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Bruno gets two years in Camp Fed
Breaking via Twitter: Former republic Senate Majority Leader, Joe Bruno, convicted for fraud and sentenced to two years in a Federal prison for fraud and abuse of his public office for private gain. From the Albany Times-Union:
U.S. District Court Judge Gary L. Sharpe handed down the long-awaited sentence in a tense courtroom packed with Bruno's supporters and the federal authorities who worked more than four years to convict him.
"The problem with probation is that it doesn't send a message to the public that your criminal conduct here is serious," Sharpe told Bruno.
He also noted a lack of contrition in the lengthy address Bruno delivered before his sentence.
"I know you don't believe you did anything wrong which is why I didn't here one word of contrition here."
And if there is any justice in this world, former Senator Bruno may soon be joined by the current 'majority leader' Pedro Espada, Democrat of The Bronx.
So what happens to Bruno's money?
Interesting question via Twitter: With ex-majority leader Bruno's sentencing for fraud scheduled for today, will his former cohorts in the republican Senate minority return his campaign donations?
Stay tuned.
Servant of Two Masters
Joe Bruno's recent conviction points up the need for serious change in the laws covering our legislators' behavior. Three years ago I wrote the following piece; it turns out to have been ahead of its time.
Read on ... but first, if you want to make a difference, go to ReBootNY and make a contribution. read more »
"Joe Bruno is innocent"
No, seriously. There is a Google text ad on Daily Kos proclaiming just that.
The ad links to this site, Justice for Joe Bruno.
There's a statement, which reads in part:
For over three years, I have been the target of a “Get Joe Bruno Campaign.” Whether by former Governor Spitzer or a political U.S. Attorney’s Office and an overzealous FBI, I have had every relationship of my life poked, probed and scrutinized. Even my family was dragged into this and made to endure questions about their actions and motives.
The former Governor’s aides, even when they illegally used state police, could find nothing. And, when the former U.S. Attorney told the FBI that there was no case against me, they would not take “no” for an answer and even tried to get the U.S. Attorney removed from the case.
So, after being hounded for three years, I am being indicted on a prosecutorial sleight of hand because, after years of effort, they cannot find one example of criminal activity or illegal intent.
No, Senator, you're being indicted because you're a crook. read more »
The unraveling of Roger Stone
First, we proved conclusively that now-former Bruno employee Roger Stone is behind the email campaign being waged against Eliot Spitzer.
In the same post, we proved that the origin of Stone's list was in an email by Ben Smith of the Politico.
Then, we found out that the email and web campaign contains another shell: a web site, linkedcampaign.com, that is sending out all of the Stone emails. Linkedcampaign.com, like all the Stone web sites, was registered through a private registration service called Domains By Proxy. Wait, here are the headers:
Return-Path: (update@nyfacts.net)
Received: from linkedcampaign.com (linkedcampaign.com [24.199.182.6])Return-Path: (Stone@StoneZONE.com)
Received: from linkedcampaign.com (linkedcampaign.com [24.199.182.6])Return-Path: (info@SpitzerFile.com)
Received: from linkedcampaign.com (linkedcampaign.com [24.199.182.6])Return-Path: (WJMAHONEY@GOP-CLUB.COM)
Received: from linkedcampaign.com (linkedcampaign.com [24.199.182.6])
Linkedcampaign.com redirects to is a ripped copy of a web site for a company called Vertical Response.
Here's the fun part: I cross-posted the post that contained that information on The Albany Project, here. This elicited a response from Vertical Response's Director of Policy, Richard Huffaker. read more »
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