Feds Sue Larry Craig Over Bathroom Sex Sting Defense Cash

[kpete]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Federal campaign regulators brought the hammer down on disgraced former Sen. Larry Craig on Monday, accusing him of misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign cash to pay for his legal defense following an arrest in a Minneapolis airport bathroom sex sting.

The Federal Election Commission filed a federal lawsuit against Craig, who now works as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., asking a judge to order the former lawmaker to pay back his campaign committee more than $200,000 and stop him from raiding the committee for his own personal use.

Craig did not return a message left at his lobbying firm.

The case stems from the Idaho Republican’s embarrassing 2007 arrest by an undercover cop in a Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport bathroom stall. The cop said Craig made sexual advances toward him by tapping his feet under the stall divider.

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[AnotherMcIntosh]

1. Wrong Feds. Just the FEC. The IRS is different. Someone please turn him.

See, e.g., Patrick J. Fitzgerald's indictment of William Beavers for tax fraud in connection with diverting contributions made for politicial purposes for personal use.
http://www.justice.gov/usao/iln/pr/chicago/2012/pr0223_01.pdf

[Skittles]

2. .

I still can't believe someone was arrested for tapping his feet under a stall divider

[awoke_in_2003]

3. about time...

they stop tip toeing about this

[DarthDem]

4. Excellent

Good to see the FEC taking a wide stance on this.

[47of74]

5. Ah, Tappy McWidestance

I always enjoy hearing about his misadventures.

[Major Hogwash]

6. Hahaha hahahaha hahahaha!!!!

This is hilarious ----
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=n-h4KhkSEKg

[underpants]

7. His legal stance will be wide and he will try the old stall technique

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. +100

[Bozita]

8. Getcher real, genuine, authentic Sen. Larry Craig bobblefoot right here...

[rocktivity]

9. Let's spin that oldie but goodie "Tap Three Times With Your Loafer If You Want Me"

rocktivity

[wordpix]

10. good one

[66 dmhlt]

11. Ronald Raygun: "Mr. Craig, tear down this stall."

[meow2u3]

12. DUzy

[JNelson6563]

13. This whole thread is a DUzy!

To the DU humorists!

[AlbertCat]

14. The best is still....

.... his 1st words of his "I'm not gay" press conference, with wife at his side:

"Thank you all for coming out today...."


As Rachel Maddow kept saying "Just stop Larry. Just shut up. Stop talking....."

[rocktivity]

15. And the winner of the best outsourced snark award was Brit Hume

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"I'm six feet seven, and MY stance isn't so wide that my foot goes into the next stall!"


rocktivity

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

16. "Who's Larry Craig?"

"I don't know who that is......never heard of him.......LOOK, OVER THERE! ANTHONY WEINER!!!"