Re: OT - GOP congressman pleads guilty to tax charge

So you sort of admit that you were wrong about Espy? GOT THAT?

>In the future, please READ MY FUCKING POSTS BEFORE you contest them.
Why - when you often don't check your own statements.

You've satisfied my request for one Democrat convicted of bribery on a
defense relate issue. And you got your list from a right-wing,
anti-liberal web site - didn't you?
http://boycottliberalism.com/Scandals.htm.

Here's the story -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/counsels/stories/espy120398.htm

Espy Acquitted in Gifts Case

Former agriculture secretary Mike Espy, forced out of office in 1994 by
allegations that he improperly took gifts from businesses and
lobbyists, was acquitted yesterday of 30 corruption charges brought
against him by an independent counsel whom Espy likened to a
"schoolyard bully."

Espy pumped his fist in jubilation as the jury forewoman announced the
verdicts in U.S. District Court. Thirty times she looked at the verdict
form and declared "not guilty" as independent counsel Donald C. Smaltz
and his team of lawyers sat in silence at the prosecution table.

As the litany continued, Espy turned to his lawyers and whispered, "I
knew it, I knew it."

Moments later, outside the courthouse, Espy called the acquittal a
long-sought vindication. He declared it a repudiation of Smaltz, who
spent more than four years and $17 million on a wide-ranging
investigation, and said his case illustrated flaws in the independent
counsel law that should be reformed.

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