Corrupt Cheat-o-matic going down?   
      
   Federal prosecutors have indicted a co-founder of the Smartmatic voting   
   machine company, saying he and other executives took part in a bribery   
   and money laundering scheme in the Philippines.   
      
   According to a Justice Department statement on Thursday, the indictment by a   
   federal grand jury alleges that between 2015 and 2018, Roger   
   Piñate, a Venezuelan citizen and resident of Boca Raton, Florida, and Jorge   
   Miguel Vasquez, a U.S. citizen and resident of Davie, Florida,   
   "together with others, allegedly caused at least $1 million in bribes to be   
   paid" to Juan Andres Donato Bautista, the former chairman of the   
   Commission on Elections in the Philippines.   
      
   These bribes, according to the DOJ, "were allegedly paid to obtain and retain   
   business related to providing voting machines and election   
   services for the 2016 Philippine elections and to secure payments on the   
   contracts, including the release of value added tax payments."   
      
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/media/smartmatic-executives-charged-alle   
   ed-overseas-bribery-money-laundering-scheme   
      
   Thought I'd run it by our alt.home.repair fact checkers.   
      
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