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The hypocrisy...
California state senator Leland Yee arrested in FBI sweep | Fox News
Never liked him.
California state senator Leland Yee arrested in FBI sweep | Fox News
Never liked him.
This made my day
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I read this last night and just laughed.That's the third democrat busted this year for one corruption or another...The hypocrisy...
California state senator Leland Yee arrested in FBI sweep | Fox News
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Whoa, there Chuck-a-roo. If you're gonna bring up Illinois political corruption you're gonna have to start a whole new forum. How many governors and congress men from IL are in prison? Never mind.
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Don't get him started...lol
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Otto Kerner, Jr. (D), governor from 1961 to 1968; Stratton's successor and later a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, was convicted of 17 counts of bribery, conspiracy, perjury, and income-tax charges from his time as governor, and received three years in prison and a $50,000 fine in 1973. He was prosecuted by future Illinois governor Jim Thompson.
Daniel Walker (D), governor from 1973 to 1977, was later involved in the savings and loan scandals and convicted of federal crimes related to fraudulent loans to himself from his own First American Savings & Loan Association of Oak Brook. He was sentenced to seven years in prison with five years of probation following his release.
George Ryan (R), governor from 1999 to 2003, was convicted in 2006 of corruption related to his time as Illinois Secretary of State in the 1990s, when commercial driver's licenses were issued to unqualified truckers in exchange for bribes, and one of the truckers was involved in a crash that killed six children. Former governor Jim Thompson, whom Ryan had served under as Lieutenant Governor of Illinois in the 1980s, was manager of the law firm that defended Ryan. Ryan was released in 2013.
Rod Blagojevich (D), governor from 2003 to 2009, and Ryan's successor, was impeached and removed from office by the Illinois General Assembly in a unanimous vote in January 2009 after being tied to multiple "pay to play" schemes, including attempting to sell the former Senate seat of recently elected President Barack Obama. In August 2010, he was convicted of lying to the FBI in connection with the investigation, but the jury deadlocked on 23 other charges. Blagojevich was retried on 20 counts from his 2010 trial and on June 27, 2011, Blagojevich was convicted on 17 counts of fraud, acquitted on one count and the jury was hung on two. On December 7, 2011, Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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I told you...Don't say I didn't warn ya.
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Don't forget Jesse Jr. and his wife.
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For simplicities sake I just listed the Governors, I didn't feel up to writing a book.
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