{"id":879330,"date":"2021-10-14T13:28:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=879330"},"modified":"2021-10-14T13:28:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T17:28:45","slug":"former-democratic-staffer-charged-with-voter-fraud-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-democratic-staffer-charged-with-voter-fraud-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Democratic Staffer Charged With Voter Fraud Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-democratic-staffer-charged-with-voter-fraud-conspiracy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=879330&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Marie Beren, a 67-year-old Philadelphia resident and Democratic staffer, was charged Tuesday with four counts of voter fraud and other similar offenses, such as conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbitter Williams filed the federal charges against Beren, a staffer for Philadelphia City Councilmember Mark Squilla, Philadelphia Magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/news\/2021\/10\/13\/marie-beren-voter-fraud-mark-squilla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Williams alleged that Beren took part in a voter fraud scheme in various voting divisions in Philadelphia and falsified votes, the outlet reported. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/17\/voter-fraud-los-angeles-elections-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Two Men Reportedly Charged With Voter Fraud After Forging 8,000 Voter Registration Applications)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors allege that the conspiracy implicated Beren and another person of interest, identified as \u201cConsultant #1\u201d, Philadelphia Magazine reported. The individual is described as a former elected official who \u201cheld himself out as an effective and successful political operative capable of ensuring his clients\u2019 electoral success,\u201d according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Inquirer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/marie-beren-mark-squilla-ozzie-myers-philly-election-fraud-20211013.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a> Consultant #1 is former U.S. Democratic Rep. Ozzie Myers of Pennsylvania. Authorities charged Meyers with bribery after he allegedly stuffed ballot boxes to skew primaries for specific candidates in 2014, 2015, and 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-election-myers\/ex-philadelphia-congressman-ozzie-myers-charged-with-ballot-box-stuffing-bribery-idUSKCN24O2LG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The election judge in charge of that case, Domenick J. Demuro, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/former-philadelphia-judge-elections-convicted-conspiring-violate-civil-rights-and-bribery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plead guilty<\/a> after accepting thousands of dollars in bribes to artificially increase the vote totals for multiple Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.1229946524064\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The feds say longtime City Hall employee Marie Beren cast fraudulent votes for candidates at all levels of government. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YYC3jI1zVn\">https:\/\/t.co\/YYC3jI1zVn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Philly Mag (@phillymag) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/phillymag\/status\/1448301563546636293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Consultant #1 \u201cexercised influence and control in Philadelphia\u2019s 39th Ward by distributing cash payments and supporting family, friends and allies for elective office in the 39th Ward, and installing Ward Leaders, Judges of Elections, and Democratic State Committee,\u201d the complaint states, according to Philadelphia Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials allege Consultant #1 used Beren as a committee administrator for the Democratic Party\u2019s division in South Philadelphia\u2019s 39th Ward in 1984, Philadelphia Magazine reported. The same consultant in 1988 also used Beren to serve as a judge of elections for the same division. Philadelphia Magazine noted that officials had labeled Beren as the \u201cde facto judge of elections\u201d for all the divisions she served.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have reportedly not laid out how many fraudulent votes Beren cast or created and whether said votes impacted the results of an election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe charges were made against Beren, not Councilmember Squilla,\u201d a staffer for Squilla told the Daily Caller Thursday when reached for comment, adding that Beren had officially retired Sept. 10.<\/p>\n<p>Court records state Beren is not yet represented by an attorney, according to Philadelphia Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marie Beren, a 67-year-old Philadelphia resident and Democratic staffer, was charged Tuesday with four counts of voter fraud and other similar offenses, such as conspiracy.Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbitter Williams &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}