The jury has spoken, and found Annette Bosworth guilty on all counts.
What are your thoughts; on the trial, the coverage of it, and what we might expect from a sentence?
Does she need to go to jail for a spell? Or are the felony convictions, which could cost her a license to practice Medicine in South Dakota, enough?
The best part of Boz losing her medical license is it might mean her bum husband has to finally get a job.
So what your saying is any father that is a stay at home Dad is meaningless?
Annette Bosworth could have stopped the “Crazy Train,” but thought it was in her best interest to generate a media driven fund raising campaign.
She’ll most likely lose her medical license with a felony conviction.
She apparently feels she’ll be compensated well enough by he mailing list of contributors supporting her “fight” against the “corrupt and criminal establishment” that enforces the well written and easily understood laws of South Dakota.
I hope she’s wrong, but I’m afraid I’m not.
She’s going to go into “Martyr Mode” now, and she may just find enough low information supporters to provide them with enough of a revenue stream to continue this charade indefinitely.
If there truly is a “sucker born every minute,” she’ll be milking them for all they can.
Mr. Beal, she wanted to settle this case months ago. It’s all about the License if you would have been paying attention. I think she should get the death penalty
I am stunned to watch how eagerly the some in the media jump to “fairly” report on this person without ever mentioning her past lengthy legal and ethical problems. Her prior bad acts, which the jury didn’t even need to hear in order to convict her of 12 felonies last week, should be admissible at her sentencing:
1) she and her husband Chad took a $200k loan from a woman in Utah and have left that woman high and dry;
2) she has previously admitted to over-billing (defrauding) Medicare and was ordered to pay money back for that offense;
3) she and her husband took money for a land raffle that never took place, and have never refunded the money to the people who bought raffle tickets;
4) she admitted at trial that her national direct mail solicitations contained fabrications, so, she deceived people in order to get them to donate to her for her legal problems;
5) she may have paid a media figure to smear witnesses in her criminal petition case by holding them out for ridicule which could have had a chilling effect on the truth;
6) she is not at all adverse to bullying others. She has publicly name-called: the poor (food stamp recipients), law enforcement, and her own staff, among others;
7) there were many, many other petition sheets that she fraudulently signed, that she was not prosecuted for, and that were not raised at trial, that when added up, she may not have made the ballot at all – there were that many bad sheets (as has been previously reported here on Dakota War College and by Dakota Free Press).
That’s a short list.
When challenged about her own bullying and bad acts, Annette Bosworth calls herself a “missionary.” Funny how it was Joel Arends who organized the Philippines trip that she trots out as cover anytime she is confronted about her lies, debts and obligations. Yet, I can’t recall too many outlets referring to him as “Bronze-star recipient and missionary attorney Joel Arends.” What does that say about fair and balanced reporting?
If she doesn’t accept responsibility, and gets probation with an expunged record for TWELVE felonies and everything she put the witnesses in this case through, it will demonstrate a sick and twisted bias toward “pretty” people who are permitted to get away with sending out misleading mail solicitations in order to hire PR flaks to create smoke screens. What kind of message does that send?
If she accepts responsibility, apologizes, and gets a healthy number of years of probation – like 6 months for every felony count, and has her license suspended for a stint, that might finally get through to her that she should stop bullying people, should stop taking money from people (raffles, unpaid loans, unpaid salaries, unpaid vendors, over-billing Medicare, lying mail solicitations) and should tell the truth.
Who wants a doctor who behaves like this anyway?
“Who wants a doctor who behaves like this anyway?”
Her blind crazy followers do.
Hi Cory.
speaking of Her blind crazy followers
Those crazies should start their own political party.
Boz should do 3 months in the pen for making a mockery of the system
24 years.
Will you as a disciple volunteer to be incarcerated for 24 years?
Hell no.
This whole thing is a tragedy, disgrace and it has to stop. I hope today was the end.
Marty Jackley is a good man. Ravnsborg and Stranahan and the Boz all look bad with their associations of one another.
I think Ravnsborg divorced himself from this mess fairly early in his campaign.
Did he make some early mistakes in his “advisors?”
Yes!
Did he distance himself from them early enough?
I think so.
I echo William’s response. I think Ravnsborg made some errors in his associations, but he did cut ties when he found out the truth about Stranahan and Bosworth. I know his intentions were honorable and that he is an honest person. I look forward to him making a run at another office in the state.
I agree, Ravnsborg had no malicious intent nor did he associate himself with Boz. His run and current speaking engagements show him to have upstanding character. I am looking forward to seeing more from him and hope he is planning to run for office again in the future.
Pat
Ravensborg is speaking in Eureka today at 4:00 PM @ The Wolff Den!!
ask him if he still has an association with Stranahan
Well Ravnsborg is going to be talking about ISIS…there is an S in ISIS, and also in Stranahan, and there is an S in Bosworth….oh my LORD, I see the connections! I will be locked in the bathroom until this blows over!
Jason played his part perfectly in the senate race, but he is delusional if he thinks it earned him the establishment nod for AG.
Interesting juxtaposition of who can and who cannot run for an elected position.
(How in the Hell did pulling baby calves out of snowbanks and tying barbed wire up for 30 years qualify me to be a Legislator?)
You were one of the best Democratic legislators the Democrats had in the legislature.
LOL. Great to see you pYing attention.
Jail time would punish the children.
I suppose she’ll want to appeal, because she craves the attention and her husband can continue the fundraising.
You women amaze me that think of the kids when the parent has done something wrong and have to go to jail. No it’s not hard on the kids this getting caught incident. Being raised by the crazy train is hard on the kids. You don’t think their influence is raising little Annette’s and chads????
Lori Stacey is planning a protest rally. ((Face palm))
Good!
calling for a hunger strike at the protest?
Just like Annette planned for bus loads of supporters to be at the courthouse? Never materialized. Annette and her husband are delusional.
And, Tara (comment below and everywhere else), shame on you. Instead of feeling sorry for her, why don’t you have some sympathy for the woman in Utah she and Chad stole $200k from, or for the poor people she ripped off with the fake raffle, or for the poor patients she subjected to treatment by an unlicensed physicians assistant? Do you have no shame? Could you look each of these people in the eye and say “Annette is a good person and you deserved to be lied to by her?” Annette admitted to cheating Medicare. She has left hard working small business people in FL unpaid for work delivered. She steals – routinely. And everybody including you knows it because she has admitted it over and over again.
She is a serial victimizer of others and your defenses of her show a lack of judgement and perspective. Pray for her? Sure. Put her deplorable behavior ahead of these other people and institutions? No way.
If there is a protest, I hope there is a counter-protest on behalf of all the people she has harmed along with their photos and stories and testimonials. What would you and Lori Stacy say to the real live people she has harmed? That would be worth KELO live streaming.
I think jail time would be appropriate. Of course, SD could not be that lucky to have the spotlight off her for long. And her husband is a media hound that won’t stop either.
I’m sure St. Annette will hold a press conference today, where she will be angry, cry and show the weirdness we have come to love about her. This will be followed by the grassroots launch of the “Free Dr. Boz” movement. If she wants to play this out, keep fighting the corrupt system and bilk the suckers out of another million, send her to county jail for six months.
Maximum sentence in jail and maximum fine. All suspended with probation with the caveat she does anything above a speeding ticket she serves the entire sentence and she agrees to forego ALL fundraising and conducting of raffles. To the extent they can legally and Constitutionally tie activities of her husband to this the better.
P.S. A suspended imposition of sentence would preserve her medical license I believe.
Didnt think you could apply a suspended imp on a felony charge?
Didnt think you could apply a suspended imp on a felony charge?
Yes, you can.
speaking from experience, you most certainly can use a suspended imp on a felony
Ordinarily, I’d say a fine and community service would be sufficient in a case like tis. But if the past is prologue, Bosworth will have her supporters pay the fine, so no impact on her personally. Maybe some county time, maybe have her serve in the women’s prison as an unpaid physician for a time. The tragedy here is that she is a bright and talented woman who made a number of very bad decisions. And the electoral process does actually mean something.
“this” not “tis.” Fat fingers.
The best resolution would be for her to skip the country and never come back. She should be left her passport. Hope springs eternal.
She will see little if any prison time and this will become part of her “fascinating story”. Its all about the donor list and how much she can con out of little old ladies in Florida.
If there has ever been a better time for use of the Janklow bus-ticket-to-California parole condition, I can’t think of it. The sooner we see the backs of this gang of con artists, the better.
Anonymous: “Didnt think you could apply a suspended imp on a felony charge?”
I’m not a lawyer. You probably are right and I learn something every day.
If you are right and the judge has no flexibility to suspend imposition of the sentence, it makes her “strategy” when it came to light she objectively didn’t follow the law and had no reasonable defense (which was prior to the primary wholly crazy and delusional giving support to the idea she might be unfit to practice medicine.
When this came to light, she should have known she was going to lose the primary (delusional if she believed otherwise) and should have offered to withdraw in exchange for a lesser charge which would preserve her license.
The circus could have ended differently with giving her mercy. Now, she is faced with justice and all its consequences.
If she throws herself on the mercy of the court and takes responsibility for her crime she could walk away with no jail or prison time and suspended imposition of sentence which would allow her to keep her medical license. I know for a fact and from experience you can use a suspended imposition on a felony, even multiple felonies.
I agree with another poster though, let her off completely free as long as she, and if possible her husband, can never reside in this state again.
Trying to boil down my thoughts as simply as I can:
1. Jail time seems inappropriate
2. Keeping her medical license also seems inappropriate, but not merely because of this incident, but because this incident was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
3. She seems incredibly naive and maybe a bit nutty, but not evil. I am glad that she did not win office, though.
4. Her husband seems like an absolute piece of shit.
A Suspended Imposition of Sentence is available for a misdemeanor or a felony (within limits, see below), but it is only available once in your lifetime, so use it wisely…from South Dakota Codified Law
SDCL 23A-27-13. Order suspending imposition of sentence and placing defendant on probation–Eligibility–Revocation of suspension. Upon receiving a verdict or plea of guilty for a misdemeanor or felony not punishable by death or life imprisonment by a person never before convicted of a crime which at the time of conviction thereof would constitute a felony in this state, a court having jurisdiction of the defendant, if satisfied that the ends of justice and the best interest of the public as well as the defendant will be served thereby, may, without entering a judgment of guilt, and with the consent of the defendant, suspend the imposition of sentence and place the defendant on probation for such period and upon such terms and conditions as the court may deem best. No person who has previously been granted, whether in this state or any other, a suspended imposition of sentence is eligible to be granted a second suspended imposition of sentence. A court may revoke such suspension at any time during the probationary period and impose and execute sentence without diminishment or credit for any of the probationary period.