Democratic Party News - Democratic Party Immersed In Culture Of Corruption.

30. October 2009 by Democratic Party News - The News of the Democratic Party.

You may not know it if you read only the mainstream media, but even The Associated Press put out a story headlined “Analysis: Democrats self-destructing over ethics.”I’d change that headline to read “Democrats self-destructing over ethics and criminality.” The Democratic Party of retreat and defeat, anti-military and anti-family values, is rapidly becoming the party of tax cheats, of the corrupt and of the ethically challenge. When the head of the IRS is an admitted tax cheat, you’ve got to admit the party is self-destructing.

Who has done all the talking about the culture of corruption? Rep. Nancy “San Francisco Values” Pelosi (D-Calif.) and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean, who hold themselves and their party out as the great models of morality and as having high ethical standards. We are indebted to them for creating that terminology, which now so aptly applies to the corrupt culture of their own Democratic Party. And who promised the most ethical Congress in history? The same Rep. Pelosi.

Yes, the Democratic Party’s culture of corruption continues in full force, with the latest addition coming from the new senator from Illinois, Roland Burris. He is now under a criminal investigation in Springfield for perjury and is subject to a U.S. Senate investigation in Washington, D.C. This is perhaps the most important Democrat to commit perjury since President Bill Clinton’s perjury and impeachment (leading to acquittal by the Senate). Both Democrat and Republicans are demanding Sen. Burris’s resignation, including Gov. Pat Quinn, the new Democratic governor of Illinois. Even the White House got into the act, by asking him to take time out and think his position over.

The new senator was supposed to be that rare, clean Chicago politician. That’s what he told the legislature and they believed him. Perhaps when vetting Chicago politicians by Chicago politicians, the word “clean” has to be thought of as relative.Sen. Burris is a former attorney general of Illinois, so when he testified before the Illinois legislature, he surely knew what he was doing when he failed to answer questions fully and truthfully about his contacts with Rod Blagojevich and members of his staff.

This adds further emphasis to one of the great corruption scandals of recent years involving the ex-governor of Illinois, Mr. Blagojevich, who was recently impeached for trying to sell the senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama. This also puts the spotlight on the Obama-Blagojevich connection, as Mr. Obama supported Mr. Blagojevich in both of his gubernatorial runs, even after knowing, in the most recent, run that the then-governor was under investigation. But then-Sen. Obama has a record of not only associating with crooks and those under investigation, but also entering into business deals with them.

Of course, I’m referring to the now-convicted felon, Tony Rezko, who entered into a questionable land deal with Mr. Obama. The fully story on that smelly transaction is still to be revealed, as is so much of the Obama record. Another crony of Mr. Blagojevich, the impeached governor, is none other than Mr. Rezko. So we might use the old New Jersey slogan and say Messers. Obama, Rezko and Blagojevich … perfect together. And until the details of the criminal investigation of Mr. Blagojevich are made pubic, we won’t know of the role of Mr.Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel or others in the Obama fold.

The Burris-Blagojevich scandal also should spotlight the corrupt Chicago political machine, which seems unable to produce an honest politician. So remember that your president came out of the sewage and slime that has always been the main ingredient of the Chicago political culture, considered the most corrupt political machine in the U.S.

Also remember that Mr. Obama supported this corrupt political machine throughout his career and refused to support a move to try to reform the political machine. With that history and connection to the corrupt Chicago political machine, don’t set your ethical and political expectations too high.

And don’t assume Sen. Burris is the only recent addition to the parade of corrupt Democratic politicians in the news. Another new addition is Rev. Al Sharpton, a key figure in Democratic politics. You’ll recall that when Caroline Kennedy made her disastrous, brief run for an appointment to the U.S. Senate, she paid homage to Rev. Sharpton, as all New York politicians and Democratic presidential candidates routinely do. That says something about the state of New York politics and the culture of corruption of the Democratic Party.Rev. Sharpton is in the news now, as he is protesting a New York Post cartoon that showed two policemen shooting a berserk chimp, with the caption reading, “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”

Rev. Sharpton seems to think the chimp is meant to be President Obama. The cartoonist and the Post editors knew that Rep. Pelosi and her liberal elite in the House drafted the stimulus package, not President Obama. They also knew that a chimp or monkey is often used to represent someone that is not too bright.

I would think a cartoonist, under those facts, would be entitled to the benefit of the doubt. But the Rev. Sharpton protest has one useful purpose: It spotlights that the old race baiter, race hustler and shakedown artist is at work again.

This Democratic stalwart is also in the news, as he is on a speaking tour in Syracuse, N.Y. with the subject of personal responsibility and a call to service. Well, it turns out that Rev. Sharpton ought to exercise a little personal responsibility himself by paying his taxes. He’s been in the news for years for owing millions in taxes to New York City and State.

The only surprising aspect of that report is that as for some reason this prominent Democrat and tax cheat wasn’t nominated for a position in the Obama cabinet, so he could keep company with the other tax cheats, both nominated and confirmed. Of course, Rev. Sharpton should have been knocked out of public life by his involvement in the Tawana Brawley scandal, which ended with Rev. Sharpton being on the losing end of a defamation lawsuit brought by a prosecutor.

That prosecutor had been falsely accused of kidnapping and raping Ms. Brawley, the teenager whose allegations of rape turned out to be a hoax. Only in the Democratic Party could such a politician survive and prosper after being involved in the Brawley outrage. But remember Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., who was elected to Congress after he was impeached while serving as a federal judge. He was defeated in the last election.

The Blagojevich scandal was probably even a more shocking scandal than that involving the resigned governor of New York, Elliot Spitzer, another outstanding Democrat who, like Mr. Blagojevich, had presidential aspirations. He was involved with call girls after posing as the great moralizer as attorney general and governor. But Mr. Spitzer’s resignation in New York was only the beginning of the cult ure of corruption there.

His successor, Gov. David Paterson had a chief of staff, Charles J. O’Byrne who had to resign over tax problems. He suffered from the non-filer syndrome. He didn’t pay his taxes. But Gov. Patterson’s office is in such disarray that he said he was going to bring Mr. O’Byrne back. So apparently, the tax cheaters are so talented and effective that they are essential in Democratic administrations, even if they are tax cheats. As one wise man observed, being a tax cheat is almost a prerequisite for the Obama cabinet. Maybe it is for Mr. Patterson’s circle, too.

You’ll recall the noted tax cheat, Tim Geithner, who was the only man who could do the job as Secretary of the Treasury. But the Democratic Senate had no problem in confirming a tax cheat, who has conclusively proved now on the job he is not as brilliant as he was claimed.

Incidentally, Mr. O’Byrne decided not to come back to his old job. And former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., was also billed as so talented he was the only man who could manage the passage of universal health insurance. He stepped down, too, over his tax and conflict of interest problems.

Why do so many brilliant Democrats have an aversion to paying their taxes? They have no aversion to raising taxes.

There’s one thing worse than having a tax cheat as head of the IRS. And that’s having a Democratically-controlled Senate that confirms his nomination. This Democratic Senate is obviously in the business of giving consent but not advice when passing on presidential nominations.

Another in the long list of Democratic would-be office holders with tax problems is Nancy Killefer, who was to head a newly created office to eliminate inefficient government programs. She stepped down when her tax problems were discovered. Too bad, as with her record, she would probably have tried to eliminate the IRS.

Depending on the outcome of the U.S. Senate election in Minnesota, the Democrats may get another office holder who doesn’t seem to be able to pay taxes. Even before Al Franken ran in Minnesota, it was discovered he failed to pay $70,000 in taxes owed in 17 states.

Of course, the Democratic leadership in Congress may think that citizens should be able to cheat on their taxes. I’m referring to Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the tax writing committee of Congress.

He’s the subject of an ethics investigation, focusing on his failure to pay taxes, his financial disclosures, and his fund raising practices for a college center named for him.

We can count on Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., to come into this picture of ethical self-destruction by the Democrats, as he has long been under an ethical cloud going back to ABSCAM. The latest bit now in the news, as reported by the AP, involves Federal agents raiding a lobbying firm with strong Murtha connections, apparently on the suspicion of illegal campaign contributions to a number of Congressmen. Rep. Murtha has been responsible for $1 million in federal funds going to the lobbying firm’s clients. And the lobbying firm, headed by a former top Murtha aide, has been responsible for giving him $143,600 in contributions.

Rep. Murtha, when not busy with his ethical problems, spends his time slandering American military personnel. Remember his comment about how certain members of the military had murdered people in cold blood. And when proven wrong, you know he’s not going to apologize. We’ll have to wait to see if anything comes of this latest investigation. Remember that Mr. Murtha has a knack of escaping from these ethical challenges.

While on the culture of corruption, we can’t forget New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who was nominated to be Secretary of Commerce but had to withdraw as he is under investigation in his home state.

I’d say that the Attorney General’s part in pardoning terrorists and Marc Rich, the fugitive from justice, also raises ethical and corruption issues.

There are also organizations associated with the Democratic Party that also raise culture of corruption issues. Perhaps the best example is ACORN, the community organization, long associated with committing voter fraud and intimidation tactics against banks.

To round out the picture, there’s the former Mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, who stepped down when facing perjury charges. He was finally convicted of obstruction of justice. Then he served jail time and is now out on five-year probation.

And who can forget former Louisiana Rep. William “Cash in the Fridge” Jefferson, who has since been defeated for Congress. He was accused of bribery, and when the FBI raided his home, they found a freezer stuffed with cash. Well, you have to keep cash cold, as it gets hot in Louisiana.

Finally, there is Massachusetts State Sen. Dianne Wilkerson who was nailed by the FBI for bribery.

As I was finishing this column, reports came out that a mutual fund controlled by the Vice President Joe Biden’s family has connections with Alan Sanford, the Texas financier responsible for the $8 billion mini-Madoff financial scandal. But it is too early to tell if the Biden family members, his son, Hunter, and his brother, James, have been involved in any ethical missteps in this matter.

Now that sounds like a damning lineup of the corrupt and the ethically challenged and questioned. But it is still a small part of the Democratic Party’s problems. Its main problem is that it has become a far-left, radical, leftist, socialist party that is weak on defense and national security and strong on higher taxes, more regulation and bigger government.

And it has become a party that has abandoned democratic values by lending its support to the card check bill to outlaw secret ballots in union elections and to the Fairness Doctrine, which, in effect, calls for the regulation and suppression of free speech. Where has the Democratic Party gone? It has abandoned its core principles, every one. And what will be the fate of America with the Democratic Party in control of the White House and Congress?

Herb Denenberg is a former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commissioner, and professor at the Wharton School. He is a longtime Philadelphia journalist and  consumer advocate. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of the Sciences. His column appears daily in The Bulletin. You can reach him at advocate@thebulletin.us.

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Democratic Party News - Some Of The Scandals Involving Leaders Of The Democrat Party

30. October 2009 by Democratic Party News - The News of the Democratic Party.

William Jefferson Clinton- Impeached by the House of Representatives over allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice, but acquitted by the Senate. Scandals include Whitewater - Travelgate Gennifer Flowersgate - Filegate - Vince Fostergate - Whitewater Billing Recordsgate - Paula Jonesgate- Lincoln Bedroomgate - Donations from Convicted Drug and Weapons Dealersgate - Lippogate - Chinagate - The Lewinsky Affair - Perjury and Jobs for Lewinskygate - Kathleen Willeygate - Web Hubbell Prison Phone Callgate - Selling Military Technology to the Chinesegate - Jaunita Broaddrick Gate - Lootergate - Pardongate

Edward Moore Kennedy - Democrat - U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. Pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, after his car plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.

Barney Frank - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1981 to present. Admitted to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male prostitute, for sex and subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant. Gobie used the congressman’s Washington apartment for prostitution. A move to expel Frank from the House of Representatives failed and a motion to censure him failed.

DNC - The Federal Election Commission imposed $719,000 in fines against participants in the 1996 Democratic Party fundraising scandals involving contributions from China, Korea and other foreign sources. The Federal Election Commission said it decided to drop cases against contributors of more than $3 million in illegal DNC contributions because the respondents left the country or the corporations are defunct.

Sandy Berger - Democrat - National Security Advisor during the Clinton Administration. Berger fined $50,000 for illegally removing highly classified documents and handwritten notes from the National Archives during preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings.

Robert Torricelli - Democrat - Withdrew from the 2002 Senate race with less than 30 days before the election because of controversy over personal gifts he took from a major campaign donor and questions about campaign donations from 1996.

James McGreevey - Democrat - New Jersey Governor . Admitted to having a gay affair. Resigned after allegations of sexual harassment, rumors of being blackmailed on top of fundraising investigations and indictments.

Jesse Jackson - Democrat - Democratic candidate for President. Admitted to having an extramarital affair and fathering a illegitimate child.

Gary Condit - Democrat - US Democratic Congressman from California. Condit had an affair with an intern. Condit, covered up the affair and lied to police after she went missing. No charges were ever filed against Condit. Her remains were discovered in a Washington DC park..

Eliot Spitzer- Democrat - New York governor - resigned from office after being tied to a prostitution ring.

Sowande Ajumoke Omokunde - Democrat - the son of newly elected U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, was booked on charges of criminal damage to property for allegedly slashing tires on 20 vans and cars rented by the Republican Party for use in Election Day voter turnout efforts.

Daniel David Rostenkowski - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1959 to 1995. Indicted on 17 felony charges- pleaded guilty to two counts of misuse of public funds and sentenced to seventeen months in federal prison.

Melvin Jay Reynolds - Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1993 to 1995. Convicted on sexual misconduct and obstruction of justice charges and sentenced to five years in prison.

Wayne Bryant - Democrat NJ state senator- was convicted was found guilty on all 12 counts against him including bribery and pension fraud.

Charles Coles Diggs, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Michigan from 1955 to 1980. Convicted on eleven counts of mail fraud and filing false payroll forms- sentenced to three years in prison.

George Rogers - Democrat - Massachusetts State House of Representatives from 1965 to 1970. M000ember of Massachusetts State Senate from 1975 to 1978. Convicted of bribery in 1978 and sentenced to two years in prison.

Don Siegelman - Democrat Governor Alabama - indicted in a bid-rigging scheme involving a maternity-care program. The charges accused Siegelman and his former chief of staff of helping Tuscaloosa physician Phillip Bobo rig bids. Siegelman was accused of moving $550,000 from the state education budget to the State Fire College in Tuscaloosa so Bobo could use the money to pay off a competitor for a state contract for maternity care.

John Murtha, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania. Implicated in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; Murtha was cited as an unindicted co-conspirator.

Otto Kerner - Democrat governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968 was jailed after the manager of two horse-racing tracks admitted to bribing the then- governor; charges were filed after Kerner left office he was convicted in 1973.

Dan Walker - Democrat governor of Illinois from1973 to 1977 served less than two years of a seven-year sentence for receiving improper loans a decade after leaving office.

Gerry Eastman Studds - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1973 to 1997. The first openly gay member of Congress. Censured by the House of Representatives for having sexual relations with a teenage House page.

Hiram Monserrate- Queens City Councilman and state Senator-elect - who has claimed to be an advocate of victims of domestic violence - was arrested for breaking a glass over his girlfriend’s face. Monserrate, 41, a former cop, won election to the state Senate as a Democrat in November 2008.

James C. Green - Democrat - North Carolina State House of Representatives from 1961 to 1977. Charged with accepting a bribe from an undercover FBI agent, but was acquitted. Convicted of tax evasion in 1997.

Frederick Richmond - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New York from 1975 to 1982. Arrested in Washington, D.C., in 1978 for soliciting sex from a minor and from an undercover police officer - pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Also - charged with tax evasion, marijuana possession, and improper payments to a federal employee - pleaded guilty.

Raymond Lederer - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1981. Implicated in the Abscam sting - convicted of bribery and sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000.

Harrison Arlington Williams, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1959 to 1970. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Allegedly accepted an 18% interest in a titanium mine. Convicted of nine counts of bribery, conspiracy, receiving an unlawful gratuity, conflict of interest, and interstate travel in aid of racketeering. Sentenced to three years in prison and fined $50,000.

Frank Thompson, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New Jersey from 1955 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting, convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges. Sentenced to three years in prison

Michael Joseph Myers - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1976 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting - convicted of bribery and conspiracy; sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000; expelled from the House of Representatives on October 2, 1980.

John Michael Murphy - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New York from 1963 to 1981. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Convicted of conspiracy, conflict of interest, and accepting an illegal gratuity. Sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000.

John Wilson Jenrette, Jr - Democrat - U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1975 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges and sentenced to prison

Neil Goldschmidt - Democrat - Oregon governor. Admitted to having an illegal sexual relationship with a 14-year-old teenager while he was serving as Mayor of Portland.

Alcee Lamar Hastings - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Florida. Impeached and removed from office as federal judge in 1989 over bribery charges.

Marion Barry - Democrat - mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1979 to 1991 and again from 1995 to 1999. Convicted of cocaine possession after being caught on videotape smoking crack cocaine. Sentenced to six months in prison.

Mario Biaggi - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New York from 1969 to 1988. Indicted on federal charges that he had accepted bribes in return for influence on federal contracts.Convicted of obstructing justice and accepting illegal gratuities. Tried in 1988 on federal racketeering charges and convicted on 15 felony counts.

Lee Alexander - Democrat - Mayor of Syracuse, N.Y. from 1970 to 1985. Was indicted over a $1.5 million kickback scandal. Pleaded guilty to racketeering and tax evasion charges. Served six years in prison.

Bill Campbell - Democrat - Mayor of Atlanta. Indicted and charged with fraud over claims he accepted improper payments from contractors seeking city contracts.

Frank Ballance - Democrat - Congressman North Carolina. Pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering related to mishandling of money by his charitable foundation.

Hazel O’Leary - Democrat - Secretary of Energy during the Clinton Administration - O’leary took trips all over the world as Secretary with as many 50 staff members and at times rented a plane, which was used by Madonna during her concert tours.

Lafayette Thomas - Democrat - Candidate for Tennessee State House of Representatives in 1954. Sheriff of Davidson County, from 1972 to 1990. Indicted in federal court on 54 counts of abusing his power as sheriff. Pleaded guilty to theft and mail fraud; sentenced to five years in prison.

Mary Rose Oakar - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1977 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of funneling $16,000 through fake donors.

David Giles - Democrat - candidate for U.S. Representative from Washington in 1986 and 1990. Convicted in June 2000 of child rape.

Gary Siplin - Democrat state senator Florida- found guilty of third-degree grand theft of $5,000 or more, a felony, and using services of employees for his candidacy.

Edward Mezvinsky - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Iowa from 1973 to 1977. Indicted on 56 federal fraud charges.

Lena Swanson - Democrat - Member of Washington State Senate in 1997. Pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting unlawful payments from veterans and former prisoners of war.

Abraham J. Hirschfeld - Democrat - candidate in Democratic primary for U.S. Senator from New York in 1974 and 1976. Offered Paula Jones $1 million to drop her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton. Convicted in 2000 of trying to hire a hit man to kill his business partner.

Henry Cisneros - Democrat - U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 to 1997. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of lying to the FBI.

James A. Traficant Jr. - Member of House of Representatives from Ohio. Expelled from Congress after being convicted of corruption charges. Sentenced today to eight years in prison for accepting bribes and kickbacks.

John Doug Hays - Democrat - member of Kentucky State Senate from 1980 to 1982 Found guilty of mail fraud for submitting false campaign reports stemming from an unsuccessful run for judge. He was sentenced to six months in prison to be followed by six months of home confinement and three years of probation.

Henry J. Cianfrani - Democrat - Pennsylvania State Senate from 1967 to 1976. Convicted on federal charges of racketeering and mail fraud for padding his Senate payroll. Sentenced to five years in federal prison.

David Hall - Democrat - Governor of Oklahoma from 1971 to 1975. Indicted on extortion and conspiracy charges. Convicted and sentenced to three years in prison.

John A. Celona - Democrat - A former state senator was charged with the three counts of mail fraud. Federal prosecutors accused him of defrauding the state and collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars from CVS Corp. and others while serving in the legislature. Celona has agreed to plead guilty to taking money from the CVS pharmacy chain and other companies that had interest in legislation. Under the deal, Celona agreed to cooperate with investigators. He faces up to five years in federal prison on each of the three counts and a $250,000 fine

Allan Turner Howe - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Utah from 1975 to 1977. Arrested for soliciting a policewoman posing as a prostitute.

Jerry Cosentino - Democrat - Illinois State Treasurer. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud - fined $5,000 and sentenced to nine months home confinement.

Joseph Waggonner Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1961 to 19 79. Arrested in Washington, D.C. for soliciting a policewoman posing as a prostitute

Albert G. Bustamante - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Texas from 1985 to 1993. Convicted in 1993 on racketeering and bribery charges and sentenced to prison.

Lawrence Jack Smith - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Florida from 1983 to 1993. Sentenced to three months in federal prison for tax evasion.

David Lee Walters - Democrat - Governor of Oklahoma from 1991 to 1995. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor election law violation.

James Guy Tucker, Jr. - Democrat - Governor of Arkansas from 1992 to 1996. Resigned in July 1996 after conviction on federal fraud charges as part of the Whitewater investigation.

Walter Rayford Tucker - Democrat - Mayor of Compton, California from 1991 to 1992; U.S. Representative from California from 1993 to 1995. Sentenced to 27 months in prison for extortion and tax evasion.

William McCuen - Democrat - Secretary of State of Arkansas from 1985 to 1995. Admitted accepting kickbacks from two supporters he gave jobs, and not paying taxes on the money. Admitted to conspiring with a political consultant to split $53,560 embezzled from the state in a sham transaction. He was indicted on corruption charges. Pleaded guilty to felony counts tax evasion and accepting a kickback. Sentenced to 17 years in prison.

Walter Fauntroy - Democrat - Delegate to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991. Charged in federal court with making false statements on financial disclosure forms. Pleaded guilty to one felony count and sentenced to probation.

Carroll Hubbard, Jr. - Democrat - Kentucky State Senate from 1968 to 1975 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1975 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Federal Elections Commission and to theft of government property; sentenced to three years in prison.

Joseph Kolter - Democrat - member of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1969 to 1982 and U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1983 to 1993. Indicted by a Federal grand jury on five felony charges of embezzlement at the U.S. House post office. Pleaded guilty.

Webster Hubbell - Democrat - Chief Justice of Arkansas State Supreme Court in 1983. Pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges - sentenced to 21 months in prison.

Nicholas Mavroules - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud and accepting gratuities while in office.

Carl Christopher Perkins - Democrat - Kentucky State House of Representatives from 1981 to 1984 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1985 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud in connection with the House banking scandal. Perkins wrote overdrafts totaling about $300,000. Pleaded guilty to charges of filing false statements with the Federal Election Commission and false financial disclosure reports. Sentenced to 21 months in prison.

Richard Hanna - Democrat - U.S. Representative from California from 1963 to 1974. Received payments of about $200,000 from a Korean businessman in what became known as the “Koreagate” influence buying scandal. Pleaded guilty and sentenced to federal prison.

Angelo Errichetti - Democrat - New Jersey State Senator was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $40,000 for his involvement in Abscam.

Daniel Baugh Brewster - Democrat - U.S. Senator from Maryland. Indicted on charges of accepting illegal gratuity while in Senate.

Thomas Joseph Dodd - Democrat - U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Censured by the Senate for financial improprieties, having diverted $116,000 in campaign and testimonial funds to his own use

Edward Fretwell Prichard, Jr. - Democrat - Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky. Convicted of vote fraud in federal court in connection with ballot-box stuffing. Served five months in prison.

Jerry Springer - Democrat - Resigned from Cincinnati City Council in 1974 after admitting to paying a prostitute with a personal check, which was found in a police raid on a massage parlor.

Guy Hamilton Jones, Sr. - Democrat -Arkansas State Senate. Convicted on federal tax charges and expelled from the Arkansas Senate.

Daniel Flood - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1945 to 1947, 1949 to 1953 and 1955 to 1980. Pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge involving payoffs and sentenced to probation.

Otto Kerner, Jr - Democrat - Governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968. While serving as Governor, he and another official made a gain of over $300,000 in a stock deal. Convicted on 17 counts of bribery, conspiracy, perjury, and related charges. Sentenced to three years in federal prison and fined $50,000.

George Crockett, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Michigan. Served four months in federal prison for contempt of court following his defense of a Communist leader on trial for advocating the overthrow of the government.

Cornelius Edward Gallagher - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New Jersey from 1959 to 1973. Indicted on federal charges of income tax evasion, conspiracy, and perjury

Mark B. Jimenez - Democrat fundraiser - sentenced to 27 months in prison on charges of tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit election financing offenses.

Bobby Lee Rush - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Illinois. As a Black Panther, spent six months in prison on a weapons charge.

Bolley ”Bo” Johnson - Democrat - Former Florida House Speaker - received a two-year term for tax evasion.

Roger L. Green - Democrat - Brooklyn Democrat Assemblyman. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for accepting travel reimbursement for trips he did not pay for and was sentenced to fines and probation.

Gloria Davis - Democrat - Bronx assemblywoman. Pleaded guilty to second-degree bribe-taking.

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