A former union chief and backer of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may be spending the rest of his life behind bars.
The trial of former Broward Teachers Union President Patrick Santeramo began in a Florida courtroom yesterday, and promises to be a major headache for the Clinton campaign.
Santeramo, 68, is being tried for racketeering, money laundering and theft for his actions as head of the 13,000-member BTU, and is also facing federal fraud charges. He faces up to 30 years in prison.
The long-time union boss has been accused of raking in $165,000 in a kickback scheme with a contractor and $35,000 in funds meant for professional development for teachers.
But it’s Santeramo’s work raising money for the Hillary Clinton campaign that’s also drawing national attention.
According to prosecutors, Santeramo orchestrated a scheme to get BTU employees and members to make significant contributions to Clinton’s 2008 presidential bid.
Then, the union allegedly illegally provided reimbursement for the contributions and hid the reimbursements in its accounting records. This allegedly allowed Santeramo to funnel union funds and member dues directly into Clinton’s campaign coffers.
Broward County is the second-largest county in Florida, and Santeramo was a major Clinton supporter in the state. He called her at the time a “strong advocate for public school education professionals and a leader in fighting for education funding.”
Santeramo has also been accused of using a similar reimbursement scheme to get employees and members to make contributions to a political action fund. According to the indictment, this money was sent to the American Federation of Teachers, BTU’s national parent organization and a major Clinton supporter.
All of the union is the same they have no respect for this country and the people that have died for it and are 100% self serving working for pay that is way over any thing they are worth much less all else that they get and at the same time trashing the company they are working for and not purchasing their products for they cost too much and are not made as good as products made by other countries
Well Said!!!!!
This is the kind of people that are attracted to equally criminal women disguised as honorable liar. The low information rats will just close their eyes to this and continue like zombies in their support to corrupting evil people!
Yes….evil is a good word for these people!
There’s this, there’s the latest on her emails which, if things go as predicted, the administration may have no choice but to follow through with an indictment and, there’s the movie 13 Hours, premiering a week from tomorrow. Things are going to get very nasty very quickly for her. There won’t be a rock big enough for her to hide under. Of course, this moron, Santeramo will be dead before he gets to testify against Hitlery, she’ll see to that.
Very well said. He will not have to testify as long as the people in charge of the investigation look at all the facts and indict her. She’s as guilty as sin. I have no idea how she can sleep at night after all the corrupt things she has done. Plus the 4 bodies on her. She should be ashamed to even face the public. But the again slim doesn’t care nor have a conscience
Do you also belive in the tooth fairy,the fbi is bought and paid for,nothing will happen babs
I googled this guy, and this charge and findings happened back in 2012/ Is this and old story or what? Haven’t heard anything about this recently, and the google info doesn’t give any updates? I OFTEN check out the “latest” news, and find it is propaganda==== old stuff, not current.
Santeramo hopefully will sqeal on Killary and both will be where they belong ,in a nice cell with bars
Whoa there cowboy – you have not a clue as to what you are saying there big boy. As a Union member the work is usually first class – i’ve seen the Ratty a$$ work of NON-UNION SCABS in Florida this is for Pipe Fitting,Plumbing and HVAC work. The dumba$$ unions do fund the Dumbocrats agenda unfortunately and many Union Officers are doing Federal time for laundering $ to the D’s. I for one have never voted for a Dumbocrat as of yet and may never either, I am against anyone telling me who to vote for. The work is good but the beliefs are totally wrong !!!!! I am a member you are not or have been kicked out due to idiocy my friend. GO TRUMP 2016 all the way bro……..
Let me finish i have seen them trash the companies as they think the unions give them a paycheck – the truth is it costs companies to be signatory the problem is with the wages if Florida was not a right to work state the wages would be higher and the ratty work wouldn’t exist – Do you want your work done by a bunch of idots with only one trained person on the job or everyone trained in multiple tasks. Bring on a rat to do my work better than me and I will kiss yer Big O’l Butt. Active member almost 40 years .. Trump 2016
I agree100%! These unions are a scam. Look at Detroit! Big Liberals supporters for the scandals like Hillary and Obama. That’s how they’ve run our Country amuk!
This is the way the Clintons built up their foundation’s treasure chest, The Obama government would send thousands, and even millions to countries around the world, supposedly to help in their fight against terorism, and to boost their ecoomy. The Hillary or Bill would go in, make a speech for millions, and a few days or weeks later, a huge contribution would be made to the Clinton Foundation. That’s money laundering in any language.
By the way, Obama has also set up his own foundation. I guess we know where that has been heading.
HOW CAN ANY VOTE FOR CLINTON…CHEAT, LIAR , CORRUPT… SHE HAS MORE BAGGAGE THAN UNITED AIRLINES…..
I hope someone will finally get enough back bone to throw them all in jail where they should of been 30 years ago…..Check out the links below…..
home.earthlink.net/~mrnetwork/death.html
http://www.stewwebb.com
Imagine this, I just tried to look at that site and by golly, IT’S GONE!!! How could that happen?
I swear everyone associated with Hillary should be in prison. She however, should be hung for treason.
Let’s not even go to what should happen to Obhammmass
If you look back at this family ( Clinton Bill, and his awful wife) there is nothing but bad thngs going on that they are both behind. The only thing that drives these people and the people that support them is $$$$. That old saying “Money is the root of all evil” is where these two came from.
One fifth of voters were either not born or old enough to experience the Clinton years.
Then again, there are many stupid people that should not be able to vote.
There are some looking for all the stuff she will give them.
There are some stupid women that want to make her president because she is a woman or that is what hillary claims at the moment. Maybe she will go for the light vote and say she is a transsexual.
She has nothing for accomplishments other than getting 4 Americans killed. She has nothing to offer other than her sexist rapist husband that embarrass us by lowering the moral bar of the presidency.
Now, one of her buddies is going to jail.
She is deeply involved with the Muslim brotherhood and has put our country at risk.
Well said!! My words exactly!
She makes Al Capone look in an Eagle Scout
Lol! That’s a good one!
Just what sexist, Bill, and pathological liar, Hillary, both deserve.
They would both be good for fish bait !
NO SELF RESPECTING FISH WOULD TAKE THAT BAIT
ONLY SUCKERS
Does the Mafia have boy and girl scouts working for them? No, they are a criminal organization and employ criminals.
Hillary is a criminal also, so doesn’t it seem logical that her support team is made up of criminals.
Hillary says, “I presided over $6 Billion lost at the State Department, sold Uranium to the Russians through my faux charity, illegally deleted Public Records, and murdered an Ambassador.” ELECT ME!
Try and figure out why she has supporters???? They are all dumb, blind and can’t hear.
Sal,
So true. Well said!
The difference between the Mafia and the government is that the Mafia actually turns a profit!
Yeah!
Hillary is also laundering money what and why aren’t you doing anything about it
That is why it says “Tell me your friends and I will tell you who you are”. And that is Hillary.
Friend of Moslem Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, Muslims in the Middle East and Iran for money machine,
Planned Parenthood, abortionist women, black liberals, Atheists, illegal aliens, Muslims in America like ISIS in disguise.
Got that right! And the world should know it! Only the stupid ppl don’t!
Well now how fitting that the Cartel Clintons would find a mafioso like Santeramo to buy off and do their dirty work.
I can’t wait for more of the same to be exposed Including the queen herself Hellary.
Too bad the mainstream media are also bought off to do their dirty work of brainwashing and manipulating the sheeple.
Have any other conservatives tried to post on the left owned ABC or NBC and find their posts magically disappear.
Thankfully we have independent news sources like this on the internet
Main Stream Media……..is only what they want to be. I watch the news at night and…..you get what they want you to get. It is a shame that people don’t wake up. They will when it is to late and they have no money, no food, and no place to live in. Because these people don’t care about you.
He should have a lot of company just from the Clinton Crime Family Foundation money laundering SCAM!!!! But “some one” will PARDON them!!
Probably so, Keith. Remember how many unaccounted bodies are still in the mix with the Clintons. People will Pardon them as they are terrified what might happen to them and their families. We are watching a totally different version of Bonnie and Clyde in 2016.
Here we go, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. She owes so many people for their “donations in to her CHARITY Foundation”
How anyone can say she is what we need are just completely ignorant and blind. Or just plain STUPID. Funny how she claimed on her taxes last year that she donated 15 million dollars to charity, HER CHARITY..what crook. They use that as there own piggy bank and if you followers or minions of her do not believe that she will not take advantage of the oval office you are ,well there is not a word to describe your ignorance. I cannot wait until everything that she has done wrong is brought out, she is a liar, cheat and murderer and just plain evil. We have had enough change, obama has almost succeeded in making us a 3rd world country and still has 11 months to make it even worse. She will just finishing touches on it.
If convicted, Santeramo might spend the rest of his life, a year or so, in prison. Less if he were required to testify against Mrs. H. Clinton. Dead men do not talk: http://rcjustice.tripod.com/pres.html
Bingo…and it wouldn’t be the first time for Body-Bag, take-no-prisoners Clintons.
Great reading. Should publish it in every news paper across the U.S., put up bill boards across American major highways!, in the malls across the U.S., But of course, you would be dead or in jail for the rest of your life. Right….
Three. Wows. Wow. Wow. Wow. Keep it simple for the stupid people that could vote for Clinton the cow.
the entire democratic party is covered up with communist and has been for a very long time dating back to harry Truman .who often referred to joseph stalin as uncle joe and the American sheeple just keep on being too ignorant to see that all the demerats really want is socialism for all of America except themselves! VERNON L.JAN 7 2016
It was F.D.R that used that term for stalin. H.S.T adopted it from his boss F.D.R. and F D. R. helped lead use into Socialism but it goes further back then F.D.R. W. Wilson put it into action. look up Socialism In America and what the unions did
Santeramo might spend the rest of his life, unless Billery is elected, then she will get out the pardon pen.
Clintons are protected elitists, only the underlings get to go to prison or die, or both. The USSA doesn’t have enough prison space for our treasonous “leaders”.
Unless someone can make the case for Hillary knowing about this scheme, she can claim that she was unaware of this plan and is nothing more than the innocent beneficiary.
This highlights my problem with today’s unions. They are nothing more than parasites which enrich the union leadership and fund causes which many of the rank-and-file members may disagree with. Unions should be banned from contributing money to any campaign or raising funds for any campaign.
You’re absolutely right on all three counts.
That’s crazy all the while she’s stolen antiques from the White House, is the cause of Benghazi and ? Sick. Our Government is not doing it’s job to Impeach and prosecute people like Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Obama. Ugh.
Remember Hillary does not belong in the White House and she would have to take Bill with her?
Uwe Guwee. I am not sure I could stand and watch that crap again……
Is America deteriorating rapidly, becoming like backward under developing country, to recycle it’s leaders. Worse than that, is the recycling of failing corrupt people. Has the day of decline arrived to the 340 million Americans to be ruled by 2 failing families, both failed morally either in war or in sex.
The God whom we used to trust, has left us to our devises, and the condition is not pretty.
We CAN change this and I believe it will change this year. It is sure….that it cannot get any worse than it is getting. I even see it in our local govenment. Our Mayor usings his county owned “P” card (credit card) to buy surfboards, licquer, women, bar tabs ( in bars known for hookers )and expensive bicyles for his friends. BUT, he got caught , BUT…so far they have done NOTHING to him for stealing tax payers money!…It is everywhere and needs to change !!!
I am sure this guy will either get off, or get a slap on the hand. And will never be connected to Ms H. As someone said she will say ” OH! I had no idea that was were that money came from! ” Mr. and Mrs C. need to be behind bars.
This is the way the Democrat Party runs these schemes. First, pledge donations from members, Then, reimburse the donors for their donations. After that, you hide the evidence of the schemes from the authorities. It’s the revolving door of campaign finance.
I hope he makes a deal to talk, so Hillary can murder his dumb ass. What difference, at this point, does it make?
Doesn’t this make the Clintons guilty too? Always some one else is the patsy. She’ll acted like she knows nothing about it, like Hillary tried to make people think that she’d never ever asked for extra help. Then turns around, and stops two units headed in that direction to save our four. It makes me wonder who actually killed these four. They weren’t just killed, but torched before being allowed to die. The whole time these four were being hurt, and just knew someone would save them. God Bless their Souls, family, and friends, and is just a taste of her care…
Voters please don’t allow this Hillary as president. She’s no better then Ted Kennedy, and his bridge driving. She needs to go through the court system, before being allowed to run for president.
The Clintons are coming apart. All Bills x’s are coming out in the open, again, after being flushed down the toilet
when Bill dirtied Monica’s dress. Hillary can answer very few questions with a straight face. Of course wth her beautiful
lying eyes and her mentor Obama how can you resist her.