Michael Steele's sister has an interesting history with Eugene Byrd --
A large-scale Drug Dealer in the D.C. area.
Here is the court case, although I have not had the time to go through it today -- I'll do that later.
Here's the link:
http://www.courts.state.md.us/...
This is Eugene Byrd's Court case (the father of Steele's niece)
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Okay, some people seem to think that this diary is "guilt by association"
I'm torn, one b/c all of these articles are FACT, they aren't made-up, they have been printed in NY Daily, People and the Washington Post.
I can understand people being a bit squemish about family -- but Steele's sister (and ex-husband Mike Tyson) have campaigned frequently for Steele in his elections.
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I published the info to
1.) Show that it is clear his sister took an awful lot of drug money.
2.) The Wash Po makes a point of saying Steele has had continuous money trouble.
3.) The Wash Po says His sister financed Steele's 1998 campaign.
Granted this is after his sister married Mike Tyson; however, it is not clear where the money came from, and what this "Brown Sugar Unlimited" company did in the past.
The obvious question to ask is did Steele benefit from the drug money?
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Here are a series of quotes from NY Daily News -- when it was more about Mike Tyson then Monica Turner (Steele's half-sister who shares the same mother, and they grew-up in the same house) and Michael Steele.
https://www.nydailynews.com/...
"Before he was carted off to Lewisburg Penitentiary, the 57-year-old Byrd owned the Les Nieces nightclub where he met Turner, then a psychology major at University of Virginia, in 1987."
Even more interesting -- it is clear that Turner knew that Byrd was married and a Crack Cocaine King Pin
http://www.nydailynews.com/...
Monica Turner, the medical school student who accompanied Tyson when he left prison last weekend, often takes her daughter to visit the still-imprisoned Eugene Byrd.
And Byrd's wife knows all about her husband's affair with Turner.
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Turner gave birth to Gena, now 5, just months before Byrd was convicted in 1989 of running one of Washington's largest drug operations. Byrd, now 57, is doing 10 years at the Lewisburg Penitentiary.
"Monica takes their daughter to see him," said one of Byrd's close friends. "She still speaks to him. They'd still be together if he was here."
Lani Wilder, a Turner cousin, confirmed that Byrd is the father of Monica's child. "
Here's an article from People magazine that talks about Monica Turner's relationship with Byrd
http://www.people.com/...
Turner worked hard at the University of Virginia, where she majored in psychology, and then at Georgetown. "She was definitely about going to class and learning as much as she could," says Lisa DaCosta, a fellow premed student from the UVA class of 1987. Yet Turner conducted an improbable high-octane social life, keeping company with students who drove fast cars and, says one college acquaintance, "had something going on." In Washington she began dating Eugene Byrd, manager of the Les Nieces nightclub, now defunct, near her home in Petworth. Byrd, 28 years Turner's senior and already married, cut a charismatic figure but was also deeply involved in the drug underworld. Arrested for dealing cocaine in 1989, he was sentenced to 10 years in jail, but not before Turner had given birth to their daughter Gena, now 5. "Monica seemed entranced by him," says Quincy Ollison, the assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted Byrd. "She was there through all the pleas and sentencing."
Steele HAD to know about Eugene Byrd, his Crack Dealing and his lifestyle --- and Byrd giving large cash and gifts to his sister.
Now, given his sister's medical school debts and her families modest means (which Steele reminds us of, as well as his own lack of finances-- MD RNC paid him to run for Lt. Gov.)
1.) Did Byrd pay for Monica Turner's medical education and support their daughter with drug money?
2.) Did Michael Steele benefit from his sister's relationship with this drug dealer?
He definitely needs to answer these questions...
Normally, it is just another case of interesting relatives -- except that Michael Steele made such a big deal of campaigning with Mike Tyson his sisters ex-husband, a convicted rapist and actually supported Mike during an assault case.
Earlier today, the Washington Post came out with a story about Michael Steele's campaign practices
while in Maryland.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
"In one of his allegations, Fabian points to a February 2007 payment by Steele's Senate campaign of more than $37,000 to Brown Sugar Unlimited, the company run by Steele's sister, Monica Turner. Campaign finance records list the expense as having been for "catering/web services." Turner filed papers to dissolve the company 11 months before the payment was received. "
Did Brown Sugar Unlimited have anything to do with Byrd's Crack Cocaine money?
"Over the years, money trouble has been a persistent problem for Steele. His first race for public office, a 1998 bid for the Republican nomination for state comptroller, ended nearly $35,000 in debt, much of it to his sister."
Where did he get this money from his sister? Where was it from? Was it from Tyson or the drug money?
Who is going to make Steele answer these hard questions?