Abramoff-linked lobbyist resigns.
By on Apr 16th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Abramoff-linked lobbyist resigns.
Lobbyist Kevin Ring, a former aide to Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA), has resigned from his law firm. As Politico reports, Ring “often served as an intermediary between Abramoff’s clients and Doolittle’s office, according to news reports, and has remained close to Doolittle and his wife, Julie, who did consulting work for Abramoff. … Ring’s resignation could foreshadow deepening problems for Doolittle in the Abramoff inquiry.” TPM Muckraker has more.
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Clinton did it too.
April 16th, 2007 at 4:46 pmAnother one, sheesh, I am running out of hard drive space trying to keep track off all of the corruption.
April 16th, 2007 at 4:47 pmDeepening Doo-doo……… doo whop doo little dee dee…………
April 16th, 2007 at 4:47 pmCommissions taken on campaign cash
By Dean Calbreath
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
March 19, 2006
A week before former Rep. Randy “Duke†Cunningham was sentenced to prison, he stressed to the court that a number of other lawmakers also helped arrange federal funding for the defense contractors who bribed him. As a member of two key committees in the House, Rep. John Doolittle, R-Granite Bay, is well-positioned to help contractors gain funding through congressional earmarks.
None of the lawmakers Cunningham mentioned by name – Reps. Katherine Harris of Florida, Virgil Goode of Virginia and John Doolittle from the Sacramento suburb of Granite Bay – has been accused of criminal wrongdoing. But each has admitted assisting either Mitchell Wade or Brent Wilkes, co-conspirators in the Cunningham case, at a time when the two businessmen were giving them tens of thousands of dollars in political contributions.
And at least one of the lawmakers, Doolittle, received a direct monetary benefit from those contributions through commissions paid to his wife, Julie.
Acting as her husband’s campaign consultant, Julie Doolittle charged his campaign and his Superior California Political Action Committee a 15 percent commission on any contribution she helped bring in.
April 16th, 2007 at 4:55 pmwe’ve got Dora singin, Raven doo-whapin, did I miss a 4:20 break?
:)
April 16th, 2007 at 4:55 pmi might be movin to montana soon,
April 16th, 2007 at 5:00 pmgonna be a denil floss tycoon…
Dumm-dumm-dumm and another one bites the dust. Bet they thought firing Lam would slow this down. Is their hand-picked political hack prosecutor going to turn on them?
April 16th, 2007 at 5:15 pmSo? Abramoff did it too! -Jake
Why Jake I am surprised at you, An Idependent, and a servant of the Lord, such as yourself, does not care about corruption. How is this Jake? Would Jesus approve of this current culture of corruption by the ‘value voter’, Jesus lovong, moral majority?
April 16th, 2007 at 6:08 pmJesus, who ran the money lenders out of the temple……………..
April 16th, 2007 at 6:19 pmNorthern Marinas houses Tom DeLay’s slave labor camps and Bush stopped the investigation. Doolittle helped enable these despicable sweatshops. It’s time to reopen the investigation and put these bastards in prison.
April 16th, 2007 at 6:45 pmSlave labor, forced prostitution and forced abortions if there was a pregnancy. And a bunch of “pro-life” republicans made it all possible.
Henry Waxman! Come on down!
April 16th, 2007 at 7:12 pmI’m hoping we can get a lot more from Jack…
…and a lot sooner…
…this sombich ain’tbeen producin’…
…like i thoughthe would…
…who’s foolin’ who?
April 16th, 2007 at 9:44 pm