{Loudoun County, Virginia} Controversial Library Board Appointee Resigns

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15. Another blast from the past

This is about Richard first but then catches up with Eugene. Both of them were in the direct-mail fundraising scam business.

http://www.salon.com/2003/04/24/dogs_10/

Apr 24, 2003

Delgaudio literally brought Paula Jones to public attention in 1994. That was when one of his fundraising fronts, the “Legal Affairs Council,” paid her travel and hotel expenses to appear at the Consevative Political Action Committee conference in Washington, where she gave a brief account of the indignities she had allegedly suffered years before. Earlier, Delgaudio had raised money for the defense of that other right-wing martyr, Oliver North.

It was a very good business. According to the Post, the Virginia-based Legal Affairs Council reported $2.6 million in revenues to the IRS in 2001. He is also listed as chairman and director of the United States Intelligence Council and president of National Security Center Inc., two very official-sounding outfits that probably separated more than a few gullible wingers from their money with alarms about black helicopters and the Panama Canal. Last year, Delgaudio co-chaired an event called the “Western Conservative Conference” in Southern California, co-sponsored by the Washington Times, Christian Voice, Richard Viguerie’s ConservativeHQ.com, the ultra-right California Republican Assembly, Larry Klayman’s Judicial Watch, Reed Irvine’s Accuracy in Media, and Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institute.

Funnily enough, the “conference chaplain” was none other than Rev. Lou Sheldon, president of the Traditional Values Coalition and America’s leading scourge of pornography, indecency, obscenity and everything else Richard Delgaudio represents. How embarrassing.

Still more ironic, to return for a moment to Santorum’s pet peeve, is the current occupation of the perp’s brother, Eugene Delgaudio, who also serves as an elected supervisor in Loudoun County, Va. Eugene Delgaudio currently runs yet another official-sounding direct-mail chute called “Public Advocate of the United States,” which solicits money from rubes worried about “radical homosexuals” thwarting “God’s will.” Asked about his brother’s guilty plea, Eugene claimed ignorance and said, “It doesn’t sound like him.”