Bush Recount Helper Gets Prison Term For Public Corruption

[kpete]

Bush Recount Helper Gets Prison Term For Public Corruption
By Ken Silverstein

From the Department of Justice:

Press Release
VETERAN PALM BEACH COUNTY COMMISSIONER IS SENTENCED IN PUBLIC CORRUPTION PROBE

June 4, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, and Daniel W. Auer, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division, announced that former Palm Beach County Commissioner, defendant Mary B. McCarty, 54, of Delray Beach, FL, was sentenced today before the Honorable Donald M. Middlebrooks in federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Defendant Mary McCarty was sentenced today to 42 months of imprisonment, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release. Defendant McCarty was immediately remanded to the Bureau of Prisons to begin serving her sentence. Defendant McCarty had previously pled guilty to an Information charging her with a mail and wire fraud conspiracy to deprive the citizens of Palm Beach County of their intangible right to her honest services as a county commissioner. As described in the charging document, and as the defendant admitted at her plea, Mary McCarty engaged in a pattern of defrauding the public of her honest services as an elected official, by misusing her position as a Commissioner on the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners (BCC), to personally enrich herself, her husband, and their associates through a series of municipal bond transactions and through her receipt of gifts and gratuities from entities and persons doing business before the BCC. Further, Mary McCarty advocated and voted on numerous matters before the BCC while she concealed her true financial interests, received significant and material gifts and gratuities from individuals and entities doing business before the BCC, and failed to file or filed incomplete or false disclosure reports to conceal from the public her true financial interests.

more:
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls/PressReleases/090604-01.html
via:
http://harpers.org/#hbc-90005111

[thereismore]

1. Karma gets her. nt

[angstlessk]

2. if she is willing to 'steal' money there is absolutely NOTHING to stop her from stealing votes!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Really?

Oh, this is just too yummy for words!

Is this a couple of GOPigs, or what?

[Demeter]

4. That's One!

At this rate, the entire BFEE ought to have reached justice by .....2100!

[starroute]

5. There's more on her in a DU thread from 2004

The thread was primarily about the CBS memos, but one comment mentions McCarty in passing:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2407402#2410890

Taking on justices, official broke law

August 14, 2003


TALLAHASSEE - In the heat of the 2000 presidential election, Republican Palm Beach County Commissioner Mary McCarty led a political push to oust three Florida Supreme Court justices who ruled for Vice President Al Gore.

In a letter mailed to 350,000 people, McCarty urged her fellow Republicans to "beat these liberals and have them removed from the court, making way for more conservative jurists." The effort fizzled.

But on Wednesday, one ghost of the 2000 presidential election came home to roost.

The Florida Elections Commission, meeting in a tiny room tucked away in the state Department of Education building, fined McCarty $2,000 for accepting illegal contributions and failing to accurately report donations and expenditures.

The commission also fined her defunct political action committee, Take Back Our Judiciary, $11,000. The committee is still technically an active organization, though it only has $11.63 "in a drawer somewhere in Miami," said McCarty's Tallahassee attorney, Mark Herron. It's not clear who is responsible for paying the $11,000 fine.

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/08/14/State/Taking_on_justices__o.shtml

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On edit: Here's some more, from another 2004 DU thread. The linked stories in both cases are still available.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x897089

Off the Kuff

August 21, 2003

Roger Stone update

My faithful correspondent Alfredo Garcia has been mailing me regular updates on the case of Mary McCarty and Roger Stone. McCarty is a Republican County Commissioner from Palm Beach who was cited for election law violations as chair of a PAC called the Committee to Take Back Our Judiciary, which was formed in the aftermath of the Florida election circus of 2000 with the intent of unelecting three state Supreme Court judges who had had made a favorable ruling to Al Gore in his effort to get a statewide recount. Stone is the man who allegedly financed the PAC; McCarty claims she did nothing knowingly wrong but merely followed Stone's bidding. You can read some background here, here, here, here, and here.

All along, Stone has refused to give up any information about the source of the $150,000 that was used to fund Take Back Our Judiciary, and the state laws are essentially toothless to compel him to do so. Now comes the kicker: Stone was personally recruited by James Baker to "help the Bush-Cheney post-election campaign in Florida".

http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/002266.html

[Just-plain-Kathy]

6. "Error: you can only recommend threads which were started in the past 24 hours"

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