DCCC going after Vern Buchanan

Vern Buchanan barely won his last two races in Sarasota is is considered by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) to be one of the most corrupt politicians in DC.
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Will FL Rep Vern Buchanan lose his NRCC job?

CREW describes Buchanan as one of most corrupt politicians in DC

In the latest test of House Republican’s zero tolerance policy on ethics, Friday’s New York Times revealed that federal investigations into NRCC Finance Chairman Vern Buchanan’s (FL-13) role in a potentially illegal campaign finance scheme are “widening” and “a federal grand jury in Tampa is hearing evidence in the case.” 

Will Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, and NRCC Chairman Sessions continue to allow Congressman Buchanan to lead the NRCC’s lackluster fundraising effort?

Buchanan is already under federal investigation for an “extensive and ongoing” campaign finance scheme to reimburse employees who contributed to his campaign and the Office of Congressional Ethics found that there “is substantial reason to believe” 

Buchanan violated the law by failing to report his positions at over a dozen companies.

The New York Times has now revealed that there is also “a deep link between his newly disclosed corporate interests and his own fund-raising operations, with donors affiliated with these groups donating more than $136,000 to his campaigns.”

“The chief House Republican fundraiser, Congressman Vern Buchanan, is under an expanding investigation for a campaign finance scheme and for failure to disclose his assets,” said Jesse Ferguson of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Ferguson added: 

Republicans have a campaign Finance Chairman who uses potentially illegal campaign finance tactics in charge of funding their re-election. Having Congressman Vern Buchanan as fundraising Chairman for the Republican Majority is just the latest test of Republicans’ ‘zero tolerance’ policy on ethics.

Buchanan is Under Investigation by The FBI, IRS, Federal Grand Jury and the House Ethics Committee. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service and a federal grand jury in Tampa are all investigating Vern Buchanan’s roll in scheme to reimburse his employees for contributions made to his congressional campaign. 

Additionally, The House Ethics Committee is examining Buchanan’s failing to disclose financial interests, income and management positions he held at 17 different businesses and organizations. [New York Times, 2/24/12] . . .

Florida Independent: FEC: Buchanan’s former dealership violated the law in an ‘extensive and ongoing scheme.’ “A federal court is imposing a $67,900 fine on a car dealership once owned by Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, for what the Federal Election Commission calls an ‘extensive and ongoing scheme’ to funnel ‘secret, illegal contributions’ to Buchanan’s 2006 and 2008 campaigns.” [Florida Independent, 6/1/11]

Buchanan Heads the NRCC’s Fundraising Efforts. NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions appointed Buchanan as the NRCC’s Finance Vice Chair on January 14, 2011. [

sources: 

NRCC Press Release, 1/14/2011]

http://dccc.org/blog/entry/will_vern_buchanan_stay_as_nrcc_fundraising_head/

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Newsy: Bush adminsitration missing emails recovered

 
December 20, 2009 03:59 PM

Public release is one thing. Rightardia suspects the Justice Department is already looking at the emails.

Anybody who thinks the loss of these emails was an accident underestimates the GOP. The GOP been involved in creepy crooked stuff like this for a long time. In addition, the White House was even using an private RNC email addresses to bypass public law on email archives.

President Bush's White House early on scrapped a custom archiving system that the Clinton administration had adopted under a federal court order.

From 2001 to 2003, the Bush White House thought it had recorded over computer backup tapes that provided a last line of defense for preserving e-mails, even though a similar practice landed the Clinton administration in legal trouble.

As a result, several years' worth of electronic communication could have been lost.  E-mails that documented administration actions in the run-up to the Iraq war were also missing.

The Bush administration's e-mail policies have been repeatedly challenged by lawmakers and open-government groups, in congressional hearings and in court.

Two groups, the National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, have accused the White House in lawsuits of violating the Federal Records Act because of what they say is its failure to preserve millions of e-mails, a charge the White House rejects.

Watergate comes to mind as does the secret bugging of the Internet under the Patriot Act. Don't forget the torture of Islamic detainees, a cross border operation into Syria during the Iraq War, secret CIA prisons, or the illegal rendition of terrorist suspects off of the streets of Europe.


There will be some major embarrassments for the Bush administration that will be revealed. Executive privilege does not provide immunity for criminal acts.

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source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/21/AR2008012102070.html

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