{"id":1537157,"date":"2025-05-20T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1537157"},"modified":"2025-05-20T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T00:40:00","slug":"nhs-first-black-sheriff-jailed-for-blowing-public-money-on-travel-with-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/nhs-first-black-sheriff-jailed-for-blowing-public-money-on-travel-with-women\/1537157\/","title":{"rendered":"NH’s First Black Sheriff Jailed For Blowing Public Money On Travel With Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

NH’s First Black Sheriff Jailed For Blowing Public Money On Travel With Women<\/span><\/p>\n

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A New Hampshire man who was heralded as the first black sheriff in the state’s history was sentenced on Monday to 3 1\/2 years in prison for squandering $19,000 of taxpayers’ money on expensive getaways with multiple love interests <\/strong>— and then lying to investigators about what he’d done. Tightly following the script we’ve seen so many times before, the disgraced “barrier-breaker” had previously said fellow Democrats who investigated his crimes were racists,\u00a0<\/strong>and that his term in office was “rife with inequities.” Despite repeatedly lying to the court and violating his bail conditions, his sentence was a fraction of what prosecutors sought.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At 35 years old, Democrat Mark Brave was also the youngest-ever sheriff i<\/strong>n New Hampshire history when he was elected in November 2020 — following the summer of George Floyd and amid the Black Lives Matter mania that swept the country and helped usher under-qualified blacks into many top roles in and out of law enforcement.\u00a0“It\u2019s something I feel should have happened a long time ago<\/a>, but I\u2019m honored that I will be the person to pave the way,\u201d said Brave at the time. (Alas, some barriers proved insurmountable that year, as a self-described transgender Satanist<\/a> lost the Cheshire County New Hampshire sheriff race.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

pic.twitter.com\/2cDFI1Tid9<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Daniel Concannon (@TooWhiteToTweet) May 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHis repeated lies, misuse of taxpayer funds, and abuse of office<\/a> were not just criminal \u2014 they were a profound betrayal of the public trust and the oath he took to serve with integrity,\u201d said New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella in a statement. That said,\u00a0the sentence handed down by lily-white Judge Dan St. Hilaire was far lighter than the seven- to 14-year confinement that prosecutors had requested<\/strong>. Brave will technically be eligible for parole in 3 1\/2 years, but the reality is that he’ll walk even sooner<\/strong> if he participates in certain prison programs. He must pay $18,969 in restitution to Strafford County.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mark Brave was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs<\/strong> (WMUR)<\/a><\/p>\n

The judge’s leniency was at odds with his characterization of Brave’s conduct.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThe court has reviewed a record that has been unlike any other case that has come before it, mainly because of the continuation of the crimes that were being committed while the case was proceeding<\/a>.”\u00a0The judge was apparently referring to Brave’s:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lying to the grand jury
\n\tLying on his application for public defense by failing to disclose $1.5 million<\/a>\u00a0received on the sale of his home
\n\tViolating his bail conditions by paying $52,000 to lease an apartment in Boston, when he was mandated to remain in New Hampshire; he also traveled to Florida and Puerto Rico
\n\tLying to the judge, saying he was living in Dover with his ex-wife and that he was out of money
\n\tFailing to disclose his purchase of a 1968 Porsche, though he posted videos and photos of the vehicle to social media<\/p>\n

Brave went wild with his county credit card, using it to fund multiple trips to destinations in Florida, Baltimore and Maryland for getaways with various women <\/strong>— with at least some of the trysts happening while Brave was married<\/a>.\u00a0He attempted to conceal his misuse of funds by attributing the travel to fictional business meetings<\/strong> and training sessions. He also lied to investigators and a grand jury. Some of his lies were exposed by hotel lobby security cameras that captured him in the company of women<\/a> on trips where he claimed to have been traveling alone.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brave created an entirely-new job in his department for longtime “friend” Freezenia Veras — then jetted off to Florida with her using a county credit card <\/strong>(NH Journal<\/em><\/a>)<\/a><\/p>\n

Brave’s misconduct started to unravel when an audit prompted an inquiry into JetBlue tickets purchased for a 2022 trip to Fort Lauderdale. Not content to merely steal public money, Brave opted for JetBlue’s pricey “EvenMore” package<\/strong>, with the pair of tickets costing $1,615. Defending the expenditure, Brave said he needed the extra room because he’s 6′ 2″ tall, and claimed he’d traveled with a “well-built, muscular” deputy<\/a>. Investigators found, however, that he was traveling with female employee.<\/p>\n

In another comical instance<\/strong> in which he was caught in a lie about a supposed business trip with a colleague, County Administrator Raymond Bower asked Brave why the hotel room only had a single king-bed. “There was a slight pause, and he said, \u201cOh, aw, the other person slept on the couch,\u201d <\/a>Bower said in an affidavit.\u00a0 He also lied about spending money on business meals associated with meetings with the completely fictional “New England Sheriff’s Association.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also installed a friend, Freezenia Veras, in a newly-created $80,000 job<\/strong>, and jetted off to Florida <\/a>with her for a non-existent consultation with a law enforcement agency. In one of his many lies to a grand jury, Brave denied that he took another woman on a dinner cruise using his county credit card. When prosecutors whipped out a photo of Brave and the woman,<\/strong> he hilariously couldn’t come up with her name:<\/strong> “Her name, her name is \u2026 um \u2026 let me see, I forget which one this is. I\u2019ve been dating a lot of people,\u201d he told the grand jury, according to NH Journal<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brave used public money for his trip to visit Kenisha Epps-Schmidt — then talked her into giving him $2,300 for a used-car purchase he never made<\/strong> (NH Journal<\/em><\/a>)<\/a><\/p>\n

Brave also traveled to Maryland to spend time with Kenisha Epps-Schmidt, whom he’d met online. He tried papering over that embezzlement by attributing the trip to a Washington DC meeting with Rep. Chris Pappas that never happened. Brave proceeded to cheat Epps-Schmidt out of $2,300 she gave him to buy a car <\/strong>— which he never did<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Add it all up, and we have another low-IQ miscreant advanced to a position of authority\u00a0because he had the right skin color.<\/strong>\u00a0That’s bad enough, but the black-catering madness carried over over to his sentencing, as a white Republican judge ensured a short stay in prison despite the black defendant’s profound and repeated contempt for the criminal justice system all throughout the adjudication of his crime.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

As part of his plea deal, Brave is barred from seeking a law enforcement job during his post-confinement probation. That still leaves him in prime position to become the boyfriend of a leftist congresswoman or a progressive NGO executive and take a salary for providing “security consultant” services.\u00a0Just axe former Rep. Cori Bush<\/a> or Black Lives Matters Global Network Foundation co-founder Patrissee Cullors<\/a>\u00a0how it works.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 05\/20\/2025 – 16:40<\/span><\/p>\n

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