[cyncooper]

Berger was under investigation for over a year before the public found out about it.

FBI brought into the Berger case in January 2004 and we found out about it a few months later (about a year after his first pilfering--July). He committed his crimes in July, September and October 2003.

[clyde260]

Bump, I have to go for now.

[MamaLucci]

From this July, 2004 article.....

The criminal investigation of Berger began last October but only came to light this week.

Kerry Camp Accuses White House of Berger Leak

The way I read it, for the 9 months before the news of the investigation broke, Sandy the Burglar kept up business as usual.

So, although most of official Washington knew Berger was under investigation for a serious crime, he was still advising a candidate for the presidency, and, as Liz pointed out, profiting from US government business in Iraq.

There is something extremely wrong with this picture.