Trump millionaire pushing election conspiracy theories Weekend rallies with Roger Stone and Michael Flynn show key influence of libertarian helping to fund Arizona election. Jeff Flake, a Republican former Arizona senator, said in an interview that Byrnes involvement in all this does not add credibility. Those 6 counties and the first 4 of them are heavily Black and I believe they did that, because I think the goons on the Left have been using the Black community for my entire lifetime. Byrne said the conspiracy included hedge funds, journalists, investigators, trial lawyers, the SEC, and Eliot Spitzer. He would talk to the officers and see what he could do, Johnson testified. The largest share of Burns reversed cases were like Bolanos, where the appellate court found Burns had improperly rejected a post-trial motion or petition asking to have a case reviewed in light of new evidence or an ineffective lawyer. The America Project website says if fundraising exceeds the $2.8m goal, it will use the monies for other election integrity activities including audits in other states and related expenses. | color: #fff; #selected_lang_name {float: none;} In 2004, Overstock spent several million dollars to establish an online auction platform to compete with eBay, but the project was not successful and shut down in 2011. .panel-heading:hover { cursor: pointer;} In advance of the 2020 Presidential Election, Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections takes a deep dive into the weaknesses of today's election technology, an issue that is little understood by the public or even lawmakers. I think this will give me more time to go door to door, make that person-to-person connection with a lot of the folks in the district and hopefully we will have a success in two years from now, Billow said. [95][96][97], Byrne also serves as co-chair (with Rose Friedman) of EdChoice. var nTimer = setInterval(function() { Read the details of the Election of 2020 from Patrick Byrne. Byrne travelled with the group to multiple US states with a message that COVID-19 was not a threat and that treatment of it was unhealthyagain something long disproven by actual medical doctors. This Memorial Day weekend, several prominent conservative allies of Donald Trump, who have promoted almost nonstop his false narratives about the 2020 election results, are slated to hold rallies in Florida and Texas endorsed by the wealthy libertarian Patrick Byrne. He became notable for distributing and selling misinformation on various subject matters via websites, social media, books, and film. On a slow-moving Thursday in early October, Cook County Circuit Judge Charles P. Burns drifted in and out of his chambers at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse, checking whether defense attorneys had arrived so he could call their clients' cases. The haphazard, highly politicized audit process failed to follow standard recounting procedures and was condemned by election experts, Democrats, and some Republicans, including the Republican-dominated Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, who wrote that Arizona Republicans "rented out the once-good name of the Arizona Senate" to "grifters" who were perpetrating a "sham. (George Frey | AP photo) Dominion Voting Systems sent a letter to. position: relative; George Ryan in 2003. background-color: grey; padding-top: 8px; He started in 1981 and rose through the ranks to become a star trial lawyer, handling high-profile prosecutions and supervising the felony review unit a team of lawyers who decide whether police have enough evidence to charge arrestees with felonies. An assistant states attorney and a public defender stepped up. background-color: #6db24f; Now, we get to Bucket #2. His time as a boss there coincided with one of the most violent periods in Chicagos history, both in terms of crime and police brutality. Patrick Burns, Actor: Doctors. p.survey-response {white-space: pre-line;} Follow him on Twitter @Dave_Sutor. In the Drop and roll technique, they shut the voting down, calculate what they need, then drop a batch in to Catch up. width: 150px; The Invisible Institute has identified three dozen other people who made similar claims of police abuse during that time period, though Burns has not been personally accused of wrongdoing in those cases. The trial court imposed a lengthy sentence that greatly exceeds the seriousness of the crime (or rather, the lack of seriousness), Appellate Judge Michael B. Hyman wrote for the majority, reducing the sentence to the minimum six years. .widget-key { Contribution Totals: Download all contribution records for this person from 1999 to present To a Spreadsheet or Other File Type: 2020 . font-weight: bold; $('.collapse').collapse('show'); [90] Following the election, he again financed efforts by candidates to overturn their lost election bids, including Kari Lake. Partly cloudy skies. line-height: 1.5em; Johnson was ultimately convicted and sentenced to death row, but his sentence was commuted by Gov. Byrne told the AP his operation merely sends volunteers to Cyber Ninjas for vetting. Election 2022 | Burns wins re-election to 72nd District state House seat; mail-in ballots lift incumbent past challenger Billow. In 1999, Byrne launched Overstock.com after leading two smaller companies. But its not clear how much Burns would be swayed by the diagnosis. } color: #FF6347; } The company had generated slightly more than $500,000 in revenue the previous year by liquidating excess furniture inventory online. Via Joanne Nova. color: white; His current term ends on December 4, 2028. No one who did due diligence would. max-width: 75px; Bucket #1, The technical functionality of these Dominion election systems, Because they were built by Hugo Chavez in order to make himself El Presidente for Life, they were built with functionality that you would not imagine any legitimate voting system would have. .widget-row.Libertarian { display: inline-block; They care an awful lot about this system, this bureaucracy, but they don't care enough about their kids to think outside the box. [11], In a conference call with analysts in August 2005, Byrne said that "there's been a plan since we were in our teens to destroy our stock, drive it down to $6$10 and even a plan for how the company would then get whacked up." position: relative; Lord Acton in Action: From Cass Sunstein to Obama, Trump, and Biden, The Last Hurrah of Patrick Byrne at ReAwaken, Branson Missouri. Everybody gets it here. } width: 90%; There are 513 judges on the Illinois Circuit Court, each elected in partisan elections to six-year terms. Billow is trying to unseat Democrat incumbent Frank Burns. ul.key-messages {list-style-type: none; margin-left:10px; } background-color: #003388; .widget-row.Green { Of course, the Mainstream Media is trying to bury this in concrete, so Byrne says that about three days ago, he decided to go to the Independent Media. Byrne notes that Rod Rosenstein was the US Attorney for the District of Maryland at the time. width: 100%; Arc 3 Communications. 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