Those were the ingredients that eventually led to the political and professional demise of a state representative Thursday when a federal prosecutor announced that Cooper pleaded guilty to two federal felonies.

Cooper's scheme was uncovered when the trucker tried crossing the Canadian border. The trucker had in his possession a letter on Cooper's legal office stationery that claimed he was waiting for a visa renewal to work for another firm. The letter was noticed by a federal border guard, assistant federal prosecutor Jim Crowe said.

"It seemed odd to him," Crowe said of the guard's response. "It probably would have worked real well with a state patrol person if they had seen it."

Now Cooper, a Cape Girardeau Republican who serves the 158th district, faces 30 to 37 months in prison. He said he will resign his House seat. He will also lose his license to practice law. "

In addition, the Southeast Missourian is reporting that...

"Cooper built his law practice on immigration law. He had a large number of clients who owned trucking companies, including Pullen Bros. Inc. of Sikeston, Mo., and CalArk Trucking of Mabelvale, Ark. The companies faced shortages of qualified drivers.

To fill the need, Cooper formed Retail Trucking LLC and Speedy Express LLC and obtained visas for drivers he claimed he intended to employ. He allowed the truckers to remain on the payroll of their original employers. Neither of Cooper's companies owned or leased trucks or paid the drivers directly, Crowe said.

Crowe would not say whether the investigation would include charges against the trucking firms. "The people he was representing are very savvy business people, particularly in their industry, and make heavy use of foreign truckers."

Their likely defense, Crowe said, is that they relied on Cooper's advice and guidance. "These people have been involved in using foreign drivers a lot longer than Nathan Cooper has been a lawyer."

Dispatchers at Pullen Bros. Inc. and CalArk trucking said Thursday night the owners were out of the office and unavailable for comment.

The visas Cooper sought for the drivers indicated they were seasonal workers to be used for a limited time to complete a surge of work. But the companies that used the drivers have a year-round need for employees that does not slacken significantly in any season, Crowe said.

The companies Cooper created were complete frauds, Crowe added. "Those entities have no existence beyond the piece of paper that reflects their existence."

Eerie Similarites with another Missouri Trucking Scandal

While the article mentions that the truck driver that was caught on the U.S. / Canadian border was from New Zealand, it also mentions that the fraudulent visas came from a Phillipines born U.S. citizen.

One has to wonder if any of the immigrant truck drivers that were "clients" of Cooper's were Muslim.

The story is eerily similar to a story that made national news in March , 2006. Information obtained from Debbie Schlussel{.Com} via the Free Republic website states that...

"The latest, as reported by Kansas City media, is the South Central Career Center Truck Training Program in West Plains, Missouri, in South Central Missouri. A whopping 60% (SIXTY PERCENT!) of those who took a CDL test there from May 2004 to December 2005 had Mid-East names. Hello? . . .

And, as usual, your tax dollars probably paid the bill. That particular truck driver's school is run by Missouri's West Plains public school district, as part of vocational training. Watch the well-done, frightening video news report."

Fortunately, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (a fancy name for a group that hasn't done much) raided the school, and the Missouri Highway Patrol has blocked the school from testing new students or issuing further licenses"

It would also explain why a "Conservative" Republican like Cooper, as a member of the Special Committee on Urban Issues , voted "do pass" to send HCR-26, (a bill that would have required Missouri to apologize for slavery) to the House floor.

Cooper Sided with Muslims on Special Committee

Rep.Jamilah Nasheed   Rep. Talibdin El-Amin

Is it is a coincidence that the Special Committee on Urban Issues included St. Louis Muslim representatives Talibin El-Amin (the bill's sponsor) and Jamilah Nasheed?

It is ironic that Rep. Cooper, who has proven himself to be a politically-correct South hater, and a friend of globalist entities, who want to drive down trucking industry salaries, via fraudulent immigration schemes, is being convicted by U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway who runs the Eastern Distric of Missouri.

After all it was under Hanaway's, authority as Missouri House Speaker, that a bill which would have restored the Confederate Flags at Higginsville and Pilot Knob, Missouri, which Democrat Bob Holden ordered removed, was killed. Hanaway, claiming that the protection and restoration of Missouri history was "third rail" politics.

The South-haters are starting to eat their own. Now would be the pefect time for Missouri Democrats to realign themselves with the Southern-Conservative principles that allowed them to hold Missouri from the days of post-Reconstruction, until 2004.

Clint, Missouri Bushwhacker

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