Curt Weldon's Family .... his daughter's lobbying firm cashed in Big Time

[RedEarth]

Curt Weldon's Family
By Paul Kiel - April 6, 2006, 12:37 PM
Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) thinks it was inappropriate for his opponent to bring his daughter to Washington so she could receive cancer treatments.

But it was okay for Weldon to bring his daughter to Washington to make money off her dad? Perhaps now is a good time to remind everyone of Weldon's special relationship with his daughter.

The LA Times broke the story back in 2004 that Weldon's daughter Karen, then in her late twenties, ran a lobbying firm that was raking in approximately $1 million a year - and by some strange coincidence, her three main clients all had developed a relationship with her father, Curt.

The clients? There was:

-- "a plum $240,000 contract to promote the good works of a wealthy Serbian family that had been linked to accused war criminal Slobodan Milosevic." Weldon and his daughter worked, without any apparent success, to get them visas.

-- a Russian aerospace manufacturer who paid Karen Weldon's firm $20,000 per month to promote its technologies, which included its "flying saucer." Her firm also was to get " a 10 percent finder's fee if the company ' a deal from a lead supplied'" by them. That little bonus had to be taken out of the subsequent contract, however, when they realized that it was illegal for a lobbyist to take a cut of a government contract. Weldon worked hard to win a contract for the firm.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000305.php

LA Times article.......

WASHINGTON — Karen Weldon, an inexperienced 29-year-old lobbyist from suburban Philadelphia, seemed an unlikely choice for clients seeking global public relations services.

Yet her tiny firm was selected last year for a plum $240,000 contract to promote the good works of a wealthy Serbian family that had been linked to accused war criminal Slobodan Milosevic

Despite a lack of professional credentials, she had one notable asset — her father, U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), who is a leading voice in Washington on former Eastern Bloc affairs.

She got the contract after he championed the efforts of two family members, Dragomir and Bogoljub Karic, to win U.S. visas from the State Department, which so far has refused them entry.

Intelligence officials warned Weldon that the brothers were too close to Milosevic, who is accused of leading the "ethnic cleansing" in the former Yugoslav federation.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-weldon20feb20,1,4228013,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true

[brentspeak]

1. Weldon is a complete, utter snake

In addition to the information that Weldon used his office to enable his own daughter to develop lucrative business contacts (business contacts with alleged Serbian war criminals, at that), the public should be reminded how he made an issue of Admiral Sestak bringing his cancer-stricken 5-year-old daughter to be treated at a (gasp!) D.C. hospital.

[glitch]

2. I don't even get how this could be construed as wrong, even by a rw puke.

What an asshole.

[NVMojo]

3. bashing a 5-year old ill child is wrong ...no morals & values

[wordpix]

4. I don't live in PA but between this ass Weldon & that other idiot Sanitori

um, it's time for a change in PA