A former Pennsylvania representative has pleaded guilty to extensive voter fraud in multiple state elections, the Department of Justice announced Monday.
Former Rep. Michael “Ozzie” Myers, 79, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, and conspiring to vote illegally in a federal election for orchestrating schemes to stuff the ballot boxes fraudulently for specific Democratic candidates in all the state elections from 2014 to 2018. He admitted to bribing 39th Ward, 36th Division Judge Domenick Demuro, who has already been convicted for his role in accepting bribes to cast fraudulent ballots and certifying false voting results in those elections, according to the DOJ.
“Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy,” said U.S. Attorney Jennifer Williams. “If even one vote has been illegally cast or if the integrity of just one election official is compromised, it diminishes faith in process. Votes are not things to be purchased and democracy is not for sale.”
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Demuro was bribed by Myers with payments ranging from $300 to $5,000 per election in exchange for Demuro adding fraudulent votes on the voting machine for Myers’s clients and preferred candidates.
Myers also admitted to conspiring to commit election fraud with former 39th Ward, 2nd Division Judge Marie Beren, who was charged separately and pleaded guilty in October 2021. He would transport Beren to the polling station to open the polls almost every Election Day and would tell her which candidates he was supporting so that she knew which candidates should be receiving fraudulent votes, according to the DOJ.
The former Pennsylvania representative was first charged with voter fraud in July 2020.
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Myers, a Democrat, represented Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District between 1976 and 1980 until he was convicted of bribery charges stemming from an FBI sting operation and sentenced to three years in prison. He was caught accepting a $50,000 bribe from an undercover FBI agent who posed as an Arab sheikh interested in obtaining building permits and casino licenses in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and was expelled from Congress in a 376-30 vote in 1980 shortly after being found guilty.
