More Republican ethics: Giuliani enlists Swift Boat Liars' contributor Boone Pickens

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Posted: Friday, 17 November 2006 1:46PM

Boone Pickens, Bush Donors Contributing to Giuliani Fundraising Effort

NEW YORK (AP) -- Republican Rudy Giuliani has assembled a group of high-powered business executives, including billionaire Texas oil mogul T. Boone Pickens, to raise money as the former New York mayor weighs a full-blown presidential bid.

Giuliani headlined a meeting of the finance committee in New York Wednesday. The group will be chaired by Roy Bailey, a former finance chairman for the Texas Republican Party and a founding member of Giuliani Partners, the former mayor's consulting firm.

"It's a group of very committed people who hope the mayor's exploratory committee leads to other things,'' Bailey said in an interview.

Among the most notable members of the group is Pickens, a longtime contributor to President Bush and other Republican candidates. In 2004, Pickens donated more than $4 million to GOP causes, including $3 million to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group that made unsubstantiated allegations about Democratic Sen. John Kerry's military record.

Other members of Giuliani's finance committee include Barry Wynn, former chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party and the finance chair of Bush's re-election campaign. The South Carolina primary is a key early contest in the presidential nominating process.

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Billionaire's son charged with burglary

June 16, 2006

CORNWALL, Conn. --A Texas man charged with burglary whom police say they found groggy and hiding under a table in a fly fishing shop last weekend has been identified as the son of billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens.

Pickens’s Son Guilty

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 31, 2006

Michael O. Pickens, the son of the oil tycoon Boone Pickens, pleaded guilty yesterday to three counts of securities fraud.

The younger Mr. Pickens, 52, of Nocona, Tex., entered the plea in United States District Court in Manhattan after signing an agreement calling for a prison sentence of up to 5 years and 11 months. Sentencing was scheduled for Jan. 30.

Mr. Pickens was arrested July 18, 2005, and accused of sending hundreds of thousands of fraudulent faxes to induce investors to buy three stocks.

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1. Surpised Giuliani would want this publicized?!!!

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2. Is this the same T. Boone Pickens that supports Schwarzenegger in order to get...

his LNG ports built in California so he and his boys can start ripping off South American natural gas for pennies on the dollar and sell to American consumers for top dollars? Yep, that's the republican energy plan in action for 'ya.

[karynnj]

3. Guilliani is slime

but this is better than it has been:

"including $3 million to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group that made unsubstantiated allegations about Democratic Sen. John Kerry's military record."