You may have missed this story the other day like I did. Remember the guy who was reportedly paid in crack cocaine by a volunteer for the NAACP Voter Fund during the fall presidential campaign?
DEFIANCE - Two months after pleading not guilty to faking voter registration forms in exchange for crack cocaine, a Defiance man has pleaded guilty to 10 counts of false registration.Chad Staton, 22, of Stratton Street appeared in Defiance County Common Pleas Court Thursday to enter pleas to the 10 counts of the fifth-degree felony. In December, a grand jury returned indictments against him for filing forms in the names of Mary Poppins, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Michael Jordan, Dick Tracy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Brett Favre, George Foreman, Maria Lopez, and George Lopez.
Each offense could result in a fine of $2,500 and/or imprisonment for up to 12 months.
As to what became of the woman volunteer, this is the way it was reported in the Dec. 8, 2004 story of Staton's indictment. On the same day Staton was indicted...
...in a strange twist, the Toledo woman who claimed she had given him crack for the voters he registered, was found dead the same day in her home from an apparent drug overdose.Georgianne Pitts, 41, was found dead in her home, Toledo police said yesterday. The police crime log said her death appeared to be an overdose, but the Lucas County coroner's office, which conducted an autopsy Monday, did not release the cause of death pending toxicology test results...
In the end, "the coroner's office ruled her cause of death as an accidental overdose of a prescription medication". It's sad. 41 is too young to die. What's more, had she lived she might have been able to direct attention up the NAACP/DNC food chain to the people giving their blessing to the operation. She might have made an explosive witness.
(hat tip: Randy)
Posted by dan at February 21, 2005 01:49 PM