TelegraphUK: Prosecutor Of Mafia Now Has Bush In His Sights

[Hissyspit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/03/wuselec103.xml

Mafia prosecutor now has Bush in his sights
By Tim Shipman in Washington, Sunday Telegraph

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Preet Bharara is a 38-year-old Indian-American lawyer, who made his name prosecuting the bosses of the Gambino and Colombo crime families in New York. Mr. Bharara is spearheading the Democrat campaign to uncover corruption, mismanagement, incompetence and financial impropriety at the heart of the Bush administration.

In a flurry of subpoenas and press releases, the Democrats have launched 36 investigations, holding about 220 committee hearings since seizing control of Congress last November - and forcing the resignations of six Bush administration officials. It is as if several dozen Hutton inquiries had started at once.

Mr Bharara is already well on his way to claiming his first prominent political scalp through his role as senior counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, one of three bodies conducting inquiries into the sacking by the Bush administration of eight US lawyers.

The hearings generated damaging headlines for the Bush administration as they investigated accusations against Alberto Gonzales, the attorney general, that government lawyers were dismissed if they investigated Republicans or failed to investigate Democrats.

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[alfredo]

1. Kick and Recommend

[kansasblue]

2. Another post noted DUers are a little down..... may we just need to give

to give the investigations more time.

I hope more is coming.

[Jim Sagle]

3. KNR

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Perhaps they are going to go for a RICO statue

[IChing]

8. I did a thread on that which got to the front page

a long time ago, stating the law and the crimes
applicable to the Rico statue.



It is a criminal conspiracy.

I have a toothache right now
and that tooth needs to be pulled
even though it is a major citizen of the teeth
that I have left in my mouth.

The problem right now the justice department
is the dentist I have to rely upon who is under
investigation for malpractice.






nominated thread good news.

[Hissyspit]

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[Disturbed]

6. Two mob guys on the orders of their boss go to a hospital

at night to obtain a signature from an ailing AG, who is not actually the "official" AG at that time, to OK an Illegal Activity. That sounds like a Rico Crime to me.

[blogslut]

7. nice

Notice how it took a U.K. story to bring Bharara to our attention?

[Hissyspit]

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