Major Congressional Scandal, Graft and Corruption!

When a junior Ethics Committee staffer saved a copy of a secret US House of Representatives Investigations Report on his home computer; he forgot that he had ‘information sharing software’ on that PC. As a result an enterprising reporter for the Washington Post got hold of a copy and since then there has been a nuclear explosion of embarrassment up on Capitol Hill! This may be one of the first times in history that such a report WAS NOT leaked on purpose to the press!

When the leaked report hit this week, it said volumes about Norm Dicks, Washington State Congressman from the 6^th Congressional District, who received contributions from the criminal lobbyist organization formerly known as the PMA Group. What wasn’t known until now was the amount; some $90,000 in cash that Dicks may have gotten in return for voting the right way on the House Appropriations Committee and two other defense related committees. This last Friday when these VERY sensitive details of this current investigation and a review of that report came out it indicated that Dicks may be under investigation by the Justice Department and the FBI!

Insiders told me late this last week that Dicks has not looked well these last 9 months and at one town hall meeting in August, Dicks looked bloated and had red marks on his face to cover a sickly skin color. I have no information about the state of Norm’s health, at this time.

The history of the PMA political action committee came to an end this last February when its offices were raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But the real problems for Congressman Norm Dicks began earlier this year with a scathing report by the insider publication in Washington DC the “Roll Call” outlined in some detail many of the very suspicious campaign contributions that Dicks received. This was followed in March of ‘09 by a prediction by the other insider newspaper in Washington “The Hill” when it predicted that many of the politicians included in this PMA investigation might not get re-elected in 2010! Right now Norm Dicks is under intense fire from Democrats and Republicans in his Congressional District for signing on to the massive Pelosi “Healthcare Bill” released this last week; in particular Dicks support for the Public Option. So this new report on his involvement with the PMA Group comes at a particularly bad time for the long time Democratic Congressman, whose seat many thought was SAFE!

Smarting from charges that the newspaper's editorial staff buried sexual harassment charges and other irregularities against Democrat ‘pretty boy’ Dow Constantine, who may lose his bid to become King County Executive, The Seattle Times buried its ‘softball’ version of the Dicks’ story on its back pages. As of this date the 'moron infested', out of town owned Everett Herald isn’t even covering the story. The Dicks campaign hopes the FBI will do the same.

Full Disclosure: Norm Dicks’ brother Les Dicks and I were friends for many years during the 1970’s when we both worked for the Xerox Corporation in Seattle and later Tacoma. I was District Engineering Vertical Marketing Manager, and Les was a territorial Xerox salesman in Bremerton. We attended social occasions together on ‘Frat Row’ at the University of Washington during that time. I am a member of Lambda Chi Alpha. Les and I have NOT been in contact with each other for more than 3 decades