‘A Criminal Organization Masquerading as a Political Party’

[Valin]

 

Pennsylvania attorney general arraigned on criminal charges

Natalie Schachar

Aug. 8 2015

 

Pennsylvania Atty. Gen. Kathleen Kane was arraigned Saturday on criminal charges including perjury and contempt of court, as officials throughout the state stepped up calls for her resignation. The charges stemmed from an investigation that accused the attorney general of orchestrating the illegal disclosure of information and then lying under oath to conceal her wrongdoing.

 

But WAIT! There's More.....

 

Report: Pennsylvania AG Kathleen Kane is now facing an FBI inquiry

Gabriel Malor

August 20, 2015

 

The Federal Bureau of “Reaching Out” has launched an inquiry into Pennsylvania AG Kathleen Kane, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. Just two weeks ago, Kane was charged under state law for perjury, obstruction of justice, and abuse of office. The Inquirer says the federal probe is looking into additional wrongdoing:

 

 

 

The agents sought information about whether Kane suggested to union officials that she would look favorably on their contract if they supported her embattled chief of staff, sources said.

 

Investigators have also sought information about a trip Kane and several aides took to Haiti last year, and how it was paid for, according to the sources.

The chief of staff referred to above is Jonathan Duecker, who was accused of multiple unwanted sexual advances on women in the AG’s office. Kane allegedly agreed to give a Fraternal Order of Police lodge, which represented one of the accusers, preferential treatment in contract negotiations if the FOP would give Duecker a statement of support. The FOP declined and its contract lapsed. In June, Kane fired the director of labor relations who told her not to hire Duecker.

 

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Kane was supposed to be the Democrats’ great big hope for Pennsylvania. Happily, the state now looks ripe for picking off in 2016. Kane’s preliminary hearing in her (state) criminal trial is Monday.

 

 

 

Tale of a Falling Star

 

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So, where is this rising star of the Democrat Party today? Funny you should ask.

 

 

 

Facing criminal charges, relieved of her law license and threatened with removal by the Legislature, Pennsylvania’s attorney general seems to have decided that if she has to go, she’s going to take others down with her.

 

Since all three branches of state government began moving against her over the past year, Kathleen Kane has released hundreds of sexually explicit or otherwise crude emails that had been sent or received by current or former public officials on their government accounts.

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlYr579bHKI

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Son of Veteran Democratic Congressman Convicted of Bank and Tax Fraud

 

 

PHILADELPHIA (TheBlaze/AP) — A veteran Philadelphia congressman’s son was found guilty Thursday of federal bank and tax fraud charges.

Chaka “Chip” Fattah Jr. was convicted of 22 of 23 counts alleging that he misspent loans and some of the nearly $1 million in education funds he got as a school management subcontractor. The jury acquitted him of one count of tax fraud.

 

Fattah, who represented himself, contended the government built its case on a “deck of cards.” He said authorities targeted him because of his big-spending lifestyle and also wanted to hurt his father.

 

Chaka Fattah Sr. is an 11-term Democratic congressman who is accused in an unrelated case of misusing federal grants and charitable donations. The elder Fattah was charged in July with racketeering conspiracy, money laundering and other crimes. He has denied wrongdoing.

Fattah Jr. was charged with obtaining business loans and federal education contracts to support a lavish lifestyle, which included a luxury condominium. In his opening statement, he described himself as a hard-working entrepreneur targeted by government prosecutors relying on speculation.

 

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/11/05/son-of-veteran-democratic-congressmen-convicted-of-bank-and-tax-fraud/#

 

 

 

Originally posted by @WestVirginiaRebel - reposted here for posterity

 

 

 

 

[Valin]

@Geee

 

 

Fattah, who represented himself

 

 

More proof that anyone who represents themselves has a fool for a client.

[Geee]

Clinton’s ‘Stalwart Voice’ Found Guilty On All Counts In Federal Corruption Case

 

In 2008, Hillary Clinton called Sheldon Silver “a stalwart voice on behalf of the needs of New Yorkers.” But on Monday, the disgraced New York state representative was found guilty in a federal corruption sweep.

 

The former Speaker of the New York State Assembly was charged with seven counts of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering was found guilty on all charges.

 

 

In 2000, Silver played a key roll in Clinton’s senatorial campaign where he helped lobby members of the Assembly for their support of Clinton. The New York Times reported that in 2000 Clinton used Silver’s law offices to lobby Assemblyman Dov Hikind in what was described as “an emotional two-hour session.”

 

http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/30/clintons-stalwart-voice-found-guilty-on-all-counts-in-federal-corruption-charge-video/

[Valin]

Genovese Boss Who Took Lie Detector Test Dies

Nov. 26 2015

Former Genovese underboss Michele “Mickey Dimino” Generoso died this week of natural causes, a source informed Cosa Nostra News.

 

Age 97, Generoso was inducted when Charlie "Lucky" Luciano was a New York mob boss, yet he seems not to appear on a single piece of paper until 1997, when he was indicted in a major murder and racketeering case. He'd been active on the street until about two years ago, despite reports to the contrary, said our source. Generoso was waked in Brooklyn today privately and will be publicly waked tomorrow. The funeral is scheduled for Saturday.

 

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"Mickey Dimino" played a key role in building the Genovese family into the powerhouse it's been for decades, or perhaps since the beginning. At one point the Jewish racketeers were formally made part of the Genovese family; many were placed under Generoso, as will be detailed in a follow-up story.) Generoso was associated with many of the family's key members, including Anthony "Tough Tony" Federici, a powerful captain known today for owning the Corona, New York-based Parkside Restaurant.

 

In February 2004, Queens Borough President Helen Marshall honored Federici for his community service at an event reportedly attended by a large contingent of police officers from the 110th Precinct in Queens.

 

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Major Clinton Donor Faces ‘Criminal Profiteering’ Charges

 

Hansjorg Wyss, a prominent Clinton foundation donor and wealthy bankroller of liberal activist groups, will face charges of running a “criminal profiteering enterprise” through the illegal use of a drug and in violation of federal patient safety rules that resulted in the death of a 67-year old woman, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

 

Washington State Superior Court Judge Dean Lum agreed Oct. 30 that Wyss, a Swiss billionaire who has given more than $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, can stand trial under the state’s racketeering laws for leading a criminal enterprise that caused the death of Reba Golden. She died during an illegal drug test conducted by Wyss’s company in 2007.

 

The Washington suit charges Wyss, the former CEO of a Pennsylvania-based medical device company called Synthes and his co-defendants with murder in the second degree as a class A felony, second degree assault and criminal profiteering under the Washington Criminal Profiteering Act.

 

Last December, the Clinton Foundation accepted a $5 million commitment from Wyss. When he headed the Center for American Progress, Podesta accepted millions from Wyss and put him on CAP’s board of directors. Podesta personally was a paid consultant to Wyss’ private foundation.

 

Also embarrassing for Clinton is that Wyss’ donation was dedicated to the foundation’s “No Ceilings” project to help at-risk girls and women. Wyss has been the subject of multiple allegations of sexual abuse and settled one case for $1.5 million with Jackie Long, a Colorado woman who once was an employee at a Wyss private foundation.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/06/exclusive-major-clinton-donor-faces-criminal-profiteering-charges/

[Valin]

Major Clinton Donor Faces ‘Criminal Profiteering’ Charges

 

 

Also embarrassing for Clinton is that Wyss’ donation was dedicated to the foundation’s “No Ceilings” project to help at-risk girls and women. Wyss has been the subject of multiple allegations of sexual abuse and settled one case for $1.5 million with Jackie Long, a Colorado woman who once was an employee at a Wyss private foundation.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/06/exclusive-major-clinton-donor-faces-criminal-profiteering-charges/

 

 

 

Question: Is it even possible for the Clinton's to be embarrassed?

[Valin]

Cuomo could face next guilty verdict in potential probe

Michael Goodwin

December 12, 2015

 

Nearly a year ago, crusading federal prosecutor Preet Bharara mocked Albany’s culture of corruption, heaping extra scorn on the deals hatched in secrecy by three men in a room. Now two of them are on their way to prison and the third, Gov. Cuomo, reportedly remains a potential target of a separate probe.

 

The convictions of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos mark a historic development in Bharara’s years-long campaign to drain the swamp. Silver, a Democrat, was the boss of the Assembly, while Skelos, a Republican, ruled the Senate. The verdicts were slam-dunks. The two men were charged with a combined 15 felonies, and juries declared them guilty on all 15 counts. So much for defense claims that they were only practicing politics as usual.

 

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In response, Cuomo offered a series of defenses that grew ­increasingly bizarre. He started with denials and ended up insisting that the panel was never independent. “It’s my commission. I can’t ‘interfere’ with it, because it is mine. It is controlled by me,” he told Crain’s magazine.

 

Fortunately, Bharara had a decidedly different view. He called the decision to prematurely disband the panel “difficult to ­understand” and told Moreland members in writing that it looked as if “investigations potentially significant to the public interest have been bargained away” in a deal among Cuomo, Silver and Skelos. He seized Moreland’s investigative files in what amounted to a raid on its offices. When reports suggested that Cuomo aides ­solicited statements from panel leaders defending the governor, Bharara warned that such solicitations might “constitute obstruction of justice or tampering with witnesses.”

 

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Who helped Barack Obama avoid the taint of Chicago corruption?

 

How did Barack Obama emerge from Chicago in 2008 untainted by political corruption?

His rise to power began at the 2004 Democratic Party Convention when Illinois State Senator Barack Obama was catapulted onto the national stage by the alluring force of his oratory.

Four years later, in December 2008, Rod Blagojevich, the fourth governor in recent Illinois history to be imprisoned, was arrested by the F.B.I. culminating a long investigation led by the U.S. Attorney (USA) in Chicago. “Blago’s” arrest came just as he was about to meet with someone to negotiate a bribe in exchange for appointing then-U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. to complete President Obama’s senatorial term.

On the day Blago was arrested, the agent in charge of the Chicago F.B.I. Office said, “If [illinois] isn’t the most corrupt state in the United States, it is certainly one hell of a competitor.”

Jackson, Co-Chair of President-Elect Obama’s campaign, was later arrested, along with his wife, and sentenced, in August 2013, to 30 months in jail for stealing $750,000 from his own campaign fund.

 

One year before Obama was inaugurated President, Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a key fundraiser for both Obama and Blagojevich, and one of three core members of Obama’s 2004 senatorial campaign finance committee, was arrested by F.B.I. agents acting on evidence gathered by the USA in Chicago. Three years later, Rezko was sentenced to 10.5 years in prison.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/06/who_helped_barack_obama_avoid_the_taint_of_chicago_corruption_.html

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Rep. Chaka Fattah found guilty on federal corruption charges

 

A Philadelphia jury delivered a guilty verdict on Tuesday for Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.), who was convicted on 29 separate federal charges related to bribery, money laundering, fraud and racketeering.

 

Fattah, 59, who lost his primary bid in April, gave no indication he planned to resign from his seat in Congress.

 

He faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison following Tuesday’s conviction. Several of the charges he was convicted on carry sentences of 20 years each.

“Today’s decision notwithstanding, it has been my privilege to serve the constituents of the Second Congressional District for over 20 years,” Fattah said in a statement released hours after the verdict.

 

“While today’s outcome isn’t what we had hoped, I respect our nation’s judicial system,” he said.

 

Fattah is expected to face significant pressure to resign from Congress before his term finishes at the end of this year.

 

Former Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) resigned his House seat within a week of pleading guilty to felony tax fraud in 2014.

 

In October 2013, then-Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.) initially ignored pressure from GOP officials to step down after he was caught buying cocaine at a Washington, D.C., restaurant. He pleaded guilty to the charges in November of that year but didn’t step down for another two months.

 

Fattah could appeal his conviction ahead of the sentencing on Oct. 4.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/284280-rep-fattah-found-guilty-in-corruption-trial

[Geee]

Corruption? What Clinton Corruption?

 

A criminal organization masquerading as a political party, as the saying goes, Bubba Division. How would you like to make $18 million for a do-nothing job?

 

The guest list for a private State Department dinner on higher-education policy was taking shape when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered a suggestion.

 

In addition to recommending invitations for leaders from a community college and a church-funded institution, Clinton wanted a representative from a for-profit college company called Laureate International Universities, which, she explained in an email to her chief of staff that was released last year, was “the fastest growing college network in the world.”

There was another reason Clinton favored setting a seat aside for Laureate at the August 2009 event: The company was started by a businessman, Doug Becker, “who Bill likes a lot,” the secretary wrote, referring to her husband, the former president.

 

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/09/05/corruption-what-clinton-corruption/

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Firm Founded by Clinton

Chair Reps Corrupt Serbian Oligarch’s Business Interests

 

 

Podesta Group lobbies for company implicated in $40 million embezzlement scheme

 

A lobbying firm founded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and run by one of her top fundraisers represents the business interests of a Serbian oligarch accused by U.S. and Serbian authorities of widespread corruption, public records show.

Since 2013, the Podesta Group has represented two companies run by Miroslav Miskovic, a Serbian billionaire recently convicted of tax evasion charges stemming from a multi-million-dollar embezzlement scheme.

Podesta’s work for the companies has received some attention in the Serbian press, but its corporate communications in that country and lobbying efforts in the United States on behalf of Miskovic companies have gone unreported in the United States until now, as the presidential campaign casts scrutiny on the past lobbying careers of those working on behalf of the candidates.

The Podesta Group has hired outside counsel to deal with controversy surrounding its involvement in illicit lobbying activity by two top staffers on Donald Trump’s campaign, both of which have since resigned.

 

The firm’s Clinton campaign ties have also led to scrutiny of its other lobbying contracts, which include work on behalf of foreign governments accused of widespread corruption and human rights abuses.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/firm-founded-clinton-chair-reps-corrupt-serbian-oligarchs-business-interests/

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Former Democratic Rep. Chaka Fattah to serve 10 years in prison

 

Former Democratic Rep. Chaka Fattah will serve 10 years in prison for federal bribery convictions stemming from trying to repay an illegal $1 million loan.

 

Fattah, who served West Philadelphia for 20 years, was found guilty on all counts in June. He was convicted on charges of bribery, racketeering, conspiracy, money laundering and bank fraud. Politico reported Fattah was sentenced to 10 years in prison and must turn himself in next month.

 

Fattah was convicted of using federal grant money and charitable donations through consultants to pay back a loan taken out during his 2007 run for mayor in Philadelphia. According to his lawyers, two political consultants ran the scheme without his knowledge.

 

On Monday, Fattah said he had regrets in a tweet.

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/former-rep.-chaka-fattah-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison/article/2609419

[Valin]

@Geee

 

Regrets, he has regrets. Well in that case no harm no foul.

 

The question is does he regret committing the crimes, or getting caught?

[Geee]

@Geee

 

Regrets, he has regrets. Well in that case no harm no foul.

 

The question is does he regret committing the crimes, or getting caught?

 

tsk tsk - it's the thought that counts

[Valin]

Former Democratic Rep. Chaka Fattah to serve 10 years in prison

 

 

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Rep. Alcee Hastings Maxes Out Girlfriend’s Salary for Fifth Straight Year

Rep. Alcee Hastings (D., Fla.) continues to pay his longtime girlfriend the maximum congressional salary of $168,411, and has paid her nearly $2.4 million in salary since 2000.

Hastings also employs his girlfriend's daughter and the wife of a former staffer who was previously convicted of money laundering.

Patricia Williams, the longtime girlfriend who served as co-counsel during Hastings' impeachment trial as a federal judge in the 1980s, has worked out of the congressman's office since 1993. Williams started working for Hastings as a staff assistant and has since been promoted to deputy district director in his Broward County, Florida office.

The gig has proved lucrative for Williams, who has pocketed millions in salary since 2000, the first year that salary figures are publicly available from Legistorm.

Williams collected $21,250 for a partial year of work as a staff assistant in 2000, and was paid $98,000 in 2001. In 2002, her salary shot up to $121,307.

 

Williams' salary gradually increased to $125,975 by 2005. She pulled in $623,003 during her time as a staff assistant from 2000 to 2005 .

http://freebeacon.com/politics/rep-alcee-hastings-maxes-girlfriends-salary-fifth-straight-year/

[Valin]

@Geee

 

RACISM!!!

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Watchdog Requests Investigation of Dem Rep Who Maxed Out Salary to Girlfriend

 

A government watchdog group has filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics calling for an investigation of Rep. Alcee Hastings (D., Fla.) for maxing out the congressional salary of his longtime girlfriend for five straight years.

 

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a D.C.-based group, filed the complaint following the publication of a story in the Washington Free Beacon on the amount the Florida congressman has paid his girlfriend, Patricia Williams, who works out of his Broward County, Fla. office.

 

Hastings has paid Williams the maximum congressional salary allowed, $168,411, for five straight years and has employed her since 1993. Williams has collected $2.4 million in salary since 2000, the first year congressional salary data is readily available. Williams is also paid more than Hastings' D.C. chief of staff, a position that is normally the highest paid in a congressional office.

 

http://freebeacon.com/politics/watchdog-requests-investigation-dem-rep-maxed-salary-girlfriend/

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Prosecutors: Ex-Congresswoman Ripped Off Own Charity To Fund Lavish Lifestyle

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Jesse Jackson Jr. surfaces in Chinese billionaire’s criminal case

 

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. — who already has served his prison sentence for looting his campaign funds — has surfaced in another criminal case, with new court records showing he may have taken gifts and cash from a Chinese billionaire while still in Congress.
The new allegations against Jackson are surfacing as a side matter in the criminal case against Macau real estate mogul Ng Lap Seng, who was indicted in October 2015 for bribing a United Nations official.
Seng’s lawyers are fighting a move by federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York in Manhattan to bring Jackson into the case to help prove the charges against Seng.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported last month that the former Democratic congressman in 2015 was trying to enter into a cooperation deal with Southern District of New York prosecutors after telling them of “potential violations of law by him and others” in an unspecified case, according to a letter obtained by the newspaper.

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Corrine Brown convicted of 18 felonies, could be sentenced to decades in prison

May 11 2017

 

A jury convicted former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown today of financial crimes that could put her in prison for years, potentially the rest of her life.  The verdict was reached three days after closing arguments in a trial where Brown was painted as living the high life on secret cash that aides deposited in her bank account after passing it through other accounts.

Brown remained free after the verdict was announced.

Brown was convicted of 18 of the 22 separate criminal counts a grand jury indicted her for in July. The convictions involve conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, tax crimes and hiding incoime she should have pubilcly reported. .

She was found not guilty of two counts of mail fraud and one count of wire fraud.

 

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On 5/11/2017 at 1:59 PM, Valin said:

Corrine Brown convicted of 18 felonies, could be sentenced to decades in prison

May 11 2017

 

A jury convicted former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown today of financial crimes that could put her in prison for years, potentially the rest of her life.  The verdict was reached three days after closing arguments in a trial where Brown was painted as living the high life on secret cash that aides deposited in her bank account after passing it through other accounts.

Brown remained free after the verdict was announced.

Brown was convicted of 18 of the 22 separate criminal counts a grand jury indicted her for in July. The convictions involve conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, tax crimes and hiding incoime she should have pubilcly reported. .

She was found not guilty of two counts of mail fraud and one count of wire fraud.

 

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Democratic Bayonne Mayor Faces Sexting Scandal

 

Jimmy Davis, the first-term Democratic Mayor of Bayonne, New Jersey, has been embroiled in a sexting scandal with a former city worker.
According to The Jersey Journal, the messages sent from Davis include “pleas from the mayor to have the woman meet him at an Atlantic City hotel and multiple references to oral sex.”

“I didn’t tarnish Jimmy’s reputation. He did that himself,” said former city worker Stacie Percella, who was fired in December. “Mr. Mayor, again, resign from your position because my truth never changes. And I can say it inside out, backwards, forwards, every which way — how many lies did Jimmy come up with so far?”
Davis, who is married, has recruited public relations firm Vision Media Marketing to oversee his public response to the incident.