Situation Normal
Another Florida public official has resigned to spend more time with their lawyers.
The Miami Herald reports:
Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll abruptly resigned Tuesday after law enforcement officials questioned her about ties to a purported veterans charity organization at the center of a $300 million multi-state racketeering investigation.
Ms Carroll was the female version of Allen West – retired military officer and a Tea Party conservative, who was ‘poised for great things’ in the Republican Party.
Elections and laws keep preventing people like this from achieving their full potential.
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“Situation Normal”
As bad as that, hey?
Really though, considering whose ticket she ran on, this goes under “dog bites man”.
The interesting thing is that she got thrown under the bus without even getting a chance to see the Fraudster in Chief (da governor) to argue her side. You know it’s bad when a man whose company defrauded the U.S. government for half a billion dollars thinks she’s too crooked to be in his presence 😯 .
She got plugged into this mess when she was in the legislature, and a whole group of legislators are going to be donating a lot of money to charity, in an attempt to claim they didn’t know anything about anything when they refused to consider regulating the Internet cafes that were fronts for gambling.
Hell, we have lobbyists resigning, claiming they were fooled into working for Allied Veterans and other associated groups.
This is a major mess, and it is interstate, so the state can’t keep a lid on it. The FBI and the IRS!! are involved in the investigation, as well as state and local law enforcement agencies.
Everyone in the legislature and state-wide office is checking records to get rid of ‘campaign contributions’ from the companies being investigated.
Ms Carroll’s biggest problem is that she is featured in a TV ad advocating for the faux charity.
What is really driving the panic IMHO is the possibility of asset seizures as ‘fruits of criminal activity’. I don’t think we have an elected official in the entire state who could survive a thorough financial audit, given the way things are done here.
I don’t think we have an elected official in the entire state who could survive a thorough financial audit, given the way things are done here.
Heh. Sounds a lot like Louisiana to me. Ray-ray is, incredibly, the first New Orleans mayor ever indicted for corruption. Given the level of graft that has characterized New Orleans, like, forever… the mind boggles.
The entire political establishment of the South is so ingrown, my state senator and representative are father and son, that there is no oversight. The current governor came from outside and failed to follow the ‘rules’ for political power, so he has been having a hard time – he’s been making pay offs to the ‘wrong’ people.
Term limits in Florida are chipping away at the system, but at a speed not much better than the bird wearing down the mountain with its beak.
I liked Edwin Edwards – he was upfront with his corruption.
The latest corruption trail over a landfill near New Orleans just fell apart because the US Attorney’s Office was even more corrupt than the local politicians. Nagin might escape Federal convictions over the US Attorney’s problems.