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Crumbie's Proof of Innocence: The Defamation of Erin Stewart (6)

 The Crumbie Law Group knows full well that P-Card violations, in cases where prosecution is attempted, almost ubiquitously result in misdemeanor charges and restitution payments. And if they were qualified, they would also know that the investigative body responsible for looking into potential criminal activity would be the City Finance Department (and not a disingenuous, power hungry City mayor). And furthermore assuming they exercised any integrity they would would know that in their report using the term 'alleged' ensures that the speculative merits of their rather dubious conclusions about the use of the City P-Cards isn't subject to defaming, libeling, or slandering the Card Holder before the due process of investigation and follow-up are conclusive. Einstein once lamented something to the effect that "intelligence has its limits while stupidity has no bounds". The Evidence in Front of Their Noses Occom's Razor is the principle that the most obvious answ...

The Crumbie Report is Unprofessional, Blue Injustice: The Defamation of Erin Stewart (5)

The Report prepared by the Crumbie Law Group is a clusterfuck of libelous accusations based on circumstantial evidence . Let's unpack it. They were hired to: "On January 14, 2026, this firm was engaged by the City of New Britain, CT (the “city”) to conduct a comprehensive review of certain city operations with the goal of identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and fiscal sustainability. An initial review of internal city records revealed documented reports that raised concerns about the Revenue Collector’s Office. As a result of these findings, our review was expanded to include an investigation into the city’s Purchasing Card Program, which began in June 2016. " This is called scope creep. The fact that this "investigation" isolates one of  ninety three such cards is curious in and of itself. But okay, P-Card spending and compliance across the board might be a place where the City could benefit from improving its policies or practices (that *is* the po...

Deja Vu, All Over Again: The Defamation of Erin Stewart (4)

The tirelessly moronic attacks on Erin Stewart simply don't end regardless of the evidence to the contrary. I expected no less. Her accusers have no respect for the rule of law or common decency. In my very first post on the subject, I mentioned many of the consequences that no one seemed to care about . A couple of days ago the MSM finally caught up a bit . "House: Former prosecutor, if she says, “I’m gonna pay all this back, I’m sorry, I made a mistake,” what happens? McGuigan: There have been 13 or 18 of these P-card cases in the state of Connecticut that have been investigated, and none of them have ever ended up in criminal charges." Oh, btw, they are now walking back from ten years, no nine years, now five years... "House: And so, as a prosecutor, you look at the report, which covered an eight-year period, what did you see? Did you see a pattern? McGuigan: First off, I saw an eight-year period, and you’re gonna have to limit it to five years, because that’s wha...

Erin Stewart is Guilty, The Defamation of Erin Stewart (3)

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The campaign to prevent Erin Stewart from earning the right to represent the Ct Republican ticket for the office of Governor continues as bizarrely can be. A clown car of accusers and self-serving, entitled accusers stumbles and bumbles over each other to up the ante of unfounded and outright surreal imaginary disqualifying crimes. In this cartoon, five "scandals" ( scandals I tell ya) are listed with a number of New Britain taxpayer baiting expectations that Stewart drop what she's doing and play stupid games. Scandal #1: implies that actually using a city expense account is, well... a scandal. But that's what expense accounts are for. All city employees in every city use them. Here they have shaved their ten year request for receipts to make it look like the amount was spent in nine years, not that the amount is egregious to begin with. So what will satisfy the demand for "addressing this scandal"? A confession that, "YES. YES. I used an expense card...

The Systemic Defamation of Erin Stewart (2), Republican Frontrunner

One would think that with the elimination of so many journalist positions that only the best and most professional practitioners would be left standing. I have a hard time believing that after reading the Hartford Courant's Edmund Mahony's "Top Story" in the Mother's Day edition of the news edition. The Courant made a public records request exclusively targeting Erin Stewart's expense card with the city of New Britain presumably because of their new found concern over government spending in this blindingly BLUE State of Connecticut. Heaven forbid that an insanely popular and effective Republican mayor of one of CT's most iconic cities should have an accounting blemish with which to crucify her with on Mother's Day. Well they got the information they requested and proceeded to confuse factual spending records with actual, pragmatic context for the purchases, why they might be delivered to her home, or any other details that might explain individual anom...

Systemic Defamation: A Democratic Party Real Estate Meltdown

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  Connecticut is not a politically Blue State nor is it a Purple State. It is a State that has been wholly co-opted by the embrace of a Democratic party apparatus that has mastered the elimination of democratic representation of its citizens. There can be political choices in this State and there can be a fair representation of relative interests but that possibility is being systematically eliminated by an unholy alliance of political interest groups. If Connecticut is blue it is because it is being held hostage by the throat and not being allowed to breath the freedom to share representation by anyone other than the TDS infected apparatchiks who abuse its citizens and taxpayers. Yesterday I briefly outlined the all out saturation attack on Erin Stewart, the Republican's best candidate for the Governor's office . She has the same charisma and political leadership qualities that a few older generations will remember Ribicoff and Meskill having possessed. Not enough people are p...

The Systemic Defamation of Erin Stewart (1), Republican Candidate for Connecticut Governor's Office

 Every once in a while something in the news cycle catches my attention and just doesn't sit right with me. The latest political narrative is as strange as it gets. It involves a kitchen sink of lowlife politicians, so-called journalists, and rivers of social media bile. The latest chapter of this saga is what is shamelessly described as investigative journalism in the Hartford Courant claiming expense account ("P-Card") irregularities  during Erin Stewart's terms as Mayor of New Britain. First, what's a P-Card and what can it be used for?  Well, it's a credit card used for the nickel and dime fiscal transactions required to function in public office. Here's what Google AI documents it to include and exclude . The Hartford Courant and its duplicitous goon squad of political banshees sensationalize the amount of money credited to Mayor Stewart's account. It sounds like a big number; $200K. A journalist with ethics might point out that that covers a ten ...