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O'Malley Resigns as Cuyahoga County Recorder

Posted by Joe Guillen May 15, 2008 14:59PM
Categories: Breaking News, Crime

Patrick O’Malley has resigned as Cuyahoga County recorder.

O’Malley submitted a letter of resignation on Thursday afternoon to the Board of County Commissioners. Jimmy Dimora, chairman of the county Democratic party and one of three county commissioners, also was specifically addressed as a recipient of the letter.

County Administrator Dennis Madden said the commissioners formally will accept O’Malley’s resignation at Tuesday’s board meeting but it is effective today. They might appoint O’Malley’s replacement at that time.

Thomas Roche, O’Malley’s chief of staff, will lead the office, which tracks property ownership, until a replacement is named.

O’Malley’s resignation is part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, said Ian Friedman, O’Malley’s attorney. O’Malley was charged with one count of obscenity in a criminal information unsealed in federal court this morning. He is scheduled to appear in court today.

FBI agents raided O’Malley’s Chagrin Falls home in 2004 and seized two personal computers.

[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]

Judge rejects La. congressman's bribery theory

By MATTHEW BARAKAT

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A federal judge has refused to toss out a bribery indictment against a Louisiana congressman who argued that his alleged misdeeds were technically more akin to influence peddling than bribery.

In an order made public Tuesday, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III denied a motion filed by U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., seeking dismissal of 15 of the 16 counts against him.

Prosecutors allege that Jefferson received hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for using his influence to broker business deals in Africa.

Jefferson's lawyers argued unsuccessfully that federal bribery laws apply to a congressman only if he takes a bribe in exchange for official action like taking votes or sponsoring legislation.

Ellis wrote in his ruling that prosecutors can broadly interpret what constitutes an "official act" under the law, but they will have to prove at trial that a congressman's customary duties include using his influence to lobby federal agencies.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CON...LTAM&SECTION=US
 

[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]

A Thought Experiment
John Steele Gordon - 06.03.2008 - 10:44 AM

One of the most prominent tort lawyers in the country, Melvyn Weiss, was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in federal jail after pleading guilty to paying plaintiffs to file class-action suits. He must report by August 28th. His former partner Bill Lerach, equally well known, is already in jail for the same crime, serving two years.

Richard Scruggs, perhaps the most famous and certainly one of the richest tort lawyers in the country (he made hundreds of million in the tobacco settlement case), recently pled guilty to the attempted bribery of a judge. He will be sentenced July 2nd and faces up to five years.

To be sure, these stories have all been covered in the mainstream media, usually on page 12. But they have been treated as separate stories, with no dots connected. But let’s do a simple thought experiment. Suppose that the CEO’s of three very well-known Wall Street financial firms had pled guilty to major felonies with regard to the conduct of their businesses over the course of six months and were all headed to the slammer or already checked in at Club Fed. Do you think that the New York Times et al. would have handled the matter in the same way? Or would there have been no end of “news analyses” and chin-pulling editorials about the ethical swamp that Wall Street has become as its denizens shamelessly lust after Mammon?

The same experiment, of course, might be run regarding Congress. Committee chairmen (at least when Democrats control Congress) love to drag the likes of oil company executives and bank chairmen before the cameras to explain themselves and be lectured to by their self-appointed moral superiors in Congress. (No sniggering, please.) But there hasn’t been a peep out of Capital Hill over a trio of nationally famous and felonious tort lawyers.

Just a wild guess, but I suspect the fact that tort lawyers are one of the top two funding sources for Democratic candidates might have something to do with this.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/in...php/gordon/9291

Suppose that the CEO’s of three very well-known Wall Street financial firms had pled guilty to major felonies with regard to the conduct of their businesses over the course of six months and were all headed to the slammer or already checked in at Club Fed. Do you think that the New York Times et al. would have handled the matter in the same way? Or would there have been no end of “news analyses” and chin-pulling editorials about the ethical swamp that Wall Street has become as its denizens shamelessly lust after Mammon?

Your thought experiment has an unnecessary counterfactual hypothetical clause in it -- had they pleaded guilty. This counterfactural is unnecessary because in fact there are Wall Street  bigwigs that have pleaded guilty of felonies.

Did the New York Times report these convictions?  Of course it did.
 

Democrats should stand by their man; Dann
At best, Marc Dann is a victim of his environment. Bill Clinton did far worse, and for years Marc Dann watched as the Democratic leadership and rank and file stood by their man. They supported Clinton as he introduced our pre-teen children to the definition of oral sex, and the confusion of whether or not it was sex. They stood by their man when he argued the definition of “is,” and “sexual relationship.” They stood by their man as stories of cigar parties, barely legal interns, under the Oval Office desk non-sex during political discussions with world leaders and stains on a blue dress apparently from non-sex horrified most of America, but not the Democrats. They stood by their man. To Democrats, this was personal and America had no business involving themselves in such matters. After all we were told by the Democrats, “everyone does it.” Such behavior is so welcomed in the Democratic Party that Hollywood even celebrates it in movies like “Primary Colors” and “Charlie Wilson’s War.” The message is clear, moral character is not a necessity to be a great leader of the Democratic Party. Democrats shouldn’t change their spots just because it is an election year. America has grown accustom to the debauchery of Democratic Politicians, and Democrats shouldn’t treat Marc Dann any differently than they treated Bill Clinton--- who was guilty of far worse. Marc Dann after all is the logical outcome of growing up following and believing in the Democratic Party.

http://action.publicbroadcasting.net/wosu/...st/1084409.page

Are there no Corrupt Republicans?

Are the blinders for self-defense?

Yes, there are corrupt liberals and corrupt Democrats. Mark Dann may be one of them.

There are many-- way too many other corrupt Democrats.

Where is the thread on Republican corruption?

 

Not much is expected from Democrats........and they generally live down to this abysmally low expectation.

IS asks:

Where is the thread on Republican corruption?

Answer is there are so few Republicans misbehaving and the degree to their larceny so small that it is not necessary to scribe their exploits.Lastly we rank and file look down on this characterless behavior and will NOT AIDE or ABETT it !!!

Proof: IS sez:

Yes, there are corrupt liberals and corrupt Democrats. Mark Dann may be one of them.

....Marc Dannn [MAY BE one]....MAY BE ONE....MAY BE ONE Poor ole Bob Taft gets dinged with a misdeanor for misreporting a couple of golf outting(probably by an underling staff). We'll see what kind of justice M.Dann gets for stealing from tax payers.

P.G.C.
 

STUNNING EXAMPLE of DEMOCRAT CORRUPTION

    "Illinois Scandal Threatens Presidential Race" (NewsMax.com)
  Well...here we go again......Democrats in charge in Illinois for just about as long as Moses has been around and the proof is in the "pudding". Interestingly, the jury in the Rezco trial found 'ole "Tony" guilty on 16 of 24 charges yesterday(pretty big news), and our own cowtown news paper...the Columbus Disgrace....runs a flattering pick of their man Obama on front page above the fold....but NO MENTION of the Rezko conviction. Here's the article:
       
http://www.newsmax.com/us/fundraiser_trial.../05/101815.html
       
Here's a time-line of the trial with some interesting side-line facts underscoring the DEMOCRAT CULTURE of CORRUPTION :

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/na...7082913.graphic

Bottomline is it appears that REZkO is an Abrahms type of character. As sure as I am writing this post....there are corrupt Republicans....but the MSM media...the liberal Press have demonstrated that they will down play(hide/obfuscate if necessary) Democrat corruption as is evindenced by this Rezko conviction yesterday.How many photo opts did you see of Republican Abrabhams being hauled off to jail?) Illinois maybe competing with New Jersey for the most corrupt state as the Rezco conviction sheads light on Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich and perhaps Presidential candidate Barry Hussein Obama.

 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]

Greg Craig: Obama's Next Thorn
by Ericka Andersen

He defended John Hinkley, Jr. after the latter’s attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. He defended former Bolivian Defense Minister Carlos Sanchez-Berzain, a human rights violator accused of 67 deaths. He was a “personal attorney” for Kofi Annan in the UN Oil for Food scandal and he provided “special counsel” to Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial. Currently, high powered attorney Greg Craig of the DC-based Williams and Connolly law firm, is defending Pedro Miguel Gonzales, President of the Panamanian legislature, accused of murdering U.S. Army Sgt. Zak Hernandez.

And he’s a senior foreign policy advisor to presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama. A poster child for limousine liberal lawyers, Craig’s participation in the Obama campaign may give rise to the kind of conflict of interest that has prevented more than one candidate to fail.  

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26816

[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]

Why Did Obama Pay Rezko an Extra $64,000 For That Strip of Land?

From Steven Spruiell's must-read piece on the Rezko guilty verdict this morning:

   

Obama may have thought all of his interactions with Rezko were above-board, but they weren’t. One of the counts against Rezko detailed how he funneled the proceeds of an illegal kickback scheme into Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign. Rezko’s co-conspirator, a former trustee of the Illinois Teachers Retirement System (TRS) named Stuart Levine, told the jury that he directed the TRS to invest $50 million with a firm called Glencoe Capital. In exchange, Levine arranged for himself and Rezko to be paid a fraudulent $500,000 “finder’s fee.” Levine routed Rezko’s half to an associate named Joseph Aramanda in March of 2004. That month, Aramanda wrote a $10,000 check to Barack Obama’s campaign.

    Of course, Obama may well not have known the details of such a shadowy transaction, and his campaign has donated that $10,000 — and all other Rezko-related money — to charity. But what became clear over the course of the Rezko trial is that this kind of scheme exemplified Rezko’s way of doing business. It’s hard to believe that Obama could be so clueless about Rezko’s character, just as it’s hard to believe that Obama sat in Jeremiah Wright’s pews for 20 years and had no idea that the man was a radical black nationalist.

Gabe Malor, over at Ace of Spades, notices Obama is using the same "he's not the man I once knew" line that he used with Jeremiah Wright.

Obama has returned $157,835 in campaign funds that Tony Rezko and his associates donated in his career.

But will he return the land that he bought from Rezko?

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/pos...mRlYWQzYWFlMmQ=

[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]

William Jefferson's brother, sister and niece indicted

The brother, sister and niece of indicted Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) were indicted themselves today for allegedly skimming hundreds of thousands of dollars from nonprofit groups they controlled, according to The Associated Press.

"U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said the family members used several nonprofit and for-profit companies to obtain grants designed to help pregnant teens, at-risk youths and others in need of assistance. They allegedly deposited some of the grant money into personal checking accounts and used it for personal expenses," AP reported.

"A federal grand jury indicted New Orleans tax assessor Betty Jefferson, her brother, Mose Jefferson, and her daughter, Angela Coleman, on charges that include federal program fraud, identity theft and conspiracy to commit money laundering." Betty and Mose Jefferson potentially face hundreds of years in prison under the 30-count indictment.

UPDATE: The New Orleans Times-Picayune broke the story of the new Jefferson family indictments earlier today. The paper had originally reported on the activities at the Jefferson-family-controlled nonprofits back in 2006.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/060...e_indicted.html

[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]

Top Talent Scout for Obama Tied to Subprime Lender
Could Become a Political Liability

By JOSH GERSTEIN, Staff Reporter of the Sun
June 9, 2008

Long-standing ties between a member of Senator Obama's new vice presidential search team and a prominent mortgage executive the senator has pilloried could become a political liability that hampers the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's ability to tap into public ire over the subprime mortgage crisis.
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James Johnson, one of three people tapped by Mr. Obama recently to oversee the search for his running mate, took at least five real estate loans totaling more than $7 million from Countrywide Financial Corp. through an informal program for friends of the company's CEO, Angelo Mozilo, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The Journal said at least two of the mortgages, among a series of loans made available to people Countrywide officials called "friends of Angelo," were at rates below market averages, though it is difficult to predict a market rate without access to nonpublic information about a borrower's credit history and other factors that can reduce interest charges on a loan.

Among the loans to Mr. Johnson, according to the Journal, were a $5 million home equity line of credit against a house in Ketchum, Idaho, a 5.25% loan of $1.3 million for a home in Palm Desert, Calif., and a 3.875% loan of $971,650 for a home in Washington, D.C. The interest rates applied for the first five years of the loans.

"That reeks most high," a public relations specialist and vocal critic of Mr. Mozilo, Bonnie Russell of Del Mar, Calif., said. "Where's the 'change to believe in' if they're playing the same old game using the same old players?"

http://www.columbustownhall.com/townhall/i...=02&f=23&t=4441

[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]

FEDS HAVE SPITZER CORNERED

June 10, 2008 -- The noose appears to be tightening around sex-crazed ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

The federal case against him is so strong that prosecutors had no interest in striking cooperation agreements with the ringleader of Spitzer's hooker-supplier, Emperors Club VIP, and his second in command, sources told The Post's Murray Weiss.

Prosecutors have records of Spitzer's transactions, phone records and taped conversations with Emperors Club, and are confident they need little more to nail him on charges that could include violating prostitution laws and money laundering, sources said. Probers are also said to be looking into whether he used campaign funds to pay for his pleasures.

The case against Spitzer includes the cooperation of curvy call girl Ashley "Kristen" Dupre and a second hooker. Her old boss, Mark Brener, 62, will plead guilty Thursday without the sweetheart deal he was hoping for - he'll have to serve up to 30 months in the slammer on money-laundering and prostitution-conspiracy charges.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06102008/gossi...ered_114797.htm

[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]

Questions for WaMu   [Stephen Spruiell]

Remember Rep. Laura Richardson, the California Democrat who stopped making payments on her three-bedroom house in Sacramento so she could loan her congressional campaign $75,000? After her bank, Washington Mutual, foreclosed on the house and sold it at auction for a $187,000 loss, Richardson preposterously announced that the foreclosure had never taken place, that the sale was illegitimate, and that she had, in fact, worked out a deal with WaMu to pay off the loan.

Today, the Daily Breeze reports that WaMu is playing along with Richardson's defense and is trying to get the house back from the buyer!

   

The real estate broker who bought Rep. Laura Richardson's house at a foreclosure sale last month is accusing her of receiving preferential treatment because her lender has issued a notice to rescind the sale.

    James York, owner of Red Rock Mortgage, said he would file a lawsuit against Richardson and her lender, Washington Mutual, by the end of the week, and has every intention of keeping the house.

    "I'm just amazed they've done this," York said. "They never would have done this for anybody else."

The financial blog Calculated Risk has some questions for WaMu:

        * How often are modifications or repayment plans offered to owners of vacant investment properties with no or negative equity that have never been listed or rented?
        * How often are modifications offered to borrowers with two other properties currently in foreclosure?
        * How often are modifications arranged in the week before the scheduled trustee's sale, following nearly a year of no contact?
        * Does WaMu's policy on modifications make any reference to requiring a "commitment to homeownership" on the borrower's part? How, normally, is that established?
        * Does WaMu's policy on modifications make any reference to establishing that the borrower does not display a "disregard for debt obligations"? How, normally, is that established?

Well WaMu, how about it?

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Z...WEyZGY5OTc1MWI=

The US Supreme Court Thursday ruled Guantanamo prisoners have the right to challenge their detention at the US military base in civilian courts, dealing a stiff rebuke to the Bush administration.

Release them




If it makes you feel any better, the Democrats don't really care about giving the terrorists extra rights, what they really are doing are funneling billions of taxpayer dollars to the lawyers who will try these cases. It is a simple case of payback to political contributors. Sure, it sells out the safety and security of the nation, but I don't want anyone to have the false impression that they are doing it for the terrorists. Feel better?

I suggest we release these 270 detainees in the desert of Afghanistan and let them take their chances with the 82nd Airborne. It will at least cost less.

I've always said Gitmo was a bad idea. They should have sub-contracted the prison work out to the Northern Alliance.