Posted on 03/27/2014 10:00:01 AM PDT by mandaladon
Three Democratic lawmakers were either arrested or had their office raided Wednesday by the FBI.
Two of the Democrats, including Charlotte, N.C. Mayor Patrick Cannon, were charged in connection with FBI stings that caught them allegedly taking bribes from undercover agents. Coupled with an FBI raid that led to the resignation of a prominent Democratic lawmaker in Rhode Island this past weekend, four Democrats have recently come under the FBI’s radar.
Here are the four:
New York state assemblyman
The FBI raided Democratic New York Assemblyman William Scarborough’s Albany office Wednesday morning and also took papers from his office in Jamaica, Queens. The feds confronted him at 5:45 a.m. in a hotel room, where they seized his smartphone. FBI investigators asked Scarborough about per diem reimbursements received by state lawmakers.
“I’m innocent, but I understand the reality,” Scarborough told reporters at the state capitol Wednesday. “I don’t know what’s going to go on. I am going to talk to a lawyer, this is just stunning to me.”
Scarborough was first elected to the Assembly from a primarily Queens County district in 1994.
California state senator
Democratic California state Sen. Leland Yee was arrested Wednesday for wire fraud and conspiracy to deal firearms as part of an FBI sweep in Sacramento and the Bay Area. The gun-control proponent allegedly conspired to facilitate an undercover agent’s purchase of illegal firearms, which would be imported through a port in Newark, N.J.
Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, an organized crime figure in Chinatown, was arrested as part of the investigation that nabbed Yee.
Yee allegedly traded “official acts” for donations from undercover agents, and took $10,000 from an undercover agent to make a call to the California Department of Public Health passing along kind words about a potential contractor.
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Parley Baer - "Reminds me of something that would be in a Raymond Chandler novel.
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And, the Sopranos!
Leland Yee smuggling weapons to terrorists while advocating gun limitations on law-abiding US citizens.
Reminds me of....
Eric Holder smuggling weapons to Mexican drug cartels while pressing for gun limitations on law-abiding US citizens.
Leland Yee should plead that he was merely cooperating with Fast and Furious Part II.
Fast and Kung Fuious.
Rush might be right, but I think the Obama FBI is cleaning house of those who won’t play ball so to speak.
It is a purge to prepare for events to come.
Like they have been purging the military.
I officially gave up this battle yesterday when Sean Hannity and Sen. Mike Lee both used the term DemocratIC while discussing Democrats and the Democrat party.
See my post at #45.
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