Archive for the ‘BonusGate’ Category
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Brett Cott Bonus Gate - Dauphin County Judge Richard A. Lewis refused to reduce the sentence of 21 to 60 months he handed down last month to Brett Cott, a former legislative aide convicted in the government corruption scheme known as Bonusgate. Judge Lewis stood by his sentence, saying Mr. ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
York County’s Steve Stetler, Democratic State Representative from 1991 to 2006 and former Pennsylvania Secretary of Revnue (November 2009, confirmed unanimously by Pennsylvania Senate on March 31, 2009 and resigned December19, 2009) is held for trial on public corruption charges after two ex-staffers testified they were paid with taxpayer money ...
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Tom Corbett’s most dramatic and most important policy is his “NO NEW TAXES” pledge.
As Pennsylvania heads, like the Titanic, which did sink, heads toward the iceberg bankruptcy and lower standard of living, as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has demonstrated, ONLY a reduction in spending (including Pension Reform and cap ...
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
Bonusgate Update: another Democrat goes to jail
Outside the courtroom in the Dauphin County courthouse at the start of the trial in February, Mike Veon (right) shakes the hand of his former Capitol aide Brett Cott (left).
May 21, 2010 Citing a "clear violation of the public trust," Dauphin County judge Richard ...
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Republican State Representative John Perzel and nine other Republicans are accused by state prosecutors of directing a $10 million scheme to use state money for sophisticated computer projects designed to help Republicans in elections. Below I summary of testimony of four Commonwealth witnesses , William Tomaselli, John Haines, Sue Cornell ...
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