The Steampunk World
Better than any soap opera, the tale of Betty Loren-Maltese has been delightful to watch. Basically, she was Cicero town president, and during that time she embezzled about $14 million of the town's money, which she intended to invest in a golf course and put back before anyone was the wiser. The golf course investment went poof and she was caught. There are some other issues, such as the purchase of a Cadillac with election funds and a home in Vegas that raises questions about her residence, but the fun part is listening to her play the victim.
Loren is the widow of mobster Frank "Baldy" Maltese, so while it's certain that she's likely taking a fall for some other shady characters, it's also certain she ain't no angel. Her plea isn't that she didn't do it, it's that she wasn't doing anything wrong when she did it. So she's playing the "I love Cicero" card and trying to come across like a scapegoat. It's great to see the women with the Free Betty shirts crying and praying outside her trial... women she robbed. It surfaced that in the last 3 years she spent $19 million dollars in Vegas casinos, or at least that's what she reported to the tax man.
One of the reasons she shouldn't go to jail, she said, is her young daughter. She needs to take care of her daughter. I wonder how she took care of her before, both being town president and spending more than $6 million a year in casinos. That takes time! $1.3 million was a the slot machines! And guess what? Turns out she adopted the kid AFTER she was under investigation. Can you believe that? Adopting a kid in a weak ploy to keep yourself out of jail, not caring what happens to the kid if it fails.
So this morning she was on the news in her Katherine Harris/Dracula makeup, crying, saying she no longer prays to God because He wasn't there for her in her time of need. Whatta riot! Usually, the excuse is, "The Devil made me do it!" if you fail and "Jesus was with me" if you win. I guess God learned a lesson this time- if you don't help mobsters embezzle money to feed their gambling addiction when they pray for it, you're gonna lose that worshipper.
Loren is the widow of mobster Frank "Baldy" Maltese, so while it's certain that she's likely taking a fall for some other shady characters, it's also certain she ain't no angel. Her plea isn't that she didn't do it, it's that she wasn't doing anything wrong when she did it. So she's playing the "I love Cicero" card and trying to come across like a scapegoat. It's great to see the women with the Free Betty shirts crying and praying outside her trial... women she robbed. It surfaced that in the last 3 years she spent $19 million dollars in Vegas casinos, or at least that's what she reported to the tax man.
One of the reasons she shouldn't go to jail, she said, is her young daughter. She needs to take care of her daughter. I wonder how she took care of her before, both being town president and spending more than $6 million a year in casinos. That takes time! $1.3 million was a the slot machines! And guess what? Turns out she adopted the kid AFTER she was under investigation. Can you believe that? Adopting a kid in a weak ploy to keep yourself out of jail, not caring what happens to the kid if it fails.
So this morning she was on the news in her Katherine Harris/Dracula makeup, crying, saying she no longer prays to God because He wasn't there for her in her time of need. Whatta riot! Usually, the excuse is, "The Devil made me do it!" if you fail and "Jesus was with me" if you win. I guess God learned a lesson this time- if you don't help mobsters embezzle money to feed their gambling addiction when they pray for it, you're gonna lose that worshipper.
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