Accounting scandal hits House GOP campaign committee

[L. Coyote]

This flashed by one morning on C_SPAN, but I have not seen much about it elsewhere, even here.

The News Flash late last week was about a possible half million dollar fraud of the Rs bank accounts!
:rofl: Corrupt Bastard Club Treasurer Caught Stealing! :rofl:
Well, what did they expect! And, now we know why they called the FBI.

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Accounting scandal hits House GOP campaign committee
March 13, 2008 - http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/13/gop.probe/

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An accounting scandal at the Republican Party's House campaign organization has federal agents investigating what happened to hundreds of thousands of dollars and could affect several congressional campaigns, party officials said Thursday.

Christopher Ward, the National Republican Congressional Committee's longtime treasurer, was fired in January after committee officials learned that he had been making unauthorized fund transfers dating to 2004, said Rep. Tom Cole, the committee's chairman.

"Based on analysis conducted to date, it appears likely that over a period of several years Ward made several hundred thousand dollars in unauthorized transfers of NRCC funds to outside committees whose bank accounts he had access to, including joint fund-raising committees in which the NRCC participated," Cole said in a written statement.

"He also appears to have made subsequent transfers of several hundred thousand dollars in funds from those outside committees to what appear to be his personal and business bank accounts."

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[L. Coyote]

1. This is on NPR News now. "The buck stops with the guy who embezzled."

Comm. chairs are mostly ceremonial! Walden was "duped."
New chair came in and tried to meet with the outside auditors, who did not exist.

[malaise]

2. We should bump up some of these stories

http://news.google.com/news?q=christopher+ward&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enJM233JM233&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn

Classic Friday news dump.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2008/03/nrcc_scandal_how_did_it_happen.html

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9033.html

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1205718911186300.xml&coll=7

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=69358

[L. Coyote]

3. I'm surprised this gets no comment. Are we too accustomed to a Daily Dose of Corruption? !!

[L. Coyote]

4. ditto to kick

[spanone]

7. yes, we are....when you have total corruption, where do you begin????

[Uncle Joe]

5. Thanks for the thread, L.Coyote

As a side note whatever happened to Abramov, he seems to have dropped off the radar?

I thought there were many people involved with his corruption as well and the shoe was going to drop on them, but I haven't heard anything lately?

Kicked and recommended.

[L. Coyote]

6. Abramoff is singing in jail, but DoJ seems totally compromised

by full stall justice for Republican operatives and corrupt politicos.
Meanwhile, they fired up the nuclear reactors to get Spitzer!

Here's the latest Abramoff (re-)compilation:

HORTON: The Case of the Amazing Vanishing Corruption Investigation = ON ABRAMOFF
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3022643