Posted on 08/05/2005 6:43:26 PM PDT by SmithL
Spokane -- A personal computer and related records were seized in an FBI search of embattled Mayor James E. West's home as part of a federal investigation into public corruption allegations, The Spokesman-Review reported Friday on its Web page.
West, who is fighting allegations that he used his office to offer City Hall jobs to young men he met in a gay online chat room, was present with an attorney when FBI agents searched his West Spokane home July 26, the newspaper reported.
West and his attorneys could not be immediately reached for comment Friday afternoon.
The warrant is based on probable cause suggesting West violated federal public corruption laws, using interstate wire communications, the newspaper reported.
The FBI obtained the federal warrant to search West's home after convincing a federal judge there was probable cause to believe a federal crime has been committed.
The warrant says there is sufficient evidence to believe that West "knowingly and willingly engaged in a scheme to entice others to engage in sexual activity with him through offers and grants of city of Spokane jobs, internships or appointments," the newspaper reported
Beginning May 5, the newspaper began publishing a series of articles alleging that West had trolled a gay chat room for sex partners, offering jobs and other perks.
The newspaper also reported that West was implicated in sexual abuse of boys when he was a sheriff's deputy and Boy Scout leader in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Must be a Democrat.
Let me guess..... Is he a Democrat?
Republican
My, Seattle is a hot bed of scandal, isn't it? And a hot bed of Liberalism, too.
Nope, a rare Republican sodomite.
Amazing how some of us live just long enough to make total fools out of ourselves.
Hang him. After a trial, of course. :)
ping
A very interesting bit of information about Mayor James West: West was campaigning for election, with a promise to run the gays out of Spokane. Of course, when West was confronted with the fact he was cruising the gay bars, he adamantly denied he was gay. He denied being gay, even when it was proven he had had sex with other men.
Some of the television evangelists, and their allies sound a lot like Mayor West.
Louis Sheldon, head of the Traditional Values Coalition, has a big collection of gay pornography. Despite all of his public posturing, Sheldon may be getting his jollies looking at the pornography.
Then, there is Paul Cameron, who was expelled from the American Psychological Association, because of serious ethical ethical lapses. Specifically, the issue was research fraud, not just disagreeing with other members of Association. Cameron used another researcher's data out of context, using only a small portion of the data (selective sampling), to make claims contrary to the other research's conclusions. What was so egregious was: Cameron went on to claim the other researcher agreed with his (Cameron's) claims, when that was simply not true. This is similar, in nature to the research fraud, committed by the so-called 'experts' of the anti-nuclear activists.
Cameron does sound like he is engaging in projection, attributing his own lusts to others. It even seems that Cameron is attacking gays, in an effort to conceal his own sexual orientation, perhaps even to conceal his sexual orientation from himself.
Aryakiddin. That kind of promise would get him crucified from every conceivable angle.
So, he had sex with men, but he wasn't happy about it?
That's just it. We're talking about SPOKANE, not Seattle.
Spokane is 280 miles east of Seattle.
Spokane is about as conservative as can be.
Spokane wants to split off from the state...along with everything else east of the Cascade Mountains...and form a new state that doesn't have Seattle as it's controlling factor.
Worth repeating.
Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit.
Err...on second thought, don't. ...Least not with that Mayor fella around. Yeesh.
In 1980, a friend of my wife's had trouble getting a license to perform G-rated belly dancing in Spokane.
He looks happy to me. ;-)
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