{"id":2299,"date":"2011-02-02T22:12:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T02:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2011-02-02T22:12:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T02:12:39","slug":"culture-of-corruption-marches-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/culture-of-corruption-marches-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture of Corruption Marches On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1341\">Ngozi Pole, the former Office Manager to the late Senator Ted Kennedy, was arrested back in December 2009 on six\u00a0separate\u00a0counts of federal fraud and theft. He illegally inflated his salary and submitting falsified records to the Senator\u2019s Chief of Staff in order to hide his theft of tax payer money. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/tatler\/2011\/02\/02\/former-ted-kennedy-staffer-caught-stealing-from-the-senate\/\">He was found guilty on five counts of wire fraud and one count of theft of government property on Tuesday<\/a>. \u00a0 Justice may be a bit slow, but it did come through in the end. \u00a0The\u00a0sentencing\u00a0will be interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ngozi Pole, the former Office Manager to the late Senator Ted Kennedy, was arrested back in December 2009 on six\u00a0separate\u00a0counts of federal fraud and theft. He illegally inflated his salary and submitting falsified records to the Senator\u2019s Chief of Staff in order to hide his theft of tax payer money. He was found guilty on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,19],"tags":[251,262,338,465,621],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-of-corruption-politics","category-politics","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-fraud","tag-kennedy","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-B5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}