OH the horror!!!!!! A corrupt dim wit Democrat with hidden payoff money

[OldMercsRule]

Must be a first. :rolleyes:


RSSP.G. County Executive Jack Johnson, wife arrested in FBI sting
Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson, 61, center, speaks to the media with his lawyers Brian McDaniel, left, and Billy Martin, outside U.S. District Court, Friday, Nov. 12, 2010, in Greenbelt, Md. Johnson and his wife Leslie were arrested by federal law enforcement agents and charged with witness tampering and destruction of records. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
By Jim McElhatton
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The Washington Times
Updated: 6:37 p.m. on Friday, November 12, 2010

Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson, arrested in a corruption probe Friday, told his wife to hide tens of thousands of dollars in her underwear as federal agents arrived at his house to search for illegal payoffs from a developer, federal prosecutors have charged.

Caught in an FBI sting taking a $15,000 payment from an unnamed developer Friday, Mr. Johnson later told his wife by telephone not to answer the door when two FBI agents came to their home, authorities said.

The county executive, a Democrat who was previously the county's top prosecutor, then told his wife, Leslie Johnson, to tear up a $100,000 check from the developer and stash tens of thousands of dollars in cash in her bra, authorities said in charging documents.

"Tear it up! That is the only thing you have to do," Mr. Johnson told his wife, referring to the check, according to prosecutors.

Asked by his wife about "cash down in the basement," the documents say Mr. Johnson replied, "Put it in your bra and walk out or something, I don't know what to do."

In this June 30, 2008, file photo, Prince George's County, Md., Executive Jack Johnson talks in Upper Marlboro, Md. Maryland. Federal authorities arrested Mr. Johnson and his wife Friday, Nov. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)Later, Mr. Johnson told his wife to flush the check down the toilet, according to documents.

"Yes, flush that," he said.

FBI agents, in a search of Mrs. Johnson, recovered $79,600 in cash from her underwear, officials said.

U.S. Attorney for Maryland Rod Rosenstein said the investigations are ongoing and that additional charges are expected.

Richard A. McFeely, special agent in charge of the FBI, said the charges followed a "long and complex investigation."

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P.G. County Executive Jack Johnson, wife arrested in FBI sting

Wonder if the dim wit DC voters, (who gave us Marion "it's snowing" Barry), or like the LA dim wits who re-elected William "dollars in yer freezer" Jefferson will re-elect this yahoooooooo........

sigh......

[chloe]

Must be a first. :rolleyes:


RSSP.G. County Executive Jack Johnson, wife arrested in FBI sting
Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson, 61, center, speaks to the media with his lawyers Brian McDaniel, left, and Billy Martin, outside U.S. District Court, Friday, Nov. 12, 2010, in Greenbelt, Md. Johnson and his wife Leslie were arrested by federal law enforcement agents and charged with witness tampering and destruction of records. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
By Jim McElhatton
-
The Washington Times
Updated: 6:37 p.m. on Friday, November 12, 2010

Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson, arrested in a corruption probe Friday, told his wife to hide tens of thousands of dollars in her underwear as federal agents arrived at his house to search for illegal payoffs from a developer, federal prosecutors have charged.

Caught in an FBI sting taking a $15,000 payment from an unnamed developer Friday, Mr. Johnson later told his wife by telephone not to answer the door when two FBI agents came to their home, authorities said.

The county executive, a Democrat who was previously the county's top prosecutor, then told his wife, Leslie Johnson, to tear up a $100,000 check from the developer and stash tens of thousands of dollars in cash in her bra, authorities said in charging documents.

"Tear it up! That is the only thing you have to do," Mr. Johnson told his wife, referring to the check, according to prosecutors.

Asked by his wife about "cash down in the basement," the documents say Mr. Johnson replied, "Put it in your bra and walk out or something, I don't know what to do."

In this June 30, 2008, file photo, Prince George's County, Md., Executive Jack Johnson talks in Upper Marlboro, Md. Maryland. Federal authorities arrested Mr. Johnson and his wife Friday, Nov. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)Later, Mr. Johnson told his wife to flush the check down the toilet, according to documents.

"Yes, flush that," he said.

FBI agents, in a search of Mrs. Johnson, recovered $79,600 in cash from her underwear, officials said.

U.S. Attorney for Maryland Rod Rosenstein said the investigations are ongoing and that additional charges are expected.

Richard A. McFeely, special agent in charge of the FBI, said the charges followed a "long and complex investigation."

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P.G. County Executive Jack Johnson, wife arrested in FBI sting

Wonder if the dim wit DC voters, (who gave us Marion "it's snowing" Barry), or like the LA dim wits who re-elected William "dollars in yer freezer" Jefferson will re-elect this yahoooooooo........

sigh......


I had to google him to find out who he is, I guess we won't miss him when he resigns:laugh:

[OldMercsRule]

I had to google him to find out who he is, I guess we won't miss him when he resigns:laugh:

Not sure he will resign, (he surely doesn't need to for the sake of his dim wit supporters).

Dim wit voters have always luved corruption, and it seems to attract dim wit support.

Just think about Teddy Oldsmobile, Bwarny Fwrank, Allcee Hastings, BJ Clinton to name just a few notworthy dim wit Pols who have faired very well over long periods of time with corruption, (after the fact).

[PostmodernProphet]

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FBI agents, in a search of Mrs. Johnson, recovered $79,600 in cash from her underwear, officials said.


if they had only thought to put it on YouTube they would have been rich.....

[avatar4321]

Corruption is a bipartisan problem because it's a human problem. Government is corrupt because people are corrupt

The only solution is to start eliminating corruption in ourselves and help others do the same. I am the only one (other than God) who can hold myself accountable. I have to choose to not be corrupt or the system is corrupt. It's the same with everyone else.

Focus on eliminating corruption in your own life. Make a commitment to be honest. To work hard. To keep your word. Make a daily effort and account for it. Ben Franklin did and it changed his life.

And remember God will help us. He doesn't want corruption in our lives any more than we do.

[fj1200]

Corruption is a bipartisan problem because it's a human problem. Government is corrupt because people are corrupt

The only solution is to start eliminating corruption in ourselves and help others do the same.

True, but we could also eliminate the mechanisms of government that enable the corruption. The power we allow a select group of people to wield becomes the chance for the corruption to breed.

[NightTrain]

True, but we could also eliminate the mechanisms of government that enable the corruption. The power we allow a select group of people to wield becomes the chance for the corruption to breed.

Corrupt people will always find a way to line their pockets, and it seems most of them hide their dark nature very well indeed.

The only way to prevent political corruption is to identify those corrupt individuals prior to wielding power, and sometimes it's damned hard for voters to distinguish between legitimate moral shortcomings of a candidate or a fabricated smear perpetrated by rivals and a willing media.

I don't know what the solution to this is. Too many people don't look closely enough or do their own research (which is damned easy these days with the interwebs), instead relying on soundbites and feel-good slogans.

Perhaps extremely harsh prison sentences would curtail this to an extent after a few examples were made.

[fj1200]

The only way to prevent political corruption is to identify those corrupt individuals prior to wielding power...

Good luck with that. But I look at corruption as being enabled by a system. It might even be something that isn't legally corrupt like creating a tax system with multitudes of inequities that can then be "fixed" with a loophole.

[OldMercsRule]

Corruption is a bipartisan problem because it's a human problem.

By that standard all issues are "bipartisan", so why even debate the inevitable, eh? :laugh2:

Humans can be corrupt when the right cornditions are present, and politics at all levels, (city, state and federal), in both parties encorage both growth and corruption. One party's rhetoric is that of small limited gubment, butt: Republicans also benifit from the power gains they receive as players in a constantly bigger more intrusive gubment.

Money and power tend to corrupt, and the people, (voters), that are not directly involved and focused on their own lives can be apathetic and or outright foolish with their votes.

That said, one political party, (now in corntrol of the White House and the Senate), tends to openly and uncornstitutionally grow the federal gubment in scope and intrusiveness which directly reduces all of our personnal freedom and makes the inevitable corruption much more devastating for all of us. That party is the dim wit Democrat party; which: after the last election has an even greater concentration of hard left grow the gubment Socialists who are directly at odds with the guarantees in the US Cornstitution as drafted and ratified by our founders.


Government is corrupt because people are corrupt

Solution: keep the gubment within the bounds of the foundation of the Republic so that the inevitable corruption has little effect on the system.


The only solution is to start eliminating corruption in ourselves and help others do the same.

Impossible. :laugh2:

That said, if enough independents, cornservatives and many Republican voters wake up and flush the terlet of mainly dim wit Democrats, (butt: also many big gubment Republicans), and impose the limits of the tenth amendment the effects of corruption on all of us will be much less and our system would become sustainable once again.


I am the only one (other than God) who can hold myself accountable. I have to choose to not be corrupt or the system is corrupt. It's the same with everyone else. Focus on eliminating corruption in your own life. Make a commitment to be honest. To work hard. To keep your word. Make a daily effort and account for it. Ben Franklin did and it changed his life. And remember God will help us. He doesn't want corruption in our lives any more than we do.

I don't have a problem myself with personnal corruption in my own life, and personnal corruption at the individual level is not the problem this thread was targeted at. (Although the above advice is good for those with a corruption issue in their own lives.)

Dim wits as a group, (both the pols and their supporters who vote them into power), tend to imbrace corruption in their gubment officials, (which was the primary point of this thread). [THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS].

After 100 years of steady gubment growth dominated by "PROGRESSIVES" and modern Liberals, (not "classical Liberals" which most Americans are), where FDR packed and openly corrupted the Supreme Court (and the whole judicial system as dim wits embrace this particular "means" to this day), to ignore the tenth amendment and find things written into the Cornstitution in their rulings that clearly do not exist.

We must purge all of those judges and pols from our system, (or significantly reduce their political and legal power), if our system is to survive.

My overpriced $02. JR