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Originally posted by Kwicko:
I'm trying to remember how many felony convictions ACORN had against them.

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Harry Thomas Jr., then a newly elected council member, hadn’t even taken office when he hatched a scam that eventually fleeced the D.C. government of more than $350,000 intended to help city children.

On Friday, after months of denying any wrongdoing, Thomas (D) pleaded guilty to crimes that will likely send him to prison, closing a chapter on the promising political career of the 51-year-old scion of a prominent D.C. family. “Guilty as charged,” Thomas said simply when asked for his plea, just 15 hours after having resigned his Ward 5 council seat, the same one once held by his father.

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Former Prince George’s county executive Jack B. Johnson admitted in federal court on Tuesday that he accepted a $100,000 check from a developer in exchange for steering federal funds to the builder’s project.

Johnson, 62, who was at the helm of one of the nation’s most affluent majority-black counties for eight years, pleaded guilty to two felony counts, extortion and conspiracy, and witness and evidence tampering during an afternoon hearing in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
I'm trying to remember how many felony convictions ACORN had against them.

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Since you're throwing open the floor for nomination, how about a couple of recent felony convictions in the D.C. area that did involve taxpayer money.

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Originally posted by Storymark:
The word you avoided was:

"None."

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A Nevada judge on Wednesday gave ACORN, the defunct grass-roots community organization, the maximum fine for its illegal voter-registration scheme in that state.

District Court Judge Donald Mosley was blunt and unsparing in his criticism of the discredited activist group. Citing the long history of voter registration fraud allegations that engulfed ACORN across the country, he slapped the group with a $5,000 fine for violating Nevada election law during the 2008 presidential election.

Mosley, reading the pre-sentence report, listed a series of voter registration fraud allegations against ACORN workers. He said that if the claims have been true, then "It is making a mockery of our election process. If I had an individual in this courtroom...who was responsible for this kind of thing, I would put that person in prison for 10 years, hard time, and not think twice about it," he said. "To me this is reprehensible. This is the kind of thing you see in some banana republic, Uruguay or someplace, not in the United States."

In Nevada, ACORN pleaded guilty to one felony count of unlawful compensation for registration of voters, stemming from an illegal voter registration scheme in its Las Vegas office during in the 2008 race.

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Ah. My bad.

1 for the whole Nationwide organization...

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6 for one corrupt motherfucker you defedned.

Gotcha.

Thanks for clearing that up.

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Ah. My bad.

1 for the whole Nationwide organization...

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6 for one corrupt motherfucker you defedned.

Gotcha.

Thanks for clearing that up.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A jury on Monday convicted a senior Democrat in the state House of Representatives of all but one of six charges in the latest corruption trial stemming from a five-year investigation of the use of public employees and legislative resources for campaign purposes.

Rep. Bill DeWeese of Greene County was convicted of conspiracy, conflict of interest and three counts of theft; the Dauphin County jury acquitted him of one other theft count. His lawyer vowed to appeal, and DeWeese said afterward he would run for re-election this year to retain his southwestern Pennsylvania seat in the Legislature.

Testimony in the trial lasted seven days, and jurors reached their verdict early Monday after taking the weekend off.

Senior Deputy Attorney General Ken Brown, the lead prosecutor, described DeWeese during the trial as "a common thief with uncommon access to other people's money."

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So far, 11 Democrats and nine Republicans, including former House Speaker John Perzel, have been convicted or pleaded guilty, while two defendants were acquitted and charges against another were dropped.

The other defendant, former Rep. Stephen Stetler, D-York, is slated for trial later this year.

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Originally posted by BlueHandedMenace:
Are we scorekeeping whose side has more scumbags now?

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Originally posted by BlueHandedMenace:
Are we scorekeeping whose side has more scumbags now?

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Originally posted by Niki2:
"MY side is good, YOUR side is bad"..."No, MY side is good, YOUR side is bad" and on and on ad infinitum. Do any of you have an actual LIFE? Weird.

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Originally posted by Niki2:
"MY side is good, YOUR side is bad"..."No, MY side is good, YOUR side is bad" and on and on ad infinitum. Do any of you have an actual LIFE? Weird.

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Originally posted by Niki2:
"MY side is good, YOUR side is bad"..."No, MY side is good, YOUR side is bad" and on and on ad infinitum. Do any of you have an actual LIFE? Weird.

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Funny how it's, ' don't you have a life? ', when it's shown the skeletons in YOUR closet are every bit as big and nasty, if not more so , than the ones you're trying to drag out of other's closets.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Oh, and just to point out one leetle thing about Geezer - ever notice that when anyone posts something negative about democrats, occupiers, unions and union members - no matter how untrue - Geezer NEVER steps in to point out the bad things about repuublicans, police, or business - no matter how true.

But when someone posts something bad about republicans, police or business - man he is ALL OVER pointing out how it's not true, everyone ELSE does it TOO!, how people just aren't being FAIR or BALANCED - like he is. As if.


Better re-do your make-up Geezer. You real face is showing.

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Originally posted by RionaEire:
I agree with Menace, politicians are people, particularly spoiled and corrupt people. So they do stuff that's bad no matter which side they're on. Now one might be able to argue that one side is prone to bad behavior of a certain persuasion while the other side has lots of people screwing up in another way, but they all do it. And if they get caught doing it they should pay consequences just like anyone else in this country who does it, possibly a little more since they're supposed to be leading us and setting an example.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Oh, and just to point out one leetle thing about Geezer - ever notice that when anyone posts something negative about democrats, occupiers, unions and union members - no matter how untrue - Geezer NEVER steps in to point out the bad things about repuublicans, police, or business - no matter how true.

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James ran for reelection while charged with felonies but was defeated. James is now in private practice in Anna, Illinois.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
...Then you cannot make the case there's equality of sleaziness, cause the Dems don't hold up such a bullshit front of moral purity to begin with, and thus it adds a whole seperate layer of lie to what the Republican party is made of.

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Originally posted by Geezer:
The type of slease may differ, but crooks is crooks, regardless of party.

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