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4 Democratic lawmakers either arrested or raided by the FBI in quick succession
The Daily Caller ^ | 27 Mar 2014 | Patrick Howley

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: New York; US: North Carolina; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: california; charlotte; democrats; fbi; gordonfox; lelandyee; newyork; northcarolina; obama; patrickcannon; rhodeisland; williamscarborough
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Can't keep up with so many corrupt RATS!
1 posted on 03/27/2014 10:00:01 AM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

You bust 4.

Then you call the others and ask for cooperation with some Senate campaigns


2 posted on 03/27/2014 10:01:13 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: mandaladon

Don’t expect to see much coverage about this on the MSM.


3 posted on 03/27/2014 10:01:15 AM PDT by mandaladon (If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill)
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To: mandaladon

RINO’s aren’t any better. Government is corrupt period.


4 posted on 03/27/2014 10:02:07 AM PDT by maddog55 (I'd be Pro-Choice if we could abort liberals.)
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To: mandaladon

4 Democratic lawmakers either arrested or raided by the FBI in quick succession


This was not lost on me. Neither is all the J.P Morgan bankers offing themselves.

Things are not as they seem.


5 posted on 03/27/2014 10:03:41 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: mandaladon

All this direct bribery stopped at the time of Abscam. The video of senators stuffing bundles of cash in their suit pockets was too damning. For a long time bribes were laundered through publishers who were paid to give big book contracts for titles like, “It takes a village.” The other way was to give the bribe to the party as a “donation.” The party would get it to the politician and arrange the favor.

It worked perfectly. What happed? Did everybody get complacent? Or, did the cut taken by publishers and party offiials get to high?


6 posted on 03/27/2014 10:04:46 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: mandaladon
and think, these are the most corrupt... think of all the
articles were "spiked" due to political pressure.

7 posted on 03/27/2014 10:05:00 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: AppyPappy
Maybe that's the motive...I mean, this is Holder's Justice Department we're talking about here, right?

So you know there's some underlying reason for this besides just arresting a bunch of corrupt politicians, all of whom happen to be Democrats...

Is that too tin-foil hat? lol

8 posted on 03/27/2014 10:05:18 AM PDT by 88keys (broken glass GOP; it matters, replace the Dems. 2014!!)
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To: maddog55

However the MSM does not cover this the same way when it’s a Republican


9 posted on 03/27/2014 10:05:56 AM PDT by mandaladon (If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill)
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To: mandaladon
Sounds like there were also a half-dozen of these Dem Criminals that were queued to be taken down in Pennsylvania — until the Dem State Attorney squashed the the charges.
10 posted on 03/27/2014 10:07:22 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: mandaladon

These are all low-level hucksters. Need to clean out DC...........


11 posted on 03/27/2014 10:07:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: cuban leaf
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.

I was just doing my own undercover investigation.....honest.....................

12 posted on 03/27/2014 10:09:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: mandaladon

“Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, an organized crime figure in Chinatown, was arrested as part of the investigation that nabbed Yee.”

Reminds me of something that would be in a Raymond Chandler novel.


13 posted on 03/27/2014 10:10:13 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: mandaladon

Once again, the subtle message gets through.
Attention Writers!
It’s DEMOCRAT
not
DemocratIC...


14 posted on 03/27/2014 10:10:48 AM PDT by spankalib ("I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.")
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To: mandaladon

This seems to happening quite a bit lately. Is the FBI turning on Dear Leader?


15 posted on 03/27/2014 10:14:41 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Gen.Blather
All this direct bribery stopped at the time of Abscam. The video of senators stuffing bundles of cash in their suit pockets was too damning. For a long time bribes were laundered through publishers who were paid to give big book contracts for titles like, “It takes a village.” The other way was to give the bribe to the party as a “donation.” The party would get it to the politician and arrange the favor.

It worked perfectly. What happed? Did everybody get complacent? Or, did the cut taken by publishers and party offiials get to high?

You've certainly got their number.

16 posted on 03/27/2014 10:18:05 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: mandaladon

Rush is making the point now (speculating) that the Dems might be trying to get rid of all their “bad apples” before the next election cycle.

He doesn’t seem to think the FBI would turn on Dear Leader.


17 posted on 03/27/2014 10:21:19 AM PDT by Artcore
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To: mandaladon

Hmmm....maybe a higher-up in the FBI is getting fed up with Holder’s corrupting the Dept. of Justice?


18 posted on 03/27/2014 10:21:36 AM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left-Completely!)
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To: spankalib

>>It’s DEMOCRAT
not
DemocratIC...<<

Yes, it takes a while to train oneself, but it’s a satisfying exercise.


19 posted on 03/27/2014 10:23:09 AM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left-Completely!)
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To: mandaladon
I put Yee in a different category from the others. Big-time gun running on the part of a rabid anti-gunner, smuggling deals with Islamic terrorists - maybe it was a bribery sting that got them there, but this guy is a real piece of work.

Allegedly.

20 posted on 03/27/2014 10:26:04 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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