Begum Deals with Alleged Extortion

Josefina Canales, pictured to the left




When Yolanda Begum first mentioned to me the alleged extortion attempt by her former daughter-in-law Josefina Canalas, AKA "Scarlett O'Hara", I suggested perhaps a simple Cease and Desist letter could be drafted by her son Alex, an attorney. Since Alex chose to deal head on and publicly through social media, with his statement subsequently published by El Rrun Rrun, I will post Alex's statement as well:


by Alex Begum

"I love social media and the great uses it allows. Like everything else, there is a good and a bad, particularly in politics.

Every candidate running for office endures mixed public comments in politics. However, traditional media usually utilizes fact checking, interviews both sides and presents the issues to the viewer. With the advent of social media, none of this occurs. As such, many things that are written are wholly incorrect or just complete fabrications.

Unfortunately, my late half brothers ex wife has creeped up and attempted to extort my mother. This lady who goes by the screen name of scarlet Ohara is really josefina canales. She has also gone by numerous married names including josefina Auten, josefina myhre and josefina begum. She claims to have gone to Harvard on her face book, although she never attended this college and does not have a college degree. This lady has a long and sordid history.

Recently, she attempted to extort my mother by sending her a Facebook message. She said that if my mother did not pay her, she would bad mouth her on the Internet. Of course, my mother refused to pay her one single penny!

We are in the process of reporting her actions to the authorities and looking at additional legal options.

I guess this is the unfortunate part of politics......no wonder why many good folks refuse to run for office. You get these looney people coming out of the woodwork.....

Onward!"