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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:38 pm Post subject: On Corruption in the 2004 Presidential Election... |
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards's 2004 presidential campaign and a donor were fined Thursday for soliciting and accepting illegal contributions.
The Federal Election Commission also cited other violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act. Fines totaled $59,500.
The donor, Tab Turner, solicited four $2,000 contributions from his co-workers at a Little Rock, Arkansas, law firm in January 2003 and illegally reimbursed them for their contributions using a company credit card, according to the commission.
He also used a company credit card to make an illegal campaign contribution in his own name and to pay for various campaign expenses.
Federal law prohibits donors from making contributions in others' names and prohibits direct corporate contributions to a federal candidate.
Turner and his firm, Turner & Associates, P.A., were fined $50,000 in a civil penalty. The 2004 Edwards for President campaign agreed not to contest the FEC's ruling and to pay a $9,500 fine.
Edwards spokeswoman Kim Rubey said the FEC's announcement was "old news."
"All the issues that were raised today had been addressed by the campaign back in 2003," Rubey said. She added that the campaign returned all of the illegal contributions.
Edwards, the 2004 Democratic nominee for vice president, is considering a 2008 presidential bid. But he has not declared his candidacy and does not have an official campaign committee for 2008. |
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/22/fec.edwards/index.html |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:53 am Post subject: |
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After treating all the important allegations of corruption as the bleating of rabid Leftwingers, you dredge up an incident that had zero impact on anything to show, what? There are ral issues about the sanctity of the vote in the United States of America, and you choose to treat it as a joke.
You're the joke. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:35 am Post subject: |
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Politics ... corruption?
 Say it ain't so.
Last edited by igotthisguitar on Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:28 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:24 am Post subject: |
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| EFLtrainer wrote: |
After treating all the important allegations of corruption as the bleating of rabid Leftwingers, you dredge up an incident that had zero impact on anything to show, what? There are ral issues about the sanctity of the vote in the United States of America, and you choose to treat it as a joke.
You're the joke. |
Actually, going back at least as far as JFK and the West Virginia primaries, and other incidents of Democratic-sponsored voting irregularities, the Democratic Party appears to entirely lack the moral high ground it feels it has when it comes to pointing an outraged finger against Republican-sponsored voting irregularities, or indignantly referencing "the sancity of the vote" -- even in the 2004 elections.
Corruption is rather endemic to politics. There are references to politicos taking bribes, interfering in others' elections, and pursuing personal over state interests as far back as Herodotus and Thudydides.
Partisans of the extreme left, such as yourself, have attempted to have us believe that W. Bush and company invented this and is at fault for it. Your blinding hatred for the man has caused you to see red and totally lose perspective. If this were a laughing matter -- which it is not -- perhaps that would be the joke.
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Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.), the target of a 14-month public corruption probe, was videotaped accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from a Northern Virginia investor who was wearing an FBI wire, according to a search warrant affidavit released yesterday.
A few days later, on Aug. 3, 2005, FBI agents raided Jefferson's home in Northeast Washington and found $90,000 of the cash in the freezer, in $10,000 increments wrapped in aluminum foil and stuffed inside frozen-food containers, the document said.
A Capitol Hill police officer, right, stands guard with an unidentified man at the entrance to the Rayburn House Office Building on Saturday, May 20, 2006 in Washington. FBI agents searched the congressional office of Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., in the building on Saturday evening in connection with a public corruption investigation that has already netted two guilty pleas by two associates, authorities said.
The 83-page affidavit, used to raid Jefferson's Capitol Hill office on Saturday night, portrays him as a money-hungry man who freely solicited hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, discussed payoffs to African officials, had a history of involvement in numerous bribery schemes and used his family to hide his interest in high-tech business ventures he promoted in Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria.
In one instance, at an unidentified D.C. restaurant, Jefferson allegedly exchanged cryptic notes with investor Lori Mody and discussed illegal kickbacks for his children in a telecommunications venture in Nigeria in which she had invested.
"All these damn notes we're writing to each other as if we're talking as if the FBI is watching," he told Mody, who was wearing an FBI wire... |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052100167.html |
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