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card from the house ethics committee should resolve any doubt about this according to news accounts of the panel s report more than 30 lawmakers and several of their aides are under investigation to one degree or another on issues that include lobbying and influence peddling seven members of a highly influential house subcommittee that controls pentagon spending are under scrutiny over allegations they steered money to clients of a lobbying firm in return for campaign donations that s half the membership of the subcommittee whose chairman is high profile john murtha of pennsylvania murtha s activities through the use of earmarks have been the subject of inquiries for some time and it now looks like a mixed bag of democrat and republican colleagues have done their best to copper their campaigns with the same tactics way to go jihad jack they re learning from the best at being the worst but it gets even better errr worse under o toole s jurisdiction now falls the decision concerning the murtha supported effort to make the university of pittsburgh medical center upmc the world s leading facility for manufacturing vaccines by 2013 potentially a 1 billion venture mysterious players in private equity pharmaceutical and lobbying worlds have been working for years to get to the point where one of their own a fellow murtha supporter and contributor like o toole can reward them with huge federal contracts as someone affiliated and closely aligned with the university of pittsburgh medical center the conflict of interest before o toole is clear but will she really be able to resist the pressure to reward murtha s cronies with millions upon millions in taxpayer funded government contracts we ve chronicled murtha s dealings with upmc and or pennsylvania university here here here here and here as michael golfarb concludes prediction coming soon to western pennsylvania with the support of harry reid arlen specter and of course tara o toole will be the john murtha center for biosecurity to go along with the john murtha airport and the john p murtha institute for homeland security with any luck we will one day add the john p murtha state penitentiary and mr murtha himself will be one of its most celebrated occupants posted by leo pusateri at 11 05 2009 05 58 00 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels murtha corruption murtha pork saturday october 24 2009 corruption inc in yet anther instance of quid pro quo and pay to play politics boss john jihad jack murtha pours millions of taxpayer dollars to buy even more votes emphases added working with two of the most powerful members of a house subcommittee that controls pentagon spending the company also hired lobbying firms that employed former top aides of both the democratic lawmakers and mr murtha s brother company executives and their lobbyists donated thousands of dollars to the two congressmen soon money flowed the other way between 2003 and 2009 mr murtha and mr moran helped deliver 12 million to mobilvox in earmarks money that is set aside by lawmakers for pet projects in the government s annual spending bills the latest house defense spending bill introduced and pushed through by mr murtha includes an additional 2 million earmark for mobilvox requested by mr moran the bill is currently pending in conference committee hey pa 12 do you feel like taking a shower yet posted by leo pusateri at 10 24 2009 08 28 00 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels kit murtha mobilvox murtha corruption pma group thursday october 15 2009 can t buy me love cause i don t care too much for money money can t buy me love not only is it a great retro beatles tune it s a song that jihad jack murtha is getting to know quite well a democratic congressional candidate in florida returned a campaign check from house appropriations defense subcommittee chairman john murtha s pac offering further evidence that democrats in competitive races are worried about being linked to murtha who has come under intense scrutiny for his earmarking practices lori edwards running in a gop leaning district in florida gave back 1 000 in murtha money earlier this summer shortly before the house killed a resolution from rep jeff flake r ariz demanding a probe into earmarks and contributions related to the now defunct pma group lobbying firm run by former appropriations committee aide paul magliocchetti the returned check was revealed in the october campaign finance reports released wednesday more than 100 house members secured earmarks for clients of the pma group in the murtha written fiscal 2008 defense spending bill alone and those members had taken in more than 1 8 million in campaign contributions from the pma group s political action committee and its employees since 2001 according to cq politics murtha the most prolific in securing earmarks for pma clients had received the second most campaign contributions from the group behind fellow defense appropriator pete visclosky of indiana flake spent months trying to pressure the house to force an ethics investigation and around the time edwards returned her murtha money more democrats were beginning to distance themselves from murtha though democratic leaders were able to fend off the flake efforts 29 democrats mostly from swing districts voted with flake on one of his murtha related resolutions well jack it looks like pretty soon we re gonna have to tie a pork chop around your neck just to get a junkyard dog to play with you posted by leo pusateri at 10 15 2009 09 14 00 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels murtha corruption murtha earmarks monday september 21 2009 murtha king of wasted taxpayer dollars of course we at murtha must go as well as other outlets have been rightly portraying murtha s the king of pork while this is wholly accurate i believe that once in a while it is more than worthy to point out that porkbarrel spending is invariably the spending of other people s money yours and my money to be exact take this stor y by the washington post indiana pa the buzzer is broken at the john p murtha institute for homeland security and a note invites visitors please knock on a summer afternoon a lone intern answers the door of the mostly empty basement offices that through the years have overseen 50 million in federal money awarded to projects designed to make the nation safer named for the chairman of the powerful house appropriations subcommittee on defense who has shepherded most of its funding the murtha institute was supposed to embark on projects to protect the country from terrorists and clean up environmental dangers much of the work went to companies and friends close to the congressman and few of the projects met their goals a washington post investigation shows but its spotty performance and internal turmoil have not deterred murtha d pa or his alma mater indiana university of pennsylvania which houses the center from seeking more money or dreaming big about the future plans are underway to move the murtha institute from its dormitory basement suite to a 53 million iup athletic arena and conference center now under construction murtha secured a 3 million federal earmark for the building two years ago and he sought another earmark this year before abruptly changing course as investigations of his defense appropriations and lobbying connections heated up murtha redirected some of that request to iup research this largesse folks is not only made up of other people s money it is financed with your taxpayer dollars folks in these trying times politics as usual shouldn t cut it if jihad jack had pulled his ponzi schemes anywhere outside what should be the hallowed halls of congress jack murtha would be now be sitting in the john p murtha penitentiary it s now more apparent than ever that murtha must go posted by leo pusateri at 9 21 2009 09 04 00 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels murtha pork pma saturday september 19 2009 finally a project worthy of murtha s mettle murtha lands 2 million for sewer project seeing as how just about everything that receives taxpayer largesse courtesy of jihad jack murtha gets named after him i m just waiting for the newly remodeled facility to be re named the john p murtha sewer district just sayin posted by leo pusateri at 9 19 2009 08 07 00 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels murtha pork friday august 07 2009 at the bidding of the queen and other friends in low places john murtha bows relations between house speaker nancy pelosi d calif and the department of defense grew testy last year when the pentagon couldn t come up with the aircraft she wanted for congressional travel but this year the house has a 132 million solution buy the air force more executive jets so congress can take more junkets roll call newspaper reports the addition of two unasked for new gulfstream 550 jets to the executive aircraft stable at nearby andrews air force base it is not even considered an earmark under the rules of the house just an expansion of an existing air force mission but it isn t hard to trace the influence of house defense appropriations subcommittee chairman john murtha d pa when ms pelosi s demands first surfaced in 2007 mr murtha said the pentagon was making a mistake by being uncooperative with rep murtha leaning hard on the pentagon from his position of control over defense spending the legislative demands got quite aggressive last year judicial watch a non profit watchdog group earlier this year published an e mail in which a pelosi staffer complained it is my understanding there are no g5s available for the house during the memorial day recess this is totally unacceptable the speaker will want to know where the planes are of course the high flying madame speaker of the universe notwithstanding having never met an earmark he didn t like murtha as usual was again quick to reward his campaign contributors murtha got 15 earmarks worth 61 4 million for companies whose employees or related political action committees pacs donated 199 050 to his campaign or leadership committee since 2007 all have offices and jobs in pennsylvania this is business as usual for murtha federal prosecutors are investigating a defunct lobbying firm pma group whose defense clients have contributed heavily to murtha and remain immensely successful at getting earmarks my jihad jack but what a tangled web we weave when power through corruption is your plan to achieve posted by leo pusateri at 8 07 2009 08 00 00 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels earmarks murtha corruption murtha earmarks pelosi watch pelosi_one thursday june 04 2009 murtha it just keeps getting slimier slimier murtha s associates involved in the drug trade a johnstown area defense firm under investigation for possible contract fraud received an infusion of cash during its start up years from a narcotics trafficker with whom one of the company s founders admitted engaging in the drug trade snip mr whorley s 50 000 line of funding and whether it amounted to a loan or a share of the company became the subject of a bitter legal battle between the two former partners who according to a deposition by william kuchera were once associates in the narcotics trade the role of mr whorley as well as mr kuchera s past as a marijuana dealer surfaced amid a federal investigation of the kuchera companies what was unclear was whether mr kuchera s narcotics conviction should have precluded him or his company from receiving a security clearance that would enable the firm to perform defense work department of defense spokesmen did not respond to requests to explain the firm s status and the possible effects that a felony conviction would have on the kuchera companies eligibility for defense work loren thompson who heads the lexington institute a washington area think tank that deals with defense procurement issues said he believed a narcotics conviction would be sufficient to disqualify mr kuchera felony drug convictions are usually enough to disqualify a person for a security clearance because they go to character mr thompson said snip u s rep john p murtha d johnstown has helped to direct millions of dollars in federal defense appropriations to major defense contractors that sub contract large portions of the jobs to kuchera defense systems the kucheras their employees and associates are among major contributors to murtha political campaigns there is no indication that mr murtha was aware either of mr kuchera s past or mr whorley s role in the firm s early days and what has become a very typical byline from anyone trying to get answers from jihad jack murtha a murtha spokesman declined comment about the kucheras today sources close to the probe said federal prosecutors are attempting to determine whether the companies padded their payroll to increase the amount of federal cost plus contracts and whether they delivered on millions of dollars in federal contracts steered their way through mr murtha s office you know john murtha has lots of things named after him in pa 12 like an airport a couple of clinics and a pavilion along with many other monuments to his largesse we ve reported on murtha s relationship with kuchera and or the pma group since 2006 here here here here here here here here here here here here and here in light of the recent revelations in murtha s behavior along with his somewhat checkered political past may i suggest one more memorial totally fitting to the life to jihad jack murtha the john p murtha penitentiary posted by leo pusateri at 6 04 2009 08 29 00 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels kuchera murtha corruption pma group tuesday june 02 2009 breaking news jack murtha all in the family parte deux roll call has the story in early 2005 rep john murtha d pa apparently added language to a tsunami relief bill shifting 8 2 million from a former client of his brother s lobbying firm to a new client of the same firm that earmark is now tangled up in a federal indictment alleging that some of the money was skimmed by contractors and a defense department employee for their personal use murtha s spokesman said that no one in his office has any recollection of the transaction and the house appropriations committee was unable to provide any information about how the language appeared in the tsunami relief bill but sources familiar with the appropriations process agreed it was impossible that a provision removing earmarks from one company in murtha s district and transferring the money to another company in his district could have been added to the bill without murtha s involvement since he was at the time the ranking member on the subcommittee with jurisdiction over the language more regarding murtha s 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