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Title: Tom Coburn gives feds e-mails on John Ensign
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Politco
URL Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40163.html#ixzz0uhcburIH
Published: Jul 25, 2010
Author: Politico
Post Date: 2010-07-25 10:01:08 by go65
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Views: 457
Comments: 14
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has turned over e-mails to federal authorities investigating Sen. John Ensign’s extramarital affair with a campaign aide, the latest sign that the criminal probe into the embattled Nevada Republican is picking up steam. Coburn told POLITICO that he is cooperating with the Justice Department in the investigation of Ensign, and says he’s willing to submit himself to an interview with the FBI or Senate Select Committee on Ethics, which is conducting a parallel investigation into whether Ensign broke Senate rules. “We’ve given them everything they wanted,” Coburn said, referring to the Justice Department. Coburn would not reveal what was in the e-mails he is sharing with federal authorities, but a Coburn aide said the Oklahoma Republican turned over more than 1,200 pages of documents to the Justice Department. But Coburn’s decision to provide potential evidence to the Justice Department is another blow for Ensign, and could help federal investigators build their case against his fellow Republican colleague. Coburn is not the subject of the probe, which is focusing on Ensign’s efforts to secure lobbying work for his former aide Doug Hampton, whose wife, Cynthia, carried on a nine-month extramarital affair with Ensign that ended in August 2008. Coburn said he was not subpoenaed, but that he sent the Justice Department his relevant e-mails in response to a recent letter the investigators had sent him. He said “there weren’t many” e-mails, but he wouldn’t approximate the number of records he provided. “They haven’t asked for an interview — they asked for e-mails, that’s all,” he said. “We got one letter, we complied and fulfilled it.” At the time of Ensign’s affair, Coburn and the Nevada Republican were roommates, sharing a townhome on Capitol Hill known as the “C Street” house, run by a Christian group. Coburn would not provide details about what precisely the Justice Department’s Office of Public Integrity was seeking, and a spokesman wouldn’t comment on the investigators’ request because it’s an ongoing investigation. But, Coburn’s spokesman said, the senator provided “more information than was requested.” Sources familiar with the investigation said that the Justice Department appears to be focusing on the relationship between Hampton and Ensign — and whether the two conspired to break federal lobbying laws. One of the areas that federal investigators are looking into is a meeting between Hampton's lobbying client, Allegiant Air of Las Vegas, with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in March 2009. Allegiant and its CEO, Maurice Gallagher — who is a big financial backer of Ensign's campaigns — wanted LaHood's help with an issue related to a contract for charter flights for professional sports teams. Ensign called LaHood personally to help arrange the meeting, and then later that same day, he had lunch with Hampton, Gallagher and John Lopez, his former chief of staff, in the Senate Dining Room. Coburn also met with Hampton and Allegiant officials, according to a report in The New York Times, as did several other GOP senators. “We didn’t do anything inappropriate,” Coburn said Thursday in an interview in the Capitol. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40163.html#ixzz0uhcmVPr6
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#1. To: go65 (#0)
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The Jesus Twins = Oklahoma politicians Tom Coburn and Steve Largent Go to Bartcop to get the full skinny on both. ;} Coburn's real good friend: Quote of the Day "Sharron Angle says her campaign was part of God's plan. Anybody who says God wants them to run for senate is not only unfit to hold public office but also crazy. This woman shouldn't even be allowed into the halls of congress on a sightseeing tour. Let her stand outside with a big sign that says "God hates fags" like the rest of the bat-shit crazy street preachers." -- hopper
Oh and Coburn and his cult family are Climate Change Deniers BigTime. The Imperial City rejects Climate Bill as DC breaks heat records ny multiple degrees. 10 inch deluges now common as 100 year floods strike every year in Iowa MidWest. The thermometer hit 100 degrees in Washington and Baltimore by mid-afternoon, where the heat index was 109. In Norfolk, Va., it was 104 degrees and 108 degrees with the heat index. Elsewhere, record highs for July 24 of 97 degrees in New York and Philadelphia and 99 degrees in Newark, N.J., were reported. As temperatures soared toward 100 degrees in New Jersey, Harry Oliver was trying to make sense of it all as he waited to get sandwiches inside a Toms River convenience store.
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As usual, we can count on war to class up the joint and help bring in new, quality posters . . .
There's No Other Place Like This Place Anywhere Near This Place. So This Must Be The Place . . .
What a retarded post. Who do you see as a posting model to bring in the new posters? badeye? lol. You?
Badeye has a gay crush on ABBA
You his errand boy? I'm guessing so since you responded.
There's No Other Place Like This Place Anywhere Near This Place. So This Must Be The Place . . .
It's about your level of reasoning ability so I'm not surprised you'd guess that.
Badeye has a gay crush on ABBA
As usual, we can count on you to make a moronic point. It's well known that GOP stands for Goddam Obnoxious Perverts.
It was brutal this weekend, thank the Lord for pools. Hey, on another site a guy told me that global warming would be beneficial, now he's bitching because the farm from where he gets his produce is struggling due to lack of rain and above average heat.
;} From now on. And then when the heat breaks you get the vicious storm. A theory. Hurricanes are attracted to areas with long heat spells. It's been a while since DC to NYC had a hurricane.
We've had miserable heat in Kentucky. I think we've beat the number of 90+ degree heat days already over the previous few years.
"Lets (sic) rent a room." ~ Jethro Tull to Rotara
Lexington, Kentucky (40502) Conditions & Forecast : Weather ... HADS KENTUCKY RIVER AT LOCK 10 NEAR F KY, Winchester, KY ... Record low maximum temperature set at Bowling Green for Sunday July 25th. ... www.wunderground.com/US/KY/Lexington.html - Cached - Similar We just got a nice little rain in the Ozarks last night. High 90. Low Humidity. But everyone around us, Tulsa, Ft Smith, Joplin wil be hitting heat extremes again soon.
That hit D.C. last night, trees down everywhere.
I'm still hoping for an asteroid . . .
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#3. To: go65 (#0)
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#4. To: war (#3)
Eliot Spitzer takes a Baloney Pony ride and he's history. GOPers fuck or suck everything that moves and stay in office.
#5. To: Rudgear (#4)
As usual, we can count on war to class up the joint and help bring in new, quality posters . . .
#6. To: Abu el Banat (#5)
#7. To: Rudgear (#6)
I'm guessing so since you responded.
#8. To: Rudgear (#4)
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#9. To: mcgowanjm (#2)
The thermometer hit 100 degrees in Washington and Baltimore by mid-afternoon, where the heat index was 109. In Norfolk, Va., it was 104 degrees and 108 degrees with the heat index. Elsewhere, record highs for July 24 of 97 degrees in New York and Philadelphia and 99 degrees in Newark, N.J., were reported.
Being a Republicans means you get to choose your own reality
#10. To: go65 (#9)
Hey, on another site a guy told me that global warming would be beneficial, now he's bitching because the farm from where he gets his produce is struggling due to lack of rain and above average heat.
#11. To: mcgowanjm (#10)
#12. To: Fred Mertz (#11)
I think we've beat the number of 90+ degree heat days already over the previous few years.
#13. To: mcgowanjm (#10)
From now on. And then when the heat breaks you get the vicious storm.
Being a Republicans means you get to choose your own reality
#14. To: go65 (#13)
That hit D.C. last night
Wooo-Hooo!! Republicans are poised to win in November.
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