Posted on 02/24/2005 12:40:45 PM PST by libstripper
CHATTANOOGA - John Stamps, a Monteagle businessman and longtime friend of former Gov. Don Sundquist, has been indicted on federal charges of making false statements and separately on four counts of federal income tax evasion.
Stamps owned a Chattanooga-based company called Workforce Strategists, which secured a no-bid $644,000 contract in 1999 from the state.
"The indictment released Wednesday said Stamps used a document that contained false statements in July 2002 to persuade the state to extend the Workforce Strategists contract."
"Federal prosecutors also accused Stamps of not reporting his full income to the Internal Revenue Service for the years 1998 through 2001"
During 1998 and through 2001 Sundquist did his absolute best to impose a state income tax on Tennessee, the very time when Stamps, his no-bid contract crony, is charged in the indictment with evading Federal income tax. Looks like Dirty Don's idea was his extortion was to apply to Tennessee citizens, but not his crony.
Then ther are these neat points:
"Assistant U.S. Attorney Zach Fardon once described Stamps, who lives in a gated community at Monteagle, as "the man behind the curtain" and a close personal friend of the former governor. Before Wednesday, prosecutors had called Stamps an unindicted coconspirator."
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"Sundquist previously described reports about administration favoritism with contracts as "baloney" and has repeatedly declined to comment about the investigation."
Looks like the "baloney" here is with good old Dirty Don himself, except it's smelling more and more like caca, much like the caca the departed, unlamented RINO governor of Illinois, George Ryan, is in.
Does Don realize they are getting closer?
Justice will be served if RINO former governors Don Sunsquish (TN), John Rowland (CT) and Lyin' Geprge Ryan (IL) wind up as cellmates for the long haul at an appropriately miserable federal pen.
No. Each should have a Weird Leon or Nasty Harold to keep him company.
He probably does and I sincerely hope they are. He betrayed me and thousands of other Tennessee Republicans WHO VOTED FOR HIM TWICE. I have no sympathy for him. If it weren't for what he did, we'd probably have a conservative Republican governor now.
I'll take that as a substitute for my suggestion.
At this rate, we're going to wind up with Bredesen again, along with a state income tax. Thanks a lot, Don.
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