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Posts Tagged ‘indictments’

DETROIT'S FLOURISHING POLITICAL SYSTEM

Hilarious Monica Conyers Could Be Indicted Today, DEMANDS People Pray For Her

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Unbelievably batshit Detroit City Council member Monica Conyers, comparatively young wife of old Congressman John Conyers, may finally go to jail for being an insane, violent criminal. She “has received a pre-indictment letter from federal authorities who have given her until the end of today to reach a plea deal or they will proceed with possible criminal charges against her.” Conyers is famous for threatening people with guns, getting into a shouting match with the Council president — while in session — during which she called him “Shrek,” getting into another shouting match with another Council member during which she “made fun of his hearing, his lack of college degree and started rumors that he has cancer,” and most importantly, in one of the best YouTubes your editor can recall, losing a debate to an 8th grader and getting pissy about it. Will you pray for her today? MORE »


SNOOZER

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

THE CHICAGO INDICTMENT IS JUST SOME BORING ALDERMAN: Patrick Fitzgerald you are a loser. Your Wonkette editors had prepared for the worst regarding this impending indictment of an elected official in Chicago, “joking” that it was “probably just some alderman.” And that’s all it is, some slob who looks like Jesse Jackson after eating Rush Limbaugh: “Ald. Isaac Carothers (29th), a staunch ally of Mayor Richard Daley, was indicted today on federal public-corruption charges.” [Chicago Breaking News]


CHICAGO BREAKING NEWS!

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
  • FITZGERALD GOING NUTS AGAIN: Breaking news from Chicago! According to the Chicago Breaking News Center, “The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago said it will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. today to announce public corruption charges. Sources say it is expected to be an indictment of an elected official.” Is it Roland Burris, after Chris Matthews was racist to him for a while? But he was never elected! In that case, “meh.” [Chicago Breaking News]

THE POOR MAN'S FITZMAS

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
  • OH AND HERE’S SOME ACTUAL NEWS: “Blagojevich, 52, was indicted on 16 felony counts, including racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud, extortion conspiracy, attempted extortion and making false statements to federal agents. He allegedly abused his office in numerous matters to seek money, campaign contributions, and employment for himself and others, in exchange for official actions, including trying to leverage his authority to appoint a United States senator, U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in a statement.” Patrick Fitzgerald is the fucking angel of death (but also racist for doing this to important Civil Rights leader Gandhi Blagojevich). [CBS 2 Chicago]

CRIMINALS

Dick Cheney And Alberto Gonzales Indicted For ‘Prison Profiteering’

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Creep.Well, it would be nice if these guys ever went to jail for anything, but it seems unlikely that they will go to jail for this. A grand jury in South Texas handed down indictments against various current and former public officials connected with wrongdoing in private prisons — including, most notably, Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales. The prison company, The GEO Group, was charged with three counts of murder and manslaughter. This is an ugly, complicated story, so let’s cut to the chase: how many South Texas prisoners has Dick Cheney had shipped up to his basement dungeon in the Naval Observatory for experiments? MORE »


HEROES

More On Ted Stevens Being Screwed For Life

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Today, a federal grand jury indicted Alaskan Sen. Ted Stevens on seven counts of “filing false financial disclosures.” Stevens is the biggest catch in a four-year-old corruption investigation involving pretty much all Alaskan politicians, one that’s complicated not because of the crimes committed — lots of bribery, basically — but because there was so freaking much crime to investigate. His indictment comes almost exactly a year after federal agents raided his home, and now he will go to jail and lose his Senate seat and remind everyone how evil the powerful Republicans are. MORE »


TUBES IN THE CLINK

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
  • SENATOR TED STEVENS INDICTED: The elusive Alaskan snow leopard who brought you “a series of tubes” has been indicted by a federal grand jury in relation to a year-long corruption investigation. [McClatchy]

REPUBLICANS

Two Very Important Things To Know About Disgraced Congressman Rick Renzi

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Our hero in happier timesYou know that congressman from Arizona who brought shame on his family of 12 children when he got indicted today in some very complicated scheme that had, unfortunately, nothing to do with attractive lobbyists or underaged congressional pages? Well, there are two things that make his long-anticipated “fall from grace” hilarious even if this scandal is not terribly sexy, gross, or weird. MORE »


REPUBLICANS

Rudy Giuliani’s Best Friend Will Be Indicted, Too

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Rudy Giuliani’s best friend, future Secretary of Defense Bernard Kerik, has led a colorful life of being a convicted criminal, New York mobster and sex creep. Bernie also almost got the best mafia job of all, thanks to Rudy: handing out gazillions of federal dollars to “the family” as Bush’s director of the cash-cow Homeland Security Department. And now, once again, Kerik’s going to be indicted — this time by the Feds. MORE »


MITT ROMNEY

Mexicans Are Murder

Monday, June 4th, 2007

* Things Mitt Romney also may not think are murder: peanut butter and jelly, basketball, fishing. [ElectionCentral]
* The Iraqi police force is rife with “violent extremists,” making them at least as effective as the LAPD. [The Blotter]
* It’s not the lying or incompetence or the inability to complete a sentence — it’s the goddamned Mexicans the GOP can’t stand. [MoJo]
* Tony Blair is going to spend his retirement beating his wife, an expression of masculinity and control that she herself desires. She’s French. [Passport]
* Indictment isn’t that big a deal. Just look what it did for Tom DeLay. [HuffPo]


FUNNY PICTURES

So That’s Why Cheney Won’t Return To America …

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007