Courtesy of Pam Martens.
Nathan Sproul
The voter registration firm secretly set up by the controversial Republican strategist, Nathan Sproul, has hired a top white collar criminal defense attorney, Frederick Petti, of the Phoenix, Arizona law firm, Petti and Briones.
Sproul’s voter registrations firms were investigated in the past for fraud but never prosecuted. To blunt scrutiny, Sproul says he was asked by the Republican National Committee (RNC) to set up a front company with no connection to him for this election cycle. According to state Republican committees, the RNC then turned around and recommended the firm, Strategic Allied Consulting, to Republican committees in swing voter states.
The ruse only came out because of a quick thinking blogger named Greg Flynn at BlueNC.com who investigated the trail of Strategic Allied Consulting and found that the web site was registered to Sproul’s firm, even though the firm’s corporate filing in Virginia made no mention of Sproul as an officer. Flynn intuitively took a screen shot of the web site registration, which was abruptly changed shortly thereafter. Read Flynn’s first-rate investigation and screen shot here.
Petti, the lawyer for Strategic Allied Consulting, has sent a termination letter to at least one of the workers in Florida suspected of engaging in voter registration fraud. Along with telling the worker to “tell the truth,” if the worker decides to speak to the Supervisor of Elections in Palm Beach County, Petti also admonishes the worker as follows: “…you are reminded of the confidentiality agreement you signed when you were employed by Strategic and are hereby notified that Strategic will call all reasonable actions against you should you decide to violate that confidentiality agreement.” The letter notes that it was hand delivered to the worker – an act which could be somewhat intimidating. (Read the full letter below.)
Why should workers engaging in registering voters for public elections in a democracy be subjected to confidentiality agreements and legal threats.
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