Investigations of Members of Congress on Rise - Election Crimes Face Scrutiny

Investigations of Members on Rise - Election Crimes Face Scrutiny
By Matthew Murray - Roll Call Staff - October 10, 2007
http://www.democracy21.org/index.asp?Type=B_PR&SEC=%7BAC81D4FF-0476-4E28-B9B1-7619D271A334%7D&DE=%7BFD984E4F-2C35-4B9D-ACA1-2897FE65E763%7D

Federal investigators are hinting that a fresh wave of campaign-related theft and corruption investigations of Members of Congress are moving through the pipeline, signaling that indictments may be on the horizon.

According to multiple sources and independent confirmation from agency officials, the Justice Department currently is honing in on the possible misuse of campaign money by Members and political candidates for personal country club dues, health club fees, non-campaign-related travel costs and other expenses that candidates are prohibited from paying out of their campaign war chests.

The Federal Election Commission also confirmed that it currently is investigating 10 embezzlement cases involving federal campaign committees — four more than its entire caseload in half a decade.

Officials from both agencies declined to name the Members or candidates involved in the investigations, which were first revealed at a legal seminar for the Practicing Law Institute in Washington, D.C., late last week by Craig Donsanto, head of the Justice Department’s election crimes branch, and David Mason, the FEC’s Republican-nominated vice chairman. A Justice Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday that corruption cases involving lawmakers and other public officials remain “a high priority for the Department of Justice.”

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Every Dem. that even spit wrong is about to get indited, the rethugs will skate, or retire with there pensions.

To expect outcomes that fail to reflect the Orwellian/Nazi/Soviet/Bushie Double-Standards that have now (thanks, among other things, to a distinct lack of foresighted opposition when it was still possible) entwined and enmeshed themselves in the fabric and conventional wisdom of the nation that once used to be the United states of America, to expect outcomes to be different in who gets prosecuted to the fullest (Democrats/Social Democrats/Democratic Capitalists/Democrats) and who walks free (Nazis/Commies/Bushies), is not realstic.

Just not realistsic. Yes, get ready for the election year (and they will be brought to prominence next summer and fall, of course) framings and smears of Democrats using the Apparatus of the State.

To the many people here at DU and elsewhere, who STILL refuse to believe the mounting piles of evidence that show deep similarities in the mentalities of Bushie and Nazis, leaders and Followers alike, what will it take for you to open your eyes?

ENGLISH

Phil LOVES to travel, including the Northern Mariannes Islands. Add in Cairo or Thailand and he's yours!

Damn, thought he'd get nailed in the secret pedophile republic scandal.

I have faith. :evilgrin: