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Should Politicians Be Allowed To Keep Stolen Funds?
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| December 13, 2022
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Posted on 12/13/2022 5:32:06 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
Today on the CNBC program "Squalkbox", Representative Patrick McHenry, R NC, was interviewed on the FTX debacle. Rep. McHenry is chairman was recently selected as Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
He was asked be Andrew Ross Sorkin "what should politicians do with the contributions received from Sam Bankman Fried"? Representative McHenry's reply: "that is up to those politicians".
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: andrewrosssorkin; bitcoin; cnbc; cryptocurrency; ftx; msnbc; nbc; nobrainscollectively; northcarolina; patrickmchenry; sambankmanfried
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I just could not belive my ears! Suppose someone robbed a bank and gave you or me $1 million dollars, was caught and prosecuted. Would you or I be allowed to keep the $1 million dollars? Of course not!
Different rules for the ruling elite!
To: The_Media_never_lie
I will post the interview today if it is available later.
To: The_Media_never_lie
What a squishy little worm POS McHenry is.
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posted on
12/13/2022 5:36:28 AM PST
by
moovova
("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: The_Media_never_lie
The politicians go into politics hoping that they will make it to a top job where they can receive bribes and kickbacks all to their hearts content. So many politicians start off poor and they end up multi millionaires when they leave. Also unelected politicians like Anthony Fauci who is retiring as an extremely wealthy man, and all on a government salary.
To: The_Media_never_lie
No, and they should have to pay it back with interest to all those who were defrauded.
To: The_Media_never_lie
The Ruling Elite will pass a law which explicitly allows them to amass fortunes from stolen funds. Why wouldn’t they?
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posted on
12/13/2022 5:40:40 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
To: moovova
What a squishy little worm POS McHenry is.
I did not know who McHenry is. But, based on the interview today, that is exactly my first impression of him, too.
To: neverevergiveup
Rep. McHenry just exemplified Washington ethics.
To: The_Media_never_lie
Don’t claw-back provisions of fraud statutes apply to members of Congress?
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posted on
12/13/2022 5:59:37 AM PST
by
CommerceComet
("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
To: moovova
The correct answer should have been, since the law applies equally to all citizens, let me ask you Mr reporter, if you had received that money should you pay it back?
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posted on
12/13/2022 6:02:31 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
To: ClearCase_guy
The Ruling Elite will pass a law which explicitly allows them to amass fortunes from stolen funds.
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Who needs a law ? They just do it like in 2008
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Why wouldn’t they?
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Exactly.
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posted on
12/13/2022 6:10:13 AM PST
by
cuz1961
(USCGR Veteran )
To: The_Media_never_lie
Well they keep everything else ,D’oh
To: The_Media_never_lie
madoff’s clients who made money had to return it
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posted on
12/13/2022 7:05:01 AM PST
by
joshua c
(to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
To: The_Media_never_lie
To: joshua c
madoff’s clients who made money had to return it
Which tells me they were not Congress people. Congress operates by a different set of rules than us little people. The elites do not like the smell of the perspiring, working Wal Mart shopping folks.
To: FlyingEagle
They will not give it back. There is bi partisan support for their keeping these stolen funds. Most went to democrats, but some to republicans.
To: The_Media_never_lie
Perhaps the more important question is this:
Should corrupt politicians be able to keep stolen elections and remain in office?
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posted on
12/13/2022 7:26:48 AM PST
by
Dr. Franklin
("A republic, if you can keep it." )
To: The_Media_never_lie
I sense a class action coming where the lawyers get most of it that went to politicians and other entities.
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posted on
12/13/2022 7:30:43 AM PST
by
pas
To: The_Media_never_lie
He did add that if the rule of law says the money has to be returned it should be returned. I am in no way defending him but he did cover himself on the follow up question.
To: StAnDeliver; The_Media_never_lie; jimwatx; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; AdmSmith; ...
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posted on
12/13/2022 9:55:05 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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