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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Comey FBI gets its man, yay
No, not Meuller, a Texas legislator named Carlos Uresti who just happens to be a Democrat:
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Texas state Sen. Uresti arrested, turns himself in to FBI
Updated: May 17, 2017 10:50pm
Federal marshals lead Texas State Sen. Carlos Uresti, 53, from the Federal Building to the Federal Courthouse, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. He appeared in court after being indicted Tuesday on 13 federal counts for bribery and fraud in two separate cases.
http://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/BREAKING-Texas-state-Sen-Uresti-turns-himself-11152908.php
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And Uresti is not the first pol to be taken out by the FBI, not by a long shot. And they always seem to be Democrats. Anyone else notice a pattern in the carpet here?
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)If he's guilty, nail him.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)The FBI has clearly seen to it that his reputation is ruined, as is their usual practice, but one man's campaign contribution is another man's bribe. They also like to run stings to take out Dems they don't like, including at least two I've voted for in the last five years.
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ucrdem
(15,512 posts)How many GOP pols are scammers and crooks? All of them? But the FBI doesn't round them up and drag them through the papers regularly, at least that I've seen.
pnwmom
(109,021 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_political_corruption_probe
The Alaska political corruption probe refers to a 2003 to 2010 widespread investigation by the Public Integrity Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service into political corruption of nine then-current or former Alaskan state lawmakers, as well as Republican US Representative Don Young and then-US Senator, Republican Ted Stevens. Sometimes referred to as "The Corrupt Bastard's Club" or the "Operation Polar Pen", the investigation focused on the oil industry, fisheries and for-profit prison industries.
By the spring of 2006, the FBI set up in a Baranof hotel suite just three blocks away from the capitol building in Juneau. From their position in the hotel suite, they gathered evidence, such as a videotape of VECO's CEO Bill Allen arranging paper money for legislators, and made other observations By August 2008, the investigation resulted in indictments against six sitting or former Alaska Republican state legislators on corruption charges. In August 2008 US Senator Ted Stevens was indicted and, by October, he was convicted in Washington, D.C. on seven felony counts of failure to disclose gifts. The convictions, eight days before the November 2008 election, resulted in his narrow loss, after 40 years in the U.S. Senate, to Democrat Mark Begich. His convictions were later set aside because of prosecutorial misconduct and the United States Department of Justice ended further prosecution.
In addition to the conviction of US Senator Stevens, two executives of the VECO Corporation, an oilfield services contractor, pleaded guilty to charges of bribery and conspiracy to impede the Internal Revenue Service. Alaska businessmen/lobbyists Bill Weimar (former for-profit halfway house owner) and Bill Bobrick, as well as Jim Clark, the former governor's chief of staff, also were indicted and convicted. Clark's guilty plea and sentence were later vacated before he was ordered to report to custody. That was followed by ex-Alaska State Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch prevailing at the Supreme Court on a challenge to the Honest services fraud statute. His case was decided on June 24, 2010, in association with the Skilling v. United States and Conrad Black case decisions. Weyhrauch's federal case was remanded to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal and later dismissed.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)I also notice that the FBI does not have a right to select our representatives.
pnwmom
(109,021 posts)Illinois is a state with lots of corruption, and both Dems and Rethugs have been pursued by the FBI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_corruption_in_Illinois
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)I realize this goes to larger questions but the practical fact is that despite its professed "rigorous obedience to the Constitution of the United States" it has no Constitutional right to interfere in our elections.
pnwmom
(109,021 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)And when you get down to it the constitutionality of the entire agency is dubious but that's a question for another thread I suppose.