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Ex-Va. governor Robert McDonnell guilty of 11 counts of corruption

By Rosalind S. Helderman and Matt Zapotosky September 4

RICHMOND — A federal jury on Thursday found former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, guilty of public corruption — sending an emphatic message that they believed the couple sold the office once occupied by Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson to a free-spending Richmond businessman for golf outings, lavish vacations and $120,000 in sweetheart loans.

After three days of deliberations, the seven men and five women who heard weeks of gripping testimony about the ­McDonnells’ alleged misdeeds unanimously found that the couple conspired to lend the prestige of the governor’s office to Jonnie R. Williams Sr. in a nefarious exchange for his largesse.

The verdict means that Robert McDonnell, the first governor in Virginia history to be charged with a crime, now holds an even more unwanted distinction — the first to be convicted of one.

He and his wife face decades in federal prison, although their actual sentences are likely to fall well short of that. U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer set a sentencing hearing for Jan. 6.

The former governor, a onetime Republican rising star considered for the 2012 vice-presidential nomination, was convicted of all 11 corruption-related counts brought against him. In a small victory, he was acquitted of lying on loan documents.

The former first lady was convicted of eight corruption-related charges and an additional count of obstruction of justice. She, too, was acquitted of falsifying a bank record.

Ex-Va. governor Robert McDonnell guilty of 11 counts of corruption - The Washington Post

From giants of history to small-change con men. Pathetic.
 
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Oddly they have centered him out for corruption but we rarely hear of other Politicians getting nailed for such........






Former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were convicted in September of lending the prestige of the governor’s office to Richmond businessman Jonnie R. Williams Sr. in exchange for $177,000 in loans, vacations and luxury items. Maureen McDonnell’s sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 20.




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Robert F. McDonnell sentenced to two years in prison - The Washington Post
 
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EagleSmack said:
Are you making a joke? Because that was pretty funny.
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Which part is funny?


American Politics is wrought with corruption and filled with Corporate Special Interests laws and tax benefits which are rewarded with huge sums of cash for future elections and posh spots in said Corporations for family members of said Politicians yet it is considered 'lobbying'.........
 
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tay said:
American Politics is wrought with corruption and filled with Corporate Special Interests laws and tax benefits which are rewarded with huge sums of cash for future elections and posh spots in said Corporations for family members of said Politicians yet it is considered 'lobbying'.........
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I think you can remove the "american" portion of the statement. There is far too much scandal in every country when it comes to politics. Poli = Many, Tics = blood suckers.
 
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Twila said:
I think you can remove the "american" portion of the statement. There is far too much scandal in every country when it comes to politics. Poli = Many, Tics = blood suckers.
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I agree..........




Let's look at the following story.


The new Alaska Gov has fired 3 Oil people off of a steering committee that was intended for the citizens.


And further to the story of corruption, the former Governor signed a secrecy pledge to keep the dealings with the Corporate representatives, secret !!


Again I ponder why the Governor of Virginia got nailed but very few others ever do........






Walker fires three Alaska gasline board members, rejects secrecy pledge






Gov. Bill Walker took a major step toward revising the way the state is dealing with a proposed gas pipeline by removing three members of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. board and instructing two commissioners not to sign a secrecy pledge proposed by the Parnell administration.


“I am committed to a transparent government in which Alaskans are part of the conversation about our resources," Walker said in a statement released late Tuesday. “I cannot allow my cabinet members to sign confidentiality agreements meant to keep information away from the public.”


AGDC is a state-owned corporation governed by a seven-member board that includes five public members and two commissioners.


Labor Commissioner Heidi Drygas and acting Commerce Commissioner Fred Parady do not plan to sign the secrecy pledge.
Walker said he plans to appoint three new members of the board within the next month, and that he has replaced former Alaska legislator Drue Pearce, Texan and former ExxonMobil executive Richard Rabinow and former BP executive Al Bolea of Big Lake.


An AGDC meeting had been set for Thursday in Anchorage, at which the board members were to have been required to sign the secrecy pledge to be able to take part in an executive session. A statement from the governor's office said Walker wanted a "paradigm shift in the way the state will conduct business with Alaska's gas, emphasizing that there will be transparency in the process."


About the three departing members, he said, "I would like to thank each of these individuals for their service to the state of Alaska, and wish them well in their future endeavors."


Walker did not replace AGDC Chairman John Burns, a Fairbanks lawyer and former state attorney general under Gov. Sean Parnell, as well as Dave Cruz, president of the Cruz Companies and a veteran of the Alaska construction industry.


“My goal is to accelerate our efforts to bring Alaska’s gas to market, and to do so in a way that ensures Alaskans are involved and informed of the process,” Walker said.


The Parnell administration had developed a wide-ranging confidentiality agreement that it had asked legislators and others to sign if they wanted to be kept in the loop about the gas line. With this action, Walker is rejecting that approach. The oil companies had insisted on confidentiality provisions in their dealings with state officials, but it was never clear if the state could put limits on the range of information to be kept from the public.


Walker had spoken against the secrecy pledge during his campaign for governor. He has started to interview Alaska candidates for the AGDC board, the statement from his office said. That would seem to rule out more appointments from Outside, though the Legislature has said that people from Outside could serve on the board.


"My solution is to mandate public disclosure, except when a company can make a showing under legal guidelines as to why very specific information should be kept confidential. Transparency should be the rule, not the exception. There is ample precedent for this approach under Alaska law," Walker wrote in October about keeping information from the public.


Walker shakes up state gasline board, removes three members | Alaska Dispatch
 
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tay said:
Which part is funny?
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That we rarely hear of politicians being nailed.

tay said:
American Politics is wrought with corruption and filled with Corporate Special Interests laws and tax benefits which are rewarded with huge sums of cash for future elections and posh spots in said Corporations for family members of said Politicians yet it is considered 'lobbying'.........
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Oh... Whoops! Excuse me! Let me move out of the way ...


 
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