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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Fri Nov-13-09 10:16 PM
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Former Va. official admits paying bribes
Source: The Virginian-Pilot

Former Va. official admits paying bribes
By Tim McGlone
The Virginian-Pilot
© November 14, 2009
RICHMOND

A one-time adviser to former Gov. George Allen pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges of bribing officials of Panama in exchange for contracts to clean that country's lighthouses and buoys and lying to federal agents about it.

Charles Paul Edward Jumet, 53, of Fluvanna County admitted in federal court in Richmond that from 1997, right after he left the Allen administration, through 2003 he and others paid more than $200,000 in bribes to Panamanian government officials. Jumet admitted that he paid the secret bribes to obtain lucrative contracts to operate and maintain Panama's lighthouses and buoys in the waterways in and near the Panama Canal.

An unidentified co-conspirator in the case is listed in court filings as the president of Overman Associates, a former Virginia Beach engineering firm. Jumet is listed as the company's vice president as well as president of his own company, Ports Engineering Consultants Corp. in Richmond.

Recent Panamanian news reports linked bribes in 1997 between Jumet, his co-conspirators and former Panama President Ernesto Perez
Balladares and his underlings. The allegations led, in part, to Perez Balladares' ouster in 1998. The reports said Perez Balladares was given a stake in Jumet's PECC company.

Read more: http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.net/2009/11/former-va-offi...
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   How much you wanna bet you to the offices of Ports Engineering Consultants Corp.  arcadian   Nov-13-09 10:24 PM   #1 
   +1  Blue_Tires   Nov-14-09 05:42 PM   #3 
   Republican Heritage Foundation scum.  Ian David   Nov-13-09 10:34 PM   #2 
   Under investigation for 5 years. This news could not hit the media before this month's election?  No Elephants   Nov-15-09 01:36 PM   #4 
      Chances are very good he's a Republican like pathetic a-hole George Allen, his former boss.  Judi Lynn   Nov-15-09 08:27 PM   #5 
 
arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-13-09 10:24 PM
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1. How much you wanna bet you to the offices of Ports Engineering Consultants Corp.
and it's an empty shell.
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Nov-14-09 05:42 PM
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2. Republican Heritage Foundation scum.
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Nov-15-09 01:36 PM
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4. Under investigation for 5 years. This news could not hit the media before this month's election?
Get the Bushies out of the D of J.

Did not see the word "Republican" in the story.
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Nov-15-09 08:27 PM
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5. Chances are very good he's a Republican like pathetic a-hole George Allen, his former boss.
You only need to think back a moment to recall George Allen bid his hideous career goodbye (I hope) when he sneeringly referred to an opponent's staff member in a group as "macaca". Here's a refresher:
Macaca<1> is a pejorative epithet used by francophone colonialists in Central Africa's Belgian Congo for the native population.<2> It may be derived from the name of the genus comprising macaque monkeys. The word macaque has also been used as a racial slur. The macaque's genus name, Macaca, is a latinization of the Bantu (Kongo) ma-kako,<3> meaning "monkey".

In the United States, the term was at the center of a controversy during the 2006 United States Senate election in Virginia when it was used by the Republican incumbent, George Allen. Most Americans were unfamiliar with the term until continual media coverage revealed it to be a racial slur. Allen claims to be unaware of its racial context. Relating to the Allen controversy, "macaca" was named the most politically incorrect word of 2006 by Global Language Monitor, a nonprofit group that studies word usage.<4> The word was also a finalist for the American Dialect Society "Word of the Year" that same year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaca_ (slur)

Also:
George Felix Allen (born March 8, 1952) is a former Republican United States Senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the son of former NFL head coach George Allen. Allen served Virginia in the state legislature, as Governor, and in both bodies of the U.S. Congress. Allen's re-election in the 2006 race seemed inevitable until he was brought down by a video that showed him using a racial epithet when talking to a staffer for his opponent, Democrat Jim Webb.<1> Allen now serves on the Reagan Ranch Board of Governors of Young America's Foundation where he is a Reagan Ranch Presidential Scholar.

~snip~
Allegations of Allen's use of racial slurs in college
On September 24, 2006, Salon.com Washington correspondent Michael Scherer reported that the magazine had interviewed 19 of his teammates and that "hree former college football teammates of Sen. George Allen say that the Virginia Republican repeatedly used the racial epithet 'nigger' and demonstrated racist attitudes toward blacks during the early 1970s."<43> One of Allen's classmates who made such a claim is University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato. Sabato later said his information was second hand.<44> However, seven teammates have stated they do not recall any racist behavior on Allen's part. Four of these have made statements that were released by the Allen campaign.<45> Allen dismissed the claims as "ludicrously false."<46>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Allen_ (U.S._politician)

Don't have more time at the moment to look longer, but here's a site which refers to Charles Jumet as a Republican:
http://www.vpap.org/candidates/profile/home/10845
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