This blog is dedicated to the politicians who are the enablers of the Gulen Movement and their "front groups." From Gulen Schools to Gulen's Interfaith Groups, these politicians knowingly or sometimes naively have accepted campaign contributions, honors(snicker, giggles) or the famous FREE trips to Turkey. Thanks to all of you for submitting, lets put the message out to Politicians, if you sell out Americans we will vote you out.
Corrupt Politicians and Tools of the Gulen Movement
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Disgraced State Representative Margo L. Davidson officially put her bid in for Congress, sources tell YC.
Margo Davidson, who recently came under public scrutiny for fleeing from an accident and receiving multiple citations for driving and crashing a taxpayer funded vehicle without a license on two separate occasions announced she’s ready to move up from her current seat and run for congress.
Davidson scheduled a campaign kickoff party this Saturday at 10 North 9th Street in Darby, Pennsylvania.
Davidson must face two judges in the coming weeks for charges lodged against her by the Pennsylvania State Police for fleeing the scene of an accident, failing to render aid, two counts of driving with a suspended license and a slew of other similar charges. If Davidson is found guilty on both counts of driving with a suspended license, she faces an additional two-year license suspension and fines exceeding $2,000.00.
We reached out to Davidson’s attorney Thomas Kenney but he has not responded to requests for comment.
Though we reached out to Davidson several times since her second accident, Davidson did not respond to repeated requests for comment about the January accident.
SUPPORTS Gulen Charter Schools, and Gulen Movement as "Good People" who paid her only $10,000 to go to Greece
Margo’s first crash involved a New Jersey woman on Jan 11 as traffic piled up on Interstate 476 in Radnor Township, Delaware County. When the woman called police to report the accident, Davidson allegedly took a photo of her next to her license and fled before police arrived. Pennsylvania State Police told us that Davidson “left the scene prior to the arrival of the troopers and failed to provide all of the required documents at the scene of the crash.”
Sources told YC that Davidson was leaving a political party on the 800 block of Concord Road in Glen Mills just moments before her second crash on Feb 2.
Davidson also said the police officer who arrived at the scene on Feb. 2 was “very rude and nasty” to her. As emergency personnel pulled her out of the vehicle, she said the cop asked: ” ‘Why were you driving this car? Are you allowed to drive this car? Did you steal this car?’”
As for Margo’s bid for congress .. she will also be continuing her campaign seeking re-election as State Representative incase the congressional one doesn’t work out too well.
On another note, Margo is currently accepting donations for her congressional campaign. There is no word on if the Delaware County Democratic Party will endorse the recently disgraced politician on her congressional bid, but they’re fully backing her re-election as state representative. However, they did not endorse her on her most recent past re-election campaign.
» Davidson Court Saga
The Davidson’s are not strangers to the criminal justice system – just last year her son was convicted for operating a heroin “warehouse” in her district after police witnessed him making a sale as school students were making their way home.
The son, Robert Davidson, allegedly ran towards her mother’s office where she was present. After a brief foot pursuit with police, they placed him under arrest and found 14 clear Ziploc bags containing heroin, $125 and a black cellular phone. Robert, who was currently on probation for another drug-related case, was transported to George W. Hill Correctional Facility. Robert’s criminal history includes indecent exposure, robbery of a motor vehicle and other cases stemming from his early teenage years.
While awaiting trial, sources tell YC that Robert made a phone call from George W. Hill Correctional Facility asking a family member to empty out his apartment.
Upper Darby Police immediately obtained a search warrant and beat them there, finding 301 bags of heroin, 18 vials of marijuana, 16 bags of cocaine, two vials of methamphetamine, more than $5,000.00 in cash and a stolen handgun.
“It’s a warehouse, look at it.” Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood told reporters. “These guys were major dealers. They were selling everything, heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine.”
Despite the overwhelming evidence from his two arrests, Davidson got a slap on the wrist with a mere 6-23 months on a negotiated guilty plea with the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office. Additionally, Davidson will serve a few years on probation to run concurrent to his rather light jail term.
Margo Davidson's shameless pimping of the Gulen Movement in Greece, in Pennsylvania with Vision Academy and her shady past involving bizarre hit and run of government vehicles with suspended license. "All I got was $10,000 from Gulen Movement"
some twitter exchanges from the affectionate yet cheeky Margo Davidson...............
In this interview from February, Pennsylvania State Representative Margo Davidson praises the work of a Turkish cleric Gulen, who, according to many of our intelligence agencies, is trying to overthrow the government in Turkey to bring it back to a government ruled by Islam, for wanting to bring Sharia into the U.S. and has become rich off taxpayer’s funding the largest chain of charter schools in the U.S based on his version of Islam.
As a matter of fact, Davidson, helped to fund the Gulen movement when she helped to bring a Gulen Charter school to the William Penn School District. Vision Academy Charter school is part of a network of schools that have been founded to promote the Gulen Movement and fund the activities of the cleric Gulen.
This is what Gulen said of how his movement will become a worldwide government in which he will rule. We will look into how Gulen himself as an ideologue who tolerates no dissent,’ is ‘only interested in power and influence,’ and ‘dreams of a new age in which Islam will dominate the West returning to the ways of the Ottoman Empire.”
“You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the centers of power. You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institutions in Turkey.”
Read Entire Article here by Agnes Lawless Bedard https://theupperdarbysentinelnews.com/2018/04/15/state-rep-margo-davidson-reflects-on-her-visit-to-turkish-refugees-in-greece/
Wait Wait - Margo Davidson's association with the Gulen Movement Schools, Her trip to Greece to visit with Gulen fugitives is only a small part of her issues. Seems Margo Likes crashing Government vehicles with suspended licenses and leaving scene of crime.
In the last 12 days, Pennsylvania State Rep. Margo Davidson has been charged twice with driving with a suspended license.
Both times, she was driving a taxpayer-funded car, officials said.
Davidson got the first summary offense Feb. 2, when she illegally drove and crashed a state vehicle in Concord Township, according to a police report and court documents.
Then, on Wednesday, officials charged the Delaware County Democrat with four more summary offenses for a separate accident that occurred in January.
A police source said Davidson allegedly fled the scene of a crash Jan. 11. In addition to being charged with driving with a suspended license, she was cited for failing to notify police of the accident, drive a vehicle at safe speed, and give information and render aid.
Details of the January crash were scant. Davidson did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
NEWTOWN >> State Rep. Margo Davidson, D-164 of Upper Darby, was allegedly involved in a fender-bender in Radnor in January – three weeks before a crash in Concord that sent both her and another driver to the hospital.
Both times, Davidson, 55, was driving a state-owned vehicle and both times she was allegedly driving while her operating privilege was suspended or revoked, according to separate citations filed by the Pennsylvania State Police.
Davidson did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
According to paperwork dated Feb. 14 that was electronically filed in Magisterial District Judge David H. Lang’s court, Davidson is additionally being cited with driving a vehicle at safe speed, immediate notice of accident to police and duty to give information to render aid in connection with an incident on Jan. 11 on southbound Interstate 476 in Radnor. There were no injuries and damages to the civilian vehicle were minor, investigating Trooper Stephen J. Slavin Jr. said Wednesday night.
At some point after the fender-bender but as the two drivers were still amid traffic on I-476, Davidson provided the other driver some information – by allowing the other driver to take a picture of Davidson as Davidson sat in her 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee holding her driver’s license, according to Slavin.
“Providing a license is not enough,” the trooper said, noting the lack of a telephone number and insurance information. “She made somewhat of an attempt … but it wasn’t enough.”
Slavin responded to the report of a hit-and-run accident on I-476 at mile marker 10.7 in Radnor about 5:20 p.m. When Slavin arrived on the scene, a female driver was pulled over to the shoulder of the road. She provided him with the photograph she had taken of Davidson, the alleged offender.
According to information Slavin received, Davidson made no attempt to pull out of traffic after the crash. After the civilian driver took the photograph, Davidson reportedly told the civilian she had to go and drove off, the trooper said.
Using the address provided in the image of Davidson’s license, Slavin said he went to Davidson’s residence that same night in an effort to speak to her about the incident. He said no one was home and that he left a note.
“I did not receive any call,” Slavin said.
According to one of the four citations filed Wednesday, Davidson “was driving at an unsafe speed and therefore could not stop in time before hitting another vehicle.”
In addition, the citation charging her with operating a vehicle with a suspended or revoked license listed it as a first offense.
Though Davidson will be formally notified by mail about the new citations and the corresponding $741 in total fines in connection with the Radnor incident, Slavin said a corporal at the Media barracks spoke to her Tuesday afternoon by phone about the nature of the offenses.
Slavin said his investigation with a fellow trooper into the Radnor incident was still ongoing when the Concord crash occurred
It was about 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 2, when Davidson was pulling the state-owned Jeep out of a driveway on the right-hand side of Concord Road, about 500 feet east of Thornton Road in Concord. According to state police, an Aston man was driving a 2011 Buick Regal on Concord Road, when the two collided.
In their investigation, state police cited Davidson driving with a suspended license.
Davidson told the Daily Times on Tuesday, Feb. 13, that she first learned her driver’s license was suspended as she was being whisked away in an ambulance from that crash in Concord to Riddle Hospital. She said the suspension was due to a snafu involving a 2016 speeding ticket in Virginia and a resulting $227.16 fine, which she said she paid.
“It’s been resolved,” Davidson said Tuesday afternoon. “It was paperwork.
Disgraced Delaware County State Representative is due in court Friday for crashing a taxpayer-funded car and fleeing the scene of the accident without a driver’s license.
Davidson is also due in court twice in April for two additional accidents with the vehicle; one just under a month ago and the second dating back to 2015.
Newly obtained court documents show Davidson’s foul-play with the taxpayer-funded vehicle dates back several years.
A suit filed against Davidson and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania alleges Davidson plowed into Melita Webb’s vehicle at approximately 4:30 p.m. on September 1, 2015.
The suit states Webb was traveling south on Lansdowne Avenue near the area of Fairview Avenue and came to a stop for traffic when Davidson plowed into her vehicle from behind.
As a result to injuries that may be “permanent in nature,” Melita and her husband Ethan Webb are asking Davidson and the Commonwealth dish out $100,000, plus costs, interest and damages for delay.
They are due back in April 13th.
This marks the third accident where Davidson is at fault in this specific vehicle and the second time she rear ended a woman with the car that is supposed to be used solely for work.
According to the State of Pennsylvania, Davidson will not be given another government vehicle again.
Margo Davidson is currently running for Congress, She has also been in trouble not 1 time but 2 times for crashing Government vehicles with a suspended license. See Criminal Report and Court case below. THIS IS WHAT RUNS FOR CONGRESS
Opening Schools for Gulen
https://theupperdarbysentinelnews.com/2018/04/17/muslim-based-gulen-movement-tied-to-william-penn-sd-vision-academy-charter-school/ Excellent investigative reporting by Agnes Lawless Bedard
September 2015 the William Penn School District opened the doors to the first charter school in Delaware County. The ribbon cutting ceremony for Vision Academy Charter School was attended by Pennsylvania State Representative Margo Davidson, (D-164), Yeadon Mayor Rohan Hepkins, the only mayor to attend out of 48 boroughs, but the event was short on elected representatives. Those in attendance were not told the whole truth about the charter school. Vision Academy is a Gulen Movement school with its CEO and principal having organized other Gulen school that the FBI is now investigating.
Representative Davidson’s support for the school has not changed even with the knowledge that Adem Oksuz, principal and CEO of Vision Academy has moved from school to school, state to state creating Gulen schools only to have the schools investigated or closed due to financial irregularities, abuse of the H1B Visa program and failing the students with a subpar education. Davidson stated at the opening that “I know some folks are going to beat me up for supporting,” she said as she gave remarks to the crowd. “But I still say every child has the right to education, regardless of their zip code. We cannot continue to [let] children that live in poverty have only one option.”
Adem Oksuz, is the registered CEO of Vision Academy. The filing with the Federal Department of Education, lists Oksuz’s accomplishments as being the supervisor of the Daisy Education Corporation (charter holder of Gulen charter schools in Arizona including Sonoran Science Academy) and the Superintendent of Sonoran Science Academy. The picture is not what it would seem. In fact, Oksuz had been involved in more than 4 different Gulen schools in various capabilities’.
In Arizona, the charter schools related to the Gulen movement included, Sonoran schools, which Oksuz was involved with. According to an audit of the schools, it was found that there was a lack of compliance in the filing of financial information, of incorrect overbillings for school lunches for the federal program, improper record keeping of student’s attendance, and the misuse of the H1-B Visa Program where the schools brought 358 teachers from Turkey to teach at the schools between 2001 and 2016. The practice of spending funds on H1-B Visas has become so rampant in Gulen schools it costs American taxpayers $8.7 million.
Margo Davidson with Gulenist Adem Oksuz
In 2015, two Arizona Members of Congress, U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva and U.S. Representative Ruben Gallego called for hearings into the Sonoran network of schools. An investigation found that the H1-B employees were forced to give back 40% of their paychecks to the Gulen Movement.
The Gulen Movement school has been accused of running the organization like an illegal enterprise like the Mafia. There are multiple companies that overlap with the schools. Oksuz has been listed in various businesses with ties to Gulen as a consultant or as CEO but then he shifts from those positions to a school position. For example, the educational vendor for Gulen schools is Apple Education Service, which is also, according to records, Oksuz either owned or was the Regional Director for the East Coast. While at “Apple”, Oksuz applied for but was denied applications for 2 other charter schools, one in Hawaii and the other in Lancaster while he was also working in the Arizona charter schools.
The overlap of services is what the FBI and other government agencies look at for racketeering charges, according to a retired FBI agent who asked not to be named. One senior State Department official said Gulen schools and charities in America “look a lot like the ways in which organized crime sets itself up…to hide money for money laundering.” In 2017, Yale Education Studies published a research study of Gulen schools. After studying how the schools are set up, the faculty, financial reports and investigations by government agencies, their conclusion was “While schools disassociate themselves from Gulen himself, many administration officials in his charter schools are connected to him and his religious-political cult. Numerous Gulen schools across the country are under investigation by the FBI, the Department of Education, and/or the Department of Labor.”
Continuing the study written by Edgar Aviña, Shoshana Davidoff-Gore, Caitlin Dermody, Daniel Vernick, the study concluded that “the Gulen schools appear to be implicated in a greater scandal that would most likely affect the students’ abilities to receive an education solely focusing on the student’s growth academically, intellectually, and socially.”
The charges the Gulen schools face are “paying female and non-Turkish teachers less than male Turks to favoring Turkish companies for construction of school buildings despite lower bids from American businesses, and forcing teachers brought over from Turkey to give a certain portion of their salary to Gulen political leaders in Turkey.” Yet, with this wealth of information, the William Penn School District and Pennsylvania State Representative Margo Davidson, both approved a charter school run by Adem Oksuz whose employment record includes education stops driven by the Gulen Movement.
Mr. Gülen has an international following estimated to approach 10 million people. He has developed a vast network of businesses and nongovernmental organizations that supply him with financial support, and he is estimated to control at least $25 billion in assets. In the United States, Mr. Gülen controls dozens of business entities and more than 120 charter schools in various states, many of which are or have been under investigation by state and federal criminal and regulatory authorities. The California chapter of the NAACPhas also called for all Gulen schools to close immediately.
VISION ACADEMY MIS USE OF TAXPAYERS FUNDS CURIOUS CASE OF ISAAC DURMUS
Isaac Durmus
Vision Academy Charter School was opened in 2015 in the William Penn School District. The principal of the school is Isaac Durmus who is also listed on federal documents as the co-CEO of the school. This is not the first school that Durmus has been involved in. According to documents, Durmus has been involved in charter schools for over 10 years and the schools all have one thing in common, they have all been linked to the Gulen Movement.
Durmus’ background in education came under fire from the Philadelphia School District, when another school that has been linked to the Gulen Movement, Truebright Science Academy Charter School was closed due to its inability to increase the skills of its students in 2015, which is the same year that Vision Academy Charter School opened in Lansdowne. Truebright came under fire then investigation when they received a grant of over $1.2 million for an afterschool program but the problem was the school was being closed by the Philadelphia School District.
Although, the school was aware of it’s perilous situation they decided to move forward on the application for funding. Durum, who was Truebright’s dean of academics, stated that school leaders decided to move forward despite uncertainties related to the charter. He said, “That’s not going to be our decision, so we decided to keep moving on serving our students. That’s our goal.” The goal, apparently, was to continue funding a school that would close. The school was closed by the Commonwealth and the Philadelphia School District in 2015.
The school was not renewed by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission and told to close by 2012. The school continued to appeal the decision but the SRC stated multiple reasons for the closing. In all the SRC found there were 18 different violations committed by Truebright. The SRC stated that Truebright should not have their charter renewed because “adequate yearly process (AYP) in every year during the Charter School’s current charter term,” failure “to provide adequate academic supports and program implementation for English Language Learners and for students with special needs,” and having fewer than 75 percent of professional staff certified.
Margo Davidson at Ribbon Cutting for Gulen School VISION ACADEMY
n 2011, nine teachers filed unfair hiring complaints against the school, alleging Truebright hired and promoted Turkish nationals, many who lacked teaching certificates, at the expense of more-experienced and certified American-born teachers. One teacher brought discrimination lawsuit against the school, which was settled out of court in 2013. Yet, this knowledge still led to Durmus being approved to open a charter school in the William Penn School District.
Durmus is the co-CEO of Vision Academy according to documents filed with the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Included in the application is a resume for Durmus. Durmus states in the resume that in 2006 he was teaching in his homeland of Turkey. Yet, in just a year later, Durmus lists that he became the not only a teacher but the department chair for science for another known Gulen movement school, Paterson Charter School for Science and Technology. Once again, accusations of discrimination arose. This time by a member of the United States military.
Erik Verniere, a member of the New Jersey Army National Guard, 1st Squadron, 102nd Cavalry Regiment and a social studies teacher at Paterson, sued the school after not being retained for employment. Verniere stated the school “exhibited hostility” towards him for his membership in the National Guard and his need for military leave when he asked for time off for his duty. Verniere stated that he was told that “it was not conducive to his career at Paterson to miss certain training due to military obligations.” According to Verniere, the school in “blatant retaliation” terminated his employment. Verniere finally settled the case after bringing a suit against the school for $125,000.
In reviewing the records of employment for Durmus, a pattern emerges of schools that do not meet their educational goals that are promised in the charter applications. The schools have been sued for discrimination against teachers who are not of a Turkish background. There is an obvious uptick in H1-B Visa applications. There has been evidence of financial wrongdoings such as not putting work up for bid.
Another school that Durmus was the principal of Rochester Academy Charter School in New York, has an ongoing investigation for the improper use of tax dollars. As in all Gulen schools, the outside vendors are all connected to the Gulen Movement. For instance, the use of Apple Educational Service for educational devices such as laptops, etc. the address for Apple Education is listed as the same address as Fethullah Gulen. The schools and the company Apple Education deny their relationship with Gulen. Considering the use of the same address it seems unreasonable to believe to believe there is no connection.
The available knowledge of those who are involved in Vision Academy Charter School is not difficult to find. The accusations of discrimination, the settlements, the lack of progression in test scores and the connection between those who run this school with the Gulen movement is evidence that the William Penn School District would have been able to find quickly. The school is now expanding into a larger building in Darby as the school’s plan was accepted by council December 2017.
https://theupperdarbysentinelnews.com/2018/04/23/isaac-durmus-principal-vision-academy-charter-school-past-includes-investigations-of-misuse-of-taxpayers-funds/ Investigative Report by Agnes Lawless Bedard
Wait it gets better, democrat Margo Davidson accepted PAC funds from Betsy DeVos StudentsFirst
Democratic Pennsylvania State Rep Margo Davidson has been the recipient of donations from Betsy DeVos PAC
Students First Political Action Committee, an offshoot of Betsy DeVos PAC for charter schools
When President Trump picked Betsy DeVos to head the Department of Education it the understanding was she was picked due to her financial support to the Republican Party. It is estimated that DeVos, her husband, Dick DeVos and their family have donated at least $20.2 million to Republican candidates, party committees, PACs and super PACs” since 1989. DeVos has been instrumental in fighting for educational vouchers to allow public education funds to be used for private schools and creation of charter schools. DeVos, is a staunch conservative Republican. It would seem unlikely that a Democrat would ever be on the receiving end of any contributions from DeVos. One did. Pennsylvania State Representative Margo Davidson (D-164)
Said Onal is a top Gulenist who has unsuccessfully
Been turned down on 2 charter school applications. (RI and MA)
he is also on the board of Gulen's company Amish Naturalich Yogurt Co
Mudd Farms.
Betsy DeVos created the political action committee, American Federation for Children, (AFC) to contribute to the campaigns of candidates who will sponsor legislation that will allow public funding of private schools and charter schools. Margo Davidson has been the recipient of much of her campaign funding from that DeVos, as StudentsFirst, an offshoot of DeVos’s AFC, has spent almost $200,000 on the Davidson campaign to re-elected as a Pennsylvania State Representative. According to campaign finance reports, the AFC has already funneled $1 MILLION into Pennsylvania politics this spring through the Students First PAC. How much Davidson will receive has not been reported as campaign financials have not been released.
What does DeVos expect from her candidate that after being bestowed with a political contribution from her PAC? She expects and demands the candidate do her bidding. DeVos stated in an earlier interview with “Occasionally a wayward reporter will try to make the charge that we are giving this money to get something in return, or that we must be purchasing influence in some way. They are right. We do expect some things in return.” According to campaign finance reports, the AFC has already funneled $1 MILLION into Pennsylvania politics this spring through the Students First PAC.
Davidson has not been shy about voting for to create charter schools in Upper Darby and across Pennsylvania. Since her vote in 2011, along with Pennsylvania Republicans to create a voucher system which would create public funding of charter schools, Davidson has walked the line between pro and anti-charter school groups.
Complete Story by Agnes Lawless Bedard HERE https://theupperdarbysentinelnews.com/2018/04/03/leading-democrat-margo-davidson-campaign-funded-by-betsy-devos-pacs/
