Full Version: State by State GOP Scandal Scorecard
Randi Rhodes
Your Weekly 'Republican Corruption and Scandal' Update
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Alabama
Investigation: Sen. Richard Shelby
Disposition: received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Gov. Robert Riley
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.
Received contributions from. DeLay’s ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff
Investigation: Republican Legislative Committee(very sleazy)
Disposition: financing of a Republican flier that accused a Democratic candidate of supporting same-sex marriage because she failed to sign a pledge against it. Republican committee did not file a report five days before the election showing who paid for the ad, as required by state law.
READ THIS: "Ala. Dems seek investigation into financing of anti-gay flier"
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Alaska
Investigation: Senate President Ben Stevens (son of US Senate Pro Tem President Ted Stevens)
Disposition: Probed for accepting consulting fees from oil services firm Veco. Subject to a recall petition.
Investigation: Sen. Ted Stevens
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.
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Arkansas
Investigation: Arkansas Republican Party
Disposition: Received contributions from. DeLay’s ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff
Arkansas - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Joshua Dickens, Republican Constable of Faulkner County.
Disposition: Severly beat, burned, handcuffed and kidnapped woman he was in a relationship with. Sentenced 5 yrs, could be released within 1 year. After the trial, a 16-year-old girl, also made accusations to the police that she had been sexually assaulted by the young man.
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Arizona
Investigation: Rep. J. D. Hayworth
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.
Investigation: Gov. Evan Mecham
Disposition: impeached, in 1988, after he was convicted of obstructing an investigation into a death threat allegedly made by an aide. He also failed to report a $350,000 from a contributor to his campaign for Governor as required by campaign laws; loaned himself $80,000 of public money to help his failing car dealership; allegations of covering up a death threat by one of his appointees to a government employee. Was the first US Governor to face removal from office by three means simultaneously: impeachment by the legislature, a scheduled recall election, and a criminal indictment.
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Investigation: Governor Fife Symington
Disposition: Resigned after being convicted of bank fraud charges. Conviction overturned due to improper dismissal of a juror during deliberations. Pardoned by Clinton, probably so he would stop wasting the Federal government's time and money investigating him.
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Investigation: Nathan Sproul, Sproul & Associates launched voter registration drives in at least eight states, most of them swing states.
Disposition: under investigation for allegedly destroying voter registration forms signed by Democrats.
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Investigation: Scottsdale Rep. David Burnell Smith ® initially admitted overspending in his campaign but now, objects to his charges claiming the election laws are unconstitutional. The matter is going to court on Dec. 6th. 2005 (Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Mark Aceto.)(Has $70,000 cash-in-hand to spend on his defense)
Disposition: March 2005, Arizona's Citizens Clean Elections Commission voted 5-0 to remove Smith from office because of a campaign finance violation. The commission’s order also directs Smith to return $34,625 in campaign funds and pay a $10,000 fine.
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California
Investigation: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Disposition: Ethics probe for accepting salary from two men’s fitness magazines while governor, possible kickback from American Media publisher to Schwarzenegger charity and silence money to a woman who had an extramarital affair with Schwarzenegger. This probe may go criminal.
Investigation: Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham
Disposition: Probed for bribery regarding financial ties with and favors for defense firm MZM
Investigation: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
Disposition: Tied to Abramoff scandal on loan papers. Recipient of contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Rep. Doug Ose
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.
Investigation: Rep. Richard Pombo
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.
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Investigation: Rep. John Doolittle
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.
Investigation: Rep. Ed Royce
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.
Investigation: Katrina Leung, who helped raise money and contributed to several other Republican campaigns.
Disposition: arrested in April 2003, on charges of working covertly for the Chinese government(CODENAME: Parlor Maid). Leung was alleged to have copied U.S. secrets with intent of providing them to Chinese intelligence services.
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Investigation: Retired FBI agent James J. Smith
Disposition: pleaded guilty to lying about the affair, with Katrina Leung, during an FBI background review and agreed to cooperate with the government's investigation of Leung in exchange for the dropping of more serious charges of mail fraud and mishandling of classified documents. He was sentenced three months' home confinement.
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Investigation: U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach)
Disposition: used his influence to open doors in Washington for a Hollywood producer pitching a television show after the producer paid him a $23,000 option on a screenplay, records and interviews show.
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Hypocrite: US Congressman David Dreier
Exposed: closeted homosexual Republican who oppose civil rights for gay people.
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California - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Howard L. Brooks, Republican legislative aide and advisor to a California assemblyman,
Disposition: charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
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Investigation: Nicholas Elizondo(Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation) Bakersfield, CA
Disposition: molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
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Investigation: Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline
Disposition: placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.
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Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger "told a magazine in 1977 that he had a stripper girlfriend, hung out with prostitutes and engaged in group sex. Then in October 2003, the Los Angeles Times reported that several women said he had forced himself on them, grabbing them and trying to pull off clothing. … Schwarzenegger didn't admit anything specific, but he didn't exactly proclaim his innocence, either. "Wherever there is smoke, there is fire," he said. "I have behaved badly sometimes."
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Colorado
Investigation: Colorado Republican Party
Disposition: Received contributions from. DeLay’s ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff
Investigation: Scott McInnis, former US Rep of Colorado
Disposition: at the end of his term, left the House with more than $1 million in his campaign bank account from Aramoff
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Colorado - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Larry D Floyd (R-Denton County Constable)
Disposition: Arrested charged with one count of soliciting for child prostitution, three counts of enticement of a child and three counts of attempted sexual assault on a child.
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Investigation: Larry Jack Schwarz, Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative.
Disposition: fired after child pornography was found in his possession.
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Investigation: Colorado Republican Party activist Randal David Ankeney
Disposition: charged in a second sexual-assault incident, following his July arrest involving a Disposition: 14-year-old girl he had met in an Internet chat room.
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Connecticut
Investigation: Gov. John Rowland
Disposition: Convicted, imprisoned 2004
Investigation: Rep. Rob Simmons
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Peter N. Ellef, Mr. Rowland's co-chief of staff.
Disposition: pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bribery
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Investigation: William A. Tomasso, Mr. Ellef's close friend, whose family's companies won more than $100 million in contracts under Mr. Rowland's administration.
Disposition: pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bribery
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Connecticut - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Philip Giordano, former Republican mayor of Waterbury, CT,
Disposition: convicted of forcing two 8 and 10 year old girls to perform oral sex on him. Sentenced to 37 years.
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Investigation: Peter Dibble, a Republican legislator
Disposition: pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
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Delaware
Investigation: Attorney General Jane Brady
Disposition: Accused of helping MBNA Bank of Wilmington skirt campaign finance laws.
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Washington DC
Investigation: Chicago Federal Grand Jury is investigating George W. Bush and his Administration's involvement in the outing of a CIA Operative, Valerie Plame.
Investigation: Vice President Dick Cheney(Cabal Chief). Believes in Govt nondisclosure policies. All evidence of Cheney wrongdoing is 'classified'. Cheney has no problem lying to the American People. He's been caught several times lying on camera, but refuses to be questioned under oath. Grrrrr.
Disposition: No bid contracts, torture policy, hidden energy policies, environmental destruction policies, was Chairman and CEO of Halliburton during it's . Cheney's Halliburton stock options were worth $241,498 a year ago -- are now valued at more than $8 million. Assigned Halliburton and Betchel to rebuild coastal military bases in New Orleans and Missisppi with no bid contracts.
Basically, he's a S.O.B. and we're going to get him! War Criminal! TREASON!
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Cheney's rap sheet is just too extensive to add to this list. I hope to put him in his own catagory soon
Investigation: Jack Abramoff, GOP lobbyist
Disposition: Indicted, wire fraud, conspiracy, with possible mob connections to murder.
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Investigation: lobbyist Jack Abramoff asked for $9 million in 2003 from the president of a West African nation to arrange a meeting with President Bush and directed his fees to a Maryland company now under federal scrutiny, according to newly disclosed documents.
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Investigation: Michael Scanlon, former chief of staff to Tom DeLay
Disposition: Being probed for involvement in Indian casino scandal with Abramoff, Kidan, and DeLay
Investigation: Ralph Reed Former Executive Director of the Christian Coalition. Has called gambling a "cancer on the American body politic."
Disposition: Recieved $3.8 million in payments from 2001-2002 from a former aide of Tom Delay, which specifically benefitted two tribal clients in their efforts to protect casino interests.
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Investigation: Steve Rosen, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
Disposition: Indicted for criminal conspiracy involving classified national security information
Investigation: Keith Weismann, AIPAC
Disposition: Indicted for criminal conspiracy involving classified national security information
Investigation: Larry Franklin, Colonel, USAF Reserves, Dept. of Defense
Disposition: Indicted for criminal conspiracy involving classified national security information
Investigation: Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President;s Chief of Staff
Disposition: (5 Count)Indictment: obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury in the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA agent’s name.
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Investigation: David Addington, New Vice President's Chief of Staff. Background in Federalist Society. Attorney for White House during the Iran-Contra Affair. Believes Military lawyers should have less power. He believes in the Presidents, and the agencies the president is responsible for, should have complete nondisclosure powers in govt. He was a principal author of the White House memo justifying the torture of terrorism suspects. He also strongly endorsed holding suspects without access to the legal system, a measure rebuked by the Supreme Court.
Disposition: mentioned in Lewis Libby's indictment.
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Investigation: Richard Perle, Pentagon's Defense Policy Board
Disposition: forced to resign after it was learned he'd been advising Goldman Sachs International, an habitual Bilderberg attendee, on how it might profit from the war in Iraq.
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Investigation: Italia Federicie, a Republican environmentalist
Disposition: expected witness, Ms. Federicie did not show up for questioning by McCain's Senate panel. McCain said he willl send a Federal Marshall out to find her.
Investigation: Michael Rosetti, former Interior Department Counsel
Disposition: Questioned by Senate Panel, rejected testimony made by J. Steven Giles
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Investigation: J. Steven Griles, a former deputy Interior secretary
Disposition: hearing focused on whether Abramoff, when working for the Coushatta tribe of Louisiana, relied on Griles to influence the Interior Department to block a rival tribe from opening a casino that would compete with the Coushattas' gaming business. Griles said he rejected the offer and reported it to ethics officials.
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Investigation: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove
Disposition: Probed for illegal disclosure of CIA classified information. Continued investigation by Grand Jury.
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Investigation: David Safavian, Chief of Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget
Disposition: Arrested, Safavian is charged with making false statements to a General Services Administration ethics officer and the GSA inspector general's office. Safavian served as chief of staff at GSA before moving to OMB. Arrested Sept 19 2005 on charges of lying to investigators and obstructing a federal inquiry involving Jack Abramof
Investigation: Timothy E. Flanigan, Flanigan was nominated in May 2005, to be the No. 2 official at the Justice Department - Gonzales' top deputy. But the nomination has been held up over questions about his connection to Abramoff.
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Investigation: John Hannah, a key aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and one of the architects of the Iraq war,
Disposition: cooperating with Fitzgerald after being told that he was identified by witnesses as a co-conspirator in the leak. Sources said Hannah was not given immunity, but was likely offered a “deal” in exchange for information that could result in indictments of key White House officials.
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Investigation: David Safavian, former chief of staff of the General Services Administration
Disposition: charged with making false statements and obstructing justice in connection with a golf trip that Abramoff organized for lawmakers, including Representatives DeLay and Ney, in 2002. Mr. Safavian has pleaded not guilty.
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Investigation: a second Cheney aide, David Wurmser, has agreed to provide the prosecution with evidence that the leak was a coordinated effort by Cheney’s office to discredit the agent's husband. Her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, was one of the most vocal critics of the Iraq war.
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Investigation????: Michael Brown, former Director of FEMA.
Disposition: LIED on his resume. LIED repeatedly under oath to the House investigative panel.
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Hypocrite: Harvey Pitt, SEC Chief under George W. Bush until he was forced to resign in 2002.
Exposed: previously Worked for New Frontier Media, a firm which distributed teen sex videos. Typical Bush appointee.
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Investigation: Lester M. Crawford, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner
Disposition: The GAO and Senate Health committee will be investigating the circumstances of Crawford's resignation, including his financial disclosures. He was also accused before his confirmation of having an improper relationship with a female colleague -- a charge that independent investigators said both parties denied. The final report did note, however, significant discrepancies between Crawford's testimony and that of others in the commissioner's office.
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Investigation: NEOCONS WHO ARE POISONING US CITIZENS. Donald Rumsfeld was the CEO at Searle when aspartame was created. Rumsfeld spent 17 yrs trying to get aspartame approved by the FDA but failed, due to its toxic compounds. The day after Reagan was sworn in, the FDA was forced to retract its findings from govt studies on asparatame and the drug was rename, "Nutrasweet".
Disposition: Lawsuits against Monsanto for ASPARTAME, a neurotoxin and carcinogenic. Used in 5000 food products.
Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas and John Ashcroft were Monsantos attorneys who strong armed the FDA into silence.
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Investigation: James C. Langdon Jr., chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
and a major Bush fundraiser, underscores the tangled Washington connections beneath CNOOC Ltd.'s bid.
Disposition: non-competitive bid, possible corruption involved. There's no Senate oversight.
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Investigation: Oliver North cyndicated columnist and host of a weekly Fox News Channel program, "War Stories with Oliver North."
Disposition: convicted on three separate charges relating to his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s. He has embezzelled $200,000 in a Swiss Bank account and was involved in drug trafficking to fund secret NSA Operations. He received a three-year suspended prison sentence, two years probation and immediate superstar status.
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Robert Earl (DC)-Chief of Staff to Acting Deputy Defense Secy Gordon England.
"Iran-Contra Figure Lands Key Pentagon Position"
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Investigation: Ted E. Schelenski (DC)-Heritage Foundation- VP for Finance and Operations
Disposition: Convergence of Driver, Bicyclist Ends in Arrest.
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Investigation: US Intelligence, FBI and CIA identified as helping Plan Venezuelan Prosecutor's Murder
Disposition: Danilo Anderson was a Venezuela Prosecutor killed by a car bomb in Caracas on November 18, 2004. He was murdered while investigating those who were involved in leading and organizing the April 2002 coup that briefly overthrew President Chavez and abolished the constitution and the National Assembly. Vasquez De Armas, a member of Colombia's right wing paramilitary group called the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) has said that he was in charge of logistics for the plot to kill Danilo Anderson.
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Washington DC - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Mark Grethen, a longtime GOP activist and fundraiser. He was to be honored in Washington D.C. as “Republican of the Year” – an honor bestowed upon him by Representative Tom Davis of Virginia.
Disposition: convicted of six sex crimes involving raping children. He’s scheduled to be in the Deep Meadow Correctional Facility until September 25, 2024.
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Investigation: Richard Delgaudio, served as president of the Republican-affiliated Legal Affairs Council, raising money for Oliver North’s defense during the Iran-Contra scandal, and for former Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger’s defense fund (back in the pre-Ashcroft/Gonzales days when Republican criminals were actually sometimes tried for their crimes). He also raised money for such Republican notables as Ronald Reagan and Jesse Helms.
Disposition: he pled guilty to charges of producing child pornography after getting caught paying two teenage girls to pose for his camera in a Baltimore hotel.
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John Bolton: Corroborated allegations that Mr. Bolton’s first wife, Christina Bolton, was forced to engage in group sex have not been refuted by the State Department despite inquires posed by Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt concerning the allegations.
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History of Washington DC Pedophilia -
Video Bush Sr White House Scandal 1989
W David Hager (KY)-FDA Advisor on Women's Health Issues, evangelical Christian who preaches propaganda about Family Values"
Dr. Hager's Family Values (Sodomized Wife)
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Hypocrite: Donald Rumsfeld (R-Defense Secretary) authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate.
Report 1 Full Report
Hypocrite: Matthew Glavin, president and CEO of the Southeastern Legal Foundation. Glavin, the legal beagle who’d led major ‘morality’ campaigns against President Bill Clinton, now joins Paulk and other such creeps in the Hall of Hypocrites.
Exposed: arrested multiple times for public indeceny. resign last week as president and CEO of the Southeastern Legal Foundation after having been twice charged with public indecency in a Chattahoochee River park a popular spot for men who regale in outdoor same-sex cruising.
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Hypocrite: John Paulk, the leader of the bogus Ex-Gay movement was caught frolicking in a Washington, D.C. gay bar.
. Just two years ago, as Advocate reporter Bill Ghent wrote, "Religious conservatives ran a series of ads calling for a new national discussion of homosexuality.'" The ads, coordinated by 15 religious right groups, featured Paulk and his ex-lesbian wife, Anne, and proclaimed that gay men and lesbians can be "cured" through the "truth of God's healing love.'
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Florida
Investigation: NAACP vs. GOP Election(Nov 7, 2005) A lawsuit filed by civil rights groups who contend black voters were disenfranchised last November won't come to a quick resolution.
Disposition: U.S. District Judge Alan Gold has denied motions by Secretary of State Katherine Harris to dismiss the suit and by a county elections supervisor for a summary judgment. The judge's order was filed Tuesday.
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Investigation: Rep. Katherine Harris, US Senate candidate
Disposition: Probed for campaign donations from MZM, Inc. (related to Duke Cunningham probe)
Investigation: Rep. Tom Feeney
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff. Probed for corporate ties to Yang Enterprises, involved in over billing state of Florida. Feeney was Jeb Bush’s 1994 running mate for Lt. Gov.
Investigation: US Rep Tom Feeney
Disposition: alleged 'vote rigging', investigation pending by US House of Reps.
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Computer programmer Clinton Curtis testified at the December 13th, 2004 Congressional hearing in Columbus, Ohio naming Republican Congressman Tom Feeney as the person who hired him to prepare vote-rigging software.
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Investigation: Rep. Ric Keller
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Sen. John Isakson
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff and Kidan.
Florida GOP won't return money tied to DeLay fundraising
Eleven House Republicans from Florida who received cash from Tom DeLay's PAC said they will keep it.
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Investigation: Miami City Commissioner Arthur Teele
Disposition: indicted on 26 counts of fraud and money laundering (suicide)
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Investigation: David H. Smith, president of Allied Specialty Insurance Inc. of Treasure Island
Disposition: A Pinellas County insurance executive has been charged with a felony violation of state campaign finance laws, after two former employees said he used them to disguise contributions to state Insurance Commissioner Bill Nelson.
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Investigation: Brian H. Darling, 39, legal counsel to Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) and former lobbyist for the Alexander Strategy admitted yesterday that he was the author of a memo citing the political advantage to Republicans of intervening in the case of Terri Schiavo, the senator said in an interview last night.
Disposition: offered his resignation and it was immediately accepted.
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Investigation: Chris Hill, a Florida businessman, to whom the National Republican Congress Committee, or NRCC, awarded a “Republican of the Year Award”
Disposition: accepted a plea bargain, agreeing to 14 months in a minimum security prison camp at Elin Air Force Base in Florida, plus five years probation. Hill also suffered a $500,000 fine, along with the loss of his warehouse building and manufacturing equipment.
The NRCC rescinded the award after learning that Hill was facing federal charges related to drug paraphernalia.
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Investigation: Mr. James K. Isenhour as owner and operator of the Silver Archer Foundation. Inspector General John M. Franco found that Isenhour took in about $400,000 from private companies. He sent an estimated $168,000 to a private school, but did not devote any of the money to private scholarships for low-income children as the law requires, Franco wrote.
Disposition: Franco to the FDLE on Tuesday. "We believe the misappropriation ... constitutes theft and a scheme to defraud."
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Investigation: Rush Limbaugh, a conservative talk show host. Allegedly 'doctor shopped' for pills. He claims he was being blackmailed by his housekeeper about his addiction to pain killers.
Disposition: ongoing investigation.
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Hypocrite: Joe Scarborough, former Republican Congressman, currently a conservative talk show host.
Exposed: Resigned his congressional seat abruptly to spend more time with his family, amidst allegations of an affair. His intern, Lori Klausutis, was soon after found dead in his office. The medical examiner, who had his license revoked in Missouri for falsifying information in an autopsy report, and suspended in florida for six years, ruled the case an accident, after giving conflicting information about her injuries. He said he lied about them because "The last thing we wanted was 40 questions about a head injury."
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Florida - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: John Burt (FL)-Anti-Abortion Activist
Disposition: convicted last year of molesting a 15-year-old resident at Our Father's House, which he and his wife operated near Milton.
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Story found in the 'Pensacola News Journal'.
Investigation: Howard Scott Heldreth, a Republican anti-abortion activist.
Disposition: convicted child rapist in Florida.
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Investigation: Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was Disposition: charged with four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a juvenile and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
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Georgia
Investigation: Ralph Reed, candidate for Lt. Gov.
Disposition: Probed for involvement in Abramoff, Kidan, DeLay Indian casino money laundering.
Investigation: Sen. John Isakson
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Sen. Saxby Chambliss
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Rep. Phil Gingrey
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Rep. Jack Kingston
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Richard Leonard, former manager of Linda Schrenko Campaign
Disposition: Pleads guilty on attempted witness tamering.
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Investigation: Linda Schrenko, Georgia School Superintendent
Disposition: indicted on federal charges of stealing taxpayer money.
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Investigation: Governor Sonny Perdue
Disposition: Fined for Ethics Violations, the first time a sitting governor has ever been fined since the commission was created in the 1970s.
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Investigation: state Rep. David Graves of Macon
Disposition: will drop his legal claim that his status as a legislator should shield him from DUI charges.
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Hypocrite: former Congressman Newt Gingrich, married three times.
Exposed: Gingrich campaign worker Anne Manning admitted that she gave Newt oral sex while he was still married to his first wife. Informed one wife he was filing for divorce while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer treatments.
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Hypocrite: Bob Barr, Republican Congressman from Georgia. Sponsored the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act, saying "The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundation of our society, the family unit."
Exposed: Was married three times. Paid for his second wife's abortion. Failed to pay child support to the children of his first two wives and while married to his third and present wife was photographed licking whipped cream off of strippers at his inaugural party.
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Hypocrite: Neal Horsley, Republican anti-abortion activist. Created abortion doctor list on his website. The list included the doctors home and work addresses. Neal Horsley would cross a line through their names when the doctors had been murdered.
Exposed: admitted to having sex with a mule on Fox News Alan Colmes Show
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Guam
Investigation: Gov. Felix Camacho
Disposition: Probed for ties to Abramoff and demoting Acting US Attorney for Guam Frederick Black
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Hawaii
Investigation: New Hawaii PAC and House GOP PAC
Disposition: Campaign violations filed against a number of GOP candidates for the state legislature and US House for skirting spending limits.
Investigation: Dalton Tanonaka, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in 2002 and Congress in 2004.
Disposition: pleaded guilty to illegally financing campaigns for lieutenant governor and Congress with about $80,000 in loans. He hid the debts from a bank to get other loans and he kept a consulting contract with a Japanese lumber company secret, leaving it off candidate disclosure forms, prosecutors said.
Tanonaka reports to jail December 15th, Judge Orders Tanonaka To Spend 3 Months In Prison, 3 Months At Homeand must also pay a $10,000 fine.
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Hawaii - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Former Hawaii County Councilman Keola Childs
Disposition: pleaded guilty in Kona Circuit Court to sexual assault in the first degree for molesting a male child last year.
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Investigation: Rep. Galen Fox, R-Waikiki, will step down from his position in the Hawaii State House on Dec. 1, 2005, after being convicted Oct. 20, 2005, of a misdemeanor sexual offense in a Los Angeles federal court, reportedly for fondling a 27-year-old female passenger.
Disposition: convicted of misdemeanor sexual offense.
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Investigation: Rep. Brian Blundell, R-Maui, was
Disposition: convicted of sexual assault in the fourth degree for fondling an undercover male police office in a Waikiki restroom and lost his re-election in 2004 as a result.
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Idaho
Investigation: Rep. Michael Simpson
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Rep. Butch Otter
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
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Illinois
Investigation Target: House Speaker Dennis Hastert
Disposition: Probed for accepting money from Turkey.
Investigation Target: former Illinois Gov. George Ryan.
Disposition: Indicted. Trial pending. Charges for handing out state contracts to friends and backers in return for campaign contributions, trips and gifts
Investigation Target: Rep. Jerry Weller
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff (Weller is married to the daughter of Guatemalan dictator and mass murderer [300,0000 Guatemalans] Efrain Rios Montt).
Investigation: Republican National Treasurer Bob Kjellander
Disposition: Under Federal probe for steering investment contracts to Illinois Teachers Retirement Fund.
Investigation: Michael Tristano, chief of staff to [illinois] State Rep. Lee A. Daniels, when Daniels served as House Republican Leader and Minority Leader in the state House ofRepresentatives -
Disposition: Indicted for diverting state employees to campaign work.
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Investigation: Scott Fawell, Gov Ryan's top aide, campaign manager and former secretary of state during much of the 1990s.
Disposition: Convicted of racketeering in 2003 in connection with his work for Ryan, Fawell was sentenced to 6 1/2 years. Fawell later agreed to help the government at the request of his indicted fiancee, Andrea Coutretsis.
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Investigation: Andrea Coutretsis
Disposition: Coutretsis, a Fawell assistant who later developed a relationship with him, has pleaded guilty in two separate corruption cases and awaits sentencing.
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Investigation: Larry Warner, lobbyist, co-defendent with Gov Ryan ........Prosecutors say Ryan steered state contracts and leases to a select group of friends, including his co-defendant in the case, lobbyist Larry Warner, and received subtle kickbacks that included gifts, vacations and other benefits. Some criminal charges against Ryan stem from his 1999-2003 term as governor.
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Illinois - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Republican Congressman, Dan Crane(R-IL), Married, fathher, had sex with a minor congressional page.
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Indiana
Investigation: Rep. Dan Burton
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Gov. Mitch Daniels
Disposition: Under investigation for soliciting campaign donations in return for INDOT (Indiana Dept. of Transportation contracts)
Investigation: Thomas Sharp, INDOT Commissioner
Disposition: Under investigation for soliciting campaign donations in return for INDOT (Indiana Dept. of Transportation contracts)
Investigation: Jim Kittle, GOP state chairman
Disposition: Under investigation for soliciting campaign donations in return for INDOT (Indiana Dept. of Transportation contracts)
Investigation: Bradley R. Hiller, Ex-GOP insider
Disposition: pleaded guilty Wednesday to two felonies in connection with spending he could not account for while running the Senate Republicans' fundraising committee. Judge Stoner sentenced him to one year in prison. Initially, Hiller was charged with writing eight fraudulent checks to himself valued at $24,890.39, but he agreed to repay the committee $146,775 for expense checks he wrote to himself that could not be documented.
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Hypocrite: Dan Burton (IN)-US Rep
Exposed: abused his power by using strong-arm and unethical campaign finance practices and by preying on female lobbyists, staffers and constituents.
Editor's Note: Earlier this year, Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., the powerful head of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee and a major critic of both President Clinton's personal behavior and his campaign fund-raising techniques, startled the country by suddenly admitting that he had fathered a child out of wedlock.
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Indiana - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Earl "Butch" Kimmerling, a representative of the Christian community and temporary foster parent.
Disposition: he confessed to molesting an 8-year old girl and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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Investigation: Mark Harris, Republican city councilman who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer,"
Disposition: convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
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Iowa
Investigation: Sen. Charles Grassley
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: US Rep. Jim Nussle and GOP gubernatorial candidate.
Disposition: Received $15,000 contributions Tom DeLay’s PAC
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Investigation: Mike Hintz, a First Assembly of God youth pastor in DES MOINES, Iowa, introduced by Bush on the campaign trail and promoted his policies.
Disposition: married father of four turned himself into police, charged with the sexual exploitation of a child.
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Kansas
Investigation: Rep. Jim Ryun
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Sen. Sam Brownback
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Adam Taff
Disposition: 2004 congressional candidate (KS-3), indicted for campaign violations amnd wire fraud.
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Kentucky
Investigation: Gov. Ernie Fletcher
Disposition: Criminal probe in a state employees’ merit system scandal. Received contributions from. DeLay’s ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff.
Investigation: Dick Murgatroyd (KY)-Governor Ernie Fletcher's Deputy Chief of Staff
Disposition: Indicted in Hiring Probe
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Investigation: Transportation Commissioner Dan Druen
Disposition: Merit system scandal, witness tampering. Indicted.
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Investigation: Deputy Personnel Secretary Bob Wilson
Disposition: Merit system scandal. Indicted
Investigation: GDarrell Brock, Chairman of Kentucky GOP
Disposition: Merit system scandal. Indicted.
Investigation: Gov. Personnel Adviser Basil Turbyfill
Disposition: Merit system scandal. Indicted
Investigation: Transportation Secretary ill Nighbert
Disposition: Merit system scandal. Indicted
Investigation: Dick Murgatroyd, Gov. Deputy Chief of Staff
Disposition: Merit system scandal. Indicted
Investigation: Jim Adams, Deputy Transportation Secretary
Disposition: Merit system scandal. Indicted
Investigation: Cory Meadows, Executive Director, Transportation Dept.
Disposition: Merit system scandal. Indicted
Investigation: Environmental Protection Commissioner Lloyd Cress
Disposition: Probed in merit system scandal
Investigation: Sen. Jim Bunning
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Lt. Gov. Stephen Pence
Disposition: Received contributions from. DeLay’s ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff
Investigation: Kenneth Day, a convicted felon and Republican county election commissioner
Disposition: pleaded guilty to heading the drug ring from his Clay County pawnshop.
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Investigation: Jennings B. White, a former county clerk
Disposition: pleads guilty to drug charges to eight federal counts of marijuana trafficking and money laundering in connection with a ring that authorities say sold millions of dollars in drugs.
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Kentucky - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation:Bobby Stumbo, a former Floyd County republican leader
Disposition: Charged with sexually abusing a five year old boy.
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Louisiana
Investigation: Sen. David Vitter
Disposition: Linked to Abramoff in a case involving a Louisiana Indian tribe.
Hypocrite: US Rep. Robert Livingston (R-LA)
Exposed: Martyred himself during the Clinton's impeachment proceedings, resigned from office for having an affair, outside of his marraige.
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Maine
Investigation: Maine Republican Party
Disposition: Received contributions from DeLay’s ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff
Maine - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Merrill Robert Barter(R-County Commissioner)
Disposition: pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
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Republican Senate candidate, John Hathaway, was accused of having sex with his 12-year old sitter.
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Maryland
Investigation: Joseph Steffen, aide to Gov. Bob Ehrlich
Disposition: Resigned for starting a rumor campaign against Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley.
Investigation: Gov. Bob Ehrlich
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff and his wife, who live in Maryland, donated $16,000 to Ehrlich's 2002 campaign, according to state records.
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Investigation: Maryland Republican Party,
Disposition: Received $7,750 in contributions from Abramoff, according to state records.
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Massachusetts
Investigation: Gov. Mitt Romney’s Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
Disposition: Under ethics cloud for awarding a $10,000 contract to conservative Boston Herald columnist to write columns supportive of Romney’s policies.
Investigation: Lawrence Novak, Atty, vice chairman state Republican Party
Disposition: Indicted, money-laundering charges accusing him of offering to ``cleanse'' drug proceeds for a legal client(Scott Holyoke).
Hypocrite: Arthur J Finkelstein (MA)- Republican Political Strategist Consultant, Head of Polling Firm, ]Arthur J. Finkelstein and Associates
Exposed: made a career of promoting anti-gay Republicans like former North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, New York Governor George E. Pataki and former New York Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato, has announced that he has married his male partner in gay-friendly Massachusetts.
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Michigan
Investigation: Rep. Dave Camp
Disposition: Received of contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Steve Rice City Councilman and former Mayor of Sterling Heights, Republican.
Disposition: Charged with possession of cocaine, a felony. Crystal meth was found on his housemate, Jeremy Burns.
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Minnesota
Investigation: Rep. Gil Gutknecht
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Ron Eibensteiner, Minnesota Republican Party Chairman.
Disposition: Eibensteiner is accused of helping American Bankers Insurance Co. of Miami make illegal corporate contributions in Minnesota. He also is accused of violating another law by soliciting and accepting donations from an insurance company.
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Minnesota - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Jon Grunseth(former Republican candidate for Governor)
Disposition: withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.
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Missouri
Investigation: Sen. Christopher Bond
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Sen. Jim Talent
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
NEW! "Talent returns Abramoff contributions": LINK
Investigation: Gov. Matt Blunt
Disposition: Received contributions from. DeLay’s ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff
Investigation: Congressman Roy Blunt, temporary House Majority Leader. Received contributions from DeLay’s ARMPAC
Disposition: The records for Blunt's non-federal PAC could be of interest to the House Ethics Committee. There is a federal ban on officials using their office to benefit "friends, relatives, or persons with whom the employee is affiliated in a non-governmental capacity."
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Investigation: Ronnie Gene DeShon, 50, of Gallatin, Mo., superintendent of the Pattonsburg, Missouri R-II School District
Disposition: pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $844,000 from the school district. The court released DeShon on his own recognizance.
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Investigation: Thomas J. Noonan®, deputy mayor of Kirkwood, MO.
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Missouri
Investigation: Sen. Christopher Bond
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Sen. Jim Talent
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff
NEW! "Talent returns Abramoff contributions": LINK
Investigation: Gov. Matt Blunt
Disposition: Received contributions from. DeLay’s ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff
Investigation: Congressman Roy Blunt, temporary House Majority Leader. Received contributions from DeLay’s ARMPAC
Disposition: The records for Blunt's non-federal PAC could be of interest to the House Ethics Committee. There is a federal ban on officials using their office to benefit "friends, relatives, or persons with whom the employee is affiliated in a non-governmental capacity."
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Investigation: Ronnie Gene DeShon, 50, of Gallatin, Mo., superintendent of the Pattonsburg, Missouri R-II School District
Disposition: pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $844,000 from the school district. The court released DeShon on his own recognizance.
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Investigation: Thomas J. Noonan®, deputy mayor of Kirkwood, MO.
Disposition: was charged with possession and attempted possession of a controlled substance.
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Missouri - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Kevin Coan, Republican St. Louis Election Board official,
Disposition: arrested and charged with trying to buy sex from a 14-year-old girl whom he met on the Internet.
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Mississippi
Investigation: Rep. Charles Pickering
Disposition: Recipient of contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Rep. Roger Wicker
Disposition: Recipient of contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Sen. Thad Cochran
Disposition: Recipient of contributions from Abramoff
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Montana
Investigation: former Gov. Marc Racicot, presently acting as confidante and high-end lobbyist, chaired the RNC back in 2002 when the corporate money supposedly was laundered.
Disposition: probed for his relationship to Tom Delay and ARMPAC while acting as RNC Chairman.
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Investigation: Sen. Conrad Burns
Disposition: Probed for links to Abramoff
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Hypocrite: US Senator Conrad Burns
Burns defends vote against pesticide testing ban. Pesticide testing would pay low-income families to participate as 'test subjects'.
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Investigation: Rep. Dennis Rehberg
Disposition: Recipient of contributions from Abramoff, took $21,000 in campaign contributions from Abramoff and the tribes he represented.
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Investigation: Max Baucus
Disposition: Probed for $5,000 in contributions from the Abramoff
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Montana - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Richard A. Dasen Sr.,Businessman, Christian Financial Counseling, Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups
Disposition: found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dansen, 62, told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.
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Nebraska
Investigation: Former Rep. Jon Christensen
Disposition: Received of contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Lawrence E. "Larry" King, Jr. ran the Franklin Community Credit Union of Omaha, Nebraska and was a prominent fundraiser for the GOP.
Disposition: pleaded guilty of embezzlement.
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Nebraska - Scandal, Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Lawrence E. "Larry" King, Jr.
Disposition: alleged to have been involved in, or the leader of, a child-sex group in Nebraska in the 1990s. 80 children initially came forward to testify, including orphans from 'Boys Town', against Lararence E. King, Jr. and several prominenet citizens of Omaha. Many of these children recanted their testimony under duress.
Discovery Channel was pressured to not air the documentary called, "Conspiracy of Silence".
In February, 1999, a U.S. District Court awarded a plaintiff, Paul A. Bonacci, $800,000 in damages against King for various tort claims, including physical, mental, and sexual abuse. The award followed a default judgment.
See Discovery Channel's documentary, "Conspiracy of Silence"
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Nevada
Investigation: Sen. John Ensign
Disposition: Received of contributions from Abramoff
Nevada - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Republican Assembly candidate Richard Gardner(forced to withdraw from race.)
Disposition: sexually abused his daughter, who was about 12 when the crime was committed in May 1982. Child molestation in 1983 against another daughter under the age of 14 in California.
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New Hampshire
Investigation: Sen. John Sununu
Disposition: Probed for receipt of money from DeLay tainted PAC
Investigation: Rep. Jeb Bradley
Disposition: Probed for receipt of money from DeLay tainted PAC
Investigation: House Speaker Gene Chandler
Disposition: Campaign contributions violations
New Hampshire Republican Party
Despite a zero-tolerance policy on tampering with voters, the Republican Party has quietly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide private defense lawyers for a former Bush campaign official charged with conspiring to keep Democrats from voting in New Hampshire.
LINK See Tobin, Raymond, and McGee.
Investigation: James Tobin, a former Bush campaign official
Disposition: indicted on charges of orchestrating a low-tech version of a denial-of-service attack.
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Investigation: Allen Raymond , Former GOP Consultant
Disposition: Va. Man Pleaded Guilty to Making Harassing Phone Calls to N.H. Democrats, sentenced to five months in prison.
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Investigation: Chuck McGee, former executive director of the Republican state committee.
Disposition: indicted in Republican phone-jamming scheme
and been sentenced to seven months in federal prison.
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New Hampshire - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Raymond Burton, Executive Councilor
Disposition: U.S. Sen. John Sununu is calling for the resignation Raymond Burton, a fellow Republican, for having hired an aide, Mark Seidensticker, with an extensive criminal record. Mark Seidensticker, 45, of Concord and Ogunquit, Maine, was arrested last month in Concord, accused of inappropriate contact with teenage boys. Based on that arrest, Burton said last week he no longer will employ Seidensticker, who is being held on $50,000 bail at the Merrimack County jail.
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New Jersey
Investigation: GOP State Chairman Tim Wilson
Disposition: Probed for his firm receiving $2.7 million from the Burlington County Bridge Commission
Investigation: Rep. Jim Saxton
Disposition: Received of contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Rep. Frank LoBiondo
Disposition: Received of contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Rep. Mike Ferguson
Disposition: Received of contributions from Abramoff
New Jersey - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
And then there’s anti-abortion crusader Nicholas Morency, who recently pled guilty to offering a $1.5 million contract to anyone who would murder an abortion provider. In the course of the investigation, authorities also turned up a computer packed with child pornography. Morency’s perception of reality seems all screwed up – with him thinking zygotes are children, and children are sexual beings without the right to childhood.
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Investigation: Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti
Disposition: arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
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Investigation: John J. Collins, 20-year Republican councilman, a popular music teacher at Memorial School, has been officially suspended with pay from his teaching position of 35 years.
Disposition: charged with three counts of aggravated sexual assault, a first-degree offense, and two counts of child endangerment, a second-degree offense, for the alleged incidents.
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Hypocrite: John Fund (NJ)-editorial writer of the Wall Street Journal, right-wing conservative values.
Exposed: had sexual affairs with Ex-girlfriend's children, without her knowing. One daughter needed to abort a pregnancy with John Fund.
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New Mexico
Investigation: Rep. Heather Wilson
Disposition: Received of contributions from Abramoff
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New York
Investigation: Governor Pataki and state Republican Party's hiring of a 50,000-dollar-a-year administrative assistant for his wife Libby.
Disposition: Democrats are calling for Governor Pataki to "come clean", there have been reports that Stubbs serves as Mrs. Pataki's maid and personal valet.
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Investigation: Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro and US Senate candidate
Disposition: Probed for campaign donations from mobsters. Her husband served a year in prison for tax evasion.
Investigation: Russell Harding(R-former top Giuliani administration official)
Disposition: sentenced 62 months, embezzled $400,000 NYC revenue
Investigation: Jeffrey Buley , New York Republican Party's top lawyer, and senior political adviser to Gov. Pataki ®,
Disposition: arrested for assaulting his wife in a drunken rage. They have two young children.
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Investigation: Osei Boateng(chief financial officer) of Consortium for Worker Education, an organization once closely aligned with the Giuliani administration, the group played a major role in the city's welfare-to-work programs.
Disposition: The office of Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, which is investigating the embezzlement, believes the figure could be higher, possibly as much as $6 million.
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Investigation: Jeffrey Buley , New York Republican Party's top lawyer, and senior political adviser to Gov. Pataki ®,
Disposition: arrested for assaulting his wife in a drunken rage. They have two young children.
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New York -Scandal, Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Mayor John Gosek®, Oswego, NY
Disposition: placed under house arrest. Charge of using his city-issued cell phone to persuade, induce, entice, and coerce minors to engage in sexual acts.He could face a sentence of five to 30 years in prison.
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Investigation: Russell Harding(R-former top Giuliani administration official)
Disposition: sentenced 62 months, possessing child pornography.
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Investigation: Bill O'Reilly Right-wing conservative talk show host on Fox News,
Disposition: sued for 'sexual harrassment' by his producer.
She said O'Reilly told her: "If any woman ever breathed a word I'll make her pay so dearly that she'll wish she'd never been/ born. I'll rake her through the mud, bring up things in her life and make her so miserable that she'll be destroyed."
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Hypocrite: Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of NYC
Exposed: had an adulterous affair. Pocketed $80,000 for speaking at a charity benefit for tsunami aid which raised $60,000 for the victims themselves (Feb 2005).
LINK
Hypocrite: John Fund, of the Wall Street Journal, a prominent anti-abortion columnist and GOP fund raiser.
Exposed: He lost his position after it was revealed that he impregnated the daughter of an old girlfriend and then encouraged her to abort his child.
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Northern Marianas
Investigation: Gov. Froilan Tenorio
Disposition: Grand Jury probe, ties to Abramoff
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North Carolina
Investigation: (Elizabeth) Dole North Carolina Victory Committee
Disposition: FEC Audit Says Dole Committee Should Repay Over $80,000 in Embezzled Funds.
Audit LINK
Article LINK
Investigation: Rep. Charles Taylor
Disposition: Probed for ownership of shady Russian bank – whose other major investor is a former KGB general. Recipient of contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Hayes Martin, Taylor Campaign Treasurer
Disposition: Indicted, fraud and money laundering
Investigation: Rep. Walter Jones
Disposition: Recipient of contributions from Abramoff
Hypocrite: Doug Hanks (NC)-Running for Charlotte City Council Race
Exposed: Hanks admits supremacist postings-Republican candidate exits city council race.
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Hypocrite: Scott Heldreth (NC)-Operation Rescue/Operation Save America participant
Exposed: Schiavo protester is a registered sex offender .
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North Dakota
Investigation: Richard Clayburgh, House candidate
Disposition: Received contributions from DeLay’s ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff
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Ohio
Investigation: Gov. Bob Taft, Misuse of state funds/ethics violations
Disposition: Convicted, four first degree misdemeanors, pleaded no contest (admission of guilt). $4000 fine and public apology, two Federal Grand Juries, one state Grand Jury still investigating Taft.
Investigation: Thomas Noe, Bush-Cheney 04 campaign chair, NW Ohio; Turnpike Commissioner; University Regent
Disposition: federal indictment, charged with illegally funneling $45,400 to the president's re-election bid through two dozen friends and associates. Individual contributions are limited by law to $2,000.
State investigation: under investigation over an ill-fated $50 million investment in rare coins he managed for the Ohio workers' compensation fund.
He has acknowledged that up to $13 million is missing, and Ohio's attorney general has accused him of stealing as much as $6 million. No charges have been filed in that case, though state officials say they plan to do so.
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Investigation: Bernadette Noe, Thomas Noe’s wife; chair Lucas County GOP; chair Lucas Co. Board of Elections
Disposition: Misuse of state funds
Investigation: Douglas Moormann, former high-ranking aide to Gov. Bob Taft
Disposition: charges for accepting a loan and free meals from GOP fund-raiser Tom Noe.
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Investigation: Cherie Carroll, Taft Chief of Staff Executive Secretary
Disposition: Convicted
Investigation: Lucas County Republican Party sued by former Democratic congressional candidate Ben Konop to 'freeze or return"recover $58,000 it received in loans from GOP fund-raiser Tom Noe that were not repaid.Alleging that taxpayers were the loans' ultimate source, Mr. Konop asked the court to impose a restraining order against the party until the case is resolved.
Disposition: Without listening to an argument from the defendants, Judge Charles Doneghy denied the request.The judge said there was lack of evidence to show the plaintiff would suffer irreparable damage if the restraining order wasn't granted.
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Investigation: Rep. Bob Ney
Disposition: Being probed for involvement with Abramoff, Kidan, and DeLay, Indian casino money laundering. Recipient of contributions from Abramoff and Kidan.
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Investigation: Rep. Jean Schmidt
Disposition: Probe of financial ties to Games, Inc., and proposal to put Ohio State Lottery on the Internet. Received contributions from. DeLay’s ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff
Investigation: Rep. Ralph Regula
Disposition: Recipient of contributions from Abramoff
Investigation: Brian Hicks, Taft chief of staff, member Ohio University Board of Trustees
Disposition: Convicted
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Investigated: Republican Congressman, Donald "Buz" Lukens
Disposition: was sentenced in 1996 to 30 months in prison for conspiracy and accepting bribes while in office.
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WATCH: Rep. Micael Oxley(R-OH) announced 11/1 that he would not run for re-election in 2006. Rep. Oxley Has $1.1 Million Cash-on-Hand
His campaign committee, Oxley For Congress, had $383,026 cash-on-hand as of 9/30. His PAC, Leadership PAC 2006 reported cash-on-hand of $723,384 as of 9/30. In 2005, he has so far given out a total of $254,000 to candidates and political committees ($121,000 from his PAC and $133,000 from his campaign committee). The NRCC received $125,000 of that.
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Ohio- Scandal, Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation Target: David Swartz (R-Richland County Commissioner)
Disposition: Swartz pleads guilty in court to felony sex charges involving a teenage, girl whose assault lasted 10 yrs. He faces up to 10 years in prison at an upcoming sentencing. 2nd investigation involving another child has not gone to trial, yet.
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Investigated: Republican Congressman, Donald "Buz" Lukens
Disposition: convicted of having sex with a minor in 1989.
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"Naked Photographer" Released From Jail
Investigation: Stephen Linnen is a former lawyer for the Ohio House Republican caucus
Disposition: ambushed women in the nude and took photos of their shocked expressions. He was sentenced last year to 18 months ordered Linnen not to possess any cameras, video equipment or record