First and formost, there's Tricky Dick
- President R.M. Nixon - pardoned, resigned, forestalling impeachment
- Vice-President S. Agnew - resigned, convicted felon, served prison time
- Attorney General John MItchell - convicted, served prison time
- Assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian - convicted, served prison time
- Aides J.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman - convicted, served prison time
as well as many others.(this list will be added to)
Note, also, that they didn't serve all their time on probation,
but prison time.
And then there was Ronald Reagan
Subject: Partial Reagan Administration Crook List
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Corruption ran rampant in many government agencies.
In the Department of Commerce, James Watt was a fiercely
anti-environmentalist who protested federal control over the rich mineral
and timber resources in the western states. Additionally, Watt set out to
cripple the EPA and to permit oil drilling in scenic areas. After telling
an off-color ethnic joke in 1983, Watt was forced to resign. He described
members of a federal advisory panel as "a black ... a woman, two Jews,
and a cripple."
Testifying before a House committee Watt said, "That's what they
offered, and it sounded like a lot of money to me, and we settled on it."
After over ten years of investigation, Watt was sentenced to five years of
probation and 500 hours of community service for withholding documents
from a grand jury which investigated HUD in March 1996.
Corruption spread to the EPA. Anne Burford, who headed the superfund of
the EPA, resigned after she bent environmental regulations for dozens of
industrial polluters.
One of Burford's subordinates, Rita Lavelle, headed the EPA's toxic waste
clean-up program. She was indicted and served three months in a federal
penitentiary for lying to Congress. She was able to clean up only a small
handful of the nation's thousands of toxic waste sites.
In addition, EPA administrator, John W. Hernandez, resigned after his
staff disclosed that he illegally allowed Dow Chemicals to review a report
which named it a dioxin polluter.
Assistant EPA administrator John Horton was dismissed for using government
employees for private business. Matthew Novick, EPA Inspector General, was
fired after he used government officials to work on private business.
Theodore Olson, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, was
under investigation for obstructing justice in the investigation of the EPA.
EPA General Counsel Robert Perry resigned after improper participation in
a settlement which involved a former employer.
John Tudhunter, assistant EPA administrator, resigned after being accused
of meeting privately with chemical company lobbyists. Additionally, the
Reagan administration sold and leased billions of dollars worth of coal
and oil reserves, timber lands, and mineral reserves.
In addition, Reagan tampered with environmental laws in his crusade to
bolster corporate profits.
These included the effect which factory pollutants, originating in upper
state New York, had on destroying Canadian forests, rivers, and streams.
White House chief of staff Michael Deaver always denied Canada's
allegations that sulfides from New York factories caused any harm to the
environment. However, when Deaver left the White House, he immediately
lobbied on behalf of foreign countries, in violation of
The Ethics in Government Act which prohibits anyone for lobbying for one
year after leaving a White House post. Deaver immediately he went to work
for the Canadian government, being paid $105,000 to lobby for compensation
from the United States for damage inflicted
on Canadian territory from acid rain.
Deaver also received $250,000 from Daewoo, a South Korean steel
corporation, to market its product in the United States.
Other foreign lobbyists included Ed Rollins, a member of Dole's campaign
committee in 1995, and former RNC Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf, were on the
payroll as lobbyists for Taiwan.
By the time Reagan left the White House and the smoke had cleared, a
laundry list of government upper management officials had surfaced. Some
of them included:
Anne Burford, Rita Lavelle, James Watt, and Michael Deaver.
Richard Allen, National Security adviser, who resigned amid controversy over a $1,000 honorarium after arranging an interview with Nancy Reagan.
James Beggs, chief administrator at NASA, who was indicted for defrauding the government while an executive at General Dynamics.
Guy Flake, Deputy Secretary of Commerce, who resigned after allegations of a conflict of interest in contract negotiations.
Louis Glutfrida, director of Federal Emergency Management Agency, who resigned amid allegations of misuse of government property.
- Edwin Gray, chairman of Federal Home Loan Bank, who was charged with illegally repaying himself and his wife $26,000 in travel costs.
Max Hugel, CIA chief of covert operations, who resigned after allegations of fraudulent financial dealings.
Carlos Campbell, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, who resigned after charges of awarding grants to his friends' firms.
Raymond Donovan, Secretary of Labor, who was indicted for defrauding the New York City Transit Authority of $7.4 million.
John Fedders, chief of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission, who resigned after charges of wife-beating.
- Arthur Hayes, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, who
resigned after being under investigation for illegal travel
reimbursements.
- J. Lynn Helms, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, who
resigned after a grand jury investigated illegal business activities.
- Marjory Mecklenburg, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of
Health and Human Resources, resigned after allegations of irregularities
on her travel vouchers.
- Edwin Meese, Attorney General, was under investigation by a special
prosecutor for his role in helping Wedtech Corporation.
- Robert Nimmo, head of Veterans Administration, who resigned when a
report criticized him for improper use of government funds.
- Lyn Nofziger, White House aide, who was under investigation for his
role in helping Wedtech Corporation.
- J. William Petro, a United States attorney, who was fired and fined
for tipping off an acquaintance about a forthcoming grand jury indictment.
- Thomas C. Reed, White House counselor and National Security Council
adviser, who resigned and paid a $427,000 fine for stock market insider
trade information.
- Emanuel Savas, Assistant Secretary of HUD, who resigned after he had
assigned staff members to work on a book he was writing.
- Peter Voss, Postal Service governor, who pleaded guilty to charges
of expense account fraud and to accepting kickbacks.
- Charles Wick, director of the United States Information Agency (USIA),
who was accused of taping conversations with public officials without their
approval.
In addition, charges were brought against several high level officials in
regard to Iran-contra. Those included:
- National Security Council advisers Robert McFarlane and John Poindexter
- Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger
- Deputy Secretary of State Elliot Abrams
- Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council (out on a technicality)
- Major Richard Secord of the National Security Council
- Deputy Assistant to the President Jonathan Miller
- CIA officials:
- Albert Fiers
- Thomas Clines
- CIA chief William Casey died before he was indicted.
- Clair George
- Richard Miller
- Albert Hakim
- Carl Channell
So, tell me, how many folks in Clinton's administrations were
convicted?
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Democrats honor, revere and reward work, and therefore want the minimum
wage raised for people who work hard. Republicans worship wealth. That's why
they want a $750 billion giveaway in "death tax" cuts to the children of
the rich.