Torricelli admonished by Senate

CNN | 7/30/2002 | Jonathan Karl

[sinkspur]

Senator Robert Torricelli has been admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee in a letter sent to him late this afternoon. He has been ordered to repay the donor who sent him gifts.

[jwalsh07]

Traficant got 8 years and expelled, Torricelli the con man got a timeout. Justice anyone?

[Black Agnes]

Wow, twenty lashes with wet spaghetti! Amazing. How can he possibly stand the shame! /sarcasm

[Black Agnes]

ping!

[Lockbox]

severely admonishes........................is that like a slap on the hand, but the Libs don’t lose the seat?

[Laverne]

Party of Purjury strikes again. Who is on this so called "ethics committee"? Time for some flaming emails and phone calls.!

[jwalsh07]

the letter said Torch took the money and gifts..Torch said he did not.Evidence proves he did....unflippin'believable burn in hell Jumpin Jeffors(sp)

The evidence was there to convict Toricelli. At a minimum the receipts for his goodies and his benefactors cash witdrawals were more than enough to bring it to a grand jury.

The question is, why didn't she do it?

[not-alone]

on the same day the bill is signed to send corporate theifs to jail for 25 years and Traficant gets 8 years

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Hey can we trade Torricelli for Trafficant? at least they have evidence on Torricelli !

[Chad Fairbanks]

Yup... you did... you broke the code... ;0)

[Republic]

I agree-Jeffords has been on my mind a lot lately. He devastated our nation's chance for justice in so many ways when he jumped over to the democrats changing the majority rule in the senate. Forever I will dispise this hypocritical jerk.

[Unknown Freeper]

bump

[Drango]

He has been ordered to repay the donor who sent him gifts

Harsh treatment

[Tacis]

I'm sure his faith and the support of his friends and loving family will help him put this unfortunate incident behind him and allow him to move on. There are difficult times ahead and he must be able to address the country's issues without concern for political infighting. And, of course, after scrapping together the funds necessary to comply with the instructions of the Ethics Committee, he'll have to significantly increase his extortion activities and bribe generation efforts to recover financially.

It is a good thing that Dashole's wife will be able to provide him with some of the cash that her clients give her to help "influence" maliable Senators. It is just fortunate for all of us the the Senate Majority Leader's wife is a bag lady.

[Brytani]

Did anyone think they would throw Torricelli out? Please, be for real - Dasshole and company couldn't lose their little majority now could they. After all, since when has it been a problem with democrats to support fully criminals?

[Laverne]

Dems: Inoye (sitting in for Reid), Akaka, Lincoln.

Pubs: Roberts, Voinovich, Thomas

phone numbers and email at senate.gov

[teletech]

The Senate "ethics" committee is made up of three DemocRATs and three Republicans. As much as I'd like to chastise the DemocRATs, the three Republicans bear as much blame, unless it can be shown that Inouye had two votes.

I just e-mailed Inouye. I'll now look up the other miscreants and do the same.

I'm sick of spineless RINO'S that can't find their voices! I expected the RATS to cut and run on Torricelli.

[Kathleen]

Selective controlling legal authority.

[alloysteel]

Do you realize that this letter will remain on his PERMANENT RECORD?

Now, Torch, that wasn't so bad, was it? If you'd known things would have gone so easy, you could have gone in months ago.