CREW FILES ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST SEN. KIT BOND FOR ROLE IN FIRING OF FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY TODD GR

[L. Coyote]

Source: citizensforethics.org/

30 Sep 2008 // Washington, D.C. - Earlier today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (“CREW”) filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee against Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond (R-MO) for his role in removing Todd Graves, the former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, from his position.

CREW filed its complaint following the September 29th release by the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) and Office of Professional Responsibility (“OPR”) of their report, An Investigation into the Removal of Nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006. The report concludes that Sen. Bond’s office inappropriately sought Mr. Graves’s removal.

Former legal counsel for Sen. Bond, Jack Bartling, admitted to asking the White House Counsel’s office to seek Mr. Graves’s removal. Mr. Bartling also talked to Justice official Michael Elston about keeping Sen. Bond’s role a secret. Sen. Bond’s office became dissatisfied with Mr. Graves after he refused to intervene in a dispute between Sen. Bond’s office and that of Mr. Graves’s brother, Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO.....

The OIG and OPR found it “extremely troubling that the impetus for Graves’s removal as U.S. Attorney appears to have stemmed from U.S. Attorney Graves’s decision not to respond to a Bond staff member’s demand to get involved in personnel decisions in Representative Sam Graves’s congressional office.”

In its complaint, CREW alleges that by seeking Graves’s removal to punish him for refusing to intervene.......

Read more: http://citizensforethics.org/node/34419

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Sen. Bond is an entrenched member of the Corrupt Bastards Club, and has largely evaded this sort of scrutiny until now.

Deja DU: Missouri attorney a focus in USA firings = Bradley Schlozman
May 6, '07 - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x832164

[unhappycamper]

1. Couldn't happen to a nicer repub.

Except maybe Stevens, Corynyn, Gregg, Collins, Mitchell, etc. etc.

[seafan]

2. Shades of Sarah Palin in troopergate. What the hell is it with these people? n/t

[VP505]

3. An ethics complaint against

Sen.Kit the Lush Bond? Time to sober up, eh Senator?

[Judi Lynn]

4. That may be easier said than done by now!

http://pubdef.net.nyud.net:8090/uploaded_images/Bond-776022.jpg



Is he posing by the column,
or is it holding him up?

[L. Coyote]

7. The fishing trip in Alaska is my fav photo. "Corrupt Bastards Club"

Deja DU: Who's Who in the "Corrupt Bastards Club" ?? Nothing Fishy Here. MOVE ON
Oct-21-07 - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2062738

[Judi Lynn]

10. Simply unbelievable. That's one gathering you would pay NOT to have to join.

It almost makes one ill. So many horrid people, ugly through and through, all in one wonderful place at the same time. It's like a monster movie!

Thanks for posting the link. Never saw it the first time.

[Trillo]

5. Thank you!

So what might happen as the result of an ethics complaint? What does "sanction" mean, potentially?

[Mabus]

6. I can't wait until he sobers up and finds out

I wonder if he'll try to use his alcoholism as an excuse.

[Selatius]

8. I don't really believe the Senate Ethics Committee is that serious a body.

If that committee really did what it was supposed to, half the senators there would be suffering censures on a yearly basis.

[upi402]

9. Recommended!

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