Bringing back the big guns - Republican lobbyist and convicted felon Jack Abramoff was just charged with violating the laws put in place after he went to prison for his last huge corrupt lobbying scandal.

https://apnews.com/65361f062dcee47127a4b6009cd6326b

“Jack Abramoff, a once-powerful lobbyist who spent time in federal prison for fraud and corruption, has been charged in a San Francisco court in an investor fraud case involving cryptocurrency and lobbying disclosure, federal authorities announced Thursday.

U.S. Attorney David Anderson said Abramoff, 61, of Silver Spring, Maryland, has agreed to plead guilty to criminal conspiracy charges and a criminal violation of the Lobbying Disclosure Act in the case involving a cryptocurrency called AML BitCoin.”

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money/2020/06/11/mnuchin-ready-to-deal-on-new-economic-package-788431

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not so much corruption as putting their racism on open display.

Four Texas GOP county leaders share racist Facebook posts, including one juxtaposing an MLK quote with a banana
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/04/texas-greg-abbott-bexar-GOP-conspiracy/

Now they’ve found even more:

And yet still more

Anonymous wrote:Not so much corruption as putting their racism on open display.

Four Texas GOP county leaders share racist Facebook posts, including one juxtaposing an MLK quote with a banana
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/04/texas-greg-abbott-bexar-GOP-conspiracy/

Now they’ve found even more:

Not so much corruption as putting their racism on open display.

Four Texas GOP county leaders share racist Facebook posts, including one juxtaposing an MLK quote with a banana
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/04/texas-greg-abbott-bexar-GOP-conspiracy/

“A whistleblower claimed that President Trump’s appointees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had manipulated the agency’s research process to justify altering a 2017 rule that would have sharply curtailed high-interest payday loans.

The departing staff member, Jonathan Lanning, detailed several maneuvers by his agency’s political overseers that he considered legally risky and scientifically indefensible, including pressuring staff economists to water down their findings on payday loans and use statistical gimmicks to downplay the harm consumers would suffer if the payday restrictions were repealed. A copy of the memo was obtained by The New York Times from a current bureau employee.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/business/cfpb-payday-loans-rules.html#click=https://t.co/AtZARzWg5K

Payday lenders spent $1M to hold their convention at Trump Doral.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-payday-lenders-spent-1-million-at-a-trump-resort-and-cashed-in/amp?__twitter_impression=true

A nonprofit run by Michael Pack, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead a federal media agency is under investigation by the Washington, D.C., attorney general for potential self-dealing.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/05/14/trump-nominees-nonprofit-under-investigation-by-dc-attorney-general.html?__twitter_impression=true

Bexar County Republican Party Chair Cynthia Brehm was spreading a conspiracy theory on her Facebook page Wednesday that the death of George Floyd was staged to damage President Donald Trump with black voters.

Thankfully, other Republicans have called for her resignation.
https://www.statesman.com/news/20200603/abbott-calls-for-bexar-county-gop-chair-to-resign-for-spreading-george-floyd-conspiracy-theory?fbclid=IwAR1XneQIAOoOUKJf5NeEipsFIdtq41bRNsGOuaIo9FtqhKkYpJlID6ITGSk

Trump fires IGs who are career experts with decades of experience, and hires guys like this with bullsh!t diploma mill degrees who lie on their resumes instead.

Anonymous wrote:

If goopers ever opened this thread, there would be a weak cry of “but Diane Feinstein!”

Anonymous wrote:

in plain sight

A feature, not a bug.