Posted on 11/21/2006 10:53:52 PM PST by xtinct
Memo to the national news media: Please, in all future stories about Rep. Alcee Hastings, stop referring to “the FBI agent” who set him up in a bribery sting when Hastings was a federal judge.
The guy who brought down Hastings wasn’t just an FBI agent, you know. He was also a gangster. He died in 2004 under guard, in custody, indicted for the murder of his boss two months before he bagged Alcee Hastings.
Meet H. Paul Rico, dead almost three years now and still involved, not just in one, but in two unfolding scandals. You’re familiar with the trial currently under way here in federal court involving the four men whom Rico framed for a 1965 gangland murder they didn’t commit. Two of them went to prison for more than 30 years, the other two died behind bars.
Asked by a congressman in 1997 if he felt bad about framing them, Rico sneered, “Whaddaya want from me, tears?”
That’s the big local Rico story. But nationally, his posthumous 15 minutes of fame involves Rep. Alcee Hastings, (D-Fla.), who is apparently going to become the next chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...
I never realised how big a crook the man is. WOW
Scary isn't it?
BTTT
not enough about Toon's pardon of a guy names Borders, who refused to testify against Hastings, allowing him to skate on the charges. The way this story is told ,it's easy to see top of the hour drive time radio headline insinuating that since Rico (what a name for a racketeer) framed so and so, he probably framed Hastings too.
Very scary indeed bump.
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