Conservative Ann Coulter a Felon?

Voter and Tax Fraud Charges Alleged

NeoConservative Ann Coulter committed two felonies related to voter fraud and a misdemeanor, according to a report from the Town of Palm Beach Police Department. A former boyfriend in the FBI, Agent Fitzgerald, interceded on her behalf --- Coulter is guilty.

On June 15, 2005, just a few months after Coulter purchased $1.8-million home near Rush Limbaugh's tony mansion (in part, to escape her many stalkers, according to her publicist), she filled out a voter registration with her name and address, but not specifying her gender. Coulter signed the document at the bottom next to an "oath" solemnly swearing that: "All information on this form is true. I understand that if it is not true, I can be convicted of a felony of the third degree and fined up to $5,000 and/or imprisoned for up to five years."

Coulter lied about the address at 242 Seabreeze Avenue in Palm Beach. Instead, she declared her "legal residence" to be 999 Indian Avenue, that of her realtor, Suzanne Frisbie. Coulter then proceeded to knowingly vote at the wrong precinct in a local election in February 2006. According to the Palm Beach Police Department's report, doing so was a first-degree misdemeanor.

After the news had initially appeared as a small item in the Palm Beach paper and then in the Huffington Post, she was publicly asked about the issue on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes. The New York Times best-selling author wouldn't admit she lived in Florida. Coulter used a powerful Bush-connected law firm, which assigned an ex-Justice Department attorney to her case. Her lawyer admited in a letter to the elections office that Coulter had lied about her home address due to New York stalkers she was avoiding. However, Coulter posted her private, unlisted family phone number and e-mail addresses on the front page of her own Web site for weeks.

Lydia Cornell, who'd played Ted Knight's daughter in the 1980s' sitcom Too Close for Comfort and currently co-hosts a Las Vegas morning drive-time progressive talk radio show, criticized Coulter. Coulter retaliated by posting Cornell's phone number on her own site. Cornell received multiple death threat phone calls and e-mails from rabid Coulterites. A stranger went to Cornell's home, and her trash cans were lit on fire.

Just prior to the November 2006 election, Coulter flatly refused to cooperate with the elections office's investigation in any way. Coulter's voting rights, however, were not rescinded before the November general election, as the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections gave her every benefit of the doubt.Despite their official assessment of an apparent two felonies and a misdemeanor, the police department in the Republican town of Palm Beach said the crimes in question took place outside of their jurisdiction.

When the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office (PBSO), began its own investigation into the Coulter fraud matter, FBI Academy's Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico 's Supervisory Special Agent Jim Fitzgerald intervened. The PBSO promptly dismissed the case after the call from Fitzgerald. An FBI spokesperson says an internal investigation has been launched to look into the unusual actions taken by Fitzgerald, a former lover of Coulter's for 2 years.

Since Coulter's official public position had been that she doesn't live in Florida at all, it would appear that the outspoken right-winger has also committed tax fraud for claiming a $25,000 Homestead Tax Exemption on her Palm Beach pad. This exemption would only be available to Coulter if the Seabreeze Avenue home were her official primary residence, according to state tax law. Furthermore, it appears that when Coulter voted at the wrong precinct illegally in Palm Beach, she was still a registered voter in the state of Connecticut, according to voter registration records in that state. Being registered to vote in two different states is also a crime.

The Florida Elections Commission announced that it was declining to press charges against Coulter due to the expiration of a two-year statute of limitations. Critics called the decision "arbitrary" and said it showed the commission's unwillingness to enforce the law.