From Your Earmark to My PAC
The Washington Post has a great expose about Indiana Republican Congressman Peter J. Visclosky regarding his association with Washington lobbying firm K&L Gates, $44 million in earmarks, 15 clients of K&L Gates who received earmarks over 2008 and 2009, and money “donated” to Visclosky’s campaign.
Tags: Republican Bamboozlement
Oops, I took a page out of Fox News and said that Visclosky is a Republican; he’s not.
but even in the correction, you can’t quite bring yourself to call him a Democrat 🙂
Feds push for $478,000 forfeiture from William Jefferson (Democrat)
Nola.com ^ | 10.26.09 | Bruce Alpert
In a new filing, the Justice Department says today that the federal government is entitled to $478,153 in forfeitures from former Rep. William Jefferson despite his August bankruptcy filing three weeks after a jury found him guilty of 11 corruption charges.
Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN) started a foundation that he told people would be giving scholarships to college bound Indiana kids apparently used most of the money to pay for golf for him and his cronies.
I’ll see your Buyer and raise you a Murtha
NEW SCANDAL!!! Murtha and Moran Donors Get Millions of Earmarks
washingon times/the lid ^ | 10/23/09 | The Lid
Congressman John Murtha reminds me of Big Julie in play Guys and Dolls, who boasts: “I got a poifect record: thoity-three arrests, no convictions.” Months ago, the FBI raided the offices of the PMA group. What they found suggested that Murtha and his buddies at the PMA Group operated their own little Earmark Factory. But that was just the tip of the iceberg, another one of John Murtha’s most favorite contractors was charged for taking $200,000 in kickbacks, the FBI is Investigating Multi-Billion-Dollar Murtha favored Defense Contractor With Tax-Exempt Status, Murtha has even gotten family into the earmark business, and…
lizard, this post is the beginning of my attempt to turn Delaware Liberal into a fair and balanced news organization.