FULL TESTIMONY OF JACQUELINE BREGER AT ARIZONA SENATE COMMITTEE
2/23/23
REPORT TITLE: PRELIMINARY FINDINGS OF ACTIVITIES IMPACTING ARIZONA'S ELECTION INTEGRITY WITH SPECIFIC FOCUS ON THE 2020 AND 2022 GENERAL ELECTION
Good afternoon Madame Chair, good afternoon to everyone.
My name is JACQUELINE BREGER, just to tell you a little bit about myself…
I do have a Masters degree in Marketing, Honors degrees in Financial Accounting, Business Statistics, Economics and Business Strategy.
I've been a resident of Scottsdale, Arizona since 1997 and I own the Fine Breger Insurance Agency which is a Farmers Insurance Agency, in the valley.
Since 2019, I've been a principle investigator with the Harris Thaler law firm. We have been investigation multiple multi-state racketeering and corruption.
John Harris Thaler is our Senior Attorney and he is in charge of this investigation. Mr. Thaler has been practicing law for 32 years. His firm specializes in investigating racketeering and corruption for both the public and private sector and he has participated in some of the largest investigations both in the U.S. and abroad.
But with respect to the current matter at hand, in 2006, the U.S. Attorney's office in Illinois, Idaho and Indiana investigated the laundering of drug cartel monies through a complex series of single-family home purchases in those particular states. By 2009, numerous real estate agents, escrow companies, and title insurers had been indicted, charged and convicted of racketeering; and in 2014, our office was asked to review the case file. The reason for this was we were asked to determine whether monies from the sale of the properties had filtered to properties purchased in Arizona, specifically in the Maricopa and Pima County.
We concluded that several real estate agents convicted in Iowa had set up laundering systems in Arizona and thereafter had transferred the proceeds of the sales to Panamanian corporations.
In 2018, Mr. Thaler discovered, incidental to a completely independent matter, a series of trust deeds evidencing that cash laundered through single-family residences in Arizona was pervasive and ongoing. With that, a new investigation began with the focus being money laundered and related racketeering activities in Maricopa County as well as in several other Arizona Counties. We are currently representing several parties directly damaged by these racketeering activities.
The investigation originally focused on fake Notarization, fake Deeds of Trust, fraudulent buyers and/or sellers of the real property transactions as well as other companies used in real estate transactions, i.e. real estate brokers, mortgage companies, title and escrow companies, real estate inspection companies, service companies and so on. Over 120,000 documents have been reviewed to date.
These documents have definitely evidenced multiple racketeering enterprises, which include narcotic sales, money laundering, tax evasion, payroll theft, bankruptcy fraud, life insurance fraud, auto insurance fraud, bribing of elected and appointed officials, creating and modifying public record, falsifying professional licenses and related credentials, swatting individuals who pose a threat to these enterprises, and last but not least election fraud.
I walked in and heard briefly that you spoke about a compromised computer system. Well, that is something I will be addressing in quite some detail.
I'm going to share with you that which we've uncovered, how we uncovered it, and the conclusions drawn therefrom. I'll also share with you how the racketeering enterprises inextricably are intertwined with election fraud. It is important to note, okay, that our office has been limited in resources and in terms of authority such as subpoena power. As a result, the conclusions that I'm bringing here to you that we've reached to date are just the tip of the iceberg. As a result, our office stand ready to work with any of the relevant enforcement agencies. Our primary findings were first reported to Governor Ducey, in 2022. Furthermore, Thaler has met with Attorney Generals in five States, the FBI, the IRS, the U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee, and with several U.S. Attorney's offices. Currently there are active and ongoing investigations in Federal and State jurisdictions. And both California and New Mexico have already used our report and taken some corrective action. The final report will include the election fraud and will be completed and published as a book entitled "Report to the Governor". This is going to be a book of three hundred pages with approximately three thousand attachments. Excerpts from this book and other necessary documentation will be available on ReporttotheGovernor.com after this presentation. Our report contains 47 separate filings.