[Jewels1091]

Where did you find this???? If this gets national I hope his bacon is cooked, but good!!!! Maybe he can look at the world from the inside of a jail cell.

[SheLion]

This will be interesting to watch unfold.

[Dog]

Source and Link????

[SGCOS]

Yawn...Typical behaviour of a Unites States senator.

[steve50]

Didn't a grand jury and the ethics committee just pass on this crook?

[Tai_Chung]

It's only lies to a Grand Jury and threats to a woman. I'm sure he did it because he was embarrassed for his family. Besides, this is a personal matter. He wants to get back to the business of New Jersey and the country.

Nothing to see here, move along.

[areafiftyone]

Aide to donor claims Torricelli berated her for aiding probers

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- An aide to an illegal campaign donor was sentenced to three years' probation Monday, telling a federal judge that Sen. Robert Torricelli berated her after she began cooperating with investigators examining the financing of his 1996 campaign.

"Torricelli called me on the phone, yelling at me, telling me to shut up," Audrey Yu said during her sentencing hearing. "It would be so shameful if we have a senator like Torricelli representing our nation."

Yu, 34, worked for businessman David Chang, the contributor who admitted funneling $53,700 to the 1996 campaign. She pleaded guilty in June 2000 to obstructing the Justice Department investigation into Chang's contributions by lying to a grand jury.

"Torricelli is still lying about his relationship with David Chang," Yu told U.S. District Judge Alfred M. Wolin.

Wolin agreed with prosecutors that Yu provided substantial assistance and sentenced her to probation.

Torricelli's office had no immediate response when told of Yu's statements.

Torricelli, D-N.J., has said he was unaware of illegal contributions. He has said Chang was his friend, but became "every elected official's worst nightmare."

The three-year investigation into the senator's finances was closed in January without any criminal charges against Torricelli, but prosecutors gave their material to the Senate ethics committee.

Torricelli is running for a second term in November's election.

In a related matter Monday, Wolin also sentenced Cha-Kuek "Charles" Koo, an executive with a South Korean conglomerate, to one year probation and a $5,000 fine for making illegal donations to the 1996 Torricelli campaign.

Koo, 56, pleaded guilty in June 2000 and cooperated with investigators. Koo admitted he recruited eight "straw" donors at Chang's behest so their enterprises might prosper if Torricelli was elected. Chang gave him cash to reimburse the donors, Koo said.

Koo is among seven people who admitted making illegal donations to the 1996 campaign. Torricelli, then a congressman from Bergen County, raised $9.2 million to defeat Rep. Richard A. Zimmer.

Here is the link: Aide to donor claims Torricelli berated her for aiding probers

[Dante3]

bttt

[dead]

You'd think the GOP in New Jersey might have at least one recognizable, respectable, and motivated candidate to defeat Torricelli this year, but they've got nothing but slightly-less-corrupt party hacks and grifters.