# DoJ indicts U.S. Congressman on corruption charges **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 30, 2015, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-indicts-u-s-congressman-on-corruption-charges/726556 "2015-07-30T04:04:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-indicts-u-s-congressman-on-corruption-charges/726556/1 "2015-07-30T04:04:47Z")
> **[Department of Justice indicts U.S. Congressman on corruption charges](https://wjla.com/news/crime/department-of-justice-indicts-us-congressman-on-corruption-charges-07-29-2015)** > > WASHINGTON WJLA -- A popular U.S. Congressman from Philadelphia has been indicted by the U.S. Justice Department on corruption charges. He is accused of misusing campaign funds and other monies for his own interests.This investigation has been going... The eleven-term Democratic Congressman from Philadelphia is standing firm, despite the 27 charges levied against him – for bribery, money laundering and wire fraud. Total, he faces up to 240 years in prison. Ho-hum - yet another corrupt politician. But two interesting points: 1. The guy is feisty - he even intends to run again for his seat in 2016. Incidentally, his district is where Democrats are going to have their convention. The optics are going to be fun. 2. Bribery, money laundering and wire fraud. You’d think the guy would be something other than dirt poor, right? Yet [rollcall.com](http://rollcall.com) lists him as 9th poorest member of Congress - with the net worth of -$700,000. That’s negative $700K. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-indicts-u-s-congressman-on-corruption-charges/726556/2 "2015-07-30T05:49:31Z")
He is possibly less adroit than the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-indicts-u-s-congressman-on-corruption-charges/726556/3 "2015-07-30T06:49:29Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > You’d think the guy would be something other than dirt poor, right? Yet [rollcall.com](http://rollcall.com) lists him as 9th poorest member of Congress - with the net worth of -$700,000. That’s negative $700K. Hey, if he was a smart criminal, he would have made more money _and_ not got caught. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-indicts-u-s-congressman-on-corruption-charges/726556/4 "2015-07-30T17:08:48Z")
Crime doesn’t pay. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-indicts-u-s-congressman-on-corruption-charges/726556/5 "2015-07-30T17:17:14Z")
Whew, not from Illinois. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-indicts-u-s-congressman-on-corruption-charges/726556/6 "2015-07-30T17:23:16Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Crime doesn’t pay. See? And if he’d been an (R), he’d have been corrupt AND made a profit… “This is why we need more businessmen in government.” ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-indicts-u-s-congressman-on-corruption-charges/726556/7 "2015-07-30T17:48:15Z")
That family doesn’t like July 29th. His son (C F Jr) was indicted one year ago, to the day. His wife, a TV news talking head was involved but not indicted; she is taking taking a leave of absence. Maybe she’ll be up on 7/29/16? ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-indicts-u-s-congressman-on-corruption-charges/726556/8 "2015-07-30T20:22:30Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > That family doesn’t like July 29th. His son (C F Jr) was indicted one year ago, to the day. > His wife, a TV news talking head was involved but not indicted; she is taking taking a leave of absence. Maybe she’ll be up on 7/29/16? Funny how this sort of thing tends to be a family affair. Here in Michigan, we have Democratic Rep. John Conyers from Detroit. His wife, Monica Conyers, was on the Detroit city council, and got sent to prison following the Kwame Kilpatrick era. Presumably because he was too busy covering his own tracks, John failed to submit enough valid signatures for the next election, but with the help of a [del]bribed[/del] sympathetic judge, he got his name on the ballot anyway and was re-elected. Why anyone would vote for this crook after all those shenanigans is left as an exercise for the reader. And of course, there’s Bill & Hillary, who are currently teaching their daughter how to run a shady charity… ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-indicts-u-s-congressman-on-corruption-charges/726556/9 "2015-07-30T20:33:20Z")
wow, he was charged/under investigation and still was reelected with 88% of the vote… ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-indicts-u-s-congressman-on-corruption-charges/726556/10 "2015-07-31T02:43:56Z")
Philadelphia – bunch of slackers. Pittsburgh elected a convict as mayor. And as a write-in! 😃 (He ended up decapitated by a train – Joseph Barker in case anyone is interested.) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-indicts-u-s-congressman-on-corruption-charges/726556/11 "2015-07-31T02:47:24Z")
What do you expect from Filthadelphia? ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-indicts-u-s-congressman-on-corruption-charges/726556/12 "2015-07-31T03:18:13Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > 1. Bribery, money laundering and wire fraud. You’d think the guy would be something other than dirt poor, right? Yet [rollcall.com](http://rollcall.com) lists him as 9th poorest member of Congress - with the net worth of -$700,000. That’s negative $700K. Dirt poor on paper. I don’t doubt there are millions squirreled away in offshore accounts and portable assets.