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Bribe Charge: Issa Jobsgate Video Slams Sestak, Gibbs

By Jeffrey Lord on 5.24.10 @ 6:09AM

Pennsylvania’s Blumenthal: ex-Admiral’s image of honesty, White House credibility torpedoed.

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ROBERT GIBBS: I— I— I’m not going to get—

BOB SCHIEFFER (overlapping): Okay.

ROBERT GIBBS: —further into what the conversations were. People that have looked into them assure me that they weren’t inappropriate in any way.

Which is to say, while Sestak is now admitting the job in question was Secretary of the Navy, Gibbs refuses yet again to discuss the issue. He makes it clear the White House will not be revealing the name of the person who offered Sestak the job of Secretary of the Navy.

Added to the growing calls from Pennsylvania talk radio hosts for Sestak to tell the truth, the ex-Admiral is quickly gaining a reputation as Pennsylvania’s Richard Blumenthal — the Connecticut Attorney General turned Democratic Senate nominee found to have been deliberately dishonest about his service in Vietnam.

In the just over two minute video, posted on Friday, national media figures across the spectrum are shown grilling both Gibbs and Sestak about “Jobsgate” — the allegation originally made by Sestak of a job offer from the White House if he would halt a primary challenge to Senator Specter. Sestak refused to abandon the race, and last week defeated Specter for the Senate nomination. He will face Republican Pat Toomey this fall.

At various points in the video one or the other of the two men are seen or heard being questioned by Jake Tapper (ABC), Larry Kane (Comcast), Brett Baier (Fox News), Martha McCallum (Fox News), Ed Schultz (MSNBC), Chip Reid (CBS), Neil Cavuto (Fox News), Ed Henry (CNN), and Rick Sanchez (CNN). Commenting on the legal aspects, stating flatly that what Sestak alleges is a federal crime, are Fox legal analyst and anchor Megyn Kelley and Judge Andrew Napolitano of Fox News.

Tapper, Reid and Henry are White House correspondents for their respective networks. Not seen on camera is Fox News White House correspondent Major Garrett, who has also been trying to get answers from Gibbs. Off-camera questions are also heard from Pennsylvania radio talk show host Gary Sutton, of WSBA radio in York.

The video, contrasting the answers from the White House podium by Gibbs with repeated clips of Sestak telling a variety of journalists that he has “answered the question honestly,” presents a vivid contrast between the two men. Gibbs is portrayed as saying he “has not looked into this” — then repeatedly deflecting questions, just as he did with Schieffer yesterday. The commercial ends with the tag line: “Honestly, they can’t both be right. So who is wrong?”

The tape, issued not from a political action committee but the ranking Republican Congressman on the Oversight Committee (the credit reads “Oversight Productions: republicans.oversight.house.gov” — which is to say an official arm of the House Minority), will surely receive considerable publicity and has the potential to be a torpedo-amidships to the ex-Admiral’s Senate campaign. Not unlike the revelation in Connecticut that Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, nominated by Democrats over the weekend to replace the ethically challenged Senator Chris Dodd, repeatedly lied to the public about his service in Vietnam.

In yet another development, in an interview with Pittsburgh’s KDKA radio the day after defeating Specter, this testy exchange took place between Sestak and interviewer Mike Pintek:

Pintek: I want to ask you something from, in fact, before the election yesterday alright? We were just talking about it a few minutes ago just before the break…It is that you said the Obama administration offered you a job if you would drop out of the primary for Arlen Specter. You said no. Who offered you the job? What was the job?

Sestak: It’s interesting. It happened last July and somebody called.

Pintek: Who called?

Sestak: Somebody called. And I answered the question honestly when I was asked. And then I stopped and I said, : “that’s it, no more.” Because you know, nobody outside a studio or anything else cares. What they want to know is what the heck are you going to do to get me a job that I’ve lost? And that’s how I’ve approached that whole campaign, you know? And I honestly believe that…

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Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.

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drudge ette obama| 5.24.10 @ 6:48AM

This is the tip of the iceburg...nice thing is that when there is a tip, there's an iceburg. Good reporting, but it's just starting.

Everyone should link to the youtube video - it's great. Gibbs is classic bad.

DaveS| 5.24.10 @ 6:14PM

Go after Sestak - not Obama. Obama is presently immune to pressure, so wedge him and Sestak.

DaveS| 5.24.10 @ 6:14PM

Go after Sestak - not Obama. Obama is presently immune to pressure, so wedge him and Sestak.

Liberal Jesus| 5.28.10 @ 1:00PM

http://news.google.com/newspap.....60,5317656

Reagan did the exact same thing. What now?

Juan Reynoso| 5.29.10 @ 9:34PM

Most educate Americans know that Washington politicians are corrupt. Most are lawyers without values, they trash our constitution, our sovereignty and our laws. Plain and simple they are traitors including Obama. that refused to enforce our immigration laws, and side with the President of Mexico the most corrupt country in the world.
Only a revolution will save America.

Juan Reynoso
voteforamerica.

Carol| 5.24.10 @ 7:02AM

Issa is one of the good guys fighting for the American people.

I want to know is the can the creeps in the White House stonewall until 2012? After yesterday's show there is no doubt Sestak told the truth that he was offered a job just as Romanoff from Colorado was.

I'm fed up with the illegal activities coming from this administration and there have got to be some honest people out there who have the authority to summons the liars and put them on the stand.

Liberal Jesus| 5.28.10 @ 1:01PM

Issa is an agent of the Devil.

A negative, ignorant man who doesn't even understand the laws of his own country. He's wasting time and money on a non-issue while people the Gulf Coast need our help. Is that the kind of representative you conservatives want in congress?

Baloney Guy| 5.24.10 @ 7:08AM

Although it's a good scandal and indicative of the criminal mind set in the White House, there are many other issues of massive corruption in the Obama White House.

From tax cheats to placing outright out of the closet communists in important decision making positions the Obama administration has wheeled and dealt jobs and cash for many reasons, including getting the health care bill through.

In essence, Obama and his staff are simply the strong arm of a socialist manifesto, whose concern for the law is nil.

Liberal Jesus| 5.28.10 @ 12:45PM

You're a wackjob.

Go read a history book. Or a dictionary. Learn what communism and socialism are before throwing those words around, otherwise you look like an idiot....

Bob K| 5.24.10 @ 7:41AM

Now let us see if Sestak lies to the electorate in PA about his unabashed support for Gun Control and for Cap and Trade!

Paul Ashley| 5.24.10 @ 7:42AM

This is interesting apart from its actual content in that it shows that politicians on the right, in this case Darryl Issa, are realizing that they can now bypass the MSM, which won't give them a platform, and go directly to the people through the free services of the web.

A. C. Santore| 5.24.10 @ 8:14AM

"...and go directly to the people through the free services of the web." ...until the Proto-dictator takes over control of the web, which is now in the works, apparently..

arlo price| 5.24.10 @ 7:47AM

The obamagedon PIMP thugocracy chugs along......

"Yo, lis'sen up biotch, you didn't hear nuttin', nobody said a damn thing 'bout no mortar forkin job, ya hear? Jus' keeps your damn mouth shut or I'lls shuts it fer good........"

Smarter Than You| 5.24.10 @ 9:16PM

Bring it, weiner! I can see who has the bigger mouth; let's see who has the bigger gun. Oh, and wise up, dong.

jack| 5.24.10 @ 7:49AM

we can only hope its the sewer rat Rahm Emanuel. no way will this weasel go down with out taking obama with him. Obama and Emanuel have transformed the US into a banana republic.

Charles Martel| 5.25.10 @ 1:12PM

Oh, that's not our "only hope". I expect, on a matter as important as the party's primary election for a US Senate seat, that a call was placed and an offer made by the head of the party. Bribery is a "high crime".

Visualize President Biden.

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Richard Baker| 5.24.10 @ 7:58AM

The ex-Admiral would not have countenanced such evasion and obfuscation from a subordinate when in uniform but now he has some sort of higher calling which allows him to do so? What a fine specimen of moral relativism. He and Duke Cunningham should compare notes, perhaps. This sort of nonsense is not making the Navy look good right now what with the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mullen, being short on cognition.

A. C. Santore| 5.24.10 @ 8:19AM

Disclaimer first: I do not want Admiral Sestak to become Pennsylvania's Senator. However, I freely give him the benefit of the doubt to this extent: he very well may have reported the matter to the proper authorities and has been instructed to not give out any more information and thereby jeopardize the investigation.

Roscoe| 5.24.10 @ 12:14PM

A.C., who would you imagine, that Sestak would think are the "proper authorities"?

A. C. Santore| 5.24.10 @ 2:13PM

I cannot say who Sestak might think are the "proper authorities," but if I were in his situation, the F.B.I. would come immediately to mind if I were thinking "federal crime."

BrianL| 5.24.10 @ 11:53PM

And who runs the FBI? Holder

Rad| 5.25.10 @ 1:00PM

A.C. this "jeopardize the investigation" is a scam, all the politicians use it as a way not to answer questions. For that matter, anyone that does not want to answer questions hide behind that irrational statement, whether there is an investigation or not.

martin j smith| 5.24.10 @ 8:10AM

I would like to see the Republican Party and the WSJ crowd focus on this issue and press BHO et al. to the hilt instead to twiddling their thumbs on that fool Rand Paul( at least in terms of an MSM interivew ) This is the essence of Obama and his REGIME--it is now time for the Republican leadership to show are they with the people or in on the fix !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Liberal Jesus| 5.28.10 @ 12:46PM

Please, focus on it all you want.

Then lets go back and focus on Reagan and Bush offering bribes to affect senate races during their administrations, cuz it happened.

Curly Smith| 5.24.10 @ 8:11AM

Sestak: "And if I'm going to get out it's gonna be for the right thing."

So Sestak admits that he's open to a bribe... it just has to be the right bribe. That's the integrity that the Pennsylvania needs, replace Snarlin' Arlen with Schemin' Sestak.

Klabautermann| 5.24.10 @ 9:14AM

Sestak should not be in the Senate. Not because he is obfuscating, but because he is not very bright. To believe that you can let a cat halfway out of the bag and not get hurt is foolish. The truth of this matter will be revealed. And then we can add one more crime - conspiracy. "Is the White House Counsel's office, advising White House staff members on how to evade the law?"

"Arlen Specter's reminder that for the recipient of a bribe offer not to report the offer itself to legal authorities makes the recipient of the offer vulnerable to charges of "misprision of a felony." Apparently Sestak believes that Arlen is a right-wing Republican. "The only ones I ever heard bring that up are as I said are right-wing Republicans."

PCC| 5.24.10 @ 9:20AM

Dear Mr. Lord,

With all due respect, your revelation that Mr. Sestak has now admitted for the first time that he was offered the Secretary of the Navy job is factually incorrect.

You would be well-advised to abandon this line of argument forthwith.

While you quote accurately from the MTP transcript, the transcript itself is wrong.

If you watch the video, you'll see that Sestak did not answer "Right" to Gregory's question as to whether the Sec Navy job was the offered position. Indeed, it is Gregory himself who uses the word.

Sestak has consistently affirmed he was offered a job to get out of the race (making such an offer is a felony, and I believe Sestak may be subject to criminal penalties for not reporting the offer) and he has just as consistently refused to say what the job was or who offered it to him.

More power to Mr. Issa. I hope he pursues this case to the bitter end.

Liberal Jesus| 5.28.10 @ 12:48PM

If it were a felony, Bush and Reagan never would've finished their terms.

It's an accepted political move that has been used many times before, not even close to a story.

It's hilarious when conservatives get all worked up over something their own party is guilty of doing.

PCC| 5.24.10 @ 9:27AM

Dear Mr. Lord,

I'm wrong that Mr. Gregory said, "Right", but the rest of my post stands as written. Mr. Sestak did not confirm the Sec Navy offer.

Anthony| 5.24.10 @ 9:28AM

I guess we need a Special Prosecutor to get to the bottom of this, yeah, fat chance of that. You think Schumer and Lehey will run to the T.V. cameras for this one???
Oh well, Patrick Fitzgerald is too busy anyway, as he's still trying to get Karl Rove.
These Ds are morally and intellectually bankrupt. Obama needs to be impeached. Fat chance of that as well.
November is only 6 months away!!! Get out the hoses and the disinfectant, we've a lot of mold and mildew to remove from the hallow halls of congress.
P.S. I have Dick Blumenthal's war medals, if anyone wants to buy them before I put them on eBay.

lechevre| 5.24.10 @ 10:02AM

Bob Gibbs is the king of sleeze. This incompetent Obama administration will do anything to buy votes as was proven in the Obama election. North Korea, Iran, Venezuelan and other countries are making our president look like a eunich. He needs to grow a pair.

Liberal Jesus| 5.28.10 @ 12:49PM

Someone needs to pull their head out of their butts and check out the US reputation around the world now that O is in office. It's MASSIVELY higher than when monkey-bush was in office.

Tim*| 5.24.10 @ 10:20AM

The Little Admiral , Joe Sestak was unceremoniously fired by then Chief of Naval Operations ( now , Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff ) Admiral Mullen .
" Vice-Admiral Joe Sestak, an arrogant and obnoxious "bully-boy," who delighted in being rude and unreasonable and getting away with it, found he was expendable the minute his mentor went out the door."

The Army Aviator| 5.24.10 @ 10:28AM

Look, just because some guy was an Admiral, doesn't make him a pillar of virtue. Some of our Flag Officers are great men. Some are not. Joe Sestak is one of those who is NOT a great man in any way, shape or form.

As to " Baghdad Bob" Gibbs. What a moron and what a sleeze! Now, I'm being nice too. I think that "Baghdad Bob" should get a job with SNL or Leno as he's very unfunny. Maybe they could prop him up some. Congressman, soon to be Senator Sestak is a liar, a cheat and an all ar0und jerk. Just ask some of the Naval Aviators that had the misfortune of crossing his path. Sestak was always the sort of officer who got ahead by walking over any and all in his path to "glory."

BLACKWATCH| 5.24.10 @ 1:24PM

What ever happened to the real "Bagdad Bob" anyway?

He should be on Jimmy Kimmel's show. He could do a better "Bob Gibbs" than Bob Gibbs himself. Take the video Issa made and insert Bagdad Bob doing Gibbsy-goebbels lines. That would be hoot!

Oldefarte| 5.24.10 @ 11:38AM

Democrats are so............'HONEST', right??????

ncatty| 5.24.10 @ 12:31PM

Give Holder a break. He is still wading through that 10 page Arizona law, and he is a slow reader.

All Fed Up| 5.24.10 @ 12:37PM

Thank goodness there is at least one elected representative who will not let this issue pass without demanding full disclosure of the truth and full accountability for any wrong-doing.

It is disgraceful, though, that ONLY ONE person in Congress --- and NO ONE in the White House or the DOJ has displayed a scintilla of integrity and courage to speak up and demand the truth be told without any further delay, i.e. stonewalling.

As illustrated by Nixon, it's the coverup, stupid.

Liberal Jesus| 5.28.10 @ 12:52PM

Yeah, that one representative is a right-wing nutjob who:

1) Called 9/11 a 'simple plane crash'
2) Attacked families of slain Blackwater employees
3) Defended the Bush administration somehow "losing" millions of emails

Issa is a joke of a man. The more he harps on this issue, the lower his credibility as a sane, rational person continues to slip into the nether.

Gr0w1er| 5.24.10 @ 1:23PM

Hmm. Obama's Watergate. The potential ramifications are delicious. This will also get swept under the rug, like everything else the Obamaratchiks have done illegally.

Blackwatch| 5.24.10 @ 1:26PM

I used to think that used car salesmen and lawyers were the lowest form of life.

How wrong I was!

It's the facemen on MSM tv who are the lowest.

Well they'll be surprised to find themselves against the wall when the revolution comes.

aim small--miss small

publius| 5.25.10 @ 12:11AM

I think polls for a long time have had the MSM up there in first place or very close, where low-lifes are concerned.

Scribelus| 5.24.10 @ 2:08PM

Rep. Sestak is engaged in a "misprision of a felony", which is at the base the failure to perform a public duty. He seems to remove another layer of the onion each time he is questioned, but continues to tease. He has the obligation to render a full and faithful account of the (so-far) unfulfilled bribe, including the name of the miscreant who offered it.

Scribelus| 5.24.10 @ 2:08PM

Scribelus| 5.24.10 @ 2:09PM

Purpleguy| 5.24.10 @ 2:27PM

Yes, he was offered a job. And he declined it... there is nothing else there. Even George Will, hardly a liberal, said "it's just politics - it's nothing". The innuendo and rumor mill are in full swing to create media tension and ratings and the Republicans to denigrate a Democrat in what - wait for it - an ELECTION year.

If there was no quid pro quo, no harm done, move on, period, end of story.

Bruce | 5.24.10 @ 3:01PM

You really are a moron. The mere OFFER of a job in lieu of running in an election is a FEDERAL FELONY, dippy. It doesn't matter a damn whether or not he accepted or denied the job - when are you leftist morons going to get that straight.

Purpleguy| 5.24.10 @ 5:56PM

YOU sir are the moron... He was offered a job and declined it... the rest of your screed is unproven innuendo and rumor that it was quid pro quo - but I guess you don't know what that means, do ya, Einstein? Go look it up and then wash your mouth out for name-calling, Bozo.

DaveS| 5.24.10 @ 6:51PM

Take thine own advice.

JmsA| 5.24.10 @ 7:39PM

Purpleturd,

The legal term is misprision. Get it? He did not report a felony, and as Bruce above, and Tim, correctly point out, the mere fact of making an offer by one party and not reporting to authorities by the other, is a felony. Just because you don't watch real news, doesn't mean that there's nothing there. The Little Admiral as is not clean as you purport him to be. Just another example of a Culture of Corruption, to borrow a phrase. 11/02/2010

Purpleguy| 5.24.10 @ 10:29PM

The crime of misprision still exists in England, but it has never been fully embraced in the United States. Almost every state has rejected the crime of misprision of felony. Thus, persons are under no duty to report a crime. One policy reason for rejecting misprision is that the crime is vague and difficult to apply to real situations. Another reason is that the crime is seen as an unacceptable encroachment on civil freedom. South Carolina is the only state that has prosecuted the misprision of a felony.

Moreover, to prove a felony. you must prove intent. Intent is exceedingly difficult to prove. Unless you have someone on tape saying "I will offer you X if you will do Y in return" you don't have proof. Even an eye witness is not ironclad proof. So much for your trumped up innuendo and rumor as a federal crime. It ought to be a crime against making shit up...

In this country you are innocent until PROVEN guilty. Guilt by media expose and trial by belief just doesn't wash in this country, so just shut up about what you don't know or understand.

Tim*| 5.24.10 @ 11:22PM

Now , The Rest Of The Story .

See ,we can cut &Paste; too Purplepuss.

Here's Purplepuss's source : http://legal-dictionary.thefre.....of+felony:

The Supreme Court has not completely abandoned the duty to report criminal activity. In Roberts v. United States, 445 U.S. 552, 100 S. Ct. 1358, 63 L. Ed. 2d 622 (1980), the High Court held that a court can increase a criminal defendant's sentence if the defendant refuses to cooperate with government officials investigating a related crime. Also, a journalist who has knowledge of a crime may be compelled to reveal the source of that knowledge (Branzburg v. Hayes).

The federal misprision of felony statute remains on the books, but the crime rarely has been prosecuted.

Tim*| 5.24.10 @ 11:34PM

Uh Oh , Congressman Sestak ,Person Of Authority Guy :
Apparently under Federal Law , Sestak can be made to disclose the person or person's ,who offered the bribe.
" Today, in order to be guilty of the federal crime of "misprision of felony," in addition to knowing about a felony and failing to disclose information about it, one must take an affirmative step to conceal the felony. See 38 F. 2d 515, 517; 18 U.S.C. §4.
With the development of the modern law, this crime has been discarded in most jurisdictions, and is generally only applied against persons placed in a special position of authority or responsibility."

The Little Admiral Sestak Is In Trouble Now.

JmsA| 5.25.10 @ 3:48PM

Purpleturd:

The most familiar and popular use of the term misprision describes the failure to report a crime. As such, "Misprision of felony" is still an offense under United States federal law after being codified in 1909 under 18 U.S.C. § 4: "Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."

Doesn't that sound to you like what the Little Admiral did? After all he did say that he was offered a job by someone in the White House.

So, either the Little Admiral or someone in the White House is lying. Wouldn't you say? The only question is, how far up the chain of command, as it were, the offer originated, as well as who made it, and what did the One know and when did he know it?

Are you happy now, purpleturd, you ignorant blowhard? I understand quite a bit more than you give me credit for; after all I just exposed your ignorance. Oh, before I forget, the One is pondering sending 1, 200 troops to the southern border. I guess there was need after all for Arizona to codifify the Federal anti-illegal immigration law, signed by democrat, FDR, in 1940, huh?

JmsA| 5.24.10 @ 8:37PM

Purpleturd,

Irrespective of your ignorance of the law, which is blatantly obvious, the Little Admiral reported an offer was made by someone in the White House. In any case, if such is not the case, he's just another liberal liar. Not much of a surprise there. Check the videos, though, it's all there. Also, the mere fact the Little Admiral clammed up when David Gregory queried him about what exactly he had been offered, and he deferred to someone else, plausibly denotes a specific Quid pro quo (Tit for Tat or This for That) offer had been made, OK? No matter what, whether it was accepted or not, or accepted and not acted upon, it constitutes a felony in the part of whomever in the White House made the offer and misprision in the part of the Little Admiral, given that he did not duly report it to any of the proper authorities. For some reason I suspect that U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald, anyone from Holder's justice department, or the present House leadership, will not demonstrate much if any zeal in pursuing this. What do you think? As always, 11/02/2010 (Please note that I'm not one of those claiming that the Republicans will gain either the Senate or the House; I'm just hoping for a little wing clipping, if you catch my meaning.)

Purpleguy| 5.24.10 @ 10:46PM

"Also, the mere fact the Little Admiral clammed up when David Gregory queried him about what exactly he had been offered, and he deferred to someone else, plausibly denotes a specific Quid pro quo" - Hmmm, seems to me I remember a little thing that in this country you are innocent until proven guilty - but then since you don't love your country, you needn't abide by her laws and would prefer to prosecute, convict and execute all in your own little mind, because you are in the UNIQUE position of thinking you are right. Good thing there are courts and juries... at least in my country there is. Don't know about your'ns

Purpleguy| 5.24.10 @ 10:46PM

Tim*| 5.24.10 @ 11:47PM

Fantasy Attorney , Purplepuss challenges Real Life Prosecutor , Arlen Specter's knowledge of the law.
" After graduating from Yale Law School, Arlen Specter opened a law practice, Specter & Katz, with Marvin Katz, who is now a Federal District Court Judge in Philadelphia. Specter became an assistant district attorney under District Attorney James Crumlish, and was a member of the Democratic Party.
In 1965, Specter ran for District Attorney, on the Republican ticket as a registered Democrat. He handily beat incumbent Jim Crumlish ."

The Uninformed Buffoon Pretend Attorney Purplepuss challenges The Informed Real Attorney RINO -DINO , Specter.

Wow,talk 'bout drawin' to a pair .

JmsA| 5.25.10 @ 3:58PM

Purpleturd,

Weak arguments, as usual. You're simply piqued because you know that your "War Hero," the Little Admiral, has exposed some of the corruption so rampant in this regime. What does the One know, and when did he first know it? The world wants to know. 11/02/2010

JmsA| 5.25.10 @ 5:42PM

Purpleturd,

Just because you doubled posted doesn't make your nonsense any less nonsensical.

"Hmmm, it seems to me I remember a little thing that in this country you are innocent until proven guilty." Your mastery of the obvious is mind boggling. "[B]ut then since you don't love your country...' This is what is commonly referred to as a non sequitur. "[B]ecause you are in the UNIQUE position of thinking you are right." That's correct. I'm right, as is the author of the subject essay, and nearly everyone else posting herein about this matter, except you. The Little Admiral admitted to having been offered a job by the White House, to remove himself out of a Federal national senatorial election. Deny, deny, deny, doesn't seem to be working in this instance, is it? Do you think it has anything to do with the fact that he admitted it to a national audience on Meet the Press? Either he's lying or someone else is. Don't fret though; your stalwart U.S. Attorney, Holder, just indicated he will not appoint a special federal prosecutor. If that isn't enough to ask where's Fitzgerald when you need him, I don't know what is. Don't you smell a cover-up. I sure do. Thank goodness for the Little Admiral! What did the One know, and when did he know it? Again, the world wants to know. By the way, Rasmussen Reports indicates that only 49% of Democrats approve of the One's job performance. How do you feel about that pesky, little sugar plum of a fact? I hear he's finally heading to the gulf. Negligence and incompetence personified. You should be proud. As always, 11/02/2010.

Bruce | 5.25.10 @ 1:13PM

LOL - you really are a dumb ass. I knew what quid pro quo meant before you were born, sonny.

There is no "innuendo" (do you really know the definition of THAT word, bozo?) on the US Code concerning bribery or misprison of a felony. YOU look it up before you flap your uninformed lips.

JmsA| 5.24.10 @ 9:28PM

Bruce,

Yes, he's quite the moron, trying to wish it away in his own very special and ignorant way.

JmsA| 5.24.10 @ 9:26PM

Purpleturd,

What does the One know and when did he know it?

JmsA| 5.24.10 @ 9:48PM

Hey Purpleturd,

Is the bus here yet?

Tim*| 5.25.10 @ 12:43AM

" Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner (N.Y.) called on the White House Monday to detail conversations it allegedly had with Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) to try to convince him to drop his Senate bid.

Weiner said allegations that White House officials had offered Sestak an administration job in exchange for his dropping his primary bid against Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) had become a growing political liability.

"I think what the White House should do is, to some degree, say, 'Here are the facts,'" Weiner said Monday morning during an appearance on MSNBC. "If there's not a lot [to] what's going on here, then just say what happened."

AmenBRo| 5.24.10 @ 2:36PM

Any you folks remember Chuck Colson

How bout Cap Weinberger

Can a get an amen from the back row for Scooter Libby

HOW IN HELL DO YOU, screw it you choose the expletive, LOOK YOUR CARCASSES IN THE MIRROR EVERY DAY??????/

C.K. Amos| 5.24.10 @ 7:37PM

Why is it that those of your persuasion always seem to deflect what's occurring now by pointing back to the past? It's a rhetorical question.

JmsA| 5.24.10 @ 7:58PM

So what, AmenBRo? All you mentioned is done and gone. This is just beginning to develop. The mere fact that you seek some sort of high moral ground does not exculpate the Little Admiral or the White House. The White House, as he reported it, offered it so he would not run against Specter in the primary, and although he refused it, as he claimed, he did not report it to any of the proper authorities. Did you see how quickly he clammed and passed the buck onto someone else up when David Gregory asked him what exactly he had been offered? Don't believe for one second that his counsel, and I'm sure he's already retained such, advised him to do just that. That would clearly demonstrate the basis of a quid pro quo offer in the part of the White House. It's going be very interesting to see him try to walk that one back, not that it would relieve him from his committed act of misprision. I'm just looking forward to the lies about lies, aren't you?

JmsA| 5.24.10 @ 8:07PM

AmenBRo,

Chuck Colson served his sentence and went on to to counsel and minister felons. A rather noble undertaking I'd dare say.

Caspar Weinberger was a veteran who served his country. Hell, he helped the Contras prevent the commies from taking over Nicaragua and bring the Red Sandinistas to the table. By the way, I can look in the mirror every day without any problem, OK? For I know that although Republicans, particularly the RINOS are far from perfect, Democrats, particularly the leftist, anti-American lot in charge right now, are by far much worse. Afterall, didn't H.L. Mencken referred to them as the "Evil Party"? The Little Admiral is in hot water, and I'm not talking about somewhere south of the Equator.

publius| 5.25.10 @ 12:47AM

That's right JmsA. The so-called Contra Affair was only an "affair" to the anti-American democraps. The democraps, led by Jim Wright of Texas, John F'n sKerry, of Taxachuesetts, and Tom Harkin, Iowa were doing everything they could to help Daniel Ortega and the communist Sandinistas. The democraps even passed the 'Bolens' amendment, to prevent the Reagan Administration from helping the Contras. Constitutional lawers have said that the Bolens amendment was unconstitutional. Well duh, democraps did it, of course it was unconstitutional. F'n sKerry and Harkin even went down to Nicaragua to show support for Ortega and get their picture taken shaking hands with him (I still have a copy of the pic in my files). Wright wrote Ortega a 'Dear Commandant' letter asking him if he could hold the atrocites down while contra aid was being debated in Congress (I still have a copy of the letter in my files). Saying it would be easier for the democraps to shut down the administration's Contra aid if he would hold the atrocities down a bit. Reagan, Weinberger, North and others prevailed and forced free elections, whereupon the Nicaraguan voters threw Ortega and the commies out.

Of course the communists are making inroads again in Central America, and they have a friend in the White House now too. To Wit, Obumba and the democrap's support for such bad ctors as Castro, Chavez, Zelaya and others. The 'craps really went apoplectic when the Honduran people threw their (the 'craps) comrade, leftist strongman Zelaya, out of the country. Obumba went so far as to place sanctions against Honduras to try and force Zelaya's re-installment. Luckily and heroically the Honduran people said screw you Obumba.

First thing I say every morning is: Screw you Obumba!

publius| 5.25.10 @ 12:23AM

To denigrate a great Ameirican like Cap Weinberger, the victim of a lelftist witch hunt, shows what a lowlife you are or how abysmally ignorant you are. And if you weren't one of the above, you wouldn't be saying anything about Scooter Libby either.

Anthony| 5.24.10 @ 3:01PM

MEMO TO HOUSE & SENATE REPUBLICANS: You must insist on a special prosecutor or hearings. And you must insist, day in and day out, until this is done. Make yourselves heard!!!
Remember what the Ds did against Reagan and Bush 41; also remind the Ds of their once famous mantra: " There must be an investigation precisely because of the seriousness of the charges, as opposed to the nature of the evidence".
Now, get some gonads and DO IT!!!

Tim*| 5.24.10 @ 3:58PM

Uh Oh ! The Little Admiral May Be Going To The Brig.

MISPRISION OF FELONY

“Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the U.S., conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the U.S. 18 USC Misprision of felony, is the like concealment of felony, without giving any degree of maintenance to the felon for if any aid be given him, the party becomes an accessory after the fact.”

JmsA| 5.24.10 @ 8:00PM

Thank you, Tim.

The little darlings on the left, some of whom visiting these very pages, would't understand about misprision, for they're so used to lying about lying with the aid of a complicit media.

Purpleguy| 5.24.10 @ 10:41PM

South Carolina is the only state that has prosecuted the misprision of a felony - you really ought to check the "facts" that someone throws at you. In all other states there is no such thing. This is left over from English law, which does still exist in England.
But I think if you'll check carefully, even you can figure out we are not English subjects any longer and are not under English rule. Oh, and the world is round too.

Even the Supreme Court has weighed in on this MISPRISION of FELONY. Go look it up and learn something - don't rely on Tim the Dim.

Arlen Specter| 5.24.10 @ 11:58PM

Aaaaand , Now The Rest Of The Story !

Yeah , Ya No Nothin' Fantasy Attorney Purplepuss , Look It Up !

"Today, in order to be guilty of the federal crime of "misprision of felony," in addition to knowing about a felony and failing to disclose information about it, one must take an affirmative step to conceal the felony. See 38 F. 2d 515, 517; 18 U.S.C. §4.

With the development of the modern law, this crime has been discarded in most jurisdictions, and is generally only applied against persons placed in a special position of authority or responsibility. "

Mimi| 5.26.10 @ 10:42AM

HEH ARLIN????...."only apply against persons placed in a special position of authority or responsibility."....... Would this mean the President, if he had knowledge of the bribe?????

JmsA| 5.25.10 @ 7:24PM

Purpleturd,

Just because Tim and I reached the same conclusion, doesn't mean that I relied on him, and if I did, I would have been correct to do so, for he is, as I am, correct--and you're not. As a matter of fact, I corrected the spelling of the word "Misprision" for another blog, which shall remain nameless, lest you also pester them with your leftist nonsense. And by the way, I happen to be a Certified Court Interpreter. So there. As to whether the supreme court weighed in or not, does not matter; the statute wasn't struck down and remains federally codified. Now, you claim South Carolina was the only state to prosecture for misprision. Wrong. On 03/15/05, the Supreme Court of New Jersey suspended an attorney as a result of his guilty plea to a one-count Information filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, charging misprision of felony, a violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 4. Are you getting it now? You're not only wrong, but also an ignorant, blowhard and braggard. Want more proof of your ignorance? Here: Per BIA 2006, the 5th Circuit held that misprision of a felony is per se a crime of moral turpitude, and always a deportable offense, no matter what the underlying facts are, as in this particular case the defendant had been trying to avoid a deportation by pleading guility to misprision. Want more? I can readily cite it for you. You're a joke. As to that crack you made before about my not loving my country. I least I don't sing the praises of a bragging, leftist incompentent "Citizen of the World," as you do.

That all said, I guess I better reprise the facts, so maybe this second time around, you can finally make sense of it with your leftist little mind. "Misprision of Felony": "Misprision of felony" is still an offense under United States federal law after being codified in 1909 under 18 U.S.C. § 4: "Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."

No matter how you twist it or turn it, the Little Admiral admitted he was offered a federal post in lieu of his bowing out of a federal national election. Someone's lying. And a coverup appears to be afoot. Nice try, though.

You and your leftist cohorts are the ones hung up on English Law and past historical events, for you cannot argue in the present. 11/02/2010

John OB| 5.24.10 @ 4:00PM

Multiple choice. Who offered Joe Sestak the job:
a) some low level schlepp.
b) his old friend, sloppy Sandy Berger.
c) a robo-teleprompter.
d) a right wing republican operative.
e) actually, he never got the offer, he HONESTLY MIS-SPOKE !
I believe the answer is (e). It seemed to work for Richard Blumenthal. He's still the democrat candidate for senator in Connecticut.

Ken (Old Texican)| 5.24.10 @ 4:55PM

Folks,
Mr. Issa has kicked the top off an ant hill.

Bottom line...Communists are writing our laws these days...and "enforcing" our laws in these days.
.....selectively.

Mr. Lord,
Thank you for reminding us.

Tim*| 5.24.10 @ 5:30PM

Allentown, PA – U.S. Senate candidate Pat Toomey issued the following statement today about allegations that the White House offered Rep. Joe Sestak a job in exchange for exiting the U.S. Senate race:

“From day one, our campaign has been focused on the critical issues facing Pennsylvania, like jobs, the economy, and a federal government that’s on an out-of-control spending spree. That’s where our focus will remain. To that end, Congressman Joe Sestak’s support for the policies that are bankrupting our country and killing jobs is of much greater concern to me than whatever deal-making was done between him and the White House.

“Having said that, by virtue of the nonstop inquiries coming into our campaign from members of the media, we are compelled to respond to what is now being commonly referred to as ‘job-gate.’ My response is simply this: Congressman Sestak should tell the public everything he knows about the job he was offered, and who offered it. To do otherwise will only continue to raise questions and continue to be a needless distraction in this campaign. Joe and I disagree on many important issues, from health care, to bailouts, to the unprecedented debt being racked up in Washington. That’s what our campaign should be about, rather than these other matters. Joe can clear that all away by simply disclosing all the facts that he knows, and I urge him to do that.”

Jim O'Brien| 5.24.10 @ 6:04PM

It is unlikely that the perp in the White House will be prosecuted. But justice may be accomplished at the ballot box.

Purpleguy| 5.24.10 @ 10:36PM

Ahhh, Toomey's against Obama and Sestak - there's a shocker. And, what does whistle-nuts want to do to fix the country's problems? Tax cuts again? He's a has-been, PA didn't want him before, and they won't want him again.

BlewBoy| 5.25.10 @ 12:05AM

Yoo Hoo Purpleguy , come back to bed & leave those Big Bad Boy Conservatives Alone.

Bob K.| 5.25.10 @ 12:18AM

Hey Purpleguy,
Wait till he starts bringing up Sestak's support of Gun Control in this State. It probably will happen during Hunting Season in October and November.

And there are more hunters who are Dems than Republicans here and they live in traditional Democratic regions in the northern tier and the western parts of the state. Sestak is going to have to score big with the affluent progressives in the Southeast and the poor blacks in Phila to counter his losses elsewhere. He had better hope those Progressive's portfolios are in good shape!

Obama's financial policies won't let him down, now, will they?

Brenda60| 5.24.10 @ 7:25PM

This stinks to high Heaven ! If Senator Sestack's allegations are proven, President Obama has committed a Felony! It is time to Impeach this Anti-American, poor excuse for a President! I am fed up! Obama has proven he has no right to be the President of this great Nation and the faster he is Impeached, the sooner we can find a more Pariotic, Honorable, President! This President have pulled the wool over the eyes of the nation, all the while claiming to want a transparent Adinistration! He has no more American Values than Fidel Castro ! President Obama and his Co-Hort Nancy Pelosi want a Socialist America, contrary to what the American People want! He is a two -faced Liar and evidently a Socialist in his beliefs! Now, he may have committed a Felony??? Did these people learn ANYTHING from Richard Nixon's mistakes?? Lord knows we need someone with Integrity and Honor, does any body know the meaning of those words anymore ?! The answer is a resounding "NO"!

Purpleguy| 5.24.10 @ 10:34PM

Poor Brenda ... Now it's the President who committed a felony ! Y'all would like that wouldn't ya? Sad ...

publius| 5.25.10 @ 12:58AM

Obumba has proved his competence level and ideology is that of the head of a Banana Republic. Or maybe mayor of his hometown in Kenya.

Bill from WV| 5.24.10 @ 8:05PM

Only a Democrat would think a bribe is not criminal! These people will make excuses for evereything but since the President is guilty of fraud they can do what they want. Americans don't care, they are'nt interested!
Surrounded by criminals and communists, how could we be in trouble?

Purpleguy| 5.24.10 @ 10:31PM

Prove the bribe, or shut up.

JimE| 5.24.10 @ 10:37PM

Purpletard,
Prove your not an idiot.

Bruce | 5.25.10 @ 1:21PM

Come on, Jim - give the clown a fighting chance. Asking him to prove he's not an idiot is akin to asking what's really in Area 51.

JmsA| 5.26.10 @ 12:13AM

Purpleturd,

It's not our job to prove anything. It is imcumbent upon "the most transparent administration ever" to do it. That reminds me about Hillary Clinton proclaiming shortly after the inaguration of Bubba Clinton, their's would be be the most ethical administration ever. How did that work out? Would you like me to cite you anymore cases of misprision, other than those from only South Carolina? So far I've seen Sestak state plain as day in all major networks and cable outlets, he was offered a job to bow out of the campaign. Even some Democrats are beginning to question the stalling in the part of the White House. Oh, did you hear? The One's approval rating has dipped to an all time low of 42%. It would be nice if you could blame Bush for the disaster in the gulf. The problem is that ten days before the explosion, the Minerals Management Service completed an inspection of the subject platform, which no one has heard anything about, again, from the most transparent administration ever. Now, don't think for one minute that I'm enjoying any of that ongoing tragedy in the gulf. I happen to have family down there. It's just that I'm amazed at the level of incompetence being shown by all of those in charge, and you know exactaly who I mean, don't you? 11/02/2010

publius| 5.26.10 @ 1:46PM

That 42% of the people still approve of this commie a-hole is a sad commentary on the constitutional literacy of the American people. Thank you left-wing NEA and further left media.

Truthyness| 5.24.10 @ 9:26PM

Sestak loses to Toomey by ten.

Purpleguy| 5.24.10 @ 10:30PM

Not according to the polls twitterbee....

Truthyness| 5.24.10 @ 10:36PM

Sestak got a very weak primary bounce. I expected him to have a slight lead after his win, like the Dem in VA in the governor's race after his primary win. He ended up losing by nearly twenty points. Sestak is too liberal in this year and a little bit flaky.

Nick| 5.24.10 @ 11:40PM

Truthyness,

PurpleJackass wouldn't know what your talking about.

He thinks Virginia governors can run for a second term as a sitting governor. PurpleJackass is cluesless about American politics.

He also thinks John Marshall was the first chief justice of the Supreme Court.

Nick| 5.25.10 @ 12:19AM

Oops! That should be: ...know what YOU'RE talking about.

Donnyvee| 5.24.10 @ 11:01PM

I haven't read every comment so if this has already been said, I apologize. It was a third rate burglary that brought Nixon down. The question is who is our Woodward and Bernstein?

publius| 5.25.10 @ 1:02AM

I'm not sure about Bernstein, but Woodward's still around exposing republicans and covering for democraps.

Yosemeti Sam| 5.25.10 @ 12:42AM

Yo - Sestak is taking the Fifth.

Wait until this guy pulls out steel marbles à la Captain Queeg.

Then it'll be gotcha time!

LOL.

Steve| 5.25.10 @ 10:33PM

Misprision of felony" is an offense under United States federal law after being codified in 1909 under 18 U.S.C. § 4:

Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

tjsker| 5.26.10 @ 9:27AM

I wish one reporter would directly ask Gibbs this question: Did President Obama call congressman Sestak and offer him a job in exchange for not running?

If Gibbs says " I don't know" then Obama will hit to roof. If Gibbs says "No" then it proves he knows something and is guilty of a federal crime.

The next reporter (that has the guts) should ask the same question but just change the name from Obama to someone else in the WH Admin. Gibbs will back himself into a corner soon with his own answers.

terrie| 5.26.10 @ 12:12PM

Tomey should make a TV ad using Sleaszestacs own words: "Look, I'm not going to get out for a deal 'cause I don't like the deal that's in it. And if I'm going to get out it's gonna be for the right thing." - This guy is corrupt as they come. The only reason he didn't take the bribe was because it wasn't good enough.

Wally| 5.26.10 @ 5:26PM

The seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee saw the Plame scandal, Scooter Libby and his get-out-of-jail-free card, the warrantless-wiretap scandal, the torture memos, the purge of U.S. Attorneys for political reasons, the no-bid Halliburton contracts, the cost estimates of Medicare Part D deliberately hidden from Congress, Interior Department officials literally in bed with oil company officials, the pundits paid to toe the administration's line in the media without disclosure, the probably illegal fake-news segments the administration created to run on local news outlets without disclosure, the misuse of "faith-based" grants to help Republican congressional candidates, Karl Rove's campaign "briefings" to federal offices in violation of the Hatch Act, and plenty more alleged crimes committed by the Bush/Cheney gang.

Said nothing. Wanted no investigation. Nothing. But do some horse trading within your own party and BOOM - criminalize deal making. BAAAD idea.

Jerry Howard| 5.26.10 @ 11:33PM

Sestak needs to provide the details:
According to the US Code, "misprison of felony" is itself a felony: "Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."

Personally I tend to believe a retired admiral - even one who labels himself a democrat - before anyone in Obama's white house, but he should quit saying he can't say.

Liberal Jesus| 5.28.10 @ 12:43PM

So, Obama does the EXACT same thing as Bush and Reagan did during their administrations, but now it's a crime?

Keep trying teabaggers.

Liberal Jesus| 5.28.10 @ 12:56PM

Ready? And......

http://news.google.com/newspap.....60,5317656

Bam! Story over.

Time to try something else repugs.

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blatant bribes| 10.10.10 @ 6:35AM

We all remember the TV show “Roots” could this have been the real inspiration for AmeriChoice Health. The 101 Dumbest Moments In Business 2003 EDITION Whiffed pitch No. 6: blatant stereotyping. By Mark Athitakis April 1, 2003 (Business 2.0)– GRAND PRIZE WINNER, DUMBEST MOMENT OF 2002
In September, insurance company AmeriChoice brings trucks to blighted neighborhoods in New York City and gives away coupons for free chickens as an incentive for the underprivileged to switch their Medicare coverage. New York state senator Carl Kruger files a complaint with the state attorney general. The 101 Dumbest Moments In Business 2003 EDITION – April 1, 2003 Apr 1, 2003 … Just don’t tell him about the “Chinese health balls.” ….. In September, insurance company AmeriChoice brings trucks to blighted … New York state senator Carl Kruger files a complaint with the state attorney general….. Falling on his sword, Welch announces he’ll give up most of the perks,…

2009 and 2010 $120,000 from your tax dollars at work
Philadelphia PA Mayor Nutter received two years in a row $60,000 checks to help keep open and operate the city swimming pools. These checks came from AmeriChoice Health and on the surface seems like fine gifts. Yet, they are Bribes non the less, these checks come from a company who receives all its money from the Federal State Governments as a vendor for Medicare Medicaid services is not allowed to offer bribes kickbacks and money gifts of any kind in order to promote its share of the market place. This is also not allowed as a use of your taxpayers dollars yet it happens.What does it really cost the City of Philadelphia to receive this money? Americhoice Health has a long history of corruption over the years yet seems to be protected by those who are responsible to over see their actions why is that? Sorry must apologize just received a notice that AmeriChoice Health was under the impression they thought they were suppose to have started their very own stimulus and economic program package and the one they implemented, they had no idea it violated all the Stark ,Health and Kickbacks laws. Some one will have to notify the following departments it was all a mistake or error in judgement, the Department of Justice, CMS, Dept of health and Human resourses,the FBI,and IRS, and any other agency effected by this tragedy or unfortunate misunderstanding. No harm, no fowl, forgive and forget, OK, then how about some coupons for a free whole fried chicken…..

Among its provisions, the anti-kickback statute penalizes anyone who knowingly and willfully solicits, receives, offers or pays remuneration in cash or in kind to induce, or in return for: A. Referring an individual to a person for the furnishing, or arranging for the furnishing, of any item or service payable under the Medicare or Medicaid program; or B. Purchasing, leasing or ordering , or arranging for or recommending purchasing, leasing or ordering, any goods, facility, service or item payable under the Medicare or Medicaid program. Violators are subject to criminal penalties, or exclusion from participation in the Medicare and Medicaid rograms, or both. A violation of the anti-kickback law is a felony offense that carries criminal fines of up to $25,000 per violation, imprisonment for up to five years and exclusion from government health care programs.The federal anti-kickback statute, 42 U.S.C.§ 1320a-7b(b), prohibits individuals or entities from knowingly and willfully offering, paying, soliciting or receiving remuneration to induce referrals of items or services covered by Medicare, Medicaid or any other federally funded program.

If this were any one person not a corporation they would be in jail now, if the FBI were called in on this matter they would be in jail now, if the IRS were notified they would be in jail now. Since all Ameri-Choice checks come from the United Health’s home office they should be held equally responsible for any bribes, kickbacks, Stark, Fraud and inducements violations that have occured. Federal and State Governments have developed such a depended position with this company that laws and rules no longer apply for them.This role is nothing new for the AmeriChoice people and its been going on for years, look at some of the prior news articles that date back for years only now they can afford to hire the best of Law firms and give the most for Political contributations all on the back of the taxpayer. Sure the Laws have become tighter but you can still dance away their problems.

Three years ago they were reported to these Federal agency’s and as of todays date not only were they allowed to continue doing business but were never charged once. Protected vendor status sure, politics sure,limited government budgets sure, Federal and State officals looking the other way sure, and rather then stop these activities a strong desire not to rock the boat existed. Even with the vast changes in the laws and budgets,a hands off policy remains, you tell me what’s wrong with this picture? The Government created this monster and now they don’t know what to do about it, like shooting yourself in your own foot etc. Tons of money to advance their national growth, its market positions, tons of money for political donations, tons of money to send 75 millon back to its home office from New York state alone, tons of money to suppot National TV shows, tons of money to pay hugh State fines, tons of money to hire the very best law firms, tons of money to pay for bribes and kickbacks, tons of money for hugh salarys and bonuses, all done on the back of the American taxpayor, you see this company receives all its money from the Federal government. Should your tax dollars be held to a higher standard? Should the government agencys responsible for there review be held to that same standard?Should the IRS audit their corruption? Why has this company not been charged? How long can the buck be passed here in more ways then one? Hey, it’s your tax dollars don’t complain now then don’t complain later.tax dollars for bribes // Oct 6, 2010 at 8:57 am

Medicaid Madness | 10.16.10 @ 5:01PM

Paragraph internet articles captured and merged into the power of a single thought that could tell a story. AmeriChoice Launches National Support Initiative for Community . Joins initiatives in more than 300 locations nationwide to recognize and support the work of Community Health Centers to provide health care to the ...
AmeriChoice of New Jersey is sponsoring or participating in 22 events at community health centers, in support of National Health Center Week, August 9-15, led by the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). “As a partner with the New Jersey Department of Human Services in Medicaid, Personal Care Plus and NJ Family Care, we are committed to improving access to quality, affordable health care for the most vulnerable populations in America,” said John Kirchner, AmeriChoice of New Jersey president. Community Health Centers serve 18 million people at more than 7,000 sites nationwide, providing quality health care, supported by AmeriChoice corporate parent, UnitedHealth Group. About AmeriChoice of New Jersey, AmeriChoice of New Jersey serves approx. 275,610 Medicaid and NJ Familycare members in the state. The health plan is a unit of AmeriChoice, the public sector health care business of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH). UnitedHealth Group is a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being company. AmeriChoice serves 2.6 million people in more than 20 states and the District of Columbia. CEO of AmeriChoice Health Bolts. John J. Kirchner - Director, Operations John Kirchner joined Healthfirst in May 2010 with over 25 years experience in health care management. Mr. Kirchner’s background includes responsibility for health plan P&L, strategic planning and operations, and government and regulatory affairs. Mr. Kirchner will be responsible for supporting all aspects of NJ health plan operations. Prior to joining Healthfirst, Mr. Kirchner held a variety of positions at AmeriChoice of New Jersey serving as President from 2007 through 2009. Judical decision, It’s true there is email thanking AmeriChoice health for their $25,000 cash gift and requesting much larger amounts for the pending year etc. from Community Health Center located in Bridgeton N.J.etc. It’s also true a licensed Health agents was fired for his refusal to deliver these checks. It’s true this behavior violates all the laws concerning bribes, kickbacks,fraud and Stark laws. It’s true this taint’s all the business then received from Community health center to AmeriChoice Health Company and then submitted to Mediciad and should be then held accountable and subject to all violations. Among its provisions, the anti-kickback statute penalizes anyone who knowingly and willfully solicits, receives, offers or pays remuneration in cash or in kind to induce, or in return for: A. Referring an individual to a person for the furnishing, or arranging for the furnishing, of any item or service payable under the Medicare or Medicaid program; or B. Purchasing, leasing or ordering , or arranging for or recommending purchasing, leasing or ordering, any goods, facility, service or item payable under the Medicare or Medicaid program. Violators are subject to criminal penalties, or exclusion from participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, or both. A violation of the anti-kickback law is a felony offense that carries criminal fines of up to $25,000 per violation, imprisonment for up to five years and exclusion from government health care programs. The federal anti-kickback statute, 42 U.S.C.§ 1320a-7b(b), prohibits individuals or entities from knowingly and willfully offering, paying, soliciting or receiving remuneration to induce referrals of items or services covered by Medicare, Medicaid or any other federally funded program. For purposes of the anti-kickback statute,remuneration means or includes the transfer of anything of value, directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly, in cash or in-kind. ps Wonder how many other cash checks were disbursed to community centers by AmeriChoice Health guess only the Shadow knows the DOJ certainly does not. Don't you just love the words partner, collaborate, team player and yes, these words should be made trigger words for someone or something getting screwed.

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