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Powerful Ways And Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel has questionable filings on rental income on a vacation home he owns in the Dominican Republic. Charlie is silent on these earnings which he says don’t exist contrary to other claims.

The North Carolina case of an alleged satanic torture involving a Democratic Party official and her husband has now expanded to include a third suspect, an even higher-ranking Democrat. Diana Palmer, the first vice-chairwoman of the Durham County Democratic Party, joins her political colleague Joy Johnson, the third vice-chairwoman of the party, and Johnson's spouse, Joseph Craig, in facing charges. Palmer, 44, surrendered to police in Durham, N.C., this afternoon and was charged with being an accessory after the fact of assault with a deadly weapon. She's being held at the Durham County Jail under $95,000 bail. Additional charges were...

Soren Dayton of RedState notices that Barack Obama's choice of Jim Johnson to vet vice presidential choices is worse than previously understood: ...there is more on Johnson. In 2001, he joined Persueus LLC as a Vice Chairman. Perseus has a number of funds. Among them: PERSEUS-SOROS BIOPHARMACEUTICAL FUND, L.P., which Perseus co-manages, was formed in 2000 with capital commitments totaling $449 million to make investments in life sciences companies So Perseus is a business partner with George Soros. And Johnson is the Vice Chairman ... Incidentally, as Say Anything Blog notes, Perseus also seems to own the publisher of the...

News of Barack Obama’s buddy Tony Rezko the Chicago Real estate Developer and fundraiser for Barack has been found guilty on Federal Corruption charges. Video response from RNC included

A former staffer in a Bronx City Council member's office is under investigation by the Bronx District Attorney for allegedly running a housing scam that bilked more than a dozen constituents out of thousands of dollars, according to sources familiar with the case. The woman reportedly charged up to $2,000 with the promise that she could secure federally subsidized Section 8 housing. Under the federal program, the government covers up to 75% of rent for persons who can prove they qualify for the subsidy. Sources said that Councilwoman Maria Baez hired the staffer about two years ago, shortly after the...

The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state's new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs. In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife, Michelle, 46, acknowledged in a joint interview they each had intimate relationships with others during a rocky period in their marriage several years ago. In the course of several interviews in the past few days, Paterson said he maintained a relationship for two or three years with "a woman other than my wife," beginning in 1999. mo here

Detective Dennis A. Delano, an outspoken member of the Buffalo Police Cold Case Squad, faces departmental charges and has been suspended without pay, the police commissioner announced this afternoon. Commissioner H. McCarthy Gipson has charged Delano with defying orders from his superiors and with releasing a videotape and other investigative materials without authorization, Gipson said in a statement.

Not long after Nelson Ludlow and his wife started a technology business in Port Townsend with money scraped together from friends, family and retirement accounts, they spent precious dollars in an unlikely way: They hired a lobbyist and started giving to a congressional campaign fund. ...

With every do-gooder action there is an opposite reaction that is not necessarily equal in effect as the first action. I think Albert Einstein said that, and it applies very aptly to what Governor Martin O’Malley’s super secret climate change group is doing. First, for those that want a background on why the Climate Change Commission is so super secret, check out Mark Newgent’s reporting on how O’Malley sole sourced the development of the contract to his campaign supporters. So Governor O’Malley is jumping on board the popular issue right now amongst liberals which is global warming. Al Gore recently...

Just as Martin O’Malley has JacketStat, we here also create multiple catchy names for the many scandals surrounding Martin O’Malley’s Administration and throw the word “Watch” at the end of them. Mark Newgent over at the Main Adversary got to the bottom (well not quite the bottom) of the sole source global warming commission that was given to a firm whose investors donated to Martin O’Malley’s campaign. Now we need to delve in to the other No Bid, Politically Connected Contracts given by the O’Malley Administration. In October, the O’Malley Administration gave a consulting contract, similar to the CSS Climate...

The usual suspects: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, and Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Sander Levin issued a statement on Democrat trade policy rejecting a free trade agreement with our closest ally in Latin America, Colombia. According to them, it cannot be approved until “concrete evidence of sustained results on the ground in Colombia” regarding issues such as violence and corruption have been shown. This action was taken in July, and is now beginning to bear fruit. Two candidates in Sunday’s regional elections in Colombia have been killed, bringing...

Democratic donor Norman Hsu attempted suicide on runBY NANCY DILLON DAILY NEWS WEST COAST BUREAU CHIEF Thursday, October 18th 2007, 4:00 AM Jailed fund-raiser Norman Hsu began popping pills on his way out to California for a court appearance last month and continued to down over-the-counter drugs in a failed suicide attempt when he went on the run, the Daily News has learned. Hsu's effort to kill himself is detailed in court papers obtained Wednesday by The News. The "excessive number of over-the-counter pills" eventually led Hsu's kidneys to fail and induced severe delirium. He was in such bad shape...

Authorities discovered envelopes full of letters from politicians, including one Fed-Ex envelope devoted to letters from Hillary Rodham Clinton, thanking Mr. Hsu, who was her biggest fund-raiser.

Several other Democrats listed as well: Jack Murtha (D) Paul Magliocchetti worked with Rep. Murtha as a senior staffer on the Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense for 10 years. After leaving the committee, Mr. Magliocchetti founded the PMA Group, which has become one of the most prominent Washington, D.C. defense lobbying firms. … In the 2006 Defense appropriations bill, PMA clients received at least 60 earmarks, totaling $95.1 million. In the 2008 election cycle, the PMA group and its clients have contributed $106,000 to Rep. Murtha’s campaign committee and PAC William J. Jefferson (D) On June 4, 2007, Rep. Jefferson...

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A watchdog group asked the Justice Department on Thursday to investigate whether a Georgia congressman broke the law by not paying taxes and using his office's resources for campaign activities. The complaint comes after media reports revealed that an advertising company owned by the family of Rep. David Scott, D-Ga., owed more than $150,000 in back taxes and penalties, despite getting nearly $500,000 in business from the Atlanta congressman's campaign since he won office in 2002. The Politico Web site first reported the story in May. In its complaint, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington also...

Disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu intended to appear for a scheduled California court hearing but may have mistakenly boarded the wrong train because he was "sick and confused," his spokesman said. snip Hsu meant to attend that hearing, but may have accidentally boarded the Amtrak train headed out of state rather than a Bay Area Rapid Transit train, his spokesman Jason Booth said late Tuesday. "That's what appears to be how it happened," Booth said. "He was disoriented at the time. ... We believe he suffered a psychological, mental, or physical breakdown. How that was caused I don't know. I'm...

Nope this is not a direction that I want to travel.

LEO: In doing your research, have the McCain-Feingold "Campaign Finance Reform" laws been effective in their original intent? What sort of loopholes inherent in the bill have been utilized to skirt its restrictions? What parts of the bill have been completely ignored? MATT: The ironic thing about campaign finance reform is that Democrats are the biggest proponents of campaign finance reform and also some of the worst violators of campaign finance laws. And some, like Nancy Pelosi, might not be in power today if they hadn't broken laws to get ahead. MARK: It's not even just a question of loopholes...

The first thing on Rep. Mike Rogers's mind was: Don't lose your cool.It was May 17, and Rogers, a Michigan Republican, was standing on the House floor listening to Rep. Jack Murtha chew him out. Rogers knew why. He sits on the Select Committee on Intelligence, and had tried to eliminate $23 million that Murtha, the antiwar, big-spending Pennsylvania Democrat, had earmarked for the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC). The NDIC is a costly, controversial, and scandal-plagued bureaucracy located in the heart of Murtha's district. Rogers wanted to put the $23 million into human intelligence operations and recruitment, programs...

Democrat Corruption Thickens with Accusations against Senator Feinstein   Eagle Bridge, NY — May 15, 2007 — Senator Diane Feinstein served as the ranking Democrat on the Senate Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies sub-committee from 2001 to 2005. During that time, Feinstein directed more than $1.5 billion in federal contracts to two companies controlled by her husband. She resigned the position in 2005, after her husband sold his stake in the companies. The couple’s current net worth is estimated at between $45 and $100 million. According to Metro Newspapers, Sen. Feinstein’s top legal advisor Michael Klein has...

RALEIGH -- N.C. lawmakers may join a nationwide push to decide presidential elections by popular vote instead of the Electoral College. A state Senate committee gave its blessing Monday to a bill in favor of abandoning the Electoral College system.....

Norman's guilty, guilty, guilty BY SCOTT SHIFRELDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Saturday, February 24th, 2007 It was strike three yesterday for disgraced ex-Brooklyn Democratic Party leader Clarence Norman, as a third jury in 18 months found him guilty of corruption - this time for extorting a judicial candidate. The month-long trial included testimony from four judges, tales of last-minute election shakedowns and struck a blow to politics as usual, Brooklyn-style. "We were taking a creature that has been around politics for much too long and we have exposed it for the evil that it is," said Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes....

(Hartford-WTNH) _ The Republican leader in the house is demanding two clerks who work for the Democrats be fired. The men are accused of rifling through a Republican clerk's desk and removing documents. News Channel 8 has learned that one Democratic state senate employee has been suspended while the capitol police continue their investigation. Republican Clerk Juliana Simone has been asked by the police not to speak about the incident, but the Legislative Office Building's surveillance cameras have apparently captured images of two Democratic state senate clerks going through her desk and taking things. Rep. Larry Cafero, the Republican leader...

USA TODAY article. Cannot post. Here is the link. http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070129/1a_bottomstrip29.art.htm

"...Prosecutors accused Maiden and Dreamer of secretly reviewing preselected ballots before a public recount on Dec. 16, 2004. They worked behind closed doors for three days to pick ballots they knew would not cause discrepancies when checked by hand, prosecutors said..."

DURHAM - The swearing-in ceremony for embattled Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong apparently took place inside the Durham County Courthouse this morning while the press and other observers stood outside on the courthouse steps. The ceremony was scheduled for 8 a.m. But the courthouse doesn’t normally open until 8:30 a.m., and a sheriff’s deputy told reporters and others that the doors would remain locked until then. Nifong, who kept a low profile for the first 27 years of his career as a prosecutor in Durham, is now nationally known for his involvement in the sexual assault case against three former...

The only Alaska state legislator ever convicted of bribery died Monday in Anchorage, largely ignored by the media and public that dogged his every step back in the early 1980s as he slid from powerful rural lawmaker to ex-con. George Hohman, a former teacher who represented Western Alaska in the state Legislature from 1966 to 1982, died Nov. 20 at Providence Alaska Medical Center, reportedly of cancer. He was 74. A graduate of Michigan State University, Hohman once told a reporter he first came to Alaska in 1954 with the military and "enjoyed the hell out of it." He returned...

Frontpage Interview's guest today is KC Johnson, a professor of history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. With a B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, he specializes in 20th century U.S. political, constitutional, and diplomatic history. He writes a blog, Durham-in-Wonderland, which offers comments and analysis about the Duke/Nifong case. FP: KC Johnson, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Johnson: Thank you for speaking with me. FP: Kindly summarize briefly for our readers what this case involving the three Lacrosse students is about. Johnson: This is the story of how a case virtually devoid of evidence, constructed upon a tissue...

For more than 26 years, Congressman John P. "Jack" Murtha (D-Penn.) has not been truthful about his involvement in Abscam, court records and the complete video of his meeting with the FBI show. In recent years, only a 13-second video of Murtha's videotaped meeting with the FBI agents was publicly available. TAS has obtained a copy of the full, original video from a source close to the Abscam investigation on the condition of anonymity. The court transcript is publicly available at the National Archives. (To see the full video, click here. For a transcript of the meeting, click here.) Murtha...

Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey's gay sex life blossomed as an eighth-grader and continued with trysts in seedy Times Square sex shops and at an abandoned synagogue in Washington, D.C., he reveals in his new memoir. The disgraced pol also admits that as governor, he presided over a corrupt political machine at a time when he had only $7,000 to his name, according to a copy of the book obtained by The Post. The tell-all is filled with sex - including his first hookup as a teen with a "cute, blond, skinny" schoolmate he'd fantasized about.

PREVIOUSLY ON DEMOCRAT CULTURE OF CORRUPTION TERRY MCAULIFFE MEL REYNOLDS This is a beta version of NNDB Search: for Alcee HastingsAKA Alcee Lamar HastingsBorn: 5-Sep-1936Birthplace: Altamonte Springs, FL Gender: MaleReligion: MethodistEthnicity: BlackSexual orientation: StraightOccupation: PoliticianNationality: United StatesExecutive summary: Congressman, Florida 23rdFirst African-American judge appointed to Florida (appointed by Jimmy Carter to the Southern District of Florida in 1979), Hastings was impeached and removed from office in 1989 -- two counts, perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice, one of only twelve judges in American history to be afforded this indignity. The basis of the two charges was his lying about the...

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: for Terry McAuliffeAKA Terence Richard McAuliffeBorn: 1957Birthplace: Syracuse, NY Gender: MaleEthnicity: WhiteSexual orientation: StraightOccupation: PoliticianNationality: United StatesExecutive summary: Clinton's Chairman of the DNCGraduated Catholic University of America in 1979, BA in Political Science. Received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1984. Quickly became a prime Democratic party fundraiser. Invested $100K in Global Crossing, which turned into $18M. McAuliffe did work for Global Crossing's CEO Gary Winnick. Luckily McAuliffe got his money out before accounting irregularities were revealed demonstrated that GC had an inflated stock price, resulting in the company's...

If you ever had to wonder about why so many people think the Democratic Party has gone completely insane, look no further than the California spin machine insanity! After losing to Republican Brian Bilbray in California to replace the criminally convicted "Duke Cunningham," liberal Democrat Francine Busby said: "We've sent a message that there are no safe seats" ... Americans "really want change." In spite of the media talking heads trying to help spin this LOSS into a "win," let's take a good, close look at the psychotic Democratic Party. Somehow the Democratic Party has become so completely perverted,...

One of the MANY staged photos the media uses to manipulate the public. The National Media engine of the Democratic Party knows absolutely no limits on its attacks of America. Speaking out of both sides of their treacherous mouths, these Democratic Party surrogates say they support the troops while attacking them at the same time. They will give days or weeks of airtime to fruitcakes like Murtha to spout their anti-American propaganda just to distract from the real issue that Democratic politicians are criminally collecting bribes. It now appears that the national media water boys for the Democratic Party...

Oh, yes, she did. Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate in Tuesday’s CA-50 special election has been caught on tape telling a Spanish-speaking audience “You don’t need papers for voting.” Responding to a question from a translator about how to help her campaign, Francine Busby also told non-English-speaking volunteers that they don’t need to be registered voters to help the campaign. --snip-- Not a surprise.

I am guessing that, by now, every Freeper has heard about Democrat Senator Harry Reid's decision to take free gifts in the form of high priced boxing tickets while considering boxing legislation. BUT, the real story is further down in the articles that have been reporting it. After looking at the article on Fox News.com, it was easy to see that Harry Reid is more connected to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff than anyone else on Capitol Hill. SENATOR REID'S FREIND, a former staffer and ABRAMOFF PARTNER/EMPLOYEE LOBBYIST, Edward Ayoop, hosted multiple fundraisers for Harry Reid. Including one at the Abramoff's...

The F.B.I. accused Representative William J. Jefferson, Democrat of Louisiana, on Sunday of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes by a Kentucky businessman and hiding $90,000 from the scheme in his home freezer in Washington. The accusations appeared in court documents that were made public only hours after a team of 15 agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation completed an unusual all-night search of Mr. Jefferson's Congressional offices. F.B.I. officials said the raid, which began about 7:15 p.m. Saturday and ended early Sunday afternoon, was the first the agency had ever conducted at a lawmaker's office on...

Recently ABC News spilled the beans. If you connect the dots, it is easy to understand why the mainstream media is in an uproar over NSA monitoring International calls to suspected terrorists who might be planning on attacking America. IT IS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA THAT IS MAKING THOSE INTERNATIONAL CALLS! A few days ago, ABC News ran a story citing another one of those unidentified Federal Government sources warning them that their calls are being monitored. [FN1] A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to...

There is one concept that every red-blooded American must understand--, WHEN AN INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP ATTACKS THEIR ENEMY THEY DO NOT CONSIDER THEMSELVES TERRORISTS NOR DO THEY SEE THEIR TREASON. The American news media does not see its TREASON and its TERRORISM when it is attacking America, President Bush, morals, values, undermining families, attacking Republicans, lying to the American people, or just promoting propaganda. America and the public are their enemy. It must be noted that this entire expose is based on a WELL-DOCUMENTED, VERIFIABLE PLAN by the Democratic Party, to work with the media to DESTROY AMERICA so...

At the center of a federal inquiry into Representative Alan B. Mollohan, Democrat of West Virginia, is his real estate investment with a bankrupt distant cousin who touted his connections to one of Mr. Mollohan's nonprofit organizations to win work, including a federal contract in his district. The Remington bills itself as "Washington's best kept secret." The relative, Joseph L. Jarvis Jr., faced $1 million debts in a personal bankruptcy case when he partnered with Mr. Mollohan in 1996, a few years after his aerospace company failed to fulfill its federal contracts and also filed for bankruptcy. The 1995 West...

McDermott: Public had right to know By MATTHEW DALY The Associated Press WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott says his eight-year dispute with House Majority Leader John Boehner over an intercepted phone call is not personal, but involves a crucial right of voters to know what their leaders are doing. "Unfortunately, it's portrayed in the paper as Boehner v. McDermott. It really is the government versus the people," McDermott, D-Seattle, said Friday in an interview with The Associated Press. In a 2-1 opinion Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a lower-court ruling that McDermott...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "No wonder they call us the Stupid Party," said a disgusted Republican operative in Washington. "You've got to wonder what these guys were thinking." At issue was the publication of a report by David Barrett, an independent counsel who has spent the better part of a decade looking into some of the most hair-raising allegations of presidential malfeasance in American history. Like most independent counsels, Barrett didn't set out on such a mission. He was assigned the duty of looking into whether former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros committed tax fraud in trying to cover...

Companies, partnerships and individuals connected to Charles J. Kushner have given over $1 million ($1,008,600) to federal candidates and national party committees in 1999-2000. The operation involved at least 72 partnership/companies and 75 individuals/employees in and around Florham Park, New Jersey. The principal recipients were the Democratic National Committee ($383,300); Committee For Working Families ($140,000), a federal political action committee linked to Mayor Jim McGreevey of Woodbridge, NJ; Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ($100,000, of which $38,000 was returned); Hillary Clinton ($79,250); Jon Corzine ($72,000); Senator Robert Torricelli ($57,000); and former Vice President Al Gore ($51,000). The employee relationship, timing and bundling...

TRETNTON - A long time friend of New Jersey Governor James McGreevy (D) was indicted yesterday on charges of extortion and bribery. David D'Amiano has been friends with McGreevy since the two were teenagers. D'Amiano was charged with attempting to extort thousands in political contributions and thousands more for personal enrichment and for that of his cronies. According to the indictment D'Amiano would enlist a scheme where in exchange for the contributions he would seek the help of influential government officials in disputes over land issues. The schemes and the agreements would be carried out on the basis of code...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Real estate developer and political fund-raiser Charles Kushner of Livingston, New Jersey, was charged by federal prosecutors Tuesday with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and interstate promotion of prostitution. The charges were announced by U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie for New Jersey. In February 2003, Christie's office began investigating Kushner for alleged violation of federal tax and fraud statutes and for purported violation of federal campaign contribution laws. According to the indictment, two of the cooperating witnesses in the investigation -- a married couple described as close relatives of Kushner -- provided information against him to federal...

Here's an oldie but goodie, from February '01 - 5 years ago this month. It's more relevant than ever - because it reminds us of Libby's ties to MNEW YORK -- It is "utterly false" to suggest fugitive financier Marc Rich was pardoned in return for donations to the Clinton library, former President Clinton wrote in an Op-Ed piece in Sunday editions of The New York Times. Clinton said he pardoned Rich, who allegedly evaded $48 million in U.S. taxes, for a number of reasons, and only after concluding that the case should have been handled in a civil rather...

Atlanta trial dredges up anchor's past 'mistake' January 27, 2006 BY ROBERT FEDER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Despite her hopes to keep it in the past, a Chicago television news anchor's four-year affair with a former mayor of Atlanta is about to be dredged up in federal court. Marion Brooks, who anchors the 4:30 and 5 p.m. weekday newscasts on NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5, has been called to testify for the prosecution in the corruption case against Bill Campbell, who was mayor of Atlanta from 1994 to 2002. Campbell, 52, is on trial in Atlanta on charges of accepting more than $160,000 in...

- The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, criticized on Dec. 22 for admitting that it had not distributed any of the estimated $400,000 it raised for Hurricane Katrina victims, now claims to have handed out most of the money on Dec. 9. However, a Cybercast News Service investigation has uncovered a possible conflict of interest between the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the group that received the $290,000 grant. The CBCF dispersed the money to a group closely tied to CBCF chairman, U.S. Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.). The grant has prompted one critic to charge that Jefferson was...

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) sent a letter to Interior Secretary Gale Norton on March 5, 2002, asking her to veto an agreement between the state of Louisiana and the Jena tribe of Choctaw Indians that would have allowed the tribe to open a casino in Louisiana. The day after Reid sent the letter, according to the Associated Press, Louisiana’s Coushatta tribe, which already operated a casino, and which was a client of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, but which did not want competition from the Jena tribe, sent a $5,000 contribution to Reid’s tax-exempt Searchlight Leadership Fund. A second tribe...