From: Scotty Starnes's Blog <no-reply@wordpress.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:07 PM
Subject: [New post] NC Senator, Kay Hagan, Joins Stalinist ANSWER Coalition in calling for Multi-Billion Dollar Pigsford Funding (Video)
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 | NC Senator, Kay Hagan, Joins Stalinist ANSWER Coalition in calling for Multi-Billion Dollar Pigsford Funding (Video)Scotty Starnes | September 27, 2010 at 7:07 PM | Tags: black farmers, Kay Hagan, North Carolina, Pigsford, Pigsford vs Glickman, Shirley Sherrod, USDA | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-2S3 |
The Pigsford scam is well documented. 80,000 Black farmers joined the lawsuit when the U.S. Census Bureau shows there have never been more than 27,000 Black farmers at the time of the lawsuit. Remember Shirley Sherrod? She is tied into this Pigsford scheme.
Liberty News Online reports:
Pigford v. Glickman was a class action lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture (the "USDA"), alleging racial discrimination in its allocation of farm loans and assistance between 1983 and 1997. The lawsuit ended with a settlement in which the U.S. government agreed to pay African American farmers $50,000 each if they had attempted to get USDA help but failed.
To date, almost $1 billion has been paid or credited to the farmers under the settlement's consent decree.
CASE HISTORY:
The lawsuit was filed in 1997 by Timothy Pigford, who was joined by 400 additional African American farmer plaintiffs. Dan Glickman, the Secretary of Agriculture, was the nominal defendant. The allegations were that the USDA treated black farmers unfairly when deciding to allocate price support loans, disaster payments, "farm ownership" loans, and operating loans, and that the USDA had completely failed to process subsequent complaints about racial discrimination.[1]
After the lawsuit was filed, Pigford requested blanket mediation to cover what was thought to be about 2,000 farmers who may have been discriminated against, but the U.S. Department of Justice opposed the mediation, saying that each case had to be investigated separately. As the case moved toward trial, the presiding judge certified as a class all black farmers who filed discrimination complaints against the USDA between 1983 and 1997.
The plaintiffs settled with the government in 1999. Under the consent decree, all African American farmers would be paid a "virtually automatic" $50,000 plus granted certain loan forgiveness and tax offsets. This process was called "Track A".[2]
Alternatively, affected farmers could follow the "Track B" process, seeking a larger payment by presenting a greater amount of evidence — the legal standard in this case was to have a preponderance of evidence along with evidence of greater damages.
THE RIPOFF OF THE TAXPAYERS BY BLACK ACTIVISTS:
Originally, claimants were to have filed within 180 days of the consent decree. Late claims were accepted for an additional year afterwards, if they could show extraordinary circumstances that prevented them from filing on time.
Far beyond the anticipated 2,000 affected farmers, 22,505 "Track A" applications were heard and decided upon, of which 13,348 (59%) were approved. $995 million had been disbursed or credited to the "Track A" applicants as of January 2009[update], including $760 million disbursed as $50,000 cash awards.[3] Fewer than 200 farmers opted for the "Track B" process.
Be sure to read Ron Wilkins article about Shirley Sherrod and the Pigford scandal. All this explains why she was canned so fast by Obama. The truth is coming out about this spread the wealth scheme.
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