Hastert Promotes Reform While Having Received Dirty Money From Turkey?

[leftchick]

Vanity Fair: Turks Boasted of Payments to Hastert

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0804-06.htm

Turkish officials boasted of giving “tens of thousands of dollars in surreptious payments” to House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois) in exchange for political favors.

That allegation is contained a profile of Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) whistleblower Sibel Edmonds in the current issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

The article, “An Inconvenient Patriot,” by British writer David Rose, reports that Edmonds was asked to listen to wiretaps as part of what appeared to be an FBI public corruption probe into bribes paid to members of Congress – both Democrat and Republican.


Rose, citing “some of the wiretaps,” reports that “the FBI’s targets had arranged for tens of thousands of dollars to be paid to Hastert’s campaign funds in small checks.”


The article notes that under Federal Election Commission rules, “donations of less than $200 are not required to be itemized in public filings.”




Criminal and repuke go together quite well these days...

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. I think Hasteret opened the door. We have a right to know what

Sibel knows.

[babylonsister]

2. Oh, yes, this is fairly well-known by people here, but since

Sibel has been effectively stifled, w/o that Vanity Fair article, who'd know?
I also won't be surprised if he's eventually linked to Abramoff. He's dirty, all right.