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Atascadero man rips off Republican Party, pleads guilty to bank fraud

October 7, 2024

By KAREN VELIE

A 41-year-old Atascadero man who stole between $230,000 and $435,000 from the Kern County Republican Central Committee pleaded guilty today to bank fraud.

Bryan Micahl Williams served as the committee’s treasurer from 2013 through 2019. While siphoning funds for his personal expenditures, Williams changed the key to the committee’s post office box, preventing others from accessing it.

After the committee’s consulting firm discovered potential financial irregularities, they sought assistance from the Federal Election Commission.

William then moved to the Central Coast and secured a position as a clinical social worker at Atascadero State Hospital.

Williams faces a maximum statutory penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine. He is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston on Jan. 27, 2025.

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Donald Trump has been ripping off the GOP, donors, the government, tax payers and many others for 7 years. Some for entire life.

Most of his closest associates are in jail or prison.

He’s cheated on all his wives. His only businesses that have survived is his show The Apprentice and businesses his dad passed down.

Since he lost in 2020 his followers have donated 1/2 a billion dollars to his re-election campaign whereas most went to his own account.

He openly praises our biggest enemy Putin.

He didn’t resolve health care

He recently engineered shutting down the largest immigration reform. Didn’t do anything to solve immigration while in office.

Crime was an all time high when he was in office

He fails in most things he does.

Yet-his followers look past all of his issues. He stands at the podium tossing his head back and forth and growls 1 liners. Which makes his followers nearly faint in their love for him.

What the fuck is wrong with you


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No but I’d like to stay at one of Trumps properties where he was interviewed ON CAMERA admitting that he employs a lot of illegal immigrants. When asked why he said “they are good workers”.

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So much for the background check at the state hospital hiring process…


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