Scott Ashjian Arrest Looms? Tea Party Pretender Scott Ashjian Lawsuits

Scott Ashjian, a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Las Vegas, may be facing arrest. Ashjian filed to run for office under the Tea Party Nevada ticket, but Tea Party members in the area, say he is definitely not one them.

Scott Ashjian

Ashjian, who says he has 27 small businesses wrote a $5,000 hot check from his now-defunct asphalt business. He is charged with a felony. The Nevada Clark Count District Attorney has filed paperwork requesting Ashjian's arrest and is awaiting a judge's signature.

Apparently Ashjian does not plan to pay the debt, even though:

A spokesperson for the DA's office tells CNN these types of cases are often dismissed without charges if the debt is paid. 

In a television interview recently, he said he he was not aware about the charges. 

Nevada Tea Parties insist Ashjian is working on behalf of Democrat Senator Harry Reid, and attempting to "siphon" votes from conservative candidates. Tea Party Express sent a videotape message to Ashjian, saying "get lost."

Tim Fasano, a candidate running on the Independent American Party platform, has filed a lawsuit against Scott Ashjian, trying to get Ashjian's name removed from the ballot.

Fasano argues Ashjian was not a member of the Tea Party when he filled out paperwork to run for office and therefore isn't legally entitled to run....

Mr. Ashjian apparently doesn't believe he needs to follow the rules

And Fasano accused Ashjian of trying "to usurp the Tea Party's good name" to "run for the Senate as a Trojan horse to bleed off conservatives votes." 

ChicagoRay has commentary on a possible Ashjian arrest, and some interesting information from Laura Ingraham's 'Need to Know."

Background on Ashjian:
Scott Ashjian Felony Theft Charge: Tea Party Pretender?

Jon Scott Ashjian is Harry Reid Mole in Tea Party Disguise?

Scott Ashjian Felony Theft Charge: Tea Party Sues Scott Ashjian Tea Party Pretender?

This week I posted on Scott Ashjian, a Nevada businessman claiming to run on a Tea Party platform, who had questionable business dealings, and a lien placed on his home for non-payment of taxes.  Yesterday, Ashjian was charged with felony theft and bad check charges in Las Vegas. But that's not all, Tea Partiers have filed their own lawsuit against a man they claim is a Tea Party Pretender.

Jon Scott Ashjian

According to one filing, Ashjian "bounced a $5,000 check last year." In another lawsuit:

 In a separate matter, a Carson City District Court judge on Friday set an April 14 hearing on a lawsuit that challenges Ashjian’s membership in the Tea Party of Nevada and his place on the ballot. Documents filed with the lawsuit appear to show that Ashjian changed his voter registration on March 2, the day after he filed his declaration of candidacy.

Read the original story here with a video from the Tea Party Express.