Ex-NRCC treasurer pleads guilty to embezzlement
Posted: 3:38 pm Fri, September 3, 2010
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The former treasurer of the National Republican Congressional Committee has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $840,000 from a variety of political committees, including more than $670,000 from the NRCC itself.
Christopher J. Ward of Bethesda, who has been under investigation for some time, entered the guilty plea Friday in federal court in Washington.
Ward was treasurer of the NRCC from 2003 to 2007, and in court papers he admitted that he transferred money from an account used to operate an annual fundraising dinner with then-President George W. Bush into his personal account.
Prosecutors and Ward’s lawyer have agreed to recommend a sentence of three years in prison, though the judge can impose a term of up to 10 years.
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and they wonder why I don’t give contributions to these committees,they are all crooks from the candidates on down to the volunteers
I rather give directly to the candidate that way I know he is getting the money. For the kind of money he stole they should have given him more time. But that is just-us for you. We take an apple for hunger and get twenty years, he steals $840K and get three years. Those judges must have tongs under those robs like J Edgar Hoover was a fairy.
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