New Claims of plagiarism surfaced on Tuesday Against Vice President Kamala Harris – These allegations include that she fabricated a story about sex trafficking and colluded in the work of other prosecutors, a judge, and even Wikipedia to draft a state report on the crime. Thrown an obstacle.
Harris, 60, appears to have completely fabricated the details of a sex crimes case and took the sentences directly from a published work by former California Attorney General Bill Lockyer as well as a New York jurist.
there were new allegations First reported by Washington Free Beacon,
In A 2012 report On the issue of human trafficking that Harris issued while she was Attorney General of California, she gave a hypothetical example of the type of calls received by the National Human Trafficking Hotline, which was a real case.
The non-profit in charge of the hotline, the Polaris Project, posted details of the exact same case in June of that year as “representative of the types of calls received.”
The example was “for informational purposes only”, with separate “names, locations and other identifying information”. an archived webpage Reviewed by Free Beacon.
But Harris copied the example in the state report verbatim, keeping the surname — “Kelly” — of the woman who was being trafficked, but shifting the location from Washington, D.C., to her native San Francisco.
A 2012 report also used an almost identical paragraph from the Wikipedia entry on California’s Victim Compensation Board.
Another report came out in 2011 organized crime The previous year included passages that exactly matched parts of Lockyer’s report on the same subject six years earlier.
In 2014, Harris apparently stolen From Judge Roger McDonough of the New York Court of Claims and Albany County Superior Court for a report on international gangs.
Recent polling shows that Harris is being watched more honest Compared to his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, but the copycat claims to be on top First allegations of plagiarism – That public image is sure to be tested.
Shortly after securing the Democratic nomination in August, the Trump campaign labeled the veep a political “chameleon”. Counterattack on its long-standing liberal stance Embracing something related to crime and immigration Proposed policies of the 45th President,
In April 2007, several years before the stolen reports, Harris appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to lobby for passage of the bill. John R. Justice Prosecutor and Defender Incentive Act – A bill that would have helped local and state prosecutors and public defenders repay their law school and graduate loans while performing their public service.
The then-San Francisco DA argued that the more talented lawyers who opted for higher salaries at white-shoe firms would remain in the public sector if their loans were forgiven, keeping more expertise and staffing in the prosecutors’ and public defenders’ offices. Helped fill the gap.
Harris’s words at the April 24 hearing were nearly identical to testimony given two months earlier by Republican Winnebago County, Illinois, prosecutor Paul Logely, the Free Beacon also noted, with both writing containing similar figures, punctuation and even Statement citing that typo incident.
Overall, the outlet said, 1,200 out of 1,500 words spoken by Harris (80%) were identical to those spoken by Logley.
Logeli told The Post on Tuesday that his testimony was “largely” prepared and written by staff at the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), where he then served as president.
He said Harris, who was a member of the association’s board of directors at the time, likely “also relied on the support of NDAA staff for her opening statement.”
“The uniform content of our statements was an effort to be completely consistent with the position the NDAA has presented to both houses of Congress on behalf of the 3,500 state and local prosecutors we serve nationally,” Logley said in an emailed statement. Was represented.” “Like me, I believe Ms. Harris relied on NDAA staff for much of the content of her opening statement before Congress.”
Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Ruffo revealed last week that parts of Harris’s 2009 criminal justice reform advocacy book, “Smart on Crime,” were based on similar wording to academic studies, press reports and even a Wikipedia entry. were used – all of which were prior to publication. release.
Harris’s ghostwriter apparently seemed unaware of the plagiarized excerpts when contacted by The Post — but her publisher later indicated internally that the allegations “werevery sensitive topic“It was being controlled by higher officials.
“It wasn’t the ghostwriter’s fault, but it’s a pattern,” New York Times bestselling ghostwriter Joshua Lisek told The Post in a phone interview last week, adding that he believed Harris probably Did “copy and paste”. Did people’s work and sent it to their ghostwriter without any attribution.
“I don’t have inside access to their particular working relationship, but from the outside, my view of the ghostwriting career and profession, knowing how it goes, the ghostwriter probably had no idea that Kamala Has copied and pasted it from somewhere on the internet or maybe his assistant did it,” he said.
Lisek said of Harris’s thefts, “He’s in trouble with everybody that he effectively stole from (or) stole from, or whoever did it, but he’s liable because his name is on it.”
Harris’s ghostwriter, John O.C. He added, Hamilton was “legitimate, experienced, successful as a ghostwriter and not the kind of person you would expect to work with extremely low standards.”
South Dakota GOP Governor Kristi Noem was widely seen as a potential running mate for Trump before her mistakes regarding her “meeting” with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. passed by a ghostwriter In his political memoir “No Going Back”, which was published in May.
The Harris campaign and Hamilton did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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