The Saturday morning after the convention in July, I called Gary Gensler, the chief financial officer of Hillary’s campaign. He wasted no words. He told me the Democratic Party was broke and $2 million in debt.

“What?” I screamed. “I am an officer of the party and they’ve been telling us everything is fine and they were raising money with no problems.”
That wasn’t true, he said. Officials from Hillary’s campaign had taken a look at the DNC’s books. Obama left the party $24 million in debt—$15 million in bank debt and more than $8 million owed to vendors after the 2012 campaign and had been paying that off very slowly.

Obama’s campaign was not scheduled to pay it off until 2016. Hillary for America (the campaign) and the Hillary Victory Fund (its joint fundraising vehicle with the DNC) had taken care of 80 percent of the remaining debt in 2016, about $10 million, and had placed the party on an allowance.

How many Americans, for example, are aware of the fact that U.S. planes dropped on the Korean peninsula more bombs — 635,000 tons — and napalm — 32,557 tons — than during the entire Pacific campaign against the Japanese during World War II?

Heather has been released on her "own recognizance", has a curfew, is required to remain in the Eastern District of Tennessee until this case is resolved.  She is electronically monitored while she is preparing her case.  The conditions of her release means she cannot say much until this case is resolved, and she cannot have contact with Randy or support him on his case.   

That also means you will not hear daily statuses or much about the case from either me or BZ.   BZ has done an amazing job of keeping you informed but I ask that you be patient with both of us in this moment as we do have to be very careful not to complicate matters for either Randy or Heather.

What Heather and Randy are doing is for all of us. Please do not forget Randy, keep sending plain white postal cards (they do not let him have picture postcards) to him letting him know of your support in what is the worst possible jail here in Knoxville.  He is literally housed with the murderers, which is strange for a man accused of a "white collar crime" who has not yet been convicted.  But then nothing about this case is normal.  Its very difficult for Randy to be in such circumstances.  They are trying to break him.  

Also please do what you can to support Randy by sending funds to PayPal ID:  RKBFUND@GMAIL.COM.   This money goes to covering expenses for Randy's case.  Randy fired his public defender (I won't speak to as to why but he had good reason).  The public defenders biggest concern in Randy's hearing this week was that those reasons would become public, not Randy's situation.  The court is appointing him new stand-by or "elbow counsel" as they call it here. 

Randy lost his apartment, he was evicted, the apartment did get a visit from the FBI and the management used the excuse that two of Randy's friends had used his address as a mailing address. Randy's cousin Patricia has moved his personal effects into storage at her own expense.  The apartment complex was very unhelpful in arranging freight elevator times, which meant Patricia could not assist me in picking up Heather's husband Youssef, and I had to arrange an Uber ride for him. 

Randy is on his own as to his representation, but he does have stand by counsel to walk him through court procedures and other nuances of the court.  The circumstances of both cases are so closely linked to the same documentation. Randy does know what to do.  But his task is not an easy one.

The good side of all this is all the documents Heather has filed are now part of the court record, and Heather is able to discovery on documents she needs to prove her case.   There will be a jurisdiction hearing coming up, and the case could literally be dismissed at that point.  I don't have the exact date before me, I am sure its at BZ's site, I will come back and edit this with the date of the hearing.  If it does go to trial the date will be January 23, 2018.

A grand jury was convened in SC, for the purposes of charging Randall and Heather with money laundering.  Mind you money laundering is something the drug cartels do, intelligence agencies (of all countries) do, and the mafia does to hide the source of funds.  Yet nothing was hidden, the source of funds was REVEALED to be Randall's TDA account at the Federal Reserve.  Randall used the account with his Social Security and his birth name on it. That is not a bogus account, Randall proved it was quite real.  I worked as a consultant at VISA many years ago in transaction processing, and whether its a credit card account, or a debit card processed through the ACH system, those accounts and names MUST match or they do not go through.  Randall's withdrew  $1.5 million, approximately $500,000 of which he bought a motorhome with (it is after all his account!), there are billions in each account.