What this "proves" is that this one person is corrupt.

Go USA

Come on now . Look under the rug a little deeper . This guy was just the latest to get caught . The higher up they go the harder they are to catch , and the more the law protects them.

bob

This guy pissed some one off, so he gets to be the sacrificial lamb. Just like the one case of insider trading they just prosecuted.

After his acquittal, Boyland said he was looking forward to getting back to work.

Well, at least he was honest about it.

Today's politicians make Nixon look like a saint. May he rest in peace.

To 'Go USA', you know that one bug you see in your house?...that ain't all.

Quite frankly, it makes no difference if he has a (D) or (R) following his name. A crook is a crook.

Does anyone really think that the majority of politician aren't corrupt whether they be Democrat, Republican, black, white or yellow? Why do you think they would spend a million dollars to get a hundred thousand dollar job? Some of them spend millions of their own money to get a political job. They know that it will be returned ten folds for their vote if elected.

@ Seldom Seen Sam Colorado

Did you forget the biggest crook of them all in congress by the name of Phil Gramm who happens to be a Republican? You know... the one responsible for the deregulation of the banking industry that caused the economic collapse.

It's about time, right now, that our corrupt politicians do the time instead of doing a plea bargain where they get away with a slap and no admission of guilt or wrongdoing. This trend of a mere 'my bad' and they are right back at it again has to be reversed.

Nixon a saint, you've got to be kidding me. All you have to think of is Bebe Rebozo(sp) and Robert Vesco (sp).

As for politicians accused of taking brides - how do the name Duke Cunnignham and Tom Delay strike you. I think Cunningham is still in prison.

No, as the first commentator stated, it shows no remorse from the first case and has now influenced a second glance from the feds. I don't understand why America as a whole cannot see this greed and corruption. Any member of government that signs a pledge with an individual, that goes against the US Constitution should be tried and punished old school. Hang em or shoot em! I don't care if you are Republican or Democrat, it is your duty as an American to protect the Constitution, yes, even you fat lazy slobs that watch FoxNews. (For those of you who are brainwashed or braindead, I am referring to the pledge signed by Norquist and ALL Republicans, traitorous bastards need to die.)

It just shows greed knows no bounds. How about the OCCUPY MOVEMENT move to Washington DC and occupy Congress or the Whitehouse or their local greedy politicians.

The amount of crooked R's and D's is probably the same percentage, no one is arguing that.

It is the fact that MSNBC has a history of highlighting the fact when it is an R and omitting it when it is a D.

Larry-2260635

You know... the one responsible for the deregulation of the banking industry that caused the economic collapse.

No, that is incorrect. The Deregulation of the banking industry was started by the the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980. It was passes by a Democratically Controlled House and Senate and then signed into law by none other than Jimmy the Peanut. I agree that Phil Gramm was a crook, but the blood is not only on his hands. He was instrumental in removing the last vestiges of the Glass-Steagall regulation, but It started with Carter and continued with Reagan, GHW Bush, and Clinton. There is plenty of blame to go around fro all politicians and parties.

If he's guilty throw the book at him.

Nah, let him go, he is a democrat. That wasn't mentioned in the article, was it? MSNBC.....wonder why his party affiliation wasn't mentioned??

THe :Liberal Media is a myth which owes its persistence to two factors:

1.) The paranoia which afflicts many on the right

2.) Among the more mentally agile it's a form of gamesmanship - similar to the way Phil jackson would work tghe refs before a playoff series.

The liberal media ignoring the party of a democrat in trouble, while parrotting the party affiliation of each in trouble republican is manifested everyday here on MSNBC. That is the essence of bias, therefore it is not a myth.

never noticed dasvet - I guess you see what you're looking for.

Purnell, can you not see?

Politician...corruption...this is news HOW?

Another one bites the dust. Many more to go...A corrupt govt. we have elected. Don't they make us so proud?

Following several years in which many observers noted promotion of liberal political positions and emergence of politically partisan views in the channel's programming, MSNBC publicly acknowledged its progressivism in October 2010 while launching a marketing campaign with the tagline "Lean Forward."[10][11][12][13][14][15][16] In a June 2011 interview, MSNBC president Phil Griffin stated that "MSNBC has established a sensibility, a position, a platform" and that "MSNBC is really the place to go for progressives."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC

You are looking pretty foolish there Purn but that is nothing new for a Liberal. I knew Boyland was one as soon as I read BSDNC's title for the article. If he was a Republican it would have been splashed in bold type.

dasvet - just because you happen to be eating vanilla ice cream at a particular moment is no reason to think all ice cream is vanilla. This whining about the media is pathetic - news outlets - including newspapers, magazines, tv stations, etc. are out to make a profit - if they can make it by saying the moon is made of green cheese - then guess what? The media follows the dialectical process - it doesn't lead it.

If you want to look at who is more successful at using the media the last twenty five years I'd have to give the nod the the Republicans. How else other than with a superb grasp of propaganda are you going to get a guy making 9.75 an hour (if he's lucky enough to have a job) to align his interests with that of paper shuffling millionaires?

True, Go USA, but this one is black, so they're not allowed to say anything.

I don't believe republicans are any better.

@AlMightyDollar, I agree with you. In fact I believe there isn't any GD politician that isn't as crooked as the day is long and night is night.

I guessed that he was a Democrat was never mentioned. If he was a Republican it would have been Mentioned at least ten times.

They are all Crooks.

I remember when I was younger and our Sheriff was making about $12,000. a year and he lived in a $75,000. house. Which was a lot back than. How did he do it, All the gambling place paid him $500. a month to leave them alone.

I was in a place one night that got raided. The old man who owned the place went to the Phine made a call. He called the Police to the Phone . The policemen gave him back the phone and left.

Many politicians are self serving or perhaps corrupt, but the liberal leaning media does its best to prop up the Democratic party by rarely identifying a Democrat when they're involved in corruption. By contrast, they literally BEG people to help them dig up dirt on Republicans, as we saw with Sarah Palin's emails and just yesterday regarding Newt Gingrich.

Can you imagine if Sarah Palin was in charge of MF Global and $600M turned up missing. Here's how the NY Times described the former Democratic Senator and Democratic Governor of NJ:

"Mr. Corzine joined MF Global in March 2010 following a failed re-election bid for New Jersey governor."

Funny, no mention at all of him being a Democrat. Guess this is "Hope and Change" in the media.

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When a politician is below the level of congressman or senator - the party affiliation is rarely mentioned.

What if hehad been an Independent. Where could we go on that tip, we only have about five Independents in both houses, why we could get a posse together round them all up and hang every blessed one of them. That would show them Independents we won't stand for corruption in office. Make good headlines for the Republicans and the Democrats too. Its called deflection. If the charges are proved in a COURT of LAW he should have the book thrown at him and piled on him so high that he couldn't dig himself out. But I dream of a day when that will be the standard for any politician of whatever affiliation he choses to align himself with, if he steals not only money but the public trust.

Hmm, so time to set some new rules for ALL political offices. They can't run until they're at least 40 and have real-world work experience, they have to have served at least two years in the military on active duty, limits to two to four terms depending on the term length, cannot accept contributions from ANYONE other than private individuals, abolish political parties completely...did I miss anything?

as long as the rich and powerful are allowed to buy politicans this kind of crime will continue

just one silly question have any of you media bashers considered who really owns the media.

Look it up it's not that hard

It seems a bit redundant, New York City Democrat. What else would he be?

Larry-2260635

There was no mention of party.

I'm sure that FOX has broadcasted that little bit of information ever since the story hit the news. Of course if he had been a Republican it would not have been mentioned at all.

Larry...I don't particularly care for Fox new but I have to say they would have mentioned if he was Republican........MSNBC sometimes mentions way down in the story that the person was Democrat but that was omitted completely in this story. I have gotten to where I go to Politco for my news.....this is really bad when you can tell what political party they side with, just by reading or listening to their reporting. I remember the days of Walter Cronkite, he gave you the news, not his interpretation of the news. I have started watching Diane Sawyer (I know I am surprised too!!) she seems to be trying to just report the news and I really appreciate that! I no longer watch Brian Williams or whomever that is now on CBS and of course don't watch Fox News either.

I'm sure there is a lot of truth in any news story that you read...but it's hard to find beneath all the mud-slinging and other partisan garbage. The one issue I have with Fox isn't the spin, but their tendency to be doomsayers and otherwise overly dramatic.

I don't particularly care for Fox new but I have to say they would have mentioned if he was Republican......

Actually, Fox would put that republican up on the screen with a D next to his name. It has been done MULTIPLE times by them.

Many articles do not mention the party, by the way, in different medias. There are plenty of times I had to look up the party of the person, and sometimes it is a dem, sometimes a repub.

Really the man being black has nothing to do with it! They don't report White or Black Republican do they? They should have stated however what party he belonged to since they share that little tid bit when a Republican gets caught doing something wrong

Sure, they report when they're black. Every time said black man decides to use the race card and claim he's being picked on BECAUSE of his race. How often do you see a white person claiming that they're being falsely accused because of their race?

TWO THUMBS UP! Well, not the hanging part, but DEFINITELY the double punishment. Of course, that means that we'd have to build about a dozen more prisons just to hold all the crooked politicians.

The reason the republican don't have to be caught with their hands in the cookie jar is they get their bribes in other ways. Multimillion dollar book deals, with ghost writter, and the book sells maybe ten thousand copies. Or they are hired after leaving office with cushy jobs as lobbyist or consultants. During office they are invited at some companies expense on an all paid, everything, vacation anywhere in the world they want to go. Their accounting fees are gratis by the top firms in the Nation. No Republican pays for a meal in Washington DC and they eat at the most expensive restaurants in the Capital. Gratis or bribes need not always be money under the table or solicited a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.

A rather critical detail to omit from a story about a politician

No it isn't. Until people stop thinking only about if a person has a D or R after Their name, this country is doomed.

The only thing that is important, it that this is a politician that is corrupt. If we would line up all the politicians that were ever caught doing wrong, we would have an even split between the R's and the D's.

Also, of course this site left out party affiliation. It leans left. A right leaning site would downplay the affiliation if it was a Republican. It's a rather pointless thing to bring up as it is already common knowledge.

I don't care what party a politician aligns with. All I care about is if that politician is for the people or not. Last I checked, no party has been for the people lately.

Your key word is assume. I guess you know the old dogarel, when you assume you make an ass of me, the me being you. Thats also the key to your brain fog you don't do much thinking yopu do a hellava lot of assuming. And I don't cut from the lefty manifesto I find it as devoid of intelligence as the righty manifesto. I examine the facts as they present themselves from both sides and I generally end up with a conclusion which is somewhere in the middle, but it is a thoughtout process and not an assumption. I happen to believe a person is innocent until proven guilty, but I also know if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, I can ASSUME it is a duck

Uh, Norton, I have a problem with your list. Since when are book deals illegal or unethical? Or being a lobbyist, or a consultant? More than half of the "bribes" you listed are perfectly legal, and in most circles, acceptable. This Democrat blatantly broke the law, and you're comparing it to being a consultant?

Ah, give it a rest! If he was a Republican you would be blasting the liberal media for singling him out and explaining why this really wasn't his fault.

I'm not defending the man - he's a crooked politician and should be run out of town. But crooked politicians come in both flavors: D and R.

Try and tell me if you can, that Bush and Cheney and a lot of other Republicans and a lot of other Democrats didn't become multimillionaires while in office. Bush got somewhere around two hundred grand per year as President, Cheney a little less but both these men accumulated millions in assets while in office. Being elected into the House of Representatives for three terms insures that you will become a millionaire before you leave office if you vote right. A senator is given the same status on one term all he has to do is toe the party line. Deals fall your way, buy such and such a stock at ten dollars, wait six months and sell it and on borrowed money. Have your uncle buy a parcel of land in Plodunk, The government needs that land at ten times his cost to in a year, and on 100 percent borrowed money. Put your name on this book, not to worry its already been written, and we'll pay you a million dolars up front. The office, any office is overwhelmed with free money that can't be traced as a bribe if you belong to the right boys club. Hoover didn't remain in charge of the FBI for all of those years without having the goods on a lot of shady politicians. Its called prosecutorial descretion. A robber is a robber no matter what affiliation he belongs to and a bribe is a bribe no matter how it is fashioned as a payment.

N C Thornton. Best comment so far.

Wealthy from what source, Bush's daddy was not a millionaire when he was a pilot in the navy, he became only moderately wealthy in office, so tell me Rebuttal53, incidently is that your IQ, where did his wealth come from. He was not an astute businessman and fumbled the ball on many of his projects before he ever decided to get into politics and run off his daddy's coattails. We don't have kingdoms in America but we do have financial and political dynasties on both sides of the aisle. You can become a millionaire out of your daddy's pockets or you make it into those ranks the old fashioned way, stealing. I ask you again, how did Bush or Cheney accumulate their millions before they got into the Presidential pregnancy. Common, we maggots would like to know.

moderately wealthy? Have you seen the Kennebunkport compound of Bush?

Thornton, once again, you've listed a bunch of ways to make money that are not in any way illegal. And I notice that much as you protest otherwise, you're targeting Republicans. How wealthy are the Clintons? How did they earn that wealth? What about Gore, running around scaring everyone with global warming and making himself a mint off of the work of other people? If you're going to target politicians, do it fairly.

Saylor do you have a clue about who owns all of the media?

bop, rich people own the media, democrats and republican. Poor people don't, and I'll let you decide why.

thay are a third world rag

Normal omission by a biased media, that is pushing THEIR agenda.

Just like all the other outets.

Mr rebuttal53, why is eveyone who has a contrary opinion to yours, a twit. I am reminded of Cyrano de Bergerac's soliloqy when he asked his distractor concerning his nose couldn't he find some other abjective to describe its length. Is TWIT the only word in your vocabulary. Then again, I am reminded of the intelligence of the utterer from his previous admonishments. I guess we twits can only expect just so much from a Neanderthal or do you belong to the Trologdite side of the family.

Uh, Thornton, do you have a point about Brandon's comment other than to insult rebuttal53? Basically what you just proved is that you are the same as everyone else. Anyone who has a comment that is against your opinion is stupid or a Neanderthal. Put down the thesaurus and play nice.

LOL-"Hey buddy, can you spare a square"

Really Keith? How many times has the poor built a Hospital for Children, Gave Free Education to those in need? Found Homes for Abused Children, Preserved delicate Lands, Animals, brought you and I Technology? the List goes on and on and You Kieth? We hire the Rich as corrupt and Ignorant as they are because people like you have NO CLUE!

No man can accumulate, the fruits that forty acres and a mule can produce, on his own singular efforts. They rich become rich because they depend on the poor to buy their wares at sometimes inflated prices all out of propotion to value of the product. Rockefeller, Astor and any other millionaire or billionaire bcame rich off the backs of the poor. Oil companies rake in profits, profits mind you, in the billions, because they have a monopoly on the purchase, processing and sale of oil products. When you control the market such as the DeBeers do in diamonds you set the price. Once you've accumulated several billion dollars that you don't have a hope in hell of ever spending, you can be generous and build a hospital or library or fund something with your name emblazoned on it. Who really paid for that structure or fund, it was Joe Blow trying to keep his family well kept. Ford never laid a brick but he has a billion dollar hospital named after him and its services are not free. If you don't have Blue Cross or Medicare, they will put a bandaid on your butt and send you home and bill you fifty dollars for the band aid. The rich don't become rich by dint of their personal efforts, they spend a lot of their "hard" earned money on buying politicians to keep the money flowing their way.

You show me ten men who are not politicians in America and I will show you nine of them who want a job, we don't want handouts, we don't want welfare we want good honest work and a fair pay for that work. As far as manifesto's go we lean to whoever can give us a job with that fair pay. So far, the Right manifesto is willing to give us a job but only on sharecropper wages and they own the company store. The Left manifesto isn't much better, but at least they don't keep us saddled to buying from the company store. Ford built two million cars in 1928 without one hi-lo or crane, and he did it on ten hour days, six days a week for five dollars a day. It only cost the lives of two men a day to do it. Unions changed all that, they got better wages more humane and safer working conditions, was it the left or right which brought about those changes, butt53. These lazy good for nothing men you speak of who should move to Europe and elsewhere saved Europe's behind in not only hard work but in lives. How dare you tell us to move to Europe because we want a fair share of the pie through our work. Better you go to Europe and join that troubled mass than you consign one American who wants nothing more than what the American dream promises.

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You think those guys didn't work for what they had? You think Ford, who revolutionized transportation in this country, doesn't deserve the fruits of his labor? Oh, so I suppose that next you're going to say that a kid who flips burgers or hauls in carts from a grocery parking lot deserves the same wages as my father, who broke his body every day shoving and welding steel to build the bridges you drive on and the train cars that carry your new car? Every job is NOT the same. If innovators did not get paid well for what they do, there would be no innovators left! I'm sure Ford put in a heckuva lotta long hours to get his factories running and keep them that way. He was NOT lazy! Are things unbalanced? Yeah, it can be. But being rich, in and of itself, is not a crime. There are a lot of rich that worked their butts off to get where they are, and implying that they ALL did it on the backs of the little people is, frankly, and insult.

Oh, and before you accuse me otherwise, I'm one of the little people.

l8b4 all studies have shown that the poor are more generous than the rich

bop, just look at all the parks,hospitals, and museums, etc, that poor people built. Can't find one, can you?

I've been approached by that Saturday crowd a lot of times, I stop them cold when I ask them if only 144,000 can get in what do you need me for, carrying luggage perhaps or bringing water up to the door. Kennedy wasn't killed because he was printing money, he was, in his second term going to put the CIA under military control and throw that blackmailer Hoover out of office. Have you ever wondered why there were no, repeat no, FBI agents in Dealy Plaza when Kennedy was killed, but there was a confirmed number of CIA agents scattered in the crowd. No mandate, no reason to be there. Jesus is currently from Mexico as near as I can ascertain and I certainly will vote for Paul in 201 if it ever comes around again.

Oh brother, here we go again, gotta drag religion into everything. The 144,000 has been misinterpreted since time immemorial! There is no reason why other good people cannot be saved and get into heaven, or whatever your religion calls it. If there were only 144,000 to be saved, then why the heck do churches bother telling the rest of us to be good? It would be hopeless!

As to Ron Paul, he has a few good ideas, but his isolationist ideals are a bit over the top. I'm afraid he'd have the rest of the world thoroughly p.o.'ed at us in a month flat.

Oh wait, they already are.

The 144.00 are the ones that fight with Michal, if you accept Jesus as your savior you will go to heaven too. I never said that only 144.00 will, don't put words in my post that aren't there. read the bible, learn something before you run your mouth.

Having my senior citizen moment of the week I meant to say New York. Where there are as many honest politicians as there are Unicorns in Central Park.

Yet we still keep voting in the unicorns because they look good, or more likely are more popular, thanks to this poll or that one. We will keep getting the same treatment from our elected officials no matter what party they belong to so long as we follow the polls. I keep forgetting who controls and puts out the polls. A huckster is a huckster is a huckster and as long as we keep buying his do all, cure all elixer, he will keep selling it to us. If you don't ask him for specifics he doesn't have to give you any. Two chickens in every pot, even if they are stolen from your neighbors yard is his motto, but he doesn't tell you where he's going to get the chickens from and won't if you don't ask. My motto is don't knock any man's proposal unless you believe you have a better one to replace it. As of this date I haven't heard one decent proposal coming from the Republican side of the aisle which is any better than the one's we have on the table at present. Muckraking and condemnation is not a proposal I can get my teeth into, its the same elixir they've been hawking for generations.

At this point I have not heard anything I consider constructive from any of the candidates. Although I am registered Republican, that means nothing as I vote based on the record of the candidate running not theri party affiliation or what they promise they will do. There have been elections where I have not voted for even one Republican Candidate. The minute a candidate gets heavy into the mud slinging, they are no longer a consideration for me. Mud slinging although traditional in every election tells me the candidate lacks a more coherent platform and does not respect the intelligence of the voters.

SFC, I have always wonder why one calls themselves "registered republican or registered democrat". I have never checked any party on a voter register form in my life of voting. I have voted in republican primaries, and I have voted in democrat primaries for fifty years, not in the same election. Would I be considered both a registered republican and a registered democrat? Just wondering.

Oh, so Thornton, you must prefer the Democrat plan, which is to take one of the chickens from the neighbor that bothered to build a hencoop and raise chickens, and give it to the lazy butt who never got off his couch long enough to earn one in the first place? You don't call THAT stealing?

I weish to God or anybody else for that matter, will someone out there explain and define what a Zionist is. I'm having trouble distinguishing a Zionist from a greedy oil producer, aren't they Islamist. Are the two interchangible. Or whats the difference between BP and Chase Bank, are they Zionist or Islamist. What about Haliburton where do we categorize this company, is it a Zionist company or an Islamic company, I mean it makes its billions in Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan. I give up, help me someone out there. Define the terms for me.

takeout, you sound just like Marx/Lenin spouting how great communism is. If you lived in what you seem to think was paradise of a communist country, you would not be able to spout your communist bs on a public forum.

No kidding, Dasvet. Takeout, did you notice that this country was originally built on capitalism? And despite the problems we have now, the poorest person in this country is RICH compared to the poor souls running for their lives in Somalia or starving to death in Kenya? You can't blame Capitalism itself. I notice you didn't provide an alternative, which, usually, ends up being Communism. You think that's so great, go try living in China where you can get shot for disagreeing with the government, where they tell you how many kids you can have, where you have to pay to get your kids into decent schools, etc. America is the greatest power in the world, BECAUSE we allow people to be in control of their own lives.

catsclaw, the idiotic notion that communism is a better form of government, has no basis in historical fact. To make such a stupid post as takeout made, is to be totally unintelligent about economic issues.

Tony, and MSNBC will not inform you of their party affiliation if it is a democrat crook.

Dasvet, I don't have a party affiliation, because they both are an embarrassment.

I suppose that's why the only non-demo/non-repub in the presidential race is inventing his own party. I don't know if it's hit the news yet, but did you hear that former SLC mayor Rocky Anderson just threw in his hat? I just about died laughing!

Hey Catsclaw, check out my post 30.4 later on. Too bad we have to make some kind of choice..lol

Ya, thats what the southerners were saying in the 1870's. Eventually they came up with unions and the workers finally made enough to buy a home and an automobile even and pay for those businesses to grow. Now the "working class" are being reduced to being equal to illegal immigrants and wages are going backwards by the decade. Good job rebuttal53, you make a great cheerleader for the taskmasters.

What? Your above it....bull@!$%#, everyone has a price...EVERYONE, don't pull that crap. If your family was in trouble that would be your price, if you were about to lose your home that would be your price...everyone has a price!!!!

Yea, I'm sure before the USSR fell there was no coruption there.

Since you brought up the USSR, maybe takeout should move there and see what communism did to the people. They were so used to being stupid sheep that when the government fell, they had no idea how to take care of themselves. You walk into an apartment and see a boatload of electronics and think "wow, they must be rich!" Then you go look in the cupboards and find them almost bare. They tell you that instead of a paycheck, their employer pays them in goods. Goods whose provenance is probably best unasked. Communism destroyed those people and it will probably take decades to recover, if they can recover at all with the Mafia in charge.

Oh, and that was a secondhand account, by the way. From one of my brothers, who spent two years with those people.