>>>>For example, 3 months ago a political party in another jurisdiction was crowing about "money for favors" involving a Chinese businessman making political donations. A Cabinet Minister had to stand down over the allegations
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>>There was a time when political peccadilloes were distinguished from the criminal kind.
>>Here in the US we don't make that distinction.
>>Nixon, for example, was never caught taking an illegal dollar.
>>All of his sins were related his being overzealous in trying to defeat his political opponents.
>>Had he been tried and convicted though, he might have sat in a cell with rapists and bank robbers.
>>Gerald Ford recognized the difference and in order to avoid that embarrassment to our country, he pardoned him.
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>Are you aware of the story of the attorney who was caught in activity to stretch out the process, to make Nixon look bad for as long as possible?

Again, if that's true.. and I'm not surprised to hear that someone might have done it.. it's a political sin.