WARNOCK MISREPRESENTS HALF-BROTHER’S CONVICTION: Sen. Ralph Warnock (D-GA) not infrequently points to his half-brother’s conviction in 1997 on drug-trafficking charges as the product of “systemic racism.”

Alana Goodman of The Washington Free Beacon reached a radically different conclusion after reviewing hundreds of pages of documents in the case:

“But hundreds of pages of court records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon tell a more complicated story: Coleman was a cop with the Savannah Police Department when he was convicted of facilitating a cross-country cocaine trafficking operation in 1996 and 1997 — and once warned that he could send a drug dealer’s ‘black ass’ to prison if the dealer didn’t pay Coleman more money.

“The details conflict with Warnock’s accounts, which omit that Coleman was a police officer and portray him as a victim of law enforcement corruption rather than a participant in it.”

More specifically, Goodman explains that:

“Prosecutors allege Coleman received $46,000 in dirty payments and helped traffic a total of 28.2 kilograms of cocaine between November 1996 and March 1997.

“On Nov. 21, 1997, Coleman was convicted by a jury of conspiring and attempting to aid and abet the distribution of cocaine, and with carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking offense. He was sentenced to life in prison, and two of his co-conspirators were sentenced to 17 years and 19 years, respectively.”

Warnock lobbied President Barack Obama for a presidential pardon for his half-brother and has often compared the emotional toll on his family with that suffered by the families of Black victims of police brutality.

Georgia voters will deliver their own verdict on Warnock in November.