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FBI spokesman Harry Rodriguez showing charges against 13 people, including, Puerto Rican Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila, at San Juan, Puerto Rico, news conference today. AP Photo/Brennan Linsley Puerto Rico's Governor Anibal Acevedo. AP Photo/Brennan Linsley Robert Feldman a Philadelphia businessman closely tied to former NJ Gov. James E. McGreevey's corruption scandals has been indicted with Puerto Rico governor Anibal Acevedo Vila....13 people are named in a federal indictmentas part of an alleged conspiracy to raise campaign cash illegally...... Acevedo-Vila is a significant behind-the-scenes player in NJ politics....an ally of McGreevey, he endorsed Jon Corzine in 2005. In 2006, US...

A former lawmaker who resigned after being accused of fondling a teenager was the only candidate to file for his old House seat Monday and will return to the Arkansas Legislature next year unless a write-in or third-party candidate successfully challenges him. Former Rep. Roosevelt Dwayne Dobbins resigned and pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment in 2005 in a plea bargain reached after he was arrested on a felony sexual assault charge. The deal did not bar the North Little Rock Democrat from seeking elective office in the future, prosecutor Larry Jegley said. The head of the state Democratic Party said...

The prostitution ring that ensnared New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer stunned officers at SAPD. For some, the big surprise wasn't that a federal wiretap captured a governor arranging to meet a call girl. No, the shock was how much prostitutes were charging: $1,000 to $5,500 per hour. "That's crazy," one cop said. "Who could afford that?" Court papers say a number of wealthy men met with Emperor's Club prostitutes in New York, Washington, London, Paris, Miami, and Los Angeles. Spitzer, an affidavit says, paid $4,300 in cash. "Amazing," said a second officer. "Makes you wonder what the girl did in...

NEW YORK — New York Republicans will seek to impeach Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer if he does not resign within 48 hours, New York Assembly Republican leader James Tedisco told FOX News exclusively. "We believe it is an illegal activity he has been involved with," Tedisco said speaking on FOX's "Hannity & Colmes." "We're going to give him 24 to 48 hours to do the right thing, and the right thing is to resign because he has been compromised. If that's not the case ... we're going to ask the speaker to start impeachment proceedings," Tedisco said Monday night. -snip-

<p>Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning. He is set to make an announcement . . .</p>

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The ABC7 I-Team has the inside story of what lead up to the arrest of popular talk-radio host, Bernie Ward, on federal child pornography charges. It's an investigation you'll see Only On 7. We warn you that some of the information is graphic. Bernie Ward got indicted in December and got fired from his job at KGO Radio, effective at the end of last year. Now, police reports just obtained by the I-Team tell us who blew the whistle on Ward, and how he came to send the woman child porn, by his own admission. The...

The House of Representatives almost turned into the Fight Club Thursday night, when Democrats ruled that a GOP motion had failed even though, when the gavel fell, the electronic score board showed it winning 215-213 along with the word FINAL. The presiding officer, Rep. Mike McNulty (D., N.Y.), actually spoke over the clerk who was trying to announce the result. In the ensuing confusion several members changed their votes and the GOP measure to deny illegal aliens benefits such as food stamps then trailed 212-216. Boiling-mad Republicans stormed off the floor. The next day, their fury increased when they learned...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Marion County residents who were denied the right to vote Tuesday may never find out who directly caused their problems. County clerk Beth White said Thursday that she will not release the names of the inspectors who failed to show up, causing many precincts to open late or not at all, 6News' Norman Cox reported. White said she doesn't think anything can be gained by releasing the names. By her own estimate, about 150 who had signed up to be inspectors failed to show up, resulting in as many as 100 precincts opening as late as 4 p.m....

La.'s voters are either masochists or just stupid for re-electing JeffersonBy Tonyaa Weathersbee, Guest Columnist December 18, 2006 It's official: The people in Louisiana's 2nd Congressional That has to be the reason why they voted to send Rep. William J. Jefferson, a man with legal woes the size of the federal deficit, back to Washington recently. I'd prefer to believe that there's a psychological reason behind their choice rather than another one: That they're just straight-up stupid. This past Saturday, Jefferson, Louisiana's first black congressman since Reconstruction, overwhelmingly defeated state Rep. Karen Carter, who is also black, in a runoff...

ADAMS STREET — A former Democratic district leader Anabil Ortiz was sentenced yesterday to two-and-a-half to six years in prison for sexually assaulting his fiancé’s 13-year-old sister. Anabil Ortiz, 41, was convicted in June of second-degree sodomy, a class-D felony, which carries a maximum sentence of three to seven years.Ortiz’s victim testified that he showed her a porno movie and then performed oral sex acts similar to those depicted in the movie, until she told him to stop. Later Ortiz told her he loved her and that she should call him if she ever wanted to do it again, the...

Editorial - "Evidently Berger at one point in his October 2 visit began to raise eyebrows because of frequent bathroom breaks as well. The Washington Post which has managed to largely ignore the Berger scandal finally did admit in a piece today that Berger's behavior caught the monitor's attention early on." "After his September visit, with documents seemingly missing, the Archive monitors coded pages Berger was interested in upon his October visit. Sure enough those papers ended up missing as well. Some of which were recovered at his home at the behest of the FBI and others must have inadvertently...