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Muchas gracias, Maura, for latest sham

Howie Carr · Friday, October 23, 2026 𝕏f✉
This photo shows one of the alleged co-conspirators taking pictures of a phony wedding in order to legitimize their fake marriage and to apply for benefits. (Courtesy U.S. Attorney’s Office)
This photo shows one of the alleged co-conspirators taking pictures of a phony wedding in order to legitimize their fake marriage and to apply for benefits. (Courtesy U.S. Attorney’s Office)

Who do you suppose Jennifer Gonzalez is supporting for governor of Massachusetts this year?

She’s just another 43-year-old welfare freeloader from Fall River – an obvious clue.

Gonzalez has just been charged with making millions over the last decade, orchestrating dozens of scam marriages for illegal aliens who want to join her on the dole here in the US.

You’ve seen the polls that show that most residents realize just how dismal life has become in Massachusetts, even if they plan to vote for the incumbent governor.

Until her arrest, however, Gonzalez saw no problems whatsoever with the state. Here are some of the comments that the feds recorded her making about Gov. Healey’s benevolent stewardship:

"Until her arrest, however, Gonzalez saw no problems whatsoever with the state."

“Massachusetts is the best place for you to be!” she gushed to the feds’ Brazilian informant. “That is a fact.”

Why, senorita, is the Bay State such a bueno place for Third World cholos under the Democrats?

“You get health insurance!” she said. “Um, you get a lot of help as an immigrant here.”

Help means welfare, free stuff, for not working, which is the goal of all illegal aliens flopping into Massachusetts. The gringos pay for everything.

“Help” also means that if you’re an “immigrant,” Maura Healey’s cops give you a good leaving-alone, as we will learn later, from Senorita Gonzalez’s own lengthy rap sheet.

“Massachusetts,” she continued in her pidgin English, “it saves a safe haven for immigration… immigrants, right?

Immigrants means cholos. Bad hombres.

BTW, Gonzalez was in fact born here, even though she repeatedly calls the Dominican Republic “my country.” That’s the Third World bleephole where the mayor and state rep of Lawrence were born. They’ve both been indicted for hundreds of thousands of dollars in welfare fraud.

They’re both Democrats as well. Aren’t they all?

As she made millions from grifting illegal aliens, how much welfare money was Maura Healey lavishing upon her?

During Gonzalez seven-year crime spree, the feds say, Gonzalez “spent $124,526.30 of SNAP benefit money.”

Muchas gracias, Maura!

Then there was her now-deceased “husband.”

“(He) spent an additional $23,773.08 of SNAP benefit money.”

At this point, I’m tentatively going to mark Gonzalez down as leaning towards Healey. I wonder how she feels about President Trump. Turns out, he’s been bad for her business, which is crime.

The recession in Gonzalez’s marriage-fraud business began in late 2024.

“That’s when Trump was becoming a president, you know,” she explained. She feared that the evil Republicans might start enforcing the law. She had to move fast, she said on the feds’ bug, before the Americans took over again.

“There was a lot of immigration powers,” she explained. “… My batch of people, I married them, I make sure they have their documents. And I didn’t work 2025 because immigration was a little bit harsh.”

If only Kamala Harris had won, illegal-alien crime would still be running wide open nationwide, just as it continues to right here in Maura Healey’s Massachusetts.

“Because this state is a sanctuary,” Gonzalez reiterated. “Alright? Like, Trump doesn’t like this state because the government from here, the, the state defends us very much.”

At this point, I’m going to move the senorita from the “likely” into the “solid” Maura Healey column.

Four of her five co-conspirators were also on food stamps. One of them’s already in prison. Nobody in Maura Healey’s government knew nothing about nobody. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before….

The feds list (some of) Gonzalez’s criminal history in Massachusetts:

“A 2016 conviction for Assault and Battery for which she was sentenced to one year of incarceration; a 2013 conviction for multiple counts of Identity Fraud and Fraud for which she was initially sentenced to 18 months of incarceration; a 2011 conviction for Illegal Entry without Breaking In and Possession of Burglarious Tools….”

And so on. However, the G-men were being charitable in their criminal complaint. A deeper dive into her rap sheet turns up, among so many other charges, mostly dismissed, dating back to when she was 18 years old:

Manufacture of counterfeiting equipment in 2001, entering dwelling at night for felony in 2010, multiple shoplifting charges, A&B on a pregnant victim in 2015, vandalizing in 2015, violation of a harassment prevention order (April of this year), etc. etc.

As she bragged to the feds’ informant, “I’ve had a very successful career.”

But with Trump as president, life isn’t as simple as it was under Democrat government. Some cops – federal, not state of course – were actually starting to enforce the law.

“Like, we’re in a new government, things are a little bit more difficult, things a little bit more straightforward, and it’s something very difficult.”

Something very difficult indeed – like having to obey the laws, as Americans not on the dole are expected to do.

And even worse, maybe Gonzalez et al. would have work for a living, something Gonzalez and the millions like her know absolutely nothing about.

Jennifer Gonzalez ought to be in a TV spot for Maura Healey.

She’s everything the Democrats’ one-party control in Massachusetts has brought us.

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