A former Interior Department official pleaded guilty yesterday to accepting $15,000 in kickbacks from an insurance company in exchange for arranging meetings with government officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Edgar A. Johnson, 60, of Bowie, left his position at Interior's Office of Insular Affairs last year. He was charged in November in U.S. District Court in Washington with one count of honest services wire fraud.
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I agree both the Interior Dept and the Insurance Co who payed the bribe should be charged and exposed.
Another Brainiac. What do you want the Interior Dapatment charged with? In what way did it participate in this crime?
So I want to know when old Dirk boy is going to be perp walked, he decimated this department.
Came out on a Saturday? Nobody paying attention. This should be more of a big MSM story but obviously this is getting buried.
Note that the insurance company is being unnamed? So they don't get any indictment or nobody there pays any price for this? Shouldn't that solicitation be illegal, too? Whether or not, don't we have the right to know what the name of the insurance company is?
And by the way, just what is "honest services wire fraud"?
So many questions.
"A former Interior Department official pleaded guilty YESTERDAY ....." Just when do you think it should have made the papers?
As for "honest services wire fraud"
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You could lift the lazy fingers to go with the lazy brain to find these things out for yourself.
Finally, what makes you think a relatively piddling crime by a retiring career bureaucrat would ever get much play in the media.? It's on HuffPost because it's Saturday and there isn't much in the way of political news.
Get over yourself.
Seems like you missed KCF's main point about the unnamed insurer. You weren't very nice about it either. I would guess insurance company troll.
"Get over myself"??
Whaddup Bubba?
A little trollin' on Saturday?
Corruption everywhere you look. It is time ti end the pay to play politics. What happens when the economy does slip into the full blown depression (we're close now) and confidence is totally lost by the citizens. Will revolutions begin? Will Lynch mobs bring justice to the criminals in the Banking Industry and WallStreet? I honestly see things similar to begin as what will be left? When enough people lose their jobs, their homes, all assets they once owned and Government lacks full controllof cleaning it's own house much less corruption in all asspects of business, well many will "change" into a survival mode. What choices will their be? I have a really hard time just sitting, hoping, and slowly losing confidence. Had I seen some arrests made of CEO's and WallStreet personnel, I might feel different but a verbel licking just doesn't cut it. Madoff complaining he feels like a prisoner in his own home and he needs to be in a cell.
Every member of Congrees (Daschle?) and every federal official who goes to work as an overpaid lobbyist is just as guilty, accepting compensation for past or future favors. Bribes, kickbacks, huge salaries, bonuses, cars and drives....
Washiington is corrupt to the core
Daschle was not a member of congress (as you suggest) . . . and the totality of corruption is not at all limited to the Beltway. It's happening next door to you, down the block and through the ranks of every corporation, municipality and organization which openly embraces (American) humanity's love of money more than principle. Where Washington IS concerned, K-street must be dismantled and the 2 tiers of justice must be melded into one. Don't forget, our representatives' behaviors are but a direct reflection of what society as a whole dismisses amongst themselves as acceptable "transgressions", as long as no one gets caught. Welcome to the moral absurdity that IS human rationalization. Welcome to America!
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Washington Post | Derek Kravitz | January 31, 2009 02:22 PM