She admitted it on camera. Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, of Marina del Rey, pleaded guilty in June to a federal felony count of paying another person to register to vote, after James O'Keefe's undercover team filmed her on Skid Row saying "Because you haven't registered, I need to register you so I can get paid, too." Prosecutors say she paid people between $2 and $3 a signature and registered them herself when they were not on the rolls, sometimes using her own former address. The count carries up to five years. United States District Judge Mark Scarsi sentenced her to 18 months of probation and 120 hours of community service. No prison. First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli called it admitted voter fraud.
Also in today's episode: American forces begin striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets inside Iran at noon Eastern, in Central Command's own words, and Brent crude climbs above $90; Senator Ron Johnson calls for a COVID reckoning and says out loud what he wants done about Anthony Fauci, one day after this show read Fauci's own instruction to delete an email; nine more drug companies agree to charge Americans their lowest price, and four of them start donating raw ingredients to a federal medicine reserve; Iran's president goes looking for a friend at the Shanghai summit and gets several minutes and no mention in Chinese state media; Apple folds and Lake Ontario becomes Lake America on iPhone; and two teenagers in Florida have put 25,000 slices of pizza in front of families who needed a meal.
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