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  • Thursday, June 14, 2012

    CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT: A Comprehensive List


    This is a bit dated by now, but is still relevant and is something we NEVER should forget. Bottom line: the Republican Party today is FAR more corrupt than the Democratic Party, even if both parties have their flaws. And I for one fight against corruption in my own Democratic Party at least as much as I do against Republican corruption. But the scale of Republican corruption is so much more bloated! And here is the evidence!

    This was sent by a reader. It is a list of all Congressional Reps and Senators and Governors, etc. who have been indicted, convicted, pled guilty or otherwise brought to the attention of the legal system due to corruption. It includes both Democrats and Republicans for fairness, but in all fairness, it is hard to find the Democrats because they are so buried in the list of corrupt Republicans.

    Keep this list. Anytime some right winger claims the Republican party is the party of values, pull this out and ask just what kind of values they mean. Thanks to Tammy for this little list of society sinners...

    Corruption count
    Since January 1, 2000. Federal level, Governor level, elected and appointed officials, aides etc.
    Please let me know of any errors.

    Convicted/Pled Guilty
    --------------
    Republican Governor George Ryan - 4/17/2006 racketeering and bribery - (76 people convicted)
    Republican Governor Bob Taft - 8/18/2005. 5 counts failure to report gifts from Lobbyists
    Republican Governor John Rowland - 12/24/2004 Bribery
    Republican Governor Sonny Perdue - Campaign ethics violations

    NH GOP Chair Chuck McGee - conspiricy to make harrasing phone calls to block people from voting.
    Republican Aide Allen Raymond
    Republican James Tobin (NE Regional Dir., Bush campaign) - 12/15/05 conspiracy to commit telephone harassment, aiding and abetting of telephone harassment
    Republican Charles McGee (Executive Director of the NH Republican State Committee )
    Republican Shaun Hansen. GOP Marketing aide - conspiracy to commit telephone harassment and aiding and abetting telephone harassment

    Republican Aide Scott Falwell - racketeering, mail fraud and obstruction of justice
    Republican Aide Alexandra Prokos - Perjury
    Republican Aide Jim Ellis - 13 counts of unlawful acceptance of a corporate political contribution, money laundering
    Republican Aide John Colyandro - money laundering
    Republican Brian Hicks - bribery
    Republican Chief of Staff Peter Ellef - Bribery
    Republican Roger G. Stillwell - Interior Department official - bribed by Abramoff

    Republican Lobbyist Jack Abramoff - defrauding of American Indian tribes and corruption of public officials
    Republican Tony Rudy (lobbyist and aide to Tom Delay) - conspiricy
    Republican Representative Bob Ney - Conspiricy to defraud the United States and making false statements
    Republican Neil Volz (lobbyist and aide to Bob Ney) - bribery and corruption
    Republican William Heaton(Bob Ney's chief of staff) - Conspiricy
    Republican Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham - conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and tax evasion

    Republican David Hossein Safavian. Lying, obstruction of Justice

    Democratic Senator Traficant - bribery and forcing his aides to perform chores

    Republican Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby - two counts of perjury, one of obstruction of justice, and one of making false statements to federal investigators
    Republican Tom Noe - Laundered money for the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign, theft, corruption, party chairman and Bush Pioneer fundraiser
    Republican Gov Ernie Fletcher - 13 aides indicted
    Republican Micheal Scanlon (lobbyist and aide to Tom DeLay) - bribery
    Deputy Secretary Steven Griles - bribery, perjury, obstrcting a congressional investigation.
    Republican Congressional aide Mark Zachares - bribery


    Confessed under grant of Immunity
    ---------------------------------
    Monica Goodling, White House liaison for Alberto Gonzales - Hired federal prosecuters based upon party affiliation.


    Indicted/Charged
    ----------------
    Republican Tom Delay - conspiring to violate Texas state election law, money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Reprimanded by House Ethics Committee
    Republican Lawrence Novak
    Republican Nathan Taylor
    Kyle "Dusty" Foggo (George W Bush's CIA Executive Director) - 30 wide-ranging counts of fraud, conspiracy,
    money laundering, leaking classified information.
    Republican Lurita Alexis Doan, Administrator of the General Services Administration - violations of the Hatch act.
    Democratic Senator William Jefferson - 16 counts of racketeering, soliciting bribes and money-laundering


    Under investigation
    ---------------------------
    Republican Senator Ben Stevens - bribery, corruption
    Republican Karl Rove - Abramoff, interfering in federal investigations, obstruction of justice
    Republican President George W. Bush - Abramoff, interfering in federal investigations, obstruction of justice
    Republican Vice President Dick Cheney - Abramoff, interfering in federal investigations, obstruction of justice
    Republican Governor and RNC Chairman Haley Barbour - Laundered money from foreign governments into presidential elections. Used non-profit organizations for illegal purposes. Perjury.
    Republican Representive Mark Foley - Pediphilia
    Republican Representive Mark Reynolds - Covered up for Mark Foley
    Republican Representive Dennis Hastert - Covered up for Mark Foley
    Republican Governor Mitt Romney - Made false statements to bondholders
    Republican Governor/Ex Representative Jim Gibbons - Bribery
    Republican Attorney General Gonzales - Fired US Attorneys for prosecuting Republicans, interfering in federal investigations, obstruction of justice, lying to Congress, perjury, witness tampering.
    Republican Paul J. McNulty - Deputy Attorney General. Interfering in federal investigations, obstruction of justice, lying to Congress, perjury
    Republican Senator Pete Domenici - Used influence to get a US Attorney fired
    Republican Representative Heather Wilson - Used influence to get a US Attorney fired
    Republican Representative Tom Feeney - bribery
    Republican Representative Richard George Renzi - bribery, conflict on interest.
    Republican Representative Jerry Lewis - Accepted gifts from Lobbyists, bribery, honest services fraud, dispensation of special favors
    Republican Representative John Doolittle - Accepted money from Jack Abramoff in exchange for favors.
    Democratic Representative Alan Mollohan -May have funnelled money to his own home-state foundations
    Republican Representative Rick Renzi - bribery, sponsored legislation that dealt hundreds of millions of dollars to his father’s business
    Republican Representative Tim Murphy - Ethics violations regarding use of Congressional staff for campaign purposes.
    Republican Representative Gary Miller - Illegal land deals, tax fraud
    Republican Representative Ken Calvert - Steered federal money to projects near his private real estate developments.
    Republican Representative Don Young - bribery

    Implicated - May be under investigation
    ---------------------------------------
    Richard Shelby (REPUBLICAN SENATOR - AL)
    Robert Riley (REPUBLICAN GOVENOR- AL)
    J. D. Hayworth (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - AZ)
    Dana Rohrabacher (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - CA)
    Doug Ose (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - CA)
    Richard Pombo (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - CA)
    John Doolittle (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - CA)
    Ed Royce (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - CA)
    Scott McInnis (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - CO)
    Rob Simmons (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - CT)
    Tom Feeney (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - FL)
    Ric Keller (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - FL)
    John Isakson (REPUBLICAN SENATOR - GA)
    Saxby Chambliss (REPUBLICAN SENATOR - CA)
    Jack Kingston (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - GA)
    Michael Simpson (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - ID)
    Butch Otter (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - ID)
    Jerry Walker (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - IL)
    Dan Burton (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - IN)
    Charles Grassley (REPUBLICAN SENATOR - IA)
    BOB EHRLICH (REPUBLICAN GOVENOR- MD)
    Dave Camp (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - MI)
    Gil Gutknecht (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - MN)
    Christopher Bind (REPUBLICAN SENATOR- MO)
    Jim Talent (REPUBLICAN SENATOR- MO)
    Charles Pickering (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - MS)
    Roger Wicker (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - MS)
    Thad Cochran (REPUBLICAN SENATOR- MS)
    Dennis Rehberg (REPUBLICAN SENATOR- MT)
    Jon Christensen (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - NE)
    John Ensign (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - NV)
    Roger Wicker (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - MS)
    Jim Saxton (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - NJ)
    Frank LoBiondo (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - NJ)
    Mike Ferguson (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - NJ)
    Heather Wilson (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - NM)
    Charles Taylor (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - NC)
    Walter Jones (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - NC)
    Jean Schmidt (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - OH)
    Ralph Regula (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - OH)
    Ernest Istook (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - OK)
    James Inhofe (REPUBLICAN SENATOR- OK)
    Tom Coburn (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - OK)
    Gordon Smith (REPUBLICAN SENATOR- OR)
    Arlen Specter (REPUBLICAN SENATOR- PA)
    Curt Weldon (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - PA)
    Joe Pitts (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - PA)
    John Thune (REPUBLICAN SENATOR - SD)
    Bill Janklow (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - SD)
    Van Hilleary (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - TN)
    Chris Cannon (REPUBLICAN SENATOR- UT)
    Eric Canter (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - VA)
    Randy Forbes (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - VA)
    George Allen (REPUBLICAN SENATOR- VA)
    Tom Davis (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - VA)
    George Nethercutt (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - WA)
    Doc Hastings (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - WA)
    Dave Reichert (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - WA)
    Mark Green (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - WI)
    Paul Ryan (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - WI)
    Shelly Moore Capito (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - WV)
    Mike Enzi (REPUBLICAN SENATOR- WY)
    Barbara Cubin (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - WY)
    Robert Riley (REPUBLICAN GOVENOR - AL)
    Marilyn Musgrave (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE- CO)
    Jim Nussle (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - IA)
    Matt Blunt (REPUBLICAN GOVENTOR- MO)
    Roy Blunt (REPUBLICAN MAJORITY LEADER - MO)
    Jon Christensen (FORMER REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE- NE)
    Jeb Bradley (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - NH)
    John E Sununu (REPUBLICAN SENATOR - NH)
    Jean Schmidt (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - OH)
    Joe Wilson(REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - SC)
    Gresham Barrett (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - SC)
    Henry Brown (REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE - SC)

    Convicted: 102 Republicans. 1 Democrat
    Indicted: 5 Republicans. 1 Democrats
    Confessed under grant of Immunity: 1 Republican. 0 Democrats.
    Under investigation: 21 Republicans. 1 Democrat.
    implicated: 75 Republicans. 0 Democrats
    Total: 204 Republicans. 3 Democrats.

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