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FBI investigation count as of this morning

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The FBI has been a roll against politicians lately. Here's the roll call of national figures under investigation, indicted, or convicted of federal crimes this year:

Democrats

  1. Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar
  2. Presidential son Hunter Biden
  3. New Jersey senator Robert Menendez
  4. New York mayor Eric Adams
  5. Oakland mayor Sheng Thao
  6. Missouri Rep. Cori Bush

Republicans

  1. Former president Donald Trump
  2. Tennessee Rep. Andrew Ogles
  3. New York Rep. George Santos

Who am I missing?

38 thoughts on “FBI investigation count as of this morning”

  2. aldoushickman

    I'll note that "presidential son" is not a position of authority in either the government or the Democratic party.

    I totally get that the overwhelming reason why Hunter is being prosecuted instead of plea-dealed is because he is a presidential son and various folks on the right want to see the words "Biden" and "criminal trial" as close together and as frequently as possible, but it's buying into the "Biden crime family" narrative to put Hunter in the same list as members of Congress and mayors of big cities.

  3. Solarpup

    Missouri Rep. Cori Bush -- my soon to be former representative. Ostensibly taken down by AIPAC in the primary, but honestly, she did a pretty good job of taking herself down without their help.

  5. cld

    Looks like they're on a roll against politicians of one certain political party, but the party whose purpose is to make corruption legal seems to be their kind of people.

      1. aldoushickman

        or it could just be the statistics of small numbers. Flip a coin just 8 times, and it's pretty likely that you won't get precisely 4 heads and 4 tails.

  7. emjayay

    I live in Brooklyn. The Eric Adams stuff is blowing up right this second on WNYC (NPR) and elsewhere. He used to be a Republican though. He has always been corrupt or corruption adjacent going back decades. He's trying to hang on and rather Trumply is claiming it's payback from the feds for complaining about federal immigration policy.

    Probably won't last long though. Most of his buddies/relatives/spouses/girlfriends/young woman fundraiser making a couple hundred thou at the top of his administration have already quit.

    If anyone wants to join in the fun or check it out later go to the Gothamist website (now owned by WNYC) or the WNYC website. Check segments of the Brian Lehrer show.

    1. bethby30

      I suspected Adams was a crackpot from his bombast and macho swagger. I was convinced when he openly denounced separation of church and state. Apparently this is his idea of the “godlike” approach to governing he vowed to use.

        1. Five Parrots in a Shoe

          I get your line of thinking: prosecutors in many, many jurisdictions ignore police corruption and often actively protect police from accountability. Google "Anita Alvarez" and see the canonical example of this.

          But the DOJ is a different kettle of fish. They, through the FBI, are one of the few institutions in the US who do actually arrest crooked cops on a regular basis. So no, absent specific evidence I would not say Garland is corrupt.

  9. johngreenberg

    As someone else noted, you missed Matt Gaetz. How about Rudi Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and various other indicted and undicted co-conspirators along with Trump?

  10. zic

    Andy Ogles of TN had his phone taken back in August by the FBI; alleged campaign violations. (What's up with all those corrupt TN legislators?)

    Henry Mueller of TX was charged with bribery

      1. zic

        In looking Ogles up, lots of TN corruption cases popped up, I did not bother to list them, but you, too, can use your googlefoo and find out why I might have made such a damning off-the-cuff observation.

        But yeah, both sides do it. Does that make you feel better?

        1. deathawaits

          What "sides" are you talking about?

          Stop picking on the mediocre state of Tennessee is all. I mean Minnesota elected Ventura to governor, our wrastler is just a county mayor.

          1. zic

            I'm not picking, I'm wondering. (But I do like guitar picking, Chet Atkins style, please. Even better, some picking from another fellow Mainer, Lenny Breau.)

  11. KJK

    I really don't understand all the fuss around what Mayor Adams allegedly did. Luxury vacations from his foreign friends that he didn't properly disclose? Secret campaign contributions from foreign nationals? It all sounds quite familiar and business as usual in the MAGA world.

    Didn't Trump received $ millions worth of campaign assistance in 2016 from the FSB? And the contributions Russia made are still paying off handsomely, with Agent Orange likely to exceed Neville Chamberlain's appeasement agreement when he kicks Ukraine to the gutter if elected (at least Chamberlain bought time for the UK to prepare).

    Didn't good old Clarence receive tons of luxury travel gifts and an outright $267,000 payment (loan forgiveness) from his wealthy friends, most of which was not properly reported. And he just keeps delivering with his votes and inane SCOTUS opinions.

    1. Joseph Harbin

      The indictment comes out of the Southern District, the same office that forced James Comey to reopen the investigation of Hillary Clinton in October 2016. It was clear then that the new emails were copies of emails that had already been thoroughly investigated, and there was likely no charges to come out of reopening the investigation, but it was quickly the biggest story since Watergate, and nonstop coverage for 11 days helped swing the election to Trump.

      The Southern District is as much a part of the prevailing Republican apparatus as Fox News and the Supreme Court. Adams is an arrogant and powerful Black man, and probably corrupt. I wouldn't dare to defend him. But the timing of the indictment is very suspicious. Six weeks before an election in which a powerful Black woman is slightly on track to win the presidency, the Southern District indicts this man? It doesn't seem related, but how convenient to have his mug on television every day, his story on the front page several days a week. It won't swing New York for Trump, but it might make a difference in other states, in the Midwest and elsewhere.

      You're right about the charges. Much in line with what Trump and Thomas et al. do all the time. In the never-ending information war, the right will use the Adams indictment to try to get the public to forget about rampant GOP corruption. We'll see how effective that is.

      Not sure the best path for Dems here. Maybe have Hochul remove Adams, take the story off the front page, and show that Dems take out their trash while Republicans elevate theirs.

      2. KJK

        I don't think this will impact the election, if anything, like the prosecution of Hunter and Menendez, shows that the DOJ also goes after Democrats. Hochul removing a black guy from office would not be a good look either. Most of the country assumes NYC is a corrupt cesspool of depravity anyway.

        My memory may be hazy (likely), but I thought it was the NYC FBI office that may have caused Comey's action, not the Southern District with Preet Bharara as its head at the time. Of course Hillary believing the polls, not campaigning in the rust belt, and assuming no one would vote for that orange shit stain after the Access Hollywood tapes didn't help either.

  12. deathawaits

    "Tennessee Rep. Cori Bush"

    Missouri not Tennessee. I realize people on the coast don't care about the flyover states, but Bush represents St. Louis, not Memphis.

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