Posted on 01/21/2009 10:55:19 AM PST by Interesting Times
Eric Holder’s intercession on behalf of fugitive Marc Rich is so inexplicable that he has always viewed ignorance as his best defense. It’s as though Holder believes that a deputy attorney general looks better for having remained studiously unaware of critical facts in a criminal case before throwing his weight around. But that’s Holder’s story, and he’s sticking to it: even if it turns out not to be true.
Holder is President Obama’s choice to become attorney general. That means the Rich case is a big problem for him today—just as it was in 2001, when an outraged Congress demanded an explanation of the controversial affair. President Clinton had pardoned the fugitive financier on the recommendation of Holder, who was then deputy attorney general. The only feeble response Holder could muster was that he didn’t really know much about Rich’s case and that, as Justice’s number two official, he was simply too busy to learn about it.
Clearly, the nominee has calculated that there’s something worse than championing a presidential pardon for a guy like Rich, and that’s knowingly championing such a pardon.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
Incoming corruption ping...
Related...
Eric Holder, Bill Clinton, Wright’s ‘Black Liberation’ “church”, and the pardons of 16 members of the Puerto Rican Marxist terrorist group FALN:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165024/posts
Eric Holder’s role in the pardons of BLA (Black Liberation Army) comrades/Weather Underground members, Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165052/posts
Who pardoned Ayers?
I seem to recall that it was Peanut-Brain Jimmuh Carter.
If everyone has not contacted their Senators opposing Eric Holder’s nomination, you should hammer them now... Especially if you value your Second Amendment Rights!
BUMP
BTTT
I’ve been hammering them ever since his name came up. This one that we need to join together and fight. Send endless letters and emails and do it now.
Just dropped by local gun shop and found out they just got some AR15’s in. Hope my tax rebate makes it in time. I really want to have a couple of these when the trouble starts, which won’t be to long from now I fear.
Ditto...
This goes out to all Americans who value their Second Amendment Rights... NOW is the time to hammer them relentlessly and please pass the word to like minded people and lets rout his butt outta town!
Should the Second Amendment fall all other rights go with it! and this guy is a proven enemy of that Right!
It’s not going to matter. The MSM and John McCain will stand up for Holder. I fully expect Arlen Specter to stand up for Holder, too.
Eric Holder Vote Delayed
National Review | 01/21 03:28 PM | Byron York
Posted on 01/21/2009 3:16:55 PM PST by fiodora
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169106/posts
STRATEGY TO DITCH HOLDER There is ONE saving grace to the Obama debacle----but it must be employed correctly. Black churchgoers are the people who can move these issues.
Keep in mind, Obaba's most dedicated supporters---Black churchgoers----do not like these shady shenanigans.
Obaba caters to his Black churchgoer-constituency.
For instance----Obaba came out against gay marriage......despite his liberal proclivities. Black churchgoers vehmently oppose gay marriage---it is a paramount issue with them (some even switched votes to Republicans in earlier elections for that reason).
We need to keep Black churchgoers on top of these issues......so that Obaba will be pressured by the supporters who mean so much to him.
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BE PREPARED Compile EMAIL lists of Black churchgoers....post these lists on FR on issues that need pressure groups to move on. New investigations, and those in place, must go forward after Obama's canonization on inauguration day.
Black churchgoers are the people who can move these issues.
Hillary was running for the Senate. She and Bill apparently conducted surveillance on the NY electorate and "profiled" the hyphenated groups she needed to win. They then went down the list and got Holder to facilitate pardons to individual connected with hyphenated groups to buy their votes.
The Senate Judiciary Committee needs to consider whether Holder can administer US justice independent of a president. Holder facilitated the pardons of 16 Puerto Rican FALN terrorists for candidate Hillary. Tax cheat Mark Rich who renounced his American citizenship to evade justice got a midnight pardon, thanks to Holder.
Obama's Black supporters should be reminded that needy Black youngsters were denied Pell grants b/c the pardonees totally looted the fund for themselves. NOTE: Hillary got 1200 votes from the Pell grant looters. Some of the *"disadvantaged voters" were later found to have voted twice for Hillary using addresses of their other residences.
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THE CLINTONS PARDONED
Excerpts from the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT August Term 1999 (Argued: May 15, 2000 Decided: August 25, 2000 ) Docket Nos. 99-1671(L), 99-1672, 99-1673, 99-1674 -UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Appellee, -v.- CHAIM BERGER and AVRUM DAVID FRIESEL, a/k/a "David Friesel," a/k/a "Avraham Friesel," a/k/a "A. David Friesel," a/k/a "Aron Friesel," Defendants, KALMEN STERN, DAVID GOLDSTEIN, Esq., JACOB ELBAUM, a/k/a "Yitzchok Elbaum," and BENJAMIN BERGER, Defendants-Appellants.
The original indictment charged the appellants and two other defendants (now fugitives), Chaim Berger and Avrum David Friesel, with conspiracy and substantive counts based upon their participation in a massive conspiracy to defraud the Department of Education ("DOE"), the Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD"), the Small Business Administration ("SBA"), the Social Security Administration ("SSA"), and the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS"). Count 1 of the redacted indictment charged all four appellants with conspiracy to defraud several federal agencies.
The remaining counts charged the appellants, in various combinations, with substantive crimes relating to this conspiracy, including embezzlement, mail fraud, wire fraud, false statements, money laundering, filing a false tax return, and failing to file a tax return.
The evidence at trial revealed that the appellants -- most of whom resided in New Square, a Hasidic Jewish community in Rockland County, New York -- participated in a massive conspiracy to obtain by fraud millions of dollars in student financial aid, rental subsidies, social security benefits, and small business loans. All four appellants participated in a fraud upon the DOE, which formed the centerpiece of the government's case, but the government also proved that the conspirators or subsets of them victimized other agencies as well.
They also concealed their income to increase the amounts they could obtain under federal subsidy programs and reduce their tax liability.
The conspiracy involved a number of other participants, including major figures in the New Square Hasidic community. We now examine the scheme in greater detail.
First, the conspirators defrauded the DOE's Pell Grant Program by falsely enrolling thousands of New Square residents and others in schools offering mentor-based independent study programs.
Many students never actually studied at these institutions, even though the conspirators prepared a paper record of their academic progress. Ultimately, most of the false students were enrolled at Toldos Yakov Yosef Seminary ("TYY"), an institution that purported to employ all four appellants and received over $11 million in Pell Grants but never existed except on paper.
As part of the conspiracy, the conspirators made extensive efforts to deceive the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training ("ACCET") in order to gain accreditation for TYY so that the school could qualify for federal aid. Each of the appellants played a role in TYY.
Elbaum was named as Board Secretary and had signature authority over bank accounts into which Pell Grant funds were wire-transferred and out of which payments were made to community organizations, to conspirators, and to the DOE (to repay student loans).
Stern was named as administrator (1987-88); pretended to be Arye Reich, the supposed Registrar -- who was living in Israel at the time -- during ACCET visits; and made false statements to the accreditors in this capacity. Goldstein was named as Administrator (1988-91) and helped deceive the accreditors in 1989. He resigned in 1991 and later served on the ACCET Board of Trustees. In addition, he made statements to a DOE investigator in 1996 that maintained the fiction of TYY, identifying officials and claiming to have fulfilled the duties of Administrator while at TYY.
Finally, Berger served as an alleged mentor, and paychecks for supposed TYY employee Cheindel Bernat -- Ayre Reich's daughter, who also lived in Israel -- were deposited into a bank account controlled by Berger in Bernat's name.
Second, the conspirators defrauded HUD's Section 8 housing subsidy program. Elbaum and Stern failed to report to HUD payments they received from accounts controlled by Chaim Berger, thus fraudulently increasing the amount of Section 8 subsidies for which they could qualify as tenants. Benjamin Berger fraudulently obtained Section 8 rent payments as a landlord by disguising his ownership of property in New Square -- placing it in Cheindel Bernat's name -- and then depositing checks from HUD in an account he controlled in Bernat's name.
In addition, Berger obtained greater subsidies as a Section 8 tenant in Spring Valley by failing to report the income he received as a shadow landlord.
Third, various conspirators, including Goldstein and Stern, participated in schemes to defraud the SSA and the SBA, the details of which are not relevant to this appeal.
Fourth, the conspirators attempted to disguise from the IRS the income that they had diverted to the New Square community and to themselves through the above schemes.
Elbaum and Stern received proceeds through off-the-books payments made from accounts controlled by Chaim Berger. Elbaum also failed to file a tax return for one year. Finally, Berger received and concealed income through his control of an account in Cheindel Bernat's name.
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* NOTE: The Clinton pardonees looted Pell grants and bilked numerous US government agencies. Orthodox religious were designated a "disadvantaged minority" under Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society." Means that Orthodox religious became beneficiaries of millions upon millions of tax dollars----federal community development funds. Federal and city assistance received over the years include CETA (Comprehensive Employment Training Act) monies, Section 8 housing assistance, school meal funds, Headstart, HUD grants, and low interest loans. In 1984, federal aid was expanded when the federal government included Orthodox religious in a priority group of six disadvantaged minorities recognized by all federal agencies. SOURCE Read more about this subject on the PBS web site which aired a three-part series on the activities of Orthodox religious in America.
Thanks for posting this report and the related links. His choice of Holder for Attorney General probably is an indication of who Obama intends to pardon and who he intends to prosecute.
Thanks for the ping!
Very good, IT. Nice work!
Read the entire article. There’s no way Holder, in claiming ignorance about Rich, didn’t commit perjury, far more than poor Scooter Libby ever did.
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