Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate

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Norvic said:
Ah yes, that chair you carted around with you while you were "homeless".
I'm going to call bullshit on this one as well.

Here's Wu in her Colorado days conspicuously not sitting in that chair.

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Wu's casual lies bug the hell out of me. Why does "I got a new chair!" need to be couched in terms of lie about how long you've had the old one?
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This is a lie in the same vein as the "$7000 Porche". John is pretending to be a relatable, Everyman politician, but he is also driven by an irresistible urge to boast about his cool toys. So he chooses the worst possible compromise and tweets these obnoxious humblebrags laced with lies that show how he's actually a frugal DIYer or just treating himself after years of doing without some luxury.
 
Peace and Harmony said:
beep beep Middle East geopolitics experts comin through

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Lol no my niggas. The US pulling out is not going to to let ISIS take over anything. Well, at least not for more than about 30 minutes, because if they do, the Russian bombers will quickly be overhead. The Russians have no issues using experimental gas on their citizens, they will give zero fucks about a bunch of backcountry arabs, and will happily send them back to the 8th century. With no one in the area they can't drop high explosives on now, Putin's going to go hog wild, and give Assad the space to strong arm the country back to about as much unity as it had before.

That this is probably the best outcome for the region says about all that needs to be said.
 
There's a new FEC report out:
http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/225/201812189143568225/201812189143568225.pdf
A second attempt at revising the July 2018 filing. The key bit, in which Frank got called on the carpet by an actual FEC employee of some sort and grovels abjectly:

This amended report is filed in response to the communication from the FEC dated 11/5/2018 and the telephonic discussion with Chris Jones on 12/17/18. In this document, the Campaign corrects an inadvertant and previously undiscovered clerical error which resulted in an incorrect total of receipts for 2018 Q2 being previously reported. This error was made without deceptive intent, and was due to the Campaign switching from NGPVan to NationBuilder and ActBlue. Previously unnoticed duplicate entries between and within NationBuilder and ActBlue have now been discovered, and these were not fully catalogued until the date of filing of this document. The Campaign notes that the corrected amount of total receipts for 2018 Q2 is reported herein, as is the corrected unitemized subtotal, and the Campaign is currently reviewing other filings for similar errors and related errors in CTD totals, and will shortly amend those other filings as necessary. The Campaign regrets this inadvertant error, which was unintentional and made without deceptive intent.
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Dance, Chinaman, dance!
 
Kosher Dill said:
There's a new FEC report out:
http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/225/201812189143568225/201812189143568225.pdf
A second attempt at revising the July 2018 filing. The key bit, in which Frank got called on the carpet by an actual FEC employee of some sort and grovels abjectly:

Dance, Chinaman, dance!
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Wow, that's ridiculous. The difference isn't small, they've gone from reporting 70K cash on hand previously to 34K now. Almost 40K just disappeared in an "accounting error."

This literally can't happen. There is no way you can in good faith declare that your bank account ought to be 70K while your online banking says 34K. There's gross incompetence and then there's this. This has to be active malfeasance.
 
Kosher Dill said:
There's a new FEC report out:
http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/225/201812189143568225/201812189143568225.pdf
A second attempt at revising the July 2018 filing. The key bit, in which Frank got called on the carpet by an actual FEC employee of some sort and grovels abjectly:


Dance, Chinaman, dance!
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The use and repitition of words and phrases such as unintentional, accidental, inadvertant (sic) and without deceptive intent is revealing. The squealing yellow fiend doth protest too much, methinks. Deceptive intent is the only reason the campaign exists.

I will patiently await the following headline in the Globe:

Wu Claims Financial Irregularities
In FEC Reports Weren't Deceptive
 
I think @Kosher Dill earns the Nostradamus of the year award though.

Kosher Dill said:
At this point I don't trust any of these numbers at all. That $60K of unitemized donations is complete nonsense.
Let's compare this to Q3 2017, the last time Frank dropped full dox on his donors.
In that quarter, there were $4556.89 of "small donor" donations - the kind that would be showing up as an unitemized total now.
These donations average about $33 apiece, and came from 100 distinct individuals.
Now, the unitemized donations increased about $56K over Q1. That would be about 1707 average donations - if we assume they're all subscribers (unlikely) that's still about 570 new individual paypigs on top of the original 100. That seems fanciful given that there hasn't been any discernible campaign activity going on.
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Turns out, yep that total was complete bollocks.
Interesting that they paid that "Grassroots Analytics" company a few thousand bucks for fundraising leads but actually almost the entire total they raised came from random asspatters responding to Wu's twitter appeal. I had assumed that Wu actually pulled her finger out and did some work, more fool me.
 
Norvic said:
This literally can't happen. There is no way you can in good faith declare that your bank account ought to be 70K while your online banking says 34K.
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I still half-suspect that they don't even have a separate bank account for the campaign, and it was all run out of Frank's personal account. With the constant blizzard of stupid John purchases, he probably doesn't even know what the balance "should be" at any given time.
My evidence for this is some of the early filings where Frank made simple clerical errors and got the cash-on-hand calculations wrong by some trifling sum, a couple hundred dollars. Obviously at this point he wasn't trying to commit fraud, but for whatever reason he just let that calculation ride for the next year and never checked it against the bank balance. My theory: it's because he couldn't.

That said... $30K is still a lot to go missing, and Frank surely must have noticed that he was typing an extremely large number in box 11. The motive eludes me though, because the money never really existed - it's not like John got to spend an extra 30 grand under the radar. I wonder if this all was an attempt to impress some potential donor and prove that Wu For God-Emperor was a legit campaign.
Alternatively... there is the matter of that outstanding $50K loan from Frank to the campaign. This correction takes them from "able to pay it back" (at least on paper) to "taking a loss". I wonder if there's any advantage one way or the other, again given that the money never existed.
 
OldDayz said:
Or even a blue collar worker in general.
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That's harsh. What about "I'll take that Potbelly to go, and don't skimp on sauce"

Norvic said:
This literally can't happen. There is no way you can in good faith declare that your bank account ought to be 70K while your online banking says 34K. There's gross incompetence and then there's this. This has to be active malfeasance.
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As @Kosher Dill says it might be an issue of not having a separate account for your business, that's illiterate from accounting PoV, but I've seen worse, like, two companies (ran by husband and wife) using the same account.

They should hire accountant, no way that shit would fly with any professional. I had my balls busted over cents not adding up.
 
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Kosher Dill said:
I still half-suspect that they don't even have a separate bank account for the campaign, and it was all run out of Frank's personal account. With the constant blizzard of stupid John purchases, he probably doesn't even know what the balance "should be" at any given time.
My evidence for this is some of the early filings where Frank made simple clerical errors and got the cash-on-hand calculations wrong by some trifling sum, a couple hundred dollars. Obviously at this point he wasn't trying to commit fraud, but for whatever reason he just let that calculation ride for the next year and never checked it against the bank balance. My theory: it's because he couldn't.
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While I think we're pretty sure that the error here is that they declared more donations than they actually received, if you're the FEC you've got to be at least somewhat suspicious that it's the other way around: the error here is that the total cash apparently on hand can't be reconciled with the accounts because the money has been embezzled.

I wonder what is it about this report in particular that has tripped the FEC's bullshit detector. It seems like a real human FEC employee is taking an inordinate amount of time to chase up relatively small sums. I also wonder if there's some enforcement endgame they're going to fall afoul of, because after filing the same report 3 times the numbers STILL don't add up, even if you assume they're the right numbers. Like, Frank's even written the error fairly obviously on the form. He's employed the subtotal and cumulative total boxes on the disbursement pages, but the numbers in those boxes aren't the same numbers as he's declared in the summary.

Whatever the case, there's something very wrong with the way Wu's doing her accounting. Possibly several things wrong. I wonder if, in addition to using Franks/BriBri's account for their campaign, she doesn't even decide what is actually going to be a campaign expense until the end of the quarter, and that's how we get the absurdities like her various holidays to California being "fundraising trips." It's got to be the case that she's not keeping a double entry ledger, given how wrong the figure always are.
 
Kosher Dill said:
There's a new FEC report out:
http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/225/201812189143568225/201812189143568225.pdf
A second attempt at revising the July 2018 filing. The key bit, in which Frank got called on the carpet by an actual FEC employee of some sort and grovels abjectly:


Dance, Chinaman, dance!
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Brianna: “Frank, you idiot! Fix it now!!”

Frank: “But Bri, you’re a software developer can’t you fix problems with the website or write a simple script to check for dupli......”

*Frank gets an iPad to the head*

It would be comical if it wasn’t so damn pathetic that the lies are obvious. These two bumbling idiots who can’t file a simple quarterly report with the FEC and John/Brianna being a charlatan who cant run his own website or validate the data.

We all kind of assumed the FEC was just going to give these turds a pass because they’re small fries and the FEC didn’t have the bandwidth to enforce policies but Frank has had to amend almost every reort now. They must be flagged and they’re going to be scrutinized on every report. Too bad the FEC doesn’t realize half the expenditures were for personal use and not the campaign (trips, lunches, the brand new iMac, video capture hardware).
 
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