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	Forum: The strange world of Curt Weldon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Weldon is accused of shilling for on behalf of a Russian company with financial ties to his daughter: an elliptical, airborne drone.
		Weldon pitched the U.S. Navy on the purchase of a flying saucer.
		Weldon as co-chair of the affair -- lauds "the founders of Ambassadors for Peace, the Reverend and Mrs.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06295/731749-109.stm (982 words)

	Curt Weldon - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Weldon served two terms as Mayor from 1977 to 1982 and was nominated for election on both the Republican and Democratic tickets.
		Weldon first ran for U.S. Congress for the 7th district of Pennsylvania in 1984 on the Republican ticket but lost to incumbent Democrat Rep. Robert W. Edgar.
		It is interesting to note that in 2000, Weldon was re-elected with 65% of the vote even though Democratic Presidential Nominee Al Gore won Delaware County with 54% of the vote.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Curt_Weldon (640 words)

	TPMmuckraker: Curt Weldon Archives
		Weldon said yesterday that a retired FBI agent had "confirmed to me that a person who works on my opponent's campaign was bragging that the campaign knew three weeks ago" about the FBI's investigation into Weldon and his daughter's company.
		Yesterday, Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) suggested that his opponent, Joe Sestak, was wrong to keep his daughter in a Washington, D.C. hospital during her cancer treatment - he should have brought her to a hospital in Pennsylvania, he said.
		Curt Weldon (R-PA) thinks it was inappropriate for his opponent to bring his daughter to Washington so she could receive cancer treatments.
	www.tpmmuckraker.com /archives/cats/curt_weldon (3827 words)

	"The Curt Weldon Employment Agency" by Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)
		Weldon's office declined to comment, but a source who declined to be identified but who is close to the Congressman said that Kim has worked in the firm's public relations office since the fall of 2005.
		Weldon's twenty-something daughter Karen was once hired by Boeing, one of the congressman's major campaign donors, and later became a high-powered lobbyist who built her company on her father's connections (a story I reported with a colleague in the February 20, 2004, L.A. Times).
		Weldon “family friend” and realtor-turned-lobbyist Cecelia Grimes was retained by Oto Melara, yet another subsidiary of Finmeccanica, and by several other firms with close ties to the congressman as well.
	www.harpers.org /sb-curt-weldon-kim-employment.html (475 words)

	Did Curt Weldon Dodge the Draft?
		I got interested in the Weldon - Sestak race when Curt Weldon decided to swiftboat Joe Sestak, starting with a smear against his daughter, who just so happened to be fighting a malignant brain tumor at the time.
		Curt Weldon, in addition to swiftboating his veteran opponent Joe Sestak, is the second ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee.
		During the 2000 elections, when Curt Weldon was railing at Al Gore, a completely different reason was given for why he didn't serve in Vietnam.
	www.taylormarsh.com /archives_view.php?id=24504 (1776 words)

	PA-7 Watch: Joe Sestak vs. Curt Weldon
		Even if you give Weldon the benefit of the doubt on whether the gift would have applied if not related to his duties, the committee ruled that the trip was related to his duties as a congressman, despite Weldon's clearly dishonest previous assertion in Jan 2003 that the trip was not related to his duties.
		Weldon took three trips with family members in January 2003 at the expense of a company or institution, according to his financial disclosure statement for that year.
		Weldon is facing an FBI probe into whether he performed favors for foreign-controlled businesses that employed his daughter, Karen Weldon.
	www.pa7watch.com (2257 words)

	ABC News: FBI Raids Homes of Weldon Child, Friend
		The FBI is investigating whether Weldon used his influence to secure lobbying and consulting contracts for his daughter, two people familiar with the inquiry said Saturday, Oct. 14, 2006.
		Federal investigators are looking into whether Weldon used his influence to help the company secure lobbying contracts worth $1 million from foreign clients, two people familiar with the inquiry told The Associated Press.
		Weldon, a 10-term Republican from the Philadelphia suburbs and vice chairman of the House Armed Services committee, is in a close race for re-election on Nov. 7 against Democrat Joe Sestak.
	abcnews.go.com /Politics/wireStory?id=2573663 (428 words)

	Curt Weldon - Congresspedia
		Curt Weldon was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987 to 2007, representing the Seventh District of Pennsylvania (map).
		Weldon served two terms as Mayor from 1977 to 1982 and was nominated for election on both the Republican and Democratic tickets.
		Weldon is now the third-longest serving member of the Pennsylvanian delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives after Reps. John Murtha and Paul Kanjorski.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Curt_Weldon (3376 words)

	Philadelphia Will Do
		Curt Weldon, M.D. You might remember Curt Weldon from his theory that if the government had listened to him, the terrorist attacks wouldn't have happened.
		Weldon's November opponent is Joe Sestak, a native of Springfield, Pa., and a three-star general in the Navy who retired Jan. 1 after 31 years.
		Local Congressman Curt Weldon thinks the government is to blame, but he has a twist on the idea: If the government had listened to Curt Weldon, 9/11 would have been avoided.
	willdo.philadelphiaweekly.com /archives/curt_weldon (3401 words)

	Mrs. Bush's Remarks at Curt Weldon for Congress Breakfast
		Congressman Weldon has visited fire departments in all 50 states, and soon after he took office, he established the Congressional Fire Services Caucus to ensure that emergency workers have the resources they need to protect Pennsylvanians and people throughout our country.
		And in the House, Curt is a champion of the men and women of the United States military.
		Curt's dedication to the people of Pennsylvania, and his achievements, remind us of why he must be reelected to the United States Congress.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2006/10/20061004.html (1519 words)

	Rep. Curt Weldon: DIA lies, destroys reputations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Just months ago, Weldon said he learned that in 1999 and 2000 a secret program known as Able Danger was put in place by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and seen through by the general in charge of the Special Forces Command.
		Weldon stated that the FBI Director has now "publicly said if he would have had that information, the FBI could have used it to perhaps prevent the hijackings that struck the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the plane that landed in Pennsylvania and perhaps saved 3,000 lives and changed the course of world history."
		Weldon is incensed that the DIA has covered up "their own shortcomings." They fear Able Danger’s data going public.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2005/swank102105.htm (1372 words)

	Homes Raided In Rep. Weldon Influence Probe - washingtonpost.com
		Curt Weldon's daughter and one of his closest political supporters yesterday as part of an investigation into whether the veteran Republican congressman used his influence to benefit himself and his daughter's lobbying firm, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
		Weldon said in a prepared statement that he had done nothing wrong and would cooperate in the investigation "100 percent." Michael Puppio, a campaign spokesman, said Weldon hoped that "reliance on leaks would cease and the media would rely on facts that are verifiable."
		Weldon said that the House ethics committee looked into the allegations in 2004 "and found that I had engaged in no wrongdoing." He said he was "extremely disappointed that we are discussing this topic three weeks before an election that could determine control of Congress."
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/16/AR2006101600545_pf.html (1051 words)

	Curt Weldon
		Curt Weldon was a school teacher and volunteer firefighter before he was elected mayor of Marcus Hook borough in Pennsylvania, in 1977.
		Weldon's un-named but "impeccable clandestine source" for all this information was later revealed to be Fereidoun Mahdavi, Iran's former Minister of Commerce under the Shah.
		Weldon's daughter Karen left her career at Boeing to open a lobbying firm that immediately attracted well-heeled clients, including two Serbian businessmen linked to accused war criminal Slobodan Milosevic who paid her $20,000 each month to help them acquire a US visa.
	www.nndb.com /people/874/000040754 (551 words)

	Curt Weldon - dKosopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Curt Weldon (R) is a former Congressman from Pennsylvania's 7th district.
		First elected to the House in 1986, he was challenged in the 2004 general election by Paul Scoles, who garnered nearly 41% of the vote to Weldon's 58.8%.
		Weldon spoke at the "coronation" of Sun Myung Moon on March 23, 2004.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Curt_Weldon (347 words)

	Curt Weldon \| Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
		Curt Weldon is currently under federal investigation to determine if he used his influence to get Russian companies to hire his daughter as a consultant and lobbyist.
		Weldon has blamed what he dubbed the “liberal attack group” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, and its director Melanie Sloan, for driving the investigation, although there is no evidence to suggest that the group is involved.
		Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA) continues to focus his ire at CREW. Weldon is under investigation by the FBI for allegations that he used his position to get business for his daughter from a Russian company. The FBI raided his daughter's home last week. Apparently, Mr.
	www.citizensforethics.org /taxonomy/term/737 (2563 words)

	Market*Access International - Congressman Curt Weldon
		Weldon has used that position to become the leading House supporter of a national missile defense to protect America's families and communities.
		Weldon is a champion of environmental concerns as the only House Republican on the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission which approves funding for our wildlife refuges and wetlands preservation.
		As mayor of the Marcus Hook Borough, in which he was nominated twice on both Republican and Democratic ballots, Weldon led the fight to revive the small town that was home to the violent and destructive Pagan motorcycle gang.
	www.marketaccess.org /bio_weldon_curt.asp (706 words)

	McClatchy Washington Bureau \| 10/13/2006 \| FBI investigates Rep. Curt Weldon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Weldon, his daughter and Sexton all declined to respond to requests for an interview.
		Canfield said he wound up sending a thick stack of documents to support Weldon's arguments that he did not discuss his daughter's clients with her and that his assistance to the three foreign interests was unrelated to Solutions' contracts.
		Weldon was impressed with the potential of the unmanned aircraft and contacted the Naval Air Systems Command, headquartered at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland.
	www.centredaily.com /mld/centredaily/news/nation/15754123.htm (1653 words)

	Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) \| Beyond Delay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Curt Weldon represented the 7th district of Pennsylvania for ten terms, until his November 2006 defeat by Joe Sestak.
		Weldon has also used his position to benefit his younger daughter, Kim, by helping her employer, AgustaWestland secure a $1.6 billion contract to build a new presidential helicopter.
		Weldon’s activities on behalf of clients of Cecilia Grimes and Karen Weldon appear to violate bribery laws as well as the rules prohibiting Members from taking any official actions for the prospect of personal gain for themselves or anyone else.
	www.beyonddelay.org /node/15 (433 words)

	Crazy Curt Weldon's Able Danger Stunt Implodes
		It's bad enough that Weldon swiftboated a venerated veteran like Sestak, but we've all come to expect that these days in the era of EFF and big scale media companies like XM, who actually promote swiftboating events through the right-wing talk radio hosts they carry.
		Weldon’s reputation for Tom Clancy-esque capers may be more than offset by another longtime habit -- his ability to bring defense money into the district.
		Weldon belongs to the crazy lunatic fringe crowd who, because of his political money machine, has been able to keep himself in power.
	www.taylormarsh.com /archives_view.php?id=24562 (1572 words)

	Sources: Pa. Rep. Curt Weldon under federal probe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Karen Weldon was 28 and lacked consulting experience when she and Charles Sexton, a Weldon ally and longtime Republican leader in Delaware County, Pa., created the firm of Solutions North America Inc. in 2002.
		Weldon when a Los Angeles Times report prompted the House ethics committee to briefly explore the issue two years ago, said the congressman is unaware of a Justice Department investigation and is confident that none exists.
		Weldon, a 10-term House member who is vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and active in U.S. foreign affairs, dismissed the report as "crazy" while campaigning for re-election in a tight contest in Philadelphia's southwestern suburbs.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06287/729899-85.stm (522 words)

	Curt Weldon
		Curt Weldon also later claims that the copy of the chart he gives to Hadley is his only one.
		Curt Weldon (R) claims in a press conference that Bob Johnson, an employee of the defense contractor Raytheon, claims to have independently identified Mohamed Atta prior to 9/11.
		Weldon claims that this is the sixth person to corroborate the claim that Atta was identified prior to the 9/11 attacks.
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=curt_weldon (4541 words)

	Curt Weldon: Bin Laden is Dead
		Curt Weldon, who broke the Able Danger story last year revealing that military intelligence had identified lead hijacker Mohammed Atta as a terrorist threat before the 9/11 attacks, now says that Osama bin Laden has died.
		Weldon cited as his source an Iranian exile code-named Ali, telling the paper: "Ali's told me that Osama bin Laden is dead.
		Weldon said he last spoke to Ali three weeks ago.
	www.infowars.com /articles/terror/weldon_bin_laden_is_dead.htm (271 words)

	Taylor Marsh: Curt Weldon Attacks the Uniform and the Veteran in it - Politics on The Huffington Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Curt Weldon Attacks the Uniform and the Veteran in it
		Weldon attacked Sestak's decision to continue owning a home in Virginia while only renting in Pennsylvania and questioned why Sestak did not move back to Pennsylvania when he was working at the Pentagon.
		Weldon also suggested Sestak should have sent his daughter to a hospital in Philadelphia or Delaware, rather than the Washington hospital.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /taylor-marsh/curt-weldon-attacks-the-u_b_25951.html (2420 words)

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