{"id":195358,"date":"2008-07-14T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/14\/curt-weldon-and-a-lot-of-people-around-him-are-going-to-jail\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T04:03:00","slug":"curt-weldon-and-a-lot-of-people-around-him-are-going-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/14\/curt-weldon-and-a-lot-of-people-around-him-are-going-to-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Curt Weldon, and a Lot of People Around Him, Are Going to Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cecelia Grimes, a lobbyist with very close ties to Curt Weldon, <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/07\/subpoenaed_lobbyist_tosses_bla_1.php\">has been charged with destroying evidence related to the investigation of former Congressman Curt Weldon&#8217;s corruption<\/a>.  Among other things she:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Threw out her blackberry in a trash can at a Arbys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And in her trash at home, she threw out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grand-jury subpoenas<\/li>\n<li>Amtrak receipts<\/li>\n<li>American airline boarding passes<\/li>\n<li>Fourteen RSVP cards for a dinner honoring Weldon, which call for responses to be sent to Grimes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which the FBI recovered from her garbage.<\/p>\n<p>If she doesn&#8217;t sing, she will be going to jail for a very long time&#8230;.My guess is that she will sing, and Weldon will do time, but I&#8217;m an optimist.<\/p>\n<p>Previous posts on Weldon&#8217;s slime <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=curt+weldon\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cecelia Grimes, a lobbyist with very close ties to Curt Weldon, has been charged with destroying evidence related to the investigation of former Congressman Curt Weldon&#8217;s corruption. Among other things she: Threw out her blackberry in a trash can at a Arbys. And in her trash at home, she threw out: Grand-jury subpoenas Amtrak receipts &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195358"}],"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=195358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}