Congress:
Former Congressman Bill
Janklow(R-SD) Convicted and jailed for killing a man with his car
after blowing through a stopsign at a high rate of speed.
Governors:
John Rowland(R-CT)Convicted and jailed for
graft, had work done on his house and some other bribe related
charges.
George Ryan(R-IL)
Under indictment for hiring practices.(I notice you had
Blagojevich--this one must have slipped your mind)
Executive:
Lewis Libby(R)-Assistant to the Vice President,
5 count indictment, perjury, false statements.
Karl Rove(R)-Assistant to the President,
currently under investigation.
Larry Franklin(R)-DOD employee, pleaded guilty
in espionage case.
Leandro
Aragoncillo-46, was a U.S. Marine most recently assigned to the
staff of Vice President Dick Cheney, arrested for spying in the
Whitehouse.
Kenneth
Tomlinson(R)-Former Head of CPB, under investigation.
Armstrong Williams(R)-Investigation revealed
that payments to him for propaganda efforts were illegal.
Etcetera:
New Hampshire-4 Republican operatives arrested
for election 2002 phone jamming scandal. # have pleaded guilty, one
is due for trial soon.
and
Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Don
Sherwood had a visit from the Washington police after a 29-year old
woman who was not the 64-year old congressman's wife called 911 and
complained that Sherwood had choked her. Sherwood said he had merely
been giving the woman a back rub. He is one of those
holier-than-thou family values conservatives.
and
Senate President Ben Stevens (R-AK)
Probed for
accepting consulting fees from oil services firm Veco. Subject to a
recall petition. Son of US Senate Pro Tem President Ted Stevens.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA)
Ethics probe for accepting salary from two mens fitness magazines
while governor, possible kickback from American Media publisher to
Schwarzenegger charity and silence money to a woman who had an
extramarital affair with Schwarzenegger. This probe may go criminal.
Rep. Randy "Duke"
Cunningham (R-CA)
Probed for bribery regarding
financial ties with and favors for defense firm MZM. Pleaded guilty
to tax evasion, conspiracy, Nov. 28, 2005.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)
Tied to Abramoff scandal on loan papers. Recipient of contributions
from Abramoff.
Gov. John
Rowland (R-CT)
Convicted, imprisoned 2004 for
accepting free renovations to his vacation cottage as well as
charter flights and vacations from a state contractor, and
defrauding the Internal Revenue Service by not paying taxes on the
free services.
Attorney
General Jane Brady (R-DE)
Accused of helping
MBNA Bank of Wilmington skirt campaign finance laws.
Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL)
Probed for campaign donations from MZM, Inc. in relation to Duke
Cunningham probe. Currently a US Senate candidate.
Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL)
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff. Probed for corporate ties
to Yang Enterprises, involved in over billing state of Florida.
Feeney was Jeb Bushs 1994 running mate for Lt. Gov.
Ralph Reed, candidate for Lt. Gov. (R-GA)
Probed for involvement in Abramoff, Kidan, DeLay Indian casino money
laundering.
Gov. Felix
Camacho (R-Guam)
Probed for ties to Abramoff and
demoting Acting US Attorney for Guam Frederick Black.
New Hawaii PAC and House GOP PAC (R-HI)
Campaign violations filed against a number of GOP candidates for the
state legislature and US House for skirting spending limits.
Dalton Tanonaka, former
Lt. gubernatorial and congressional candidate (R-HI)
Under FEC investigation for disguising and failing to report
campaign loans. Also investigated for possible illegal foreign
funding from Hong Kong and Japan.
State Rep. and House Minority Leader Galen Fox
(R-HI)
Convicted on federal charges of fondling
a woman on a Honolulu to Los Angeles commercial flight.
Rep. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House
(R-IL)
Probed for accepting money from Turkey.
Rep. Jerry Weller (R-IL)
Recipient of contributions from Abramoff. (Weller is also married to
the daughter of Guatemalan dictator and mass murderer [300,0000
Guatemalans] Efrain Rios Montt.)
Bob Kjellander, Republican National Treasurer
(R-IL)
Under Federal probe for steering
investment contracts to Illinois Teachers Retirement Fund.
State Rep. Lee Daniels (Elmhurst), Former House
Leader (R-IL)
Under Federal investigation for
misuse of state employees for political activity and state contract
kickbacks.
Gov. Mitch
Daniels (R-IN)
Under investigation for
soliciting campaign donations in return for INDOT (Indiana Dept. of
Transportation) contracts.
Thomas Sharp, INDOT Commissioner (R-IN)
Under
investigation for soliciting campaign donations in return for INDOT
(Indiana Dept. of Transportation) contracts.
Jim Kittle, GOP state chairman (R-IN)
Under investigation for soliciting campaign donations in return for
INDOT (Indiana Dept. of Transportation) contracts.
Rep. Chris Chocola (R-IN)
Received DeLay ARMPAC money. FEC investigating.
Adam Taff, 2004 congressional candidate, KS-3
(R-KS)
Indicted for campaign violations and wire
fraud.
Gov. Ernie Fletcher
(R-KY)
Criminal probe in a state employees merit
system scandal. Received contributions from DeLays ARMPAC, linked to
Abramoff.
Dan Druen,
Transportation Commissioner (R-KY)
Merit system
scandal, witness tampering. Indicted.
Bob Wilson, Deputy Personnel Secretary (R-KY)
Merit system scandal. Indicted
Darrell Brock, Chairman of Kentucky GOP (R-KY)
Merit system scandal. Indicted.
Basil Turbyfill, Personnel Adviser to KY Gov.
Ernie Fletcher (R-KY)
Merit system scandal.
Indicted.
Bill Nighbert,
Transportation Secretary (R-KY)
Merit system
scandal. Indicted.
Dick
Murgatroyd, Deputy Chief of Staff to KY Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R-KY)
Merit system scandal. Indicted.
Jim Adams, Deputy Transportation Secretary
(R-KY)
Merit system scandal. Indicted.
Cory Meadows, Executive Director,
Transportation Dept. (R-KY)
Merit system
scandal. Indicted.
Lloyd
Cress, Environmental Protection Commissioner (R-KY)
Probed in merit system scandal.
Dave Disponett (R-KY)
Indicted for violation of Kentucky civil service law.
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)
Linked to Abramoff in a case involving a Louisiana Indian tribe.
Joseph Steffen, aide to Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R-MD)
Resigned for starting a rumor campaign against
Baltimore Mayor Martin OMalley.
Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental
Affairs - controlled by Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)
Under ethics cloud for awarding a $10,000 contract to conservative
Boston Herald columnist to write columns supportive of Romneys
policies.
Lawrence Novak,
Vice Chair, state GOP (R-MA)
Arrested by FBI for
drug money laundering.
Mike
Cox, Attorney General (R-MI)
Failed to pursue
felony pollution charges against Graceland Fruit after a major
Department of Environmental Quality investigation.
Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI)
Investigated by House Erthics Committee for accepting campaign
contributions in return for her yes vote on the 2004 Medicare bill.
Rep. Roy Blunt, House Majority Leader (R-MO)
Investigated for trading illegal PAC money with DeLay through
Blunt's Rely on Your Beliefs Fund. Received Indian casino money from
tribes represented by Abramoff.
Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT)
Probed for links to Abramoff.
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE)
Received tainted money from DeLay. Refused to return it.
Rep. Jon Porter (R-NV)
Received $25,000 from DeLay's ARMPAC.
Sen. John Sununu (R-NH)
Probed for receipt of money from DeLay tainted PAC.
Rep. Jeb Bradley (R-NH)
Probed for receipt of money from DeLay tainted PAC.
Gene Chandler, State House Speaker (R-NH)
Campaign contributions violations.
James Tobin, Northeast political director
National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (R-NH)
Indicted, conspiracy, GOTV phone line jamming, Sununu 2002 campaign.
Chuck McGee, former Exec. Dir. New Hampshire
Republican Party (R-NH)
Pleaded guilty,
conspiracy, GOTV phone line jamming, Sununu 2002 campaign.
Allen Raymond, GOP Marketplace President (R-NH)
Pleaded guilty, conspiracy, GOTV phone line jamming, Sununu 2002
campaign.
Tom Wilson, GOP
State Chairman (R-NJ)
Probed for his firm
receiving $2.7 million from the Burlington County Bridge Commission.
Jeanine Pirro, Westchester County District
Attorney and US Senate candidate (R-NY)
Probed
for campaign donations from mobsters. Her husband served a year in
prison for tax evasion.
Gov. Froilan Tenorio (R-Northern Marianas Islands)
Grand Jury probe, ties to Abramoff.
Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC)
Probed for ownership of shady Russian bank whose other major
investor is a former KGB general. Recipient of contributions from
Abramoff.
Hayes Martin,
Treasurer of Charles Taylor's congressional campaign (R-NC)
Indicted, fraud and money laundering.
Gov. Bob Taft (R-OH)
Misuse
of state funds/ethics violations. Convicted, four first degree
misdemeanors, pleaded no contest (admission of guilt). $4000 fine
and public apology.Two Federal Grand Juries, one state Grand Jury
still investigating Taft.
Thomas Noe, Bush-Cheney 04 campaign chair, NW Ohio; Turnpike
Commissioner; University Regent (R-OH)
Misuse of
state funds for rare coin fund. Indicted by Federal grand jury,
arrested in Florida.
Bernadette Noe, Thomas Noes wife, Chairman of Lucas County GOP;
Chairman of Lucas Co. Board of Elections (R-OH)
Misuse of state funds.
Brian Hicks, Chief of Staff to Gov. Bob Taft, member Ohio University
Board of Trustees (R-OH)
Convicted for an ethics
violation dealing with his stay at Tom Noe's home in Florida.
Cherie Carroll, Chief of Staff Executive
Secretary to Gov. Bob Taft (R-OH)
Convicted for
accepting the payment of meals at "fine dining establishments"
valued at over $500 from Tom Noe while he was doing business with
Ohio.
Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH)
Being probed for involvement with Abramoff, Kidan, and DeLay, Indian
casino money laundering. Recipient of contributions from Abramoff
and Kidan. Indictment may be imminent.
Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH)
Probe of financial ties to Games, Inc., and proposal to put Ohio
State Lottery on the Internet. Received contributions from DeLays
ARMPAC, linked to Abramoff.
Douglas Moormann, Gov. Taft's Executive
Assistant for Business and Industry (R-OH)
Under
criminal investigation for accepting loan from Noe.
State Rep. Dan Doyle (R-OR)
Convicted for misuse of campaign funds.
Rep. Don Sherwood (R-PA)
Investigated by DC police for assaulting and choking a 29-year old
Maryland woman. Sherwood, who is married and campaigned for office
on "family values", also has been sued by the woman, who claims he
attacked and choked her in their love nest. Sherwood defended
himself by stating that he wasn't trying to choke her - he was just
trying to give her a back rub.
Mike Battles, House candidate in 2002 (R-RI)
Firm, Custer Battles, disbarred from Iraq contracts following
allegations of overcharging and money laundering.
Vincent Cianci, Mayor of Providence (R-RI)
Convicted in 2002 and sentenced to 5 years in prison for conspiracy
related to Federal charges of racketeering, extortion, witness
tampering, and mail fraud. Also resigned from office in 1984 after
being convicted of assaulting a man with a lit cigarette, an ashtray
and a fireplace log.
Rep.
Bill Janklow (R-SD)
Convicted of second degree
manslaughter and imprisoned for running a stop sign at a rural
intersection near Trent, SD and hitting motorcyclist Randolph E.
Scott, killing him. Recipient of contributions from Abramoff.
Sen. Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader (R-TN)
Under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
for insider trading on his Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)
stock
Rep. Tom DeLay, House
Majority Leader (R-TX)
Probed for campaign
finance fraud, ties to Abramoff/Kidan, Saipan sweat shops. Grand
Jury, Travis County prosecutor, and House Ethics Committee probing
DeLay. Indicted by Travis County District Attorney for 1 count of
criminal conspiracy and 2 counts of money laundering. Arrested and
booked at Harris County jail October 20, 2005. Recipient of
contributions from Abramoff.
Jim Ellis, Director Americans for a Republican
Majority (ARMPAC) PAC (R-TX)
Tied to DeLay and
Abramoff, indicted.
John
Colyandro, Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC), DeLay
associate (R-TX)
Indicted.
Warren RoBold, Lobbyist and DeLay associate
(R-TX)
Indicted.
State House Speaker Tom Craddick (R-TX)
Probed for campaign violations involving TRMPAC and DeLay.
State Rep. Todd Baxter (R-TX)
Investigated for receiving ARMPAC and TRMPAC money from Republican
National Committee. To resign from office.
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX)
Recipient of $10,000 from ARMPAC in 2003. Arrested for DWI in South
Dakota.
Spokane Mayor Jim
West (R-WA)
Under Federal and state
investigation for abusing his office to obtain sexual favors and
soliciting sex over the Internet from underage males.
OTHER REPUBLICANS ACCUSED OF RECENT WRONGDOING
(mostly in Washington, DC area):
Jack Abramoff, GOP lobbyist Adam Kidan, DC
Dial-a-Mattress franchise in DC and Abramoff associate
Indicted for wire fraud, conspiracy Indicted, wire fraud,
conspiracy.
Michael
Scanlon, former chief of staff to Tom DeLay
Being probed for involvement in Indian casino scandal with Abramoff,
Kidan, and DeLay. Indicted Nov. 18, 2005 for conspiracy to defraud
Indian tribes. Pleaded guilty Nov. 21.
Steve Rosen, American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC)
Indicted for criminal
conspiracy involving classified national security information.
Keith Weismann, AIPAC
Indicted for criminal conspiracy involving classified national
security information.
Larry
Franklin, Colonel, USAF Reserves, Dept. of Defense
Indicted for criminal conspiracy involving classified national
security information.
Republican Congressman
Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after "sexually explicit"
emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy.
Republican executive
Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times newspaper was
arrested for soliciting sex from a 13-year old girl on the internet.
Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian
Coalition Lou Beres confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd
was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year old girl.
Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas,
constable.
Republican
judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old
girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was
arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.
Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall
pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of
them the daughter of an associate in the petition business.
Republican County Chairman
Armando Tebano was arrested for sexually molesting a 14-year-old
girl.
Republican teacher
and former city councilman John Collins pleaded guilty to sexually
molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.
Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker
is a convicted child molester.
Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a
37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and
10-year old girls.
Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child
pornography over the internet.
Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on
charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.
Republican County
Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls
under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Republican legislator
Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for
raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
Republican Committeeman
John R. Curtain was charged with molesting a teenage boy and
unlawful sexual contact with a minor.
Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott
Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
Republican zoning
supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L.
Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old
girl he murdered.
Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to
possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty
to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.
Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge
was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs
of a 15-year old girl.
Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond
had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
Republican pastor Mike
Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential
campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair
with a female juvenile.
Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an
inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
Republican advertising
consultant Carey Lee Cramer was sentenced to six years in prison for
molesting two 8-year old girls, one of whom appeared in an anti-Gore
television commercial.
Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex
parties at the White House during the 1980s.
Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized
child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
Republican Congressman
Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female
minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was
found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to
pose for sexual photos.
Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex
crimes involving children.
Republican campaign chairman Randal David
Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child and
was arrested again five years later on the same charge.
Republican Congressman Dan
Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.
Republican activist and
Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous
relationship with his step daughter.
Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline was placed
under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child
pornography.
Republican
congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with
having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
Republican Committee
Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of
a 5-year-old girl being raped.
Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a.
"Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on
four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and
one count of delivering the drug LSD.
Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks
was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child
pornography.
Republican
Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his
12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the
allegations were reported in the media.
Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded
a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering
$20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded
guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.
Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch"
Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an
8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from
adopting her.
Republican
Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his
daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
Republican election board
official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for
soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.
Republican politician
Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with
a 13-year old boy.
Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven
felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the
age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).
Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen
Burt was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.
Republican County
Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.
Republican activist John Butler was charged
with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted
to molesting his two daughters.
Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W.
Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County
Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual
contact and assault on a teenage boy.
Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer,
Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served
6-months in prison.
Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of
child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30
months in federal prison and fined $18,000.
Republican parole board officer and former
Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after
child pornography was found in his possession.
Republican strategist and Citadel Military
College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five
counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.
Republican city councilman
Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church
goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old
girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew
his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that
he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his
daughter.
Republican
campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed reverend Steve
Aiken was convicted of having sex with two underage girls.
Republican director of the
"Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year
old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Republican president of
the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded
guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.
Republican benefactor of
conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was found
guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with
grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police
that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex
with a large number of young women.
Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to
humiliate their parents into providing information about the
anti-American insurgency. See excerpt of one prisoner's report here
and his full report here