Feds Strike Out Against Another Lawmaker? (former GOP Rep. Curt Weldon)

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Source: ABC News

Ted Stevens, move over: Another major public corruption case looks like it could end without a conviction.

For years, Justice Department prosecutors have chased corruption allegations about Curt Weldon, a Republican congressman from Pennsylvania until 2006. The FBI raided his home and his daughter’s home; their probe reportedly centered on whether Weldon had steered business to his daughter’s lobbying firm.

Like Stevens, the former U.S. senator from Alaska, Weldon decried the allegations against him; like Stevens, voters gave Weldon the boot from Congress while he labored under the cloud of investigation.

But a string of omens portend a closed case and no charges for the once-veteran lawmaker.

Consider: Last month, a woman thought to be a key cooperating witness in the case went before a judge to be sentenced. Cecilia Grimes was a close friend of Weldon’s and a lobbyist whose firm secured considerable earmarks from the lawmaker; she pled guilty to destroying evidence.

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If prosecutors were going to pursue the ex-lawmaker, experts believe, they would presumably want Grimes to testify; in that case,they would have delayed her sentencing until she could take the stand against Weldon.

Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/roodfromdc/2009/05/feds-strike-out.html

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1. Damn it Holder... Don't ANY of the cases that interest you involve

the misprosecution of a Democrat?

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2. this isn't Holder - Bush DOJ created roadblocks in prosecuting Weldon

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3. Weldon was corrupt to the core