Looks like ole’ Max Baucus might be in a little trouble: Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus’ office confirmed late Friday night that the Montana Democrat was carrying on an affair with his state office director, Melodee Hanes, when he nominated her to be U.S. attorney in Montana. According to a source familiar with their relationship, […]
From the local files of corrupt Republicans: Joseph Ruscigno, former Butler County Republican Party finance chairman and husband of failed county commission candidate Rawnica Dillingham, pleaded guilty this week to a federal tax obstruction charge. In federal court Wednesday, Ruscigno admitted trying to cheat the Internal Revenue Service out of back taxes owed by Fitch […]
Especially when it comes to corruption: Michael S. Steele, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, arranged for his 2006 Senate campaign to pay a defunct company run by his sister for services that were never performed, his finance chairman from that campaign has told federal prosecutors. Of course Steele is denying it: […]
Really – this isn’t just a coincidence: Top current advisers to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign last year lobbied for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, taking sides in a bidding fight that McCain has tried to referee for more than five years. Two of the […]