Despite what the Obama administration and the mainstream media would like you to believe the Pigford settlements that were meant to go to black farmers discriminated against by the USDA have been a massive fraud.

The Pigford Shakedown: How the Black Farmers’ Cause Was Hijacked by Politicians, Trial Lawyers & Community Organizers — Leaving Us With a Billion Dollar Tab

By Gary Hewson, Peter Schweizer, and Andrew Breitbart

“It [Pigford] is a fair settlement, it is a just settlement, we think it’s important for congress to fund that settlement. We’re going to continue to make it a priority.”

–President Obama, September 10, 2010 press conference

“[Pigford is] the largest scam against the federal taxpayers in the history of the United States.”

–USDA Employee John Stringfellow

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Me & Mrs. Sherrod — And The $1.25 Billion Pigford II Black Farmers’ Settlement

By Andrew Breitbart

“I stumbled on the Pigford story in my defense of the Tea Party, so it’s a sweet irony that the Pigford story is exactly the kind of mess that makes the Tea Party so necessary. Politicians and trial attorneys bonded together to rip off the taxpayer, and even those farmers that were discriminated against were royally screwed.

Let me be clear, our investigation convincingly leads us to believe the USDA practiced discrimination against black farmers. Those wrongs must be rectified. But Pigford is wrought with a grotesque amount of fraud, while the truly aggrieved were mostly left high and dry.”

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Pigford: Obama’s Down Payment on the 2012 Rural South Vote

By Gary Hewson

The judge in the Pigford case refused to re-open the settlement for these late claimants, and in 2007 Barack Obama single-handedly ignored the checks and balances of our system of government, and overturned the work of our judicial branch and a Clinton-appointed judge.

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Pigford: It’s the Fraud, Stupid (Not Race)

By Peter Schweizer

Eddie Slaughter, with the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association, has looked at the USDA numbers which show that there are far more claims than there were black farmers in America. He has said, “What that means is that most of these people were never farmers, because the farmers had loans.” Another organization, Concerned Black Farmers of Tennessee, tracked 70 individual Pigford claims in Tipton County and found that 63 percent of those that were approved had no records to establish that they had ever even farmed. Yet, each of those individuals received a check from the USDA for $50,000.

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