STOCKMAN VINDICATED: State official declares Cornyn camps Shady Stockman campaign not fair, untrue and illegal > Anti-Stockman smear campaign made false claims using illegally-published records > Official states Stockman has clean record, is victim of illegal activity > Michigan advises Stockman criminal complaints are in order against those who published records > Texans for Conservative Majority appear to have violated law by publishing expunged records HOUSTON - A Michigan official has removed documents from a state website that erroneously claimed U.S. Congressman Steve Stockman had been convicted of a crime in the 1970s. A pro-John Cornyn superPAC funded by an illegal alien activist has spent $2 million using the illicitly-published records to falsely claim Stockman had been convicted of a crime in a bid to wrongly influence tomorrows Texas Republican primary for U.S. Senate. Michigans 43rd Judicial District Clerk stated Stockman was never convicted of any charge and the documents were supposed to have been destroyed in 1978. Another Michigan official has advised Stockman he has grounds to file criminal complaints against any person or media organization that published the documents. Members of the media may contact the office of the 43rd District Clerk of Court in Madison Heights, MI at (248) 837-2693 to confirm. Michigan ordered the erroneous documents removed after learning numerous news media outlets and Texans for a Conservative Majority, a superPAC supporting U.S. John Cornyn, secured the records, which were supposed to be destroyed in the 1978, and used them to falsely claim Stockman was convicted of a felony or misdemeanor in October 1977. In reality the district court judge ordered the matter dismissed and expunged. The pro-Cornyn ads falsely told voters Stockman had been convicted of crime in an attempt to illicitly influence Tuesdays U.S. Senate Republican primary. Media outlets and the Cornyn superPAC also published a non-public booking record -- including a fingerprint card and photograph of Stockman at twenty years of age -- that was required by statute to be destroyed and was supposed to have been expunged by a court order dated November 8, 1978. According to Michigan Compiled Laws 28.214, (3) A person shall not access, use, or disclose nonpublic information governed under this act for personal use or gain. ... (5) A person shall not disclose information governed under this act in a manner that is not authorized by law or rule. (6) A person who intentionally violates subsection (3) or (5) is guilty of a crime as follows: (a) For a first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment ... (b) For a second or subsequent offense, the person is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 4 years .... Austin attorney Randy Cubriel, a Cornyn associate and head of TCM, may also face repercussions. Texas law (e.g., Art. 55.03 provides: (1) the release, maintenance, dissemination, or use of the expunged records and files for any purpose is prohibited; (2) except as provided in Subdivision (3) of this article, the person arrested may deny the occurrence of the arrest and the existence of the expunction order; and (3) the person arrested or any other person, when questioned under oath in a criminal proceeding about an arrest for which the records have been expunged, may state only that the matter in question has been expunged.). Michigan Compiled Laws 28.242a(1) forbids officials from engaging in any dissemination of criminal history record information that is nonpublic or is prohibited by law from being disseminated, MCL 28.243(8) required officials to destroy the very records that were leaked (to the news media and Cornyns cronies) and required the clerk of court to notify the Michigan State Police of the judges dismiss and purge order. MCL 28.246 provides that the culpable bureaucrats neglect or refusal to perform any ... act required to be performed ... shall constitute a misdemeanor [and] shall also constitute nonfeasance in office and subject the official or officer to removal from office.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 05:48:11 +0000
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