Legacy Boy: No Crime Too Big For A Democrap
Norman G. Purves
the righteousness of a archetypal Pharisee that "no crime is too petty".
OK, Richie, let's see the legacy of the current "administration":
Land Fraud (Whitewater)
Bribery (The 100-1 "cattle futures" tip from a state-regulated businessman)
Forcible Rape (Juanita Broddrick, and others too intimidated to come
forward)
Malicious Prosecution (the "White House Travel Office Incident")
Criminal abuse of law-enforcement powers (The Waco Holocaust)
Destruction of Evidence (Vince Foster office records)
Criminal Misuse of Government Records (the FBI files case)
Sexual Harrassment (Paula Jones)
Perjury (Paula Jones case)
Perjury (Monica Lewinsky, re the Paula Jones case)
Perjury (Paula Jones case *again*, re Monica Lewinsky)
Contempt of Court (This Paula Jones case *really* gave LB a chance to show
his stuff, eh?)
Illegal Campaign Money (The Chinese Money Scandal)
Bribery (The Chinese Money Scandal)
Treason (Boy, this Chinese Money Thing really has legs, doesn't it?)
And we still have over a year to go. The list could well be longer than
this one (posters are welcome to add their favorites if they like). No
doubt it will be even longer 13 months from now.
Millions of honest and patriotic members of the Democratis party are
disgusted with this list, not to mention with the person responsible for it
all:
Leagacy Boy. "One of our greatest presidents", according to Albatross Al.
It's OK, Richie. We Understand. We Feel Your Pain. We had Nixon to kick
around, remember? Oh, I see, you're *too young* to remember Nixon. I
understand. It was just too tough to resist cutting your US History class
last semester. But you can find it in "Encarta" if you type "corruption"
into the keyword-window. Just click on "Nixon" instead of "Bill Clinton"
and you can learn the whole story.
You see, we republicans ditched Nixon, for the good of the country.
Something you lefties didn't have the courage to do.
--
Aloha
Norman
Rich Travsky
Oh please. Treason, bribery - it is to laugh. Why, you forgot the Clinton
Body Count and Black Helicopters.
Here's *real* corruption:
1.
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 10/30/99:
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/StateRegion/3E93449DA7C87E028625681A007F
3C85?OpenDocument
This is then ongoing driver's license scandal investigation from when
republicon Governor Ryan of Illinois was Secretary of State. There
have been 14 guilty pleas so far and 13 more have been indicted:
- From The Chicago Tribune, 12/4/99:
http://www.chicago.tribune.com/news/metro/chicago/article/0,2669,ART-38957,FF.html
License probe turns to leases for buildings
Elgin raid raises issues of kickbacks, preferential pacts
- From The Chicago Tribune,
12/15/99:http://chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/article/0,2669,ART-39398,FF.html
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2.
From The Associated Press, 10/27/99:
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/10/27/miami.ap/
Florida State Senator Pleads Guilty
By TRACY FIELDS Associated Press Writer
MIAMI -- A state senator pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a Medicare
fraud case and must resign from the Legislature, where he has served
for 15 years.
State Sen. Alberto Gutman and his wife, Marci, were charged last year
as the secret owners of companies that billed Medicare for health
care services that were not performed, sometimes for clients who did
not exist.
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3.
From The Dallas Morning News, 10/27/99:
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/1027tsw999judge.htm
By Pete Slover / The Dallas Morning News
AUSTIN - A judge on the state's highest criminal court - arrested
after a ticket-scalping incident last year - pleaded no contest to
trespassing Tuesday and received six months' probation.
[...]
Judge Mansfield, 47, a Republican, was placed on deferred adjudication
probation, meaning that he will have no criminal record if he
completes his probation, pays a $300 fine and performs 30 hours of community
service, the nature of which was not determined Tuesday.
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4.
From The Associated Press, 11/4/99:
http://flash.syracuse.com/cgi-bin/syr_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed/CUSE_NEWS
/n0326_PM_NY--Pataki-Trip
Donations to sponsor of Pataki's Hungary trips are investigated
ALBANY, N.Y. -- The state Ethics Commission is investigating whether
two trips to Hungary by Gov. George Pataki were illegally funded by
companies with business interests before the state, the New York Times
reported today.
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5.
NY Times 11/15/99
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/111599mich-roche-edu.html
This is sordid case of George Roche III, of conservative Hillsdale
College. A lengthy affair with his son's wife and her later suicide.
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6.
From The San Antonio Express-News, 11/10/99:
http://www.express-news.net/auth/ennews/ap/texas/d0623.html
This is the ongoing story of Texas State Sen. J.E. "Buster" Brown,
Brazoria County, who sexually harassed a female office clerk.
- http://www.express-news.net/auth/ennews/ap/texas/d0828.html
Texas State senator under attack for groping woman employee
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7.
From The New York Times, 11/17/99:
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-gop-trial.html
Prosecutors Say Tapes Prove Former G.O.P. Leader's Guilt
By JOHN T. McQUISTON
UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- Secretly recorded conversations that federal
investigators say provide clear evidence of a landfill extortion
scheme were played in Federal District Court here Tuesday in the trial
of John Powell, the former Suffolk County Republican leader.
The members of the jury, each wearing a set of headphones, listened
intently as they heard Powell described as the "main man," the "head
honcho" and the "boss" of the town of Brookhaven, where he is charged
with taking $20,000 in bribes for access to the town landfill.
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8.
From The San Antonio Express-News, 11/19/99:
http://www.express-news.net/auth/ennews/ap/texas/d0882.html
Texas senator said soliciting illegal contributions for Bush
MESA, Ariz. - A Texas state senator reportedly is asking Arizona
lawmakers for a portion of their own campaign funds for Republican
presidential contender George W. Bush, a practice said to be illegal.
Texas Sen. Teel Bivins, whose district includes Amarillo, used
official Texas Senate stationery to tell Arizona legislators that a
contribution of up to $1,000 from their own campaign account is legal,
The Tribune, a newspaper covering suburban Phoenix, said today.
The Tribune also said Arizona statutes prohibit the transfer from any
state campaign account to another candidate's federal or state
campaign.
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9.
From The Poughkeepsie Journal, 12/2/99:
http://www.pojonews.com/news/crime/stories/cr120299s2.htm
Indictment tops 16 counts
By Michael Valkys
Poughkeepsie Journal
WHITE PLAINS -- Federal prosecutors Wednesday announced eight
additional corruption charges have been lodged against former Dutchess
County Republican Chairman William Paroli Sr.
Paroli -- who faces a March trial -- was previously indicted in
September on eight counts of corruption for allegedly masterminding a
six-year scheme to shake down contractors on Town of Poughkeepsie
projects with more than $100,000 going to Paroli and the GOP.
The eight new charges -- bringing the total to 16 -- were handed down
Wednesday by a federal grand jury.
Paroli is now charged with one count of conspiracy to commit
extortion, seven counts of extortion, one count of bribery, one count
of embezzlement, two counts of mail fraud and four counts of witness
tampering.
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10.
From The New York Times, 12/3/99:
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-powell.html
G.O.P. Figure in Suffolk Is Convicted
By JOHN T. McQUISTON
UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- John Powell, a former leader of the Suffolk County
Republican Party who was once seen as a rising star in the state
party, was found guilty of conspiracy and extortion in a landfill
scandal on Thursday evening by a federal jury.
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11.
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Dec/06/city/CRIM06.htm
HARRISBURG - The Republican House majority is expected to make history
today by allowing a lawmaker convicted of perjury to take his seat and
vote despite a provision in the Pennsylvania Constitution that makes
him ineligible to serve.
GOP legislators plan to block or vote down a Democrat-led effort to expel
Rep. Frank Serafini, who was sentenced Nov. 18 to five months in federal
prison for lying to a federal grand jury that was investigating an
illegal campaign finance scheme.
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12.
From The New York Times, 12/9/99:
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-republican.html
Convicted Republican Seeks Deal in 2nd Case
By JOHN T. McQUISTON
UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- Five days after being convicted of
conspiracy and extortion, John Powell, a former Suffolk County
Republican leader, was back in court Wednesday, trying to avoid a
second trial on charges of helping to run a truck theft ring.
Powell, who was convicted Dec. 2 in Federal District Court here of
extorting $20,000 in bribes from a trucker in exchange for preferred
access to the Town of Brookhaven landfill, said through his lawyer
Wednesday that he hoped to negotiate a plea agreement with federal
prosecutors in the truck theft case.
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13.
From The Hartford Courant, 12/16/99:
http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?bfromind=1396&eeid=1243606&eetype=article&
render=y&ck=&ver=hb1.2.20
By MATTHEW DALY
The Hartford Courant
To state Republicans, it's a no- brainer.
Connecticut should have a board of trustees to oversee management of
its $20 billion pension fund, the GOP leaders say - and one of their
own is Exhibit A for why.
Former state Treasurer Paul J. Silvester, a Republican, set off a
state scandal after pleading guilty to money-laundering and
racketeering charges involving investments he made during his final
months in office.
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14.
From The Providence (R.I.) Journal 12/17/99:
http://www.projo.com/cgi-bin/frame_it.cgi?URL=/report/pjb/stories/02923091.htm
EDC chief resigns
By CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND
Journal State House Bureau
PROVIDENCE -- John Swen resigned from his job as executive director of
the state Economic Development Corporation yesterday, brought down by
questionable spending practices after two years as Governor Almond's
chief business booster.
From
http://www.projo.com/report/pjb/stories/02917041.htm
[...]
Swen is an appointee of Almond, a Republican.
[...]
Another Republican senator, John A. Patterson, of North Kingstown,
agreed. The Almond administration ``has been scandal-free until now,''
he said. ``It's sad that this is no longer the case.''
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15.
From The New York Times, 12/18/99:
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-campaign-gop.html
Fund-Raiser for Republicans Denies Wrongdoing
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
A businessman who has raised tens of thousands of dollars for the
campaigns of Gov. George E. Pataki and other Republicans pleaded not
guilty yesterday to federal charges that he promised favorable state
parole rulings to the families of three convicted violent felons in
exchange for $36,000 in campaign donations.
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16.
From The New York Times, 12/15/99:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/regional/121599ny-col-purdy.html
Tough Times For Big Man In Dutchess
POUGHKEEPSIE , N.Y. -- Only the uninitiated would think there was
anything odd about the goings-on Tuesday in the county courthouse
here.
William Paroli Sr., the Republican elections commissioner, was on the
witness stand testifying for the county clerk who is contesting the
results of the still-unresolved November election.
[...]
A federal corruption investigation has cut a jagged swath through the
Town of Poughkeepsie in the last two and a half years, leaving behind
charges, convictions, political unrest, a suicide and enough rumors
and conspiracy theories to keep this county riveted.
The elder Paroli has been the impresario of the local Republican
Party, and federal prosecutors have accused him of masterminding a
medley of corrupt acts.
Prosecutors said he conspired with local officials to shake down
contractors.
They allege that on one project alone, $137,800 was extorted and
funneled to the Republican Party, with various conduits used to get
money to Paroli.
An F.B.I. document filed in the case says that while running for
county party chairman in 1997, Paroli acknowledged to supporters that
he used "his 'leadership' to 'smooth the way' and 'cut through the red
tape' for business and contractors who were willing to make
contributions to the party."
There were also smaller favors for Paroli, either from the public
coffers or contractors, prosecutors allege: tires for his car,
construction material and electrical work for his house and
landscaping for his yard.
There have been four convictions, including the guilty plea of the
town's water superintendent who was charged with conspiring with
Paroli to extort money.
The town's assessor, whose body was found in the Hudson River in
October 1997 after he committed suicide, has since been linked by
prosecutors to what they say was a conspiracy.
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17.
From The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 12/15/99:
http://www.ardemgaz.com/today/ark/baydepose15.html
Huckabee denies misuse of mansion funds after deposition
RACHEL O'NEAL
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Gov. Mike Huckabee was questioned for 31/2 hours Tuesday as he gave a
deposition in a lawsuit against him over his alleged misuse of the
taxpayer-financed, $60,000 Governor's Mansion Allowance.
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> It's OK, Richie. We Understand. We Feel Your Pain. We had Nixon to kick
> around, remember? Oh, I see, you're *too young* to remember Nixon. I
> understand. It was just too tough to resist cutting your US History class
> last semester. But you can find it in "Encarta" if you type "corruption"
> into the keyword-window. Just click on "Nixon" instead of "Bill Clinton"
> and you can learn the whole story.
>
> You see, we republicans ditched Nixon, for the good of the country.
> Something you lefties didn't have the courage to do.
Does the name "Jay Kim" ring a bell?
RT