Another Scandal About To Break? Investigative Reporter Hints About Mobbed Up Dem

The Atlantic ^ | 03 Aug 2007 | Marc Ambinder

[tlb]

Overheard on Thursday's Talk Of The Nation on NPR: investigative reporter Dan Moldea said he and Nation's David Corn are shopping around a completed story about a "Democratic leader who is mobbed up."

Moldea did not elaborate but hinted that the story would break soon.

[truthkeeper]

Is there a democrat who isn’t?

My thought too. Aren't they all?

[reefdiver]

How do you shop a story ? Just release it ... Or is that too easy

[Popman]

Schumer is my guess.

That would be like waking up in the morning and finding out I won the lottery, lost 50lb's, got a promotion and the Clinton's indicted and jailed without bail all on the same day.

[be-baw]

Harry Reid. Seems to me I read a long time ago that he has a history of eking out election victories after it seemed he was on the ropes.

Nevada, Las Vegas, Mafia, totally corrupt Democrat...it all adds up.

[mware]

Hell that could be both of the senators from NJ

[MaestroLC]

Best guess is Harry Reid....

Harry Reid’s Mob Money

[badgerlandjim]

I’ll be shocked, too. They’re probably trying to frame Lieberman.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

In the Cunningham and Foley cases, it was the exquisite scandal timing that did the damage. Letting some story out now will see it mostly deflated by election time.

[spacejunkie]

I say Murtha.

[SeaHawkFan]

Can’t be Kennedy. If it was the it would say he is “Blobbed up”.

[Diggity]

I would guess the Clintons are in with the mob. Let’s not forget his cocaine import ring he had in Arky.

John

[Diggity]

Might be that old bastard senator from New Jersey.

John

[Wilhelm Tell]

I don’t know but I will guess it is someone who is a strong advocate for gun control even by Democrat standards. If the mob tried to extort money from people and the well-armed people fought back, it would be bad for business. Any politician who is paid to look out for mob interests would have civilian disarmament as a high priority.

[Congressman Billybob]

The Mob has a minimum requirement in doing business with anyone. The would-be ally has to be useful. I find it impossible to imagine any situation in which Dick Durbin would be useful.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "It Bleeds, It Leads, It Deceives"

[13Sisters76]

Is anyone surprised? For the past 50 years or so the dem party has ALWAYS been part of an “evil triad”- dem party, unions and organized crime. Who laid all the ground work for their, now, sophisticated programs of voter fraud? Kennedy’s father was a fairly high profile mobster- how far does the apple fall?

[mewzilla]

Oh no. Not Dan Moldea again.

Old timers like me will certainly recognize that name here at FR.

Oh, yeah....

What Moldea's been up to recently....

Senator's Link to 'D.C. Madam' Exposed

[AlphaOneAlpha]

“My guess, Harry Reid.”

You know, it just could be. Think about this. Reid is screwing up all over the place and has become an ineffective embarrassment for the Dems/lefties. It’s a lot cleaner to get him out with a story, written by David Corn, one of their own than publicly oust Ol’Harry on the floor of the Senate.

[mewzilla]

And from 1999, with a Moldea mention...

Don't be fooled, folks

[WilliamofCarmichael]

A chorus of denial comes from the Dem side of Congress, “It’s not me and you can’t prove it!”

[tioga]

Elliot Spitzer is friendless about now, it could be him.