Posted on 07/13/2019 6:43:10 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Democratic representative Alcee Hastings (Fla.) has paid his girlfriend the maximum congressional salary for the seventh straight year.
Patricia Williams, Hastings's longtime girlfriend, who first appeared on his payroll in 2000, received the maximum congressional salary of $168,411 throughout 2018, according to salary data posted to Legistorm, a government tracking website.
Williams has collected the maximum allowable salary since 2012, and has been compensated at a higher rate than Hastings's Washington, D.C., chief of staff, typically the highest paid position in a congressional office. Williams had been listed as district director out of Hastings's Broward County, Fla., office, but in March she switched titles to district chief of staff, which appears to be a newly created position.
Hastings, whose relationship with Williams dates back decades, also employs Williams's daughter in the Broward office.
Williams served as co-counsel alongside Hastings during his impeachment trial as a federal judge in the 1980s, when he was charged with "conspiracy and obstruction of justice for soliciting a $150,000 bribe in return for reducing the sentences of two mob-connected felons convicted in Hastings's court."
William Borders, a D.C.-based lawyer indicted with Hastings, was convicted in 1982, while Hastings was acquitted by a federal court in 1983.
"A year after Borders was convicted of conspiracy, the result of an FBI sting effort, Hastings's case came before the criminal court," the Senate Historical Office wrote. "Despite Borders's conviction, and the fact that Hastings had indeed reduced the sentences of the two felons, he was acquitted in a criminal court in 1983 and returned to his judicial post."
However, a later probe found that Hastings had tampered with evidence, conspired to accept bribes, and committed perjury.
The House of Representatives voted 413 to 3 to approve 17 articles of impeachment against Hastings, the most brought against any individual to that point. Hastings was the first judge to be charged while on a federal bench and in 1989 was ordered to be removed from office by the U.S. Senate.
The Senate, however, did not vote to disqualify him from holding future office. In 1992, Hastings was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
In addition to Williams and her daughter, the Democratic congressman brought Dona Nichol Jones, a convicted money-launderer, onto his full-time staff in Palm Beach last year, the Washington Free Beacon previously reported.
Nichol Jones is married to Mikel Jones, who worked for Hastings as a district administrator from 2003 to 2011, when he was convicted of 30 counts of fraud for an elaborate scheme to defraud a lender. Hastings quietly placed Nichol Jones onto his payroll as a "part-time" employee three years after the conviction and consequent firing of her husband.
Hastings has thrown his 2020 support behind Sen. Kamala Harris (D.,Calif.), who said that she was "proud to have" his endorsement. The endorsement was hailed by CNN as a major win for the California senator's efforts to win over southern black voters.
The publication failed to note any past controversies that engulfed the longtime Florida representative, including taxpayers footing a secretive $220,000 bill for Hastings to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit that was brought against him by a former staffer.
Hastings's office did not provide comment on the payments to Williams's and her responsibilities in the Broward County office by press time.
A probe found that Hastings had tampered with evidence, conspired to accept bribes, and committed perjury.
The House of Representatives voted 413 to 3 to approve 17 articles of impeachment against Hastings, the most brought against any individual to that point. Hastings was the first judge to be charged while on a federal bench and in 1989 was ordered to be removed from office by the U.S. Senate.
She must be attempting to follow the kameltoe harris road to political success.
$168K a year is a pretty good salary. That is $14K a month.
Think of this pyramid scheme as a prototype for reparations
Just put em all on the federal payroll
Will be happy to see/read his O(BITCH)uary soon
A minimum of 1/3 are protected by their fellow deep staters in the DOJ/FBI, and AGs and Judges.
The Clintoons, Teddy Kennedy, Epstein and many if not most of the Follywooders are prime examples of this. Just look at the passenger list on Epstein's flying pedo whorehouse.
The people listed below are key Deep Staters in America, who never have to worry about the laws covering the rest of us.
That comes to $461.40 per night. Only thing is taxpayers are footing the bill.
William J. Jefferson (D) Louisiana commandeered a National Guard truck to salvage the money from his freezer during flooding following a hurricane in New Orleans. Later convicted and did time for corruption charges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Jefferson#Corruption_case
Good old Alcee just doing what he has for decades, the real problem is the totally brain dead voters that continue to elect him.
Once a crook, still a crook. Some can reform but not apparently Alcee.
This racist bozo is another example of how the Deep Staters in America like him have immunity against the laws we have to obey.
I remember when he was a judge in Fla.
He was using gov workers to install Gold bathroom fixtures in a house he was building.
Claimed the money was found in a fireplace on the house he built.
Just found this on Wiki....
In a 2011 survey of U.S. lawmakers, the Center for Responsive Politics named Hastings the "Poorest Member of Congress," with a 2010 average net worth of −$4,732,002.
The Poorest! $4.7 mil!
How to become a millionaire in the USA, become a politician.
Ijust willingness on the part of his constituents to ignore his obvious corruption—perhaps they even celebrate it.
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YEAH, but he ‘got over on da man-man’
Who shivsagit whether OJ guilty or not, just an old White broad, main thing is he ‘got over on da man-man’.
That Johnny Cochran one smart lawyer. He has an office in every ‘ghetto neighborhood’ helping us ‘get over on da man-man’
Virtually ‘everybody’ in Washington DC knew and griped about what a crook Marion Barry was and as long as ‘they’ can ‘stick it to the man’, he could probably get elected tomorrow even though he been dead for a couple of years.
‘STICK IT TO THE MAN-MAN’ ... High Five, repeat.....
Trump spent a fraction of that on a national celebration and he's all in the news.
Two lessons here. First, Conservatives are condemned no matter what they do. Second, news media outlets are irrelevant.
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Thank you. I frequently get my corrupt, black democrat politicians mixed up.
I must admit, it is kinda hard to keep track of them all.
Wrong congress critter.
That one was William Jefferson {clinton} from New Orleans.
He did finally go to jail.
He gives her money, she (presumably) gives him sex. We have a term for that. It’s the same term we reserve for politicians practicing their “trade.”
Were Packer’s allegations as false as blasey-ford’s, or were they falser?
And the Stoopids keep electing this criminal.
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