Republican Candidate Caught Red-Handed Lobbying for Convicted Criminal Fugitives

[Galraedia]

Carlos Curbelo, the Republican candidate hoping to unseat Democrat Joe Garcia in the U.S. Congress (Florida’s 26 District in Miami), has just been caught red-handed lobbying for two convicted Ecuadorian criminal fugitives, in a bombshell revelation reported by the Miami Herald. Curbelo, who is in a political romance with Mitt Romney, who has gone as far as to travel to Miami to stump for the Congress hopeful, is in hot water and facing public pressure to drop out of the race.

The two wealthy brothers, Roberto and William Isaías, who now live in Miami, were convicted in Ecuador of embezzling over 400 million dollars from federal banks. They hired Curbelo and his government and public relations firm in order to try to turn public opinion against the Ecuadorean government and clean up their image, according to Curbelo.

As award-winning investigative journalist Elaine Del Valle wrote in a scathing piece this week:

Carlos Curbelo had to admit finally to the identity of one of his clients.

It’s not that he wanted to, mind you. Or even that he felt he had to in order to (a) pay rightful respect to his voters and the voters he seeks or (b) quell the storm that has brewed around this disclosure issue since the primary. Nah. Curbelo, who has been able to skirt disclosure laws by having his lobbying firm under his wife’s name, was forced by Jim DeFede of CBS4 to confirm that one of the clients he represented was Roberto Isaias – who was convicted of embezzlement in Ecuador and is living the political fugitive life in Miami. Curbelo took him to DC and introduced him to various legislators and federal administrators.

He didn’t call it lobbying. He called it a “PR project.” I kid you not.

But, c‘mon! We all know how this works. A lobbyist does not only advocate to elected officials on your behalf. A lobbyist also gets you access to those officials. And that is what Curbelo, indeed, did for Mr. Isaias. For Curbelo to deny he was lobbying is not only dishonest, it’s downright insulting to the people he intends to represent in Congress.”

Read more: http://www.occupydemocrats.com/republican-candidate-caught-red-handed-lobbying-for-convicted-criminal-fugitives/

[Fred Sanders]

1. Looks like Wednesday is "Expose Republican Corruption" Day....will the major media finally have to

pay attention to the political EVirus in the GOP?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/107821355

And the convicted felons, potential felons and indicted felons in the GOP Governors list just for starters, the list is long and growing exponentionally throughout the rotten corpse of a once half decent party.

[Faux pas]

2. Kickin'

and gleefully saving for later.