Which Spending is the Most Corrupt? (see WP Article)

[Ibleedburgundy]

I'm going with Corrin Brown (D-FLA).

Between 2005 and 2010, Brown helped secure $21.9 million for six clients of a lobbying firm where her daughter works. The clients paid the firm more than $1 million to represent them before Congress. Brown was the sole sponsor of $1.79 million in earmarks sent to a seventh client, the Community Rehabilitation Center, while her daughter worked as a lobbyist on behalf of the center, the Florida Times-Union reported in 2010. The congresswoman declined requests for an interview. Her daughter did not respond to requests for comment.


How on Earth this is legal - I have no idea.

Which act in this article do you think is the most corrupt?

Read more:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/capitol-assets/public-projects-private-interests/?hpid=z2

[Ibleedburgundy]

Dan Lipinski (D-Ill) also doesn't pass the smell test IMO:

Lipinski cosponsored $2.5 million in earmarks in 2008 and 2009 for rail projects overseen by the Chicago Transit Authority. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the CTA is a lobbying client of his father, William Lipinski, a former congressman. The CTA has paid William Lipinski $766,330.20 in lobbying fees since 2007. "His father does not lobby him on behalf of his clients on transportation or any other issues," a Lipinski spokesman said. "In these, as in other areas, Congressman Lipinski is focused on doing what is best for his constituents."

[Ibleedburgundy]

Bill Young (R) FLA:

Spending with family connections: $73.2 million

Over a decade, Young helped secure $73 million for companies that employed his sons, according to the St. Petersburg Times. One worked as a security administrator in the St. Petersburg office of Science Applications International Corp., a defense contractor; the other as an outreach specialist for the National Forensic Science Technology Center. Young's spokesman did not respond to requests for comment.Young told the Times in a 2008 story that the earmarks were based on merit, not because the programs employed his sons.