The Observation Deck

I think someone higher up in DC is putting pressure on the FBI to shut down the operation. How else to explain the lack of prosecutions? How else to explain allowing the subjects of the investigation to keep the pensions and bribes and gifts? How else to explain the lack of indictments?

The corruption has not only touched County government but local government and local school boards. Was the investigation about to touch the untouchables?

Has someone at the FBI been bought off?

If there is any interest I'll dig a bit further. If not I might dig anyway. Maybe I'll write a letter to the Times....

Dig Bill.

sharon kinsella wrote:Dig Bill.

I dig you too!

Coincidentally, here’s an article that just came up on Cleveland.com.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11 ... _free.html

“Pumper pleaded guilty in July to bribing Dimora and other public officials, and will likely serve at least six years in prison.”

Pumper is just one of a number found guilty and awaiting sentencing. It seems to me that cases continue to be built and “perps” are being fitted for prison clothes.

David Anderson wrote:Pumper is just one of a number found guilty and awaiting sentencing. It seems to me that cases continue to be built and “perps” are being fitted for prison clothes.

Am I being too critical of the FBI? Perhaps. A methodical and deliberate investigation that builds indictments from the ground up is common and effective. Indictments of Dimora and Russo appear to be a near certainty. But for what?

This community is being sytematically looted by its governing classes, government unions and well connected developers.

Our Port Authority is in chaos, the medical mart is a fiasco where millions have been collected and spent and not one thing has been done, RTA is a poster child for cronyism and corruption, the County government is overstaffed by thousands, our commissioners pay $25 million for an Ameristrust building that is an asbestos contaminated white elephant and the big story today is that Jimmy Dimora might be indicted for getting a free kitchen counter top.

Proving corruption or any misdeed, is a slow, methodical co-operative investigative process. Don’t be too quick to think all has been completed, or that the investigation isn’t moving both up and down the political spectrum of local, county and state government entities and agencies.

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Its the Chicago way.

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same reason they don't have Mike White on anything.

too many folks profited from impropriety.

too many folks would go down. probably from both parties.

all the suspects have dirt on guys not in the limelight.