All the gripping and groping and tongue raping scandals, a veritable avalanche of perversion, coming out of Congress lately were beginning to make the Capitol look like a hot-sheet motel. Ugh!
Fortunately, courtesy of House member Bob Brady of Pennsylvania, we may be getting back to business as usual in the form of the kind of corruption members of Congress seem to love: bribery, wire fraud and obstruction.
Looks like the Department of Justice has Brady, a Keystone State Democrat, in its sights over a scheme to pay off a fellow Dem to encourage him to drop out of the 2012 primary election. Brady and associates are alleged to have cooked up a plan to send $90,000 his rival's way, and one of the cabal has already pleaded guilty to corruption:
"The F.B.I. is investigating whether Representative Robert A. Brady of Pennsylvania, the top Democrat on the House Administration Committee, illegally paid a political opponent $90,000 to drop out of a 2012 primary race, court documents show. …
According to the court papers, Mr. Moore, who is cooperating with the government, told law enforcement officials that he attended a meeting in February 2012 with Mr. Brady arranged by W. Wilson Goode Sr., the former mayor of Philadelphia. At that meeting, Mr. Moore said, Mr. Brady agreed to pay $90,000 toward Mr. Moore’s campaign debts, in exchange for Mr. Moore’s agreement to drop out of the race.
“In that conversation, Brady and Moore agreed and understood that the payment from Brady’s campaign to Moore’s campaign would be disguised, and the deception would include hiding at least some of the Bob Brady for Congress campaign funds as the purchase of the aforementioned poll,” the affidavit stated."
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“The investigation has uncovered evidence which indicates that Brady, Smukler and Jones utilized Smukler’s and D.A. Jones’ corporations to conceal payments from Brady’s campaign … for Moore to withdraw from the 2012 Democratic primary race,” FBI Special Agent Jonathan R. Szeliga wrote. …"
Man, these corruption-based political scandals seem almost quaint and old-fashioned these days, don't they? ;-)
U.S. Rep. Bob Brady's emails searched as FBI probe nears critical point
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
Fortunately, courtesy of House member Bob Brady of Pennsylvania, we may be getting back to business as usual in the form of the kind of corruption members of Congress seem to love: bribery, wire fraud and obstruction.
Looks like the Department of Justice has Brady, a Keystone State Democrat, in its sights over a scheme to pay off a fellow Dem to encourage him to drop out of the 2012 primary election. Brady and associates are alleged to have cooked up a plan to send $90,000 his rival's way, and one of the cabal has already pleaded guilty to corruption:
"The F.B.I. is investigating whether Representative Robert A. Brady of Pennsylvania, the top Democrat on the House Administration Committee, illegally paid a political opponent $90,000 to drop out of a 2012 primary race, court documents show. …
According to the court papers, Mr. Moore, who is cooperating with the government, told law enforcement officials that he attended a meeting in February 2012 with Mr. Brady arranged by W. Wilson Goode Sr., the former mayor of Philadelphia. At that meeting, Mr. Moore said, Mr. Brady agreed to pay $90,000 toward Mr. Moore’s campaign debts, in exchange for Mr. Moore’s agreement to drop out of the race.
“In that conversation, Brady and Moore agreed and understood that the payment from Brady’s campaign to Moore’s campaign would be disguised, and the deception would include hiding at least some of the Bob Brady for Congress campaign funds as the purchase of the aforementioned poll,” the affidavit stated."
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“The investigation has uncovered evidence which indicates that Brady, Smukler and Jones utilized Smukler’s and D.A. Jones’ corporations to conceal payments from Brady’s campaign … for Moore to withdraw from the 2012 Democratic primary race,” FBI Special Agent Jonathan R. Szeliga wrote. …"
Man, these corruption-based political scandals seem almost quaint and old-fashioned these days, don't they? ;-)
U.S. Rep. Bob Brady's emails searched as FBI probe nears critical point
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."