http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=283_vaYVwmo DID ALEX SINK CUT 8,000 FLORIDA BANK JOBS? PLEASE NOTE THAT THE BANKING EXCESSES HAVE CRASHED THE ECONOMY. WRECKING THE BANKS AND HOME LOANS BY DEMOCRATS Corrine Brown, Harry Reid, Laura Richardson, Chris Dodd, Harry Reid. - Corrine Brown - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia --
A few weeks after (Corrine Brown) becoming a member of the U.S. House in 1993, the Federal Elections Commission began investigating Corrine Brown.
Rep. Corrine Brown's former campaign treasurer quit and said Corrine Brown had neglected to take action against an aide who had committed forgery, forging the treasurer's signature on Corrine Brown's financial documents.
The staffer alleged to have forged the treasurer's signature stayed with Brown and as of 1998 was her chief of staff.[10] In 1996, there was another investigation concerning charges that Brown improperly received and spent a $10,000 check from a secret account used for money laundering by National Baptist Convention leader Henry Lyons.[5] Brown admitted receiving the check but denied she had used the money improperly.[5] She was accused of not reporting the check or reporting who she received the money from. Brown said that she had taken the check and converted it into another check made out to Pameron Bus Tours to pay for transportation to a rally she organized in Tallahassee. She said that she didn't have to report the money because the rally was to protest the reorganization of her district lines, and she did not use it for herself.[5] If the $10,000 gift had been reported, it would have exceeded the $1,000 individual donation limit.[5]
Corrine Brown had had previous dealings with Lyons; in 1992, her campaign paid $5,000, allegedly for a computer, to a company owned by Lyons. The company had shut down six years earlier.[10] Her office once arranged for Lyons to buy several airline tickets at the government discount rate.[10] Under Congressional rules, only members of Congress and their staffers are allowed to take this rate.[10]
On February 25, 2004 Corrine Brown referred to the George W. Bush administration as a "racist" "bunch of white men" in a meeting with senior State Department officials and members of Congress.[12] Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega, a Mexican American, said that he deeply resented "being called a racist and branded a white man."
Corrine Brown replied to Noriega and Cuban-American Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart that "you all look alike to me".[citation needed]
Corrine Brown later apologized for her statements, but still contends that President Bush's involvement in the 2004 Haiti Rebellion was racist.[citation needed] On November 3, 2008, while attending a Barack Obama rally in Jacksonville, Corrine Brown was interviewed by two college journalists about her comments concerning George W. Bush, and whether he should be impeached.
Corrine Brown had no comment about her previous statements and was quoted as saying, "it won't matter soon."[citation needed]
On June 9, 1998, the Congressional Accountability Project filed an ethics complaint against Brown. The Project called for the U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to investigate several violations of House Rule 10.[13] One of the complaints was that Corrine Brown's daughter Shantrel, a lawyer who worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, had received a $50,000 Lexus LS 400 automobile as a gift from an agent of a Gambian millionaire named Foutanga Sissoko. Sissoko, a friend of Congresswoman Brown, had been imprisoned in Miami after pleading guilty to charges of bribing a customs officer.
Corrine Brown had worked to secure his release, pressuring U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno to deport Sissoko back to his homeland as an alternative to continued incarceration. The Project held this violated the House gift rule, but Corrine Brown denied she had acted improperly.
The congressional subcommittee investigating Corrine Brown found insufficient evidence to issue a Statement of Alleged Violation, but said Corrine Brown had acted with poor judgment in connection with Sissoko.[5][14]
In June 2007, Citizens for Ethics released a report reporting Corrine Brown's daughter Shantrel Brown-Fields as a congressional lobbyist; the organization maintains that Congressional relatives working as lobbyists for special interests are a conflict of interest for lawmakers. Brown-Fields is employed by Alcalde & Fayte, with clients including ITERA, Miami-Dade County Commission, and Edward Waters College. In 2006, Corrine Brown's campaign committee paid her daughter's husband, Tyree Fields, $5,500 for political consulting work. Rep. Brown has earmarked millions of dollars in federal funding for her daughter's client Edward Waters College.[15]
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