Their list of political misdeeds are lengthy..but we have Iraq and 'gasp" a politician looking for free blowjobs...from guys ::)...next scandal. I think its the Dems turn...maybe one will turn out to be a "furry" caught buggering a sheep or something.
How did you do for what? You really want to compare lists, you'll lose...
If I recall correctly the Gov of NJ, the Mayor of SF and LA all eventually admitted what they did and took responsibility - unlike Repub's who just deny, deny, deny
Wrong. They "admitted" and "took responsibility" only after they were outed. Pretty much every man who gets caught denies until they are cornered, from Bill Clinton to Newt Gingrich.
There is nothing to deny until there is an accusation. In the cases you mentioned the people involved pretty quickly admitted guilt and RESPONSIBILITY. Also, I think the SF Mayor might have "outed" himself, no doubt to get ahead of the story.
The Repugs usually LIE and DENY right up until the time their convicted and then they get in front of a camera and start crying and usually blame alchohol (OK Newsom did that too but at least he was banging a hot chick - the ony bad thing was that it was his best friends wife)
Think Bob Ney, Duke Cunningham, Abramoff, Safavian, etc.....
I'm particularly put off by Newsome. Sleeping with your campaign manager's wife is about as low as you can get IMO. Amazing how these brazen losers refuse to resign after getting caught with their pants down.
If some sort of corruption related to your elected duties is uncovered, then you should be drummed out of office.
But sleeping around? That has nothing to do with your effectiveness as a politician.
Politicians throughout history are notorious for infidelity. We're gonna expect them to keep it zipped, all of a sudden, because the media has devolved into a collection of busybodies with hidden cameras?
If any of these public figures had scruples they would keep their pants up and avoid breaking the law while they are holding a position of public trust. None of those guys "quickly admitted" guilt. That's absurd. They "admitted" only after they were caught. Even Bill Clinton denied until they found the semen stained dress. All of those guys have the same m.o. (deny until there is conclusive proof they actually did it).
I'm particularly put off by Newsome. Sleeping with your campaign manager's wife is about as low as you can get IMO. Amazing how these brazen losers refuse to resign after getting caught with their pants down.
except when it comes to pedophiles, then it's a bit lopsided ;) Well there's also a big problem if you're comparing the parties over the last 8 years. Scandals on the republican side are amassing at an alarming rate. And it's not for lack of keeping an eye on dems, I'm sure they're watched by republicans pretty close for the smallest infraction. Are both sides made up of a bunch of repugnant human beings, well I can't say you're wrong there. It's just clear to me that the most extreme of the repugnant clowns seem to gather under the Republican Banner.
Their list of political misdeeds are lengthy..but we have Iraq and 'gasp" a politician looking for free blowjobs...from guys ::)...next scandal. I think its the Dems turn...maybe one will turn out to be a "furry" caught buggering a sheep or something.
That guy wasn't looking to pay to get a BJ, ...he was looking to pay to give one ;D
Report: Hillary Clinton Big Money Donor Wanted for Grand Theft
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton
A Democratic fundraiser who has raised $1 million for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says he has done nothing wrong and has asked no favors in return, but Norman Hsu didn't mention that he's a wanted man.
A California prosecutor says Hsu pleaded no contest to grand theft, was sentenced to three years in prison and then disappeared, The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295031,00.html
What is going on with these Democrats? Fieger indicted for illegal campaign contributions to Edwards. http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=164964.0
Married L.A. mayor sleeping with a news reporter who covers him. http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=157718.0
S.F. mayor sleeping with his campaign manager's wife. http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=123851.0
Married New Jersey mayor having homosexual affair. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/12/mcgreevey.nj/
Member of Congress accepting bribes. http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=152739.0
How did I do Berserker? :D
I will say this on behalf of the Clintons, ...I knew a guy who donated money to one of their campaigns. I think it might have been Hilary's initial bid for Senate...about $200 G's. My understanding is Hilary sent the money back... wouldn't take it. I contacted a mutual friend, we had in common, and told her "did you hear so & so just tried to donate $2 hundred thousand to hilary's campaign... and she refused to accept it?" We had the longest mutual belly laugh over that one. I mean how sleazy do you have to be that a politician refuses your money? {LOL} It was a good thing too. Later I read in the Hollywood Reporter he was indicted for SEC fraud in connection with an entertainment company he took public. I won't say the name 'cause it's one you've all heard about. But the CEO of that one managed to escape without any charges against him. A while later, they had arrested him in South America and extradited him back to the US.
Bump for John Edwards.
Report: Hillary Clinton Big Money Donor Wanted for Grand Theft
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton
A Democratic fundraiser who has raised $1 million for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says he has done nothing wrong and has asked no favors in return, but Norman Hsu didn't mention that he's a wanted man.
A California prosecutor says Hsu pleaded no contest to grand theft, was sentenced to three years in prison and then disappeared, The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
. . .
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295031,00.html
What is going on with these Democrats? Fieger indicted for illegal campaign contributions to Edwards. http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=164964.0
Married L.A. mayor sleeping with a news reporter who covers him. http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=157718.0
S.F. mayor sleeping with his campaign manager's wife. http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=123851.0
Married New Jersey mayor having homosexual affair. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/12/mcgreevey.nj/
Member of Congress accepting bribes. http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=152739.0
How did I do Berserker? :D
Ok, now this one I don't get... The guy was an OF AGE consenting adult... 18 is not a crime.
What's the big deal on this one?
Democrats dominating the list.
Of course he lied about it... Everyone was trying to act like the guy was underaged, which he was NOT.
This is like Clinton lying about a blowjob... a complete sham.
It's a story that shouldn't have even been brought up during the election in the first place.
Nothing legit about it.
If he tells the truth, he doesn't get elected... You can't have it both ways Beach.
I'm saying their sex lives shouldn't be questioned in regards to them being elected to office.
Why the hell is it always some Republican's first thing to talk about who someone else is fucking?
No... they should say it's none of your business... but then you Neo cons wouldn't like that answer.
So they are FORCED to lie because it's NONE of your damn business.
Did you get upset when Bush lied all of those times?
Both sides have loads of misconduct, its just more democrats in the last few months. Thats why we need to monitor the people elected to represent us. Transparency is good.
What's ridiculous is asking a person about their sex life for a public office... THAT is ridiculous.
I'd lie too... because it's none of your damn business... I'd tell you I was busy fucking a purple elephant at the time.
Neo Cons always want to ask someone about who they're fucking.
Report: Hillary Clinton Big Money Donor Wanted for Grand Theft
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton
A Democratic fundraiser who has raised $1 million for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says he has done nothing wrong and has asked no favors in return, but Norman Hsu didn't mention that he's a wanted man.
A California prosecutor says Hsu pleaded no contest to grand theft, was sentenced to three years in prison and then disappeared, The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
. . .
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295031,00.html
It assumes that being in a committed relationship with a good wife isn't "fun." There are plenty of men who don't fantasize about cheating on their spouse and making a tape of the misdeed.
Can't leave the GOP out of here.
GOP lawmaker pleads no contest to drunken driving
The Associated Press
Posted: 04/14/2010 10:59:08 AM PDT
Updated: 04/14/2010 10:59:08 AM PDT
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—State Sen. Roy Ashburn has pleaded no contest to misdemeanor drunken driving after an episode that forced the Bakersfield Republican to acknowledge he is gay.
He was sentenced to two days in jail and three years' probation. He also was ordered to pay $2,000 in fines and fees and had his driver's license was suspended for 30 days.
Ashburn entered his plea Wednesday. Sacramento County prosecutors said he had a blood alcohol level of .15, nearly double the legal limit, when his state-provided vehicle was stopped by the California Highway Patrol.
Reports that the conservative senator had been at a gay-friendly nightclub near the state Capitol prompted Ashburn to acknowledge his sexual orientation. Ashburn, who is 55, is not running for re-election.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14882221?nclick_check=1
Nah... I'm gonna put up GOP misdeeds right here next to yours. :)
I just want the thread to be fair and balanced.
I agree though... I would love to have 4 or 5 parties all equal in this country.
Also, it's much more effective to think independently instead of relying on out-of-context quotes by others.
I'm just sayin. Both parties' crime records is miles and miles long.
NY attorney general sues state Senate leader
By MICHAEL GORMLEY (AP) – 4 hours ago
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ALBANY, N.Y. — The majority leader of New York's Senate is accused of siphoning $14 million from his government-funded clinic in the Bronx for lavish restaurant meals, trips to Las Vegas and his own campaign, according to a civil lawsuit announced Tuesday by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
The suit against Democratic Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. covers five years of spending, the last two of which Espada spent as a senator representing the Bronx. The suit also names 19 other current and former officials of Espada's Comprehensive Community Development Corp., known locally as Soundview and operating on about $12 million annually, mostly from state and federal government funds.
Cuomo said Espada diverted charitable assets to himself, relatives, friends and his political operation.
There was no immediate comment from Espada, who had called Cuomo's investigation a "witch hunt" to boost the attorney general's political career. Cuomo is widely expected to run for governor this fall but has not announced his candidacy.
Cuomo said the dealing included a severance package for Espada worth $9 million that was guaranteed and would send the clinic into bankruptcy if it's paid out. Cuomo said the CEO and the Soundview board, which he said is "packed" with Espada's friends and relatives, approved the 2005 transaction.
"Siphoning money from a charity would be egregious under any circumstances, but the fact that this was orchestrated by the state Senate majority leader makes it especially reprehensible," Cuomo said. "In New York, no one is above the law, and this suit should finally make that clear to Senator Espada."
Espada is the freshman senator who was instrumental in the coup that gridlocked the chamber last summer. The impasse ended when he left the Republican-led coalition to return the majority to Democrats, each time extracting a lucrative leadership title.
Cuomo said the clinic spent about $80,000 in restaurant bills for 650 meals for Espada or his supporters — an average of about $120 per meal — including more than 200 meals worth $20,000 at two sushi restaurants where Espada frequently ordered takeout. Cuomo also claims that funds were inappropriately used for Espada trips, including to Las Vegas and Puerto Rico and to rent a residence required to establish residency in the district for his Senate race in 2008.
In response to a reporter's question, Cuomo said nothing in the investigation shows misconduct by Espada in his role as a senator or in his direction of discretionary legislative grants known as "member items."
Cuomo said the case is about Espada's use of state and federal funds and whether he was truthful in applying for and spending the money. Cuomo said no action taken by the Senate, government agencies or oversight officials in the grant process is being questioned.
The lawsuit seeks restitution and removal of Espada and the board of directors from the nonprofit clinic.
There are no criminal charges. A felony conviction would cost Espada his Senate seat; the Democrats have a 32-30 majority in the Senate. Cuomo said the decision to go with a civil suit "at this time" was a legal strategy, not a political calculation involving Espada's seat.
Cuomo also said evidence supports long-standing accusations that Espada lived in Mamaroneck, not in his Bronx district as required.
"That is a question that is being raised and is being looked at," Cuomo said.
Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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And you guys wonder why I hate democrats and their big govt hacks and moron voters?
Every democrat on this board who votes for people like Espada can go kill themselves and I would light a Cigar.
nowBuzz up!FDA withdraws controversial approval of knee implant
Friday, October 15, 2010
BY KATHLEEN LYNN
The Record
STAFF WRITER
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HACKENSACK — The Food and Drug Administration is withdrawing its approval of a knee implant created by ReGen Biologics Inc. of Hackensack, a year after saying the approval had been influenced by four members of New Jersey's congressional delegation.
The Menaflex device, which was approved in December 2008, "should not have been cleared for marketing in the United States," the FDA said in a statement Thursday. The device was designed to help repair knee cartilage called the meniscus.
ReGen's CEO, Gerald E. Bisbee Jr., said in a statement that the financially troubled, 20-year-old company "is currently weighing its options."
"The product has been approved and in use successfully in Europe for nearly 10 years with approximately 3,000 patients, and there has never been a safety issue associated with the device," Bisbee's statement said.
The FDA said Thursday that patients who have had the device implanted probably would not need to have it removed because it is absorbed and replaced with new tissue. The FDA advised patients to consult their doctors.
In a review last spring, an FDA panel called the product "reasonably safe" but said there was not enough evidence to say it's effective.
In its statement Thursday, the FDA said Menaflex should not have been given a "fast-track" approval based on the performance of similar devices, because there are too many differences between the products.
Menaflex was designed to provide a scaffold to encourage the growth of new tissue after the meniscus is torn, a common injury.
Menaflex, which sold for about $1,600 per unit, is one of two ReGen products. The other is a suturing device used with Menaflex.
In the past, ReGen accused the FDA of treating it unfairly and said that it turned to the congressional delegation only after becoming frustrated with the FDA review process. ReGen gave a total of $28,000 to U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez and Frank Lautenberg and Reps.
Steve Rothman and Frank Pallone in 2007 and 2008.
The FDA said in September 2009 that its decision to approve the Menaflex was influenced by pressure from the four officials. It also said that a former head of the agency, Andrew von Eschenbach, became involved in details usually left to the scientific staff, allegedly in response to the congressional pressure. Von Eschenbach denied acting improperly.
It was the first time that the agency had publicly questioned its own approval process or admitted to political influence.
At the time, all four Democratic lawmakers denied pressuring the agency, saying that they had only requested fair treatment for ReGen.
Rothman issued a statement Thursday criticizing the FDA, which he said "has mismanaged this issue and this product from the very beginning."
"It's unfortunate that a product that could have helped thousands of Americans each year is no longer available on the market," Rothman said. "This product could have saved people pain, recovery time and health care costs."
ReGen's stock, which trades over the counter, closed Thursday unchanged, at 17 cents.
E-mail: lynn@northjersey.com
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Yeah - I got illegals all over the nabe I want booted out. How much is it going to cost me to get my Dem congressscum to get off their asses to take action on it?
Whatever Beach... Like John McCain didn't leave his wife for a chick with more money.
This thread exudes hypocrisy.
It's a reference based upon how you only bring up the Democrats who fuck up, not the Republicans.
Let's be honest... I don't have the time to go around looking at all of the stuff Republicans do that are fucked up.
You must have a lot of free time on your hands.
If I had the free time to not sit in front of a computer, I certainly wouldn't.
GORDON HINTZ: "YOU ARE F'N DEAD!"
By Charlie Sykes
Story Created: Feb 28, 2011
Last week, we heard thatState Rep. Gordon Hintz (D-Oshkosh) had been busted in a prostitution sting.
State Rep. Gordon Hintz was issued a municipal citation in Appleton earlier this month for violating a city sexual misconduct ordinance.
Appleton police said the citation was issued Feb. 10 in conjunction with an ongoing investigation of Heavenly Touch Massage Parlor, 342 W. Wisconsin Ave., in Appleton. Police searched the business and a nearby residence in the 1300 block of North Division Street Jan. 28, after investigators had staked out the properties for several days after receiving a tip.
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http://www.620wtmj.com/shows/charliesykes/117064153.html?blog=y
Did you see the story about the obama/emanuel adie who just resigned for corruption?
Missed it. Been busy.
Look it up. Culture of corruption.
Obama
:)
http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/3472371
I've always loathed that thief. Edwards was the worst of the worst. Sort of like the LW Huckabee
Edwards and Huckabee are not in the same universe. As far as we know, Huck didn't run for president while cheating on his terminally ill wife, telling the public he was a devoted family man, impregnate his mistress within days of taking a picture with his wife celebrating a wedding anniversary, and pay his mistress nearly $1 million in hush money.
I've always loathed that thief. Edwards was the worst of the worst. Sort of like the LW Huckabee
I thought this was a country of innocent until proven guilty.
Sad you're ready to lock him up.
Oh, I wasn't really talking about you... but I think 240 said to lock him up and there are others who probably agree.
I am always an innocent until proven guilty kind of person.
Haha... exactly.. guilty because you want it to be.
That CAD!!!
BWAHAHA!
Elizabeth Edwards’ revenge from the grave: She 'secretly recorded death-bed video testimony'
Daily Mail ^ | 8th June 2011 | John Stevens
Posted on June 8, 2011 9:39:05 PM EDT by tlb
In a final act of revenge, Elizabeth Edwards secretly recorded a testimony in her dying days that helped prosecutors indict husband John last week, it was claimed today.
John Edwards is due to stand trial on charges that could lead to a 30-year jail sentence after he pleaded not guilty on Friday to using $925,000 in campaign funds to cover up an affair and love child.
The estranged wife of the former presidential candidate is alleged to have filmed a damning testimony that was central to the prosecution’s case for charges.
Friends said the cancer victim, who died in December, wanted to ‘haunt’ her estranged husband and his mistress Rielle Hunter, with whom he fathered a child and made a sex tape
Bruce Baron, an expert on federal law, said: ‘The value of a potential dying declaration, or tape, containing the testimony of Elizabeth Edwards, is devastating to any case or defence that Edwards would have.
‘On the secret video, Elizabeth spells out everything she knew about John’s affair with Rielle and how he managed to cover it up for so long,’ a source told the Enquirer.
‘She also spills all of John’s lies – many of which could be what sends him up the river.’
‘Elizabeth wanted to haunt John and Rielle – literally from her grave – and she has,’ the source told the Enquirer.
‘She hated them with a vengeance. This was a woman who took her final breath in the same bed where John once had sex with his mistress.’
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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Hours after Rep. Anthony Weiner's resignation became official, a sexual harassment case involving Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) resurfaced.
Gary Fields and Brody Mullins report for the Wall Street Journal that the independent Office of Congressional Ethics is now investigating a claim that Hastings sexually harassed a woman working on his staff.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110622/pl_yblog_theticket/rep-alcee-hastings-investigated-for-sexual-harassment
When I'm 56 I'll be banging every 18 year old I can.
Only some judgmental prick thinks he can judge what 2 consenting adults do.
Uh, it was unwanted, not consenual and to the daughter of a hs friend. Sorry - he is a disgusting scumbag, pervert, and pig.
You think Hugh Hefner is a pervert?
Judgmental prick.
Why don't you worry about your own life? You certainly are a busy body.
There are laws against this if it was not consensual.
What he did may be a crime.
Yeah... you might be in the closet.
1/2 the playboy playmates are between 18 and 20... You must be gay.
Yes, yes I am... and I think 18 year old hotties are in fact "hot".
I don't want to date them or have a relationship because they are annoying, but to have sex with... They are FANTASTIC.
Only gay men don't like attractive women.
No, because it's illegal.... Fag.
I do appreciate the female form though... even if they are 17 they certainly can be sexy and attractive. That's why I will try to police my daughter when she is a teen.
If you're saying otherwise, then once again you're being disagreeable just to do so... You have no real basis.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59734.html ^ | July 23, 2011 | John Bresnahan
Posted on July 23, 2011 10:13:12 PM EDT by Free ThinkerNY
Rep. David Wu spoke to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other top Democrats on Saturday about his political future in the wake of allegations of a sexual encounter with a teenager, but it is not clear whether the Oregon Democrat will step down from office.
Wu has been accused of having an “unwanted sexual encounter” with the teenage daughter of a longtime friendlast year over Thanksgiving weekend. The teenager, whose identity has not been disclosed, and her family have not filed any criminal complaint against the longtime lawmaker, but the incident, the second accusation of inappropriate sexual behavior against Wu, is “extremely troubling” to Pelosi and other Democrats, say Democratic insiders.
Pelosi has been in the Capitol all day as she and other congressional leaders are struggling to reach a deal to raise the U.S. government’s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling before a default deadline of Aug. 2. Pelosi said she was too busy to comment on the Wu scandal.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Yes, I could, but I keep my age at the voting age for girls.
You might as well come out of the closet now.
Really, that's where you wanna go? You're saying I'm some kind of child molester? Really?
Basically, you're just saying you don't like women.
That's not the issue YOU made it about... You made it about an 18 year old who is an adult having sex with another adult... PERIOD.
Just admit you are gay.
Whatever you say. You're the one who has sex with 18 year old girls, at 36 or whatever the heck you are. Friggin pervert.
Bb, what is the acceptable range between consenting adults, for it not to be perverted?
When did I say I had sex with teenagers?
Yes, yes I am... and I think 18 year old hotties are in fact "hot".
I don't want to date them or have a relationship because they are annoying, but to have sex with... They are FANTASTIC.
The age thing is one thing - but hitting on a friends' daughter?
Come on - that is just wrong.
July 26, 2011
Kerry spokesman stripped of Silver Star
Thomas Lifson
John F. Kerry almost became president running on the basis of his alleged heroism in Vietnam. Thanks to the efforts of a group of truth-tellers, the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, the serious holes in the fantasy narrative propounded by the Kerry campaign came to the attention of enough Americans that John Kerry was not the first faux-Irish President of the United States.
One of Kerry's enablers in propounding his imaginary heroism was a man named Wade Sanders, who himself held a Silver Star, and who introduced Kerry to the Democratic Convention. Scott Swett, who was central to the unraveling of the Kerry storyline, tells us that the Kerry enabler has been exposed for what he is. His Winter Soldier site has the details:
John Kerry was introduced at the 2004 Democratic National Convention by Wade Sanders, a retired Navy Captain and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy who served as a Swift Boat officer in Vietnam. Like Kerry, Sanders was the recipient of a Silver Star for gallantry in action. During the 2004 campaign, Sanders functioned as Kerry lead attack dog against the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, repeatedly denouncing the veterans on the air as liars and comparing them to Nazi propagandists.
Wade Sanders is now in Federal prison, serving a 37-month sentence for possessing child pornography. Now the Navy Times reports that Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has revoked Sanders' Silver Star. The highly unusual decision appears unrelated to Sanders' felony conviction. A Navy spokesman cited "subsequently determined facts and evidence surrounding both the incident for which the award was made and the processing of the award itself." John Kerry has to be hoping this doesn't become a trend.
As one might imagine, the media has ignored this story. Even the Navy Times declined to post its own article online.
Update: Here is the Sanders sentencing memorandum. Horrific.
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BTW, did you know Mohammad had sex with young girls too?
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-22/news/ct-met-pensions-teacher-perk-20111023_1_state-teachers-pension-fund-teachers-union-public-pension
Democrat Crime Wave
agreed. fck pensions. give that money to the rich in the form of tax cuts lik Paul Ryan suggested.
i mean, they've had cuts for 10 years and have moved jobs overseas. but if we just give them a little MORE, surely they'll bring jobs here :)
The Blago Blog
http://blogs.suntimes.com/blago/2011/12/blagojevich_gets_14_years.html
Inside the Rod Blagojevich investigation and related cases Blagojevich gets 14 years
By Natasha Korecki on December 7, 2011 12:31 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
"The harm here is not measured in the value of money and property," Judge Zagel tells Blagojevich.
"The harm is the erosion of the public trust in government; [people's] confidence in and trust in government," Zagel said.
SEC Charges Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick And Others For Influence Peddling
Michael Brendan Dougherty|May 9, 2012, 12:52 PM|158|2
The SEC just announced that it was filing criminal corruption against former Detroit mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick, former city treasurer Jeffrey W. Beasley.
Apparently Beasley told the CEO of MayfieldGentry Realty Advisors LLC, Chauncey Mayfield, that he was “in the dog house” for supporting Kilpatrick's opponent during the election.
Mayfield wanted $117 million of the city's pension fund invested in his own firm's real-estate investment trust (REIT). Kilpatrick and Beasley were both members of the board that would handle the city's investments.
So to get out of 'the dog-house' and get his hands on the $117 million, Mayfield Gentry started buying Kilpatrick and Beasley a much more lavish lifestyle than civil servants normally get.
From the SEC's news-release:
In April 2007, MayfieldGentry paid for Kilpatrick, Beasley, and their associates to travel by private jet to Las Vegas, where they enjoyed luxury hotel accommodations, two concerts, three rounds of golf, meals, and massages. The Las Vegas trip cost more than $60,000.
In July 2007, MayfieldGentry paid more than $24,000 for a private jet to take Kilpatrick, Beasley’s son and others to Tallahassee, Fla., where Kilpatrick had a second home.
In October 2007, MayfieldGentry paid more than $34,000 for a private jet to fly Kilpatrick and his wife to and from Bermuda, and Kilpatrick’s father and his girlfriend back from Bermuda.
Obviously, Mayfield, Kilpatrick, and Beasley never disclosed any of this to the rest of the pension board.
“It is a disappointing day when pension fund trustees such as ex-Mayor Kilpatrick and others corrupt the investment process by selling out hardworking police officers, firefighters and other municipal employees for the price of a few vacations and paltry extras like concert tickets and rounds of golf,” said Robert Khuzami, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement.
The SEC is going to bring the hammer down. According to their statement, the agency "seeks disgorgement of ill-gotten gains, penalties, and permanent injunctions, including an injunction against Kilpatrick and Beasley to prohibit them from participating in any decisions involving investments in securities by public pensions."
via Bloomberg
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Jesse-Jackson-Jr-Signs-Plea-Deal-190383261.html
He going away.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/18/new-orleans-mayor-ray-nagin/1845617
:o :o :o
POS
13 Democrats Charged With Embezzling $16 Million In Federal Grants For AIDS Charities And Other Needy Programs! Rev. Wright Daughter Among Those Charged
Daughter of Reverend “God Damn America” Wright and 12 other Democrats are charged with embezzling $16 million in Federal health grants that should have gone to AIDS charities and other programs for the poor and needy.
More than one of the defendants has direct ties to President Barack Obama. The Sun Times details the charges.
Thirteen people have been charged so far, six who have pleaded guilty.
Two of them have ties to President Barack Obama. One is the daughter of his controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Another was chief of staff to Obama’s longtime friend Eric E. Whitaker when Whitaker was Illinois’ public health chief.
They allegedly stole from AIDS charities and job training programs among other funds of cash meant to help the poor and needy.
Defendant: Jeri L. Wright, daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Charges: Money laundering and making a false statement before a grand jury
Details: Wright, described as a “close associate and friend” of Regina and Ronald Evans, is accused of aiding the Evanses in their money-laundering scheme.
Another defendant has close ties to one of Obama’s closest and oldest political mentors, Danny Davis:
Defendant: Quinshaunta R. Golden, former Illinois Department of Public Health chief of staff
Charges: Bribery/theft, mail fraud and obstruction of justice
Details: Golden, a niece of U.S. Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.), is accused of pocketing about $433,000 in kickbacks on health department contracts and grants that she oversaw.
These and other Dems are accused of stealing the money for personal use including mortgage and credit-card payments, vacation home payments, and in one case, a Mercedes-Benz, a Cadillac and a fur coat.
Thank god the Democrats are taking over the entire health care system country wide! They’re so trustworthy.
- See more at: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/09/13-democrats-charged-with-embezzling-16-million-in-federal-grants-for-aids-charities-and-other-needy-programs-rev-wright-daughter-among-those-charged/#sthash.vAPJs3Iu.dpuf
Typical scumbags.
Attorney General Gansler depicted as reckless passenger by Md. troopers who drove him
Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler regularly ordered state troopers assigned to drive him to turn on the lights and sirens on the way to routine appointments, directing them to speed, run red lights and bypass traffic jams by using the shoulder, according to written accounts by the Maryland State Police.
When troopers refused to activate the emergency equipment, Gansler, now a Democratic candidate for governor, often flipped the switches himself, according to the police accounts. And on occasion, he became so impatient that he insisted on driving, directing the trooper to the passenger’s seat. Gansler once ran four red lights with sirens blaring, a trooper wrote. Another account said he “brags” about driving the vehicle unaccompanied on weekends with the sirens on.
“This extremely irresponsible behavior is non-stop and occurs on a daily basis,” Lt. Charles Ardolini, commander of the state police executive protection section, wrote in a December 2011 memo that said the problem had existed for five years. “Attorney General Gansler has consistently acted in a way that disregards public safety, our Troopers safety and even the law.”
In a statement issued Saturday afternoon, Gansler said the portrait that emerges from the state police memos and e-mails obtained by The Washington Post under the Maryland Public Information Act is untrue. A spokesman for the attorney general said long-running animosity between Gansler and Ardolini was partly responsible.
“The picture being painted by these documents is not an accurate reflection of reality,” said Gansler, a former Montgomery County state’s attorney who was first elected attorney general in 2006. “I deeply respect the troopers and job they do protecting me and the public. A few of the 18 troopers who have provided me protection felt my backseat driving made them uncomfortable — for that I apologize.”
The troopers’ complaints were summarized by Ardolini in the December 2011 memo to his superior, which led to a meeting between Gansler and the leader of the state police. Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) was briefed, aides said, and authorized the police to take whatever corrective action they deemed necessary, including revoking Gansler’s transportation services.
Bob Wheelock, a spokesman for Gansler, said that the SUV used to transport Gansler is owned by the attorney general’s office and that Gansler is free to drive it whenever he wants. Wheelock also denied that Gansler had ever driven the vehicle with lights and sirens on or that he had turned them on when troopers were driving.
Any suggestions made by Gansler about how the troopers should drive, Wheelock said, were no more than that — suggestions that they were free to ignore. State police report to the governor, not Gansler, a separately elected official, with no direct authority over the troopers assigned to him.
The late 2011 meeting between Gansler and Col. Marcus L. Brown, the superintendent of state police, was arranged by a senior aide to O’Malley, who was concerned about safety issues surrounding Gansler’s travels, an aide to the governor said. (O’Malley has endorsed Gansler’s chief rival in next year’s Democratic primary, Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown.)
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/attorney-general-gansler-depicted-as-reckless-passenger-by-md-troopers-who-drove-him/2013/10/12/3115487a-328f-11e3-9c68-1cf643210300_story.html
Typical limousine liberal who thinks he's better than everyone and that the laws that apply to us don't apply to him. Good thing this piece of shit didn't kill anyone. Typical democrat with no regard for anyone but himself.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sen-yee-indictment-unsealed-20140326,0,7238867.story
Leland Yee, California State Senator for District 8, INDICTED this morning on “public corruption, gun trafficking and bribery charges” (NO, it's not an early April Fools joke)
Leland “BULLET BUTTON” Yee, who was indicted this morning as part of a major FBI operation in the San Francisco Bay area. Yee, championed additional restrictions on CA gun rights by trying to pass SB47 last year (SB47 would have added bullet buttons to the list of AW features). He once commented that the question of banning “assault weapons” was “just so crystal clear, there is no debate, no discussion”… makes you wonder what his defense in court will be?
BREAKING NEWS Wednesday, July 9, 2014 11:20 AM EDT
C. Ray Nagin, Former New Orleans Mayor, Sentenced to 10 Years
C. Ray Nagin, the former mayor of New Orleans who was convicted in February on corruption charges, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday in federal court in New Orleans.
Mr. Nagin was found guilty in February on 20 counts, most relating to kickbacks from contractors looking for city work. Judge Ginger Berrigan of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana will determine the sentence, which could be lengthy even if she mostly hews to federal sentencing guidelines.
Mr. Nagin, a Democrat, was arrested in January 2013, nearly three years after he left office. He was charged with taking kickbacks in the form of cash, cross-country trips or help with the family-run granite countertop company; the bribes were handed out by men looking for city business ranging from software supplies to sidewalk repair. Many of the schemes, though not all, took place after Hurricane Katrina, when contractors crowded into the city for rebuilding work.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/us/ray-nagin-former-new-orleans-mayor.html?emc=edit_na_20140709
Tip of the iceberg
http://nypost.com/2015/01/22/sheldon-silver-arrested
Typical far left greaseball pos
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Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey Expected to Face Federal Corruption Charges
The Justice Department expects to file corruption charges against Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, a law enforcement official said Friday, culminating an investigation that has dogged the senator for two years.
The investigation has focused on his relationship with a Florida eye doctor who is a longtime friend and political benefactor. Federal prosecutors said Mr. Menendez did political favors for the doctor, Salomon Melgen.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/us/menendez-expected-to-face-federal-corruption-charges.html?emc=edit_na_20150306
Jesse Jackson Jr. to Be Released From Prison
Was Rand Paul there to hug him when he exited the prison gates?One demerit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I probably will vote dem. i'd love to see Obama choose a Wes Clark for a running mate, or a Jim Webb, possibly more likely, for strong military and defense credibility.QuoteMy whole family - all Republicans - are voting Obama. i'm driving them to the station later - buying everyone dinner - making it a real family event.
Fattah sentenced to 10 years in prison
By JOHN BRESNAHAN 12/12/16
Former Democratic Rep. Chaka Fattah (Pa.) was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday by a federal judge in Philadelphia.
Fattah, 60, served 22 years in Congress before losing a Democratic primary in April.
Fattah was convicted in June on a number of federal corruption charges, including bribery, racketeering, money laundering, bank fraud, mail and wire fraud, and filing false statements. The long-running criminal scheme was related to paying back a loan from Fattah's unsuccessful run for Philadelphia mayor in 2007.
The Pennsylvania Democrat's son, Chaka Fattah Jr., is already in prison on bank and tax fraud charges. The younger Fattah is serving a five-year sentence.
"Those in high places will certainly know what happens in this courtroom today," said U.S. District Judge Harvery Bartle, III, as he sentenced Fattah, according to WPVI, a Philadelphia TV station.
Bartle noted that Fattah and his wife, a TV news anchor, made more than $500,000 in combined income, placing them in the top 1 percent of Americans.
"While you have done much good, you also engaged in grave and widespread criminal activity," Bartle added. "You abused your trust, time and time again."
Fattah told Bartle that he had helped "tens of millions of people" during his time in office, despite the crimes he'd been convicted of committing.
"I've helped tens of millions of people," Fattah said. "[That] has nothing to do with the fact that I've been found on the wrong side of these questions by a jury."
While it was one the harshest sentences ever handed out to a one-time member of Congress, federal prosecutors had asked for a longer term behind bars. The Justice Department wanted Fattah incarcerated for 17 to 21 years.
Fattah was a former state lawmaker and Philadelphia official who was elected to Congress in 1994. He won a seat on the powerful Appropriations Committee, where he was able to steer millions of dollars in earmarks back home.
Yet despite his safe congressional seat, Fattah always wanted to be a power player back home in Philadelphia, where he was born, and it was this desire that ultimately led to his downfall and federal conviction.
Fattah's criminal acts were part of a years-long scheme related to his unsuccessful bid to become mayor of Philadelphia. Fattah and several of his co-defendants, who include former campaign and congressional aides, obtained an illegal $1 million loan for him during the 2007 mayor’s race. Once he lost that race and faced a large debt, Fattah and his inner circle illegally used federal and charitable funds to help repay the loan. Fattah and the other co-conspirators submitted false billing statements to his mayoral campaign in order to keep the loan secret.
In addition, Fattah received bribes from Herbert Vederman, a former deputy mayor of Philadelphia who served as an aide to his mayoral campaign. Fattah used the money to pay personal expenses, including his taxes.
In return, Fattah reportedly pushed for an ambassadorial position for Vederman or for appointment to the U.S. Trade Commission, including hand-delivering a letter to President Barack Obama on the issue. Fattah also hired Vederman’s girlfriend in his Capitol Hill office.
The FBI spent years investigating Fattah, and it long looked as if he would escape federal indictment. But he was charged in 2015, and then convicted on all counts the following year.
Fattah supporters have raised questions about whether he received a fair trial, noting that one of the jurors was dismissed from the case. Philadelphia news outlets have filed a motion to unseal court documents related to that dismissal.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/chaka-fattah-sentencing-10-years-232507
Such hypocrisy. 5 years seems too light, especially considering his position.
Ex-Calif. State Sen. Leland Yee, gun control champion, heading to prison for weapons trafficking
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/25/ex-calif-state-sen-leeland-yee-gun-control-champion-heading-to-prison-for-weapons-trafficking/
Anthony Weiner Pleads Guilty to Federal Obscenity Charges
NYT's ^ | 5/19/17 | BENJAMIN WEISER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Posted on 5/19/2017, 3:56:56 PM by ColdOne
“I engaged in obscene communications with this teenager,” Mr. Weiner said, his voice high and shaky, and his body trembling. Those communications “included sharing explicit images and encouraging her to engage in sexually explicit conduct,” just as he had done with adult women, he said.
Mr. Weiner, 52, will have to register as a sex offender where he works and lives,
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Federal prosecutors said in the plea agreement that a sentence in the range of 21 to 27 months would be “fair and appropriate.” The decision ultimately lies with Judge Loretta A. Preska of Federal District Court in Manhattan; sentencing is set for Sept. 8.
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But Mr. Weiner quickly dissolved into tears as he read from a written statement when the judge asked that he describe what he had do.
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A corrupt district attorney? Impossible...
Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams pleads guilty in his federal corruption trial
Seth Williams resigned as Philadelphia’s district attorney and was led out of court in handcuffs Thursday after abruptly ending his trial on federal bribery charges with a guilty plea.
Williams, who saw embarrassing details about his messy personal life and financial struggles dragged out into open court during the nearly two-week trial, pleaded guilty to one count related to accepting a bribe from Bucks County businessman Mohammad Ali.
“I have a guilty plea from the highest law officer in the city that he betrayed his office and he sold his office … I am appalled by the evidence that I heard,” Diamond said before ordering Williams jailed. “I simply do not credit this defendant’s testimony. I do not believe him.”
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/philadelphia/philly-da-seth-williams-xxxxxxxx-20170629.html
It seems he was part of the "I'm with her" crowd:
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This should probably go into the "Dem crime spree" thread but I all dem crimes should be brought for the forefront every chance I get. Sorry if this is a repost.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/113309-house-ethics-committee-charges-waters-on-three-counts
D.A. Seth Williams indicted on corruption, bribery-related charges
Updated: March 21, 2017
Seth Williams has been under investigation for possible financial irregularities.
by Jeremy Roebuck, David Gambacorta & Chris Brennan - Staff Writers
Investigators accused the city’s cash-strapped top prosecutor of repeatedly selling his influence and offering to intervene in a case on behalf of one wealthy benefactor. In exchange, they said, Williams accepted luxury trips to foreign locales, a used Jaguar convertible and other gifts ranging from a $205 Louis Vuitton necktie to a Burberry watch.
When even that wasn’t enough to cover the costs of his lush life, Williams allegedly resorted to stealing from his own mother – draining more than $20,000 of Social Security and pension income intended to pay for her nursing home to cover his mortgage and electricity bills.
“The alleged misconduct … is brazen and wide-ranging, as is the idea that a district attorney would so cavalierly trade on elected office for financial gain,” said FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Michael Harpster at an afternoon news conference announcing the charges. “The immense authority vested to law enforcement has to be kept in check, and that requires decision makers and leaders with a steady ethical compass.”
The criminal case brought to a head rumors that have dogged Williams for years and put a damning footnote on his eight-year career in office – one that began in 2010 with accolades for sweeping changes he promised to implement within the city’s justice system, only to be overshadowed more recently by a series of scandals.
As he announced his decision last month to forgo a reelection bid, Williams, 50, apologized for bringing “embarrassment and shame” to the District Attorney’s Office through repeated ethical lapses and vowed to win back the trust of the public and his employees.
But hours after Tuesday’s indictment, Williams offered no indication of whether he now intended to resign. His lawyer, Michael Diamondstein, vowed that Williams would fight the charges in court.
“Mr. Williams vehemently denies that he ever compromised any investigation, case or law enforcement function,” he said.
Sources familiar with the course of the investigation said that Williams rejected a plea deal from prosecutors earlier this week. He spent the day at home with his family, an office spokesman said, and was expected to surrender and be arraigned Wednesday afternoon.
But inside Williams’ office of 300 prosecutors, the allegations hit like a bomb. In an internal memo, his top deputy, Kathleen Martin, assured the staff that the office was cooperating with the investigation and that no other employees had been accused of wrongdoing.
“I understand and appreciate that you may be angry and frustrated with the unwanted spotlight placed upon our office, emotions that you are certainly justified in feeling,” she wrote.
Outside, the city’s political and legal leaders offered swift condemnation.
Mayor Jim Kenney called the Williams’ alleged actions “deeply shameful” and a “flagrant violation of the law.”
"At a time when our citizens’ trust in government is at an all-time low, it is disheartening to see yet another elected official give the public a reason not to trust us," the mayor said in a statement. "That this comes at the heard of our justice system is even more troubling.”
Deborah R. Gross, chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, called for Williams to step aside immediately.
“The charges against him cast a shadow on the District Attorney’s Office, our legal community and the entire City of Philadelphia. It truly is an embarrassment," she said.
But the case against Williams, which involves charges of honest services fraud and other bribery-related counts, hardly came as a surprise.
Known to frequent cigar bars and the tony Union League, Williams has been open about his financial problems since the FBI and IRS began poking into his finances two years ago. He has complained of his inability to pay for alimony stemming from a 2011 divorce and private school tuition for his daughters, despite his $170,000-a-year salary.
In January, the Philadelphia Board of Ethics assessed the largest fine in its 10-year history for Williams’ failure to report for years more than $175,000 in gifts he had accepted including a new roof, luxury vacations, Eagles sidelines passes and the use of a defense attorney’s home in Florida.
And Williams, as investigators described it Tuesday, was not shy about asking for handouts.
“I am merely a thankful beggar and don’t want to overstep my bounds in asking,” he said in one February 2012 text message to a donor in reference to a second planned Caribbean vacation on the donor's tab. He told another in 2013 that he “never want[ed] to feel like a drag on your wallet,” yet he allegedly returned again and again to seek the man’s help in funding trips to California, Florida and Las Vegas.
Some of those gifts featured prominently in Tuesday’s indictment, including a $3,000 trip Williams took in 2012 with his then-girlfriend to the Dominican Republic, where they stayed in a presidential suite complete with access to a private beach and personal butler.
The excursion was bankrolled by Mohammad N. Ali, a Bucks County businessman who sold old prepaid telephone cards and who, according to the indictment, spared no expense in showering Williams with other gifts, including a $3,212 custom sofa and cash payments of $9,000.
In exchange, prosecutors say, Williams offered in to help one of Ali’s friends who faced criminal charges by drafting a plea deal that would shorten the man’s sentence and keep him out of the state prison system.
Prosecutors did not say Tuesday whether Williams ever followed through with his promise. Ali did not respond to requests for comment.
“In the future,” he told Ali in an August 2012 text message quoted in the indictment, “always give me at least a week to help a friend. I have no problem looking at anything.”
In other instances, Williams’ allegedly offered to intervene with other law enforcement offices on behalf of his friends. Ali purportedly sought his help a year later to avoid enhanced TSA screening as he returned to Philadelphia International Airport from trips abroad.
Another donor – Michael Weiss, co-owner of Woody's, a well-known Center City gay bar – allegedly sought the district attorney’s help in untangling a legal mess for another bar he owned in California.
Authorities in that state attempted in 2013 to yank Weiss’ liquor license after discovering he had pleaded guilty to tax fraud charges in three years earlier.
But Williams, according to the indictment, wrote a letter vouching for Weiss and, in an effort to prove his friend’s upstanding character, appointed him as a special advisor to the District Attorney Office, complete with a badge and leather carrying case.
Weiss showed his gratefulness, prosecutors said Tuesday, with paying for Spring Break vacations to Florida and San Diego for Williams and his daughters. He also gave Williams his old 1997 Jaguar XK8 convertible worth $4,160, the indictment says.
Weiss did not return calls for comment Tuesday.
“Dude,” Williams reportedly texted Weiss. “I never want to feel like a drag on your wallet … but we are ALWAYS ready for an adventure.”
Williams’ prosecution is being handled by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey, after Justice Department officials in Philadelphia recused themselves due to their frequent collaboration with the District Attorney’s Office.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/DA-Seth-Williams-federal-charges-Philadelphia.html
Seth Williams sentenced to 5 years in prison in bribery, corruption case
Updated: OCTOBER 24, 2017
Former Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday, the maximum punishment he faced after pleading guilty earlier this year in a federal corruption case.
Held in custody since his surprise decision in June to abruptly end his trial and admit his crimes, the city’s former top prosecutor looked tired but attentive as he was ushered into court in a brown T-shirt and loose-fitting, prison-issue khakis, and with handcuffs around his wrists.
He declined to address the court directly, but in a statement read by his lawyer Thomas Burke, Williams called his election “the honor of his life” and apologized to his friends, his family and the citizens of Philadelphia for what he described as “my sins, my selfishness, my bad judgment.”
“I have made mistakes – mistakes of character and judgment,” the statement read. “These are my mistakes and my mistakes alone.”
But U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond showed little sympathy, delivering a harsh dressing-down for Williams’ “profound misconduct.”
“Almost from the time you took office, you sold yourself to the parasites you surrounded yourself with,” Diamond said. “You humiliated the men and women of the District Attorney’s Office.”
Then, homing in on perhaps the most attention-grabbing of Williams’ crimes – his admission that he stole money set aside for his mother’s nursing home care – Diamond held back little.
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Williams “dumped her like a sack of potatoes – or he washed his hands of her,” the judge said, so he could be “a high-roller at various restaurants in town.”
The judge ridiculed Williams’ request to be permitted to see his mother.
“The English language doesn’t have the words to capture the outrageousness of that request,” Diamond said. “The defendant stole from his mother, and now he wants to visit her?”
In addition to the prison term, Williams was ordered to pay nearly $100,000 in forfeiture and restitution — an amount to which he had at least partially agreed in his plea deal with prosecutors.
Tuesday’s hearing provided only the latest setback for Williams, whose public life in the last year has been marked by one embarrassing blow after another – most of them self-inflicted.
Ushered into office in 2010 as a promising candidate pledging to reshape the city’s justice system, Williams was dogged by a series of personal and financial scandals throughout his eight years in office.
Earlier this year, his failure to report more than $175,000 in gifts from wealthy benefactors prompted the city’s ethics board to fine him $62,000 – the largest penalty against a single candidate in the body’s 11-year history. Williams dropped his bid for a third term soon after, apologizing to his staff for the shame he had brought upon his office.
Then came the federal bribery and corruption case that led to his sentencing Tuesday.
In two weeks of trial, federal prosecutors painted Williams as a crooked politician who took every opportunity to enrich himself through fraud, theft from his campaign fund, and bribes accepted from generous donors.
Two wealthy businessmen testified that they had showered Williams with gifts of cash, luxury goods, and all-expenses-paid travel to an upscale Dominican Republic resort and other vacation spots hoping that he would repay their generosity by using his office to remove various legal hurdles they faced.
When that largesse was not enough to support Williams’ high-end tastes, government witnesses said, the district attorney raided his own campaign accounts and money set aside for his aging mother’s nursing home care.
Williams sought to end the onslaught of embarrassing and public testimony by resigning from office and accepting a plea deal from prosecutors midway through the trial – one that severely limited the sentence he might have received had he been convicted on all the charges he had faced.
But even then, Diamond surprised Williams by ordering that the ex-prosecutor be immediately taken into custody until his sentencing date – a rare step in white-collar criminal cases.
For the last four months, Williams has been confined to an 8-by-10 cell in the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center’s Special Housing Unit, as a safety precaution because of his role as a former law enforcement officer.
There he has spent 23 hours a day and eaten his meals. He has been let outside for an hour of exercise each day. Guards have allowed him one visitor a week, and only one 15-minute phone call a month, as per the unit’s protocol.
Once Williams is assigned to the prison where he will serve out the rest of his term, his conditions could improve.
As a nonviolent white-collar defendant, he may be sent by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to a federal prison with less severe security measures.
The bureau is expected to make its assignment for Williams in the coming months.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/crime/seth-williams-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison-in-bribery-corruption-case-20171024.html
Corrine Brown sentenced to 5 years in prison
news4jax.com ^ | December 4, 2017 | y Garrett Pelican - Digital executive producer , Destiny McKeiver - Multi-media journalist , Lynnsey
Posted on 12/4/2017, 11:28:12 AM by rdl6989
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown will spend five years in federal prison for her role in a federal corruption conspiracy that involved stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a fake education charity for needy children.
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Conyers Retires, Family Feud Ensues
www.thedailybeast.com ^ | 12.05.17 10:36 AM ET | Gideon Resnick Gideon Resnick
Posted on 12/5/2017, 12:26:54 PM by Red Badger
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), the longest serving member of the House of Representatives and the subject of a flurry of sexual-misconduct allegations in the last few weeks, said he was "retiring today" during a radio interview Tuesday.
"I'm in the process of putting my retirement plans together and I'll have more of that very soon," Conyers said in an interview with the station, Praise 102.7.
No sooner had he announced plans to vacate his seat, however, than an intra-family feud erupted into public view over who would take it over.
The embattled Michigan Democrat said on Tuesday that he wanted his son, John Conyers III, to replace him when he departs. But earlier in the morning, Conyers' nephew, Ian Conyers, said that he would be seeking the seat.
“I’m absolutely going to file for his seat, Ian Conyers, a state senator, told the New York Times. "The work of our congressional district, where I come out of, has to continue."
The confusion over Conyer's replacement reflected the frantic final chapter of the congressman's storied-turned-controversial career.
The House Ethics Committee announced last week that it had opened an investigation into allegations against Conyers following a BuzzFeed News story revealing that the Democrat from Michigan had settled a wrongful dismissal complaint in 2015 after a staffer allegedly that he had sexually harassed her.
Another woman, Melanie Sloan, who served as the former executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), told The Washington Post that she experienced inappropriate behavior from the congressman that stopped short of sexual harassment. In one instance, Sloan said, Conyers summoned her to his office, where he was in his underwear.
And on Tuesday, yet another woman came forward with a story of his inappropriate behavior to The Detroit News — the third allegation against Conyers to be made public in the last two weeks. The woman, Deanna Maher, worked for Conyers from 1997 to 2005 and detailed three instances of his advances and misconduct in the late 1990s.
While Democrats struggled with how to handle the damage control, pressure mounted behind the scenes. Eventually, Democratic House leadership all called for Conyers to leave office immediately.
“The allegations against Conyers, we have learned more since Sunday, are serious, disappointing and very credible,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said last week. “Congressman Conyers should resign.”
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), who had been dismissive of questions about Conyers’ conduct, echoed the sentiment. The third-ranking Democrat in the House also told reporters that it would be in the “best interest” of Conyers and his colleagues for him to step down.
Through it all, Conyers’ attorney remained defiant that the elder statesman would not resign, compelling House Democratic aides to float the idea of removing Conyers entirely from the House Judiciary Committee if he remained in office.
Conyers is heralded as a civil rights hero, having introduced the first bill in Congress that honored Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday after his assassination in 1968. He has long been a proponent of a single-payer health care system, reintroducing the United States National Health Care Act each session since 2003. He has served in Congress since 1964 and co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus in 1969.
On Tuesday, he defended his legacy , saying it "can't be compromised or diminished in any way by what we're going through now."
He added, "This too shall pass."
Jury Informs Judge They Are Deadlocked in Public Corruption Trial of Sen. Robert Menendez
by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY
13 Nov 2017
The jury deliberating the public corruption trial of Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Dr. Salomon Melgen in a New Jersey federal court told Judge William Walls on Monday they are deadlocked.
The Associated Press reported the jury “told the judge it couldn’t reach a verdict on Monday on any of the 18 counts against them, prompting the judge to order it to return on Tuesday to continue deliberating.”
Judge Walls dismissed one of the twelve jurors deliberating on the public corruption trial of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) on Thursday at the request of the juror. The dismissed juror, 61-year-old Evelyn Arroyo-Maultsby, was replaced by an alternate juror, and the jury restarted deliberations from the beginning on Monday.
It took just a few hours of deliberations on Monday – with the alternate juror joining the other eleven members – for the full jury to send their message of deadlock to the judge
It was an unusual turn of events in a trial that has been characterized by a number of twists and turns.
When the trial began ten weeks ago, Arroyo-Maultsby told Judge Walls that she had a previously scheduled vacation that she would not be able to cancel. The trial was expected to last six to eight weeks at the time, and Judge Walls promised that she would be able to take her vacation. When she requested to be dismissed from the jury due to the upcoming vacation, Judge Walls honored that request.
After her dismissal, Arroyo-Maultsby took the unusual step of speaking to the media about the details of the jury’s deliberations.
“They are just trying to throw a good man under the bus,” she told NJ.com in an interview at her residence.
“Arroyo-Maultsby, a Democrat, expressed support for Menendez, saying that she’s pretty sure she voted for him previously and “absolutely” would vote for him after this trial, NJ.com reported, adding:
She said there was also deep division on the charge that Menendez made a false statement on his Senate disclosure forms. The dismissed juror said she was the only one who thought he was not guilty of this offense initially.
At one point, she allowed the others to convince her he was guilty, but cried about it overnight, feeling like she had been wrongly swayed. On Thursday, she returned to the deliberations intending to vote not guilty on the charge, and believes she may have convinced others.
“I would’ve never slept” if she had not changed her vote, Arroyo-Maultsby said.
While it is highly unusual for a dismissed juror to comment publicly about the deliberations conducted by a jury prior to their dismissal, it is apparently not illegal to do so.
“Often judges will discourage it, but they cannot bar jurors from discussing the deliberations with reporters,” former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz told NJ.com
“When a juror is dismissed during a trial, the court will generally strongly urge them not to discuss the case, at least until a verdict is reached, since it may undermine the public’s confidence in the ultimate verdict. But these discussions do not necessarily create an appellate issue, since these comments to the media should not impact the deliberations of the remaining jurors,” Mintz added.
The trial of Menendez and Melgen began on September 6, as Breitbart News reported:
Co-defendant Melgen, a Florida opthalmologist, was convicted on 67 felony counts of Medicare fraud in April for engaging in the same fraudulent billing practices which Menendez personally lobbied then-Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to pressure her department’s adjudicatory branch to authorize for Melgen in a 2012 meeting held on Capitol Hill.
Melgen was convicted for instances of fraudulent billing that occurred between 2008 and 2013.
Menendez lobbied Sebelius to allow Melgen to keep $8 million in money he had been paid by Medicare for bills he submitted between 2005 and 2008 for the same fraudulent billing practices. Sebelius refused to intervene in the adjudicatory process in that matter, and Melgen was required to pay back the $8 million he had received in overbilling for the earlier period.
In return for these and other favors, the federal government alleges, Melgen made over $750,000 in campaign donations to PACs and other campaign entities that were earmarked for Menendez’s 2012 re-election campaign, which he easily won. In addition, Melgen paid for an estimated $58,000 in air travel for Menendez from New Jersey and Washington, D.C. to the Dominican Republic and Florida. When these trip payments were discovered some time later, Menendez reimbursed Melgen.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/13/jury-informs-judge-they-are-deadlocked-in-public-corruption-trial-of-sen-robert-menendez/
Yeah. :) I don't think either party has a monopoly on misconduct. It's an individual thing. That said, if these guys cannot stay out of trouble while they are holding a public office, they need to go.
Four Women Accuse New York’s Attorney General of Physical Abuse
Eric Schneiderman has raised his profile as a voice against sexual misconduct. Now, after suing Harvey Weinstein, he faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.
By Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow
Eric Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general, has long been a liberal Democratic champion of women’s rights, and recently he has become an outspoken figure in the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment. As New York State’s highest-ranking law-enforcement officer, Schneiderman, who is sixty-three, has used his authority to take legal action against the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, and to demand greater compensation for the victims of Weinstein’s alleged sexual crimes. Last month, when the Times and this magazine were awarded a joint Pulitzer Prize for coverage of sexual harassment, Schneiderman issued a congratulatory tweet, praising “the brave women and men who spoke up about the sexual harassment they had endured at the hands of powerful men.” Without these women, he noted, “there would not be the critical national reckoning under way.”
Now Schneiderman is facing a reckoning of his own. As his prominence as a voice against sexual misconduct has risen, so, too, has the distress of four women with whom he has had romantic relationships or encounters. They accuse Schneiderman of having subjected them to nonconsensual physical violence. All have been reluctant to speak out, fearing reprisal. But two of the women, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, have talked to The New Yorker on the record, because they feel that doing so could protect other women. They allege that he repeatedly hit them, often after drinking, frequently in bed and never with their consent. Manning Barish and Selvaratnam categorize the abuse he inflicted on them as “assault.” They did not report their allegations to the police at the time, but both say that they eventually sought medical attention after having been slapped hard across the ear and face, and also choked. Selvaratnam says that Schneiderman warned her he could have her followed and her phones tapped, and both say that he threatened to kill them if they broke up with him. (Schneiderman’s spokesperson said that he “never made any of these threats.”)
A third former romantic partner of Schneiderman’s told Manning Barish and Selvaratnam that he also repeatedly subjected her to nonconsensual physical violence, but she told them that she is too frightened of him to come forward. (The New Yorker has independently vetted the accounts that they gave of her allegations.) A fourth woman, an attorney who has held prominent positions in the New York legal community, says that Schneiderman made an advance toward her; when she rebuffed him, he slapped her across the face with such force that it left a mark that lingered the next day. She recalls screaming in surprise and pain, and beginning to cry, and says that she felt frightened. She has asked to remain unidentified, but shared a photograph of the injury with The New Yorker.
In a statement, Schneiderman said, “In the privacy of intimate relationships, I have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity. I have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in nonconsensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.”
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/four-women-accuse-new-yorks-attorney-general-of-physical-abuse
Ex-congressman says he's 'given up on America' after sentenced for 3rd conviction
Fox News ^ | 10 May 2018 | Dom Calicchio
Posted on 5/11/2018, 7:10:22 AM by Magnatron
A former Democratic congressman from Chicago, heading to prison for the third time, says he has “given up on America” and plans to move to Africa after he serves his latest sentence.
At his sentencing Thursday, Mel Reynolds, 66, got six months in prison for failing to file tax returns on more than $400,000 he received for consulting work.
He also received a scolding from federal Judge Robert Gettleman, who told the Harvard graduate he could recall thinking to himself in the early 1990s that Reynolds had tremendous promise.
“It's a tragedy that you squandered the opportunities you had and the type of person you could have become," Gettleman said.
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Plunge in Clinton Foundation donations fuels GOP scrutiny amid DOJ probe
Newly released tax documents showing a plunge in Clinton Foundation donations after Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential election defeat have fueled long-standing Republican allegations of possible “pay-to-play” transactions at the organization, amid a Justice Department probe covering foundation issues.
The tax filings, which were made public this month, show the Clinton Foundation pulled in $62.9 million in 2016, but only $26.6 million the following year, representing a nearly 58 percent drop. Tax documents for 2018 are not yet available.
A spokesman for the foundation told The New York Post, which first reported the figures, that they “anticipated a decline” in 2017 and said it was “largely attributable to the absence of sponsorship and membership contributions for CGI [Clinton Global Initiative].”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/plunge-in-clinton-foundation-donations-fuels-gop-scrutiny-amid-doj-probe
Democrat Kathleen Kane, former Pennsylvania AG, ordered to prison
Samuel Chamberlain By Samuel Chamberlain | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrat-kathleen-kane-former-pennsylvania-ag-ordered-to-prison
Kane was convicted of two counts of felony perjury and seven misdemeanors, including obstruction and conspiracy.
Her sentence is a joke. Just 10-23 months? It should have been at least 10-23 years, not months.
A 12 year bump?? Is that how long they've been "investigating" the Clintons?
Give it up. Kinda sounds like your side is deflecting attention away from yesterday's Barr beatdown.
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Not trolling.. Never read it to know that Sir.
My varied interest include, but not limiting to; Donald Trump, The Trump administration, The Trump family, and the television show Family Gay.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8078733/Bill-Clinton-says-having-sex-Monica-Lewinsky-manage-anxieties.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR0Y4Fq6YUq6C184AJDxcFq-6Yrm04kUpTbPpFyamhDa3vs9xHQKKBQBTGU
ha ha ha h!!!!
lol. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. He is such a pimp. lol
https://nypost.com/2020/07/29/tennessee-lawmaker-used-federal-funds-to-pay-for-lavish-lifestyle-feds/?utm_source=NYPFacebook&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&sr_share=facebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow&fbclid=IwAR1mYPM2yM-xC5szLk4R7IfRJ-2wh0HYEPpWstsVVDo1TNg2cVsapZOIzIw
Of course she claims She DINDUNUFFING!!!!!!
Michigan state lawmaker stripped of committee assignments after alleged jail escape attempt
BY SARAH POLUS - 09/16/21
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/572696-michigan-state-lawmaker-stripped-of-committee-assignments-after-alleged
cuomo to be arrested.
F you ANDREISAFATLIBERALTURD!
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/28/former-ny-gov-cuomo-charged-with-sex-crime-months-after-resigning-amid-harassment-probe-nbc-news.html
Tennessee state senator convicted on 4 of 5 remaining embezzlement charges
BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL - 09/30/21
A Tennessee state senator was convicted on four counts of wire fraud on Thursday, after a district judge earlier this week acquitted her on 15 charges related to the same allegations.
A 12-person jury found state Sen. Katrina Robinson (D) guilty of four of five remaining wire fraud charges, according to The Associated Press.
That decision came after U.S. District Judge Sheryl Lipman filed an order on Tuesday that acquitted the senator of 15 of 20 charges against her, including counts of fraud, theft and embezzlement involving government programs.
Federal authorities charged Robinson in July 2020 with using more than $600,000 in grant money from her workplace to pay for campaign expenses and cover costs for her wedding, honeymoon and divorce.
She was charged with 20 counts of theft and embezzlement involving government programs, according to the AP.
Robinson at the time was the director of The Healthcare Institute, a vocational school. Authorities alleged that she embezzled funds from the more than $2.2 million in grant money the institute’s nurse training program received between 2015 and 2019 from an agency within the Department and Health and Human Services.
Those funds were specifically set aside for nurse assistant training and need-based scholarships.
Authorities brought down their charges against Robinson after the FBI had executed a search warrant at Robinson’s home and school.
Investigators had been looking into Robinson since 2016, after an anonymous report claimed that she used $550 of the grant money to purchase a Louis Vuitton handbag.
Prosecutors, during the trial that started Sept. 13, sought to prove that Robinson used the federal grant money for personal charges, including payments for her wedding and honeymoon, a Jeep Renegade for her daughter, travel and entertainment for her family, a snow cone business for her children and an event connected to her campaign for state Senate, according to the AP.
Prosecutors reportedly used financial documents and testimony from FBI agents to prove their case throughout the trial.
Robinson’s lawyers, however, argued that the senator did not use the federal dollars to cover her personal payments. Instead, they contended that she paid with profits made on tuition payments the school she headed received, in addition to other earnings, according to the AP.
The Hill reached out to Robinson and her attorney for comment.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/574803-tennessee-state-senator-convicted-on-4-of-5-remaining-embezzlement?rl=1
Ed Buck sentencing: Wealthy Democratic donor gets 30 years for fatal overdoses of 2 Black men
Even after two men were found dead in his California apartment, Ed Buck did not stop injecting gay men with walloping doses of methamphetamine.
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced him to 30 years in prison in the deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean. Another man, Dane Brown, was repeatedly injected by Buck but survived and his harrowing account of being revived twice finally led to Buck’s arrest in 2019.
Buck, 67, a big dollar donor to Democratic, LGBTQ and animal rights causes, appeared in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles for providing fatal doses of drugs, operating a drug den and enticing men to travel for prostitution. He was convicted last summer.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/ed-buck-trial-wealthy-democratic-donor-to-be-sentenced/
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Former PA congressman pleads guilty to ballot-stuffing for Democrats in federal elections
Fox News ^ | June 8, 2022 | Jessica Chasmar
Posted on 6/8/2022, 12:17:25 PM by American Number 181269513
A former Pennsylvania congressman has pleaded guilty to extensive voter fraud, including stuffing ballot boxes for Democratic candidates, spanning multiple elections in the state.
Former U.S. Rep. Michael "Ozzie" Myers, 79, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, and conspiring to illegally vote in a federal election, the Justice Department announced Monday.
Federal prosecutors said Myers orchestrated schemes to fraudulently stuff ballot boxes for Democratic candidates in the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Pennsylvania elections.
Myers admitted to bribing an elections judge, Domenick Demuro, in a voter fraud scheme over several years. Demuro pleaded guilty in May 2020 and was convicted for his role in accepting bribes to cast fraudulent ballots and certify false voting results.
Myers also admitted to conspiring to commit election fraud with another elections judge, Marie Beren, who pleaded guilty to the scheme in October 2021.
"Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy," U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said in a press release. "If even one vote has been illegally cast or if the integrity of just one election official is compromised, it diminishes faith in process."
Myers was expelled from Congress in 1980 after being caught taking bribes in the Abscam sting investigation, when he was convicted of bribery and conspiracy for taking money from FBI agents who posed as Arab sheiks. He served more than a year in prison.
Myers also served six years in the Pennsylvania House before his 1976 election to Congress.
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BREAKING: Former DeSantis rival Andrew Gillum indicted on 21 felonies stemming from gubernatorial campaign
Gillum, whose aspirations were dashed after he was found heavily intoxicated in a Miami Beach hotel room with methamphetamines in 2020, released a statement on the indictment.
Libby Emmons
Brooklyn, NY
June 22, 2022
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-former-desantis-rival-andrew-gillum-indicted-on-21-felonies-stemming-from-gubernatorial-campaign?utm_campaign=64487
Does any of this matter now that Steve Francis and Bev are separated?;D :D
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bombshell-report-reveals-what-the-fbi-did-for-the-clintons-behind-closed-doors/ar-AA1eSkGq
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bombshell-report-reveals-what-the-fbi-did-for-the-clintons-behind-closed-doors/ar-AA1eSkGq
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She posts videos of sex acts with her husband on the friggin internet and complains about invasion of privacy? lol
Susanna Gibson blasts opponents for ‘gutter politics’ after sex videos surface
By Patrick Reilly
Published Sep. 12, 2023
https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/susanna-gibson-blasts-opponents-for-gutter-politics-after-sex-videos-surface/
Chaterbate is a pay service so some operative likely hacked or tookthe videos and posted them. It is a violation of revenge porn laws. It is gutter politics
She posts videos of sex acts with her husband on the friggin internet and complains about invasion of privacy? lol
Susanna Gibson blasts opponents for ‘gutter politics’ after sex videos surface
By Patrick Reilly
Published Sep. 12, 2023
https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/susanna-gibson-blasts-opponents-for-gutter-politics-after-sex-videos-surface/
Sam Brinton's latest arrest involves alleged theft of Tanzanian fashion designer's clothes, lawyer says
Fashion designer 'hopes to retrieve the seized items' from police soon, lawyer tells Fox News Digital
By Thomas Catenacci | Fox News
Published May 19, 2023
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sam-brintons-latest-arrest-involves-theft-tanzanian-fashion-designers-clothes-lawyer-says
Police find female designer's stolen clothes in ex-Biden official Sam Brinton's home
'We returned the victim’s property,' police spokesperson tells Fox News Digital
By Thomas Catenacci Fox News
Published September 20, 2023
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/police-find-female-designers-stolen-clothes-ex-biden-official-sam-brintons-home
5 explosive revelations from Dem Sen Bob Menendez's bombshell federal indictment
Menendez engaged in corrupt scheme to sell US secrets to Egyptian government, federal indictment alleges
By Joe Schoffstall , Thomas Catenacci Fox News
Published September 22, 2023
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/5-explosive-revelations-dem-sen-bob-menendezs-bombshell-federal-indictment
NJ Sen. Bob Menendez expected to announce re-election bid at Monday presser — days after bribery charges
NY Post ^ | 09/25/2023 | Alex Oliveira
Posted on 9/25/2023, 8:08:48 AM by ChicagoConservative27
Embattled Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey is expected to defiantly announce Monday that he will seek re-election — less than a week after being indicted on explosive corruption charges.
The 69-year-old Democrat issued a statement Friday, the day of his Manhattan federal indictment, insisting, “I’m not going anywhere” — despite widespread calls including from top officials in his own party to resign.
Monday’s expected press conference would be his first in-person appearance since he and his wife were charged with taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the form of gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz convertible, cash and even exercise machines and an air purifier
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I'm surprised they charged him.
Jamaal Bowman criminally charged in Capitol Hill fire alarm incident
Rep. Jamaal Bowman has been criminally charged in the Capitol Hill fire alarm incident
By Adam Sabes Fox News
Published October 25, 2023
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., has been charged after he pulled a fire alarm in a House of Representatives building amid a government shutdown threat on Sept. 30.
Bowman was charged with false fire alarm on Wednesday afternoon. His arraignment is scheduled for Thursday morning.
An arrest warrant filed by U.S. Capitol Police Supervisory Special Agent Joseph McAtee states that they were notified at 12:05 p.m. that a fire alarm had been pulled inside the Cannon House Office Building on the second floor.
When Bowman was interviewed by Capitol Police agents, he told them that he responded "yes" when asked if he knew anything about the fire alarm. The Democratic representative said he was in a rush because votes were being called, adding that the door is usually open.
Bowman, according to the arrest warrant, the agents that he saw the nearby doors with a sign reading "emergency exit only push to open," so he pushed on the door and pulled the lever next to it, which must have been the alarm."
"[Bowman] advised that usually when votes are called, all doors are open, and that door is usually open (the second floor door leading to Independence Ave). The defendant further stated that this door was a usual door he uses. The defendant advised that he then went to a Dem (Democratic) meeting and a vote at the Capitol, then the House Sergeant at Arms contacted him," the warrant states.
Bowman told the agent that he didn’t intend to cause a fire alarm and didn’t intend to disrupt or obstruct a Congressional proceeding, then stating that he needed to get a lawyer and wouldn't make any further statements.
The agent wrote in the arrest warrant that there's a sign next to the door reading "Emergency Exit Only," adding that the fire alarm had lettering which read, "FIRE. Push in Pull Down." Security camera footage reviewed by Capitol Police allegedly revealed that Bowman attempted to open both door's before pulling the fire alarm, then walked away.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Bowman's congressional office. At the time of the incident, Bowman's chief of staff wrote on X that "Congressman Bowman did not realize he would trigger a building alarm as he was rushing to make an urgent vote. The Congressman regrets any confusion."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jamaal-bowman-criminally-charged-capitol-hill-fire-alarm-incident
He was a school principal but now that he is in Congress he can not distinguish a fire alarm box from a door open switch?
The charges and the fine are a slap on the wrist, just for show. There should have been more serious charges, higher fine and prison time. The arrest warrant affidavit specifically says there is "probable cause to believe that the defendant willfully or knowingly gave a false fire alarm".
Talk about a smoking gun. Check out the video. This fool removed the fire exit signs, pulls the fire alarm, then walks away without trying to open the door.All swept under the rug. What a fantastic criminal justice system America has. Just fantastic!
New Footage Throws Wrench Into Defense Of Dem Rep Who Pulled Capitol Fire Alarm
HAROLD HUTCHISON
REPORTER
October 26, 2023
https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/26/new-footage-wrench-defense-dem-rep-pulled-capitol-fire-alarm/?pnespid=tat1WThBPrEAivSfvmjkDpWHrgOwRolnKe3j3uxu8h5mqt9WRrwaWC3pv4MEmNnJvOnGaEhgeQ
Ex-CNN producer John Griffin settles lawsuit with 9-year-old girl he sexually abused in Vermont homeNo jail time? Disgusting c unt!
The suit was filed on behalf of the girl, now 11, in 2022 by the Connecticut Superior Court, and sought $15 million in damages.
Jarryd Jaeger
Vancouver, BC
Nov 3, 2023
https://thepostmillennial.com/ex-cnn-producer-john-griffin-settles-lawsuit-with-9-year-old-girl-he-sexually-abused-in-vermont-home?utm_campaign=64487
No jail time? Disgusting c unt!
He got 19 years in prison on the criminal side. This was a civil suit for money.Excellent. Hope his prison mates take care of him.
Excellent. Hope his prison mates take care of him.
Seriously, don’t fucking patronize me. Again, if you want to debate let’s debate live. Seems you lurker and Agnostic are lost when you can’t debate on the fly.
Pedophilia seems to be a running theme with liberals and those that make excuses for it..
Ex-Maryland Democrat Mayor Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison from 150-Year Plea Deal for Child Porn Case Involving Over 500 Victims — May be Eligible for Parole After 7.5 Years
The former Democrat Mayor of College Park, Maryland, Patrick Wojahn, has been handed a 30-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to charges related to the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material.
Earlier this year, The Gateway Pundit reported that the Prince George’s County police department arrested Wojahn soon after they discovered he was operating a social media account distributing pornography.
“The City of College Park was made aware this morning of former Mayor Patrick Wojahn’s arrest by Prince George’s County Police and the charges that have been filed. We are shocked and disturbed by the news; what has come to light in this investigation is a total surprise to us,” according to the press release.
Before his arrest, Wojahn, who served as mayor from 2015-2023, had friendships with high-profile Democrats such as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
The Washington Blade in 2019 reported, “Pete Buttigieg has mentored Patrick Wojahn over the years.”
Local College Park news outlet the Diamond Back would go further and reported Patrick Wojahn received important advice from Buttigieg and the two even went out for beers once in Riverdale, Maryland. Along with Lady Gaga and the Dalai Lama, Wojahn also took a picture with Nancy Pelosi:
Prince George’s County Police Department (PGPD) wrote in a press release, “On February 17, 2023, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children notified the PGPD that a social media account operating in the county possessed and distributed suspected child pornography. The image and videos had been uploaded to the social media account in January of 2023. Through various investigative techniques, PGPD investigators discovered the social media account belonged to Wojahn.”
It continued, “On February 28, 2023, PGPD detectives served a search warrant at Wojahn’s College Park home. Investigators recovered multiple cell phones, a storage device, a tablet and a computer. Following additional investigation, PGPD obtained criminal charges against Wojahn and investigators took him into custody early this morning.”
Wojahn filed for his resignation following his arrest, stating, “While this investigation does not involve any official city business of any kind, it is in the best interests of our community that I step aside and not serve as a distraction. I have great trust in the ability of Mayor Pro Tem Mitchell, the City Council, and our staff to carry forward what we have accomplished.”
On August 2, Wojahn pleaded guilty to a total of 140 counts, including 60 counts of distribution, 40 counts of possession, and 40 counts of intent to distribute child pornography, WUSA9 reported.
On Monday, a former Maryland mayor, Patrick Wojahn, only received a light sentence of three decades behind bars. The plea deal concluded with Wojahn being sentenced to 150 years, however, the court suspended 120 years, effectively sending Wojahn to prison for only 30 years plus five years’ probation. He must also register as a sex offender for 25 years, according to The Baltimore Banner.
The news outlet reported:
For almost 1½ hours at the sentencing Monday of former College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn in Prince George’s County Circuit Court, Assistant State’s Attorneys Monica Meyers and Jess Garth explained how possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material is not a victimless crime.
Law enforcement, prosecutors said, knew the names of 52 children who appeared in images on Wojahn’s cellphone. They experienced sexual abuse all over the world. The United States. Canada. Mexico. Spain. Germany. The United Kingdom.
But there were hundreds, if not thousands more children that investigators could not identify. The total number was so large, prosecutors said, that it surpassed the enrollment of Wojahn’s local elementary school, Hollywood Elementary.
“Even though the victim is separated from the person who is abusing them by a computer screen, they exist,” said Garth, who is chief of the Special Victims and Family Violence Unit in the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office, at a news conference. “They’re real people.”
State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy described the sentence as “fair.”
According to Maryland’s parole laws, he could potentially secure an early release after serving a quarter of his sentence, which would be about seven and a half years, according to WTOP News.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/ex-maryland-democrat-mayor-sentenced-30-years-prison/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ex-maryland-democrat-mayor-sentenced-30-years-prison&fbclid=PAAaapHR4chMJCtruuJbIxBapKHGM4pmTEiSVXjYLc1JX53DFLFb4HLMP1kXQ_aem_Acmfm6qagUF2O912mGkS0WuxyzNYNR5ZURZ7mi9FYT6oz5SKd7uCObckb1KUwmqsNvA
BREAKING: Cori Bush faces DOJ probe for alleged misuse of federal funds
A watchdog group has demanded that the Federal Election Commission investigate the $62,000 that she paid to her now husband for security from her campaign account.
Thomas Stevenson
Jan 30, 2024
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-cori-bush-faces-doj-probe-for-alleged-misuse-of-federal-funds?utm_campaign=64487
How long before she pulls the race+woman card?
How long before she pulls the race+woman card?
Right away. No doubt.
lol
Cori Bush says criticisms of her security payments are ‘racism at its best’
By Jenny Goldsberry
February 1, 2024
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/2831049/cori-bush-says-criticisms-of-security-payments-racism-at-its-best/#google_vignette
Former top prosecutor for Baltimore convicted in perjury case tied to purchase of Florida homes
MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Updated November 9, 2023
https://news.yahoo.com/former-top-prosecutor-baltimore-convicted-211038153.html