Writing by on Tuesday, 8 of November , 2005 at 8:37 pm
This list was compiled by OKthatsIT at DU.
Alabama
Investigation: Sen. Richard Shelby
Disposition: received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Gov. Robert Riley
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.
Received contributions from. DeLay’s ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff
Investigation: Republican Legislative Committee(very sleazy)
Disposition: financing of a Republican flier that accused a Democratic candidate of supporting same-sex marriage because she failed to sign a pledge against it. Republican committee did not file a report five days before the election showing who paid for the ad, as required by state law.
READ THIS: “Ala. Dems seek investigation into financing of anti-gay flier”
http://www.washblade.com/2005/2-25/news/legislative /
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Alaska
Investigation: Senate President Ben Stevens (son of US Senate Pro Tem President Ted Stevens)
Disposition: Probed for accepting consulting fees from oil services firm Veco. Subject to a recall petition.
Investigation: Sen. Ted Stevens
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.
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Arkansas
Investigation: Arkansas Republican Party
Disposition: Received contributions from. DeLay’s ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff
Arkansas - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Joshua Dickens, Republican Constable of Faulkner County.
Disposition: Severly beat, burned, handcuffed and kidnapped woman he was in a relationship with. Sentenced 5 yrs, could be released within 1 year. After the trial, a 16-year-old girl, also made accusations to the police that she had been sexually assaulted by the young man. http://www.arkansasleader.com/2005/10/editorial-good-wo…
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Arizona
Investigation: Rep. J. D. Hayworth
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.
Investigation: Gov. Evan Mecham
Disposition: impeached, in 1988, after he was convicted of obstructing an investigation into a death threat allegedly made by an aide. He also failed to report a $350,000 from a contributor to his campaign for Governor as required by campaign laws; loaned himself $80,000 of public money to help his failing car dealership; allegations of covering up a death threat by one of his appointees to a government employee. Was the first US Governor to face removal from office by three means simultaneously: impeachment by the legislature, a scheduled recall election, and a criminal indictment.
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Evan_Mecham
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050…
Investigation: Governor Fife Symington
Disposition: Resigned after being convicted of bank fraud charges. Conviction overturned due to improper dismissal of a juror during deliberations. Pardoned by Clinton, probably so he would stop wasting the Federal government’s time and money investigating him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fife_Symington_III
http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sword-szymczak.html#R…
Investigation: Nathan Sproul, of
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California
Investigation: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Disposition: Ethics probe for accepting salary from two men’s fitness magazines while governor, possible kickback from American Media publisher to Schwarzenegger charity and silence money to a woman who had an extramarital affair with Schwarzenegger. This probe may go criminal.
Investigation: Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham
Disposition: Probed for bribery regarding financial ties with and favors for defense firm MZM
Investigation: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
Disposition: Tied to Abramoff scandal on loan papers. Recipient of contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Rep. Doug Ose
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.
Investigation: Rep. Richard Pombo
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=753
Investigation: Rep. John Doolittle
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.
Investigation: Rep. Ed Royce
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.
Investigation: Katrina Leung, who helped raise money and contributed to several other Republican campaigns.
Disposition: arrested in April 2003, on charges of working covertly for the Chinese government(CODENAME: Parlor Maid). Leung was alleged to have copied U.S. secrets with intent of providing them to Chinese intelligence services.
http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/leung.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54571-20…
Investigation: Retired FBI agent James J. Smith
Disposition: pleaded guilty to lying about the affair, with Katrina Leung, during an FBI background review and agreed to cooperate with the government’s investigation of Leung in exchange for the dropping of more serious charges of mail fraud and mishandling of classified documents. He was sentenced three months’ home confinement.
http://www.cicentre.com/Documents/DOC_Smith_James_J_Cas…
http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/smith.html
http://www.newsgd.com/news/World1/200507190030.htm
California - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Nicholas Elizondo(Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation) Bakersfield, CA
Disposition: molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
http://www.armchairsubversive.com/Nicholas_Elizondo.htm
Investigation: Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline
Disposition: placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00914F9…
Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger “told a magazine in 1977 that he had a stripper girlfriend, hung out with prostitutes and engaged in group sex. Then in October 2003, the Los Angeles Times reported that several women said he had forced himself on them, grabbing them and trying to pull off clothing. Schwarzenegger didn’t admit anything specific, but he didn’t exactly proclaim his innocence, either. “Wherever there is smoke, there is fire,” he said. “I have behaved badly sometimes.”
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Colorado
Investigation: Colorado Republican Party
Disposition: Received contributions from. DeLay’s ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff
Investigation: Scott McInnis, former US Rep of Colorado
Disposition: at the end of his term, left the House with more than $1 million in his campaign bank account from Aramoff
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aBi…
Colorado - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Larry D Floyd (R-Denton County Constable)
Disposition: Arrested charged with one count of soliciting for child prostitution, three counts of enticement of a child and three counts of attempted sexual assault on a child.
http://www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/tv…
Investigation: Larry Jack Schwarz, Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative.
Disposition: fired after child pornography was found in his possession
http://www.armchairsubversive.com/schwarz.htm
Investigation: Colorado Republican Party activist Randal David Ankeney
Disposition: charged in a second sexual-assault incident, following his July arrest involving a Disposition: 14-year-old girl he had met in an Internet chat room. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/1130885/detail.htm…
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Connecticut
Investigation: Gov. John Rowland
Disposition: Convicted, racketeering enterprise, imprisoned 2004
Investigation: Peter N. Ellef, Mr. Rowland’s co-chief of staff.
Disposition: pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bribery
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/nyregion/26plea.html
Investigation: William A. Tomasso, Mr. Ellef’s close friend, whose family’s companies won more than $100 million in contracts under Mr. Rowland’s administration.
Disposition: pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bribery
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/nyregion/26plea.html
Investigation: Rep. Rob Simmons
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
Connecticut - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Larry Giordano (R- former Mayor of Waterbury)
Disposition: Sexually abused 2 girls. Sentenced to 37 years
http://www.armchairsubversive.com/Giordano.htm
Investigation: Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=1913548
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Delaware
Investigation: Attorney General Jane Brady
Disposition: Accused of helping MBNA Bank of Wilmington skirt campaign finance laws.
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Washington DC
Investigation: Jack Abramoff, GOP lobbyist
Disposition: Indicted, wire fraud, conspiracy
Investigation: Adam Kidan, DC Dial-a-Mattress franchise in DC and Abramoff associate
Disposition: Indicted, wire fraud, conspiracy
Investigation: Michael Scanlon, former chief of staff to Tom DeLay
Disposition: Being probed for involvement in Indian casino scandal with Abramoff, Kidan, and DeLay
Investigation: Italia Federicie, a Republican environmentalist ordered to appear in front of Senate Panel Ambramoff Investigation.
Disposition: expected witness, Ms. Federicie did not show up for questioning by McCain’s Senate panel. McCain said he willl send a Federal Marshall out to find her.
Investigation: Michael Rosetti, former Interior Department Counsel, appeared in front of Senate Panel Ambramoff Investigation.
Disposition: Questioned by Senate Panel, rejected testimony made by J. Steven Giles
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ab…
Investigation: J. Steven Griles, a former deputy Interior secretary, appeared in front of Senate Panel Ambramoff Investigation
Disposition: possible perjury charges in the making….hearing focused on whether Abramoff, when working for the Coushatta tribe of Louisiana, relied on Griles to influence the Interior Department to block a rival tribe from opening a casino that would compete with the Coushattas’ gaming business. Griles said he rejected the offer and reported it to ethics officials.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ab…
Investigation: Steve Rosen, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
Disposition: Indicted for criminal conspiracy involving classified national security information
Investigation: Keith Weismann, AIPAC
Disposition: Indicted for criminal conspiracy involving classified national security information
Investigation: Larry Franklin, Colonel, USAF Reserves, Dept. of Defense
Disposition: Indicted for criminal conspiracy involving classified national security information
Investigation: Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President;s Chief of Staff
Disposition: (5 Count)Indictment: obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury in the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA agent’s name.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9837835 /
Investigation: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove
Disposition: Continued investigation by Grand Jury. Probed for illegal disclosure of CIA classified information.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9837835 /
Investigation: David Safavian, Chief of Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget
Disposition: Arrested, Safavian is charged with making false statements to a General Services Administration ethics officer and the GSA inspector general’s office. Safavian served as chief of staff at GSA before moving to OMB. Arrested Sept 19 2005 on charges of lying to investigators and obstructing a federal inquiry involving Jack Abramof
Investigation: Timothy E. Flanigan, Flanigan was nominated in May 2005, to be the No. 2 official at the Justice Department - Gonzales’ top deputy. But the nomination has been held up over questions about his connection to Abramoff. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-532…
Investigation: John Hannah, a key aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and one of the architects of the Iraq war,
Disposition: cooperating with Fitzgerald after being told that he was identified by witnesses as a co-conspirator in the leak. Sources said Hannah was not given immunity, but was likely offered a “deal” in exchange for information that could result in indictments of key White House officials. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Second_Cheney_aide_cooper…
Investigation: a second Cheney aide, David Wurmser, has agreed to provide the prosecution with evidence that the leak was a coordinated effort by Cheney’s office to discredit the agent’s husband. Her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, was one of the most vocal critics of the Iraq war. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Second_Cheney_aide_cooper…
Investigation: Michael Brown, former Director of FEMA.
Disposition: LIED on his resume. LIED repeatedly under oath to the House investigative panel.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20…
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/200…
Investigation: Lester M. Crawford, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner
Disposition: The GAO and Senate Health committee will be investigating the circumstances of Crawford’s resignation, including his financial disclosures. He was also accused before his confirmation of having an improper relationship with a female colleague — a charge that independent investigators said both parties denied. The final report did note, however, significant discrepancies between Crawford’s testimony and that of others in the commissioner’s office.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Crawford
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20…
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9533793 /
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=…
Washington DC - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Mark Grethen, a longtime GOP activist and fundraiser. He was to be honored in Washington D.C. as “Republican of the Year” – an honor bestowed upon him by Representative Tom Davis of Virginia.
Disposition: convicted of six sex crimes involving raping children. He’s scheduled to be in the Deep Meadow Correctional Facility until September 25, 2024. http://mediastudy.com/articles/av5-26-05.html
Investigation: Richard Delgaudio, served as president of the Republican-affiliated Legal Affairs Council, raising money for Oliver North’s defense during the Iran-Contra scandal, and for former Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger’s defense fund (back in the pre-Ashcroft/Gonzales days when Republican criminals were actually sometimes tried for their crimes). He also raised money for such Republican notables as Ronald Reagan and Jesse Helms.
Disposition: he pled guilty to charges of producing child pornography after getting caught paying two teenage girls to pose for his camera in a Baltimore hotel. http://mediastudy.com/articles/av5-26-05.html
John Bolton: Corroborated allegations that Mr. Bolton’s first wife, Christina Bolton, was forced to engage in group sex have not been refuted by the State Department despite inquires posed by Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt concerning the allegations. http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/larry_flynt_bolton…
History of Washington DC Pedophilia - http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/conspiracyofsilence2.wm… Video
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/1570946.php Bush Sr White House Scandal 1989
Investigation: Donald Rumsfeld (R-Defense Secretary) Disposition: authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate Report 1 http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/abugh… Full Report
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Writing by on Friday, 24 of June , 2005 at 3:07 pm
Karl said…
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war. Conservatives saw what happened to us on 9/11 and said we will defeat our enemies.
Really Karl, you prepared for war? How did you do that, play golf or have dinner at the White House? You make the conservatives sound so strong, yet, if I recall Karl, you have never severed, in fact I am not sure you could tell me what a 5 down 2 up on a blue uniform is (it is a rank). I also recall that your puppet Bush ran to protect Austin from the Viet-cong while his fellow Americans were dieing in the rice patties of Vietnam. Cheney had more deferrals than a tree has leaves. So I ask again, how do conservatives prepare for war?
You prepare for war by jumping on a tragedy to divide America, to further your agenda, to create a war that did not need to be fought. For the love of god, I would have been the first one in Afghanistan; we should have turned that nation into a sheet of glass. The fact remains, not a single solitary person on any of those planes that were used against us in September 11th were Iraqi, furthermore most of them were from Saudi Arabia, a nation that we are currently bedding (screwing) our leader daily.
So in short Karl, you prepared for war by running under Bush’s desk like a coward. You are a cowered, your boss is a coward, and his puppet master is a coward and the bulk of the conservative are yellow tailed cowered.
I have worn the uniform, I know what it is like to squeeze off rounds from an M-16, I know the joy of having an officer pin a medal to your shirt, I know the hardships of living off of 12,000 a year. I am a liberal and I HAVE PREPARED FOR WAR you fucking coward.
TO hell with you, you are nothing more than a hate mongering pussy that uses one of the darkest days in American’s recent history to buoy a failing president, a failed administration, and a horribly failed war. Do me a favor, and shut the fuck up you cowardly asshole.
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Category: Failed Presidency, Action Alert, Right Wing Hypocrisy
Writing by on Friday, 24 of June , 2005 at 9:50 am
The SCOTUS ruled that if you are not using your property in a way that generates the most tax money, the city, town, county, or state can take it.
The ruling looks at imamate domain. Before yesterday, a government body could take your property from you if its use was for the betterment of the community. So let's say you live next to a road, and the state wants to build a highway, it could force you to sell your house because the community is better served by the new highway.
Well yesterday the Supreme Court tossed all that out the window, and defined betterment to the community as almost anything.
Let's say you have a farm, it has been in the family for 10 generations. The county that you live in can TAKE your farm and build tract homes on it, because the TAX revenue from the 345 homes they will cram on it is betterment to the community over your farm.
Here is a good one, you live in a neighborhood, an older one. Many of the houses have been expanded over the years, add-ons, new floors and so on. You have not done anything, and your house is still the small ranch that your mother dreamed of in 1956. The city can force you to sell your home, so that a larger more expensive house can be built. The taxes on the new $800,000 home will be far nicer than your $189,000, and therefore a betterment to the community.
See where this can go?
I would recommend you contact your congressman and senator, laws can be placed to limit this, but it will need pressure.
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Category: Issues, Life in Bushs America, Action Alert, Taxes
The Republican party has waged a way on PBS, and NPR, known collectively as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) as far back as Nixon. Originally the hated steamed from the fact that Republicans hate all things