Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Remember when there was a new sheriff in town?
Recently we have received a series of announcements making it clear where the new sheriff was recruited from.
* It's OK if you are in Congress
This month, lawyers for Senator John Ensign, Republican of Nevada, announced that federal prosecutors had told them they would not charge the senator with conspiring to help a former aide, with whose wife he had had an extramarital affair, violate a lobbying law.Somewhere along the line the federal criminal code was modified to provide immunity to members of America's most diverse criminal gang, Congress. Perhaps, over the entrance to the Dept of Justice they should carve the letters IOKIYAIC*. The formerly exclusive Republican club is now open to Democrats.
A few days later, lawyers for Representative Jerry Lewis, Republican of California, facing scrutiny for steering government spending to campaign donors, said they were told that their client would not be charged, either.
Other federal corruption investigations known to have been ended without charges this year had focused on Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader and Republican of Texas; Representative Don Young, Republican of Alaska; and Representative Alan B. Mollohan, Democrat of West Virginia.
* It's OK if you are in Congress
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