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but I personally usually just post a (s) or (sarc)
and for exceptional circumstances
Posted on 11/12/2010 11:21:27 AM PST by markomalley
OK, you got me with that ... It was definitely a LOL-one. Good job!
It will be interesting to see. Wonder if he can do like Marion Barry with “The bitch set me up!”??? PG county has become as corrupt as its neighbor DC.
Business as usual in the Freak State.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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but I personally usually just post a (s) or (sarc)
and for exceptional circumstances
Long overdue!
I lived it MD, in PG County. Here is how it goes. You buy land. You get it rezoned and you have doubled your money. Of course getting the land rezoned has a cost associated with it. Every politician has his hand out or even better is in on the deal. The other way it works is that you are given a “heads up” to buy some land because maybe there is going to be a school built on it or a subway station, on a road. etc. You can figure it out, it is quite simple. The heads up is the result of a sizeable favor.
And here I thought he was just a great boxer...dead, to boot.
Here’s the skinny:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/12/pg-county-executive-wife-arrested-fbi-sting/
Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson, arrested in a corruption probe Friday, told his wife to hide tens of thousands of dollars in her underwear as federal agents arrived at his house to search for illegal payoffs from a developer, federal prosecutors have charged.
Caught in an FBI sting taking a $15,000 payment from an unnamed developer Friday, Mr. Johnson later told his wife by telephone not to answer the door when two FBI agents came to their home, authorities said.
The county executive, a Democrat who was previously the county’s top prosecutor, then told his wife, Leslie Johnson, to tear up a $100,000 check from the developer and stash tens of thousands of dollars in cash in her bra, authorities said in charging documents.
“Tear it up! That is the only thing you have to do,” Mr. Johnson told his wife, referring to the check, according to prosecutors.
Asked by his wife about “cash down in the basement,” the documents say Mr. Johnson replied, “Put it in your bra and walk out or something, I don’t know what to do.”
Later, Mr. Johnson told his wife to flush the check down the toilet, according to documents.
“Yes, flush that,” he said.
FBI agents, in a search of Mrs. Johnson, recovered $79,600 in cash from her underwear, officials said....
(more at the link)
“I read a different account which said a plumber had been called to the house as though they were looking for things which might have been flushed down toilets???”
A whole new line of work - forensic plumbing.
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