[NormsRevenge]

Puerto Rico's Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila delivers the annual State of the Territory speech in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in this Tuesday, March 6, 2007 file photo. Gov. Acevedo Vila was charged Thursday, March 27, 2008, with 19 crimes, including conspiracy to violate U.S. federal campaign laws, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and giving false testimony to the FBI. The indictment also charged 12 others associated with Acevedo's Popular Democratic Party as a result of a two-year grand jury investigation, acting U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez said. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

[NormsRevenge]

Acevedo denied any wrongdoing and dismissed the indictment as nothing but politics and “a spectacle designed to damage me.”

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spitzer, vila,, is Kwame Kilpatrick a superdelegate too..? Oh my. the dems ,, tsk tsk ,, talk about your Culture of Corruption

[weegee]

Meanwhile Tom DeLay’s showtrial has yet to come to court.

[Corin Stormhands]

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[Ann Archy]

Just ANOTHER Crooked RAT politician.

[NormsRevenge]

Acting U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez, center, speaks during a news conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, March 27, 2008. Rodriguez announced that Puerto Rico's Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila was charged with 19 crimes, including conspiracy to violate U.S. federal campaign laws, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and giving false testimony to the FBI. The indictment also charged 12 others associated with Acevedo's Popular Democratic Party as a result of a two-year grand jury investigation. At left is Michael E. Yasofsky, Jr., Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Criminal Investigation Division, and at right Luis Fraticelli, the top FBI special agent on the island. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

[marron]

Acevedo, 46, and his associates are accused of conducting unreported fundraising to far exceed funding limits during his 2004 campaign for governor. As part of the fraud, they allegedly used their own or their companies' money to cover unreported debts to the campaign's public relations and media company.

Like the Clintons haven't done the same thing.

I'm not a fan of campaign finance laws, but goose/gander.

Acevedo denied any wrongdoing and dismissed the indictment as nothing but politics and "a spectacle designed to damage me."

This is the problem of enforcing these kinds of laws. Inevitably it will look political. If the wrong-doer loses the election, prosecuting him looks like the winner piling on. If he wins, fat chance he will investigate himself.

In this case, the feds are doing it, and it looks like Repub feds going after an innocent Dem.

in the past Acevedo has said U.S. authorities targeted him for his criticism of a September 2005 FBI raid in which a fugitive Puerto Rican militant was killed.

If true, it couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.

[NormsRevenge]

Puerto Rico's eighth elected governor Anibal Acevedo Vila delivers remarks after taking the oath of office in San Juan, Puerto Rico in this January 2, 2005 file photo. Acevedo Vila and 12 political associates in the Caribbean island and on the U.S. mainland were charged with election funding fraud in an indictment unsealed on March 27, 2008. The charges said Acevedo Vila collected illegal contributions and spent far more than he reported during his election campaigns from 1999 to 2004. REUTERS/Ana Martinez/Files (UNITED STATES)

[Anti-Hillary]

This guy, Kwame, Spitzer and Patterson. Not to mention the traitors who went to Iraq and Clinton and Obama....

Can we say, “Party in meltdown”?

[NonValueAdded]

Can Superdelegates vote from jail? There are at least 3, are there not?

[VeniVidiVici]

Paging Nancy Pelosi and her CULTURE OF CORRUPTION cabal.

My, my. The Democrats have been busy getting arrested lately! (And still no (D) after the names.)

[jmaroneps37]

Tell me this guy wears dark glasses and has people call him El Presidente!