[Seeking the truth]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Detore the guy who offered bribes to Traficant?

I'm pretty sure he is.

If this is the case, i.e., he committed felonies.

This, of course, always adds to one's credibility!

[MamaLucci]

Have you seen this?

an excerpt from post#11:

As he prepared to answer questions today, Torricelli faced new allegations last week of accepting unreported gifts. Richard Detore, a businessman accused of attempting to bribe convicted felon Ohio Rep. James Traficant, testified on Traficant's behalf and mixed Torricelli into the Traficant mess.

Detore, a former executive of the U.S. Aerospace Group, which was seeking federal aviation contracts, testified that the company had purchased gifts for Torricelli. In an interview afterward, Detore told Roll Call that he had seen company receipts for a $100,000 necklace and $30,000 earrings from Nieman Marcus in 1999 that he said went to a Torricelli girlfriend, but he could not provide the receipt.

[Catspaw]

Detore didn't testify at the Traficant trial. On the advice of counsel, all he would've done is take the 5th. He testified at the House hearing voluntarily, and wasn't subject to cross examination by the prosecutor.

The problem for Detore is that once he started to testify at these hearings, and with the Justice Department probing whether there was prosecutorial misconduct, and also testifying his lawyer (or lawyers) were present, he's not only opened himself up to questioning about the pending case, but also that he may have, in part, waived attorney-client privilege.

All in all, it may have been better for himself that he'd have kept his mouth shut until his trial.

[big bad easter bunny]

I watched the testimony and by your comments you did not! There is not a doubt in my mind the guy was sincere. In the trial Trafficant was allowed no witnesses and in the hearing they only allowed two on his behalf. From what they said and how they said it you would have to come to the same conclusion as I have. Trafficant was set-up! By Reno, which if you have been paying attention to her 8 years as attorney general you know it is not farfetched.

[BJungNan]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Detore the guy who offered bribes to Traficant? Accused of it maybe, but from what he said on Hannity and colmes it involved a boat that the ethics panel approved and a welder that was at Traficant's house but was the property of Cafaro - a friend loaning a welding unit.

Big crimes, huh? That's why we expel Congressman, right? Make no mistake about this, this is a sham, a clear case of using the forces of the government against the political opposition and/or irritant.