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  1. The Right Coast

    The Bidens: “Stone Cold Crooked” (9) — When Can We Start Calling It What It Is, Namely Bribery? Manhattan Contrarian

    By Thomas A. Smith

    The Biden family corruption scandal gets deeper with every passing day. Speaker Kevin McCarthy finally opened an impeachment investigation in the House last week, and now the first hearing in…

  2. The Right Coast

    Why an Impeachment Inquiry – WSJ

    By Thomas A. Smith

    House Republicans are embroiled in an internal debate over the politics of launching an official impeachment inquiry to learn more about Joe Biden and his son Hunter s financial misdeeds.…

  3. The Right Coast

    Five Facts That Compel the House s Biden Impeachment Inquiry  – The Messenger

    By Thomas A. Smith

    With the commencement of an impeachment inquiry this week, the House of Representatives is moving the Biden corruption scandal into the highest level of constitutional inquiry. After stonewalling by the Bidens and…

  4. The Right Coast

    How a former El Cajon lawmaker came to face a week in jail – The San Diego Union-Tribune

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Six months after Bessmon Ben Kalasho scored a surprise win in his 2016 campaign for El Cajon City Council, the political newcomer was named in a lawsuit accusing him of…

  5. The Right Coast

    Everyone Knows Why Joe Biden Used A Pseudonym: Corruption

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Why would Biden use an alias to convey this information to his son? And why, if there was an absolute wall between Hunter s foreign business schemes and his father…

  6. Legal Profession Blog

    Lose Lose

    By Michael Frisch

    The New Jersey Supreme Court has held that a candidate who loses an election can nonetheless be convicted of briberyDefendant Jason O’Donnell was a candidate for mayor of Bayonne in…

  7. Legal Profession Blog

    Convicted Former CEO Suspended

    By Michael Frisch

    The Illinois Supreme Court has ordered the interim suspension of a recently-convicted attorney.From the Office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of IllinoisA federal jury has found…

  8. Administrative and Regulatory

    Former Ohio House speaker gets max federal prison sentence of 20 years for political corruption

    By Douglas Berman

    In this post last week, I flagged the interesting federal sentencing memos submitted in the notable case of political corruption involving Ohio's former House Speaker Larry Householder.  Back in March,…

  9. Sentencing Law and Policy

    Former Ohio House speaker gets max federal prison sentence of 20 years for political corruption

    By Douglas Berman

    In this post last week, I flagged the interesting federal sentencing memos submitted in the notable case of political corruption involving Ohio's former House Speaker Larry Householder.  Back in March,…

  10. The Right Coast

    Markwayne Mullin Will Totally Fight You – by Ben Domenech

    By Thomas A. Smith

    If you do manage to get Mullin talking, he has a lot to say. He s fed up with Washington and its ways. He thinks both parties are shot through…