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CHASING DEMOCRACY:

The attack on the American voter.

BY: JB Hanna

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"Now many of our Christians have what I call the 'goo-goo syndrome.' Good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

-Paul Weyrich 1968

TARRANT COUNTY TX.

In 1827, Edward E. Tarrant had established himself as a wealthy man, probably the wealthiest in all of Red River County. A veteran of the war of 1812, now a sheriff, he left his mark in Tarrant County Texas, the namesake of the former officer of the “fourth brigade.”

On September 29, 1843, Tarrant along with Texas state attorney general George Whitfield would draft The “Bird’s Fort Treaty.” Which surreptitiously states in Article XXIV, that; “The government of Texas has the right of working all mines that have been discovered or will be discovered on the territory of the Indians.”

Just as surreptitiously as the terms of Crystal Mason’s signed affidavit that stated she was not eligible to vote as a convicted felon, some hundred and seventy five years later in that same Tarrant County. Mason was on community service on November 8, 2016 for a her 2012 conviction on tax fraud. Only voting after the urging of her mother, Ms. Mason was sentenced to five years in prison on voter fraud charges, for a provisional ballet vote that was never counted.

Crystal Mason’s unfortunate miscarriage of justice is the oddity, not the model. The model being the strategy adopted by many incumbents on the right, while the left has historically supported voter registration initiatives, conservatives (since the voting rights act of 2013) have practiced down presser tactics with almost surgical precision. From good ol fashioned jerrymandring to voter caging and voter roll purges.

Stories like that of Crystal Mason, no matter how rare, are aggressively publicized and spun in efforts to paint a fanciful portrait of voter fraud gone wild. These trumped up horrors however, have never been substantiated.

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During the presidential campaign of 2016,

Vice President nominee, Mike Pence came under scrutiny from voter rights advocates when Indiana State police raided the voter registration office of Patriot Majority USA, in October of 2016. Indiana progressives called conspiracy on the would be VIce president.

The nonprofit Patriot Majority, had registered over 45,000 voters, mostly African American. Just one week from the voter registration deadline and 5,000 voters short of their 50,000 target at the time of the raid. Founded in 2005, PM was accused of registering voters twice, in addition to applications that had missing or unverified zip codes and addresses. This is often a problem with grassroots voter registration initiatives staffed by everyday citizens, the lack of experience, training, and in many cases, after work hours by constituents looking to supplement their income, have always bore such inconsistencies. Though well meaning, these efforts give way to questionable voter registration applications, that ones opponent will rightfully pounce.

When you open Patriot Majority’s web sight, the home page is striking. Waves of red and white stripes, the famous Washington crossing the Delaware painting emblazoned on the header. With the current political climate, rife with its suede patriotism and the far lefts deepening dive into a socialist creed, one might expect Patriot Majorities home page to spawn links to diatribes of pro gun advocacy and states rights. But PM claims to be a bipartisan movement. While it seems that the issue is the shotty work of some canvassers, Common Cause Indiana and the NAACP have filed a federal lawsuit against Marion County of Indian after the raid on charges of voter suppression by closing early voting in a sector with over 700,000 registered voters. Former Indiana governor mike Pence, now ironically, head of the Elections Integrity Commission, boasts “What is historic here is that our president-elect won 30 to 50 states. He won more counties than any candidate on our side.

The Georgia State showdown

Georgia’s Democratic candidate for governor Stacey Abrams finds herself in a historical yet tight race in Georgia’s gubernatorial midterms. The Gulfport native faces off against opponent Brian kemp, the self proclaimed “politically incorrect conservative.” The cautionary view in mid August was that Kemp could have a strong surge in the last two months leading to the peach state showdown, much like Nathan Deal in 2014. But as of reporting, the race is still in a dead heat. Kemp has been mocked for his ads that some on the left liken to a Dave Chapelle or SNL skit. But while democrats laugh, Brian Kemp is practicing more “politics as usual” than his campaign readaric may assert. Kemp’s influence on voter registration as Secretary of State should be no laughing matter to democrats.

The heat was on as the summer closed out in Randolph County Georgia, a sort of patient zero for the National attention to suspected voter suppression. The Georgia county quickly beat back a move to close seven of nine polling places in the historically black canton. But the victory, while sweet, is little to stop the suppression of voters in the rest of the state. Like Tarrant in Texas, Randolph county is named after another slave owning statesman, Ol’ John Randolph of Roanoke. A career politician who also served as prosecutor of the associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Samuel Chase on charges of impeachment. Chase would later be acquitted by the senate. Roanoke famously stated,

“The most delicious of all privileges, spending other people’s money.” Might be proud of his states insidious politico operandi.

Several groups, including the Georgia Democratic Party, Common Cause and the NAACP, have called on Kemp to step down from his position as secretary of state while he runs for Governor.

Greg Palast, the New York based investigative journalist and author of the compelling

The best democracy money can buy, has been hunting down Kemp and also, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach for the past several months. Armed with a Federal subpoena accusing Kobach of purging hundreds of thousands of Kansans from the voting rolls. Like his counterpart in Georgia, as Secretary of State, Kobach has oversight of the states voter rolls and similar to Brian Kemp of Georgia, Kobach has also successfully closed polling stations in low income counties as well.

As Carol Anderson of the New York Times put it, “Brian Kemp is a master of voter suppression.” For example, Kemp made a statement in 2014 regarding another lawsuit his office faced regarding over 40 thousand names of voters disappearing from the Georgia voting rolls. The Secretary of State emphasized that “The lawsuit filed by 3rd sector development, is frivolous and totally without merit. The claim that there are over forty thousand unprocessed voter registration applications, are false.” Kemp went on to contravene with the 6,525 voter applications his office found had issues of no longer being with us, had no valid date of birth, where convicted felons or provided no county or address. ( some states report day of birth instead of DOB, which substantially increases the chance of two records being reported for the same person.)

Kemp also provided a Potboiler about an application filled out by, Johnny B Cool, who’s city was listed as, Yo’ Town. While this smacks of incompetence of the registrating body or the voting applicant themselves, it seems a stretch to think that a political scenic, who would name themselves Johnny B Cool who Haile’s from Yo town would be a tactical move that any well minded voter fraud conspirator would employ. But the great voter fraud conspiracy rolls on. Kemp, by the way,

Was found to be guilty of voter suppression in 2014.

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LOCKED AND LOADED

Prior to Shelby v Holder, (2013) Texas, along with the several other Jim Crow states had coordinated a preemptive lockout of minority, elderly and millennial prospective votes in anticipation of provisions 4 & 5 of the voting rights act being overturned. The first domino to fall was that unsuspecting, overlooked little Diddy called Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder, or the MUD case. The stories of out of town voters using the address of a local motel to vote illegally, harassment of MUD’s minority community and a strange cloud of mystery preceding the Shelby v. Holder decision, stains the “Municipal Utility District,” just north of Austin.

That was 2009, and four years later, Shelby county found it unconstitutional for the federal government to suppress their ability to molest the Hispanics, black, elderly and young voting populous. The Supreme Court would concede that, “voting discrimination still exists; no one doubts that.” But the 5-4 decision of the highest court in the land would contradict their own logic by wiping away the voting rights act protection of historically disenfranchised constituents, specifically articles 4 and 5.

But back in Tarrant Texas, and many other counties in the Lone star state, there’s been a battle raging to oppress voter turnout since voting became public freewill. Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke are in the mezzo of a 12 round barn burner as the country tumbles towards it’s midterms like a radioactive meteor with no direction. Could it be, the land of steers could finally be done with Ted Cruz? Or is Beto’s hype just that? Progressive turnout or conservative suffragist subterfuge may answer these questions.

And yet, one of the few cases of actual voter fraud, ironically in that same state of Texas, is more doleful than relevant. Crystal Mason began her five year sentence for voter fraud in September. After being walked through the provisional ballet process by a state appointed election official, she still stands condemned by adjudication. Alison Grinter, of Mason’s legal team explained, “the federal government has stepped over the state and found Crystal guilty of violating the law.”

In august an 11 year old child hacked a Florida electronic ballet in this years DEFCON 26,

The annual hacking convention held this year in sandy Las Vegas. Emmett Brewer and 30 other kids ranging in age from 8 - 16 years old where all able to hack Florida’s faulty system. The national association of Secretaries of State responded to DEFCON with one of many proclamations in their

(Long comment regarding a proposed Exemption under 17 U.S. code 1201)

The senate stated to ES&S, the countries largest supplier of voting machines;

“Currently there are significant barriers that prevent states from working with independent, qualified, good faith researchers to conduct cyber security on election systems.”

Now it seams, after the midterms, ES&S May have to deal with not just the Senate but the people.

But the talk is done. Bluster deflated. Red and Blue candidates enter November 6th like combatants on the world stage. Like heavyweight champions with the future of democracy on the line. I’ll be watching the fight on November 6th just like Crystal Mason.

Hoping the country does right by its future.

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Donald Leroy Evans (1957 – 1999) was an American serial killer who murdered at least three people from 1985 to 1991. Born in Michigan, Evans was convicted of his first crime in Galveston, Texas, for the rape of a local woman in 1986. He was sentenced to fifteen years in prison, but served only five. After his parole in 1991, he returned to Galveston and took work as a desk clerk in a motel, but was discharged after parole officials "objected to a convicted sex offender working in a motel setting." Evans found steady employment aboard a fishing boat, but eventually faced a new arrest warrant when a former girlfriend filed a complaint to police about threats of violence. Evans stayed ahead of law enforcement officials briefly by stealing a car and fleeing to Mississippi. He tried to remain inconspicuous in the Gulfport area, but soon became embroiled in the crime for which he would receive the death penalty: the rape and murder of a 10-year-old homeless girl on August 1, 1991. Evans seized Beatrice Louise Routh from a Gulfport park and sexually assaulted her, before strangling her to death and dumping her corpse in a rural area. At trial, the medical examiner testified that the girl "was conscious, and could feel pain" throughout her day-long ordeal. Arrested soon afterward, Evans confessed to abducting the girl, and he was remanded to a federal prison in Colorado on kidnapping charges. On August 16, 1993, a jury trial in Mississippi convicted Evans of sexual battery and murder; three days later, the same jury refused an option to grant him life imprisonment and sentenced him to the death penalty. #destroytheday https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ud4WsB_7J/?igshid=1bcooecuzuj2x

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Coke and Dope

It was in 1967 when I was returning to The Naval Seabee Base in Gulfport, Mississippi after two weeks leave in Iowa visiting my family. I had been stationed there for a little over a year and had made the trip twice before. Being a low paid enlisted man, I would drive the 950 miles straight through since I didn’t have money to spend on a motel.

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gingerandwry · 6 years

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Mobile, Alabama & Gulf Coast

After a few hours in Montgomery I got back on I-65 and headed almost to the gulf, to Alabama’s only port of Mobile. I knew nothing of the place, but the closer I got to the city, the clearer it became that this was going to be more Florida and New Orleans than Alabama.

The scenery on the drive was pleasant, if uninspiring. All rural with gently rolling hills through piney woods and the occasional creek with a weird name (Burnt Corn?). About an hour from Mobile the rain really started pouring which was a bit scary especially with the pavement uneven due to road work. When I emerged from the storm, the sun was low on the horizon and I suddenly found myself in swamp country. Driving into the city with its Mardi Gras decorations festooned everywhere, I knew I was in for something different. Since it was late when I got to my AirBnB (a very cute restored mid-19th century bungalow), I just walked over to Cavanaugh’s for dinner. It’s an historic “must-do” Irish pub tho I didn’t really see what the hype was about. The surrounding neighborhood, Midtown, is very pretty and could easily pass for New Orleans.

The next morning I waited out the worst of the rain storm then started walking downtown. I took Dauphin Street, the historic commercial drag. It was very charming, kind of like an old-west-meets-French-Quarter look. And everyone is clearly excited for Mardi Gras. It has some notable churches, public squares and historic buildings and runs all the way to the waterfront of Mobile Bay. The waterfront sadly is pretty tragic. A major road runs along the water where a pedestrian esplanade really ought to be. But the bay has been handed over to industry so it’s not a big loss for pedestrians anyway. I stopped for lunch at Spot of Tea a well-regarded breakfast/lunch spot. My scrambled eggs over crab cakes were good but predictably sauce-drenched and heavy.

After the waterfront I stopped at the Mobile Museum of History, a beautiful building that originally served as City Hall and public market. The museum is expansive and full of artefacts (and of course several Mardi Gras exhibits-- the city hosted the country’s first Mardi Gras celebration). The story of Mobile is interesting too, how it passed from the Native Americans to the French to the British to the Spanish to the US. My favorite part was the display that described all the devastations the city has survived, numerous fires, hurricanes, yellow fever outbreaks and even an explosion at a munitions warehouse a couple weeks after the Civil War ended which leveled eight blocks and instantly killed up to 300 people. I also appreciated the museum’s even-handed, direct approach to all of the city’s shames, like its role as a major slave trading port to segregation to the environmental harms done to the bay to on-going unequal access to education.

From the museum I walked back home along Government Street, another main drag. It was an odd combination of grand old mansions, churches and government buildings interspersed with fast food joints and empty lots. I think it gets nicer farther west (to be continued). I returned home to relax for the rest of the day. That night I had surprisingly tasty Mexican at the OK Bicycle Cafe (which also serves sushi).

The next morning I was back on the move. On my way out of town I continued down Government Street where the homes became jaw-droppingly stunning. I detoured through the Leinkauf neighborhood, which was cute tho less impressive (it looked like Berkeley, complete with seemingly pointless roundabouts and road blocks). I then headed toward the coast.

Mobile’s suburbs sprawl basically to the Mississippi border. Shortly after that however the highway reaches the coast near the town of Ocean Springs. I first stopped at the Gulf Coast Seashores National Park, a lovely, swampy nature preserve on the water full of pines, gum trees, palmettos and Spanish moss. After a quick walk around I got back in the car and drove into “downtown” Ocean Springs. It’s a picture-perfect Southern small town with an artsy beach vibe. I visited the Walter Anderson Museum. He was a talented, versatile local artist, and the museum showcases his murals, paintings, pottery, carvings, drawings and more. His colorful painting style calls heavily upon nature and folk styles and has an almost alien quality. The museum also showcases Shearwater pottery which the Anderson family has been producing for three generations in Ocean Springs. Their pieces, both functional and decorative, are beautifully designed and painted. The Anderson family’s influence turned this town into an art community and made it into a unique spot on the Gulf Coast.

I continued my drive down Highway 90 (the Gulf Coast Scenic Byway) and soon reached Biloxi. It looks pretty cheesy at first with giant casino and hotel developments on the beach. But it quickly turns into a gorgeous stretch of gleaming white sand and deep blue seas for miles and miles. The road runs alongside the beach, and on this bright sunny day it felt like I could have been in Venice, CA, or Miami. Except on the other side of the road are spectacular old Southern mansions (verandahs for days) and newer beach homes perched heroically high on stilts. Interspersed among these are cheesy beach shack restaurants, budget motels, fast food and of course, Waffle Houses. It’s a totally unique stretch of land that seems to encompass every bit of the South.

The highway continues along the beach through Gulfport and some other towns until it reaches the Louisiana border. Very quickly the beach gives way to bayou where it’s not always clear where land ends and water begins. It’s an interesting mix of rundown shacks and newish vacation homes, sometimes separated only by a rusty old bridge. It’s a part of the country that’s always fascinated me with its distinctive geography, history and mix of cultures. And of course it’s the doorstep to one of my favorite places: New Orleans.

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Collections!!! Another collection y’all! I found all these vintage hotel soaps this past week while visiting the Northeast! I wish hotels still put graphics on their stuff! It just gives everything so much personality! 🏨....... . . . . . . #hotel #hotels #soap #graphics #advertising #collection #collections #hilton #bestwestern #aaa #rainbow #newjersey #motel #iowa #newyork #california #vintage #vintagestyle #vintageshop #color #colorful #colors #shop #cool #fun #ilovemyjob (at Gulfport, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn8_02PHaRb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1irggy2m6ui4c

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Road Trip #288 - US-90 West - I-10 Exit 869: Bridge City through Beaumont, Texas

Since this video is really about US Highway 90, we continue along the US-90/I-10 concurrency at warp speed until we get to the city of Beaumont, where US-90 travels through town. Here, we slow down and see the town. At exit 855A, we leave I-10 and head into downtown Beaumont. Beaumont was founded as a town in 1835. The early European-American settlement had an economy based on the development of lumber, farming, and port industries. A big change occurred in 1901 with the Spindletop gusher, which demonstrated the potential of the huge oil field. With Spindletop, several energy companies developed in Beaumont, and some continue. The area rapidly developed as one of the major petro-chemical refining areas in the country. Along with Port Arthur and Orange, Beaumont forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the Texas Gulf Coast. Beaumont is home of Lamar University, a national Carnegie Doctoral Research university with 14,966 students, including undergraduates and post graduates. Over the years, several corporations have been based in this city, including Gulf States Utilities which had its headquarters in Beaumont until its takeover by Entergy Corporation in 1993. GSU's Edison Plaza headquarters is still the tallest building in Beaumont. Prior to the birth of the Interstate Highway system in 1956, the US Highways were the main method of cross-country automobile travel, and in Beaumont, some reminders still remain here on the Old Spanish Trail. Vintage motels and gas stations still remain on what was once the most heavily traveled east-west corridor in the southern United States. Of special note is a former Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts on the right, originally opened in 1938, now operating as the Deluxe Inn. This was one of their 29 locations, and it still retains the unique Alamoesque facade. As I've mentioned in other videos, as a child, I spent many summer weekends at the Alamo Plaza in Gulfport, Mississippi, and it's interesting to see that some of these are still standing. We'll see another one later on in this series. More about the Alamo Plaza and other vintage hotels: http://www.highwayhost.org Some points of interest in Beaumont: Since 1907, Beaumont has been home of the South Texas State Fair and Rodeo, held at Ford Park during March. It is the second-largest fair in the state, attracting more than 500,000 visitors in 2009. The fair features a livestock show, a commercial exhibition, a carnival midway and numerous food choices. The Fair moved from the Fair Park Coliseum to Ford Park in 2004, a new, larger facility on the west end of Beaumont. The fair was previously held in the fall but was moved to spring after hurricanes Rita in 2005 and Ike in 2008 caused its cancellation twice within three years. The YMBL Championship Rodeo is held at Ford Park during the South Texas State Fair. The rodeo is an annual event and is sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. Admission to the rodeo is included in fair admission. The Gusher Marathon, organized in 2010 by the local nonprofit Sports Society for American Health, is the city's first annual marathon. The Gusher takes place in March and includes a 5K, half marathon and full marathon. The course begins at the Montagne Center of Lamar University and tours Downtown and Lamar before returning to the Montagne. The Beaumont Jazz & Blues Fest is a Jazz festival held in downtown Beaumont since 2005. The Boomtown Film and Music Festival is a film and music festival that began in 2008 to replace the Spindletop Film Festival. Dog Jam is a rock concert held annually at Ford Park. Each year, a July 4th celebration is held in downtown Beaumont. The celebration includes live music in and around Riverfront Park, a concert by the Symphony of Southeast Texas in the Julie Rogers Theatre, followed by a fireworks display viewed from Riverfront Park. Each Monday starting in March, the City of Beaumont provides live music and seating at the Event Centre in downtown Beaumont. Ten vendors feature a wide choice of food selections. On the first Saturday of December, downtown hosts the Beaumont Downtown Winter Parade. The parade features floats that travel down Main, College and Pearl streets. In recent years the parade has also featured a lighted boat parade that travels down the Neches River; spectators can watch from Riverfront Park.

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Donald Leroy Evans (July 5, 1957 – January 5, 1999) was an American serial killer who murdered at least three people from 1985 to 1991. He was known for confessing to killing victims at parks and rest areas across more than twenty U.S. states. Born in Michigan, Evans was convicted of his first crime in Galveston, Texas, for the rape of a local woman in 1986. He was sentenced to fifteen years in prison, but served only five. After his parole in 1991, he returned to Galveston and took work as a desk clerk in a motel, but was discharged after parole officials "objected to a convicted sex offender working in a motel setting." Evans found steady employment aboard a fishing boat, but eventually faced a new arrest warrant when a former girlfriend filed a complaint to police about threats of violence. Evans stayed ahead of law enforcement officials briefly by stealing a car and fleeing to Mississippi. He tried to remain inconspicuous in the Gulfport area, but soon became embroiled in the crime for which he would receive the death penalty: the rape and murder of 10-year-old Beatrice Louise Routh on August 1, 1991. Evans seized the homeless girl from a Gulfport park and sexually assaulted her, before strangling her to death and dumping her corpse in a rural area. At trial, the medical examiner testified that the girl "was conscious, and could feel pain" throughout her day-long ordeal. Arrested soon afterward, Evans confessed to abducting the girl, and he was remanded to a federal prison in Colorado on kidnapping charges. On August 16, 1993, a jury trial in Mississippi convicted Evans of sexual battery and murder; three days later, the same jury refused an option to grant him life imprisonment and sentenced him to the death penalty. #gymlife #health #fitness #fit #fitnessmodel #fitnessaddict #fitspo #workout #bodybuilding #cardio #gym #train #training #fitbody #health #healthy #active #strong #motivation #instagood #lifestyle #diet #cleaneating #eatclean #exercise #murder #serialkiller #death

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The NCAA didn't believe Donte Moncrief's brother could buy a car. So they launched an investigation.

When your brother's under NCAA investigation, you'll pull out ATM receipts and pay stubs and explain your haircutting business just to keep him eligible.

Spencer Moncrief never played a collegiate sport in his 24 years. Yet here he sat again, across the table from NCAA investigators at the University of Mississippi.

By September of 2013, everyone in the room was familiar with one another — Spencer, the brother of then Ole Miss and future Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Donte Moncrief, their lawyer, and the lawyers for Ole Miss and the NCAA’s enforcement team, headed by a man named Mike Sheridan. Multiple sources confirmed to SB Nation Donte was first summoned to meet with Sheridan and the enforcement staff because of a photo of the junior wideout driving a red 2009 Dodge Challenger — his older brother’s car — in April of 2013.

As a result of that investigation, Donte Moncrief was ruled ineligible by the NCAA for receiving impermissible benefits the week of September 16, 2013. Those benefits were defined solely as the ‘09 Challenger, his brother’s car.

The notice from the NCAA didn’t break publicly. At the time, Ole Miss was on a bye before heading to play Alabama. But Moncrief’s future NFL career was now in serious jeopardy.

On September 25, Spencer met again with the NCAA, having been instructed by his attorney to answer any question, provide any document possible to get his brother eligible to play football in Tuscaloosa in four days.

“To prove I owned my car, basically,” he says. “They hung up my brother’s career for that.”

This was the last time any of the Moncriefs would meet with the NCAA. Sheridan finally had his ace card on the Moncrief brothers, producing a copy of a stay folio (a receipt from a hotel visit that contains guest and financial information) that Sheridan said proved Spencer Moncrief was at a Comfort Suites in Gulfport, Miss., on March 7, 2013, the exact time Sheridan alleged that the monthly payment for the bank loan on his Challenger was paid in person at a bank in Tupelo, Miss., some 300 miles north.

“My reaction to the NCAA was, ‘How the hell do you know anything about where I was at? How did you get the information to know that?’” Spencer said.

Moncrief’s attorney Jesse Mitchell immediately ended the meeting to find out. The NCAA has no subpoena power — it can’t demand that businesses, private individuals, or public bodies turn over documents. Yet somehow the enforcement staff was trying to pin Moncrief down by using his own financial records.

What the Moncriefs didn’t know was that Sheridan’s theory of Spencer being in two places in the same time had been debunked a month prior by the bank itself. Through a timeline pieced together by SB Nation, it seemed as if Sheridan was bluffing, trying to see if Spencer Moncrief would break.

“Except I did pay my note in Tupelo. And it was my car,” Spencer Moncrief told SB Nation. “I’m a grown man. I’m not a kid. I’m a grown man with a car that I let my brother drive sometimes. I have a degree; why can’t I afford a car?

“The entire process, I was like dang, because I drive a car, a nice car, I really felt like they were discriminating. Honestly. ‘He’s black, he can’t afford that car.’”

SB Nation has obtained an email dated Sept. 25, 2013, from a the general manager of a Gulfport, Miss., motel claiming to have turned over personal information of a customer to a NCAA representative who did not identify themselves:

To whom it may concern. My name is [REDACTED BY SB NATION] and I am the General Manager for Comfort Suites Hotel located in Gulfport, Ms. Recently I received a call from someone asking that all folio's for the month of February concerning Mr. Spencer Moncrief be faxed to him immediately. I quickly pulled up all past stays for that month and saw that this was a corporate account and faxed over the folios. This is not an uncommon request dealing with our corporate accounts. These request come through our hotel at least 4 to 5 times a day. At no time did the gentleman on the phone say that he was representing the NCAA or had any interest in investigating any wrong doings done by Mr. Moncrief. If in fact that he did, then I would have immediately terminated the call only after informing him that we would need a subpoena. The gentleman misrepresented himself to me just to acquire what he needed and I should have been more careful by asking more questions.

According to the NCAA's own document, Enforcement: Internal Operating Procedures, “In no case shall an enforcement staff member misrepresent his or her identity or title to an individual who may provide information relevant to an investigation." In obtaining the hotel folio, it appears that the investigator stopped just short of violating these procedures, simply because the NCAA does not prohibit not identifying himself at all.

When contacted by SB Nation regarding the email from Comfort Inn to his attorney, Spencer Moncrief agreed to speak on behalf of his family. Requests by SB Nation to speak with Donte Moncrief were denied by Moncrief family counsel Jesse Mitchell, an attorney in Jackson, Mississippi and former defensive lineman for the Rebels and Baltimore Ravens. Mitchell also declined to comment on any matter past the confirmation of statements by Spencer Moncrief to SB Nation, citing confidentiality.

Mitchell did confirm to SB Nation the validity of the email, sent to his offices after contacting the Comfort Suites in Gulfport, and that it was presented to the NCAA.

In addition, the folios requested by the NCAA, obtained by SB Nation, state multiple occupants in Spencer Moncrief’s room. Per Moncrief, when he would take a Crossmark job, the company would reserve him a hotel room and add the name of a coworker he’d be traveling with.

On September 27, 11 days after being ruled ineligible by the NCAA, Donte Moncrief was ruled eligible by the NCAA. The notice came just in time for Donte to drive to Tuscaloosa to play against Bama. No additional explanation for the reversal was given.

“Just like that, with no new information provided to the enforcement staff except that they broke the rules,” a source at the University of Mississippi said. “The NCAA got caught. And no one wanted it to get out, because this is the ‘new’ NCAA.”

The brief ineligibility ruling never made the news. Moncrief played out the 2013 season at Ole Miss and entered the NFL draft as a junior, landing with the Colts in the third round.

When asked why the family didn’t consider legal action against the NCAA, Spencer Moncrief said his brother’s wishes were to avoid public attention of any contact with NCAA enforcement before the NFL draft the following spring.

“Man, it was about getting into the NFL. I told him when it happened [clearance from the NCAA], ‘Bruh, you’re released. You’re OK. You can play in this football game.’ He didn’t want to do nothing while it was going on. He would just go to football practice and go home. He told me, ‘I don’t want this. Any of this. I didn’t do this excess shit they’re saying. I want to get out and make it for my family.’”

“The NCAA tells you nothing. They find you guilty first and then try to prove it. You have no power to defend yourself,” Moncrief said of the experience.

Beginning in April of 2013, Moncrief and his older brother and then-roommate Spencer would meet with the NCAA multiple times as Moncrief was being investigated for potentially receiving impermissible benefits.

Per multiple sources connected to the NCAA’s investigation and the University of Mississippi, the NCAA was acting on a photo of Donte driving the Challenger at a Tupelo, Miss., repair shop, and an anonymous statement that Moncrief had been seen driving the vehicle for days at a time on multiple occasions.

“Even if there was no other evidence ever provided, just a photo of the kid driving a car, that’s all they need to start an investigation,” a source in NCAA compliance in the Southeastern Conference said.

“They [NCAA investigators] don’t have to tell you why or what when they request to meet with you. And they don’t have to provide you with any evidence or information they have. It’s not court. So even if you have something that can clear an issue up right away — a receipt or a statement or anything — they want you in the dark when you meet.”

When Donte Moncrief arrived on campus in 2011 from his home in Raleigh, Miss., Spencer, who was already a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, came along.

“This is the God’s honest truth: I moved to Oxford because Houston Nutt was there and I wanted to try to move to Oxford to get a graduate assistant job. I thought I’d try because I got my degree in sports coaching education. It ended up not working out and it was cool, and I thought I’d go to grad school maybe. But I started working, and when you get an extra dollar you lose track of things because you’re stable,” Spencer said.

Moncrief got a job for a marketing company that created in-store promotions at retail outlets for various products across Mississippi. He purchased the used Challenger in September of 2012, financing a loan with First American National Bank that cost him $505 per month.

“I had a job. I was on a reset team for a company called Crossmark. Basically we went in and did product resets in stores like Kangaroo [gas stations]. We’d go in there and take all the different drinks out and redo them to put in newer items. If the company wanted a new item in a cooler or on a display, we’d do that.”

Spencer Moncrief said that when he frequently left Oxford for work travel, he’d leave his Challenger for Donte to drive. Once Donte informed Sheridan and the NCAA that the car was his brother’s, Spencer volunteered to speak with investigators to explain everything.

“Donte was worried ... my parents, for them ‘worried’ doesn’t even cover it. Donte is their baby boy. He said, ‘Just make sure I’m clear. I don’t want this on me.’ I told him ‘Bruh, we ain’t got nothing to hide.’ He was just mad, really mad, saying, ‘This is possibly my last year, and now out of the blue come these people,’” Spencer said.

Spencer Moncrief said that based on his questioning over multiple meetings in the summer of 2013, he believed that Sheridan’s goal was to prove he couldn’t afford the car by himself, and that in order to keep payments on the Challenger current, he had to be receiving outside help.

At the behest of his lawyer, Spencer turned over his loan information and registration on the vehicle to the NCAA. In addition, he provided copies of his checking account statements with Regions Bank. Digital copies were provided to SB Nation that show frequent direct deposits from his employer, which Spencer says were paid out per each reset job he completed.

Spencer said he was convinced that evidence would be enough for the NCAA. Instead, they demanded pay stubs. He provided them. Then a set of receipts. He provided them. He also turned over photos from various social media platforms to confirm his location on particular dates.

Then the NCAA requested information on every other deposit in his bank account. Spencer believes they were still convinced he was receiving money from a booster or other individuals to pay for the Challenger.

Sheridan also went after Moncrief’s side business of cutting hair. Moncrief told SB Nation he’s currently in school to become a barber, but in ‘13, he started cutting hair for extra cash. When he finished a cut, he’d put it in on social media in an effort to drum up more business.

“[Sheridan] wanted to know about the haircuts, so I told him. I told him about cutting hair. I cut the football team’s hair, I cut the basketball team’s hair, and I cut random folks’ hair. And he asked what evidence I had. I said look at my Instagram account; I know you have already.”

According to Moncrief, Sheridan requested a breakdown of his business. Moncrief told Sheridan that he usually charged $15 a haircut, and $20 and if he travelled to the client.

“Sometimes it’s 10 guys. Sometimes it’s 20,” Moncrief said he told Sheridan.

Moncrief said that Sheridan then told him that wasn’t enough money to cover the note for the Challenger.

“He said, ‘Because even 20 guys a month isn’t enough.’ So I asked him if he had any black friends, and he got this look, like shocked. Because in the African American community, you get a haircut every week, not once a month. It’s sometimes 20 guys a week. Some guys get a haircut every five days. They had a hard time believing that, so they wanted me to make a list, and everybody who got came and got their haircut would have to sign it,” Moncrief said.

“He went to the extreme of calling my friends and my girlfriend and asking for their Apple account information to look at their pictures and stuff. They said it was to see when I was in Oxford and when I wasn’t.”

“I guess he saw them [the friends] on my Twitter. I don’t know how he ended up getting their numbers, but he contacted them to see if I was in pictures, if I was with them at a particular time in Oxford.”

In 2013, Mike Webb was president of First American National Bank, based in Iuka, Miss., a small town about 60 miles from Tupelo in the far northeast corner of the state. On August 26, 2013, he got a call from a lending officer at First American National’s Tupelo branch.

“They told me someone from the NCAA in Indianapolis had called and wanted to come by to ask us questions about Spencer Moncrief the next day.”

Webb notified the bank’s counsel and, recognizing Spencer’s last name, called Ole Miss. The next day lawyers for First American and Ole Miss showed up, along with Webb. Sheridan was already on site.

“[Sheridan] was already at the building when we arrived,” Webb said. “He had a lineup of pictures of it. Looked like he pulled off of Facebook, or something like that. It was a couple of African American males, then a couple of white males. And he was going up to each teller asking, ‘Do you recognize any of these guys?’”

“Then our lending assistants are starting to get uneasy,” Webb said. “We’re not even a full service bank at this particular branch. They told him, ‘We’re loan office.’ So he asks again, ‘Have you ever seen any of these people make a payment?’ And of course the teller says, ‘We couldn’t tell you if we did.” And he says, “Well do you recognize any of them?” And the teller said, “Well if we did, we can’t tell you. Because if they bank here, we can’t do that.”

“Then Sheridan changes it up: ‘Have you ever seen any of these guys come in here and make payments at the bank?’ Because he’s assuming someone walking up in cash,” Webb said.

According to Webb, he, Sheridan, Ole Miss and counsel for First American sat down in a meeting room, where Sheridan asked about how loan payments are processed. Through Spencer Moncrief’s bank statement, a processed payment to First American appeared as March 7, 2013.

“And [Sheridan] says to us, ‘So how is it possible that this person Spencer Moncrief could make a payment here when I’ve got him on video footage of an ATM in Gulfport, Miss.?’” Webb said.

Webb said he explained that payments were often delayed by processing, and that deposits or payments (usually called “work” in banking) made at First American in Tupelo were sent up to another branch to be processed.

“His confusion was that the date stamped on every payment slip wasn’t the actual time the customer might be here making a payment. We tried to tell him that payments are often processed at different sites,” Webb said.

When asked if he recalled using an ATM during his 2013 trip to Gulfport, Spencer Moncrief told SB Nation that he did use one ATM, on site at the Comfort Suites. SB Nation confirmed with the Gulfport Comfort Suites that it has an on-site ATM.

The NCAA issued a statement to SB Nation on Wednesday, from Jon Duncan, NCAA vice president of enforcement:

While we cannot comment on the substance of the ongoing Ole Miss case, any allegation of misconduct by enforcement staff members during the investigation is simply false. The enforcement staff reviewed information about a potential violation in the case using NCAA member-approved procedures. After analyzing that information based on the standard set by the membership, the enforcement staff did not bring an allegation and that part of the investigation was closed.

When contacted for comment, the University of Mississippi declined.

Nothing the NCAA put in front of the Moncriefs ended up working as a smoking gun on Donte. According to sources involved in the investigation, the aggressive vetting of the Moncrief family and their subsequent response became an example of how thoroughly the NCAA would invest themselves in future inquiries in the overall Ole Miss investigation.

“When you hear the term ‘exemplary compliance’ Ole Miss has been using publicly to define their case with the NCAA, what that means is that they haven’t yet pushed back on anything. There hasn’t been a fight yet,” a source connected to the investigation told SB Nation.

“Keep in mind, this is a program that was 100 percent ready to defend Hugh Freeze before he was caught with the phone records and escorts. As far as the NCAA goes, Ole Miss was committed to defending the guy and their program,” the source said.

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