How About Adam Taft - Fraud Charges

[leftylady]

Republican, super guy, super straight up. Used his campaign funds to buy a house. It was about $300,000.

I don't understand the whole thing. He paid the money back to his campaign.

But that is a real no no.

And he was such an up and comer in Kansas. X-military pilot. The whole Republican thing.

I guess his plane kind of crashed.

[mod mom]

1. link?

[ochazuke]

3. See Kansas City local TV station web sites

kctv.com
kmbc.com
kshb.com

[ochazuke]

2. I think his name is spelled TAFF

Natural mistake to link "Republican" with "Taft", of course.

Just as natural to link it with "crook" and "liar".

[Judi Lynn]

4. The $300,000.00 was to be Taff's down-payment on a $1.2 million house

Ex-candidate Taff indicted over home loan


Thursday, August 18, 2005

A two-time Kansas congressional candidate has been charged with illegally using donated campaign money to help set up a fraudulent home mortgage.

A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted Adam Taff, a former Republican challenger to U.S. Dennis Moore in Kansas’ 3rd Congressional District, on one count of wire fraud and one count of using political donations for personal use.

The charges came as a shock to many, including Bill Lacy, director of Kansas University’s Dole Institute of Politics. Taff served as one of the Dole Institute’s first two “senior fellows” during the spring semester and led a study group titled “In the Crosshairs: Realities of Running a High-Profile U.S. Congressional Race.”

“Here’s a fellow that I think everyone presumed was squeaky clean, and one would hope that eventually it will come out that that is the truth,” Lacy said. “But he’s been charged with something that is obviously a serious crime, and it’s troubling.”

Both charges are related to the 40-year-old Taff’s purchase of a $1.2 million Lake Quivira home from a business associate starting in November 2003, as he was gearing up for a second congressional campaign.
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http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/aug/18/excandidate_taff_indicted_over_home_loan/?state_regional



Adam Taff's the guy on the left. Kansas Senator Sam Brownback (complete ass) is in the middle.



He was a biggie for the Kansas Republicans, and looked like someone they would finally get elected. A former Navy fighter pilot, a former United Airlines pilot, he appeared to be on his way up for a couple of campaigns.

[lateo]

5. It would be nice if...

we could make other corruption charges stick on Republicans. Time and again we see them do crap like this.