F.B.I. Investigates Missing G.O.P. Money. HAHAHA!

[MadashellLynn]

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"Hundreds of thousands of dollars are missing and presumed stolen from the chief fund-raising arm of House Republicans, according to party officials who described the findings of emergency internal audits.

The financial records of the group, the National Republican Congressional Committee, may also have been falsified for several years, Republican officials said. The campaign committees of several Republican lawmakers may also have been victims of a scam that is now under criminal investigation by the F.B.I.

The audits were ordered after the abrupt departure several weeks ago of Christopher J. Ward, who had been treasurer of the committee. Lawmakers said that Mr. Ward, who served a similar role for dozens of individual members of Congress and their political committees, is the focus of the F.B.I.’s criminal investigation.

The committee has acknowledged publicly that it was aware of “irregularities in our financial audit process” and that it had called in the F.B.I. in February because “these irregularities may include fraud.”

But until now the committee has not acknowledged that any money was missing from its bank accounts or that the financial irregularities might extend beyond the national committee to the campaign funds of individual Republican lawmakers who also worked with Mr. Ward, a longtime party operative.

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This is just too fun.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/washington/06gop.html?_r=2&ei=5088&en=7a88dcd2f2742a49&ex=1362546000&oref=slogin&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

[niyad]

1. couldn't happen to more deserving people

[midnight]

2. That's nothing.......

"Hundreds of thousands of dollars are missing and presumed stolen from the chief fund-raising arm of House Republicans, according to party officials who described the findings of emergency internal audits.


Now when the audits start looking into the missing billions from the largest bank withdraw in history. Now that will be something. It will be something because they didn't leave a paper trail....

[LeftHander]

5. What happens when Repuplicans are in charge of money....?

They take it.

[Ganja Ninja]

3. Have they looked in Dick Cheney's safe? n/t

[SoCalDem]

6. That was my first thought:)

I hope he hadn't stashed it in that barn that burned down :rofl:

[nickyt]

7. "There's ALWAYS money

in the banana stand!!"

[DJ13]

4. ".....from the chief fund-raising arm of House Republicans"

Anyone looked in Tom DeLay's freezer?

[fascisthunter]

8. I Know Where the Money is......!

same place those WMD's are... up every conservative tool's ass.

[librechik]

9. Wherever theres' smoke, theres' a Republican burning the evidence

[MadashellLynn]

10. You guy's are as funny

as the original story!

I dislike the GOP emough that this made my whole day.