PTA Parent Caught with Hand in Cookie Jar
And by cookie jar I mean Armstrong Elementary School’s PTA Fund raising Account.
From WSPA:
Easley Couple Charged with Identity Theft
Jerry Edward Milliken, 25, of Greenville, and Melinda Sue Cuddy, 35, of Easley, have been charged with several counts of wire fraud and identity theft. Jerry also is being charged with destroying a “mail receptacle” which leads me to believe that the undynamic duo were breaking into people’s mail to steal their identity. With the charges involved it looks like the two were intercepting credit card offers and checks.
Just a rumor, but Melinda Sue Cuddy is something of a known small timer. There’s a comment on WYFF’s report by someone who claims to know the woman:
I have known Melinda since she was a little kid. She was hateful, mean-spirited brat. As an adult, she has constantly been busted for a variety of crimes, given a slap on the wrist, then released right back out on society to wreak more havoc on her friends, family, and neighbors. Her crimes have slowly escalated over the past 10 years…..wonder when something will ever finally be done about her? ~smh & sighs~
Jun. 9, 2010 7:27am EDT | from KimberlyAnn
A couple of years ago a Melinda Sue Cuddy of Easley, who I assume is this same woman, was arrested for drug charges and 48 counts of financial identity theft:
An Easley woman has been arrested on drug charges and 48 counts of financial identity fraud.
Melinda Sue Cuddy, 32, of 107 Lockwood Ave. was arrested on Jan. 24 by Pickens County Sheriff�s Office deputies.
The arrest was the result of a search warrant issued for her residence where multiple pieces of U.S. mail and personal checks were located, according to authorities. These items were identified as stolen from postal mailboxes. Postal Inspectors were actively investigating these thefts, according to authorities.
Since that bust was in 2007 and trials take awhile we can safely assume she didn’t get much time. Now they’re facing 20 years but I’m not holding out much hope.
Greenville Force Players Claim They Haven’t Been Paid in Several Weeks
The Greenville Force is an indoor football team that, like many involved in small scale entertainment industries, is suffering from the recession. Business revenue is down all over as Americans are embracing frugality and being more careful with their entertainment dollars. G-Force is not handling this new reality well.
From Fox Carolina:
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Some players on the Greenville Force, an indoor football team, said Tuesday that they have not been paid in several weeks.
“Basically I’ve been up here for 12 weeks and all I can really say I can account for is $250,” said Isaac West, a player with the Force.
West said that he jumped at the opportunity to play football again in Greenville, but said things have not turned out the way he thought they would.
“There are times when I can’t even put gas in my car,” West said. “I can’t even go to the store and buy something to eat and get some food, but we’re supposed to be getting paid every week.”
West said that those who manage the team are not keeping up their end of the contract. He said that he is owed money for four games.
“The promises that were made to us haven’t come through,” said Willie Idlette, another Greenville Force player. “We signed a contract and everything is laid out — the pay, the compensation, the hours. Everything we thought would be needed to run a professional organization.”
The problem is that Tony Wells, the owner of the team, purchased them when they were already in deep financial trouble and he’s claiming an investor backed out of a deal recently so there is just no money to be had. But most businesses that run into that either file for bankruptcy or take drastic steps to improve cash flow.
But if you’re like me you’ve never even really heard of the Force. I’d put forward that that fact alone makes cutting the budget so that players can get paid easy since Wells has two community relations workers, a “Danzforce coach” and two sales reps. They also have a full coaching staff, including a special teams coach.
I’m thinking there’s some fat that can be trimmed until the team becomes profitable.
Businesses like this are going to need to follow the old business cliche of thinking outside the box. The Greenville Force are not just competing with other indoor football teams in games, but against high school football, college ball and the big leagues in the war for putting behinds in seats. You’re going to need to give people a reason to come see these games and the fact that you have some good players isn’t enough.
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.
Nigerian Email Scammer Denied Bail
According to GreenvilleOnline Greenville’s own Nigerian email scamster Kenneth Ojua was denied bond by a federal judge. The court wants to give authorities time to determine exactly where Ojua falls on the totem pole of the scam team which they believe to be international.
Ojua responded by telling the judge if he gave him bail he’d be able to release several million dollars held in trust by a long lost relative.