Posted on 01/14/2017 1:09:11 PM PST by AC Beach Patrol
Two liquor store owners looking for an advantage with Sunday sales bribed public officials in a scheme that involved money drops in the men’s restroom of a restaurant and bank deposits by an elected official who pulled stacks of cash from his pockets, federal prosecutors said Thursday...
...Among those charged were David Dae Sok Son, 40, the liquor agency’s administrator, and board commissioner Anuj Sud, 39, a College Park lawyer...
...Two business owners also were charged Thursday: Young Jung Paig, 62, the owner of Central Avenue Restaurant & Liquor Store and Shin Ja Lee, 55, owner of Palmer Liquor Store...
...After Hogan signed a Sunday sales bill into law in April 2015, prosecutors said Son arranged a lunch with Paig, Lee and the elected official
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Real American sounding names there, obviously old Maryland families.......
We’ve got Harry Reid on multi million dollar bribes in Utah completwith canceled checks. Yet no indictments?
In most such cases, a governor may not be fully innocent in a moral sense but is legally insulated because they get campaign support but not bribes from the officials they appoint. Contracting, liquor and gambling licensing, and bank charters are all specially prone to corruption at the state level, while roads and planning and zoning are the most prolific sources of local government corruption.
Money drops in the men’s restroom of a restaurant and bank.
See people do learn things from congressmen.
Because his wife is oriental? Maybe your wife or mother is involved.
Anyone with a cursory knowledge of Korea and politics will tell you that the class of Koreans who get involved in politics are inclined toward political corruption. And many Korean immigrants are quick to assume the same political corruption is endemic in the U.S. Hogan is her second husband and long-time political figure. I understand it's farfetched, but certainly not and argument based on race, per se.
“Real American sounding names there, obviously old Maryland families.......”
Yep.
Larry Hogan didn't support Trump, so let's see if we can get him indicted on just about anything?
Do I have that about right?
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
Well, yeah. Plus the facts of this federal corruption case where he appointed those arrested by FBI and were indicted.
Yes, God forbid some official doesn’t support Trump. We must pull the rug from under him and put another blatant commie in his place!
Well said.
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