Posted on 11/12/2006 3:15:05 PM PST by Dems_R_Losers
A federal grand jury investigating the governor of Puerto Rico has subpoenaed records on dozens of Philadelphia-area companies and business executives who have contributed to his past campaigns or done business on the island.
Robert M. Feldman, a longtime political associate of U.S. Sen.-elect Bob Casey Jr., and 10 of his companies are among those named on federal grand jury subpoenas being delivered across the Philadelphia region and in Puerto Rico.
The subpoenas ask for all company documents relating to Puerto Rico Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila.
The FBI is investigating whether Vila steered government contracts to campaign contributors, or whether illegal donations were made to Vila's campaign, sources said.
In all, the grand jury in San Juan is seeking records on 30 area firms owned by seven business executives, all of them substantial donors to Mayor Street and other area politicians. Among them are prominent developer Kenneth N. Goldenberg, the Parkway Corp., and Hill International of Marlton, N.J.
"We responded," said Howard Trachtman, spokesman for Philadelphia's Parkway Corp., which received a subpoena from Puerto Rico. "We don't know what they're fishing for. They're certainly on a fishing expedition."
Trachtman said the company told investigators that the firm and its president, Joseph S. Zuritsky, had no contact with Acevedo Vila - who has been under investigation for months by a federal grand jury in San Juan.
He said a Parkway subsidiary once ran parking operations in Puerto Rico, but had not worked on the island for 15 years. Federal records show Zuritsky did not contribute to Acevedo Vila.
The subpoenas seek records for 10 of Goldenberg's companies.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
I'll have to go back and check on ol' Rob.
They're all innocent until everyone is payed off or killed.
Doesn't matter. Democrats are above the law.
Philadelphia ties in probe of Puerto Rico race
What the heck were Casey voters thinking?!
Naturally, the Philly Inquirer runs this story five days AFTER the election.
Bobby Casey is as much a creation of the Inquirer as Jim Webb is of the Washington Post. Yet they slammed a Rick Santorum ad depicting all of Casey's shady backers as a "smear" because one of them is now dead and another was only a "former" campaign treasurer!!
Isn't that the ad that the Casey campaign said was a LIE and all those crooks gave $ to Santorum, not Casey?
Yep, that was it. If nothing else, maybe we can get constant ethics investigations of Dims going in DC.
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