Post by: Xairbusdriver on July 23, 2009, 01:18:29 PM
Post by: krissel on July 24, 2009, 04:35:18 AM
At least we can claim we're number 1 (in corruption).
Post by: gunug on July 24, 2009, 06:46:20 AM
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Michael "Mick" Wunder entered his mandatory plea Tuesday afternoon before Magistrate Judge Gary Sebelius in U.S. District Court in Topeka.
Wunder is charged with bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and structuring financial transactions to evade regulatory requirements. He also faces five counts of unlawfully using his position as a commissioner to obtain money and other properties, and one count of perjury for allegedly lying about his role in the scheme while questioned by a grand jury. If convicted of bank fraud or conspiracy, Wunder would face up to 30 years in prison. Convictions on the other charges also carry potential prison sentences.
Wunder was indicted by a grand jury June 10, a document that was unsealed July 1 — a day after Lawrence developer David Ray Freeman pleaded guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Freeman's plea agreement includes a pledge that he would provide information and testify against others who might have been involved in the scheme.
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/jul/21/f...eads-not-guilt/
Wunder is charged with bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and structuring financial transactions to evade regulatory requirements. He also faces five counts of unlawfully using his position as a commissioner to obtain money and other properties, and one count of perjury for allegedly lying about his role in the scheme while questioned by a grand jury. If convicted of bank fraud or conspiracy, Wunder would face up to 30 years in prison. Convictions on the other charges also carry potential prison sentences.
Wunder was indicted by a grand jury June 10, a document that was unsealed July 1 — a day after Lawrence developer David Ray Freeman pleaded guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Freeman's plea agreement includes a pledge that he would provide information and testify against others who might have been involved in the scheme.
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/jul/21/f...eads-not-guilt/
When you give people power there is a fair chance that they will abuse it! I'm sure when he started all of this he wasn't thinking it was "bank fraud" or "structuring financial transactions to evade regulatory requirements." I'm sure it was more about the money and how to make it!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on July 24, 2009, 02:22:53 PM
Last week, the info somehow became public and the fact that this same representative claims to be pro-marriage/pro-family was also revealed. He also had a meeting with a Planned Parenthood official, the day before the text message, and told her that he could not support PP because he felt women should not partake in certain sexual activities before marriage.
What ever happened to "Walk the walk?"
An on the 'too-insane-to-be-funny" side of "politics," the Mayor of Memphis, re-elected more times than I can believe, announced last January that he would be resigning as Mayor to take over the City School System. Apparently, he discovered that they were still reeling from his past "leadership" of that organization, and decided to withdraw his letter of resignation. I didn't even know that was possible.
But he then decided to run against a new US Representative, he claimed that white man could not possibly represent the folks in that district. And I'd thought he had already played all his 'race cards!' 
Despite the uproar and pleadings to leave the race baiting in the gutter, he pressed on and sent a new letter of resignation with the date, scribbled in over the whited out previous date, of July 10, 2009.I guess the bright side is that he didn't waste more paper...
Unfortunately, his letter simply brought out a dozen or more people rushing to create an organization for the upcoming Special Election that will be required to replace the outgoing Mayor. Naturally, "the People" will get to pay the costs of this election process. Until that election the leader of the City Council announced the initiatives that he will see to completion while his 90 days of fame play out.
Now, hang on, I know this is getting complicated, but the best part is coming shortly!
With all the activity of the posturing candidates and the temporary soon-to-be-mayor distracting the spotlight, the 'officially-still-the-Mayor-around-here-I'll-have-you-know' announced that he had decided not to leave on July 10, after all. But he promised, although not in writing, of course, that he would really, really leave at the end of July. The City Council, not to make too fine a point of it decided they would make an official statement that the Mayor's office would be considered empty as of August 1, whether there was any human in there or not. That nailed down the date of the Special Election, at least, 90 days after the office is empty.
The Mayor now makes the following comments, "I don't see what all the fuss is about! It's like a bunch of school kids arguing on the playground. I feel I've made this job look too easy. There are so many people who think they can do it." I suggest that he has made his terms such an embarrassment that people think nobody could do any worse!
Post by: sandbox on July 25, 2009, 12:31:23 AM
Corruption seems more attractive to a Floridian than being #1 in stupidity. Duh Floridah legislatuh is breaking new ground.
Embrace your criminals while you can, what comes next is even worse.
QUOTE(krissel @ Jul 24 2009, 05:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Nope. But no one I've spoken to is surprised at all. We just nod and roll our eyes... so what else is new?
At least we can claim we're number 1 (in corruption).
At least we can claim we're number 1 (in corruption).
Post by: Highmac on July 25, 2009, 10:48:15 AM
Over here, the politicians have successfully fired up a media panic over swine flu - surely there can be no connection between that and MPs' expenses mysteriously disappearing from the headlines...
Post by: sandbox on July 25, 2009, 10:38:34 PM
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A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
Henry de Jouvenel QUOTE(Highmac @ Jul 25 2009, 11:48 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
"Honest politician" has become an oxymoron on the level of "military intelligence"
Over here, the politicians have successfully fired up a media panic over swine flu - surely there can be no connection between that and MPs' expenses mysteriously disappearing from the headlines...
Over here, the politicians have successfully fired up a media panic over swine flu - surely there can be no connection between that and MPs' expenses mysteriously disappearing from the headlines...