{"id":4399,"date":"2011-03-25T05:44:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4399"},"modified":"2011-03-25T05:44:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:44:06","slug":"doj-has-this-bass-ackwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/doj-has-this-bass-ackwards\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Has This Bass Ackwards!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fox raided the henhouse recently and ate the rooster\u2019s favorite hen.  Then to cover up his crime, the fox bribed the rooster and tempted the rooster to assist the fox in other illegal pursuits.  After extensive investigation, DOJ has indicted the rooster, but let the fox walk free.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"24Ensign\"The husband of Sen. John Ensign’s former mistress has been charged with violating federal conflict of interest laws<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Justice Department announced today that Douglas Hampton, a former top aide to the GOP senator, has been indicted on seven counts<\/strong>. The charges stem from violations of congressional rules that bar Senate employees from lobbying their ex-colleagues for one year after they stop working for Congress.<\/p>\n

Ensign, who recently announced he would not seek another term next year, has been investigated by federal prosecutors and the Senate Ethics Committee for actions stemming from his affair with Hampton’s wife, Cynthia. Prosecutors said in December they would not charge Ensign<\/a> for his role in helping Douglas Hampton obtain lobbying work.<\/p>\n

The senator, once considered a rising GOP star, admitted in June 2009 of having the extramarital affair with Cynthia Hampton, who at the time worked for his campaign. Ensign also admitted that his parents gave the Hamptons $96,000 as a gift in April 2008<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Douglas Hampton was off Ensign’s Senate payroll as of April 30 that year. The indictment, handed down Thursday by a grand jury in the District of Columbia, alleges that Hampton represented an airline and energy company before Ensign’s Senate office as the two entities tried to get help from the federal Departments of Transportation and Interior\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <USA Today<\/a>><\/p>\n

Am I the only one here that thinks that this as absolutely crazy?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fox raided the henhouse recently and ate the rooster\u2019s favorite hen.  Then to cover up his crime, the fox bribed the rooster and tempted the rooster to assist the fox in other illegal pursuits.  After extensive investigation, DOJ has indicted the rooster, but let the fox walk free. The husband of Sen. John Ensign’s […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}