Let's start counting: "Rising star" Rethug, new congress critter David RIVERA, being investigated

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Rethug (1) managed (“free”) campaign for gambling business (2). Gambling business (2) paid $512K to Rethug’s Mommie’s (3) consulting business. Rethug (1) paid $30K and re-paid $132K “loan” plus interest to Mommie (3).

The numbers only show Mommie as cleaning up, but the real issue is the SALE of Rethug’s legislative influence to the gambling business whose books doubtlessly translate what his influence was worth in hard bucks, which surely was WAY larger than Mommie’s cleaning up. I’m sure Mommie’s money, in her name, is available to Rethug whenever.

Remember Jeb Crow Shrub's business partners for his Medicare scams involving suitcases of cash? and Tricky Dick hanging with Bebe REBOZO. We thought Tricky only wanted a sentimental drinking buddy. And the prince himself, Shrub, who had the influence peddling with fatcats down pat, and the family Rolodex for “contributions”/”loans”. What’s the dollar amount? Remember the Texas Rangers stadium in Arlington? And the weakening or removal of regulation for fatcats’ businesses... By the bye, have you heard that Jeb Crow Shrub isn’t ruling OUT running in 2016?!




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http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/05/v-print/2002476/new-congressman-david-rivera-made.html#ixzz1AJHoQHat

New Congressman David Rivera made quick condo sale, repaid debt

BY SCOTT HIAASEN, PATRICIA MAZZEI AND LESLEY CLARK
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.... The investigation cast a shadow over Rivera's swearing-in Wednesday as part of the Republican Party's new freshman class in the U.S. House of Representatives. Not long after the ceremony, reporters asked the new Republican majority leader, Eric Cantor, whether Rivera would be disciplined under his ``zero tolerance'' ethics policy. Cantor would not comment. ....

Rivera, 45, was considered a rising star in the Florida GOP after serving eight years as an influential lawmaker in the state House of Representatives. But after his election on Nov. 2, he has come under increasing scrutiny as prosecutors and police examine a secret deal between Rivera, Millennium and Flagler Dog Track in 2006. ....



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rivera

.... Early political career
Rivera began his political career as a legislative assistant to US Senator Connie Mack III, as a political director for Miami-Dade county during Mack's successful 1988 campaign. Rivera also worked on the 1988 presidential campaign of Jack Kemp. Rivera then worked as a writer and researcher in the Washington, D.C. offices of the Cuban American National Foundation. Rivera than served as Public Affairs Director for the Washington-based Valladares Foundation, an international human rights watch-group headed by former Ambassador Armando Valladares,former US Ambassador to United Nations Human Rights Commission under Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

In 1991, Rivera began serving as Special Assistant to the Director of the United States Information Agency's Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB). The OCB was responsible for the administrative and management oversight of Radio and TV Marti, the official US government broadcast services to Cuba and is under the control of the State Department. During his time at the State Department, Rivera held a Top Secret National Clearance from the U.S. Government. ....

Domestic violence allegations
On October 13, 1994 a domestic abuse charge was filed in Miami-Dade County against one David M. Rivera. Rivera denies that he was the defendant in the 1994 domestic violence case, and the victim of the attack has maintained that David Rivera, the politician, was not the defendant in her case.<2>

The Miami Herald reported that according to a woman who is friendly with the victim's brother, Rivera and the victim came to her home as a couple to attend a dinner party about 10 years ago. The victim's mother also once worked on one of Rivera's political campaigns, records show.<3>

Mail truck collision
On September 6, 2002, Rivera was involved in a traffic collision with a truck carrying thousands of fliers, produced by Rivera's campaign opponent at the time, that included a last-minute attack on Rivera's character and detailed past domestic violence accusations against him.<4> According to reports filed by the Florida Highway Patrol, a car driven by Rivera hit the truck and forced it to the shoulder of the Palmetto Expressway, ten minutes before the truck's 6 p.m. deadline to deliver the fliers to the post office, preventing the fliers from being delivered in time to be mailed.<3><5>

Rivera has said that he had planned to meet up with the truck on an exit ramp off the Expressway so he could retrieve a batch of his own campaign fliers.<6> The owner of the company that produced the anti-Rivera fliers maintains that the truck driver did not voluntarily pull off the highway. According to the FHP incident report, the collision occurred in the middle of the road. ....

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