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Agents raid homes of Rep. Curt Weldon’s daughter, close friend
philly.com ^

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at siliconvalley.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: abledanger; atta; charliesexton; crew; rinowatch; whistleblowerpayback
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To: justshutupandtakeit

I assume you are being sarcastic.


61 posted on 10/16/2006 11:36:32 AM PDT by defenderSD (Blogging from a secure, undisclosed location in the southwestern United States.)
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To: Mo1

He's got my vote, too. The weasely backers of Sestak are behind this BS. Stinks to high heaven.


62 posted on 10/16/2006 11:39:53 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: sgtbono2002

Why is harry reid getting a pass... that is the $64,000.00 question? dbm bias is why!

LLS


63 posted on 10/16/2006 11:44:12 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

I AM TIRED OF THIS DOUBLE STANDARD!

LLS


64 posted on 10/16/2006 11:45:15 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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To: defenderSD
OK, let me guess: the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section is run by liberal Clinton holdovers?

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.

65 posted on 10/16/2006 11:57:06 AM PDT by ContemptofCourt
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To: LibLieSlayer

Join the club.


66 posted on 10/16/2006 11:57:17 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Karl Rove you magnificent bastard!)
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To: sgtbono2002
The point is how come the FBI waited until 3 weeks before the election to start coming out in the open with these investiogations of republicans.

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).

67 posted on 10/16/2006 11:58:45 AM PDT by El Gato
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To: DManA

Maybe the feds are practicing to hit the brother of murtha, reid, daschle etc.


68 posted on 10/16/2006 12:00:59 PM PDT by stumpy
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To: dirtboy
I want all the dirty ones run out of town, and I don't care whether they have a "D" or an "R" next to their names. This crap is getting completely out of hand.

Bingo

69 posted on 10/16/2006 12:01:42 PM PDT by Protagoras (Billy only tried to kill Bin Laden, he actually succeeded with Ron Brown and Vince Foster.)
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To: hipaatwo
I'm voting straight Repub.


70 posted on 10/16/2006 12:02:59 PM PDT by Protagoras (Billy only tried to kill Bin Laden, he actually succeeded with Ron Brown and Vince Foster.)
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To: Iconoclast2
The AG doesn't seem to make this much effort against all the much more corrupt Ds.

If you believe that the elected Republican officials are somehow ethically superior to elected Dem officials, then I suggest your views are distorted by your blind party faith. That or you've been living under a rock for the last six years. The greed and degradation of these pigs knows no party affiliation.
71 posted on 10/16/2006 12:08:59 PM PDT by LanaTurnerOverdrive
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To: hipaatwo

The only R I won't vote for is Sherwood - I heard the Prez was to be in PA today - anybody know?


72 posted on 10/16/2006 12:09:53 PM PDT by LadyBuzz
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To: BigSkyFreeper

I know, I just had to vent... but not at you!

LLS


73 posted on 10/16/2006 12:11:27 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Oh, of course. I'm just as ticked off about all this as you are. :)


74 posted on 10/16/2006 12:12:59 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Karl Rove you magnificent bastard!)
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To: anymouse

Well, there was a guy named "da'shell" whose wife did what re the airline industry, but Nuttin there, move on.....


75 posted on 10/16/2006 12:14:05 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory tooooo long)
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To: Finalapproach29er
Which two senate seats?

I think the Republicans are going to pick up MD and NJ.

76 posted on 10/16/2006 12:23:24 PM PDT by gridlock (The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
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To: My2Cents

"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.


77 posted on 10/16/2006 12:44:38 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: theDentist

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,167130,00.html


78 posted on 10/16/2006 12:44:54 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Illegal immigration Control and US Border Security - The jobs George W. Bush refuses to do.)
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To: Soliton

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.


79 posted on 10/16/2006 12:47:28 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: DManA
There surely is a culture of corruption in Washington.

We never had corruption in Washington, DC before ... well ... before the capital moved from New York.

80 posted on 10/16/2006 12:52:21 PM PDT by meadsjn (La Raza is Racism)
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