Speaker Pelosi’s culture of corruption and the media’s silence
Media bias isn’t just about how the news is covered. It’s also about what they chose to cover. If an item doesn’t fit their agenda, they breeze right on by. If it is something that fits, they stay, park their satellite trucks and cover the story endlessly.
Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV) has been under investigation by the FBI since last April.
Wall Street Journal
Lawmaker Bought Farm With CEO Who Gained From Appropriations
By JOHN R. WILKE
Rep. Alan B. Mollohan, the West Virginia Democrat whose real-estate holdings and financial disclosures have drawn federal scrutiny, last year bought a 300-acre farm with the head of a small defense contractor that had won a $2.1 million contract from funds that the congressman added to a 2005 spending bill.
The joint purchase of the farm, which sits on the Cheat River in West Virginia, is the most direct tie yet disclosed between Rep. Mollohan and a beneficiary of the federal spending he has steered toward his home state. It raises new questions about possible conflicts of interest by Rep. Mollohan and his use of such spending. House ethics guidelines warn lawmakers to avoid business deals with those who benefit from their official acts.
Rep. Mollohan is the new chairmen of the very committee that oversees the Justice Department’s budget. Now you would think this was big news, especially since the Democrats ran on a platform against a ‘culture of corruption’.
I guess it depends on what their definition of ‘corruption’ is? When asked this week about Rep. Mollahan, here is what Speaker Pelosi had to say,
“Quite frankly, I think the Justice Department is looking into every member of Congress. I always say to everybody, ‘You’re now going to get a free review of your family tree — past, present and future, imagined and otherwise,’” Pelosi said.
Remove the name Mollahan, and insert the name Tom Delay, and what do you think Nancy Pelosi would be saying?
The Culture of Corruption surrounding new Speaker Pelosi doesn’t involve just one man. Let’s not forget Rep. John Conyers ethics problems just because most of the media has. Here’s the Washington Examiner,
Pelosi should withdraw Conyersâ?? appointment as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee because he is unfit for the position and because the ethics mess simply cannot be cleaned up with such an individual leading the House committee most directly concerned with upholding the majesty of the law.
According to Captains Quarters,
The House Ethics Committee released its report on Conyers on New Years Eve, a move apparently timed to slide under everyone’s radar. It scolded Conyers for using official staff to work on his re-election campaigns and to perform personal chores for him. The latter is a breach of ethics, but the former is a violation of election law. It’s a big problem, especially for the man who would run the House committee on law enforcement.
And let’s not forget Nancy’s choice for head of the Intelligence Committee, Alcee Hastings, a corrupt federal judge who was impeached and removed from the bench before he became a congressmen. In case you were wondering, Pelosi voted in favor of his impeachment and removal. Maybe she believes in redemption? When Hastings wouldn’t fly, even within her own party, she turned to Rep. Silvestre Reyes, a guy who doesn’t know anything about the enemies we face. He doesn’t know Shiite from Shineola.
Amazing how much Nancy got worked up over even appearances of corruption by Republicans and how much tolerance she has it for members of her own team.
Even with non-stop, fawning media coverage for Pelosi this week, her poll numbers are even lower than President Bush’s. It’s all downhill from here Nancy.
January 17th, 2007 at 2:27 am
I’m new to blogging so please don’t expect to much. I do however have a story to tell and it is being written by a well known journalist.
The fraud and coverups going on in the courthouses of Fayette co. Pa and Morgantown WV , Pa turnpike , Joe Manchin, C.L.E.A.R. Wv and Pa watersheds. Oh last but by far the most corrupt of all ,ALLEGHENY ENERGY.
My husband and I bought what we thought was
a campground On Cheat Lake . Including boat docks on the boarder of Pa and Wv . We wanted to make it a place where everyone would come and enjoy the lake. Beach, Paddleboats, Petting farm Restaurant. Allegheny Energy came and said well wait a minute . We decided that we wanted Lake front property for our renters so we built on to the property of the prior owners who was an absenttee landowner. We will take the boat docks too in fact Mrs. Morgan you will have to rent a slip from us and show proff of insurance . They gave me phony overlaid maps and deeds that make no sense.
The Guy in the map room of the Morgantown couthouse. {No names but his Father owns the limestone plants and the newspaper.)Gave me phony maps of which I have proof . Duane Nichols Citizen of the year and president of C.L.E.A.R. (whom I contacted because I thought he could help me with Allegeny Energy ) Led me to the wolves .Him and I went to an Attorney in Uniontown Chuck Gentile, over and over stated that he didn’t know anything about the campground and took $4,000.00. I found his name on a prior deed . Anyway this is just the beginning of the nightmare I have suffered but through extensive research I have found that deals where made, deeds where forged and property switched . The only one that loses is the Morgans. I will not lose everything that my husband {who has served in the Military for 22 years fighting for our freedom.} and I have worked for. I grew up outside Morgantown and wanted to come Back home for retirement.
Trust Me I understand the LNG pipeline .
I’m just looking for someone to litigate this ugly mess and help me get my life back.
So as to your blog. There is a lot more corruption in my home state then anyone could even imagine.
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April 16th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
To Mrs.Morgan, Had you done your homework before buying the property like (getting a survey)and(buying title insurance),You would have known the “campground” did not belong to the person who sold the property to you. This so called conspiracy is the fault of the seller, Mastowsky. Not Allegheny Energy
April 18th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
I agree with Tom Bradley’s comment (above). The fiasco Pam Morgan finds herself in is the direct result of her buying a very expensive “pig in a poke” from Gertrude Mastowski, apparently without benefit of a good land survey or title search first.
I do feel sorry for Pam Morgan, but the bottom line is that Allegheny Energy and the good people of Jordan’s Harbor have done nothing wrong.
If I was Pam Morgan at this point, I would actively and vigorously seek restitution from Gert Mastowski, and quit pestering everybody else.
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