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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: tombogan03884 on January 19, 2013, 08:53:17 AM
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Ever wonder what happened with the federal funds for hurricane Katrina ?
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2013/01/19/former-new-orleans-mayor-nagin-indicted/?subscriber=1
UPI - A federal grand jury has indicted former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on bribery, conspiracy and money laundering charges.
The indictment charges Nagin -- a Democrat who was mayor when Hurricane Katrina struck the gulf region in 2005 -- with 21 counts, including six counts of bribery, one count of conspiracy, one count of money laundering, nine counts of deprivation of honest services through wire fraud and four counts of filing false tax returns.
The indictment alleges Nagin took bribes and accepted gifts from contractors while he was in office.
Frank Fradella and Rodney Williams -- who have pleaded guilty to bribing Nagin to get city contracts -- are expected to testify against the former mayor if the case comes to trial, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported Friday.
Fradella operated Home Solutions of America, described in Securities and Exchange Commission documents as a hurricane restoration company based in Dallas and New Orleans.
Williams is a former president of Three Fold Consultants LLC, which collected more than $3 million from New Orleans on no-bid contracts during Nagin's tenure as mayor, the newspaper said.
Nagin, who left office in 2010 after serving two terms, currently lives in Dallas.
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Wasn't Nagin the same coward that pretty much abandoned his duties and city during a time of disaster & used resources meant for SAR operations to load up and save his a_ s and personal household stuff, move it out of harms way including either a box or refrigerator freezer full of money? Anyway he's the epitome POS. I hope he gets the book thrown at him and rots in the La. humidity & sun.
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No, it was a State Rep or Congressman who had the National Guard get him to his house so he could rescue $900,000 in bribe money from his freezer.
Ray Nogun was the guy who refused trains and buses to evacuate the city, ordered the confiscation of privately owned guns, most of which vanished, then bragged about N.O. being a "Chocolate City".
He's the guy who pushed to let illegal aliens work on Govt funded recovery projects because the locals were to lazy to do anything but sit on their azzes and blame Bush.
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You are right about the coward stuff....he hauled it to the Dallas area when the going got tough.
Lame SOB that he is.
The Chief Of Police was on video at Sewell Cadillac with audio at the time the caddies were "appropriated for official use"....problem is after three days the Chief thought all the city's security camera's batteries were run out and did not hear the small generator on top of the roof. So there was video and audio of what he really said.
Wish that would get unlocked for the public to hear.
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And another-
http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/state/former-ohio-lawmaker-rep-clayton-luckie-gets-3-years-in-prison-for-grand-theft-other-felonies
I would be racist if I said it had something to do with his cultural background.
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And another-
http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/state/former-ohio-lawmaker-rep-clayton-luckie-gets-3-years-in-prison-for-grand-theft-other-felonies
I would be racist if I said it had something to do with his cultural background.
Are you intimating his criminal behavior might have something to do with his being chocolate?
But, I used to like chocolate. Now you've ruined it for me.
Seriously, I don't think you can be raised in New Orleans and not know how to lie, cheat and steal. It's the very fabric of the city.
So, is Nogun the product of his environment?
Yes, to a large degree.
The remainder of his personality is the result of his being a lying, cheating, stealing azzhole. Just like his cousin in the WH.
Crusader
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http://www.gopusa.com/news/2013/01/30/fbi-raid-forces-media-to-cover-democrat-senators-scandal/?subscriber=1
FBI raid shines light on Democrat senator's scandal
FBI agents late Tuesday night raided the West Palm Beach business of an eye doctor suspected of providing free trips and even underage Dominican Republic prostitutes to U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J. -- who has denied what he calls the "fallacious allegations."
Agents gathered at the medical-office complex of Dr. Salomon Melgen, a contributor to Menendez and other prominent politicians, to start hauling away potential evidence in several vans.
The investigation is believed to be focusing on Melgen's finances and the allegations about Menendez's trips and contact with prostitutes. A spokesman for Menendez could not be reached for comment, nor could Melgen.
Melgen has an outstanding IRS lien of $11.1 million for taxes owed from 2006 to 2009, according to records filed with the Palm Beach County recorder's office. A previous IRS lien for $6.2 million was released in 2011.
Despite those financial problems, Melgen and his family have contributed at least $357,000 to candidates and committees since 1998, according to Florida and federal campaign records. Of that, the Melgens have contributed about 9 percent to Menendez's federal campaigns.
Melgen also owns a private CL-600 Challenger plane through one of his West Palm Beach-based companies, and frequently flies between South Florida and Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic, where he is from.
Menendez has flown on the plane at least once, his office has said, when he was chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from 2009 to 2011, when the Melgens contributed about $60,400 to the group. A spokeswoman had previously said that Menendez and Melgen are longtime friends and said the senator did nothing improper.
Melgen was first linked to Menendez just before the November elections, when the conservative Daily Caller website interviewed two alleged prostitutes who said they had relations with the New Jersey Democrat at Melgen's Dominican Republic mansion in Casa de Campo.
After the election, the news died down.
But then, days before Menendez was about to start leading the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as chairman, reporters started receiving a 58-page dossier of e-mails between a Miami FBI agent and a tipster who claimed that some of the prostitutes had been underage.
"I'm not going to respond to the fallacious allegations of your story," Menendez told the Daily Caller on Monday when a reporter caught up with him on a train in Washington.
At the time, Menendez had just stepped into the national spotlight along with Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and six other senators who are hammering out a highly watched immigration plan that is the talk of Washington.
Rubio is one of the few big-name Florida politicians who has not received campaign money from the Melgens, who have contributed to Sen. Bill Nelson and Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Joe Garcia, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart, among others.
The FBI would not comment on the e-mails, and the agent, Regino Chavez, did not return calls or e-mails. But sources familiar with the investigation told The Miami Herald that the e-mails are real.
The e-mails from agent Chavez show that he tried to find out what happened. But the tipster, who went by the name "Peter Williams," refused to talk to him by telephone or meet him face to face.
Chavez contacted the tipster Aug.1, 2012, after the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington referred the case to the FBI. The tipster would not meet or speak by phone to CREW or to an investigative reporter, either.
"As far as the information you have provided, we have been unable to confirm most of it," Chavez wrote on Sept. 12. "We know that you are providing accurate information."
But it is not clear what that specific information is because Chavez was unable to interview the alleged prostitutes. Over the months, Chavez tried to meet or speak with the tipster, but had no luck.
Then, on Nov. 1, the agent wrote the tipster again and drew attention to the Daily Caller interview with the alleged prostitutes.
"I think we are at the point where you and I need to communicate over the phone so that we can move faster," he wrote.
No luck.
Amid the suspicious circumstances of the complaints, Democrats have tried to characterize the reports about Menendez and Melgen as a right-wing smear job.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid refused to comment on the possibility of an FBI investigation when he was asked Tuesday about the case.
Said Reid: "Always consider the source. All anyone here has to look at is the source where this comes from."
Tuesday night's raid, however, shows that there is at least an investigation tied to Menendez's longtime friend and ally.
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(Staff writer Luisa Yanez contributed to this report.)
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(c)2013 The Miami Herald
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The Menendez thing is going to get big....
But it won't make any MSM coverage, until he's indicted, (or pardoned by BHO)......
They were just underage Dominican prostitutes,.... and a connection to a corrupt Lib drug front company making campaign donations,......where's Slick Willy?
The FBI is involved,....should work out well.
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The Menendez thing is going to get big....
But it won't make any MSM coverage, until he's indicted, (or pardoned by BHO)......
They were just underage Dominican prostitutes,.... and a connection to a corrupt Lib drug front company making campaign donations,......where's Slick Willy?
The FBI is involved,....should work out well.
The FBI got the phone number and address of the underage hooker and have passed it to the Secret Service for further action.
It is assumed they will investigate her in depth.