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Specter: Sestak’s Job Offer Accusation Against the Obama Admin. Is “A Bribe Punishable By Jail”
By PoliJAM | March 9, 2010
“There have been a number of commentators who picked up on what Congressman Sestak has said and have identified it as a bribe punishable by jail and that’s a pretty strong charge to make against the president’s administration, implying perhaps even the president himself.
“So I think that if someone is going to make a charge he ought to stand up and name names, name dates and back it up and not just make a charge. He gets a lot of political mileage out of that, pretty inexpensively…
Share This“There is a specific federal statute which makes it a bribe to make an offer for a public office and when I was a district attorney if somebody came and told me that, I would say, ‘name names, name dates, name places.’ That’s a very very serious charge, it’s a big black smear without the specifications. But I’m telling you it is a federal crime punishable by jail, and anybody who wants to say that ought to back it up. Listen, Congressman Sestak has gotten a lot of political mileage out of that and it’s really an attack on the administration.”
Topics: Politics | 1 Comment »
May 18th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
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