Yes Doug... RAT FIGHTS......
Posted on 11/11/2006 8:33:19 PM PST by doug from upland
Corruption Case Resurfaces For Alcee Hastings
By Julia Malone | Friday, November 10, 2006, 11:06 AM
With Rep. Alcee Hastings a frontrunner to be House Intelligence Committee chairman, he’s already facing unpleasant publicity stemming from his involvement in a corruption case years ago.
The Florida Democrat, a former federal district judge, was acquitted of conspiring to solicit a bribe from criminal defendants in 1982. But after a jury found attorney William Borders guilty of being his co-conspirator, Hastings was impeached and removed from the federal bench by Congress in 1989.
Hastings then won a seat in the House of Representatives. Borders, who refused to testify against him in the bribery case, went to prison and won a pardon from President Clinton in 2001.
The case didn’t die there. Borders has twice petitioned the District of Columbia Office of Bar Counsel to reinstate him to practice law. His latest request went all the way to the Supreme Court, where the facts of the bribery conspiracy, the Hastings role and Borders’ refusal to testify were laid out once again.
The high court in September 2003 declined to grant a hearing on the Borders disbarment.
He was impeached and removed from the federal bench. Separately, the Senate could have stipulated that he not ever be allowed to hold a federal office again. They decided not to do that. A few years later, after he was elected to congress, someone on the committee was asked about it and they said they didn't think it was necessary because they didn't believe he would ever get appointed or elected to anything. Hastings just walked through a loophole.
Hey, nice work!
My memory on this is a hazy, but wasn't Hastings' conviction overturned or something a few years ago? Maybe that isn't even possible, but I thought I heard something like that a while back. Then again, maybe I'm just confused.
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no, no no!
First, Democrats necessarily possess far greater intelligence then the rest of us. And Democrats in Congress think on a plane that we mere plebes--even Republican professionals with graduate degrees--cannot hope to comprehend.
Second, no Democrat EVER partakes in corruption. The definitions of the words of the English language implicitly exclude Democrats from corruption or any other fault; only Republicans can be corrupted.
Third, embryonic stem cells are morally wrong, ethically indefensible, and unable to serve any legitimate medical purpose.
Fourth, we do not wish such terrible maladies as brain cancer our fellow man, even our worst enemy. We love Democrats and treat them with kindness, but as conservatives, we simply desire that they refrain from seeking or exercising any elective, appointive, or other office of trust or profit under the United States until they successfully overcome the mental illness of liberalism.
The 'RATS who ran Congress in 1989 were so incompetent that they forgot to write language (that is usually included) into the articles of impeachment that would have barred the House could have barred him from taking office after he was elected, but the 'RATS were so corrupt, they wouldn't do it.
Indeed, lets ram it back down their throats.
Thanks.....I get it now.
He was not convicted in regular criminal court. He tried to have the impeachment conviction overturned, but the Supreme Court would not take the case.
I hope so.
I wonder. If he gets appointed, will it be bad news because a flagrant crook has access to classified information, or is it good news because every time he appears in the news, he makes Democrats look bad?
Yes Doug... RAT FIGHTS......
In some states, felons are not to vote in an election. BUT, Hastings can be elected and make decisions that effect our country? THIS IS BACKWARDS.
Everything goes in the democRATic party, including clinton's rape, "none" oral sex in the Oval Office, his impeachment and a plethora of corruptions, lack of ethical and moral values, you name it!!!
Doug, did I ever tell you what a genius you are? Thanks.
You kidding? You're thinking of the Republican Party. This stuff is routine, no-big-deal for the Democrats.
It's not corruption if it's their corruption.
He is my congressman by some special arrangement. It is a district gerrymandered to represent blacks, and he is untouchable. He is not accessable to constituents and is never home, even in emergencies When I asked an employee of the FL R party how we could get a real congressman, she said to move.
Well, I think I can safely say this is one corruption case we won't read about in the NYT.
They're all members of a vast, corrupt race known as...
...mankind.
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