Monday, June 14, 2010
Politicians - and money
I'm sure this will become an election issue in Florida; and, I'm also sure it goes on all the time.
In politics, money and power, test everyone's ethics, and many fail the test...
In politics, money and power, test everyone's ethics, and many fail the test...
The Miami Herald's Beth Reinhard reports at TampaBay.com:
"Gov. Charlie Crist personally signed off on his former Republican Party chairman's confidential fundraising role with the state party, according to Jim Greer's attorney, whose allegation contradicts the governor's statement that he 'didn't know anything' about the deal now part of a criminal investigation.
State investigators say Greer and the party's former executive director, Delmar W. Johnson III, secretly set up a shell company called Victory Strategies to divert party money and enrich themselves. Greer was charged Wednesday with fraud and money laundering."