Sure.

It's the same Top Level Conspirators who framed Marion Berry & William Jefferson...

OOPS!!

The Conspirators seem to have set up another poor, innocent Democrat:
Rangel rents N.Y. apartments at bargain rates
State, city regulations require that they be used as primary residences
Rep. Charles Rangel is renting four apartments in one building for rates that are far below market value. He has been a critic of landlords' callousness but hasn't had much to say about the real estate company that owns the building.

By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI
July. 10, 2008
While aggressive evictions are making rent-stabilized apartments increasingly scarce in New York, Representative Charles B. Rangel is enjoying four of them, including three adjacent apartments in a sprawling penthouse overlooking Upper Manhattan, courtesy of one of New York’s premier real estate developers.

Mr. Rangel, the powerful Democrat who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, uses his fourth apartment, six floors below, as a campaign office, despite state and city regulations that require rent-stabilized apartments to be used as a primary residence.

Mr. Rangel, who has a net worth of $566,000 to $1.2 million, according to Congressional disclosure records, paid a total rent of $3,894 monthly in 2007 for the four apartments at Lenox Terrace, a 1,700-unit, six-tower luxury development with doormen that is described in real estate publications as Harlem’s most prestigious address.

The current market-rate rent for similar apartments in the building would total $7,465 to $8,125 a month, according to the Web site of the owner, the Olnick Organization.

The Olnick Organization and other real estate firms have been accused of overzealous tactics as they move to evict tenants from their rent-stabilized apartments and convert them into market-rate housing.

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25629176

a state party spokesman defended the donation to Perata's defense fund, telling the San Francisco Chronicle, "This is a Bush-appointed U.S. attorney going after one of our elected leaders."

This is one conspiracy theory that simply isn't going to fly. Most local reporters I know, in fact, have periodically wondered why the feds have been so slow to indict.

Well, it may fly then. The point I've highlighted may after all be the point.

The timing of the indictment, coming (coincidentally?) just as it can make a big splash in an important election cycle in the state and nationally -- rather than, say, when all the evidence is in but it would come in the middle of an election cycle and would have enough time to play out before the next election -- is important.

I'm not agreeing that there has been this type of political interference in the prosecution, but surely the Bush administration has brought this kind of headache down on itself by making such allegations eminently plausible given past behavior. Sadly there seems ample evidence of this type of politically-timed prosecution in other cases, so it becomes plausible to suspect it here, and why wouldn't Perata have suspicions that it was going on in his case? Suspicion doesn't prove it, but Bush, Gonzales, and Mukasey have made it hard to administer justice in part because they've allowed it to become so plausible to reasonably suspect the worst of their prosecutors.

Perata is a Mexican. California is a Mexican state. It is the anti-immigration forces, the nativists, that want to drive us out. They are racists.

Maria: Perata is not Mexican. He's an Italian American.

They're still racists. Anti-Italian bigotry goes back at least 120 years in America. Racism is why New York City passed strict gun control laws in 1911, to deprive the Italians of guns, because New Yorkers feared that they were all part of some criminal gang.

What were you thinking, with a name like "Don", of course he is Italian. He is the "boss' of the Senate.

Mechanic should have stated in his headline that he used to be Eastbay Express editor. That rag has repeated the identical story, no NEW facts, for five years. By trying his wares out in Mother Jones, perhaps Mechanic is trying to prove that everyone in media is reporting this non-story. Otherwise, with EBE on its own, Perata stands a great chance to sue & dismantle EBE for its clear pattern of harassment. I have followed the Bush administration's persecution of Democrats - big and small - since before the MSM picked up on it. Perata would certainly have a case that could stand toe to toe with any number of other Democrats who've been driven to bankruptcy or even prison by the corrupt Bushies. You got a lot of nerve barfing up the exact same story your boyfriend Bob Gammon barfs up every 2 months. But what a step up for you to Mother Jones as opposed to EBE - I understand they take most of their ad money from the escort agencies, aka pimps, in cold hard cash. Maybe you're sucking up to the Bushies to avoid an IRS audit?