Feds Probing Senate Donations To Lieberman From Indicted Garbage Exec

[babylonsister]

Galante Donors Gave To Senator
Lieberman Received $14,000 In 2003

By EDMUND H. MAHONY | And JON LENDER Courant Staff Writers
October 28, 2007


Contributions from associates and friends of now-indicted garbage executive James Galante to the 2004 presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman have sparked the interest of federal investigators.

Lieberman's bid for the White House took in at least $14,000 from Galante, his associates and their relatives in the fall of 2003, according to a Courant review of campaign records.

The contributions to Lieberman, a longtime Democrat who became an independent in 2006, are similar to allegedly bundled contributions to three Republican officeholders that earlier this month led to state charges against Galante, who is also facing a 2006 federal racketeering indictment.

What's more, people familiar with the campaign matters say, the names of Lieberman, the three Republicans and about a dozen other Connecticut and New York politicians have turned up on what the FBI loosely refers to as a "ledger" that agents seized from Galante's office while investigating mob influence in the trash industry.

more...

http://www.courant.com/news/custom/topnews/hc-lieberman1028.artoct28,0,5750220.story

[scarletwoman]

1. Oh lovely thought! To see Lieberman taken down! Oh joy! Oh Joy!

May it be so!

sw

[babylonsister]

2. Can you imagine? Oooh, delicious thought! nt

[pnwmom]

5. A delicious thought -- with a bitter pill in the middle.

If Lieberman were forced out of office, who would name his replacement? The governor -- who is a Rethug.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Somehow...

it seems very appropriate for a garbage executive to be donating to Republican campaigns. Considering that most of what they think, say and do is a load of old rubbbish!

[LeftishBrit]

11. And in the case of Lieberman...

it seems rather to define the phrase, "Garbage in, garbage out!"

[tularetom]

4. Christmas is early this year!

Jeezus what a day. First Mitch McChinless rumored to be on the verge of outing as a gay hating gay by Larry Flynt, and then the big news of all big news.

I'd give anything to see Loserman frog marched out of the capitol and get cuffed and stuffed into a cop car.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

17. Who me? A gay bash ing gay...

Doh!

[pnwmom]

6. As bad as Lieberman is, I think we might hate even more

the Rethug who would be named as his replacement.

[movonne]

7. I'm afraid you would be waiting a long time....who is going to go

after him?

[pnwmom]

14. According to the article, the Feds may be going after him.

I'm just saying that if they do, it would be a mixed blessing.

[VP505]

8. I want to think

that the people up in Connect are pretty embarrassed by the way LIEberman pulled a fast one on them and might not take too kindly to the Governor replacing bad with worse. That's what common sense tells me but in today's upside down political world who knows how it might play out.

[Richard Steele]

9. 5th rec- off to the "greatest" page!

[Rex]

10. Well that explains it.

[L. Coyote]

12. Joe Lieberman - CAREER PROFILE (SINCE 1989) - 1989-2006 Total Receipts: $48,714,312

CAREER PROFILE (SINCE 1989)
Joe Lieberman
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?CID=N00000616

Individual contributions
$37,841,057

PAC contributions
$4,870,198

1989-2006 Total Receipts: $48,714,312
1989-2006 Total Spent: $46,665,732
Date of last report: September 30, 2007

Top Zip Codes

10021 (New York, NY) 	$1,119,500
06831 (Greenwich, CT) 	$608,050
06830 (Greenwich, CT) 	$477,357
90210 (Beverly Hills) 	$462,053
10022 (New York, NY) 	$440,850
10028 (New York, NY) 	$423,350

Some committee contributions:
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_give/C00235515
BIG TENT PAC - 09/29/2006 $5,000.00
AKIN, GUMP, STRAUSS, HAUER & FELD LLP CIVIC ACTION COMMITTEE - $5,000.00
ARTHUR ANDERSEN PAC - $4,500.00
ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE - $10,000.00
AT&T INC. FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AT&T FEDERAL PAC) - $15,000.00
COMCAST CORP. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE - $15,000.00

DASCHLE, THOMAS ANDREW - 08/08/2006 - $ 5,000.00
DASCHLE, THOMAS ANDREW - 06/30/2007 - $ -5,000.00

GREENBERG TRAURIG LLP PAC - $5,500.00
NORPAC - $17,000.00

Individual Contributors:
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_detail/S8CT00022/

[Solly Mack]

13. tee-hee

[The Backlash Cometh]

15. What took them so long?

[AzDar]

16. (Ala Chris Matthews) "HA!"

:kick:

[AnnieBW]

18. "Just because we're in the garbage business doesn't mean

we're dirty." - Tony Soprano