Posted on 06/01/2015 8:47:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Gee I’ll take “Kick-Backs” and “Pay-Offs” for $500, Alex.
Typical degenerate criminal of the “political class”. Typical.
You don’t get enough money to pay off $3.5 million to an extorter by good business sense, investments or through work as a public servant - I should add, honestly.
Obviously he has been a gigolo for all these years. That's the secret he's been paying to keep. Right?
lying, cheating, and stealing, Thats how.
All these “so called reps” get into it for the inside dealing everyone else would be imprisoned for.
So what else is new? Only the GOP seems to be affected or charged in large part.
Hastert was able to keep all of his campaign donations when he retired. He was unopposed for several terms yet continued his fund raising efforts.
Politicians should be made to give the extra money they raise back to the party. It would eliminate the monetary incentive to serve term after term.
I remember reading a book by one of the McClure Magazine muckrakers who devoted a few chapters to George Washington Plunkitt. He was a colorful character as well as a crook, but he understood his limitations. He spent more than a few paragraphs explaining the difference between honest and dishonest graft.
At best, Denny might have lived up to the George Washington Plunkitt standard, unlike more contemporary politicians whom I could name that do not.
Unfortunately, most politicians are corrupt, but since we can’t say with certain that all of them are, we tend to believe that it’s those other politicians who are the crooks, not our politicians.
Until we stop voting for crooks, we will get more crooks. They are in politics because that’s where the money is. At the Presidential level, we had to elect Nixon to find out that he was a crook. We were pretty sure that Clinton was a crook, but people loved him anyway. Next year will will have an opportunity to vote for someone who is beyond question a liar and a crook. She may well be our next President.
There is a difference that we need to remember about Republicans and Democrats. When Republicans are caught in the cookie jar, they are usually finished in politics. When Democrats are caught, that becomes a resume enhancement.
He and Jane Harmon both after leaving congress became lobbyists for the US defense industry and sold military weapons to middle eastern countries. They both likely made millions.
Maybe he had good partners...
Land deals with Reid?
Cattle futures with Hillary?
Pervert or not and this is not about that but about illegal withdrawal limits of yer own $$......I am still curious if blackmail is now legal and what bout that guys status..he is still unnamed?
There is no freedom without financial privacy.
You have to have the right to say “none of your business” without going to jail.
I'm referring to his withdrawals, because that is something that applies to you and me too. As a public servant, though, he should have to explain how he made millions on a federal salary.
One difference, though, Harmon already had millions, thanks to hubby's Harmon Kardon.
if he didn’t have to disclose up to the day of the charges why now?
And this is why we are not likely to have term limits any time soon even though a majority of Americans favor them. Public service is way too lucrative.
What cabal is controlling the Republican leadership. I think Hastert is not the only homosexual that has been in house leadership. What pedophilia rings exist that service these “men”? There have been stories in the press and only now is it bubbling up to the top.
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