{"id":194830,"date":"2008-08-15T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/15\/bipartisan-corruption-update\/"},"modified":"2008-08-15T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T22:57:00","slug":"bipartisan-corruption-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/15\/bipartisan-corruption-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan Corruption Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) tried to claim that dismiss RICO charges against him, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/thecrypt\/0808\/Court_rejects_Jefferson_motion_to_dismiss_RICO_charges.html?showall\">the court was having none of it<\/a>, so the charges stand.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have revealed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/thecrypt\/0808\/Stevens_flipped_Fla_condo_for_130K_profit_on_5K_investment.html?showall\">some more Ted Stevens (R-AK) sleaze<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that he bought a condo in Florida for $5K down, when the contract required $36K, and sold it a few months later for a $130K profit&#8230;tsk, tsk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) tried to claim that dismiss RICO charges against him, but the court was having none of it, so the charges stand. Prosecutors have revealed some more Ted Stevens (R-AK) sleaze. It appears that he bought a condo in Florida for $5K down, when the contract required $36K, and sold it a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}