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The Organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has listed Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) on its list of Most Corrupt Members of Congress for 3 years.


RENZI -- ONE OF CREW’S MOST CORRUPT, INDICTED -- HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE FAILS TO ACT, AGAIN

22 Feb 2008 // Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) was indicted on multiple federal charges. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has included Rep. Renzi in Beyond DeLay: The Most Corrupt Members of Congress report for the past three years.


Fomer Senator Lott facing federal investigation for conspiracy
Submitted by crew on 21 February 2008 - 9:18am. Trent Lott
Senator Lott resigned last year.   But the matter under investigation took place while he was a member of the U.S. Senate.  He's no longer under the jurisdiction of the Senate Ethics Committee, but he sure is under the jurisdiction of federal authorities.  The Wall Street Journal reports:
Federal agents are investigating whether former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott knowingly played a role in an alleged conspiracy in 2006 to influence a Mississippi judge presiding over a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against famed plaintiff attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, according to people familiar with the situation.
Mr. Scruggs and several associates are scheduled to stand trial March 31 on charges that they offered $40,000 in bribes to State Court Judge Henry L. Lackey in return for a favorable ruling in a lawsuit against Mr. Scruggs over $26.5 million in legal fees.
 
 

Criminals and Scoundrels: The 25 Most Corrupt Officials of the Bush Administration
Download the full report:
http://www.citizensforethics.org/files/exe...ptionreport.pdf

    * Claude AllenWhite House
     
    * Margaret BurnetteFood and Drug Administration
     
    * Lurita DoanGeneral Services Administration
     
    * Darleen DruyunU.S. Air Force
     
    * Kyle "Dusty" FoggoCentral Intelligence Agency
     
    * Andrea GrimsleyU.S. Department of Homeland Security
     
    * John KorsmoFederal Housing Finance Board
     
    * Jose MirandaBroadcasting Board of Governors
     
    * Janet RehnquistU.S. Department of Health and Human Services
     
    * Robert SchofieldU.S. Department of Homeland Security
     
    * David SmithDepartment of Interior
     
    * Robert SteinCoalition Provisional Authority
     
    * Kenneth TomlinsonCorporation for Public Broadcasting
     
    * Eric AndellU.S. Department of Education
     
    * Lester CrawfordFood and Drug Administration
     
    * Brian DoyleU.S. Department of Homeland Security
     
    * Frank FigueroaU.S. Department of Homeland Security
     
    * J. Steven GrilesU.S. Department of the Interior
     
    * Donald KeyserU.S. Department of State
     
    * Kevin MarloweU.S. Department of Defense
     
    * William MyersU.S. Department of Interior
     
    * David SafavianWhite House and General Services Administration
     
    * Thomas ScullyU.S. Department of Health and Human Services
     
    * Jeffrey StaytonU.S. Department of the Army
     
    * Roger StillwellU.S. Department of the Interior
     
 

CREW's List of the Most Corrupt Members of Congress

The 22 most corrupt members of Congress

    * Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-NM)
    * Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
    * Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
    * Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK)
    * Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)
    * Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-CA)
    * Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL)
    * Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA)
    * Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA)
    * Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-LA)
    * Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA)

   

    * Rep. Gary G. Miller (R-CA)
    * Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-WV)
    * Rep. Timothy F. Murphy (R-PA)
    * Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA)
    * Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM)
    * Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ)
    * Rep. Harold Rogers (R-KY)
    * Rep. David Scott (D-GA)
    * Rep. Jerry Weller (R-IL)
    * Rep. Heather A. Wilson (R-NM)
    * Rep. Don Young (R-AK)

Dishonorable mentions

    * Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-ID)

   

    * Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)
 

WELL OUR TROLL is at it again. Really....who has the time to do all this reading and researching.......debunking ? Tisk TISK !!!Government parasite type probably !!!

Actually ...I plead ignorance to this new group...CREW......but I'll bet dollars to donuts that we have another George Soros "rat" in the woodpile !!!

For starters:
     The Senate list of corruption doesn't include Sen. Harry"Dinggy" Reed and the most assuredly corrupt realestate deal he was involved in. I don't see B.Hussein  Obama on the list and his problems. Could we have yet annother mudsling liberal attack dog disguised in this acronym...CREW? Whatever ! Just examine the top two "dogs" in this less than objective crowd:

CREW Staff
Melanie Sloan, Executive Director
Melanie Sloan serves as CREW's Executive Director.

Melanie Sloan serves as CREW's Executive Director. Prior to starting CREW, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia where, from 1998-2003, she successfully tried cases before dozens of judges and juries. Before becoming a prosecutor, Ms. Sloan served as Minority Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, working for Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) and specializing in criminal justice issues.

In 1994, Ms. Sloan served as Counsel for the Crime Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by then-Representative Charles Schumer (D-NY). There, she drafted portions of the 1994 Crime Bill, including the Violence Against Women Act. In 1993, Ms. Sloan served as Nominations Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, under then-Chairman, Senator Joe Biden

Deputy Director and Communications Director
Naomi Seligman Steiner serves as CREW's Deputy Director and Communications Director. She has worked extensively as a communications professional, developing and managing media strategies for campaigns, elected officials and nonprofit organizations. Prior to joining CREW, Ms. Seligman Steiner was the communications director for the nonprofit, media watchdog group, Media Matters for America. She also has served as the communications director for the Violence Policy Center, a gun control organization, and has acted as press secretary in House and Senate offices and as director of outreach for the House Small Business Committee. Ms. Seligman Steiner received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Yep......LEFTYITIS DeJa Vu.....been there ......seen that...same ole same ole !DEMOCRAT/SOROS operatives ALL over the place !!!

Now I am for ferreting out corruption......but not under a stealth partisan assination attempt. CREW does offer up a few "chump" Democrats while trying to probably scam/slap a bunch of Republicans While leaving the Democrat Big Kahunas unscathed.

IS...why don't you give it up ?

P.G.C

That's the beauty of being a Democrat.  You actually have to be "dead to rights" guilty to be labeled "corrupt", and even when you are, it often is not held against you.  In fact, it is often a badge of honor for the Democrat club.  (Picture Bill Clinton wearing an "I Survived Hurricane Monica" tee-shirt, while chatting with Democrat Barney Frank who is handing out business cards for the gay brothel his boyfriend operated out of Barney's apartment.  "No harm, no foul", says Democrat John Murtha as he explains the video tape of him suggesting a bribe arrangement for business dealings with a foreign investor.  And these people are not only still employed after their transgressions, they are revered for their ability to do these things, with virtually no permanent consequences?)

Meanwhile, as a Republican, the mere suggestion of impropriety can get you destroyed by the media, such that the legal justification for the charge doesn't even matter.  (What ever happened to Republican Mark Foley, who sent sexually charged e-mails to a male page a few years back.  The Dems and the media timed the release of this "old" story to successfully smear the entire Republican party before the 2006 election, yet I don't believe there was even a chargeable offense, beyond the obvious charge of "stupidity".)

It's a shame CREW wasn't around when Bill Clinton was in office.  It would have been illustrative to know whether having sexual relations with a subordinate intern, in the oval office, while on company time, and lying about it to a grand jury, and to the American people, might have earned him at least an honorable mention???  

Oh, and I see Senator Clinton didn't make it either...I guess they consider the $850,000 Norman Hsu incident to be the equivalent of a parking citation for Democrat Hillary Clinton, while poor Republican Larry Craig gets Honorable Mention just for playing footsies with an undercover cop?

Sounds reasonable to me?!?!?!  Go CREW!  

White House Inserts Green Light for Fraud Into Procurement Policy


WASHINGTON (AP) - A multibillion-dollar loophole slipped into a proposed crackdown on contract fraud has drawn the ire of a key Republican senator and the government's top watchdog of U.S. spending in Iraq.

The loophole would allow companies performing government work overseas to avoid having to report contract abuse. A review of documents shows it was added by Bush administration policy-writers after they received a draft of the proposed rule from the Justice Department.

Officials at the White House and the president's Office of Management and Budget, which oversees federal procurement policy, have declined repeated requests for information about the exemption for overseas contracts.

Rest of the Story:  http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080222/D8UVLD1O0.html




 

FETTUCCINI  YOU DAH MAN !!   America is getting it . Thanks for your cogent remarks. Are you Calabrezze,Napolitano or Silcilano...like me?

 Puger G Calabalini

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

You forgot William "The Refrigerator" Jefferson and Alcee Hastings.

Of course there are the "Classics"...Ted "Chappaquidick" Kennedy and Robert "White Hood" Byrd.

And I remember Bill Clinton's signing a pledge to have the most ethical administration in history.  I think we should do a little research and come up with that list....

And I remember Bill Clinton's signing a pledge to have the most ethical administration in history. I think we should do a little research and come up with that list....

Please do it -- off the top of my head Henry Cisneros (former mayor of San Antonio) was the only Clinton administration official to get into trouble -- for cheating on his wife or something like that.

Over 30 Reagan officials were convicted of crimes -- many went to prison.

How many Bush officials have been convicted of crimes-- at least 2 and I'm not talking about members of Congress

A little research on this would be most welcome.

 

[47 individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine were convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes with 33 of these occurring during the Clinton administration itself. There were in addition 61 indictments or misdemeanor charges. 14 persons were imprisoned. A key difference between the Clinton story and earlier ones was the number of criminals with whom he was associated before entering the White House.]

The Clinton Legacy (part 1)

The Progressive Review

This list was compiled at the end of the Clinton administration. It was last partially updated in 2000

Our Clinton Scandal Index

The Clintons, to adapt a line from Dr. Johnson, were not only corrupt, they were the cause of corruption in others. Yet seldom in America have so many come to excuse so much mendacity and malfeasance as during the Clinton years. Here are some of the facts that have been buried.

RECORDS SET

- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court

* According to our best information, 40 government officials were indicted or convicted in the wake of Watergate. A reader computes that there was a total of 31 Reagan era convictions, including 14 because of Iran-Contra and 16 in the Department of Housing & Urban Development scandal. 47 individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine were convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes with 33 of these occurring during the Clinton administration itself. There were in addition 61 indictments or misdemeanor charges. 14 persons were imprisoned. A key difference between the Clinton story and earlier ones was the number of criminals with whom he was associated before entering the White House.

[this list was last updated in 2000...it doesn't include Sandy Berger and Pantsgate]

Using a far looser standard that included resignations, David R. Simon and D. Stanley Eitzen in Elite Deviance, say that 138 appointees of the Reagan administration either resigned under an ethical cloud or were criminally indicted. Curiously Haynes Johnson uses the same figure but with a different standard in "Sleep-Walking Through History: America in the Reagan Years: "By the end of his term, 138 administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever."

STARR-RAY INVESTIGATION

- Number of Starr-Ray investigation convictions or guilty pleas (including one governor, one associate attorney general and two Clinton business partners): 14
- Number of Clinton Cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 5
- Number of Reagan cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 4
- Number of top officials jailed in the Teapot Dome Scandal: 3

CRIME STATS

- Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
- Number of these convictions during Clinton's presidency: 33
- Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
- Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122

SMALTZ INVESTIGATION

- Guilty pleas and convictions obtained by Donald Smaltz in cases involving charges of bribery and fraud against former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy and associated individuals and businesses: 15
- Acquitted or overturned cases (including Espy): 6
- Fines and penalties assessed: $11.5 million
- Amount Tyson Food paid in fines and court costs: $6 million

CAMPAIGN FINANCE INVESTIGATION

- As of June 2000, the Justice Department listed 25 people indicted and 19 convicted because of the 1996 Clinton-Gore fundraising scandals.
- According to the House Committee on Government Reform in September 2000, 79 House and Senate witnesses asserted the Fifth Amendment in the course of investigations into Gore's last fundraising campaign.
-James Riady entered a plea agreement to pay an $8.5 million fine for campaign finance crimes. This was a record under campaign finance laws.

CLINTON MACHINE CRIMES FOR WHICH CONVICTIONS WERE OBTAINED

Drug trafficking (3), racketeering, extortion, bribery (4), tax evasion, kickbacks, embezzlement (2), fraud (12), conspiracy (5), fraudulent loans, illegal gifts (1), illegal campaign contributions (5), money laundering (6), perjury, obstruction of justice.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

- Number of independent counsel inquiries since the 1978 law was passed: 19
- Number that have produced indictments: 7
- Number that produced more convictions than the Starr investigation: 1
- Median length of investigations that led to convictions: 44 months
- Length of Starr-Ray investigation: 69 months.
- Total cost of the Starr investigation (3/00) $52 million
- Total cost of the Iran-Contra investigation: $48.5 million
- Total cost to taxpayers of the Madison Guarantee failure: $73 million

OTHER MATTERS INVESTIGATED BY SPECIAL PROSECUTORS AND CONGRESS, OR REPORTED IN THE MEDIA

Bank and mail fraud, violations of campaign finance laws, illegal foreign campaign funding, improper exports of sensitive technology, physical violence and threats of violence, solicitation of perjury, intimidation of witnesses, bribery of witnesses, attempted intimidation of prosecutors, perjury before congressional committees, lying in statements to federal investigators and regulatory officials, flight of witnesses, obstruction of justice, bribery of cabinet members, real estate fraud, tax fraud, drug trafficking, failure to investigate drug trafficking, bribery of state officials, use of state police for personal purposes, exchange of promotions or benefits for sexual favors, using state police to provide false court testimony, laundering of drug money through a state agency, false reports by medical examiners and others investigating suspicious deaths, the firing of the RTC and FBI director when these agencies were investigating Clinton and his associates, failure to conduct autopsies in suspicious deaths, providing jobs in return for silence by witnesses, drug abuse, improper acquisition and use of 900 FBI files, improper futures trading, murder, sexual abuse of employees, false testimony before a federal judge, shredding of documents, withholding and concealment of subpoenaed documents, fabricated charges against (and improper firing of) White House employees, inviting drug traffickers, foreign agents and participants in organized crime to the White House.

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Part 2

ARKANSAS ALTZHEIMER'S

Number of times that Clinton figures who testified in court or before Congress said that they didn't remember, didn't know, or something similar.

Bill Kennedy 116
Harold Ickes 148
Ricki Seidman 160
Bruce Lindsey 161
Bill Burton 191
Mark Gearan 221
Mack McLarty 233
Neil Egglseston 250
Hillary Clinton 250
John Podesta 264
Jennifer O'Connor 343
Dwight Holton 348
Patsy Thomasson 420
Jeff Eller 697

FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES: In the portions of President Clinton's Jan. 17 deposition that have been made public in the Paula Jones case, his memory failed him 267 times. This is a list of his answers and how many times he gave each one.

I don't remember - 71
I don't know - 62
I'm not sure - 17
I have no idea - 10
I don't believe so - 9
I don't recall - 8
I don't think so - 8
I don't have any specific recollection - 6
I have no recollection - 4
Not to my knowledge - 4
I just don't remember - 4
I don't believe - 4
I have no specific recollection - 3
I might have - 3
I don't have any recollection of that - 2 I don't have a specific memory - 2
I don't have any memory of that - 2
I just can't say - 2
I have no direct knowledge of that - 2
I don't have any idea - 2
Not that I recall - 2
I don't believe I did - 2
I can't remember - 2
I can't say - 2
I do not remember doing so - 2
Not that I remember - 2
I'm not aware - 1
I honestly don't know - 1
I don't believe that I did - 1
I'm fairly sure - 1
I have no other recollection - 1
I'm not positive - 1
I certainly don't think so - 1
I don't really remember - 1
I would have no way of remembering that - 1
That's what I believe happened - 1
To my knowledge, no - 1
To the best of my knowledge - 1
To the best of my memory - 1
I honestly don't recall - 1
I honestly don't remember - 1
That's all I know - 1
I don't have an independent recollection of that - 1
I don't actually have an independent memory of that - 1
As far as I know - 1
I don't believe I ever did that - 1
That's all I know about that - 1
I'm just not sure - 1
Nothing that I remember - 1
I simply don't know - 1
I would have no idea - 1
I don't know anything about that - 1
I don't have any direct knowledge of that - 1
I just don't know - 1
I really don't know - 1
I can't deny that, I just -- I have no memory of that at all - 1

ARKANSAS SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME

- Number of persons in the Clinton machine orbit who are alleged to have committed suicide: 9
- Number known to have been murdered: 12
- Number who died in plane crashes: 6
- Number who died in single car automobile accidents: 3
- Number of one-person sking fatalities: 1
- Number of key witnesses who have died of heart attacks while in federal custody under questionable circumstances: 1
- Number of unexplained deaths: 4
- Total suspicious deaths: 46
- Number of northern Mafia killings during peak years of 1968-78: 30
- Number of Dixie Mafia killings during same period: 156

It is important in considering these fatal incidents to bear in mind the following:

    * The fact that anomalies need to be investigated further carries no presumption of how a death actually occurred, only that there remain serious questions that require answers.
    * The possibility of foul play must be taken seriously in a major criminal conspiracy in which over two score individuals and firms have been convicted and over 100 witnesses have pled the Fifth Amendment or fled the country.
    * If foul play did occur in any of these cases, that fact by itself does not carry the presumption that the the Clinton machine was involved. Given the footprints of organized crime, drug trade, foreign espionage, and intelligence agencies on the trail of the Clinton story, such a assumption would not be warranted. It is also well to keep in mind the classic prohibition era movie in which the corrupt poitician's job was not to engage in illegal acts but to avoid noticing them.

ARKANSAS MONEY MANAGEMENT

- Amount of an alleged electronic transfer from the Arkansas Development Financial Authority to a bank in the Cayman Islands during 1980s: $50 million
- Grand Cayman's population: 18,000
- Number of commercial banks: 570
- Number of bank regulators: 1
- Amount Arkansas state pension fund invested in high-risk repos in the mid-80s in one purchase in April 1985: $52 million through the Worthen Bank.
- Number of days thereafter that the state's brokerage firm went belly up: 3
- Amount Arkansas pension fund dropped overnight as a result: 15%
- Percent of Worthen bank that Mochtar Riady bought over the next four months to bail out the bank and the then governor, Bill Clinton: 40%.
- Percent of purchasers from the Clintons and McDougals of resort lots who lost the land because of the sleazy financing provisions: over 50%

THE MEDIA

- Number of journalists covering Whitewater who have been fired, transferred off the beat, resigned or otherwise gotten into trouble because of their work on the scandals (Doug Frantz, Jim Wooten, Richard Behar, Christopher Ruddy, Michael Isikoff, David Eisenstadt, Yinh Chan, Jonathan Broder, James R. Norman, Zoh Hieronimus): 10

FRIENDS OF BILL

- Number of times John Huang took the 5th Amendment in answer to questions during a Judicial Watch deposition: 1,000
- Visits made to the White House by investigation subjects Johnny Chung, James Riady, John Huang, and Charlie Trie. 160
- Number of campaign contributors who got overnights at the White House in the two years before the 1996 election: 577
- Number of members of Thomas Boggs's law firm who have held top positions in the Clinton administration. 18
- Number of times John Huang was briefed by CIA: 37
- Number of calls Huang made from Commerce Department to Lippo banks: 261
- Number of intelligence reports Huang read while at Commerce Department: 500

UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA

- FBI files misappropriated by the White House: c. 900
- Estimated number of witnesses quoted in FBI files misappropriated by the White House: 18,000
- Number of witnesses who developed medical problems at critical points in Clinton scandals investigation (Tucker, Hale, both McDougals, Lindsey): 5
- Problem areas listed in a memo by Clinton's own lawyer in preparation for the president's defense: 40
- Number of witnesses and critics of Clinton subjected to IRS audit: 45
- Number of names placed in a White House secret database without the knowledge of those named: c. 200,000
- Number of women involved with Clinton who claim to have been physically threatened (Sally Perdue, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Linda Tripp, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Juantia Broaddrick): 6
- Number of men involved in the Clinton scandals who have been beaten up or claimed to have been intimidated: 10

THE HIDDEN ELECTION

USA Today calls it "the hidden election," in which nearly 7,000 state legislative seats are decided with only minimal media and public attention. But there was an important national story here: evidence of the disaster that Bill Clinton was for the Democratic Party. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Democrats held a 1,542 seat lead in the state bodies in 1990. As of 1998 that lead had shrunk to 288. That's a loss of over 1,200 state legislative seats, nearly all of them under Clinton. Across the US, the Democrats controled only 65 more state senate seats than the Republicans.

Further, in 1992, the Democrats controlled 17 more state legislatures than the Republicans. After 1998, the Republicans controlled one more than the Democrats. Not only was this a loss of 9 legislatures under Clinton, but it was the first time since 1954 that the GOP had controlled more state legislatures than the Democrats (they tied in 1968).

Here's what happened to the Democrats under Clinton, based on our latest figures:

- GOP seats gained in House since Clinton became president: 48
- GOP seats gained in Senate since Clinton became president: 8
- GOP governorships gained since Clinton became president: 11
- GOP state legislative seats gained since Clinton became president: 1,254
as of 1998
- State legislatures taken over by GOP since Clinton became president: 9
- Democrat officeholders who have become Republicans since Clinton became
president: 439 as of 1998
- Republican officeholders who have become Democrats since Clinton became president: 3

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

I can actually keep going because it doesn't even mention Sandy Berger and Pantsgate...but I will stop here.

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

I lied...I forgot about Pardongate...

Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Department of Justice

In the last day of his presidency, Bill Clinton granted 140 pardons and commuted 36 sentences (a scandal that came to be known as Pardongate), many of them to convicted felons who had paid large fees to Clinton associates.  Like many of Clinton’s actions, these pardons raised ethical concerns and added to the controversies surrounding the Clinton Presidency and Hillary Clinton’s senate campaign.

While this case began as an investigation into corruption, it has also become a fight against government secrecy.  Judicial Watch litigated for four years in an effort to force the Bush Department of Justice to release the thousands of pardon documents.  To date, the Department of Justice, despite a court order, has released only a mere fraction of the documents and those released have been completely redacted.

This fight for information began on January 29, 2001 when Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request for the Clinton pardon documents.  When the DOJ failed to deliver the documents, Judicial Watch filed suit.

The Bush Administration, not interested in pursuing an investigation of the Clinton pardons, asserted executive privilege.  The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion for summary judgment to the Department of Justice and Judicial Watch appealed.

On January 21, 2004, just short of three years since the original FOIA filing, Judicial Watch argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

In May 2004, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled the Bush Administration’s claim of presidential communications privileges regarding the Justice Department documents “… would be both contrary to executive privilege precedent and considerably undermine the purposes or FOIA to foster openness and accountability in government.”  Furthermore, the Court added that such an extension “… would have far-reaching implications for the entire executive branch that would seriously impede the operation and scope of FOIA.” (View the Court’s decision)

In May 2005, in a move contemptuous of the Court’s order, the U.S. Department of Justice defied the ruling and produced 915 blacked-out pages citing the “deliberative process” and other exemptions.

 

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Bill Clinton's Pardons: Part 1

November 23, 1994  David Phillip Aronsohn D. Minn. 1961 Failure to pay special occupational tax on wagering, 26 U.S.C. § 7203 Wanda Kaye Bain-Prentice D. Ariz. 1982 Mail fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1341 Antonio Barucco U. S. Army general court-martial 1945 Desertion in violation of the 58th Article of War Kristine Margo Beck D. Idaho 1981 Bank embezzlement, 18 U.S.C. § 656 David Christopher Billmaier D. New Mex. 1980 Possession with intent to distribute amphetamines, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) Terry Lee Brown E. D. Ky. 1962 Interstate transportation of a stolen motor vehicle, 18 U.S.C. § 2312 Joe Carl Bruton N. D. Tex. 1979 Conspiracy to commit mail fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 371 Nolan Lynn DeMarce W. D. Wis. 1983 Making false statements to obtain bank loans, 18 U.S.C. § 1014 Jimmy C. Dick N. D. Calif. 1976 Conspiracy to manufacture counterfeit Federal Reserve Notes, 18 U.S.C. § 371 Edward Eugene Dishman W. D. Okla. 1983 Conspiracy to defraud the United States and Oklahoma counties, 18 U.S.C. § 371 Brenda Kay Engle S. D. Ind. 1983 Conspiracy to commit theft from interstate shipment, 18 U.S.C. § 371 Mary Theresa Fajer D. Oregon 1980 Conspiracy to commit bank embezzlement, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 371 Albert James Forte D. Dist. Col. 1973 Making and subscribing false and fraudulent income tax return, 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1) Fendley Lee Frazier S. D. Ala. 1965 Interstate transportation of a stolen motor vehicle, 18 U.S.C. § 2312 Robert Linward Freeland, Jr. N. D. Ind. 1983 Forcible rescue of seized property, 26 U.S.C. § 7212(B) Ralph Leon Furst S. D. Calif. 1966 Embezzlement of United States mail (U.S. Code section not cited) Barbara Ann Gericke W. D. Wis. 1984 Conspiracy to introduce contraband into federal prison, 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 1791 Billy Joe Gilmore N. D. Tex. 1982 Mail fraud and aiding and abetting, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 2 Loreto Joseph Iafrate N. D. W. Va. 1976 Failure to record receipt of firearms, 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(m) and 924(a) Carl Bruce Jones W. D. Mo. 1983 Distribution of marijuana and use of telephone to facilitate marijuana distribution, 18 U.S.C. § 2 and 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 843(B) Candace Deon Leverenz N. D. Calif. 1972 Unlawful distribution of LSD, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and (B)(1)(B) George William Lindgren S. D. N. Y. 1975 Bank embezzlement, 18 U.S.C. § 656 Brian George Meierkord C. D. Ill. 1983 Making false statement to bank, 18 U.S.C. § 1014 Jackie Lee Miller N. D. Okla. 1983 Conspiracy to defraud the United States, 18 U.S.C. § 371 Joseph Patrick Naulty E. D. Pa. 1980 Carrying away goods moving as part of foreign shipment, 18 U.S.C. § 659 Theodore Roosevelt Noel N. D. Ala. 1972 Selling whiskey in unstamped containers and making false statement in the acquisition of firearms from licensed dealer, 26 U.S.C. § 5604(a)(1) and 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(a)(6) and 924(a) Mary Louise Oaks M. D. La. 1979 Conspiracy to defraud the government with respect to claims, 18 U.S.C. § 286 Robert Paul Padelsky D. Utah 1980 Misapplication of bank funds, 18 U.S.C. § 656 Elizabeth Amy Peterson D. Nev. 1985 Conspiracy to make false statements to bank, 18 U.S.C. § 371 Susan Lauranne Prather W. D. Ark. 1975 Causing marijuana to be transported through the mail, 21 U.S.C. § 843(B) Gary Lynn Quammen W. D. Wis. 1976 Misapplication of bank funds, 18 U.S.C. § 656 Robert Ronal Raymond D. Conn. 1972 Conspiracy to manufacture, receive, possess, and sell firearms silencers, 18 U.S.C. § 371 Elizabeth Hogg Rushing N. D. Ga. 1978 Misapplication of bank funds, 18 U.S.C. § 656 Marc Alan Schaffer S. D. N. Y. 1968 Submission of false statements to Selective Service System Local Board, 50 U.S.C. Appendix § 462(a) Roy Aaron Smith E. D. Tex. 1982 Misprision of a felony, 18 U.S.C. § 4 Diane Dorothea Smunk D. So. Dak. 1984 Embezzlement by government employee, 18 U.S.C. § 641 Thomas Peter Stathakis D. So. Car. 1976 Selling and delivering firearms to out-of-state resident and falsifying firearms records, 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(B)(3), 922(m), and 924(a) Kathleen Vacanti C. D. Calif. 1979 Conspiracy to defraud the United States by obtaining payment of false claims, presenting false claims to the United States, forging a writing, and aiding and abetting, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 286, 287, and 495 Pupi White W. D. Mo. 1985 Making false statement on United States passport application, 18 U.S.C. § 911 Charles Coleman Wicker E. D. Mo. 1975 Conspiracy to conduct illegal gambling business, 18 U.S.C. § 371 Roderick Douglas Woods S. D. Miss. 1982 Misappropriation of bank funds and aiding and abetting, 18 U.S.C. §§ 656 and 2


 

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Bill Clinton's Pardons Part 2

There are 19 more pages of pardons...should I keep going?

April 17, 1995
NAME     DISTRICT     SENTENCED     OFFENSE
Bradley Vaughn Barisic     N. D. Calif.     1980     Making false statement to National Labor Relations Board, 18 U.S.C. § 1001
Herschel L. Brantley     U. S. Air Force general court-martial     1951     Larceny in violation of 93rd Article of War
Linda Bailey Byars     D. So. Car.     1975     Bank embezzlement, 18 U.S.C. § 656
Patricia Ann Chapin     W. D. Mo.     1986     Falsifying prescription for controlled substance, 21 U.S.C. § 843(a)(4)(A) and 18 U.S.C. § 2
Ronald Jacobs     E. D. Pa.     1967     Theft from interstate shipment, 18 U.S.C. § 659
Margaret Mary Marks     N. D. Ohio     1984     Willful misapplication of bank funds, 18 U.S.C. § 657
John Richard Martin     S. D. Calif.     1956     Embezzlement of funds from savings and loan association, 18 U.S.C. § 657
Earl Thomas McKinney     1. U. S. Air Force summary court-martial     1. 1951    
1.     Absent without leave
2. U. S. Air Force general court-martial     2. 1959    
2.
    Larceny by check, writing check with insufficient funds, and false claims, in violation of U.C.M.J. Articles 121, 132, and 134
Shirley Jean Odoms     S. D. Tex.     1978     Filing false claim for tax refund, 18 U.S.C. § 287
Jack Pakis     W. D. Ark.     1972     Operation of illegal gambling business, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 1955
Gordon Roberts, Jr.     M. D. La.     1977     Interstate transportation of forged and falsely made securities, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 2314
Carl Edward Terhune, Jr.     N. D. Okla.     1985     Issuing United States Postal Service money orders while postal employee with intent to defraud Postal Service, 18 U.S.C. § 500

December 23, 1997
NAME     DISTRICT     SENTENCED     OFFENSE
Irving Frank Avery     D. Colo.     1984     Possession of counterfeit plates, 18 U.S.C. §§ 474 and 2
Billy K. Berry     E. D. Ark.     1986     Medicaid and mail fraud, 42 U.S.C. § 1396h(a)(1)(i) and 18 U.S.C. § 1341
Clio Louise Carson     D. Wyo.     1979     Transmission of wagering information, 18 U.S.C. § 1084
Giuseppe Casadei-Severei     D. Puerto Rico     1987     Obstruction of justice, 18 U.S.C. § 1503
Glen Edison Chapman     1. W. D. No.Car.
    1. 1955
   
1.     Removing, possessing, and concealing non-tax-paid whiskey, 26 U.S.C. §§ 5632 and 7206
2. W. D. No. Car.     2. 1957    
2.     Removing, possessing, and concealing non-tax-paid whiskey, 26 U.S.C. §§ 5632 and 5008(B)(1)
Ralph Wallace Crawford     C. D. Calif.     1985     Mail fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1341
Aaron Golden     W. D. Tex.     1986     Failure to file a currency transaction report, 31 U.S.C. §§ 5313 and 5322(a)
Monroe Lee King     S. D. Tex.     1973     Making plates for counterfeiting Federal Reserve Notes, 18 U.S.C. § 474
Ralph Lee Limbaugh     N. D. Ala.     1974     Theft from interstate shipment, 18 U.S.C. § 659
George Edward Maynes, Jr.     D. Canal Zone     1975     Distribution of cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)
Charley Morgan     N.D. Okla.     1964     Unlawful possession of still and manufacture of mash, 26 U.S.C. §§ 5179(a), 5601(a)(1), and 5601(a)(7)
Linzie Murle Morse     W. D. La.     1973     Interstate transportation of stolen motor vehicle and selling stolen motor vehicle, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2312 and 2313
Charles Patrick Murrin     C. D. Calif.     1988     Bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a)
Moises Jaurequi Ramos     D. New Mexico     1983     Misprision of a felony, 18 U.S.C. § 4
William Ray Richardson     W. D. Mo.     1983     Interstate transportation of stolen property, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 2314
Raymond Phillip Weaver     U. S. Navy summary court-martial     1947     Theft of four pounds of butter
Bill Wayne West     E. D. Miss.     1984     Dealing in firearms without license, 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(a)(1) and 924(a)
Anita Glenn Whitlock     D. Dist. Col.     1978     Bank embezzlement, 18 U.S.C. § 656
Edward Kenneth Williams, Jr.     S. D. Iowa     1979     Receiving and selling stolen motor vehicles and aiding and abetting the same, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 2313
Larry Edward Winfield     W. D. Ark.     1987     Mail fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1341
Louis Anthony Winters     1. U.S. Navy general
court-martial    

1. 1957
   

1. Unauthorized absence from duty
2.D. So. Dak.     2. 1969     2. Assault with dangerous weapon, 18 U.S.C. § 1153