Posted on 01/11/2010 1:42:55 PM PST by Shellybenoit
Didn't Nancy Pelosi say that this will be the cleanest congress in history? Pelosi may have had noble dreams but when you look at her tenure and the scandals by Chris Dodd, Charlie Rangel, John Murtha and others she has not followed through on their scandals. In fact she has allowed the ethics process to drag out in these cases.
There is a new Senior Democratic Party congressman who is drawing attention of the ethics committee, Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) a 27 year year veteran Representative of NY's 5th district may have broken House ethics rules with no-money-down stock deal. The story was broken by the NY Daily News today.
The gist of the scandal is that Ackerman hosted a meeting between Israeli officials and a defense contracting firm in his congressional office, in which he had invested money (via a no money down loan) whose stock he later sold at a big profit.
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The guy looks like a frog that hasn’t changed totally into a prince. An elderly, saggy-jowled prince.
He will get away with it and rise within the ranks of the democrat party.
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