US Congressman charged with corruption

[sdifox]

Henry Cuellar: US congressman and wife charged with taking $600,000 in bribes

It is alleged the couple accepted money from an Azerbaijani government-run oil firm and a Mexican bank.

www.bbc.com

Texas elected a Democratic congressman?

Also, was he paid in cans of crab meat?

 

[Leeea]

Henry Cuellar: US congressman and wife charged with taking $600,000 in bribes

It is alleged the couple accepted money from an Azerbaijani government-run oil firm and a Mexican bank.

www.bbc.com

Texas elected a Democratic congressman?

Gerrymandering.

after fair and due process, lock him up if guilty.

corruption is a filthy stain that should not be allowed to take over the democratic party as it has the republican party.

 

[BoomerD]

Gerrymandering.

after fair and due process, lock him up if guilty.

corruption is a filthy stain that should not be allowed to take over the democratic party as it has the republican party.

I don't care what the party affiliation is...if he's found guilty, lock him up...or execute him.

 

[iRONic]

Execute?!

Care to share the previous corruption indictments, convictions, or actual sentences of death for those crimes.

 

[Ajay]

News: corrupt politician
Also news: cats have paws

 

[Dave_5k]

Unfortunately, the supreme court has ruled that bribery is almost always legal (well, at least for Republicans in prior cases...), even if they get a conviction I'd see the Supreme Court reversing on appeal if they follow their own precedent. Absent a recording of a confession basically stating "thank you for your bribe, my vote on your bill is now assured" which is essentially the standard now required, based on the court's prior rulings.

 

[cytg111]

Fool should have paid his 10% bribery fee to Clarence.

 

[BoomerD]

Execute?!

Care to share the previous corruption indictments, convictions, or actual sentences of death for those crimes.

And there's the problem. They think that IF they get caught, they'll get a slap on the wrist.
Git a rope.

 

[brycejones]

Execute?!

Care to share the previous corruption indictments, convictions, or actual sentences of death for those crimes.

Boomers idea of “justice” is more than a bit Old Testament.

 

[BoomerD]

Boomers idea of “justice” is more than a bit Old Testament.

Indeed...

 

[SteveGrabowski]

And that's my congressional representative, I live in TX-28. I hate Cuellar, he's the most right wing member of a center right Democratic party. We had a great candidate in the primary in 2022 in Jessica Cisneros but fucking Pelosi and Clyburn had to campaign for him to just barely push him over the finish line by 289 votes in the primary runoff, and now that seat has a great chance of flipping red when we're stuck with this corrupt pos on our ballots in the general. Also this primary runoff was after he had his home and office raided by the FBI because of these alleged bribes, it's not like this charge is any surprise.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Gerrymandering.

after fair and due process, lock him up if guilty.

corruption is a filthy stain that should not be allowed to take over the democratic party as it has the republican party.

The 2016-20 map was the really badly gerrymandered one. My house was part of TX-35 in that map where the state of Texas tried to peel off some of Cuellar's TX-28 base to lump in with Lloyd Doggett's Austin base to run up the score there while trying to take TX-28 for the GOP. That former TX-35 district basically followed I-35 down from Austin to eastside San Antonio.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1282333523999850496

 

[mikeymikec]

And there's the problem. They think that IF they get caught, they'll get a slap on the wrist.
Git a rope.

I agree to some extent, but I think the better question is to ask what a politician fears the most in their life. I think the answer is commonly probably along the lines of being shunned in the circles of the strongly influential and therefore no more chance of ascending the slippery ladder of politics. How to translate that into a punishment is tricky especially since what passes for a crime beyond the political pale / that part of society keeps shifting.

 

[HomerJS]

If Texas remains consistent HC won’t see court for at least 7 years just like Ken Paxton, right?

Equal treatment for the same crime right? So he can continue to do his job for that period of time right?

Much as I know the right already are corrupt and accept corruption in their midst Dems in this case need to take the high ground and he needs to get his day in court. Dems need to show corruption must not be tolerated.

 

[Stokely]

Hell man. I guess it's too much to ask that we have non-corrupt politicians. Lock this turd up if he's guilty, and do the same to Menendez.

You'll never see GOP supporters saying that about their team. I must admit, having no qualms about supporting criminals does help their side win elections, more's the pity.

 

[hal2kilo]

Henry Cuellar: US congressman and wife charged with taking $600,000 in bribes

It is alleged the couple accepted money from an Azerbaijani government-run oil firm and a Mexican bank.

www.bbc.com

Texas elected a Democratic congressman?

Also, was he paid in cans of crab meat?

And about the only anti-abortion Dem candidate.

 

[Thump553]

Unfortunately, the supreme court has ruled that bribery is almost always legal (well, at least for Republicans in prior cases...), even if they get a conviction I'd see the Supreme Court reversing on appeal if they follow their own precedent. Absent a recording of a confession basically stating "thank you for your bribe, my vote on your bill is now assured" which is essentially the standard now required, based on the court's prior rulings.

I have absolute confidence that this Supreme Court's will be able to distinguish between Democratic and GOP corruption and always uphold any conviction of a Democrat.