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A September 2005 article in Vanity Fair revealed that during her work, former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds had heard Turkish wiretap targets boast of covert relations with Hastert. The article states, "the targets reportedly discussed giving Hastert tens of thousands of dollars in surreptitious payments in exchange for political favors and information. Following his congressional career, Hastert received a $35,000 per month contract lobbying on behalf of Turkey:
More:
http://www.bidstrup.com/arc20060501.htm
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/09/edmonds200509
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2005/08/03/607/55336/otherpolitics/Vanity-Fair-Reports-on-Alleged-Turkish-Bribes-of-Hastert
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-friedman/fbi-whistleblower-hastert_b_277704.html
annabanana
(52,791 posts)thing that DU was talking about at the time...
eg: no damn surprise to us..
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)is one big organized crime family.
rurallib
(62,373 posts)Too bad those who gag ordered her and kept her story shut down won't face charges. There should be some consequences to her actions.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Corruption...... massive, rotting, corrosive, destructive, slimy, deadly, costly, corruption....yes, it is time to dare to speak of the unspeakable in America.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Go to this page on Lukery's old site that talks a lot about what Sibel Edmonds was saying about Hastert, Randy Duke Cunningham, and other corrupt Republicans in those days...
http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/10/dennis-fast-bastert.html
Another thread in a link on that page has Daniel Elsberg's comments on Hastert as well as Sibel's too.
http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/10/more-hastert-ellsberg-sibel.html
johnnyreb
(915 posts)The acceptance of large sums of bribery in forms of cash or laundered cash ... to make it look legal for his campaigns, and also for his personal use, in order to do certain favors ... make certain things happen for foreign entities and foreign governments' interests, Turkish government's interest and Turkish business entities' interests ... other activities, too, including being blackmailed for various reasons. ... he used the townhouse that was not his residence for certain not very morally accepted activities. ... foreign entities knew about this, in fact, they sometimes participated in some of those not maybe morally well activities in that particular townhouse that was supposed to be an office, not a house, residence at certain hours, certain days, evenings of the week.
While Edmonds offered a number of claims that seemed "outlandish" (to some) at the time, the former House Speaker did, in fact, end up going to work as a lobbyist for Turkey shortly after leaving Congress. (As of this afternoon, the D.C.-based lobbying firm, Dickstein Shapiro has removed him from their website, according to Politico.) And now the former Republican U.S. House Speaker from Illinois has been indicted on charges related to huge payoffs to cover up "prior misconduct" of some sort.
As folks are poking around tonight trying to fill in unexplained details from the indictment, here are a few BRAD BLOG stories from years passed that may prove to be worth looking at again while I'm otherwise "gone" for a few days...
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kpete
(71,957 posts)coming out of the closet..........Denny Boy's closet that is
herding cats
(19,558 posts)I miss Terry, he'd be having such fun with this now.
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)Maybe this will clear a path for a look back at her incredible narrative.