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Thursday, March 10, 2016

Ramos Asks Clinton About Emails, Indictment

March 10, 2016 Indictment , Ramos Asks Clinton About Emails 0 Comments


By Pamela Engel, March 09, 2016 Business Insider

Univision debate moderator Jorge Ramos confronted Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday over her email scandal, directly asking her if she would drop out of the race for her party's nomination if she were indicted.

"If you get indicted, will you drop out?" he asked her.

The former secretary of state refused to answer the question.

"Oh, for goodness," she started when Ramos pressed her on the issue after she initially danced around it. "It's not going to happen. I'm not even answering that question."

The FBI has been looking into whether any classified material was mishandled during Clinton's tenure at the State Department from 2009 to 2013. The agency has said, however, that she is not a target in the investigation. 

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

"indicted for alleged illegal cash withdrawals"

May 28, 2015 Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert , Illinois 0 Comments
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Indicted By Federal Grand Jury

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By Paul Kane, Mike DeBonis and Mark Berman, May 28, 2015, Washington Post

YORKVILLE, Ill. — J. Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker in the history of the U.S. House, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges that he violated banking laws in a bid to pay $3.5 million to an unnamed person to cover up “past misconduct.”

Hastert, who has been a high-paid lobbyist in Washington since his 2007 retirement from Congress, schemed to mask more than $950,000 in withdrawals from various ac­counts in violation of federal banking laws that require the disclosure of large cash transactions, according to a seven-page indictment delivered by a grand jury in Chicago.

The indictment did not spell out the exact nature of the “prior misconduct” by Hastert, but it noted that before entering state and federal politics in 1981, Has­tert served for more than a decade as a teacher and wrestling coach at Yorkville High School in Illinois.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Sharpton owes $4.7mil and has tv show

September 24, 2014 Indictment , Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino 0 Comments
'The Situation' Failed To Pay Taxes On $8.9 Mil, Faces Indictment

By Tom Davis, Sept. 24, 2014, Patch.com

“Jersey Shore” television personality Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino and his brother, Marc Sorrentino, are expected to appear in federal court Thursday to face an indictment alleging they did not properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

The income was money Michael Sorrentino received from promotional activities.

Michael Sorrentino and his brother, Marc Sorrentino, are charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Marc and Michael Sorrentino also are charged with three and two counts, respectively, of filing false tax returns for 2010 through 2012, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino opened a Boca Tanning Club franchise earlier this year in Middletown Plaza on Route 35 in the township. His family was supposed to own and operate the tanning salon and has plans to open locations in Freehold and Manalapan this year.

Michael Sorrentino faces an additional count for allegedly failing to file a tax return for 2011. The defendants are expected to surrender to special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation and United States Marshals prior to their court appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven C. Mannion in Newark federal court, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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Monday, August 25, 2014

Get 'em while they're hot

August 25, 2014 Greg Cambell , Indictment 2 Comments
You Won’t Believe What Rick Perry Is Doing With His Mugshot…

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By Greg Cambell, Aug. 24, 2014, Tpnn.com

It seems that Texas Governor Rick Perry lives by the mantra, “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.”

The tough-talking governor who faces an indictment for abuse of power charges has turned the tables on his accusers and is actually using the arrest to raise his profile before a likely 2016 presidential run.

In a strange twist, a PAC that supports Gov. Perry is raising money from his now-famous mugshot by putting it on tee shirts and selling them for $25 apiece.

Typically, if a top political figure like Perry is forced to sit for a mugshot, the political career is pretty much over. However, the politically-oriented charges drummed-up by Democrats are so ridiculous that Republicans and Tea Partiers are having a good laugh about the whole affair and this whole so-called “scandal” has only appeared to help the Texas Governor.

Gov. Perry was indicted for abuse of power charges after he demanded the resignation of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, who was arrested for drunk driving. The DA not only was arrested, but made a complete fool of herself and the office she is supposed to represent by being belligerent to police and even had to be restrained with a “spit mask” because she was spitting at police.

Gov. Perry, who believed that those who enforce the law should be held to the same standard as criminal offenders, cut funding to Lehmberg’s department after she refused to resign. Perry cut $7.5 million using his line-item veto which is reserved for the governor’s discretion.

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

When you've lost the NYTimes...

August 20, 2014 Indictment , Nytimes.com 0 Comments
Is Gov. Rick Perry¹s Bad Judgment Really a Crime?

Texas Governor Rick Perry
By The New York Times Editorial Board, Aug. 18, 2014, Nytimes.com

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is one of the least thoughtful and most damaging state leaders in America, having done great harm to immigrants, abortion clinics and people without health insurance during his 14 years in office. But bad political judgment is not necessarily a felony, and the indictment handed up against him on Friday — given the facts so far — appears to be the product of an overzealous prosecution.

For more than a year, Mr. Perry has been seeking the resignation of the Travis County district attorney, Rosemary Lehmberg. He had good reason to do so: Ms. Lehmberg was arrested in April 2013 for driving with a blood alcohol level of more than three times the legal limit, and she verbally abused the officers who found her with an open bottle of vodka. She ranted and raved at the local jail, threatening sheriff’s deputies, and she had to be restrained in a chair with a hood over her head. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 45 days in jail. In addition to endangering people’s lives, she instantly lost her credibility as a prosecutor of drunken-driving cases.

But Ms. Lehmberg is also an elected Democrat, and as the prosecutor in Austin, the state capital, she ran the Public Integrity Unit, which investigates corruption charges against state lawmakers, often including prominent Republicans. The office, in fact, has been investigating whether several medical research grants were improperly given to people with connections to Mr. Perry. Had she stepped down, the governor might have named a Republican to replace her, so she refused.

After the arrest, Mr. Perry told Ms. Lehmberg that if she didn’t resign, he would cut the financing for the Public Integrity Unit. In June, he did just that, using his line-item veto to zero out the $7.5 million for the unit. That was a bad idea. Had county officials not stepped in with some money, the veto could have shut down an important investigative body and its cases. Mr. Perry should have left the matter to the courts, where both a criminal and a civil attempt to have her removed failed, or to the voters.

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