Friday, November 25, 2011

CONGRESS - MILLONAIRES & WHITE COLLAR CRIMINALS

The study found that between 1998 and 2010, the amount of campaign contributions for committee heads from the industries they were supposed to be regulating increased almost 600 percent.
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OUR ENEMIES ARE STATIONED IN CONGRESS, THE HOUSE of WHORES!
THEY JOB IS TO SERVICE THEIR CORPORATE PAYMASTERS, CUT THEMSELVES DEALS, HAND OVER CAMPAIGN BRIBES AS “CONSULTANT FEES”, SABOTAGE ANY ATTEMPT AT ETHICS REFORM!
IN THE MEXICAN OCCUPIED STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ALL THE DEMS WORK EXCLUSIVELY TO BUILD THEIR FORTUNE AND FOR AMNESTY, or at least Obama’s continued non-enforcement, OPEN BORDERS, EXPANDED LA RAZA DREAM ACTS, AND NO E-VERIFY!
LA RAZA SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN IS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT POLITICIANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. SHE HAS AMASSED A VAST FORTUNE IN DEALS SHE’S PUSHED IN THE SENATE THAT FOUND THEIR WAY INTO HER HUSBAND, RICHARD C. BLUM’S POCKETS. HER BIGGEST PAYMASTERS ARE CRIMINAL BANKSTERS, LA RAZA DONORS, WELLS FARGO and BANK of AMERICA, ALONG WITH THE CRIMINAL UTILITY MONOPOLY PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC AND THE FUCKING LAWYERS!
FEINSTEIN’S SISTER IN CRIME, BARBARA BOXER, CAME TO OFFICE A POOR WOMAN AND NOW HAS AMASSED MILLIONS BY SIMPLY SIPHONING OFF CAMPAIGN FUNDS TO HER SON, DOUGLAS BOXER AS “CONSULTANT FEES”. SHE NOW REPORTS $5 MILLION IN ASSETS, WHICH IS PROBABLY ONLY SMALL PART OF HER LOOTING. THIS IS A WOMAN PUT IN OFFICE BY SPECIAL INTEREST MONEY, AND THE VOTES OF ILLEGALS! FEW HISPANDER MORE THAN BOXER!
PELOSI ALSO COLLECTS BRIBES AS “CONSULTANT FEES”.
FEINSTEIN HIRES ILLEGALS AT HER S.F. HOTEL, ONLY MILES FROM HER $16 MILLION DOLLAR WAR PROFITEER MANSION.
PELOSI HAS LONG HIRED ILLEGALS AT HER ST. HELENA, NAPA WINERY.
FOR THEIR BIG AG BIZ DONORS, FEINSTEIN-BOXER HAVE THREE (3) TIMES PUSHED FOR A “SPECIAL AMNESTY” FOR ILLEGAL FARM WORKERS, DESPITE THE FACT ONE-THIRD OF THESE EXPLOITED PEOPLE WILL END UP ON CA’s WELFARE! CA NOW PUTS OUT $20 BILLION IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS AGAINST DEFICITS OF $28 BILLION!
FEINSTEIN WAS THE BANKSTERS’ FRONT FOR THE BANKSTER WRITTEN “BANKRUPTCY REFORM” THAT PREVENTS CONSUMERS FROM GOING TO BANKRUPTCY COURTS TO UNDO THE MORTGAGE SCAMS PERPETRATED ON THEM BY FEINSTEIN DONORS WELLS FARGO and BANK of AMERICA. SHE DID THIS EVEN AS HER PAYMASTERS WELLS FARGO HAD HAD THEIR CALIFORNIA MORTGAGE LICENSE !!! REVOKED !!! SINCE 2003 FOR MORTGAGE SCAMS THE CONTINUED TO PERPETRATE ON A NATION. AFTER THEIR MORTGAGE LICENSE WAS REVOKED, WELLS FARGO SIMPLY DECLARED ITSELF ABOVE STATE LAW AND WENT ON TO DEVASTATE COMMUNITIES ALL OVER THE NATION WITH THE MORTGAGE SCAMS.
FEINSTEIN’S PAYMASTERS WELLS FARGO IS THE BIGGEST FINANCIERS OF PAY DAY LOAN SHARKS. UNTIL THE FEDS CLOSED IT DOWN, WELLS FARGO WAS ALSO THE BANKSTERS TO THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS. SERVICING LA RAZA DRUG CARTELS EVENTUALLY COST THIS BANK A MASSIVE FINE, BUT NO CRIMINAL BANKSTER WENT TO PRISON FOR BREAKING THE LAW… They never do!
FEINSTEIN AND BOXER HAVE VOTED FOR ANY AND ALL NO-STRING BANKSTER BAILOUTS, AND HAVE NEVER OPENED T HEIR BIG FAT MOUTHS ABOUT FORECLOSURES IN CA, THE SECOND LARGEST CENTER FOR FORECLOSURE IN THE NATION.
NOR HAVE THEY OPENED THEIR BIG MOUTHS ABOUT THE STAGGERING UNEMPLOYMENT IN CA, AS THERE’S ALWAYS MORE ILLEGAL CROSSING OUR BORDERS RIGHT INTO OUR JOBS, OR ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING CENTERS!
WE CAN’T SAVE OUR STATE, OR PUSH BACK THE LA RAZA OCCUPATION AND WELFARE STATE UNTIL WE RID OURSELVES OF THESE WHORES!
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Nearly half of US Congress members are millionaires
By Andre Damon
25 November 2011
Two studies published this month point to the transformation of the United States into a plutocracy.
Nearly half of Congress members are millionaires, including two thirds of Senators, according to a survey released last week by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Meanwhile, campaign contributions to the heads of congressional committees from industries they are responsible for regulating increased sixfold between 1998 and 2010.
The Center for Responsive Politics survey found that 250 out of the 535 members of congress have more than a million dollars in assets. Millionaires constitute (literally) 1 percent of the American population.
In 2010, the median net worth of a US senator averaged $2.63 million, according to the study. This figure had grown by about 11 percent since 2009, even as the income of an average American fell by between 2 and 3 percent.
Despite attempts by Democratic Party supporters to present the Democrats as defenders of working people, there are more millionaire Democratic senators (37) than Republicans (30). The median net worth of Senate Democrats was likewise higher: $2.69 million compared to $2.43 million.
The wealthiest member of Congress is Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. His estimated net worth is $448 million.
Issa was followed by Michael McCaul, a Republican Texas congressman, with $380 million; John Kerry, the former presidential candidate and Democratic senator from Massachusetts, with $231 million; Mark Warner, the Democratic senator from Virginia, with $192 million; and Herb Kohl, the Democratic Wisconsin senator, with $173 million.
Members of Congress are required to report their wealth and income, as well as that of their spouses and families. However, due to various accounting loopholes, the figures published in the survey are only approximations that could be off by hundreds of millions. For instance, the report stated that the minimum probable net worth of Darrell Issa is $195 million, while his maximum probable net worth is $700 million.
“It’s no surprise that so many people grumble about lawmakers being out-of-touch,” said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics. “Few Americans enjoy the same financial cushion maintained by most members of Congress—or the same access to market-altering information that could yield personal financial gains.”
The report also notes that 23 members of Congress have more debts than assets. Ruben Hinojosa (D-Texas) owes $2.5 million; Steve Fincher (R-Tennessee) owes $3,302,503; and Alcee L. Hastings (D-Florida) owes $4,732,002.
They need not worry, however, since Congress members know that they have lucrative lobbying and finance jobs and speakers’ fees waiting for them after concluding their careers, earning many hundreds of thousands—or millions—of dollars long after they are out of public sight.
Another study, published November 16 by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, found that the heads of various congressional committees were lavishly paid off by the industries they were supposed to be regulating.
The study found that between 1998 and 2010, the amount of campaign contributions for committee heads from the industries they were supposed to be regulating increased almost 600 percent.
“They all try to suggest their fund-rising is not tied to the industries they regulate, but this shows that it is,” Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told the New York Times. “People who are giving you that much money—it is not out of the goodness of their hearts—clearly they want something.”
The report notes that Representative Collin Peterson (D-Minnesota), the senior member of the Agriculture Committee, saw his donations from the agriculture industry grow by 711 percent between 1998 and 2010. His overall campaign contributions grew by 274 percent during that same period.
Meanwhile, House Financial Services Committee chairman Spencer Bacchus saw his contributions from financial services industries grow six fold since 1998. For his 2010 campaign, Bacchus earned two thirds of his campaign funds from industries he was supposed to be regulating.
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"I see no evidence of anything improper in this body," said Senate Rules and Administration Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D‑Calif.) during the floor debate.
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SENATORS DIVERTING CAMPAIGN FUNDS TO KIN
Senators Diverting Campaign Funds to Kin

Loophole in Ethics Rules Is One That the Senate Did Not Close Last Year

By Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 24, 2008; A04


Under long‑standing congressional ethics rules, corporations, unions and other large organizations cannot directly pay senators stipends. But their contributions to senators' election campaigns can be paid without limit to the children, spouses, in‑laws and other relatives of the lawmakers, in a practice that has aroused controversy but is fully legal.
Since 2000, at least 20 members of the Senate dipped into their campaign contributions and wrote more than half a million dollars in checks to their own relatives, typically as payment for fundraising and other campaign work, according to a new report by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

BOXER TAKES HER CAMPAIGN BRIBES AND LAUNDERS THEM THROUGH HER SON’S OFFICE. SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MARRIED TO PIMP RICHARD BLUM!

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D‑Calif.), for example, paid her son Douglas $320,409.17 in campaign donations through his company Douglas Boxer and Associates from 2001 to 2006, CREW found. Douglas Boxer is a lawyer and a 10‑year veteran of her political team, a Boxer spokesman said.
Sen. Mike Enzi (R‑Wyo.) paid his daughter‑in‑law Danielle Enzi $306,718.18 from his campaign accounts over the same period, according to the report. She was a fundraiser before she married into the Enzi family, an Enzi spokesman said. Sen. Jim Bunning (R‑Ky.) paid his daughter Amy Towles $138,933.37 over six years, CREW found. Bunning's office said it was for campaign accounting.

"It is an area that's ripe for abuse, for someone who wants to turn campaign funds into personal use," said Craig Holman, a lobbyist for the nonprofit group Public Citizen. Although most lawmakers do not abuse the practice, he said, "those campaign funds always come from special interests, and those special interests are always looking for something in return."
Information about the practice is not easy to find, because senators are required to disclose such payments only in the minutiae of their periodic public statements of campaign finance expenditure and do not flag the recipients as relatives. CREW staff compiled the data over nine months by looking at microfiche and electronic records for the 2002, 2004 and 2006 election cycles, and by tracing names.

None of these arrangements appears to violate federal election law (THESE FUCKERS MAKE THE LAWS!), noted Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director. Although lawmakers are barred from hiring relatives as staffers in their legislative offices, family members may perform campaign work, as long as the pay is reasonable and the individuals are qualified.
Yet some lawmakers are seeking to restrict payments to some family members as part of a broader effort to eliminate opportunities for conflicts and improprieties ‑‑ an effort urged by watchdog groups such as CREW after ethics scandals over the past two years, including several cases involving lawmakers' family members on political payrolls who may or may not have performed much work.
The senators' family payments were relatively small, compared with the $5.1 million that 72 House members paid from campaign funds to relatives or to relatives' companies or employers during the same period, according to CREW. "We found much worse stuff in the House," Sloan said.
Yet the Senate has become a roadblock to changing the rules on family employment. The House, in contrast, approved legislation last July to ban payments from campaign or leadership funds to candidates' spouses and to require the disclosure of campaign payments to other immediate family members. The bill was sent to the Senate, where it has stalled indefinitely.


The House acted after disclosures that former lobbyist Jack Abramoff organized campaign contributions or other payments that wound up in the hands of several lawmakers' relatives. Rep. John T. Doolittle (R‑Calif.), who announced his retirement from the House last month, is under federal investigation along with his wife, Julie, in part related to employment for her provided by Abramoff and other lobbyists.

BOXER VOTES AGAINST STOPPING BRIBES SIPHONED THROUGH RELATIVES!

Senators took up the issue before passing the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act on Jan. 18, 2007. The law tightened rules on accepting meals, private plane rides and other perks from lobbyists. But an amendment to ban the practice of paying relatives for their campaign work was rejected 54 to 41, with Boxer voting "present."

Even senators with no relatives listed in the CREW report criticized the measure, offered by Sen. David Vitter (R‑La.), as overly harsh. "I see no evidence of anything improper in this body," said Senate Rules and Administration Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D‑Calif.) during the floor debate.
But Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D‑Calif.), who sponsored the House bill, said he thinks "there's some serious self‑interest involved" in the Senate's refusal to go along. Keeping a spouse on the payroll, Schiff said, "just struck me as an inherent conflict of interest. Most people are shocked that it's not a crime, and it should be outlawed." He is still seeking a senator to take up the cause in that chamber.
Some Senate family members do work for bargain prices, at least by Washington standards. Towles, who lives in Kentucky, has kept her father's campaign books since the 1990s, said Bunning spokesman Mike Reynard. He described her as "a one‑person office." Towles's Citizens for Bunning salary rose from $19,589.10 in 2001, according to CREW, to $23,180.60 in 2006. She received an additional $4,999 through the separate Political Hall of Fame PAC, the group found.
Enzi spokesman Coy Knobel said Danielle Enzi works as a contract fundraiser for the Wyoming senator and has other political and nonprofit clients. "I think it's essential to point out the work Danielle does for Senator Enzi is paid for by donors to his campaign," as opposed to public funds, Knobel said. "If the donors don't agree with something, then they don't have to give."
The campaign political director for Sen. Michael D. Crapo (R‑Idaho), whose wife, Susan, was paid $78,514.50 over six years, said Susan Crapo "has always been the top campaign hand." Jake Ball described her duties as "organizing and carrying out big events," along with keeping Crapo's schedule and driving him to events.
"She's able to make decisions and act on things that other campaign workers would not feel as bold at doing," Ball said. "Any dollars she's paid are dollars she has earned."
Other names on the CREW list include Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D‑Del.), whose sister, Valerie Biden Owens, has managed all of his Senate campaigns, dating back to 1972. She was paid $51,286.27 in 2002, according to CREW. Her daughter Catherine Owens, also known as Casey, was paid $3,618.51 for her job as a field organizer.


Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D‑Mass.) has paid nephews Joseph and Matthew Kennedy, who co‑chaired his 2006 reelection campaign, a total of $50,073.87 from his Kennedy for Senate 2012 campaign fund.
Sen. Richard Burr (R‑N.C.) reached to a farther branch of his family tree, employing Mary T. Fauth as the treasurer of his leadership political action committee, the Next Century Fund. Fauth is the wife of Burr's wife's brother, according to a spokesman for the senator, and earned $32,013 over six years, the report found.
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JUDICIAL WATCH
JW GENERATES THE 10 MOST CORRUPT YEARLY. UNFORTUNATELY THERE’S ONLY ROOM FOR TEN WHORES ON THIS LIST.
PELOSI, OBAMA AND FEINSTEIN ARE TYPICALLY ALWAYS ON THE LIST!
FEINSTEIN’S PIMP HUSBAND, OBAMA DONOR RICHARD C. BLUM HANDS OUT BRIBES TO DEMS ALL OVER THE NATION SO THEY KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT ABOUT FEINSTEIN-BLUM’S CRIMES. FEINSTEIN PAYS BRIBES TO OBAMA, BOXER, CLINTON, KERRY, AND THE OTHER WAR WHORE, JOE LIEBERMANN.
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TEN MOST CORRUPT............................................

Unfortunately the corruption of these politicians noted is only a drop in the bucket of what they’re guilty of.

One common ground for all of them is they will all protect and cover each other’s crimes.

1. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D‑NY): In addition to her long and sordid ethics record, Senator Hillary Clinton took a lot of heat in 2007 – and rightly so – for blocking the release her official White House records. Many suspect these records contain a treasure trove of information related to her role in a number of serious Clinton‑era scandals. Moreover, in March 2007, Judicial Watch filed an ethics complaint against Senator Clinton for filing false financial disclosure forms with the U.S. Senate (again). And Hillary’s top campaign contributor, Norman Hsu, was exposed as a felon and a fugitive from justice in 2007. Hsu pleaded guilt to one count of grand theft for defrauding investors as part of a multi‑million dollar Ponzi scheme.

CLINTON IS A MAJOR LA RAZA SUPPORTER AND ADVANCED BUSH’S BIT BY BIT AMNESTY ALONG WITH CHAIN MIGRATION WHICH IS CALCULATED TO DOUBLE THE 40 MILLION ILLEGALS ALREADY HERE.
CLINTON IS ALSO VERY MUCH IN BED WITH THE SAUDIS WHOM GAVE 10 MILLION TO BILL CLINTON’S LIBRARY. NO COMMENT ON THE FACT THE SAUDIS ARE MAJOR FINANCIERS OF TERRORISM, INCLUDING BOMBERS IN IRAQ KILLING OUR PEOPLE, OR THE SAUDI FUNDED WAHHABI SCHOOLS WHICH PROMOTE ULTRA‑FASCIST MUSLIM IDEOLOGIES.
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2. Rep. John Conyers (D‑MI): Conyers reportedly repeatedly violated the law and House ethics rules, forcing his staff to serve as his personal servants, babysitters, valets and campaign workers while on the government payroll. While the House Ethics Committee investigated these allegations in 2006, and substantiated a number of the accusations against Conyers, the committee blamed the staff and required additional administrative record‑keeping and employee training. Judicial Watch obtained documentation in 2007 from a former Conyers staffer that sheds new light on the activities and conduct on the part of the Michigan congressman, which appear to be at a minimum inappropriate and likely unlawful. Judicial Watch called on the Attorney General in 2007 to investigate the matter.

3. Senator Larry Craig (R‑ID): In one of the most shocking scandals of 2007, Senator Craig was caught by police attempting to solicit sex in a Minneapolis International Airport men’s bathroom during the summer.
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4. Senator Diane Feinstein (D‑CA): As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on military construction, Feinstein reviewed military construction government contracts, some of which were ultimately awarded to URS Corporation and Perini, companies then owned by Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum. While the Pentagon ultimately awards military contracts, there is a reason for the review process. The Senate's subcommittee on Military Construction's approval carries weight. Sen. Feinstein, therefore, likely had influence over the decision making process. Senator Feinstein also attempted to undermine ethics reform in 2007, arguing in favor of a perk that allows members of Congress to book multiple airline flights and then cancel them without financial penalty. Judicial Watch’s investigation into this matter is ongoing.

DIANNE FEINSTEIN IS A MAJOR SUPPORTER OF OPEN BORDERS WITH MEXICO TO DEPRESS AMERICAN WAGES ON BEHALF OF HER CAMPAIGN DONORS, SUCH AS LA RAZA DONORS, BANK OF AMERICA AND WELLS FARGO.

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