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Ethics Office Recommends Dropping Murtha Investigation — The Office of Congressional Ethics announced this afternoon that it will recommend to the House Ethics Committee that matters be dropped regarding the relationship between the PMA Group lobbying firm and congressmen John Murtha (D-PA12), Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) and Jim Moran (D-Va.).
PMA employees and clients were leading donors to Murtha, Moran, Dicks and other appropriators, and received multiple earmarksfrom them.
FBI Visits Turnpike HQ — FBI agents were reported at the Harrisburg head offices of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, Oct. 22 and possibly Oct. 23. Apparently the US Justice Department has had a several months long investigation of corruption at the Commission.
The a six-lane widening project in the Valley Forge area was bid at $90 million and costs have reached $140 million.
The scandal includes large quantities of defective concrete and drainage pipes left unconnected.
Thank you, Gov. X.
Steve Cordasco Rolling Stone Goldman Sachs — I heard Steve Cordasco discussing on his Sunday morning show on WPHT 1210 AM articles by Matt Taibbi appearing in Rolling Stone magazine describing the disconcerting influence the bank holding company, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has on our economy and our political system, including that — maybe especially that — of the Obama administration..
One of the articles, Inside The Great American Bubble Machine, can be found here.