Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon arrested, faces corruption charges

CBS News/AP ^ | March 26, 2014 | CBS News/AP

[mdittmar]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The mayor of North Carolina's largest city has been arrested on public corruption charges.

U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins said Wednesday that Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon is facing theft and bribery charges.

Tompkins says Cannon solicited and accepted bribes from undercover FBI agents posing as real estate developers who wanted to do business in Charlotte. According to the criminal complaint, Cannon is accused of accepting bribes from the agents on five separate occasions. On the most recent occasion, on February 21,2014, Cannon allegedly accepted $20,000 in cash in the mayor's office.

He's also accused of accepting from the undercover agents over $48,000 in cash, airline tickets, a hotel room, and use of a luxury apartment between January 2013 and February 2014 in exchange for the use of his official position.

If convicted on all the charges, he faces 20 years in prison and more than $1 million in fines.

[mdittmar]

Didn't see the word Democrat in the article,maybe I missed it.

[Vince Ferrer]

It is the dog that doesn’t bark.

[ProudFossil]

Didn't see the word Democrat in the article,maybe I missed it.

No but they sure did have Republican in the article for the governor as if to imply birds of a feather ... I also wonder if the reporter has been chastised for implying the mayor is black since he attended a black university?

[jsanders2001]

I wonder how many corruption an treason charges the Onewould have if they tallied it all up

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[The Antiyuppie]

No mention of political affiliation on NBC, either. Not terribly surprising.

But, not a problem. It’s become as obvious to everyone as news stories involving “gangs of youths”...the news media is at this point embarrassing itself, if, indeed, it can be embarrassed.

[Steve_Seattle]

By my count, 23 paragraphs without mentioning his (Democratic) political affiliation. I think that’s a new record. Yet they somehow squeezed in the Republican governor’s party affiliation.

[capydick]

We'll have to play "Guess What Party" as it's not mentioned on the article.

First hint is a photo:

[Adder]

DemBro...one of Eric’s folks

[deport]

cross referencing two other threads..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3137707/posts

and

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3137592/posts

[JusPasenThru]

Sons of Obama.

[ConservativeInPA]

If Obama had a brother.

[bigtoona]

He’s a democrat, his biggest opponent in the election was another democrat named Smuggie. I thought we lucked out and got the lesser of two evils.

[VeniVidiVici]

I hope every article printed that doesn’t mention the crook Democrat Patrick Cannon’s party affiliation gets posted.

[deport]

He could serve up to 20 years if convicted on all counts:

http://www.wcnc.com/news/politics/bBreakingb-Mayor-Patrick-Cannon-arrested-for-public-corruption-252483281.html

He faces a maximum sentence of:
•10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for theft and bribery
•20 years and $1,000,000 fine for honest services wire fraud
•20 years and $250,000 fine for extortion

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Department of Justice Release
http://images.bimedia.net/documents/Cannon+Press+Release.pdf

DOJ Criminal Complaint
http://www.justice.gov/usao/ncw/forms/cannoncomplaint.pdf

[deport]

The former mayor resigned Wednesday afternoon, Mar. 26, 2014.

Cannon for Mayor website

[Celtic Conservative]

Fire that Cannon!

CC

[deport]

Charlotte mayor resigns after arrest on corruption charges

Interesting article with some details of the activities which led to the arrest.

[GOPJ]

CBS was too busy kissing democrat butt to notice the guy was a democrat... I'm sooooooo surprised they ‘missed’ that little piece of information.../s

[GOPJ]

Then again all of us knew he was a democrat BECAUSE it was missing from the story...

We ‘get’ the biased haters AND their ways...