Brian Ross covers the “influence game” in Denver like only Brian Ross can. In all honesty, those “spoons” were ridiculously large.
American Issues Project Spurs Legal Debate
A number of sites are discussing American Issues Project and its recent activity.
“Having failed in its attempts to get our legal, factual and fully-supported ad off the air, Barack Obama’s campaign now wants to put our donors in prison for exercising their right to free speech,” said Ed Martin, the group’s president. “These over-the-top bullying tactics are reminiscent of the kind of censorship one would see in a Stalinist dictatorship, with the only difference being that those guys generally had to wait until they were in power to throw people who disagreed with them into jail.”
Biden Committee Embezzlement Case
According to this 2003 report, a campaign aide allegedly embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from Senator Joe Biden’s campaign account.
Roger D. Blevins III, the campaign aide accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s treasury, is said by federal authorities to have spent the money for the high life — a surprising contradiction to his reputation for modest living.
Blevins, 32, of Elsmere, was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on 20 counts of interstate transfer of stolen property, a crime that carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years, according to U.S. Attorney Colm F. Connolly.
The indictment comes about two weeks since Blevins was arrested by the FBI, after Biden’s staff went to federal authorities with suspicions about embezzling that drained its account of $350,000, essentially all that was left from a $3-million re-election victory for Delaware’s senior Democratic senator last year.
This article places the story in context of other cases.