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San Diego contractor pleads guilty over illegal contributions( Kerry-MA )
Bakersfield Californian ^ | 2/11/04 | AP - San Diego

Posted on 02/11/2004 8:54:58 PM PST by NormsRevenge

SAN DIEGO (AP) - A San Diego-based defense contractor pleaded guilty Wednesday to making donations to politicians he believed would help him win contracts, including Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and U.S. congressmen Duncan Hunter and Randy "Duke" Cunningham.

Parthasarathi Majumder, the former president and chief executive of Science and Applied Technology Inc., made the contributions between 1993 to 1998 and also encouraged his friends and colleagues to do so, according to the U.S. Attorney General's Office.

Majumder then reimbursed those donors more than $20,000, according to the plea agreement.

U.S. election laws limit individual contributions to $1,000 to a candidate seeking federal office per campaign period. The law also prohibits corporations from giving money to candidates or using others to donate by proxy.

The various campaigns unwittingly filed false reports with the Federal Elections Commission due to Majumder's use of proxy donors.

Donations were made to Kerry, who is now the Democratic presidential front-runner; San Diego County Republicans Hunter and Cunningham; Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.; and Rep. Joe Scarborough, R-Fla.

None of the lawmakers or their staff was charged with any wrongdoing.

Prosecutors also said Majumder used money received under federal contracts to lobby for congressional support for the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile program being developed by his company.

Wednesday's plea follows a Dec. 18 civil settlement in which Majumder agreed to pay the government about $3 million for submitting false claims under a government contract.

Majumder, a U.S. citizen born in India, faces a maximum penalty of five years and $250,000 in fines on charges of defrauding the government and one year and $25,000 in fines for making illegal campaign contributions.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2004; contractor; contributions; donors; duncanhunter; illegal; johnkerry; majumder; pleadsguilty; randycunningham; saic; sandiego
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To: NormsRevenge; dirtboy; JeanS; areafiftyone; Peach; PhiKapMom; BunnySlippers; Blackirish; DKNY; ...
Here's another.

Want more pings? I have a few more threads to ping you all to.

21 posted on 02/14/2007 8:27:51 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Keep 'em coming ...


22 posted on 02/14/2007 8:28:51 PM PST by BunnySlippers (SAY YES TO RUDY !!!)
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To: nopardons
Here's another.

In case you haven't noticed, it's the same thread as your first ping. I can see now why you can't master the subtleties of cutting and pasting URLs.

23 posted on 02/14/2007 8:29:08 PM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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To: BunnySlippers
Keep 'em coming ...

Please show where there was any wrongdoing on Hunter's part.

24 posted on 02/14/2007 8:29:38 PM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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To: nopardons
A San Diego-based defense contractor pleaded guilty Wednesday to making donations to politicians he believed would help him win contracts, including Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and U.S. congressmen Duncan Hunter and Randy "Duke" Cunningham.

Give me a break, this is your smoking gun? He "believed" it would help him?

Yeah, Hunter is a bad, bad man because a contractor "believed" he would help him.

25 posted on 02/14/2007 8:31:12 PM PST by Jean S
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To: dirtboy

Evidence of wrong doing?

Repeat after me.

It's not about evidence; it's about the seriousness of the charge.

Carry on.


26 posted on 02/14/2007 8:32:08 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: nopardons

I'll ping you all to another.

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I'm sure you will.. lol

FRom the article..

--None of the lawmakers or their staff was charged with any wrongdoing.--

Care for me to do a bit of digging on Rudy? the ballroom dancing wifey and I are watching is a bit boring for me. ;-)


27 posted on 02/14/2007 8:34:01 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......)
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To: dirtboy

I can't believe I've been sitting here waiting to see this garbage.


28 posted on 02/14/2007 8:34:31 PM PST by garv (Conservatism in '08 www.draftnewt.org)
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To: dirtboy
I knew that you would try to wiggle this one. Oh well.........

The man was CONVICTED and sent to jail. Hunter took an ILLEGAL donation and kept it.

29 posted on 02/14/2007 8:34:33 PM PST by nopardons
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30 posted on 02/14/2007 8:34:46 PM PST by musicman
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To: nopardons
Hunter took an ILLEGAL donation and kept it.

Documentation please.
31 posted on 02/14/2007 8:35:15 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: dirtboy

Okay, I'll ping you to another.


32 posted on 02/14/2007 8:35:31 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

all this effort to besmirch a guy with only 1%..Im impressed. ..
Not.


33 posted on 02/14/2007 8:35:44 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......)
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To: nopardons
I knew that you would try to wiggle this one. Oh well.........

Wiggle? From the article:

None of the lawmakers or their staff was charged with any wrongdoing.

You are shameless. You should retract your lies now.

34 posted on 02/14/2007 8:35:52 PM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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To: nopardons

Is this what I've been hearing about Hunter that's not so hot?


35 posted on 02/14/2007 8:36:22 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: nopardons; Admin Moderator; Jim Robinson
Okay, I'll ping you to another.

Is there no limit to your efforts to slime a good man with false claims of criminality? You tried this crap a few nights ago with a bogus PDF. STOP THIS CRAP NOW.

36 posted on 02/14/2007 8:37:22 PM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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To: Peach
Is this what I've been hearing about Hunter that's not so hot?

What a shock to see you jumping into this slander campaign. From the article:

None of the lawmakers or their staff was charged with any wrongdoing.

37 posted on 02/14/2007 8:38:19 PM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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To: dirtboy

amazing how a 1%er draws so much attention and derision on a conservative forum yet..,, or is it just a personal thing? ya think? ;-)


38 posted on 02/14/2007 8:38:56 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......)
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To: nopardons

It's interesting how some congresscritters can accept illegal campaign contributions and nothing happens and others accept illegal campaign contributions and they go to jail.

What gives? It sounds like Free Republic with these ever-changing rules and stuff. LOL


39 posted on 02/14/2007 8:40:43 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: NormsRevenge; nopardons

I don't care if these lies were being promulgated against McCain, who I loathe. This is truly despicable. And this is the second time nopardons has pushed unsubstantiated allegations of criminality against Hunter. Her own damn link absolves him and his staff.


40 posted on 02/14/2007 8:40:50 PM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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