Wife Beating Degenerate Will Folks Libels Nikki Haley
Word on the street is that he got the pay off from one of the major gubernatorial candidates but I’m firming that up. Of course what the national news tends to ignore (with the exception of this Politico piece) is that Will Folks isn’t a political blogger at all, but a paid hack who launches smear campaigns for money. Haley had this scum on the payroll in 2008 but dropped him, I assume because no person has the stomach to be around Folks for long.
In a replay of what happened after Mark Sanford dropped Folks when it came to light that Folks was a violent degenerate who liked to beat women in drug and alcohol fueled rages, Folks has started slinging mud at Nikki Haley like he’s the proverbial woman scorned. I wrote about Folks’ criminal history before in a post which included information on his role and motivation in keeping the Mark Sanford affair a big story. Here’s a quick summary for those who never heard of him before:
Who’s Will Folks, some of you might ask? Well he once worked for Sanford, starting out as a campaign worker and later went on to embarrass Sanford several times while working for him.
Sanford stood by this douche until Folks roughed up his fiancée, a woman named Ashley Joy Smith. Just a couple of months after that assault Folks found his ex at a bar called The Black Porch and flipped out on her so bad that an arrest warrant was issued for him. You can read an archived news article about those incidents here courtesy Brad Warthen’s Blog. Sanford dropped him like the sack of dung he was (Mark may be a cad, but he’s an old fashioned cad) and Folks has, according to the muscadine vine, held a grudge ever since. Apparently he seems to believe that people made too big a deal of his abuse and insanity.
Folks worked as Sanford’s trained attack dog until Sanford cut ties with him over Folks’ abusiveness. Then Folks spent the last few years lying in wait, pouncing on Sanford whenever possible. Now when Haley has decided not to use this political consultant, Folks, at the behest of a candidate who should be ashamed of himself and should expect similar treatment by Haley supporters in the future, rolls out a smear campaign that’s not just libelous but patently absurd.
Will Folks is claiming he had a sexual relationship with Nikki Haley.
Now I was going post pictures of both people to show how fanciful this charge is but this is too serious an issue to make jokes about. Suffice to say that I met Nikki Haley at a meet and greet and she is a very beautiful woman with class and charm. Will Folks is a bloated, overaged frat boy who “pops the collar” of his pink Polo shirts while trying to convince the 17-year-olds he trolls for in Hot Topic he’s “still cool.” Will Folks is literally White trash, human refuse that congealed in the gutter of South Carolina politics and makes a living getting on the shoes of candidates then crying when he’s scraped off.
I’m thinking Nikki Haley could do better if she wanted to cheat.
Whether Folks was hired by another candidate or is just a spiteful douchebag is irrelevant. When it’s proven Folks is lying you’ll see that this, for all you people who don’t know what libel means and constantly threaten me with frivolous lawsuits, is literally actionable libel. Folks has disseminated a false allegation specifically designed to damage Haley. That, not name calling, is what slander and libel cases entail. Folks should be sued, and when he is he will lose badly.
Will Folks is defrauding the public with his lies and attacking a candidate that has stood up against the corruption of our state. Let’s hope Folks is held accountable for what he’s done.
Shenequa Goodwin Files False Rape Report, Police Say
Greenville police say Shenequa Goodwin had drunken sex with two men, then lied about being raped because she is engaged to be married and felt ashamed. The 26-year-old Greenville woman is charged with filing a false report.
The police report states Goodwin, 26, called police and reported that after pulling into a gas station she was grabbed and forced into a vehicle.Finally, Goodwin admitted that she was intoxicated and was not assaulted as she originally reported police said.
Goodwin told police she was driven to a house in a nearby neighborhood and sexually assaulted by two men while in the driveway.
Goodwin was intoxicated when she reported the assault and a written statement could not be taken, the report states.
A weekend duty detective met the officer taking the report and interviewed Goodwin at her home on S. Calhoun Street. During the lengthy interview, the report states Goodwin made numerous conflicting statements.
False accusations of rape are not a game or a harmless white lie to get you off the hook for cheating on your boyfriend. False reports can destroy lives. Furthermore, they increase the likelihood that genuine assault victims will fail to come forward because they fear they will not be taken seriously.
And as Shenequa Goodwin has learned, false reports rarely end well for the complainant.
Uh-Oh: Police Say Taylors Kidnapping Attempt May Not Have Happened as First Described
Interestingly, they’re still looking for a suspect, which I assume means they think an assault did happen and that the victim has some reason for not wanting to finger the right guy. Because the girl is 15, I’ll keep my speculations to myself.
From WSPA:
GREENVILLE – The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday a kidnapping they started investigating Tuesday, concerning a 15-year old girl in Taylors didn’t actually occur, as it was orginially [sic] reported by the victim.
Investigators are now saying the incident does not appear to be a random “stranger on stranger” incident. They say the exact nature of this reported assault is still under investigation.
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Wednesday, the GCSO still said they were seeking a 20-30 year old Hispanic male, with a medium build and a thin mustache.
Investigators said he was driving an older moldel [sic] “boxy” sedan, (possibly a Volvo) in connection with this incident.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 23-CRIME.
What’s with the false reporting these days? The girl had enough injuries that police are still thinking something happened, they just don’t know what yet. Let’s hope this is resolved quickly and the girl is ok.
Update: GreenvilleOnline.com is reporting the girl has told police she recognized the man:
Deputy Matthew Armstrong said the girl has told deputies that she recognized the man who grabbed her wrist on East Belvue Road on Monday morning. They don’t have a suspect name, and no charges have been filed, he said.
The “exact nature” of the reported assault remains under investigation, Armstrong said.
The teen told deputies that she escaped by pulling away from the driver and running, a deputy said in an incident report. Deputies are continuing to look for an older “boxy” red car, which they believe could be a Volvo, Armstrong said.
Strange.
Suzanne Hannah is a Liar Who Likes to Waste Law Enforcement’s Time
So you’re a 69-year-old with some time on her hands, a broken moral compass, and you’re looking for something to do after watching Anderson Cooper. What do you do? Why, travel to Walmart and file a false report of course!
From WYFF:
GREENVILLE, S.C. — The latest in a string of false police reports involves a 69-year-old woman deputies say lied about having her purse snatched.
Suzanne Hannah, 69, of Greenville, is charged with filing a false police report of a felony.
Hannah originally reported that she went shopping at the Walmart at 1452 Woodruff Rd shortly before 11:30 p.m. on Jan 18.
Hannah said when she left the store, she was approached by a dark-skinned man who grabbed her purse and fled on foot. Hannah also said that a bystander chased the “purse snatcher” but was unable to catch up to the man.
Investigators said they learned that Hannah waited almost 24 hours to report the alleged incident, even though she claimed $1600 in cash and a bank card had been stolen. Video surveillance from the business showed that Hannah was not at the business when the alleged incident occurred, deputies said.
Investigators said that they also determined through store records that Hannah never purchased the items she reported going to the store to buy.
She’s out on $2,500 bond. Authorities don’t know what her motive was for filing this report but my wife (who is my authority) thinks she was trying to squeeze money out of Walmart with a sob story. I personally blame the malignant influence of Anderson Cooper, but until we can verify her slavish devotion to the media darling we just can’t be sure.
This is yet another false report in the area which is a huge waste of time and resources. On the other hand, it’s kind of nice to live in an area where false reports of crime are our main concern.
What’s With All the False Reports in South Carolina?
Judge William Gilmer filed a false police report last year in which he claimed he was threatened over the phone. Kathryn Isbell is believed to have made up a report about a brutal rape. Two men were caught pretending they were carjacked while out drinking. 16-year-old Pearl Brown made a false report and followed up by going on the news and doubling down on her lies.
Local police are saying they’re “plagued” by false reporting but as Joe Friday pointed out in this post, this is not a plague of particular virulence:
Deputies investigated 34 cases involving filing a false police report in 2009. Those cases resulted in 29 arrests, 18 of which were men and 11 were women.
The cases took up 429 man hours at a cost estimate of $8,933.76 to investigate, the sheriff’s office reported.
Which to worldly big city expats who’ve moved to the Greenville area seems like small beans compared to the hundreds of false reports in places like New York City. But Greenville County barely has the manpower or money to spare to deal with the expanding population and the crime and drug use we darn northerners have imported here in the last decade. 429 man hours and around $9000 is a big chunk of scarce resources to spend on people’s nonsense.
The question is why people think they can get away with this sort of crime. In a big city where people are used to feeling anonymous I can almost understand the mistaken belief that a person could get away with a false report and often enough those cases are parts of other crimes. Here many of the false reports seemed to be standalone crimes by people who had no obvious gain by filing them.
But maybe there’s some other motivation:
One recent report was made by a Mauldin teenager who claimed to have been attacked in a park on New Year’s Day, according to police.
After the 16-year-old’s report, WYFF News 4 talked to psychiatrist Gretchen Enright to try to understand why the teen might have made the false report.
Enright said the quest for attention is common among individuals who lie about being the victim of a crime.
“They see in the media and in movies and on television shows that victims get a lot of nurturance and protection and care from individuals,” Enright said. “They may feel they’re not getting those needs met.”
She said they may also be trying to deflect attention from other problems.
“They may be trying to avoid some other aspects of their life and they may feel that this is the only way that they can get out of those other sorts of responsibilities,” Enright said.
Enright said some of these individuals may not comprehend the consequences of crying wolf to law enforcement.
“Young people don’t necessarily understand the seriousness of the consequences of when they’re telling a lie,” said Enright.
In other words Pearl Brown and Kathryn Isbell can be explained away as spoiled narcissists who have no concept that their actions have consequences. In that respect many of these false reporters aren’t unusual and I’d suggest that dealing with false reports is going to increasingly be part of police business as the callow, coddled youth of today grow older and stop being catered to. There are hundreds of Kathryn Isbells and Pearl Browns in Greenville right now and they are all racing toward an obscure life of loneliness and invisibility. When that happens people unused to being satisfied with their own company will do anything to drag the rest of us into their petty lives.