Posted on 12/27/2015 8:17:33 AM PST by KeyLargo
Feds seize over $1 million in cash hidden by disgraced Massachusetts politician
Over $1 million was seized as part of the federal investigation into John George Jr., the disgraced former state representative and selectman from Dartmouth, who once represented the 9th Bristol District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. George hid the cash in safe deposit boxes he kept at banks in New Bedford and Fall River, according to investigators. Conor Berry cberry@repub.com
BOSTON -- More than $1 million in cash. Stuffed into safe deposit boxes. Filled to the brim with wads of $100s, $50s, $20s ...
The money was seized this week by federal authorities as part of their investigation into John George Jr., the disgraced former state representative and selectman from Dartmouth, who once represented the 9th Bristol District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
The 69-year-old Democrat was found guilty in April of embezzling federal funds from Union Street Bus Company - the taxpayer-subsidized bus company he owned - and using the money to benefit his personal farm in Dartmouth, the coastal Bristol County town just west of New Bedford.
(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...
That's a head scratcher.
Creamed corn??? Ah, Congressman David Dilbeck comes to mind. Perchance were there any cowboy boots found in that hotel room?
Love, Carl Hiaasen
I didn’t check but how many paragraphs did it take before the ‘objective’ press told us the party of the perp?
Then again, if he had been a Republican it would have been in the headline... or first sentence.
Not that they’re biased poor excuses for journalists or anything...
Illinois a farm state ? an agricultural bribe ?
The transistor radios kill me.
He did pretty good on 30k a year.
I wonder if anyone opened the cans? How difficult is it to self-can things? A lot of $100 bills would fit into a normal can and properly weighted no one would be the wiser. You just have to clue a couple of people in on it so they don’t throw dispose of the cans when you kick it.
Maybe there WAS another couple hundred thou of bribe money sealed up in those creamed corn cans. Shucks, there may be a kernel of truth to what you put forth.
You are a veritable Sherlock Holmes, with your ear to the ground!
Illinois is my home state and it's part of the midwest corn belt, and for Secy. Powell to think of such a hiding place would be carrying canny to a whole new level. All it would take would be true grits....which he seemed to have.
Leni
Hmmm...
So much effort just to get a groan out of me! :)
I mean, who would look in here:
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