Sounds like the GO GO GOPers forgot ALL ABOUT good ole Repuke "Family Values" and shit! Here's a subject that should send them into fits and panic attacks asap! Let's take a stroll down memory lane!!!!!!
1990
Former Governor Arch Moore pleads guilty to federal charges of extortion, mail fraud, tax fraud, and obstruction of justice. He is sentenced to almost six years in prison.
http://members.aol.com/jeff560/wv-hist.html************************************
April 13, 1990: Indictment of former governor Arch Moore
Moundsville native Arch Moore made his first foray into state politics in 1952, when he was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates. A decorated World War II combat veteran and a graduate of West Virginia University's Law School, Moore also served 14 years in Congress before being elected the state's governor in 1968. During his first term, he presided over the establishment of the Department of Highways and the development of the interstate highway system. Moore also intervened in labor disputes, firing striking road maintenance workers and Charleston transit workers and negotiating a settlement to a national coal strike.
The passage of the Governor's Succession Act in 1970 allowed Moore to become the first governor to serve 2 consecutive, 4-year terms. During his second term, West Virginia's coal industry skyrocketed and Moore was considered to be a potential Republican presidential candidate, but a scandal temporarily derailed the Moore bandwagon. In 1975, Moore became the first sitting governor to be officially charged with a crime when he and his campaign manager were indicted for extortion in connection with his 1972 gubernatorial bid. They were found not guilty, but many suspected this was just the tip of the iceberg.
Throughout his first 2 terms, Moore had faced allegations of accepting illegal campaign contributions, income tax evasion, bribery, and misusing state funds. Despite these well- publicized accusations, Moore became the first West Virginia governor to serve 3 four-year terms when he was elected again in 1984. But the charges against him continued.
Following his loss to Gaston Caperton in the 1988 election, Moore became embroiled in a federal investigation of corruption in West Virginia. On April 13, 1990, Moore was formally indicted on charges of tax evasion, mail fraud, extortion, and obstruction of justice. Ironically, some of Moore's illegal activity involved the Black Lung Compensation Fund, which he had helped to create. He was charged with receiving $373,000 from the president of Maben Energy. In return, Moore supposedly used his influence to obtain a refund of more than $2 million which the coal company had paid into the Black Lung Compensation Fund.
He eventually pled guilty to 5 felony charges and was sentenced to 5 years and 10 months at the federal prison in Montgomery, Alabama. He served 2 years and, in 1995, settled a lawsuit with the state by agreeing to pay $750,000 to recoup money he had received through extortion and kickbacks.
http://www.wvculture.org/history/timetrl/ttapr.html****************************************
More on Shelly Moore Capito's famous outlaw daddy!
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Moore received a sentence of five years and 10 months plus a $170,000 fine in 1990 for extortion, mail fraud, tax fraud and obstruction of justice. The charges stemmed from Moore's filing false campaign statements during his 1984 gubernatorial campaign, receiving a $573,000 kickback in 1985 from a coal company in exchange for a $2.3 million refund from the state's black lung disease fund, failing to report on his federal income tax form the $573,000 as income as well as another $70,000 he received from lobbyists in 1984 and 1985, and for asking his campaign manager and the representative of the coal company who provided the kickback to lie to federal investigators about his campaign contributions and spending.
http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/ipa/mono/html/dilger.html********************************
One more Item about Shelly's daddy, is the sad tale of the even sadder state of the state, at the close of Arch A. Moore's last term in office! I couldn't find the story on the internet, but the sad truth is that Moore's final term as governor, not only ended in the great shame to our state because our governor went straight from the state house to the federal big-house for stealing, lying, and cheating, but during the last four years that Moore served us in the capitol, our state lost $279,000,000.00 in investments in "junk bonds" and speculative trading options! The state of Wv had to raise taxes on everyone in the state because of Moore's ineptitude!
Shelly Moore Capito had the gall to come back here about a year ago and try and help Arch Moore, in the hearings in which Moore tried to get the Wv bar association to reinstate his license to practice law in Wv again! Moore was unable to get his lawyer's license back in the end, because he is a convicted felon!
After all that Arch and his crew were caught up in, including stealing from the old and sick coal miner's black lung funds and sharing the spoils with the wealthy coal company CEOs and the costing the state $279 million because he and his merry crew of crooks, invested state funds in junk bonds and speculative trading options! The same kind of speculative trading options that Shelly is all for helping Bush invest our Social Security funds in!
No wonder we're the poorest state in the union year after year, even though we supply a huge percentage of the coal for the power plants all over the eastern United States! Wv should be rich, but we elect coal company flunkies like Moore and Underwood and that large sucking sound you hear, is all the revenue generated by big coal, leaving the state in the robber baron's, like Don Blankenship and the Addington gang's slick and slimy carpetbagger pockets! All we get out of "BIG COAL" is a hand full of scab jobs and our mountains trashed forever by the Huge Drag Buckets!
Robert Byrd's people need to get down and dirty, if the GOPers want to play that game of hardball and mud slinging, like the GOP and the BIG COAL money did to the good state supreme court judge last election! The GOP don't pull any punches when it comes to using anything...including bringing up everything in the opposing democrat's past history, or the history of the candidate's family! Senator Byrd has plenty to talk about when it comes to Shelly's family tree! Senator Byrd is a GREAT talker, but now is the time for action, if there ever was a time!
HOW MUCH 'MOORE' OF THIS BU$HIT...CAN West Virginia Handle????
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