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==neglected?see fines/settlement

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tough to find anyone who has not cashed in on pension plan, maybe scooter

=ALT RT<div></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/why-media-reluctant-cover-neo-nazi-violence">https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/why-media-reluctant-cover-neo-nazi-violence</a></div><div>
</div><div>s been just a little over two months since a white supremacist rammed his car into a crowd of anti-fascist protesters and killed a woman in Charlottesville, Virginia. It seems as if the mainstream media has already gotten bored with the story of neo-Nazi violence and domestic terrorism. Leading white nationalist Richard Spencer snagged a huge amount of coverage for <a data-reactid="97" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/us/florida-richard-spencer.html?r=0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">scheduling a speech at the University of Florida</a>, which provoked stories about how much the school was spending on security, the potential for protests and the fact that the state's Republican governor felt compelled to declare a state of emergency. But when three of Spencer's biggest fans and core followers — their names are Tyler Tenbrink, William Fears and Colton Fears (the latter two are brothers) — <a data-reactid="99" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/white-nationalist-richard-spencer-s-supporters-charged-post-speech-shooting-n812751" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">were arrested for attempting to murder protesters</a>, coverage of the event was relatively sparse.<a data-reactid="104" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/10/22/cable-news-almost-silent-neo-nazis-allegedly-attempting-murder-counterprotesters-richard-spencer/218296" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Media Matters analyzed the news coverage of the incident,</a> in which one neo-Nazi allegedly fired a gun while the other two egged him on to shoot protesters. The watchdog group found that cable news networks almost completely ignored it. CNN and Fox News didn't mention the alleged attack at all, and MSNBC devoted a two-minute segment to it on one show.Angelo Carusone, the president of Media Matters, told Salon he didn't believe the incident necessarily deserved "hours of coverage over a few days." But the paltry coverage the alleged attack got, he worries, may contribute to the public's failure to understand how serious the threat of neo-Nazi violence really is. Vicious attacks on anti-fascist protesters have happened on at least two occasions since the events in Charlottesville. In <a data-reactid="123" href="https://mic.com/articles/184373/far-right-protester-targets-antifa-demonstrators-in-attempted-car-attack-in-vancouver-washington#.nUMq1uxnz" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">an early September rally in Vancouver, Washington</a>, there were reports of threatening behavior from motorists, with one man driving into a crowd (fortunately injuring no one), and a group of men in another car throwing things and driving menacingly around the protesters. Then there was this latest shooting associated with the Spencer event in Florida.Just because no one has gotten hurt doesn't mean this isn't news. It's sheer luck that separates a bullet that hits someone in the head from one that doesn't. More importantly, Americans need to see the pattern of violent behavior coming from the white supremacist subculture, to understand the threat it actually poses.Incidents like these “really underscore the risk a lot of people talked about when it comes to these rallies, and about what these groups actually bring when they hold these events," Keegan Hankes, a researcher for the <a data-reactid="132" href="https://www.splcenter.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Southern Poverty Law Center</a>, told Salon. Hankes emphasized that white supremacy is an inherently violent ideology, noting that "you don't have the 'ethno-state,' you don't have this kind of world that they're dreaming up without extreme violence.”As far-right fringe groups, emboldened by the election of Donald Trump, plan more rallies and public speeches, there's a real risk that the centrality of violence to white supremacist ideology gets lost in the public discourse. Part of the problem is that right-wing pundits have been working to frame the challenge posed by these groups strictly in terms of "free speech" while minimizing the problem of actual or potential violence.“The security concerns are justified, as we see, because violence follows" where neo-Nazis and white supremacists go, Hankes said. "It's more than just that people don't want to hear their ideas or don't agree with them, and don't think they should be on campus."Carusone characterized himself as a "free-speech purist," but felt that the public's understanding of the debate over speech on campus is incomplete if they don't understand the enhanced possibility of violence that white supremacists bring."Alt-right" groups, he explained, "do these sort of trolling events at campuses, not trying to make a point, but just to elicit a backlash, so that they can have these kinds of skirmishes. The net effect of the skirmishes is to create conditions such that they can not just engage in violence but also bully, intimidate and suppress their opponents.”That too, he noted, is a free speech issue: The free speech rights of anti-fascists and leftists are endangered if they are being intimidated with violence.White supremacists and other "alt-right" types have deliberately downplayed their own acts of violence in an effort to confuse the issue, Hankes said. Instead, they focus on a narrative claiming that they "just want a fair hearing for [their] ideas" and that it's "the anti-fascists who are committing violence," permitting them to play the victim and drum up sympathy for their extremist views. He then began to make excuses, calling Fields a "scapegoat" and saying that Heyer's death was an "ambiguous situation." He also claimed that Fields' "vehicle was attacked," and suggested that ramming a car into a crowd of protesters was Fields "attempting to escape."Spencer himself did this during his speech at the University of Florida. When an audience member asked Spencer about the killing of leftist protester Heather Heyer, for which a white supremacist named James Fields has been charged with second-degree murder, <a data-reactid="163" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2988&v=u2XvwcNSDmw" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Spencer deflected and downplayed the situation</a>. He claimed he is opposed to all forms of violence and has "explicitly called for peace."Shortly after Spencer tried to spin his movement as nonviolent, three of his most prominent followers — men who have repeatedly attended Spencer's appearances and events, including the Charlottesville rally — reportedly fired a gun at protesters while shouting "Heil Hitler" and urging each other on.The media has an important role to play here. It's not just about reporting on events like this, but also putting them into context. The shooting was part of a growing white supremacist movement that is growing ever more ambitious and more violent, and feels emboldened by a sympathetic leader in the White House. This shooting happened during a constant churn of stories about Trump's racially provocative attacks on NFL players, Rep. Frederica Wilson, Myeshia Johnson (the widow of slain soldier La David Johnson) and ESPN sports analyst Jemele Hill. It's no mystery why white supremacists might feel it's a good time to ramp up their activities. This shooting cannot be viewed as a random crime, but as the inescapable result of electing President Donald Trump.</div><div>
</div><div> </div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trump-diehard-and-former-milo-yiannopoulos-intern-stabs-father-death-calling-him" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trump-diehard-and-former-milo-yiannopoulos-intern-stabs-father-death-calling-him</a>A prolific online troll and former intern of Milo Yiannopoulos has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly stabbing his father to death in his Washington home. According to audio of the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtube-trumpkin-and-former-milo-intern-kills-his-own-dad-for-calling-him-a-nazi?via=twitter_page" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">incident obtained by the Daily Beast</a>, 33-year-old Lane Davis set upon his father after the latter called him a Nazi. "He’s chasing us around the house,” Davis' mother told a police dispatcher. “He’s mad about something on the internet about leftist pedophiles and he thinks we’re leftist and he’s calling us pedophiles, and I don’t know what-all.”Davis has entered a plea of not guilty, and his trial is scheduled for January.The Samish Island native fits a disturbing if increasingly familiar profile. After dropping out of Washington State University in 2004, he developed a following on YouTube peddling conspiracy theories that ran the gamut from 9/11 being an inside job to vaccines causing autism. By 2014, he had become a fixture in Gamergate, a campaign of online harassment of women in the video game industry that included doxxing and death threats. Davis would ultimately renounce his fellow travelers in the movement, but that did not stop him from targeting Joshua Idehen, whose manager, agent and charity he contacted accusing the London musician of pedophilia. Shortly thereafter, Davis began working for Milo Yiannopoulos, with whom he co-wrote an article accusing the MacArthur Foundation of promoting censorship on social media. Yiannopoulos, who was recently outed for his <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.pbzdZayen#.hylbPe3XG" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">close collaboration with prominent neo-Nazis and members of the alt-right</a>, has since released the following statement to the Daily Beast:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Mr. Davis was a volunteer for me for a brief period of time prior to my founding Milo, Inc. I was unhappy with his work and discontinued the relationship. I then experienced his anger firsthand as he threatened me and later went to Buzzfeed making false and inaccurate accusations."</blockquote>Davis parlayed his short tenure at Breitbart into an unpaid blogging gig at a far-right website called theRalphRetort.com, which features such verticals as "SJW Insanity" and "Campus Crazies," and whose editor, Ethan Ralph, is serving an eight-month sentence in Loudon County, Virginia, for assaulting a police officer. Ralph's wife pledged to remove all of Davis' stories, which he posted under the name Seattle4Truth. A fervent Trump supporter, Davis had grown increasingly agitated in recent months, so much so that his father had taken to recording his rage-fueled outbursts on his phone. On the day of his arrest, the Daily Beast reports Davis "<a href="https://twitter.com/realS4T" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">retweeted</a> posts celebrating the Second Amendment, bemoaning diversity, and spreading conspiracy theories that alleged Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta was involved in a child sex ring and DNC staffer Seth Rich had been murdered." “He just lives on the internet and he gets really worked up about everything that’s going on," his mother told police. "He needs an intervention of some kind here.” Minutes later, her husband was bleeding to death on the back porch, and her son had raised his hands in the air, awaiting his arrest.---=

bush2:  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_politicians_convicted_of_crimes"> </a><a href="http://livpooleside.blogspot.com/2006/03/deck-o-thugs.html">http://livpooleside.blogspot.com/2006/03/deck-o-thugs.html</a>

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_politicians_convicted_of_crimes">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_politicians_convicted_of_crimes</a>

<a href="http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showPerson.php?id=3706&name=Crimes-and-Lawbreakers">http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showPerson.php?id=3706&name=Crimes-and-Lawbreakers</a>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican%27culture_of_corruption%27">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican%27culture_of_corruption%27</a>

sex scandals <a href="http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/view/6531/1/317/">http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/view/6531/1/317/</a>

b2 culture of corruption:  <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/132173/25-Most-Corrupt-Officials-in-the-Bush-Administration">http://www.scribd.com/doc/132173/25-Most-Corrupt-Officials-in-the-Bush-Administration</a>

crimescandal

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

http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showPerson.php?id=3706&name=Crimes-and-Lawbreakers

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_%27culture_of_corruption%27

sex scandals http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/view/6531/1/317/

b2 culture of corruption:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/132173/25-Most-Corrupt-Officials-in-the-Bush-Administration

The ViolatorsI. Claude A. Allen,

White House

..................................................................................1II. Eric G. Andell,

U.S. Department of Education

........................................................3III. Margaret Burnette,

Food & Drug Administration

....................................................4IV. Lester M. Crawford,

Food & Drug Administration

.................................................7V. Lurita A. Doan,

General Services Administration

...................................................9VI. Brian J. Doyle,

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

........................................12VII. Darleen A. Druyun,

U.S. Air Force

........................................................................13VIII. Frank Figueroa,

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

......................................15IX. Kyle “Dusty” Foggo,

Central Intelligence Agency

................................................17X. J. Steven Griles,

U.S. Department of the Interior

..................................................19XI. Andrea K. Grimsley,

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

...............................22XII. Donald W. Keyser,

U.S. Department of State

........................................................24XIII. John T. Korsmo,

Federal Housing Finance Board

...............................................26XIV. Kevin D. Marlowe,

U.S. Department of Defense

..................................................28XV. Jose M. Miranda,

 Broadcasting Board of Governors

............................................30XVI. William G. Myers III,

U.S. Department of Interior

...............................................31XVII. Janet Rehnquist,

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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The Democratic Party's research team has put together a list of more than 50 recent Republican resignations, pleas, sentences and scandals. 2007

<a href="http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/09/our_favorite_re.php">http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/09/our_favorite_re.php</a>

REPUBLICAN FUNDRAISERS, OPERATIVES AND PLAYERS

Jack Abramoff - Abramoff, a Bush Pioneer and Republican lobbyist, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud in connection with Suncruz casino boats in January 2006. He also pleaded guilty to two additional fraud counts and tax evasion in connection with lobbying for Native American tribes in 2006.

Alan Fabian - Fabian was the co-chair of Mitt Romney’s national finance committee and a prominent Republican donor who gave 100,000+ to the RNC and the Bush inauguration. In August 2007 he was indicted for allegedly making $32 million in false purchases of computer equipment to pay for his lavish spending habits.

Many more below the fold

Kyle “Dusty” Foggo - Foggo, the former #3 official at the CIA, was indicted by a Grand Jury on corruption charges in connection with his campaign contributions to Republican members of Congress and resulting federal contracts.

Robert Kjellander - Kjellander, a Bush Pioneer and RNC treasurer, was subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in August 2005 as part of a probe investigating corruption at the Illinois Teacher’s Retirement Systems, a state run teacher’s pension fund. The subpoena specifically sought records relating to Kjellander’s receipt of $4.5 million in fees from the Carlyle group, for helping to land the business with the pension fund.

Bernie Kerik - “Federal prosecutors in New York have informed Kerik that he is a ‘target’ of a criminal investigation into possible tax problems, illegal wiretapping and making false statements in an FBI questionnaire connected to Kerik's nomination.” In addition, a Daily News“investigation revealed that Kerik accepted cash and gifts from Interstate Industrial, an allegedly mobbed-up construction company.”

Michael Mixon - Mixon, a major NRCC donor, was indicted on charges of fraud and funding terrorism.

Thomas Noe - Noe, a Bush Pioneer, pleaded guilty in May 2006 on charges of money laundering in connection to his political fundraising. He was also the key figure in the Ohio “Coingate” scandal.

Ralph Reed - Reed, a Bush Pioneer (2000), Ranger (2004) and prominent Republican lobbyist, is being investigated because of a $4 million payment that Abramoff made to Reed.

James Tobin - Former NRCC, RNC and Bush-Cheney ’04 staffer was convicted in December 2005 for his role in a plot to stop people from voting in New Hampshire in 2002.

Brent Wilkes - Wilkes, George W. Bush's finance co-chairman in California, was indicted in February 2007 by a Grand Jury on corruption charges in connection with his campaign contributions to Republican members of Congress and resulting federal contracts.

Sam Wyly, Charles Wyly - The Wylys, top Bush fundraisers from Texas, are under investigation for tax evasion by federal and state agencies. The Billionaire Bush patrons are accused of setting up offshore trusts on the Island of Man, a noted tax shelter in the Irish Sea, in an attempt to evade paying taxes on stock options.

REPUBLICAN SENATE

Conrad Burns - Former Sen. Burns was the largest recipient of Abramoff-related money in the U.S. Senate, and made calls urging the Department of Interior to award federal grants to an Abramoff client. That effort failed and Burns later inserted an earmark directing the grant in an appropriations bill.

Larry Craig - Sen. Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in incident where police report documented conduct in a Minneapolis airport restroom. Craig also returned $43,500 in campaign contributions received from Brent Wilkes and his business associates after an Idaho repored that he sponsored an amendment to earmark a $3 million contract to Wilkes’ company.

Pete Domenici - In April 2007, the Senate confirmed that the Senate Ethics Committee was investigating Sen. Domenici’s role in phone calls he made about ongoing investigations into Democratic officials shortly before the 2006 election.

Bill Frist - The Securities and Exchange Commission in investigating whether Frist, the former Senate Majority Leader engaged in insider trading, selling off holdings in HCA immediately before its value plummeted. Frist maintained that his holdings were in a blind trust, but the Senate frequently provided Frist with information on his holdings and Frist directed the sale of the stock. At the time of the sale, Frist’s brother was on HCA’s Board of Directors.

Mel Martinez - A FEC audit found the Martinez campaign failed to properly disclose $162,000 in contributions.

Lisa Murkowski - A complaint filed with Senate Ethics Committee alleges that Sen. Murkowski received property from an Alaska real estate developer at a price well below market value.

Ted Stevens - Sen. Stevens home in Alaska was raided in July 2007 by the FBI and IRS looking for evidence in connection with an investigation of a remodeling project conducted by VECO.

David Vitter - Sen. Vitter acknowledged committing a "very serious sin" after his number appeared five times in the records of what federal authorities say was a Washington call-girl operation

REPUBLICAN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Ken Calvert - A Grand Jury issued a report which said that Rep. Calvert received an illegal no-bid contract for sale of 4 acres of public land in California.

Tom DeLay - Former Rep. DeLay resigned from Congress after being admonished by the ethics four times, being indicted for money laundering in Texas, and revelations showing numerous controversial ties to Jack Abramoff.

John Doolittle - In April 2007, the FBI raided Rep. Doolittle’s home in its investigation into ties between Doolittle and Jack Abramoff.

Tom Feeney - The U.S. House said that Rep. Feeney violated House rules by accepting a trip to Scotland. Feeney was required to pay the cost of the trip to the Treasury. He was later questioned by the FBI in the investigation into lobbying activities of Jack Abramoff.

Mark Foley - Former Rep. Foley resigned in September 2006 after the FBI and House Ethics Committee opened investigations into allegations that he sent suggestive emails and instant messages to teenaged current and former House pages.

Katherine Harris - Former Rep. Harris accepted $32,000 in illegal contributions from MZM Inc.’s President Mitchell Wade. She then requested tens of millions in earmarks that would benefit Wade. Wade later pleaded guilty to making illegal campaign contributions, in addition to conspiracy, corruption and election fraud. Harris maintained that she did not know the contributions were illegal and lost her race for Senate in 2006.

Patrick McHenry - A campaign worker for Rep. McHenry has been indicted for voter fraud in North Carolina.

Gary Miller - The FBI is investgating land deals in which Rep. Miller made an estimated $10 million.

Bob Ney - Former Rep. Ney was sentenced to 30 months in prison for corruption after pleading guilty to conspiracy and filing false financial disclosures.

Rick Renzi -In April 2007, the FBI raided an insurance company tied to Rep. Renzi. As a result of the raid, Renzi resigned from the House Intelligence Committee.

Don Sherwood - In September 2004, Washington, D.C. police responded to a 911 call placed by Cynthia Ore, 29, who said she had locked herself in the bathroom of Rep. Sherwood’s apartment after he began choking her while giving her a back rub. Ms. Ore later filed a lawsuit alleging Rep. Sherwood "repeatedly and violently physically assaulted and abused" her during a five-year affair that ended in September 2004.

Don Young - Federal officials are investigating a number of allegations against Young, including his ties to Veco, an Alaska company whos CEO pleaded guilty to bribery, as well as contributions connected to a Florida highway and a transportation measure benefiting a Wisconsin trucking company.

Curt Weldon - In September 2006, the FBI raided the homes of Rep. Curt Weldon's daughter and one of his closest political supporters as part of an investigation into whether the veteran Republican congressman used his influence to benefit himself and his daughter's lobbying firm, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

BUSH ADMINISTRATION

Claude Allen - “Allen, who had been Bush's domestic policy adviser, pleaded guilty to theft in making phony returns at discount department stores while working at the White House. He was sentenced to two years of supervised probation and fined $500.”

Robert E. Coughlin II - Coughlin, resigned as deputy chief of staff in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department after “a federal task force investigating the activities of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff,” began probing whether Coughlin traded favors with an Abramoff colleague.

Lurita Doan - Doan, head of the General Services Administration, attended a luncheon at the agency earlier this year with other top GSA political appointees at which Scott Jennings, a top Rove aide, gave a PowerPoint demonstration on how to help Republican candidates in 2008. A congressional committee is investigating whether the remarks violated a federal law that restricts executive-branch employees from using their positions for political purposes.”

Brian Doyle - Brian Doyle “pleaded no contest to sending sexually explicit Internet messages to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl. Doyle was sentenced earlier this month to five years in prison.”

Frank Figueroa - “Figueroa, the former head of the Tampa office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, pleaded no contest to charges of exposure of sexual organs and disorderly conduct. He was accused of exposing himself in front of a teenage girl at an Orlando mall.”

Alberto Gonzales - Gonzales, who resigned as Attorney General, is under investigation by the Justice Department inspector general over whether he “gave false or misleading testimony to Congress, including whether he lied under oath about warrantless surveillance and the firings of nine U.S. attorneys.”

Steven Griles - Pleaded guilty to lying to a Senate committee in a hearing into the Abramoff scandal.

Eric Keroack - Keroack, Bush's choice to oversee the federal family planning program, resigned from the post suddenly last month after the Massachusetts Medicaid office launched an investigation into his private practice.

Donald W. Keyser - Keyser was sentenced to a year in prison for “mishandling classified documents and concealing his relationship with a female intelligence officer from Taiwan.” Keyser “had been the second-ranking official in the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs before retiring in 2004.

Scooter Libby - Convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury in connection with the CIA leak investigation.

Julie MacDonald - MacDonald, a deputy assistant secretary at the Interior Department resigned “about a week before a House committee was set to hold hearings on political interference with biologists,” and “a month after the department's inspector general issued a stinging report that said she violated federal rules by giving industry lobbyists internal agency documents and rode roughshod over agency scientists.”

Susan Ralston - A top aide to White House strategist Karl Rove “resigned after disclosures that she accepted gifts and passed information to now-convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

David Safavian - Safavian, the former chief of staff for the General Services Administration, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on “obstruction and concealment charges for lying to investigators about his relationship with Abramoff.”

Robert T. Schofield - Schofield “pleaded guilty to accepting at least $600,000 in bribes to provide fraudulent citizenship documents to hundreds of Asian immigrants.”

Tom Scully - Scully “was the front man for the Medicare and Medicaid programs through December 2003,” before he resigned from CMS after allegedly withholding data from congress on the cost of the new Medicare law. Federal investigators said Scully should repay seven months of his salary for the violation.

XVIII. David H. Safavian,

White House & General Services Administration

...................36XIX. Robert T. Schofield,

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

................................38XX. Thomas A. Scully,

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

....................40XXI. David Smith,

U.S

 Department of the Interior

.......................................................43XXII. Jeffrey H. Stayton,

U.S. Department of the Army

..................................................45XXIII. Robert J. Stein,

Coalition Provisional Authority

...................................................46XXIV. Roger G. Stillwell,

U.S. Department of the Interior

..............................................48XXV. Kenneth Tomlinson,

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

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wiki

Convicted politicians are those either elected or appointed to federal positions who have actually been convicted in a court of law of a crime. It does not include scandals, a nebulous term at best, which includes shocking, controversial, naughty, sinful, stupid, notorious or unusual actions, but which are not technically, illegal.

Neither does the article include mere indictments. To be accused of a crime is not the same as being convicted of one, since in the US, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Thus President Richard Nixon is not listed, since he resigned before he could be impeached and was therefore never convicted of any crime. President Bill Clinton was impeached, but not convicted by the Senate on charges of perjury, though he is still included due to his conviction on charges of contempt of court in Arkansas.

Also not included are crimes which occur outside the politician’s tenure unless they specifically stem from acts while they were in office. Thus President George W. Bush’s drunken driving conviction in 1976 is not included while Senator Edward Kennedy’s conviction for leaving the scene of an accident is.

Findings of the House of Representatives and Senate ethics committees are not included because the chairmen (and often the deciding vote) depends on who is the majority party in Congress at the time and there are no hard and fast rules for judging the difference between contempt, censure, reprimand, sanctions or using 'bad judgment.'

For convenience, citations are arranged by presidential terms, starting with the most recent.

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    1 2009– (Obama presidency)

    2 2001–2008 (George W. Bush presidency)

        2.1 Executive branch

        2.2 Legislative branch

    3 1993–2000 (Clinton presidency)

        3.1 Executive branch

        3.2 Legislative branch

    4 1989–1992 (George H. W. Bush presidency)

        4.1 Executive branch

        4.2 Legislative branch

        4.3 Judicial branch

    5 1981–1988 (Reagan presidency)

        5.1 Executive branch

        5.2 Legislative branch

        5.3 Judicial branch scandals

    6 1977–1980 (Carter presidency)

        6.1 Legislative branch

    7 1974–1976 (Ford presidency)

        7.1 Legislative branch

        7.2 Judicial branch scandals

    8 1970–1973 (Nixon presidency)

        8.1 Executive branch

        8.2 Legislative branch

        8.3 Judicial branch

    9 1963–1969 (Lyndon B. Johnson presidency)

        9.1 Legislative branch

    10 1960–1963 (Kennedy presidency)

        10.1 Legislative branch

    11 1952–1959 (Eisenhower presidency)

        11.1 Executive branch

    12 1945–1951 (Truman presidency)

        12.1 Legislative branch

    13 1924–1945

        13.1 Judicial branch

    14 1920–1923 (Harding presidency)

        14.1 Executive branch

    15 1900–1920

        15.1 Legislative branch

        15.2 Judicial branch

    16 1850–1899

        16.1 Executive branch

        16.2 Legislative branch

    17 1869–1876 (Grant presidency)

        17.1 Executive branch

    18 1861–1865 (Lincoln presidency)

    19 1857–1860 (Buchanan presidency)

    20 1849–1850 (Taylor presidency)

        20.1 Executive branch

    21 1829–1837 (Jackson presidency)

    22 1789–1797 (Washington presidency)

    23 1777–1800

    24 See also

    25 Notes

[edit] 2009– (Obama presidency)

    Texas Federal District Judge Samuel B. Kent of Galveston, Texas was appointed by President George H. W. Bush (R) in 1990. He was sentenced to 33 months in prison for lying about sexually harassing two female employees.(2009) [1]

[edit] 2001–2008 (George W. Bush presidency)

[edit] Executive branch

    Lewis Libby (R) known as "Scooter," was Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney (R), and was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in the Plame Affair on March 6, 2007. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $250,000. The sentence was commuted by George W. Bush (R) on July 1, 2007. [2]

    Jack Abramoff Scandal in which prominent the lobbyist with close ties to Republican administration officials and legislators, offered bribes as part of his lobbying efforts. Abramhoff was sentenced to 4 years. [3][4] See Legislative scandals.

        David Safavian (R) Administrator of Procurement Policy for the OMB, found guilty of four counts of lying and sentenced to 18 months

        Roger Stillwell (R) Staff in the Department of the Interior under George W. Bush. Pleaded guilty and received two years suspended sentence

        Steven Griles (R) former Deputy to the Secretary of the Interior pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and was sentenced to 10 months [5]

        Italia Federici (R) staff to Secretary of Interior, obstruction of justice, four years probation

        Mark Zachares (R) staff in the Department of Labor, bribed by Abramoff, guilty of conspiracy to defraud

        Robert E. Coughlin (R) Justice Department official pleaded guilty to conflict of interest after accepting bribes from Jack Abramoff (2008)

        William Heaton (R), former chief of staff for Bob Ney (R), pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge involving a golf trip to Scotland, expensive meals, and tickets to sporting events between 2002 and 2004 as payoffs for helping Abramoff's clients.

    Lester Crawford (R) Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, resigned after 2 months. Pled guilty to conflict of interest and received 3 years suspended sentence and fined $90,000 (2006) [6]

    Sandy Berger (D) former Clinton security adviser pleads guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unlawfully removing classified documents from the National Archives in (2005) [7]

    Bernard Kerik (R) nomination in 2004 as Secretary of Homeland Security was derailed by past employment of an illegal alien as a nanny, and other improprieties. On Nov 4, 2009 he plead quilty to two counts of tax fraud and five counts of lying to the federal government(2009) [8] and was sentenced to fours years in prison.[8]

    Brian J. Doyle (R) Deputy Press Secretary in the United States Department of Homeland Security. Indicted for seducing a 14-year-old girl on the internet who was actually a sheriff's deputy. On November 17, 2006, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison, 10 years of probation, and was registered as a sex offender. [9]

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    Ted Stevens Senator (R-Alaska) convicted on seven counts of bribery and tax evasion October 27, 2008 just prior to the election. He continued his run for re-election, but lost. Once the Republican was defeated in his re-election, new Attorney General Eric Holder (D) dismissed the charges "in the interest of justice" stating that the Justice Department had illegally withheld evidence from defense counsel. [10]

    Charles Rangel (D-New York) failed to report $75,000 income from the rental of his villa in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and was forced to pay $11,000 in back taxes.(September 2008)[11]

    Rick Renzi (R-Arizona) Announced he would not seek another term in office. Seven months later, on February 22, 2008 he pleaded not guilty to 35 charges of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. [12]

    Jack Abramoff Scandal, (R) lobbyist found guilty of conspiracy, tax evasion and corruption of public officials in three different courts in a wide ranging investigation. Currently serving 70 months and fined $24.7 million. [13] See Scandals, Executive Branch. The following were also implicated:

    James W. Ellis (R) ran Tom DeLay's (R-Texas) PAC, indicted

    John D. Calyandro (R) runs Texans for a Republican Majority, indicted

    Adam Kidon business partner of Abramoff, pleaded guilty to fraud, sentenced to 70 months

    Michael Scanlon (R) former staff to Tom DeLay: while working for Abramoff, pleaded guilty to bribery

    Tony Rudy (R) former staff to Tom DeLay, pleaded guilty to conspiracy

    Robert Ney (R-Ohio) bribed by Abramoff, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, sentenced to 30 months.

    Neil Volz (R) former staff to Robert Ney, pleaded guilty to conspiracy

    William Heaton (R) former staff to Robert Ney, pleaded guilty to fraud, 24 months probation

    John Albaugh (R) former COS to Ernest Istook (R-OK) pled guilty

    Robert E. Coughlin (R) Deputy Chief of Staff, Criminal Division, Justice Department, pled guilty to accepting bribes. [14]

    Duke Cunningham (R-California) pleaded guilty on November 28, 2005 to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion in what came to be called the Cunningham scandal. Sentenced to over eight years.

    Kyle Foggo CIA Exec. Director, number 3 in the agency, was indicted February 13, 2007 on charges of fraud, money laundering, conspiracy. Plea bargained to one count of fraud.

    William J. Jefferson (D-Louisiana) in August 2005 the FBI seized $90,000 in cash from Jefferson's home freezer. He was re-elected anyway, but lost in 2008. He was convicted of 11 counts of bribery and sentenced to 13 years on November 13, 2009. [15]

    Brett Pfeffer (D) William Jefferson's Chief of Staff was sentenced to 84 months for bribery. (2006) [16]

    Bill Janklow (R-South Dakota) convicted of second-degree manslaughter for running a stop sign and killing a motorcyclist. Resigned from the House and given 100 days in the county jail and three years probation. (2003)[17]

    Jim Traficant (D-Ohio) found guilty on 10 felony counts of financial corruption, he was sentenced to 8 years in prison and expelled from the House (2002) [18]

    Vito Fossella (R-New York) – US Congressman arrested for drunk driving, Fossella admitted to having an affair with Laura Fay, with whom he has a three-year-old daughter. He is currently married to Mary Patricia née Rowan with whom he has three children. (2008)[19]

    Larry Craig (R-Idaho) – US Senator who pled guilty to disorderly conduct in a Minneapolis airport men's room in June, after having been arrested on a charge of homosexual lewd conduct. Governor Craig had previously stated that "people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy – a naughty boy." (2007) [20]

[edit] 1993–2000 (Clinton presidency)

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    William Jefferson Clinton Democratic President who was impeached by the House of Representatives, but found innocent by the Senate on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice concerning his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Two months later Clinton was held in civil contempt of court for his testimony in the Paula Jones investigation. [21] His license to practice law was suspended in Arkansas for five years. [22]

    Henry Cisneros (D) Secretary of Housing. Resigned and plead guilty (1999) to a misdemeanor charge of lying to the FBI about the amount of money he paid his former mistress, Linda Medlar while he was Mayor of San Antonio, Texas. He was fined $10,000 (1999) [23]

    Ronald Blackley, (D) Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy's Chief of Staff, sentenced to 27 months for perjury. Espy was found innocent on all counts. [24] (1999)

    Webster Hubbell (D) Associate Attorney General, pled guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion. Sentenced to 21 months in prison (1995) [25]

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    Barbara-Rose Collins (D-Michigan) found to have committed 11 violations of law and house rules stemming from use of campaign funds for personal use. [26]

    Wes Cooley (R-Oregon), Cooley was convicted of having lied on the 1994 voter information pamphlet about his service in the Army. He was fined and sentenced to two years probation (1997)[27]

    Austin Murphy (D-Pennsylvania) convicted of engaging in voter fraud for filling out absentee ballots for members of a nursing home. [28]

    Walter R. Tucker III (D-California) resigned from the House before conviction on charges of extortion and income tax fraud while he was Mayor of Compton, California. Sentenced to 27 months in prison.(1996)[29]

    Nicholas Mavroules (D-Massachusetts) pleaded guilty to bribery charges. [30]

    House banking scandal [31] The House of Representatives Bank found that 450 members had overdrawn their checking accounts, but not been penalized. Six were convicted of charges, most only tangentially related to the House Bank itself. Twenty two more of the most prolific over-drafters were singled out by the House Ethics Committee. (1992)

    Buzz Lukens (R-Ohio) convicted of bribery and conspiracy.

    Carl D. Perkins (D-Kentucky) pled guilty to a check kiting scheme involving several financial institutions (including the House Bank).

    Carroll Hubbard (D-Kentucky)convicted of illegally funneling money to his wife's 1992 campaign to succeed him in congress.[32]

    Mary Rose Oakar (D-Ohio) was charged with seven felonies, but pleaded guilty only to a misdemeanor campaign finance charge not related to the House Bank.

    Walter Fauntroy (D-District of Columbia) convicted of filing false disclosure forms in order to hide unauthorized income. [citation needed]

    Jack Russ Sgt. at Arms, convicted

    Congressional Post Office scandal (1991–1995) A conspiracy to embezzle House Post Office money through stamps and postal vouchers to congressmen.[33]

    Dan Rostenkowski (D-Illinois) Rostenkowski was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison, in 1995. [34]

    Joe Kolter (D-Pennsylvania) Convicted of one count of conspiracy [35] and sentenced to 6 months in prison. [36]

    Robert V. Rota Postmaster, convicted of one count of conspiracy and two counts of embezzlement.

    Jay Kim (R-California) accepted $250,000 in illegal 1992 campaign contributions and was sentenced to two months house arrest (1992) [37]

    Mel Reynolds (D-Illinois) indicted for sexual assault and criminal sexual abuse for a relationship with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer (1994.) He was convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography. (1995) [38]

    Ken Calvert (R-California) arrested for soliciting a prostitute for oral sex in his car. (1993)[39]

[edit] 1989–1992 (George H. W. Bush presidency)

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    Catalina Vasquez Villalpando, (R) Treasurer of the United States. Pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and tax evasion. The only US Treasurer ever sent to prison. (1992)[40]

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    Albert Bustamante (D-Texas) convicted of accepting bribes. [41]

    Lawrence J. Smith (D-Florida) pleaded guilty to tax fraud and lying to federal election officials and served three months in jail.

    David Durenberger Senator (R-Minnesota) denounced by Senate for unethical financial transactions and then disbarred (1990). He pled guilty to misuse of public funds and given one year probation (1995) [42]

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    Walter Nixon US Judge (D-Mississippi) Was impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate for perjury on November 3, (1989) [43]

[edit] 1981–1988 (Reagan presidency)

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    Housing and Urban Development Scandal A controversy concerning bribery by selected contractors for low income housing projects.

    James G. Watt (R) Secretary of Interior, 1981–1983, charged with 25 counts of perjury and obstruction of justice, sentenced to five years probation, fined $5,000 and 500 hours of community service[44]

    Deborah Gore Dean, (R) Executive Assistant to (Samuel Pierce, Secretary of HUD 1981–1987, and not charged). Dean was convicted of 12 counts of perjury, conspiracy, bribery. Sentenced to 21 months in prison (1987). [45]

    Phillip D. Winn (R) Assistant Secretary of HUD, 1981–1982, pled guilty to bribery in 1994. [45]

    Thomas Demery, (R) Assistant Secretary of HUD, pled guilty to bribery and obstruction. [45]

    Joseph A. Strauss, (R) Special Assistant to the Secretary of HUD, convicted for accepting payments to favor Puerto Rican land developers in receiving HUD funding.[46]

    Silvio D. DeBartolomeis convicted of perjury and bribery.[47]

    Wedtech scandal Wedtech Corporation convicted of bribery for Defense Department contracts.

    Mario Biaggi (D-New York) sentenced to 2½ years.[48]

    Robert Garcia (D-New York) sentenced to 2½ years.[49]

    also convicted was Clarence Mitchell III (D) state Senator of Maryland, see State and Local scandals

    also convicted was Michael B. Mitchell (D) state Senator of Maryland, see State and Local scandals

    Iran-Contra Affair (1985–1986); A plan conceived by CIA head William Casey (R) and Oliver North (R) of the National Security Counsel to sell TOW missiles to Iran for the return of US hostages and then use part of the money received to fund Contra rebels trying to overthrow the left wing government of Nicaragua, which was in direct violation of Congress' Boland Amendment. [50] Ronald Reagan appeared on TV stating there was no "arms for hostages" deal, but was later forced to admit, also on TV, that yes, there indeed had been:

    Robert C. McFarlane (R) National Security Adviser, convicted of withholding evidence, but after a plea bargain was given only 2 years probation. Later pardoned by President George H. W. Bush[51]

    Elliott Abrams (R) Asst Sec of State, convicted of withholding evidence, but after a plea bargain was given only 2 years probation. Later pardoned by President George H. W. Bush. [52] http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/summpros.htm.

    Alan D. Fiers Chief of the CIA's Central American Task Force, convicted of withholding evidence and sentenced to one year probation. Later pardoned by President George H. W. Bush [50]

    Clair George Chief of Covert Ops-CIA, convicted on 2 charges of perjury, but pardoned by President George H. W. Bush before sentencing. [53]

    Oliver North (R) convicted of accepting an illegal gratuity, obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and destruction of documents, but the ruling was overturned since he had been granted immunity.[54]

    Fawn Hall, Oliver North's secretary was given immunity from prosecution on charges of conspiracy and destroying documents in exchange for her testimony.[55]

    John Poindexter National Security Advisor (R) convicted of 5 counts of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury, defrauding the government, and the alteration and destruction of evidence. The Supreme Court overturned this ruling.[56]

    Richard V. Secord pleaded guilty to making false statements to Congress

    Albert Hakim pleaded guilty to supplementing the salary of North

    Thomas G. Clines convicted of four counts of tax-related offenses for failing to report income from the operations

    Carl R. Channell pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States

    Richard R. Miller pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States

    Michael Deaver (R) Deputy Chief of Staff to Ronald Reagan 1981–85, pleaded guilty to perjury related to lobbying activities and was sentenced to 3 years probation and fined $100,000 [57]

    Sewergate A scandal in which funds from the EPA were selectively used for projects which would aid politicians friendly to the Reagan administration.

    Anne Gorsuch Burford (R) Head of the EPA. Cut the EPA staff by 22% and refused to turn over documents to Congress citing "Executive Privilege",[58] whereupon she was found in Contempt and resigned with twenty of her top employees.(1980) [59]

    Rita Lavelle (R) An EPA Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency? misused ‘superfund' monies and was convicted of perjury. She served six months in prison, was fined $10,000 and given five yrs probation.[60]

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    David Durenberger Senator (R-Minnesota), denounced by the Senate for unethical financial transactions (1990) and then disbarred as an attorney.[61] In 1995 he pled guilty to 5 misdemeanor counts of misuse of public funds and was given one years probation.[62]

    Jesse Helms Senator (R-North Carolina), His campaign was found guilty of 'voter caging' when 125,000 postcards were sent to mainly black neighborhoods and the results used to challenge their residency and therefore their right to vote. (1990) [63]

    Donald E. "Buz" Lukens (R-Ohio), Convicted of two counts of bribery and conspiracy. (1996) [64] See also Sex scandals.

    Abscam FBI sting involving fake 'Arabs' trying to bribe 31 congressmen.(1980) [65] The following six Congressmen were convicted:

    Harrison A. Williams Senator (D-New Jersey) Convicted on 9 counts of bribery and conspiracy. Sentenced to 3 years in prison.[66]

    John Jenrette Representative (D-South Carolina) sentenced to two years in prison for bribery and conspiracy.[67]

    Richard Kelly (R-Florida) Accepted $25K and then claimed he was conducting his own investigation into corruption. Served 13 months.[68]

    Raymond Lederer (D-Pennsylvania) "I can give you me" he said after accepting $50K. Sentenced to 3 years.[69]

    Michael Myers (D-Pennsylvania) Accepted $50K saying, "...money talks and bullshit walks." Sentenced to 3 years and was expelled from the House.[70]

    Frank Thompson (D-New Jersey) Sentenced to 3 years.[71]

    John M. Murphy (D-New York) Served 20 months of a 3 year sentence.[72]

    Also convicted were NJ State Senator Angelo Errichetti (D) [73] and members of the Philadelphia City Council.

    Mario Biaggi (D-New York), Convicted of obstruction of justice and accepting illegal gratuities he was sentenced to 2½ years in prison and fined $500K for his role in the Wedtech scandal, see above. Just before expulsion from the House, he resigned. The next year he was convicted of another 15 counts of obstruction and bribery. (1988) [74]

    Pat Swindall (R-Georgia) convicted of 6 counts of perjury. (1989) [75][76]

    George V. Hansen (R-Idaho) censured for failing to file out disclosure forms. Spent 15 months in prison.[77]

    James Traficant (D-Ohio), convicted of ten felony counts including bribery, racketeering and tax evasion and sentenced to 8 years in prison. He was expelled from the House July 24, (2002.)[78]

    Frederick W. Richmond (D-New York),Convicted of tax evasion and possession of marijuana. Served 9 months(1982) [79]

    Dan Flood (D-Pennsylvania) censured for bribery. After a trial ended in a deadlocked jury, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year's probation. [80][81]

    Joshua Eilberg (D-Pennsylvania) pleaded guilty to conflict-of-interest charges. In addition, he convinced president Carter to fire the U.S. Attorney investigating his case.[82]

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    Alcee Hastings (D-Florida), Federal District court judge impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate of soliciting a bribe (1989).[83] Subsequently elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (1992)

    Harry Claiborne (D-Nebraska), Federal District court Judge impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate on two counts of tax evasion. He served over one year in prison.[84]

[edit] 1977–1980 (Carter presidency)

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    Fred Richmond (D-New York) – Convicted of tax fraud and possession of marijuana. Served 9 months in prsion. Charges of soliciting sex from a 16-year-old boy were dropped after he submitted to counseling. (1978) [85]

    Charles Diggs (D-Michigan), convicted on 29 charges of mail fraud and filing false payroll forms which formed a kickback scheme with his staff. Sentenced to 3 years (1978) [86]

    Michael Myers (D-Pennsylvania) Received suspended six-month jail term after pleading no contest to disorderly conduct charged stemming from an incident at a Virginia bar in which he allegedly attacked a hotel security guard and a cashier.[87]

    Koreagate scandal involving alleged bribery of more than 30 members of Congress by the South Korean government represented by Tongsun Park.

    Richard T. Hanna (D-California) was convicted and sentenced to 6 years in prison.

    Richard Tonry (D-Louisiana) pleaded guilty to receiving illegal campaign contributions.[88]

[edit] 1974–1976 (Ford presidency)

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    Andrew J. Hinshaw (R-California) Congressman convicted of accepting bribes while Assessor of Orange County. He served one year in prison. (1977) [89]

    James F. Hastings (R-New York), convicted of kickbacks and mail fraud. Took money from his employees for personal use. Served 14 months at Allenwood penitentiary (1976) [90]

    John V. Dowdy (D-Texas), Served 6 months in prison for perjury. (1973) [91]

    Bertram Podell (D-New York), pleaded guilty to conspiracy and conflict of interest. He was fined $5,000 and served four months in prison (1974)[92]

    Frank Brasco (D-New York) Sentenced to three months in jail and fined $10,000 for conspiracy to accept bribes from a reputed Mafia figure who sought truck leasing contracts from the Post Office and loans to buy trucks.[82]

    Frank Clark (D-Pennsylvania) Paid congressional salaries to 13 Pennsylvania residents who performed no official duties.[82]

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    Otto Kerner, Jr. (D) Resigned as a judge of the Federal Seventh Circuit Court District after conviction for bribery, mail fraud and tax evasion while Governor of Illinois. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison and fined $50,000. (1974) [93]

[edit] 1970–1973 (Nixon presidency)

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    Spiro Agnew (R-Maryland), Richard Nixon's Vice President, convicted of tax fraud stemming from bribery charges in Maryland and forced to resign.[94] Nixon replaced him as V.P. with Gerald R. Ford (R-Michigan)(1973)

    Watergate (1972–1973) Republican 'bugging' of the Democratic Party National Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel led to a burglary which was discovered. The cover up of the affair by President Richard Nixon (R) and his staff resulted in 69 government officials being charged and 48 pleading guilty. Eventually, Nixon resigned his position.[95]

    John N. Mitchell (R) Attorney General, convicted of perjury.[96]

    Richard Kleindienst (R) Attorney General, found guilty of "refusing to answer questions" given one month in jail.[97]

    Jeb Stuart Magruder (R) Head of Committee to Re-elect the President, pled guilty to 1 count of conspiracy, August 1973[98]

    Frederick C. LaRue (R) Advisor to John Mitchell, convicted of obstruction of justice.[98]

    H. R. Haldeman (R) Chief of Staff for Nixon, convicted of perjury [99]

    John Ehrlichman (R) Counsel to Nixon, convicted of perjury.[100]

    Egil Krogh Jr. (R) Aid to John Ehrlichman, sentenced to 6 months.[98]

    John W. Dean III (R) Counsel to Nixon, convicted of obstruction of justice.[98]

    Dwight L. Chapin (R) Deputy Assistant to Nixon, convicted of perjury.[98]

    Herbert W. Kalmbach (R) personal attorney to Nixon, convicted of illegal campaigning.[98]

    Charles W. Colson (R) Special Consul to Nixon, convicted of obstruction justice.[97]

    Herbert L. Porter (R) Aid to the Committee to Re-elect the President. Convicted of perjury.[98]

    G. Gordon Liddy (R) Special Investigations Group, convicted of burglary.[98]

    E. Howard Hunt (R) ‘security consultant,’ convicted of burglary.[98]

    James W. McCord Jr. (R) guilty of six charges of burglary, conspiracy and wiretapping.[98]

    Virgilio Gonzalez guilty of burglary.[98]

    Bernard Barker guilty of burglary.[98]

    Eugenio Martinez guilty of burglary.[98]

    Frank Sturgis guilty of burglary.[98]

    Richard Helms, Head of the CIA, denied his role in the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende and was convicted of perjury. He also destroyed all record of over 150 CIA mind control experiments of the MKULTRA project for which he was not prosecuted.[101]

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    Cornelius Gallagher (D-New Jersey) pleaded guilty to tax evasion, and served two years in prison.[102]

    J. Irving Whalley (R-Pennsylvania) Received suspended three-year sentence and fined $11,000 in 1973 for using mails to deposit staff salary kickbacks and threatening an employee to prevent her from giving information to the FBI.[82]

    Martin B. McKneally (R-New York) Placed on one-year probation and fined $5,000 in 1971 for failing to file income tax return. He had not paid taxes for many years prior.[103]

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    Harold Carswell (R): Was not nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court (1970) after publication of a 20-year-old speech: "I yield to no man... in the firm, vigorous belief in the principles of white supremacy." Was also alleged to be hostile to women's rights.[104] Later arrested in (1976) for homosexual advances in a men's washroom.[105]

[edit] 1963–1969 (Lyndon B. Johnson presidency)

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    Ted Kennedy Senator (D-Massachusetts) drove his car into the channel between Chappaquiddick Island and Martha's Vineyard, killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and received a suspended sentence of two months [106] (1969)

    Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (D-New York): was expelled from Congress but won the special election as his own replacement (1967)[107]

    Daniel Brewster (D-Maryland) Senator pleaded no contest to accepting bribes.[108]

[edit] 1960–1963 (Kennedy presidency)

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    Thomas F. Johnson (D-Maryland) was convicted of conspiracy and conflict of interest regarding the receipt of illegal gratuities.[109]

    Frank Boykin (D-Alabama) Was placed on probation and fined $40,000 following conviction in a case involving a conflict of interest and conspiracy to defraud the government. He was pardoned by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. [110]

[edit] 1952–1959 (Eisenhower presidency)