Pelosi's Swamp Now A Lake: Richardson Investigation Killed In DC

Susie House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talked of draining the swamp that was the House and Washington, DC as a whole. Little did we know she was simply going to help bury the swamp under a lake. More pointedly, much of this seems to be coming from two critical areas.

The Inspectors General system and Holder's DOJ look like the prime culprits, so far. As perhaps the two chief watchdog arms of any administration, it seems safe to say that the dam has now been broken. At this rate, Obama, Pelosi and many Democrats may have to jump in a boat headed for a distant shore by 2010 or 2012 just to escape an eventual flood of subpoenas.

SANTA FE, N.M. -- New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former high-ranking members of his administration won't be criminally charged in a yearlong federal investigation into pay-to-play allegations involving one of the Democratic governor's large political donors, someone familiar with the case said.

The decision not to pursue indictments was made by top Justice Department officials, according to a person familiar with the investigation, who asked not to be identified because federal officials had not disclosed results of the probe.

"It's over. There's nothing. It was killed in Washington," the person told The Associated Press.

Comments

[David R. Graham]

Democrats! Listen Up! It is known you have the mind to punish Americans for being Americans but not the means. Impeach the cat in the White House and lose your Racist, Stalinist, Islamist and Misogynist elements or kiss your Party goodbye.

[USCtizen]

OT but your posts are now (suddenly) readable - without raw html - in my RSS feed.

[seekeronos]

"--- Impeach the cat in the White House and lose your Racist, Stalinist, Islamist and Misogynist elements ---"

Not likely.

[FeFe]

How is this playing out in New Mexico? Town halls?

[elephant4life]

What happened to the investigation? Probably something along the lines of "We won't press an indictment at this time if you commit to do thus and so to further the immigration initiatives that Obama is gearing up to cram down the public's throat".

Pay-to-play in an untouchable form, always with the understanding that the charges haven't COMPLETELY gone away - they can always be revived if he doesn't play ball.

Prediction: Look for some interesting developments regarding border security, poor pitiful putupon "undocumented" immigrants, etc. in New Mexico within the next few weeks as Richardson enables and /or helps create the next national crisis - this time on immigration and the need to grant them all amnesty.

Any takers?

[robert verdi]

You still have the trial of Mayor Langford in Alabama, it involved many of the same players caught up in gripgate. By the way I have followed this story since day one and to unravel it would expose a great deal of Democrats to some pretty harsh light. For example CDR financial products is located in CA-30 henry waxmen's district. The company gave thousands to him and hundreds of thousands to democrats on a state and local level. Even though many of the muni-bond abuses were exposed in 2006 by bloomberg reports in their story Broken Promises, Waxmen never bothered to call them in from of his reform committee. David Rubin of CDR Financial Products, who also managed to be on Ed Rendel's transition team and donated 40,000 to him has been a player in Democratic circles for some time now and he is not out of the woods yet. In Pennsylvania a local airport was subpoenaed over possible misdeeds related to an airport deal. We shall see:

For over 140 posts on the subject covering every angle check here
http://46in08.blogspot.com/search/label/CDR%20Muni-Bond%20Scandal

For a quick primer on black box deals,:
http://46in08.blogspot.com/2009/01/black-box-scandals-in-chicago_07.html

The Bloomberg story Broken Promises
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/marketsmag/broken_promises1.html

[Mad Monica]

How's it playing out in New Mexico? Same old Same old. Lefties are acting like nothing is wrong, the GOP is asking what the hell is going on and Bill's off smellin' like a freakin' rose.

I'm just really glad the news is at least getting out there. For a while I was beginning to think since we're such a small state no one would notice.

Thanks to everyone who is getting the word out.

Now we have to wait for the Vigil Goron trial and see what turns up there. Should be interesting to see what, if anything, Billy had to do with THAT mess since the woman was his secretary of state during the time the financial funny business with the "voter education" funds took place. I find it REAL fishy, since Billy was REAL hot and heavy to hand New Mexico to John Kerry during that time frame.

Keep watching folks, this may not be over yet. Oh who am I kidding. With the AG and the DOJ willing to let anyone who can be counted as an Obama Buddy off on anything, we probably oughta be expecting a pardon for Vigil Goron and anyone else Billy asks for to cover his arse any day now.