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Title: Feds Sue Larry Craig Over Bathroom Sex Sting Defense Cash
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Published: Jun 12, 2012
Author: share Nick R. Martin
Post Date: 2012-06-12 13:34:24 by Brian S
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Comments: 6
Federal campaign regulators brought the hammer down on disgraced former Sen. Larry Craig on Monday, accusing him of misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign cash to pay for his legal defense following an arrest in a Minneapolis airport bathroom sex sting. The Federal Election Commission filed a federal lawsuit against Craig, who now works as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., asking a judge to order the former lawmaker to pay back his campaign committee more than $200,000 and stop him from raiding the committee for his own personal use. Craig did not return a message left at his lobbying firm. The case stems from the Idaho Republican’s embarrassing 2007 arrest by an undercover cop in a Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport bathroom stall. The cop said Craig made sexual advances toward him by tapping his feet under the stall divider. The senator quietly pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct three months later. But after his case hit the media, Craig reversed himself and hired a team of attorneys to get his guilty plea thrown out. On Monday, the FEC alleged that Craig used campaign donations from supporters as his own personal piggy bank to to try to reverse his plea. The commission said he paid $139,952 to the Washington, D.C. law firm of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan and another $77,032 to the Minneapolis firm of Kelly & Jacobson. “These legal costs were not made in connection with his campaign for federal office or for any ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in his connection with his duties as Senator,” FEC lawyers wrote in the lawsuit. The commission also named Kaye O’Riordan, Craig’s campaign treasurer, as a defendant. Craig finished out his term and retired from the Senate in January 2009, but his campaign committee remains.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
This is bs, everyone knows that craig "wuz hacked".
No, he had a wide stance, that's the ticket.
Thanks Fred, I get my CTs confused at times. At least, I didn't say he was "hot linked".
This is as chickenshit as that Edwards case. Order him to pay the money back to his campaign fund and a fine. He has to pay extra if he wants to go to prison with group showers and open-air toilets.
This all sounds so familiar.
"If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave." Samuel Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772
Assuming this is legally correct, what is the campaign committee supposed to do with the money, considering that his political career is over? From a practical standpoint, it doesn't make much sense. Could they spend it on a shock collar that goes off when he taps his toes, and a lifetime supply of batteries?
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
#2. To: calcon (#1)
#3. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
No, he had a wide stance, that's the ticket.
#4. To: Brian S (#0)
#5. To: Brian S, calcon, TooConservative (#0)
The senator quietly pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct three months later. But after his case hit the media, Craig reversed himself and hired a team of attorneys to get his guilty plea thrown out.
#6. To: Brian S, *Yukon neo-Progressive Vermin* (#0)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
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