STATE BY STATE GOP SCANDAL SCORECARD (12/01/05)

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STATE BY STATE GOP SCANDAL SCORECARD (12/01/05)

Your Weekly 'Republican Corruption and Scandal' Update
(See *Notes* below about use)
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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"
http://www.washblade.com/2005/2-25/news/legislative/
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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

Investigation: State Rep. David Burnell Smith. The Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission ordered Smith to resign after concluding that he violated spending limits in the 2004 primary election he agreed to in order to receive public campaign money under the Clean Elections Law.
Disposition:

Smith contends that he made accounting mistakes and overpaid a political consultant, but did not violate the law.
http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special12/articles/0414nesmith14.html
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=52927

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. http://www.arkansasleader.com/2005/10/editorial-good-words-for-criminals.html
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Arizona
Investigation: Rep. J. D. Hayworth
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.

Investigation: Jan Brewer, Arizona Secretary of State.
Disposition: William (Bill) Risner, Esq. on behalf of Tom Ryan, Ph.D, of Arizona Citizens for Fair Elections, is suing the Secretary of State, Jan Brewer because of her failure to set standards to decertify faulty voting machines in AZ. Brewer is scheduled to appear in Pima County Superior Court in Tucson on Tuesday morning (tentative) to explain why she has not complied with Arizona law that requires adoption of voting system decertification standards.
http://www.azfairelections.org/statewide%20brewer%20court.htm
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=250&Itemid=30

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.
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Evan_Mecham
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050624/NEWS24/50624002

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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fife_Symington_III
http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sword-szymczak.html#RI91AA6OL

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.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102204U.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071405B.shtml
http://www.alternet.org/election04/20194/

Investigation: Scottsdale Rep. David Burnell Smith (R) 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.
http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special12/articles/0414nesmith14.html
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=52927
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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: Pleaded Guilty on charges of conspiracy to commit $2.4 million in bribery charges and fraud, and tax evasion
Cunningham, who could get up to 10 years in prison will be sentenced on Feb. 27 2006.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office will have 14 days to set a date for an election, which must take place within 120 days, to replace Cunningham. Cunningham was allowed to remain free while he awaits sentencing. He also agreed to forfeit his mansion, more than $1.8 million in cash, and antiques and rugs.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5752293.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CONGRESSMANS_HOUSE?SITE=PASTR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Contractors who exchanged Cunningham contributions for defense contracts: "NO BID RIGGING"
--Mitchell Wade, who was the former president of MZM Inc., a Washington, D.C., company that does classified intelligence work for the military.
--Brent Wilkes, an associate of Wade's who headed a defense contracting company called ADCS Inc.
--Thomas Kontogiannis, a New York developer. Cunningham wrote to prosecutors in 2000 on Kontogiannis' behalf when the developer was under investigation in a bribery and kickback scheme involving school computer contracts. Kontogiannis ultimately pleaded guilty to fraud.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-11-08-pentagon-spending_x.htm

Investigation: Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham
Disposition: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has written a letter to Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL), asking for a bipartisan committee with experience in national security to investigate Cunningham's recent admissions of guilt in a criminal case plea bargain AND Pelosi asks that the committee determine whether or not Cunningham compromised national security or misused classified information in aiding the contractors.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/House_Dems_seek_Cunningham_inquiry_1130.html

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.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=753

Investigation: Rep. John Doolittle
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.

Investigation: Rep. Ed Royce
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff.

Investigation: Roland E. Arnall (CA), Bush Picks Ameriquest Owner as Ambassador-Firm's Lending Tactics Investigated
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/28/AR2005072801842.html

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.
http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/leung.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54571-2005Jan6.html

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.
http://www.cicentre.com/Documents/DOC_Smith_James_J_Case.htm
http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/smith.html
http://www.newsgd.com/news/World1/200507190030.htm

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.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rohrbacher4nov04,0,3476995.story?page=2&coll=la-home-headlines

Hypocrite: US Congressman David Dreier
Exposed: closeted homosexual Republican who oppose civil rights for gay people.
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/44/news-ireland.php

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.
http://www.sacbee.com/static/live/news/calreport/N2001-11-22-2300-0.html

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.
http://www.armchairsubversive.com/Nicholas_Elizondo.htm

Investigation: Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline
Disposition: placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00914F93A550C718CDDAA0894DA404482

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
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aBiarD4WDkww&refer=us

Investigation: Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO), is a second term Member of Congress, representing the 4th district of Colorado. Rep. Musgrave's ethical improprieties involve the misuse of official resources for political campaign activity and from abuse of franking privileges.
Disposition: Federal law prohibits Members of Congress from soliciting contributions in a manner that directs contributors to mail or deliver a contribution to "any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties . . ." Violations of this section are subject to fines and up to three years of imprisonment.
Received $30,000 contributions Received contributions from DeLay’s ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff which she refuses to return until Delay is found guilty.
http://www.beyonddelay.org/summaries/musgrave.php
http://www.issues2000.org/House/Marilyn_Musgrave.htm
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051004/NEWS01/510040318/1002

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.
http://www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/tv/stories/wfaa050916_am_constable.63c90142.html

Investigation: Larry Jack Schwarz, Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative.
Disposition: fired after child pornography was found in his possession
http://www.armchairsubversive.com/schwarz.htm

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. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/1130885/detail.html
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Connecticut
Investigation: Gov. John Rowland
Disposition: Convicted, racketeering enterprise, imprisoned 2004

Investigation: Peter N. Ellef, Mr. Rowland's co-chief of staff.
Disposition: pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bribery
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/nyregion/26plea.html

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
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/nyregion/26plea.html

Investigation: Rep. Rob Simmons
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff

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.
http://www.armchairsubversive.com/Giordano.htm

Investigation: Larry Giordano (R- former Mayor of Waterbury)
Disposition: Sexually abused 2 girls.
http://www.armchairsubversive.com/Giordano.htm

Investigation: Republican legislator Peter Dibble
Disposition: pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=1913548
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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!
Windows media: http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=ME&showDate=03-Nov-2005&segNum=3&NPRMediaPref=WM&getAd=1
Realplayer: http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=ME&showDate=03-Nov-2005&segNum=3&NPRMediaPref=RM&getAd=1
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWE,RNWE:2005-03,RNWE:en&q=Dick+Cheney+and+Halliburton
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/24/cheney.leahy/
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040112/ireland
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0403-10.htm
Cheney's rap sheet is just too extensive to add to this list. I hope to put him in his own catagory soon ;)

Investigation: Adam Kidan, DC Dial-a-Mattress franchise in DC and Abramoff associate
Disposition: Indicted, wire fraud, conspiracy
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12795752.htm

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.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2004/11/10_400.html

Investigation: Italia Federicie, current chief of Council of Republican Environmental Activists (CREA),
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.
Ms. Federicie received $250,000 from Tribal/Abramoff contributions.
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_20175.shtml
http://indian.senate.gov/

Investigation: Michael Rosetti, former Interior Department Counsel, appeared in front of Senate Panel Ambramoff Investigation.
Disposition: Questioned by Senate Panel, rejected testimony made by J. Steven Giles
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-abramoff3nov03,0,7870424.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines

Investigation: J. Steven Griles, a former deputy Interior secretary, appeared in front of Senate Panel Ambramoff Investigation
Disposition: possible perjury charges in the making....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.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-abramoff3nov03,0,7870424.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines

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.
http://www.guilfordian.com/media/paper281/news/2005/11/11/World/Libby.Indicted.For.Involvement.In.Cia.Leak-1055204.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.guilfordian.com
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9837835/

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.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/july-dec05/wilk_11-4.html
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3128addington_memo.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9917435/
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Vice_President_Dick_Cheneys_chief_of_1028.html

Investigation: Karl Rove, White House Deputy Chief of Staff
Disposition: Continued investigation by Grand Jury. Probed for illegal disclosure of CIA classified information.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9837835/
Sixteen former CIA and military intelligence officials on Tuesday urged President Bush to suspend his top political adviser Karl Rove's security clearance following revelations that he played a role in outing CIA officer Valerie Plame.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/13175855.htm

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. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5329154,00.html

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.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Second_Cheney_aide_cooperating_in_leak_1019.html

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.
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/BilderbergExposed.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D10F73A550C728EDDAA0894DB404482
Bio: http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Richard_Perle

Senate Panel Investigation of Abramoff
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
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-abramoff3nov03,0,7870424.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines

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.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-abramoff3nov03,0,7870424.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=J._Steven_Griles

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.
http://www.csmonitor.com/200Investigation: 5/1114/p03s03-uspo.html

Investigation: David Wurmser, a second Cheney aide,
Disposition: 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.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Second_Cheney_aide_cooperating_in_leak_1019.html

Investigation: Philip H. Bloom
Disposition: Indicted.
- unlawfully received cash and goods" from Bloom, according to the complaint.
- ran several companies in Iraq and Romania, including one called GBG Logistics
- paying officials from the coalition’s south-central region "bribes, kickbacks and gratuities, amounting to at least $200,000 per month," in order to obtain reconstruction contracts through a bid-rigging scam.
- "conspired with United States government contract employees and military officials to obtain fraudulently government contracts."
This is suppose to be Halliburton and others, facing their own Abramoff' ring leader. Keep an eye on this, folks. It's the corporations, remember that.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10074995
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=aBjCi0sn8wtE&refer=home
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10C13FA355A0C7A8DDDA80994DD404482
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/18/iraq.whistleblower/index.html

Investigation????: Michael Brown, former Director of FEMA.
Disposition: LIED on his resume. LIED repeatedly under oath to the House investigative panel.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/27/AR2005092700709.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/10/21/MNG3OFC26S1.DTL

Hypocrite: Bernard Bailey Kerik, NYPD law-enforcement officer. Kerik was Police Commissioner of the City of New York (2000-2001). In December 2004, George W. Bush nominated Kerik as Secretary of Homeland Security.
Exposed: A week later, Kerik withdrew his acceptance, explaining that he had employed an illegal immigrant as a nanny; subsequently, numerous allegations of extramarital affairs and past conflicts of interest surfaced, which would have led to a difficult confirmation battle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Kerik

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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Crawford
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/25/AR2005102501544.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9533793/
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=31466

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.
See This VIDEO http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld.html
Source Links:
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWVexclusive/exclusive15.htm]http://www.newswithviews.com/NWVexclusive/exclusive15.htm
http://www.newswithviews.com/BreakingNews/breaking25.htm]http://www.newswithviews.com/BreakingNews/breaking25.htm
http://www.lawresearchgroup.com/article.php?story=20040919174404971]http://www.lawresearchgroup.com/article.php?story=20040919174404971
http://www.mercola.com/article/aspartame/fraud.htm]http://www.mercola.com/article/aspartame/fraud.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6936203]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6936203

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.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/archivedStory.asp?archive=true&dist=ArchiveSplash&siteid=mktw&guid=%7B47786982%2D7FD2%2D4B02%2D884E%2D597A42CCAECF%7D&returnURL=%2Fnews%2Fstory%2Easp%3Fguid%3D%7B47786982%2D7FD2%2D4B02%2D884E%2D597A42CCAECF%7D%26siteid%3Dmktw%26dist%3D%26archive%3Dtrue%26param%3Darchive%26garden%3D%26minisite%3D
http://salon.glenrose.net/rfv.asp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/11/AR2005071101671.html

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.
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/usa/oliver-north/
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/volii.html
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/121304.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/october96/crack_contra_11-1.html

Robert Earl (DC)-Chief of Staff to Acting Deputy Defense Secy Gordon England.
"Iran-Contra Figure Lands Key Pentagon Position"
http://salon.glenrose.net/rfv.asp
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/12/1411204&mode=thread&tid=25

Investigation: Ted E. Schelenski (DC)-Heritage Foundation- VP for Finance and Operations
Disposition: Convergence of Driver, Bicyclist Ends in Arrest
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070101881.html

Investigation: Roland E. Arnall, Bush appointed Ambassador to the Netherlands
Disposition: Arnall's company, Ameriquest Mortgage Co., is being investigated by regulators in 30 states. A $325 million settlement would be one of the largest ever in a predatory lending case.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/28/AR2005072801842.html

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.
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1809

Washington DC - Scandal, 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. http://mediastudy.com/articles/av5-26-05.html

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. http://mediastudy.com/articles/av5-26-05.html

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. http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/larry_flynt_bolton_511

History of Washington DC Pedophilia - http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/conspiracyofsilence2.wmv Video
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/1570946.php Bush Sr White House Scandal 1989

Investigation: Donald Rumsfeld (R-Defense Secretary)
Disposition: authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate
Report 1:

Full Reporthttp://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/abughraib/151108.pdf

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.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/regulation/2002-11-05-pitt-resigns_x.htm
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1069/5696184.html
http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/01/top10_2001_18.html

Hypocrite: W David Hager (KY)- Dr. W.David Hager was a presidential appointee to the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs in the Food and Drug Administration evangelical Christian who preaches propaganda about "Family Values". He proudly claimed: "God called me to stand in the gap, not only for others, but regarding ethical and moral isues in our country. His berserk fundamentalism manifested itself as staunch opposition to abortion, contracption and pre-marital sex; he is primarily responsible for denying the American public access to the Plan B 'morning after' pill.
Exposed: In his personal life, this so-called "Godly man" was going home at night after a hard day of compromising women's rights at work and SODOMIZING his narcoleptic wife while she was unconscious. This is egregious and deviant marital rape. His dedicatedly Christian wife divorced him in 2002 when it became too much to bear.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050530/mcgarvey
http://salon.glenrose.net/rfv.asp
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/35/11093

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.
http://www.gvny.com/columns/nichols/nichols10-13-00.html

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.'
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2000_Nov_21/ai_67185633
http://www.gvny.com/columns/nichols/nichols10-13-00.html
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Florida
Investigation: Jack Abramoff, GOP lobbyist
Disposition: Indicted, wire fraud, conspiracy, with possible mob connections to murder
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/11/AR2005081101108.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1114/p03s03-uspo.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/27/AR2005092700980_pf.html
http://www.madcowprod.com/10272005.html
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2005/09/30/GOP_corruption/index_np.html
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13117499.htm
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cboulis24nov24,0,4325764.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

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.
http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/10/politics/10lobby.html&OQ=hpQ26exQ3D1131598800Q26enQ3Dc143a0d022b49971Q26eiQ3D5094Q26partnerQ3Dhomepage&OP=7ef61eacQ2FBqQ7DQ25BQ23gQ51oOggtuBu44Q26BzzBz4B!g2itiQ51oBz42gQ25Q25yfQ5Bt,2

Investigation: Michael Scanlon, former chief of staff to Tom DeLay
Disposition: Pleads Guilty for involvement in Indian casino scandal with Abramoff, Kidan, and DeLay
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/13237901.htm
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70D10F8355A0C7A8DDDA80994DD404482
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/21/AR2005112100719.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002638657_abramoff18.html

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.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/01/11/politics/main263337.shtml

Investigation: Rep Katherine Harris, US Senate candidate
Disposition: Probed for campaign donations from MZM, Inc. (related to Duke Cunningham probe)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20050621-2202-cnsmzm.htm

Investigation: US 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.
VIDEO of Hearing: http://www.iwilltryit.com/fixed1.htm
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.
http://www.sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id=3674

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.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12907989.htm

Investigation: Rep. Ric Keller
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff

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.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/news/limbaugh/120503_limbaugh.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/12/22/limbaugh.hearing/
http://biz.yahoo.com/law/050929/9ea2aa07599d179eafca9738389fb210.html?.v=1

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."
http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html
http://blogs.salon.com/0002551/2003/12/09.html

Investigation: Miami City Commissioner Arthur Teele
Disposition: indicted on 26 counts of fraud and money laundering (suicide)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12241082.htm

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.
http://www.sptimes.com/News/022400/TampaBay/Campaign_donations_le.shtml

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. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32554-2005Apr6.html

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. The NRCC then awarded Mark Grethen, a Virginia businessman, who couldnt show up for his awards dinner because he was serving time for multiple sex crimes against children.
http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives-2005/coverstoryvol14ed36.shtml
http://redmorals.com/

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."
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/09/24/State/State_suspects_vouche.shtml
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/state/epaper/2005/11/09/a14a_silver_1109.html

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.
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/pp2/portal/files/portal/webzine/eyeonextremism/eoe-050405-prison.xml
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/12/Columns/Preaching_life_while_.shtml

Investigation: John Allen Burt, Republican anti-abortion activist,
Disposition: convicted of sexually molesting a 15 year old girl at the home for troubled girls that he ran.
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=7849
Story found in the 'Pensacola News Journal'.

Investigation: Howard Scott Heldreth, a Republican anti-abortion activist.
Disposition: convicted child rapist in Florida.
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGB16Y1NV6E.html

Investigation: Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty")
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: Robin Williams, Former Republican state representative.
Disposition: conspiring to steal more than $2 million from an east Georgia mental health agency. Began serving a 10-year sentence on November 12, 2005.
http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?ID=67540
http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?ID=67639

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 http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/gan/press/12-21-04.html

Investigation: Linda Schrenko, Georgia School Superintendent
Disposition: indicted on federal charges of stealing taxpayer money
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/1104/10schrenkotime.html
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/1104/11schrenko.html
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/1104/12schrenko.html http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/04/11/edi04086.html

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.
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=64813

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.
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/local/12788935.htm
Bill is being proposed during 2006 Election ending legislative immunity:
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/politics/13285687.htm

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.
http://www.americanpolitics.com/012699Barr.html

Hypocrite: Newt Gingrich, married three times. 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.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/11/24/gingrich/print.html

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 - http://mail.oldamericancentury.org/fundie_mule_porker%20May%209-01.mp3
http://mediastudy.com/articles/av5-26-05.html, ArtNews
Fox News, Alan Colmes Show Interview
http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2002/06/21/abortion/index_np.html
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=136
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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: plead guilty to federal charges related to his campaign. To Spend 3 Months In Prison, 3 Months At Homeand must also pay a $10,000 fine.
http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/news/4755759/detail.html
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?7f11677d-c284-4e19-9d66-c3887af78493
http://khon.com/khon/displayStory.cfm?storyID=8621

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.
http://starbulletin.com/2000/07/20/news/briefs.html

Investigation: Rep. Galen Fox, R-Waikiki, will step down from his position in the Hawaii State House on Dec. 1, 2005, after being
Disposition: convicted Oct. 20, 2005, of a misdemeanor sexual offense in a Los Angeles federal court, reportedly for fondling a 27-year-old female passenger.
http://kgmb9.com/kgmb/display.cfm?storyID=6296
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?7f11677d-c284-4e19-9d66-c3887af78493

Investigation: Rep. Brian Blundell, R-Maui, was 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.
Disposition:
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?7f11677d-c284-4e19-9d66-c3887af78493
http://shaking-the-tree.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/11/2/4036/97672
http://starbulletin.com/2005/11/03/news/story03.html
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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.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/ryan/cst-nws-ryan18.html
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/102605/REG_B7UQLF96.050.shtml

See "Operation Safe Road" Scandal where 66 Defendants (and "Ryan's Kitchen Cabinet")have been indicted.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osr/osrcasesummary.pdf http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=3569192
http://www.suntimes.com/output/ryan/cst-nws-ryan22.html
http://www.ipsn.org/ryan_george/indictment_targets_ryan_fund.htm
http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/68609.asp http://www.lincolncourier.com/news/05/10/12/d.asp

Investigation: Larry Warner, lobbyist, co-defendent with Gov Ryan's trial. 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. Prosecutors say Warner reaped $3 million in business under Ryan. In return, prosecutors charge, Warner financed gifts, loans, cash and vacations for Ryan.
Disposition: charged in a 22-count indictment, trial in process.

Investigation: Scott Fawell, Gov.Ryan's top aide
Disposition: convicted of racketeering, theft of Govt funds, conspiracy to obstruct justice, perjury, 2 mail fraud counts, and 3 counts of filing false tax returns. He is serving a 6 1/2-year sentence at a Yankton, S.D., prison camp. Fawell later agreed to help the government at the request of his indicted fiancee, Andrea Coutretsis.
http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/69631.asp
http://www.ipsn.org/ryan_george/indictment_targets_ryan_fund.htm
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/102605/REG_B7UQLF96.050.shtml
http://www.lincolncourier.com/news/05/10/12/d.asp http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/georyan12.html

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. http://www.lincolncourier.com/news/05/10/12/d.asp
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/102605/REG_B7UQLF96.050.shtml

Investigation: Richard Juliano, ran President Bush's Illinois campaign
Disposition: indicted in the licenses-for-bribes scandal. Pleaded guilty to Mail Fraud.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osr/osrcasesummary.pdf
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/indict/2002/fawell_et_al.pdf
http://www.ipsn.org/ryan_george/indictment_targets_ryan_fund.htm

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 State Rep. Lee A. Daniels, when Daniels served as House Republican Leader and Minority Leader in the state House of Representatives -
Disposition: Indicted for diverting state employees to campaign work
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/pr/chicago/2005/pr0519_01.pdf

Illinois - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Republican Congressman, Dan Crane(R-IL), Married, fathher, had sex with a minor congressional page.
http://archive.salon.com/col/cona/1998/10/05cona.html
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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. http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050923/NEWS02/509230507

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.
http://www.russbaker.com/Salon%20Newsreal%20-%20Portrait%20of%20a%20political%20pit%20bull.htm

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.
NYTIMES(AP) http://www.nospank.net/n-f83.htm
http://www.armchairsubversive.com/kimmerling.htm

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.
http://www.armchairsubversive.com/Mark_Harris4.htm
http://www.armchairsubversive.com/
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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 and $1000 from the "Friends of Duke Cunningham". Nussle has refused to return any of these funds.
http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2005/09/29/news/state/doc433b63fdf2f13496976908.txt
http://www.crgazette.com/2005/11/29/Home/News/nussle1.htm
http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4179838&nav=2HAB

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.
http://www.kcci.com/news/3976822/detail.html
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bgoodsel/post911/2004/12/republican-family-values.htm
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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.
http://www.kcactive.com/comment/pubnote/pubnote2004_07_28.htm
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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
http://salon.glenrose.net/rfv.asp
http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050707/NEWS01/507070359
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/state/12952841.htm

Investigation: Transportation Commissioner Dan Druen
Disposition: Merit system scandal, witness tampering. Indicted.
http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=3613285&nav=0RZEcJZV

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.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/sports/horse_racing/kentucky_derby/12993197.htm

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.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/sports/horse_racing/kentucky_derby/12993197.htm

Kentucky - Sexual Assault, Child Pornography
Investigation: Bobby Stumbo, Former Floyd County republican leader
Disposition: Charged with sexually abusing a five year old boy
http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=3943230&nav=4CAL

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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.
http://www.courttv.com/archive/casefiles/clintoncrisis/121998_livingston.html
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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.
http://boothbayregister.maine.com/1999-04-15/barter_pleads_guilty.html

Investigation: Republican Senate candidate, John Hathaway, was accused of having sex with his 12-year old sitter.
http://www.armchairsubversive.com/hathaway1.htm
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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 (R)
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff and his wife, who live in Maryland, donated $16,000 to Ehrlich's 2002 campaign, according to state records.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/10/AR2005111001903.html

Investigation: Maryland Republican Party,
Disposition: Received $7,750 in contributions from Abramoff, according to state records.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/10/AR2005111001903.html
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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).

Investigation: Mayor Richard R. Goyette(R),
Disposition: indicted Nov. 17 2005 by a federal grand jury on two counts of extorting cash bribes from two local businessmen, pleaded innocent to those charges Nov. 22 in U.S. District Court. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has said it has audio and video tapes of the mayor accepting the cash.
http://www.masslive.com/chicopeeholyoke/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1133271763285100.xml&coll=1
http://www.masslive.com/chicopeeholyoke/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1133426836137010.xml&coll=1

Hypocrite: Arthur 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.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/299104p-255983c.html
http://salon.glenrose.net/rfv.asp
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=99&contentid=2072
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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.
http://www.detnews.com/2005/macomb/0509/28/B04-328357.htm
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Minnesota
Investigation: Rep. Gil Gutknecht
Disposition: Received contributions from Abramoff

Investigation: Ron Eibensteiner,