Posted on 06/03/2013 8:43:08 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Because he posed a threat to Dick Durbin’s US Senate election in 1996, Illinois Republican Al Salvi was threatened by a United States government official. That official was Lois Lerner and she was using her position as a representative of the Federal Election Commission. In the course of her FEC inquisition of Salvi for alleged election law violations, Lerner made a statement that amounts to extortion.
Following the Chicago way, Durbin made a series of FEC complaints against Salvi and Lerner took the point in handling his case. According to Salvi, at one point Lerner made an offer to him that appears to have constituted the crime of extortion under US Code Title 18 section 872. She said, “Promise me you will never...
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This is terrible! I’m sure this will get turned over to the Justice Dept for a thorough inves..... Oh, never mind.
Durbin and Lerner conspiring to extort, how charming. Such a despicable duo should be chained together and locked away forever in Tamms Prison.
Yes, and it doesn’t matter what code it was.
Lotsa luck getting the justice dept to investigage.
Just call her Donna Corleone.
It seems like the only people who get investigated under Holder’s injustice department are those who don’t go along, or those who are in the way.
How about Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents (search under color of law), or conspiracy to deprive a citizen of his civil rights?
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