Fake Ike Skelton Twitter Page Includes Axiom, Shawn Bell, and Patrick J. Binning

It's been about 24 hours since the news of a fake Scott Eckersley e-mail hit the airwaves on KSPR announcing he was dropping out of the race. That e-mail came for a Yahoo! account and was sent from an ISP in Addison, IL. A few hours later after the initial investigation, a lead was developed from a LFStrategies Twitter entry that promoted a fake Scott Eckersley Twitter Account.

LFStrategies is short of Lakefront Strategies, a political consulting firm ran by Patrick Binning in Glendale Heights, Illinois which borders Addison. Shortly after 5:00 PM last night, Binning began deleting an electronic trail of information for the tweet that promoted the fake Scott Eckersley Web site to his Linked In page that shows a possible connection to Billy Long himself. Fortunately, we took screen shot and saved those Web pages for Eckersley's attorney.

Digging last night turned up another interesting note to add to this story of the fake Eckersley e-mail. It turns out there was also a fake Ike Skelton Twitter account on the Web. While this account was more of a joke than any attempt to unlawfully tamper with an election, which the e-mail clearly did, there are three names that appear on the fake Ike Skelton twitter page.

They are:

Axiom Strategies--Billy Long's political consulting firm.

Shawn M. Bell--who began calling bloggers up yesterday afternoon begging to take his name off of any reference to the fake e-mail and James Harris' tweet that announced Scott Eckersley dropped out of the race. Bell retweeted the Harris tweet and then both Harris and Bell deleted their tweets without any correction.

Then finally, Patrick J. Binning--He too is listed as a follower to the fake Ike Skelton Twitter account.

How much involvement did these three have in the fake Scott Eckersley e-mail and Twitter account is still unknown, but it does seem interesting they all three appear on the fake Ike Skelton page. What's more interesting is Binning is trying to hide his electronic tracks that show his possible connections to Billy Long.

You can also see, the fake Ike Skelton page, which too has been deleted, was talked about as recently as October 22, 2010 by Shawn M. Bell on his Twitter account.