Posted on 02/14/2011 7:37:59 PM PST by jazusamo
For virtually his entire eight years as Prince George’s County executive, federal authorities say, Jack B. Johnson sat atop an expansive and lucrative pay-for-play fiefdom.
According to a federal indictment unsealed Monday charging Mr. Johnson with corruption, the former county executive was captured on a wiretap advising another official on just how profitable politics in Prince George’s County could be.
“Two years you got a couple hundred thousand dollars, you know, cash, then you can go and … get your little retirement,” Mr. Johnson said, according to authorities. “You know what I mean?”
Mr. Johnson, 61, of Mitchellville, Md., was charged in the indictment with conspiracy, extortion and bribery related to the performance of his official duties, along with charges of tampering with a witness and evidence. The charges, unsealed in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., carry a potential decades-long prison term.
“Pay-to-play government is not democratic government,” U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said in a statement. “Anyone who seeks benefits or approvals from the government should be evaluated on the merits, without being extorted for payments or losing out to competitors who pay bribes.
“Government employees flagrantly abuse the public trust when they take money in return for official acts,” Mr. Rosenstein said.
According to the 31-page indictment, Mr. Johnson, a former prosecutor, and others took “money, trip expenses, meals, drinks, hotel rooms, airline tickets, rounds of golf, employment, mortgage payments, and monetary and in-kind campaign contributions” from developers whose needs were met personally by Mr. Johnson and other county officials.
A typical tactic, according to the indictment, was for developers to bribe county officials with supposed campaign contributions that exceeded legal state limits and were kept concealed from election authorities.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Jack B. Johnson, Prince George's County executive, arrested (taking bribes)
PG COunty is so full of crooks that you can’t spit in a room full of politicians without hitting at least one who belongs in jail.
And guess what? They are almost all black Democrats who have been ripping off the black majority population for decades while crime continues on its merry way, leaving a large wake of bodies behind. 16 killings in the past 6 weeks, and counting.
Does that mean that the African American is a Democrat?
They are also ending the Junior ROTC programs at PG county schools.
I went through the Navy JROTC program. It was the ONLY redeeming quality about my school. This is crap.
Thanks, I’ve read it’s a nest of vipers. This one and several others connected to this case are going to have free room and board for awhile at the cost of taxpayers. Hopefully they’ll lose all of their ill gotten gains but that’s probably a stretch.
Well, they didn't invent it, but they sure as heck perfected it......
Yep, he’s a DemocRAT. I didn’t point that out in this piece but did in the one I linked. :)
But somehow when Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson Jr, Valerie Jarrett do it, it’s ok...
“If the political party of the criminal offender is not listed in the first paragraph..odds are the offender is a democrat”
Crim’s law.
“pig” county?
thanks for mentioning it
how does neither article NOT mention he’s a RAT ?
breathtaking...
PG County has been like this for a long time. Only difference is now they are actually arresting some of them.
No mention of party in title, subtitle, first sentence, or first paragraph...therefore its a democrat.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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