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1 posted on 01/22/2009 4:22:08 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA
Kuchera won "won" $8.2 million in federal defense earmarks
2 posted on 01/22/2009 4:25:42 PM PST by FoxInSocks (B. Hussein Obama: Central Planning Czar)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Murtha...when Kennedy dies, this hump will become the unholiest asshat in the business...and with the current libs, that is saying a LOT...


3 posted on 01/22/2009 4:26:27 PM PST by jessduntno (Barack - Kenyan for "High Wind, Big Thunder, No Rain")
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To: Red in Blue PA

Murtha.........crooked.......imagine that? But as usual, nothing will come of it because of the “D” behind his name. Those D’s can do no wrong.


4 posted on 01/22/2009 4:31:46 PM PST by Sunshine Sister
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To: Red in Blue PA

funny, the fbi raided curt weldon’s office two weeks before his
last election. say, whatever became of that? i guess once he lost,
the fbi lost interest.


7 posted on 01/22/2009 4:55:02 PM PST by gussiefinknottle (woof!woof!woof!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Maybe Murtha can share a cell with his favored Guantanamo prisoners.


8 posted on 01/22/2009 4:59:21 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: prisoner6; PennsylvaniaMom; GregB; rightwingintelligentsia; HonestConservative

ping! Did yunz see this?


10 posted on 01/22/2009 5:52:59 PM PST by sneakers
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To: Red in Blue PA
What the hell am I reading here ???

Federal agents raided
the offices of a Western Pennsylvania defense contractor that has received millions in federal earmarks
at the request of Rep. John Murtha,
according to local media reports. The offices of Kuchera Industries and Kuchera Defense Systems were shuttered for the day following the raids, the chief financial officer told the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat. The companies' phone system says they will open again Friday morning, and e-mails sent to top company officials went unanswered. Based in Windber, Pa., just outside Johnstown, Kuchera won $8.2 million in federal defense earmarks in the 2008 budget.
The earmarks came at the request of Murtha (D-Pa.).
Murtha's spokesman declined to comment, and an agent in the FBI's Pittsburgh office did not return calls seeking clarification."

11 posted on 01/22/2009 6:32:01 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: Red in Blue PA; smoothsailing; Cindy

Look here:

Nonprofit Connects Murtha, Lobbyists
Ties to Pa. Group Mutually Beneficial

By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 25, 2006; A01

For a quarter of a century, Carmen Scialabba labored for Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), helping parcel out the billions of dollars that came through the House Appropriations Committee, so when the disabled aide needed a favor, Murtha was there.

In 2001, Murtha announced the creation of Scialabba’s nonprofit agency for the disabled in Johnstown, Pa. The next year, with Scialabba still on his staff, Murtha secured a half-million dollars for the group, the Pennsylvania Association for Individuals With Disabilities (PAID), and put another $150,000 in the pipeline for 2003, according to appropriations committee records and former committee aides. Since then, the group has helped hundreds of disabled people find work.

But the group serves another function as well. PAID has become a gathering point for defense contractors and lobbyists with business before Murtha’s defense appropriations subcommittee, and for Pennsylvania businesses and universities that have thrived on federal money obtained by Murtha....(/snip)


13 posted on 01/22/2009 6:45:57 PM PST by piasa
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To: Red in Blue PA

ABSCAM II: The Re-Murtha-ing


22 posted on 01/22/2009 8:57:03 PM PST by Starfleet Command
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