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Ex-Connecticut governor asks court to overturn conviction
Associated Press ^ | Mar 18, 2016 1:53 PM EDT | Jake Pearson

Posted on 03/18/2016 12:27:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai

A lawyer for former Connecticut Gov. John Rowland asked a federal appeals court Friday to overturn his client’s corruption conviction, arguing the government too broadly applied a federal law.

But a government lawyer told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City that the conviction should stand, claiming prosecutors rightly charged the Republican with falsifying documents to hide political work he did in two congressional campaigns.

Rowland was sentenced to 2½ years in prison last year for allegedly conspiring to disguise work he did on a failed 2012 congressional campaign and a 2010 campaign. This is the second political conviction case for Rowland, who in 2004 resigned amid a corruption scandal, eventually serving 10 months in prison for taking illegal gifts. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: campaignmoney; illegalgifts; johnrowland; rino

1 posted on 03/18/2016 12:27:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

John Rowland is an embarrassment. One of MANY that Konnecticut has produced, both Democrats and Republicans. Crooked as the day is long.


2 posted on 03/18/2016 12:32:49 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Psalm 73
Crooked as the day is long.

Longer. And he's a dumb-ass.

3 posted on 03/18/2016 12:34:49 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (#BlackoLivesMatter)
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To: Olog-hai

who cares what dif does it make..


4 posted on 03/18/2016 12:36:51 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Olog-hai

As a former Connecticut voter, I attest that John Rowland was the first (R) politician & governor to disillusion me. He’s the original poster boy for political fraud for me.

Introducing the state income tax, as he had promised NOT to do, was the first in a long series of years where I just kept hoping life in CT would get better.

It didn’t - and I left, as have many, many others.


5 posted on 03/18/2016 12:40:39 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Weicker introduced the tax


6 posted on 03/18/2016 12:51:46 PM PDT by Ray76 (Judge Roy Moore for Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Lowell Wieker implemented the income tax. That was the year I left.
I knew John Rowland when he was a Waterbury Councilman. He sold his soul when he went to congress. It saddens me every time I think about it. He sold it again in the Governors mansion, this time he got caught taking free work on his cabin on Bantam Lake, and a few other things.
Sadly now he has gotten caught, convicted and will be doing time again. I hope they send him someplace nasty this time, not a camp in Pennsylvania with his fellow crooked Connecticut polititians.


7 posted on 03/18/2016 12:53:42 PM PDT by Tracker47
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To: LurkedLongEnough
Introducing the state income tax, as he had promised NOT to do, was the first in a long series of years where I just kept hoping life in CT would get better.

That was Weicker.
8 posted on 03/18/2016 1:27:18 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Thanks. I try to forget and sometimes forgetting looks like a bad memory. Ha.


9 posted on 03/18/2016 1:38:44 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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10 posted on 03/18/2016 3:09:47 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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