Posted on 03/27/2014 7:28:20 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
Less than six months on the job, the mayor of Charlotte was arrested Wednesday and accused of accepting more than $48,000 in bribes from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen who wanted to do work with North Carolina's largest city.
Mayor Patrick Cannon, a 47-year-old Democrat who rose from the city's public housing projects to become a successful businessman and politician, faces federal theft and bribery charges.
Cannon accepted more than $48,000 in cash, airline tickets, a hotel room and the use of a luxury apartment as bribes and solicited more than $1 million more, according to a criminal complaint....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Can you even imagine a successful (legit) businessman falling for $48K in bribes? If he’s that successful, $48K is chump change; the temptation would hardly be worth the consequences.
Bill Clinton’s networth is more than George Bush Sr. and George Bush Jr. combined!
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