Democrat Wives Have Their Hands in the Cookie Jar
William Jefferson, who was found with cash bribes in his freezer and was convicted of 16 counts of corruption on June 4, 2007 by a federal grand jury, is currently awaiting trial in Virginia after losing re-election.
It would come as no surprise that a wife, living with a man hording cash in his freezer and taking bribes left and right, would be in the dark about her husband’s shady activities.
Investigators had the same sentiments and upon further invesigtations found that she did in fact play a part in Jefferson’s scandals.
A firm owned by the wife of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., earned thousands of dollars but incurred no business expenses, an accountant said.
Jack Swetland, a New Orleans accountant who had worked with the Jeffersons since 1982, testified Monday at William Jefferson’s bribery and fraud trial in Alexandria, Va., The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported Tuesday.
Prosecutors allege Andrea Jefferson’s ANJ consulting firm was a shell company that accepted payments from companies who had sought William Jefferson’s help in brokering deals in West Africa.
John Conyers, head of the House Judiciary Committee, is having some family troubles. His wife pleaded guilty to corruption and bribery charges last week. We reported on the allegations earlier – here.
Monica Conyers, the wife of the powerful chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., pleaded guilty to one count of bribery in a federal court in Detroit, this morning.
According to court documents, in late 2007, Mrs. Conyers, president pro tem of the Detroit City Council, twice accepted envelopes filled with cash, once in the parking lot of a Detroit McDonalds.
Mrs. Conyers faces up to 5 year in prison, three years supervised release and/or a $250,000 fine. Calls to an attorney for Mrs. Conyers were not immediately returned.
Wouldn’t you think that John Conyers, who recently said he would not investigate the corrupt activities of ACORN, due to the powers that be (which were him), should step down? If a man’s wife is facing the possibility of up to 5 years in prison and has had to resign from the Detroit City Council, I do not believe that he should be anywhere near a Judiciary Committee.
The corruption is just astounding. Big Government truly does breed Big Corruption!
More Obama Cover-Ups, At This Point What’s New?
Obama has become quite good at covering up incidents, but I guess you have to be good if you want to be engaged in the Chicago Political MachineMafia… That’s why the latest cover-up by the EPA for recent emails regarding some interesting findings regarding GloBull Warming, and the latest Obama administration cover-up of the canning of the bio-ethics panel for embryonic stem cell research, come as no surprise.
The EPA must be aware that something fishy is going on with the global warming alarmism. Why else would they cover up recent emails, found by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, that voiced the opposite concerns of what Democrats, the UN, and the EPA would have you believe?
CEI is submitting a set of four EPA emails, dated March 12-17, 2009, which indicate that a significant internal critique of EPA’s position on Endangerment was essentially put under wraps and concealed. The study was barred from being circulated within EPA, it was never disclosed to the public, and it was not placed in the docket of this proceeding. The emails further show that the study was treated in this manner not because of any problem with its quality, but for political reasons.
CEI hereby requests that EPA make this study public, place it into the docket, and either extend or reopen the comment period to allow public response to this new study. We also request that EPA publicly declare that it will engage in no reprisals against the author of the study, who has worked at EPA for over 35 years.
The emails, attached hereto, consist of the following:
1) a March 12 email from Al McGartland, Office Director of EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), to Alan Carlin, Senior Operations Research Analyst at NCEE, forbidding him from speaking to anyone outside NCEE on endangerment issues;
2) a March 16 email from Mr. Carlin to another NCEE economist, with a cc to Mr. McGartland and two other NCEE staffers, requesting that his study be forwarded to EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, which directs EPA’s climate change program. The email notes the quantity of peer-reviewed references in the study, and defends its inclusion of new research as well. It states Mr. Carlin’s view that “the critical attribute of good science is its correspondence to observable data rather than where it appears in
the technical literature.” It goes on to point out that the new studies “explain much of the observational data that have been collected which cannot be explained by the IPCC models.” (Emphases added); [Read More Here.]
This data will never reach the media, and even if it did, most far left media outlets will not disclose the information anyway. Nobody wants to destroy the scheme that has been built up over the last few years. The jig is up Democrats, but they have too much money to make from cap and tax and passing Green legislation. They would rather pad their pockets than release this information to the American public.
The latest firing and cover-up happens to involve the bio-ethics panel for embryonic stem cell research. Bush implemented this panel for opposing views and ethics regarding that specific type of research. The panel expired in September and only had one other meeting before that time, however, Obama fired he panel before allowing them to expire appropriately when their time was up. This sounds very familiar to the IGs who happened to disagree with Obama or were investigating his cronies. He fired those IGs and now this panel before their contracts expired. I’m not sure why Obama feels it so difficult to allow the law to reign supreme and just not renew the contracts when time is up. There is something extremely suspicious about all of this.
The White House has dismissed the members of the President’s US Council on Bioethics just a few months before their mandate expires, indicating their services are no longer required by the President and that he is looking for a more “practical” advisory board.
So, if you don’t agree with Obama and his agenda count yourself on the enemy list – you are bound to get fired or savaged by his media minions.
Obama The Smoker, Signs Anti-Smoking Legislation
More government control heading our way! The government will be regulating everything from our cars, to our food, and now our vices. I guess I should feel sorry for Obama today after he compared his own smoking habit to recovering alcoholics who actually have a disease…
Lamenting his first teenage cigarette, President Barack Obama ruefully admitted on Monday that he’s spent his adult life fighting the habit. Then he signed the nation’s toughest anti-smoking law, aiming to keep thousands of other teens from getting hooked.
When has it been the government’s or the President’s job to parent others’ children? Are we basically harvesting babies like in the Matrix, where there really aren’t any parents? This is another example of government enabling which hinders those from learning from their mistakes or allows them to continue making mistakes, like bad parenting; because they get bailed out. “Don’t worry about teaching your children the dangers of smoking, drinking, and doing drugs, let the government handle it for you!”
Obama praised the historic legislation, which gives the Food and Drug Administration unprecedented authority to regulate what goes into tobacco products, to make public the ingredients and to prohibit marketing campaigns geared toward children.
Great! The FDA is so incompetent that I’m sure cigarettes will be regulated well… And what decade is Obama living in? When have there been marketing campaigns geared towards children in the recent past? When I was a child they still had commercials on television, but not any longer – they were banned a while back, during another tobacco industry witch-hunt. There may be ads that are in magazines, but I also think they have to be adult magazines if I am correct… I also may be wrong, I haven’t seen very many cigarette ads in magazines and I definitely know magazines! (My hair takes 3 hrs. at the salon) 
Another point to note is Obama’s empty promise to not raise taxes or hurt the lower, lower-middle, or middle class. This cigarette tax increase, ban of menthol/flavored/lite cigarettes and increased regulation by the government, does exactly that.
The black community voted for Obama by an overwhelming majority, approximately 97% of the community cast a ballot for Barack. Out of that population nearly 75% who smoke, smoke menthol’s – therefore, he has hurt his own or, by his words, his own community. I truly hope some begin to wake up.
*This will also negatively impact the economy – anytime you affect one sector or industry, it will affect the rest of the market.
Good For IG Walpin! – Requests a Congressional Hearing
Gerald Walpin who, from his account and others, believes he was illegally fired is requesting a Congressional hearing to investigate Obama and his administration.
“I certainly don’t know the facts about any of the other IGs. But I don’t think you can find in the history of IGs such an administration attack on and terminating IGs before the last few weeks,” Gerald Walpin, the recently fired inspector general of the Corporation of National and Community Service, told CNSNews.com on Friday. The agency runs the youth volunteer program AmeriCorps.
Obama fired Walpin after Walpin led an investigation into the alleged misuse of federal grants by the St. Hope Academy, a charity led by Kevin Johnson, now the mayor of Sacramento.[And major Obama supporter]
Federal money intended for the charity allegedly was used to pay for political activities and to run personal errands for Johnson, according to the IG’s report. Johnson and St. Hope agreed to repay half of the $847,000 in grants they received from AmeriCorps between 2004 and 2007.
“I do know the facts to my termination,” said Walpin. “I did my job as I was supposed to do it, honestly reporting on facts and conclusions that my staff, who are career civil servants had discovered [and] had reported to me.”
Thank goodness he isn’t taking this lying down! We need more people like Gerald Walpin who are willing to stand on principle and not back down in the face of adversity.
