{"id":10436,"date":"2014-07-02T09:34:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T13:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=10436"},"modified":"2014-07-02T09:34:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T13:34:20","slug":"karma-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=10436","title":{"rendered":"Karma again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karma isn&#8217;t done with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysenategop.net\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Republicans<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomlibous.com\" target=\"_blank\">Deputy GOP Leader Tom Libous<\/a> has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/dailypolitics\/binghamton-sen-thomas-libous-second-most-powerful-republican-senate-indicted-making-false-statements-fbi-blog-entry-1.1850542\" target=\"_blank\">charged with lying to the FBI<\/a> in relation to nepotism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; The indictment stems from a long-running investigation by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao\/nys\/meetattorney.html\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara<\/a> into whether Libous used his influence to obtain a job for his son, Matthew with a Westchester-based law firm.\u00a0 According to the indictment, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\" target=\"_blank\">FBI<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\" target=\"_blank\">IRS<\/a> were investigating allegations that Libous promised to steer future business to the law firm in exchange for the hiring of his son and that a lobbying firm with ties to the Senate leader paid $50,000 annually to the firm to defray the cost of his son&#8217;s hiring &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see so many electeds working hard to keep our <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tammany_Hall\" target=\"_blank\">Tammany<\/a> traditions alive.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D10436&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; 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