{"id":198167,"date":"2007-12-06T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/06\/noose-tightens-around-curt-weldon-aide-copps-plead\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T06:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T11:02:00","slug":"noose-tightens-around-curt-weldon-aide-copps-plead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/06\/noose-tightens-around-curt-weldon-aide-copps-plead\/","title":{"rendered":"Noose Tightens Around Curt Weldon: Aide Copps Plead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It should be noted that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004830.php\">Caso was Weldon&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">chief of staff<\/span><\/a>, so the ties here are pretty solid.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Former congressman Curt Weldon&#8217;s chief of staff has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges for allegedly helping a consulting firm championed by Weldon obtain federal funds and for concealing money the firm paid his wife, according to court papers filed yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Russell James Caso Jr. and a top official at the unnamed nonprofit consulting firm met repeatedly with Weldon to seek the Pennsylvania Republican&#8217;s help in obtaining federal funds for the organization&#8217;s defense projects, according to the court papers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ways things work, they got the plea, and now he has to roll on someone else.  FWIW, Weldon is identified as &#8220;Representative A&#8221; in the document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should be noted that Caso was Weldon&#8217;s chief of staff, so the ties here are pretty solid. Former congressman Curt Weldon&#8217;s chief of staff has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges for allegedly helping a consulting firm championed by Weldon obtain federal funds and for concealing money the firm paid his wife, according &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-198167","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\/198167"}],"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=198167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}