: [Stop the Poisons] TEN MOST WANTED CORRUPT POLITICIANS FOR 2007

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At 09:34 AM 12/28/07, you wrote:

>“Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians†for 2007

>Posted by: " Fernwoods " Fernwoods fernwoods7

>Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:05 am (PST)

>

>Read why Hillary, Obama, Giuliani, and Huckabee made the list.

>

>Hillary and Obama also made the 2006 list:

>_http://www.judicialhttp://wwwhttp://www_

>(http://www.judicialwatch.org/6091.shtml)

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>Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt

>Politicians†for 2007

>

>Washington, DC ­Judicial Watch, the public interest group that inve and

>prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2007 list of

>Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.†The list, in

>alphabetical

>order, includes:

>

>1. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY): In addition to her long and

>sordid ethics record, Senator Hillary Clinton took a lot of heat in 2007 ­

>and

>rightly so ­ for blocking the release her official White House rec suspect

>these records contain a treasure trove of information related to her

>role in a number of serious Clinton-era scandals. Moreover, in March 2007,

>Judicial Watch filed an ethics complaint against Senator Clinton for filing

>false financial disclosure forms with the U.S. Senate (again). And

>Hillary’s

>top campaign contributor, Norman Hsu, was exposed as a felon and a fugitive

>from justice in 2007. Hsu pleaded guilt to one count of grand theft for

>defrauding investors as part of a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.

>

>2. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI): Conyers reportedly repeatedly violated the

>law and House ethics rules, forcing his staff to serve as his personal

>servants, babysitters, valets and campaign workers while on the government

>payroll.

>While the House Ethics Committee investigated these allegations in 2006, and

>substantiated a number of the accusations against Conyers, the committee

>blamed the staff and required additional administrative record-keeping and

>employee training. Judicial Watch obtained documentation in 2007 from a

>former

>Conyers staffer that sheds new light on the activities and conduct on the

>part

>of the Michigan congressman, which appear to be at a minimum inappropriate

>and

>likely unlawful. Judicial Watch called on the Attorney General in 2007 to

>investigate the matter.

>

>3. Senator Larry Craig (R-ID): In one of the most shocking scandals of

>2007, Senator Craig was caught by police attempting to solicit sex in a

>Minneapolis International Airport men’s bathroom during the summer.

>Senator Craig

>reportedly “sent signals†to a police officer in an adjacent stall

>that he

>wanted to engage in sexual activity. When the police officer showed Craig his

>police identification under the bathroom stall divider and pointed toward the

>exit, the senator reportedly exclaimed 'No!'†When asked to produce

>identification, Craig presented police his U.S. Senate business card and

>said, “What

>do you think of that?†The power play didn’t work. Craig was arrested,

>charged and entered a guilty plea. Despite enormous pressure from his

>Republican colleagues to resign from the Senate, Craig refused.

>

>4. Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA): As a member of the Senate

>Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on military construction,

>Feinstein reviewed

>military construction government contracts, some of which were ultimately

>awarded

>to URS Corporation and Perini, companies then owned by Feinstein's husband,

>Richard Blum. While the Pentagon ultimately awards military contracts, there

>is a reason for the review process. The Senate's subcommittee on Military

>Construction's approval carries weight. Sen. Feinstein, therefore, likely had

>influence over the decision making process. Senator Feinstein also

>attempted to

>undermine ethics reform in 2007, arguing in favor of a perk that allows

>members of Congress to book multiple airline flights and then cancel them

>without

>financial penalty. Judicial Watch’s investigation into this matter is

>ongoing.

>

>5. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY): Giuliani came under fire in

>late 2007 after it was discovered the former New York mayor’s office “

>billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security

>expenses

>amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship

>with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons…†ABC News Giuliani

>provided Nathan with a police vehicle and a city driver at taxpayer

>expense. All of this news came on the heels of the federal indictment on

>corruption charges of Giuliani’s former Police Chief and business partner

>Bernard Kerik, who pleaded guilty in 2006 to accepting a $165,000 bribe in

>the

>form of renovations to his Bronx apartment from a construction company

>attempting to land city contracts.

>

>6. Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR): Governor Huckabee enjoyed a meteoric

>rise in the polls in December 2007, which prompted a more thorough review

>of his

>ethics record. According to The Associated Press: “[Huckabee’s] career

>has also been colored by 14 ethics complaints and a volley of questions about

>his integrity, ranging from his management of campaign cash to his use of a

>nonprofit organization to subsidize his income to his destruction of state

>computer files on his way out of the governor’s office.†And what was

>Governor

>Huckabee’s response to these ethics allegations? Rather than cooperating

>with investigators, Huckabee sued the state ethics commission twice and

>attempted to shut the ethics process down.

>

>7. I. Lewis “Scooter†Libby: Libby, former Chief of Staff to Vice

>President Dick Cheney, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined

>$250,000 for

>lying and obstructing the Valerie Plame CIA leak investigation. Libby was

>found guilty of four felonies -- two counts of perjury, one count of making

>false statements to the FBI and one count of obstructing justice ­ crimes.

>Unfortunately, Libby was largely let off the hook. In an appalling

>lack of judgment, President Bush issued “Executive Clemency†to Libby and

>commuted the sentence.

>

>8. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL): A “Dishonorable Mention†last year,

>Senator Obama moves onto the “ten most wanted†list in 2007. In 2006,

>it was

>discovered that Obama was involved in a suspicious real estate deal with an

>indicted political fundraiser, Antoin “Tony†Rezko. In 2007, more reports

>surfaced of deeper and suspicious business and political connections It was

>reported that just two months after he joined the Senate, Obama purchased

>$50,000

>worth of stock in speculative companies whose major investors were his

>biggest campaign contributors. One of the companies was a biotech concern

>that

>benefited from legislation Obama pushed just two weeks after the senator

>purchased $5,000 of the company’s shares. Obama was also nabbed

>conducting campaign

>business in his Senate office, a violation of federal law.

>

>9. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who promised a

>new era of ethics enforcement in the House of Representatives, snuck a $25

>million gift to her husband, Paul Pelosi, in a $15 billion Water Resources

>Development Act recently passed by Congress. The pet project involved

>renovating

>ports in Speaker Pelosi's home base of San Francisco. Pelosi just happens to

>own apartment buildings near the areas targeted for improvement, and will

>almost certainly experience a significant boost in property value as a

>result of

>Pelosi's earmark. Earlier in the year, Pelosi found herself in hot water

>for demanding access to a luxury Air Force jet to ferry the Speaker and her

>entourage back and forth from San Francisco non-stop, in unprecedented

>request

>which was wisely rejected by the Pentagon. And under Pelosi’s

>leadership, the

>House ethics process remains essentially shut down ­ which protect in both

>parties from accountability.

>

>10. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV): Over the last few years, Reid has been

>embroiled in a series of scandals that cast serious doubt on his

>credibility as a

>self-professed champion of government ethics, and 2007 was no different.

>According to The Los Angeles Times, over the last four years, Reid has

>used his

>influence in Washington to help a developer, Havey Whittemore, clear

>obstacles for a profitable real estate deal. As the project advanced, the

>Times

>reported, “Reid received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign

>contributions

>from Whittemore.†Whittemore also hired one of Reid’s sons (Leif) as his

>personal lawyer and then promptly handed the junior Reid the

>responsibility of

>negotiating the real estate deal with federal officials. Leif Reid even

>called his father’s office to talk about how to obtain the proper EPA

>permits, a

>clear conflict of interest.

>

>Judicial Watch is a 501©(3) non-profit organization. Judicial Watch

>neither supports nor opposes candidates for public office. For more

>information,

>visit _www.judicialwatch.org_ (http://www.judicialwatch.org/) .

>

>2006 list here:

>_http://www.judicialhttp://wwwhttp://www_

>(http://www.judicialwatch.org/6091.shtml)

 

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