Republicans need go no further than attacking the earmarks of Congressman
Alan Mollohan (D-W. Va.), who's currently under federal investigation.
Until the FBI started looking at him, Mollohan was the ranking
Democrat on the House Ethics Committee! (Is it any wonder why
Congressional
approval now stands at 23 percent in the polls?)
Mollohan has a cute racket going. He gets earmarks inserted into spending
bills for non-profit organizations in his home state some of which he
helped to set up and then he goes into real estate deals with the heads
of
these same organizations and makes a killing.
For example, Mollohan got $30 million of tax money since 1999 for the
Vandalia Heritage Foundation, which redevelops dilapidated buildings.
Then,
he and his wife bought five empty lots on Bald Head Island, N.C. worth
$2
million with Laura Kurtz Kuhns, the head of the Vandalia Heritage
Foundation, and her husband!
He pulled the same trick by buying a farm for $900,000 with
Dale R. McBride as his partner after getting McBride's company,
FMW Composite Systems, $4.4 million in earmarks to make equipment
for NASA and the Marine Corps.
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