Posted on 10/13/2006 4:12:42 PM PDT by dogbyte12
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is investigating whether Republican Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania traded his political influence for lucrative lobbying and consulting contracts for his daughter, according to sources with direct knowledge of the inquiry.
The FBI, which opened an investigation in recent months, has formally referred the matter to the department's Public Integrity Section for additional scrutiny. At issue are Weldon's efforts between 2002 and 2004 to aid two Russian companies and two Serbian brothers with ties to strongman Slobodan Milosevic, a federal law enforcement official said.
The Russian companies and a Serbian foundation run by the brothers' family each hired a firm co-owned by Weldon's daughter, Karen, for fees totaling nearly $1 million a year, public records show.
Karen Weldon was 28 and lacked consulting experience when she and Charles Sexton, a Weldon ally and longtime Republican leader in Delaware County, Pa., created the firm of Solutions North America Inc. in 2002. Both are registered with the Justice Department as representatives of foreign clients.
Word of the inquiry, which has been closely held within the Justice Department and the FBI, comes from two individuals with specific knowledge of the existence of the investigation. They both declined to be identified because of the confidentiality of criminal investigations.
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this is what john dean has been doing for past few months
They need firing though. Pronto.
Yuh know with a govt. union that ain't exactly easy to do.
Its going to be a bumpy three weeks until election day...
Next week there will be another surprise.
I don't give a crap how hard it is. You don't leak on any investigation like this no matter what. It screws up any prosecution case like I said. You also don't leak it on October 13th in an even year unless you are doing it for politics.
They are upset about Able Danger. It was a political leak. They hate Bush so much, and Weldon so much that they would do this lawbreaking. They don't need to be employed by my government.
This has nothing to do with Able Danger....this is the Clinton/Dem War Room in action..
Where is Chris Lehane?
This has Clinton's stench all over it.
You and I seem to be the only ones who smell the pantsuit and her henchman..
Not to mention the State Dept., the CIA, etc. and so on.
When is the FBI going to investigate Chinagate?
Well they "leaked" it, what are you going to do have every employee have a GPS monitor on them.
It's times like these you malcontents lose focus and blame the people who are not the ones selectively leaking for political gain, and don't follow the path of those(leakers, press) who are doing this for selective political gain.
This wouldn't be hard though. How many people were actually involved in this investigation. The paper got two of them to talk. I bet the FBI "knows" at least one of em. Hook em up to a polygraph.
I wonder what it would take to get these "FBI" guys to "investigate" a DemocRAT.
What distresses me is the GOP's complete inability or unwillingness to fight back. We just roll over and allow ourselves to get kicked in the gut, over, and over, and over, and over again. It's frankly pathetic.
I smell Clintonistas at work, and the smell is overwhelming. Why don't Bill and Hillary and their cohorts just take a nice long hike.
Clinton converted them all to Civil Service just before he left office, so GWB wouldn't be able to fire them.
"They both declined to be identified because of the confidentiality of criminal investigations."
Does the author of this realize the stupidity of this sentence? Investigations are supposed to be confidential, so the leakers don't want to be identified as leakers. I'll bet the leakers expect to move up in the Hillary Administration.
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