Rep. Mollohan Admits Errors in Disclosure

[Eugene]

Rep. Mollohan Admits Errors in Disclosure
Former Ethics Panelist Amends Forms

By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 14, 2006; Page A06

Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-W.Va.), under federal investigation for blending his commercial
investments with his duties as a congressional appropriator, acknowledged yesterday
that he misstated more than a dozen transactions on his financial disclosure forms.

The 12-term lawmaker said he recently discovered "a limited number of inadvertent errors"
in his public reports from 1999 through 2004. He said he has amended those forms "to correct
any inaccurate impressions about my finances." He also released a chronology to explain
how his assets grew from no more than $565,000 in 2000 to at least $6.3 million in 2004,
primarily through heavily leveraged real estate transactions.

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Mollohan strongly denied any wrongdoing. "NLPC is dead wrong in implying that I have
improperly benefited from my office," Mollohan said yesterday.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/13/AR2006061301469.html

Also: Lawmaker says wealth from investment, not cronyism - Reuters

[Syrinx]

1. If he's crooked, fry him (figuratively speaking, of course)

But it seems that the GOP-media are desperately trying to make the "culture of corruption" a bipartisan affair, which it is definitely not.

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[gratuitous]

9. Abramoff never gave a dime to Democrats

We've knocked this one down before. You might want to check the facts before making unsubstantiated claims about where Jack Abramoff's bribes went.

And there's no equivalency, as hard as some folks are wishing there was, between a state boxing commission providing no cash value entrance to one of its events to a Senator who wound up voting against the commission's interests and the profligate corruption of Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Dennis Hastert, Tom DeLay, Dick Cheney, Bill Frist, and other too numerous to name.

See ya.

[necso]

2. The neocons are going to do

everything possible to dig up, or make up, dirt on Dems (and so the neocons have been doing, I suspect) -- so as to obscure the issue of systemic neocon corruption (as opposed to the occassional bad apple in our basket -- no judgement intended in this case, or any other that comes to mind), and make it seem like both parties are the same in this (or that we are even worse -- neocons have no scruples or shame: these are impedimenta to them).

Too bad we don't have similar tools (like the federal government) to use on them.

It's going to be continuous battle between now and November. Too bad the corporate-media largely falls within the sway of neocon corruption and control.

...

"Then we will fight in the shade."

Another version is: "We fight better in the shade."

In any event, since who knows, the message is defiance in the face of all odds.

[lumpy]

3. Former ethics committee member

making such huge "errors" on his financial disclosure forms should be aware of the ramifications of such "errors'. It appears he isn't qualified to be sitting in the House if he dosn't have enough brains to cover his reporting "errors". Nothing would surprize me in this day and age of dog-eat-dog greed, Republican or Democrat.

[WildClarySage]

4. There's corruption and then there's corruption.

Mollohan has brought a LOT of funding to special projects that benefit West Virginia, and his non-profit pjojects are very worthy endeavors. I bet if you look seriously into the disclosures and tax forms of most people who file more than a 1040 (and even those) you'll find errors. The codes are so complicated that even experts have difficulty. Until the errors are shown to indicate fraud, I'll have no problem voting for him.

Even if Mollohan has indeed benefitted from his position, it's certainly nowhere near the degree to which republicans have abused their power and constituencies.

[3rdPartyVoter]

6. Why would Mollohan do his own taxes anyway?

With as much money as he has and as high profile as he is, hire a professional.

[WildClarySage]

10. I assumed that Mollohan had hired a CPA, and that they made the errors.

As complex as it is, even the professionals can make errors, and I doubt any of them were more than that or we'd have had a blow-by-blow description of how deceitful and corrupt each mistake shows Mollohan to be.

[rodeodance]

7. damm. the culture of corruption is bleeding to the Dems.

[Rose Siding]

8. How is he corrupt?