Posted on 10/16/2006 10:17:57 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Agents raid homes of Rep. Curt Weldon’s daughter, close friend By John Shiffman, Mitch Lipka and Patrick Kerkstra INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS
Federal agents raided the home of the daughter of U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R., Pa.) and his longtime friend Charlie Sexton this morning.
The agents departed Karen Weldon's three-story brick home on Queen Street in Philadelphia with arms loaded with boxes.
A government car pulled into the alley to the back door of the house and loaded boxes into it. Three agents standing in an alley declined to identify themselves.
"I can confirm that we conducted a number of searches regarding an ongoing investigation," said FBI agent Jerri Williams, a spokeswoman in Philadelphia. "Details regarding those investigation cannot be provided because the accompanying affidavit is sealed."
In Delaware County, FBI agents had blocked off Kelli Lane leading to Charles P. Sexton Jr.'s Springfield house, and were removing at least one box and a bag of material from his home late this morning. Sexton, a long time ally of Weldon and a power in Delaware County GOP politics for more than three decades, is a business associate of Weldon's daughter.
The raids came three days after news broke that the FBI is investigating whether the Delaware County congressman used his influence to help his daughter, a registered lobbyist, win consulting contracts.
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I assume you are being sarcastic.
He's got my vote, too. The weasely backers of Sestak are behind this BS. Stinks to high heaven.
Why is harry reid getting a pass... that is the $64,000.00 question? dbm bias is why!
LLS
I AM TIRED OF THIS DOUBLE STANDARD!
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Actually, the opposite. It is run by Andrew C. Lourie
Indeed, Lourie is seen by career prosecutors as a close ally of Noel Hillman, the outgoing section chief at Public Integrity who was nominated last week by the White House to a seat on the U.S. District Court in New Jersey.
Like Hillman and others in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Lourie traces his prosecutorial roots to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Hillman and Lourie worked together in the early 1990s in their first prosecution jobs tackling corruption cases as assistant U.S. attorneys in New Jersey, when Chertoff served as the head of the Newark office.
Eventually, Chertoff came to Washington, D.C., to become lead counsel to then-Sen. Al D’Amato (R-N.Y.) in the special Whitewater Committee that investigated the Clinton family’s financial dealings in Arkansas. Around that time, Lourie transferred to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, where he handled money laundering cases and other major crimes.
When Chertoff took over the Justice Department’s Criminal Division in early 2001, he quickly put his stamp on that division — an imprint that can be seen to this day in how the Abramoff investigation has been run. He hired as his first deputy one of his assistant counsels on the Whitewater Committee, Alice Fisher. She eventually succeeded Chertoff when he left the division to become a federal judge in 2002.
In the Public Integrity Section, Chertoff pushed aside Lee Radek, who had been widely panned by watchdogs for a lack of aggressive investigations, and he reunited Lourie and Hillman. Lourie became acting chief of Public Integrity, with Hillman as his deputy, until October 2002, when Lourie returned to Florida and Hillman took over the section.
With Hillman’s departure from Public Integrity — he’s been nominated but is remaining inside Justice until he’s actually confirmed by the Senate — Lourie is taking over a reinvigorated unit that has aggressively pursued the Abramoff scandal and a variety of other public corruption cases.
It’s unclear whether Lourie will seek the job permanently in this stint at Public Integrity. The person in charge of the hiring will be Fisher, who is the political appointee who oversees the Abramoff investigation.
Internal agency rules require that the job must be formally posted for at least two weeks, and that a formal interview process must be undertaken. Under the best of circumstances, “the process could take several months,” Sierra said.
http://jackinthehouse.org/news/story-print.php?view=1630
The background is from earlier this year, but it appears he is still acting chief.
Join the club.
FBI probably still smarting from the Able Danger stuff, plus some left over Clintonista in the DOJ (gotta have them on board for the warrant... assuming they had one).
Maybe the feds are practicing to hit the brother of murtha, reid, daschle etc.
Bingo
The only R I won't vote for is Sherwood - I heard the Prez was to be in PA today - anybody know?
I know, I just had to vent... but not at you!
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Oh, of course. I'm just as ticked off about all this as you are. :)
Well, there was a guy named "da'shell" whose wife did what re the airline industry, but Nuttin there, move on.....
I think the Republicans are going to pick up MD and NJ.
"Amazing how much influence the Clinton's still have in federal agencies like the FBI."
Especially when Weldon is up against Clinton Crony Sleestak this november. Man, the stuff keeps piling higher and higher.
There needs to be a new publicized list, just like U.S. Senator Coburn did with the pork barrel list.
Any congressional member who has families that are registered lobbyists, must be posted on the internet, who they represent,and any deal they seal. No financial details need to be show, just the connections and relationship to the congressional member.
We never had corruption in Washington, DC before ... well ... before the capital moved from New York.
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