Posted on 12/04/2007 11:20:01 AM PST by doc30
U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., faces fines and penalties topping $800,000 for leaking an illegally taped phone call after the Supreme Court refused to review the case. The decision, made without comment, ends a nearly 10-year legal fight. The court left in place a U.S. appeals court ruling that McDermott had acted improperly in giving reporters access to a recording of a 1996 telephone call in which Republican leaders discussed the House ethics case against former Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.
800 Large is going to leave a mark!
and I hope his legal bills were enormous
Good! Kudos to the Appeals Court! I’m using this at our weekly rally! Too bad McDermott’s Lefty buddies will pay the bill. It should be McDermott himself.
Did he ever get nailed by the House Ethics Panel?
He needs to be.
Newt gets the last laugh.
Except newt's reduced to huckstering global warming and this jerk's constituency hasn't yet awakened enough to pitch him out on his rear.
My guess is that McDermott will have trouble finding someone to pay this tab. Most folks want their money going to re-election campaigns, and not law bills or fines. Being a democrat...he’ll try to have a dinner or two in Seattle and get some local car dealers to cough up $500k...but I’m betting he barely gets $150k from state players, and even nationally....he won’t find more than $100k probably. He’ll have to find this cash with some illegal corrupt actions.
Speaking of cases that last forever...
what ever happened to the case against the Hammer (Tom Delay)?
“He’ll have to find this cash with some illegal corrupt actions.”
Too bad Mr. Hsu is in jail — McDermott could have tapped him for a few thousand.
So will Bagdad Jim actually be forced to pay this $800K, or will he just weasel some more?
I thought immediately of this episode when Larry Craig’s errant phone message recording left for Arlen Specter was released to the news media.
Could Ms Hsu come out and help? Jim needs help bad...even if its Hugo Chavez or Saudi radicals.
That's different, because Craig was in legal notice that he was being recorded when he left the message, therefore he had no expectations that communication would remain private.
Newt had his cell phone conversation illegally intercepted by a police scanner that was illegally modified to receive cell phone frequencies, then that tape was illegally shared with McDimwit who illegally passed it along to the press.
ROTFL! Best news I’ve had all week.
I’m not betting on it. I still think that the DNC or some other part of the Dem machine will help cough up the money.
Excellent news.
PAY-UP!!!!
It’s nice to see at least one Rat caught in a trap of his own making...even if it did take ten long years.
Any mark on McDermott is a good mark. He's my Congressman and as dumb as a mud fence.
I once saw him walking along the beach as Alki...as we passed I said "Hi Jim"...he stuck out his hand...I then said "tapped any god phone calls lately?"
The handshake never took place!!
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