Did Rahm Emanuel pay property taxs? Nope?

[The Master]

News broke last week that Rahm Emanuel, now White House chief of staff, lived rent- free for years in the home of Rep. Rosa De Lauro (D-Conn.) - and failed to disclose the gift, as congressional ethics rules mandate. But this is only the tip of Emanuel’s previously undislosed ethics problems.

One issue is the work Emanuel tossed the way of De Lauro’s husband. But the bigger one goes back to Emanuel’s days on the board of now-bankrupt mortgage giant Freddie Mac.

Emanuel is a multimillionaire, but lived for the last five years for free in the tony Capitol Hill townhouse owned by De Lauro and her husband, Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg.

During that time, he also served as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - which gave Greenberg huge polling contracts. It paid Greenberg’s firm $239,996 in 2006 and $317,775 in 2008. (Emanuel’s own campaign committee has also paid Greenberg more than $50,000 since 2004.)

To be fair, Greenberg had polling contracts with the DCCC before - but each new election cycle brings its own set of consultants. And Emanuel was certainly generous with his roommate.

Emanuel never declared the substantial gift of free rent on any of his financial-disclosure forms. He and De Lauro claim that it was just allowable “hospitality” between colleagues. Hospitality - for five years?

Some experts suggest that it was also taxable income: Over five years, the free rent could easily add up to more than $100,000.

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[The Master]

Since he’s a good Democrat, all is forgiven.

Since he’s a good Democrat, he’s not bound by the same laws that you and I are bound by.

Since he’s a good Democrat working in the White House, he will claim that political enemies brought up this story for political reasons only. He will claim that there are people out there who want this president to fail, and that they will come after anybody working in the White House to do that.

And he might just claim that he didn’t know there was any legal or ethical questions about what he was doing.

He can claim there is “no controlling legal authority” as Al Gore did about the Buddhist temple fundraisers, and avoid scrutiny because there is “no controlling legal authority” about living rent-free in someone else’s house.

Cab we say CULTURE OF CORRUPTION

[Deepskyy]

I want him to fail because I don't like communism.
I don't want to be a communist country.