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Ex-Sen. Yee pays $128,000 in campaign funds to lawyers since indictment (shoulder fired missiles)
LA Times ^
| 2/03/15
| Patrick McGreevy
Posted on 02/03/2015 4:42:35 PM PST by Libloather
Former state Sen. Leland Yees campaign committee for last years secretary of state race has spent $128,000 on attorney's fees since he was indicted on federal corruption charges, he reported this week.
The practice is legal, but one ethics expert said it should be restricted.
"Unfortunately Californias relatively weak restrictions on the use of surplus campaign funds mean that politicians can turn these accounts into personal slush funds," said Sarah Swanbeck, an advocate for the group Common Cause.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; campaign; campaignfunds; funds; lawyers; lelandyee; missiles; sanfrancisco; yee
All your money are belong to the perps.
To: Libloather
No mention of party in title, subtitle, first sentence, or first paragraph...therefore its a democrat.
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posted on
02/03/2015 4:44:08 PM PST
by
icwhatudo
(Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
To: icwhatudo
Reerend Yee is a rong standing membuh of the democlat palty
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posted on
02/03/2015 4:47:57 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Libloather
At the very least campaign funds spent on personal things should be taxable to the corrupt politician. But Demonrats are probably exempt from laws like that.
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posted on
02/03/2015 4:55:01 PM PST
by
Auntie Dem
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
To: Libloather
At the very least campaign funds spent on personal things should be taxable to the corrupt politician. But Demonrats are probably exempt from laws like that.
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posted on
02/03/2015 4:55:07 PM PST
by
Auntie Dem
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
To: Libloather
I got him mixed up with Wu of tiger costume fame...
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posted on
02/03/2015 5:10:07 PM PST
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: Libloather
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posted on
02/03/2015 5:41:41 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: Libloather
Yee, a Democrat from San Francisco, ... was indicted on charges of accepting $62,000 in campaign contributions in return for favors, and offering to arrange the sale of machine guns and shoulder-fired missiles to an undercover FBI agent posing as a mob figure.Yet no charges of terrorist activity. It's nice to be a DemoRat.
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posted on
02/03/2015 8:52:35 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
To: TigersEye
Republicans are accused of terrorism based on their very existence. Democrats engage in actual terrorist activity and get a pass. I’m sick of this crap.
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posted on
02/04/2015 4:06:24 AM PST
by
generally
(Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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