{"id":195144,"date":"2008-07-27T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/27\/and-the-noose-tightens-around-kurt-weldon\/"},"modified":"2008-07-27T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T19:13:00","slug":"and-the-noose-tightens-around-kurt-weldon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/27\/and-the-noose-tightens-around-kurt-weldon\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Noose Tightens Around Kurt Weldon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall that I wrote about lobbyist friend of former Congressman Curt Weldon Cecelia Grimes, who <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/curt-weldon-and-lot-of-people-around.html\">dumped her Blackberry in the trash at a at an Arbys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now she has <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/07\/evidence_dumping_lobbyist_pleads.php\">pled guilty on destruction of evidence<\/a>, and faces as much as 20 years in the slam.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that she has pled out implies some sort of deal, and I think that Kurt, who currently spends his days trying to cut shady deals on Russian military equipment, is going down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall that I wrote about lobbyist friend of former Congressman Curt Weldon Cecelia Grimes, who dumped her Blackberry in the trash at a at an Arbys. Well, now she has pled guilty on destruction of evidence, and faces as much as 20 years in the slam. The fact that she has pled out &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195144"}],"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=195144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}