Wednesday, July 30, 2025

'Obama Phone' Scam: Florida CEO Headed to Prison, Must Pay $128M

Q Link Wireless LLC and its owner, identified as CEO Issa Asad, previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud and steal federal funds from the Lifeline program that began in the 1980s... - Amy Furr
The program offers subsidized cellphone services to lower-income people. 
  • In 2012, a video emerged of a protester outside a Mitt Romney event who claimed her neighbors received an “Obama phone,” Breitbart News reported at the time.
  • When asked why she supported Obama, the woman said, “Everybody in Cleveland low minority got Obama Phone. Keep Obama in President, you know? He gave us a phone, he’s going to do more.”...

  • Asad was reportedly charged with murder several years ago in connection with driving over a groundskeeper at his business, per the Fox article.
  • “He later pleaded no contest to misdemeanor culpable negligence and was slapped with one year of probation and ordered to pay a $225 fine,” the outlet said.

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