Lobbyists under scrutiny linked to Capuano donors

Boston Globe ^ | April 2, 2009 | Alan Wirzbicki

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Earmarks went to Mass. clients

WASHINGTON - US Representative Michael E. Capuano, Democrat of Somerville, received more than $60,000 in campaign contributions from donors associated with a high-powered lobbying firm at the center of an FBI investigation, and inserted earmarks for three of the firm's Massachusetts clients into recent defense spending bills.

Representative Capuano's earmarks to the firm's clients totaled $4.4 million for defense-related projects.

EARMARK TOTALS The firm, the PMA Group, is reportedly under federal scrutiny for using straw donors to funnel illegal campaign contributions to dozens of lawmakers. In an interview with the Globe, Capuano said that he has no way of knowing if the donations his campaign received were made illegally, but that he has given $60,500 in donations from the firm's

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Must be a going out of business sale on at the Globe. Suddenly they're printing all kinds of stories on (D)legislative crooks and mentioning their affiliation in the lead.

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Nahh.. They are printing this crap now so it goes under the radar. Then they can say they are non-partisan.

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Capuano was really quiet until the Pima shootings and he was the first Congresscritter to start mouthing off about Republican and Conservative rhetoric and how it had escalated out of bounds and might have contributed to Jared's big shoot out.

Yesterday he went out to a demonstration in Wisconsin and told the union members there that they had to go out and "get bloody".

Today he apologized.

NO WONDER this guy is quiet ~ if this is how he talks when he gets coverage his "clients" would probably kill him if this went on for long.

Is his problem that he's MOB or that he's just a union thug who thinks he's a statesman?