Posted on 08/06/2011 10:27:57 AM PDT by jazusamo
WASHINGTON -- A House ethics probe of Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks is focusing on possible criminal charges for his failure to report a $40,000 payment from a businessman that investigators say appears to have been an illegal gift -- and not a loan, as he has claimed.
The bipartisan Ethics Committee yesterday announced it would investigate Meeks over the $40,000 he was given by businessman Ed Ahmad in 2007, and it released an investigator's report that blasted Meeks for being uncooperative with the probe.
The investigation will try to determine whether Meeks "failed to disclose a payment he received in 2007 in a timely manner," the panel announced in a statement released yesterday.
The House bars lawmakers from accepting gifts and has strict rules for loans -- including requirements that they include interest payments and collateral.
The committee also released an April report from the House's Office of Congressional Ethics, which conducts preliminary investigations, cataloguing serious charges against Meeks.
The report found:
* Meeks refused to cooperate with investigators and refused to turn over loan documents.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Just an observation: If the party of a Congressman/Congresswoman is not mentioned, does a “dumbed down” populace think they are all “Republicans” as in House “Rep” Gregory Meeks? Just asking.
I believe that’s what some reporters and editors would like to think. :)
Is illegal gift, cold cash and a bribe the same thing, is close to the same thing///??????
It’s high school journalism at best. It’s useless to even go and study college journalism anymore...they aren’t teaching much of anything. If I were a newspaper interested in some rookie reporters...I’d just hire cheap community college guys with a degree in business administration and save my money on salaries.
Why don’t they just rename it the Congressional Black Crooks Caucus?
Don’t know about the cold cash, nothing was said about finding it in his freezer. :)
Are you sure Meeks is not . . .
An Independent?
Amish?
Conservative (it's NY and they have a party)?
A RINO?
A Wino?
Another one of “Holder’s People” doing the stealing that others haven’t yet done. I don’t know who’s doing more damage to our country, Crooked Black Politicians or the Illegals. Here’s a thought. Let’s create an Ethical Black Caucus with the only member being that wonderful Col. West.
“Another one of “Holder’s People” doing the stealing that others haven’t yet done. I don’t know who’s doing more damage to our country, Crooked Black Politicians or the Illegals. Here’s a thought. Let’s create an Ethical Black Caucus with the only member being that wonderful Col. West.”
Sure soon as someone shows Mr West how to vote conservative,He has been fumbling the ball.
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