Gay Obama officials, HRC named in ‘racketeering’ lawsuit

[Ian David]

Two gay Obama administration officials and the Human Rights Campaign were lumped in as defendants with former Bush administration operative Karl Rove and more than a dozen others in a federal racketeering lawsuit filed by anti-gay Bush official Scott Bloch.

The 64-page lawsuit, filed last week in Fairfax County Circuit Court, charges the defendants – including former GOP Congressman Tom Davis of Virginia – with conspiring to force Bloch out of his job as head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel through a trumped up criminal investigation, according to Courthouse News Service, which first broke the story.

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Bloch, who served as director of the Office of Special Counsel from 2004 to October 2008, pleaded guilty in April 2010 to a charge of contempt of Congress. The guilty plea followed a lengthy investigation that included an FBI raid on his office and home in May 2008.

The investigation stemmed from allegations that Bloch improperly sought to purge employees in his office who disagreed with him and later sought to cover up possible wrong-doing by hiring a computer services company to “scrub” files from his government office computer.

More:
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/05/06/gay-obama-officials-hrc-named-in-%E2%80%98racketeering%E2%80%99-lawsuit/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=story&utm_term=Washington+Blade&utm_campaign=Washington+Blade


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[The Magistrate]

1. Hard To Claim A Charge You Pled Guilty To, Sir, is Trumped-Up, At Least With Any Conviction....

[RetiredTrotskyite]

2. When In Doubt...

come up with a bullshit charge like this. And ROVE and his buddies are doing the charging?! What a JOKE!!!

[joeybee12]

3. Whenever someone asks you what a frivulous lawsuit is, point this out...nt