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by Moonage

A while back I did a piece quantifying SOME media’s reluctance to out Democrat crooks’ party affiliation.  It was pretty staggeringly obvious.  Something like 3,000+ words and not mentioning any of the crooks were Democrat, two words before they could blurt out the Republican.  Well, those bizarrely obvious figures just keep getting worse.  Here’s today’s Democrat member of Nancy Pelosi’s culture of corruption:

Former Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Sharpe James and co-defendant Tamika Riley were found guilty Wednesday of charges related to property fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of New Jersey said.Prosecutors said James, 72, hijacked a program designed to encourage urban renewal by offering developers land at low costs, and approved the sale of city-owned properties to Riley, 39, then his girlfriend, at a fraction of their actual value from 2001 to 2005.

With James “steering” land to her, Riley bought multiple discounted properties and resold them at market rate without attempting to first rehabilitate them, as required by the program, prosecutors said. Riley collected about $500,000 in profits from the transactions, they said.

James and Riley were found guilty of fraud charges, including conspiracy to “defraud the public of James’ honest service.” Riley alone was additionally found guilty of tax fraud and evasion. They will probably face four- to five-year sentences, district attorney spokesman Mike Drewniak said.

In a separate case, James is accused of charging nearly $60,000 on city-issued credit cards between 2001 and 2006 for vacations for himself and several women other than his wife in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and the Dominican Republic.

James claims that his visit to Rio de Janeiro in 2006 was to meet with the region’s consulate general on city business and that a trip to the Dominican Republic was to “assess the tropical gardens on a resort property there to determine if those gardens could be replicated near Penn Station in Newark,” according to the indictment.

At no point does CNN ever mention James’ party affiliation.  Add 260 more words to that total.  This is getting unreal.

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