Friday, December 9, 2011
Guv'ment Deal hasn't dodged the feds after all, sez watchdog
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:38 PM
Specifically, according to a memo from the state Inspector General's office, the feds are "investigating two different things involving Governor Deal involving tax records and financial dealings with loans."
As Walls reminds us, a federal grand jury last year issued a subpoena to learn more about "a private conversation between Deal and state Revenue Commissioner Bart Graham as they met to discuss the [then-congressman's] business’ exclusive arrangement to host state inspections of salvaged trucks and automobiles."
Many cynics, including this writer, were all but convinced that Deal stepped down from his U.S. House seat in March 2010 in order to derail a federal ethics investigation into his sweetheart, non-competitive contact with the state worth $150,000 a year to his auto salvage bidness. Since he needed another paycheck, he ran for governor — a position which, not coincidentally, would offer him considerably more shielding against future prosecution than being a broke-ass private citizen like everyone else.
At any rate, it's reassuring to think that a guy isn't above the law just because gets hisself elected governor. (Even if the state's ethics investigators are mysteriously sacked just as they're looking into his shenanigans.)
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"At any rate, it's reassuring to think that a guy isn't above the law just because gets hisself elected governor. "
hisself? is that even a word?
Thanks for the heads-up, Smart-A. What I meant to say was "just because HE gets hisself elected governor." Yes, hisself is indeed a word in certain parts of the Ozarks and much of West Virginie.
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