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Former Va. Gov. McDonnell and wife charged in gifts case
Washington Post ^ | Jan. 22, 2014 | Rosalind S. Helderman, Carol D. Leonnig and Sari Horwitz

Posted on 01/22/2014 9:47:18 AM PST by libstripper

Former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were charged Tuesday with illegally accepting gifts, luxury vacations and large loans from a wealthy Richmond area businessman who sought special treatment from state government.

Authorities allege that for nearly two years, the McDonnells repeatedly asked executive Jonnie R. Williams Sr. for loans and gifts of money, clothes, golf fees and equipment, trips, and private plane rides. The gifts and loans totaled at least $165,000.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bribery; indictment; mcdonnell
McDonnell is fighting this indictment and, given the pure mendacity of the Regime, we should not take it as gospel. However, it does look like they have him in a sticky wicket.

It's really too bad that the DOJ, especially the DOJ under Bush, didn't take a similar intererst in the similar activities of the Mahdi and Moochelle. To go down Memory Lane a ways, lovely young Moochelle got squeezed out the Illinois bar like the rotten contents of a putrescent pustule due to what's been rumored to have been suborning perjury in an insurance case.

Thereafter she got a $100,000 public relations sinecure job with a corporate affiliate of the University of Chicago where, coincidentally, the Mahdi was "teaching" at the law school as a "constitutional law lecturer," a position he heed for 12 years without writing a single academic paper, something that must be a dubious record in the history of the University of Chicago College of Law.

Then, shortly after the Mahdi was elected to the U. S. Senate, Moochelle's sinecure was upgraded to a vice presidency and her salary was just about tripled to a bit over $300,000 per year. Shortly thereafter, and simply coincidentally, the Mahdi obtained a $1,2000,000 earmark for Moochelle's employer.

Naturally, NO BRIBERY was involved in all of this, even though the infamous Blago, Illinois' former governor, was indictd for and convicted of bribery in a very similar scheme involving his wife.

1 posted on 01/22/2014 9:47:18 AM PST by libstripper
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2 posted on 01/22/2014 10:06:25 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Support Free Republic!!!)
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To: libstripper

And oddly enough, since Moocherelle moved to DC, the position has remained vacant, nor is a replacement sought.


3 posted on 01/22/2014 10:11:38 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (In the long run, we are all dead.)
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Is that true? NO ONE has replaced Moochele?


4 posted on 01/22/2014 10:18:12 AM PST by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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Absolutely. Rush mentioned it a few months ago. Being the Mahdi hath its privileges, including bribe taking.


5 posted on 01/22/2014 10:25:21 AM PST by libstripper (Asv)
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Respectfully disagree. I read somewhere that the post was filled with one of Brack’s cronies. Maybe that cat, Whitacre.


6 posted on 01/22/2014 10:53:36 AM PST by Thebaddog (2-14 feels a lot like 2-13.)
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Why doesn’t SOMEONE in Congress bring this up? If that isn’t a blatant political favor designed to influence a politician then nothing is.


7 posted on 01/22/2014 11:18:38 AM PST by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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More important, it’s probably bribery, an impeachable offense.


8 posted on 01/22/2014 2:02:21 PM PST by libstripper (Asv)
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