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Townsend aide faces charges
THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | Mar 18, 2004 | Matthew Cella

Posted on 03/18/2004 4:48:13 PM PST by neverdem

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:41:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

An aide to former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has been indicted on charges of diverting $6.3 million in federal crime-fighting funds to pay staffers working on Mrs. Townsend's 2002 gubernatorial campaign.

Stephen P. Amos was the executive director of the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention (GOCCP) under Gov. Parris N. Glendening, a Democrat. He was charged Tuesday with using crime-fighting money to add 40 persons to his staff and to pay 10 of Mrs. Townsend's staffers, including her deputy chief of staff and several speech writers.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: corruption; kkt

1 posted on 03/18/2004 4:48:13 PM PST by neverdem
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To: fourdeuce82d; Travis McGee; Joe Brower
BANG
2 posted on 03/18/2004 4:49:53 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi min oi)
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To: neverdem
I ran through this very quickly and do not see a party or race mentioned. May we presume Black Democrat?
3 posted on 03/18/2004 4:52:07 PM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: neverdem
Does no one audit their finances?
4 posted on 03/18/2004 4:53:36 PM PST by OldFriend (Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
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To: neverdem
An aide to former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has been indicted on charges of diverting $6.3 million in federal crime-fighting funds to pay staffers working on Mrs. Townsend's 2002 gubernatorial campaign.

Stephen P. Amos was the executive director of the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention (GOCCP) under Gov. Parris N. Glendening, a Democrat. He was charged Tuesday with using crime-fighting money to add 40 persons to his staff and to pay 10 of Mrs. Townsend's staffers, including her deputy chief of staff and several speech writers.

Surprise, surprise, and a Democrat mentioned in the 2nd paragraph, but this is the Washington Times.

5 posted on 03/18/2004 4:58:27 PM PST by af_vet_1981
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To: Lion Den Dan; staytrue
KKT is a 'RAT.
6 posted on 03/18/2004 4:59:26 PM PST by sauropod (I intend to have Red Kerry choke on his past.)
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To: Lion Den Dan
You may presume guilty white liberal as in Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, from the Massachusetts clan of liberals.
7 posted on 03/18/2004 5:00:10 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi min oi)
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To: neverdem
Another member of the Kennedy clan shows her/his true colors. Maybe this scandal will be enough to keep Kathleen on the political sidelines. But maybe not, considering Teddy's career after Chappaquiddick.

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8 posted on 03/18/2004 5:20:38 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com Visit. Join. Help. Please.)
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To: Lion Den Dan
Don't know about black, but the dem part was a surprise. I read the article and came to the part where it identified Glendenning as a democrat. NO LEFT WING PAPER WOULD DO THAT!! So, I went back to the top and found that the article was from the Washington TIMES!

The part I like is that it seems that the author is willing to accept that this thief misused the cash to pay 40 people there and 10 people here. The point should be that some of those folks were phantoms or his relatives or his friends. So, back to your point, yeah, it sounds like another black democrat. But, let's just put this behind us and move on.

9 posted on 03/18/2004 5:23:14 PM PST by Tacis
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To: neverdem
Amazing...
10 posted on 03/18/2004 5:27:26 PM PST by eureka! (The shrillness of the left is a good sign.....)
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To: sauropod
Mrs. Townsend last year took a job as president of the nonprofit group Operation Respect: Don't Laugh At Me, which distributes an anti-bullying curriculum to schools

BAHAHAHAHAHAH !!

11 posted on 03/18/2004 10:09:37 PM PST by staytrue
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