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BREAKING: Tom Marino (R-PA) resigning from Congress (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jan 2019
OP
Zero power for GOP in the house, means little corporate lobbyist attention
beachbum bob
Jan 2019
#15
SoFlaDem
(98 posts)1. Tired of all the winning, I suppose...
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)2. Good Riddance!
albacore
(2,399 posts)3. Dirty... I wonder what will come out now that he's leaving....
Response to brooklynite (Original post)
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)5. Just sworn in, now resigning. WTF?
More time with the family? The usual bullshit republican lie before the crimes are revealed.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)6. Corrupt asshole is probably taking a job with Big Pharma
allgood33
(1,584 posts)7. So rather than switch, they resign? OK
Who gets to name the replacement????
LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)8. The wrong people.
dsc
(52,162 posts)12. special election
so the people of his district.
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)9. Dirty POS
A cheat sheet to the investigation that cost Rep. Tom Marino the nomination to be drug czar
Marino wrote the pro-drug industry law that ultimately passed. He spent years pushing versions of it through Congress. He argued that it cracks down on an overly aggressive DEA and protects drug companies from any unfair or misguided use of federal power. His critics, which included prominent DEA officials, said it would gut their ability to stop potentially dangerous opioid shipments from reaching the streets.
Marino has clear ties to the drug industry. He received nearly $100,000 in campaign contributions from political action committees supporting the industry. And an email from a Justice Department official says that the Marino bill was written by a former top DEA lawyer. (The revolving door is busy between government regulators and the drug industry.) That former DEA lawyer testified in Congress in favor of the legislation that officials believe he wrote.
Marino asked for (and got) an investigation of a DEA investigator standing in his way. In 2014, Marino staff members met with DEA investigator Joseph T. Rannazzisi to understand why he was so adamantly opposed to their bill. In that meeting, they say Rannazzisi accused them of trying to support criminals. A month later, Marino and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) asked a government watchdog to investigate Rannazzisi's rhetoric about them, accusing him in turn of trying to intimidate Congress. Rannazzisi denies their accusations and says the investigation is why he retired after 30 years in drug enforcement. It destroyed me, the told The Post.
He didn't cooperate with the reporters working on the investigation. As The Post and the 60 Minutes team were trying to report this, they went to Capitol Hill to try to talk to Marino, the bill's sponsor. Marino's staff called Capitol Police as the reporters tried to interview him at his office. This is remarkable, given that reporters routinely swarm lawmakers in Congress.
Marino has clear ties to the drug industry. He received nearly $100,000 in campaign contributions from political action committees supporting the industry. And an email from a Justice Department official says that the Marino bill was written by a former top DEA lawyer. (The revolving door is busy between government regulators and the drug industry.) That former DEA lawyer testified in Congress in favor of the legislation that officials believe he wrote.
Marino asked for (and got) an investigation of a DEA investigator standing in his way. In 2014, Marino staff members met with DEA investigator Joseph T. Rannazzisi to understand why he was so adamantly opposed to their bill. In that meeting, they say Rannazzisi accused them of trying to support criminals. A month later, Marino and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) asked a government watchdog to investigate Rannazzisi's rhetoric about them, accusing him in turn of trying to intimidate Congress. Rannazzisi denies their accusations and says the investigation is why he retired after 30 years in drug enforcement. It destroyed me, the told The Post.
He didn't cooperate with the reporters working on the investigation. As The Post and the 60 Minutes team were trying to report this, they went to Capitol Hill to try to talk to Marino, the bill's sponsor. Marino's staff called Capitol Police as the reporters tried to interview him at his office. This is remarkable, given that reporters routinely swarm lawmakers in Congress.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)10. He's passing the baton to Marsha Blackburn in the Senate
Recursion
(56,582 posts)11. The Sackler papers coming home to roost
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)17. Yep.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)15. Zero power for GOP in the house, means little corporate lobbyist attention
so why not leave and make money?
Volaris
(10,272 posts)16. When he cashed the check, he must have fuckered it all up and asked for it in rubles...
Vinca
(50,278 posts)18. Dead boy or live girl?
akraven
(1,975 posts)19. Dropping like.............