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> Is using your political office to benefit your spouse's business a criminal offense in California? If not, it damned well should be. This is pretty blatant co
by 75dvtwin 7y ago
> Is using your political office to benefit your spouse's business a criminal offense in California? If not, it damned well should be. This is pretty blatant corruption.
Receiving bribes and 'integrating' them into economy, through a network of relatives, is not that uncommon, unfortunately.
More sophisticated forms take 250K per hour speech fees, book+documentary 'deals', and buying expensive property much cheaper than market price (from the willing 'donors').
To find info on links between a politician and his/her bribe loundering network, you have to use non-google/non-yahoo search engine. And plugin the names of the relatives.
As examples,
Pick federal Congress representatives from your district that have not changed for, say, 7-10 terms or more, and that live 4mln+ homes. And do the search.
Politicians who sit on the committees dispensing money (eg aid), or government contracts tend to be more corrupt (proportional to how much money they oversee being dispensed out).
- im3w1l 7y agoWhy such a search engine? Defamation take downs?
- sjg007 7y ago>As examples, Pick federal Congress representatives from your district that have not changed for, say, 7-10 terms or more, and that live 4mln+ homes. And do the search. How about an example? Your claims are extraordinary..
- scottlocklin 7y agoDianne Feinstein is a good example; I only know about this from living in Berkeley for 20 years, and hearing about her corruption as it relates to her husband's real estate business (which impacted a lot of Berkeley landmarks). The claims are reality. American politics is absurdly, laughably corrupt and has been for a long time. I've said this for years: everything we accuse the Russians (our evil doppelgangers) of has been true here for a long, long time.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoThe purple states are much better since all the politicians are on thin ice at all times.
- scottlocklin 7y agoTrue enough, and one of the reasons I moved to one after Berzerks. At this point, I'll probably continue my migration out of the country entirely if I can pull it off.
- sjg007 7y agoHow is Feinstein corrupt?
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