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	CNN.com - House panel votes to expel Traficant - July 18, 2002
		On the verge of expulsion from Congress, U.S. Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, accuses House ethics panel lawyers of lying and the federal government of having a vendetta against him.
		Traficant has complained about a government vendetta since he beat the FBI in a bribery case in Columbus, Ohio, in 1983, also while defending himself.
		Traficant, who was a county sheriff at the time, used the victory to propel himself to Congress in 1984.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/07/18/traficant.ethics (623 words)

	James Traficant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Traficant was not afraid to be perceived as eccentric; this fearlessness allowed him to champion the highly unpopular cause of John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian autoworker from Seven Hills, Ohio, who had been convicted in Israel and sentenced to death for having been the brutal and genocidal concentration camp guard "Ivan the Terrible." Mr.
		In 2002, Jim Traficant was indicted and tried on charges of corruption for taking campaign funds for personal use.
		After his expulsion, Jim Traficant ran as an independent candidate for another term in the House of Representatives from Ohio, while incarcerated in a federal prison in White Deer, Pennsylvania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Traficant (599 words)

	Statement on Expulsion of Congressman Jim Traficant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Traficant a meaningful opportunity to present his case to a jury of his peers.
		Traficant was denied basic due process by not being allowed to present all of his witnesses at the trial.
		Traficant’s trial, I believe it is inappropriate to consider this matter until Mr.
	www.house.gov /paul/congrec/congrec2002/cr072402b.htm (571 words)

	CNN.com - House panel votes to expel Traficant - July 18, 2002
		On the verge of expulsion from Congress, U.S. Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, accuses House ethics panel lawyers of lying and the federal government of having a vendetta against him.
		Traficant has complained about a government vendetta since he beat the FBI in a bribery case in Columbus, Ohio, in 1983, also while defending himself.
		Traficant, who was a county sheriff at the time, used the victory to propel himself to Congress in 1984.
	www.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/07/18/traficant.ethics/index.html (623 words)

	League of Conservation Voters
		Traficant, the eight-term Democratic incumbent representing Ohio's 17th Congressional district, last year ranked among the bottom three percent of House Democrats for his votes to roll back public health and safety protections.
		Loyless said that Traficant was named to the Dirty Dozen because of his votes in Congress to weaken clean water protections, to undermine the public's right to know about toxics in their community and to undermine public health protections.
		Traficant is the first Congressional candidate of the 2000 election cycle to be named by the LCV Action Fund to its Dirty Dozen list.
	www.commondreams.org /news2000/0301-01.htm (497 words)

	CNN.com - Traficant guilty of bribery, racketeering - April 12, 2002
		U.S. Rep. James Traficant, (D) Ohio, was found guilty by a federal jury of bribery and racketeering.
		Traficant has bucked the Democratic leadership in recent years and supported Rep. Dennis Hastert, a Republican, as speaker of the House: Democratic leaders stripped him of his committee assignments as a result.
		He also was accused of using employees from his office to perform work on his farm and boat and requiring them to return a portion of their salaries to him each month.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/04/11/traficant.trial (787 words)

	trafi-cant.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Traficant accused Wells of aiding the prosecution and complained that he wasn't allowed to argue during the trial that the government has a vendetta against him.
		Earlier, Traficant was mostly quiet during the hearing until he abruptly stood up and told Wells he wanted to dismiss the attorney he hired to represent him at the sentencing.
		Traficant argued that there was no physical evidence against him, accused the judge in his criminal trial of corruption and said government prosecutors had a vendetta against him.
	www.adamshoop.org /traficant (2189 words)

	Harris Corporation Names Jim Traficant Vice President of Business Development
		Traficant will be responsible for leading the marketing and business development activities of the government business, which reported sales of nearly one billion dollars last year.
		Traficant joined Harris in July 2001 as part of the company’s acquisition of Exigent International, Inc./Software Technology Inc. Prior to the acquisition, he served 17 years at Exigent, holding positions of increasing responsibility.
		Traficant was a senior vice president responsible for leading business development initiatives for Exigent’s government businesses in Florida, Colorado, California, and Washington D.C. He also served on Exigent’s Board of Directors for seven years until the company went public in 1997.
	www.harris.com /view_pressrelease.asp?act=lookup&pr_id=1098 (344 words)

	Federal Observer Articles - Federal Observer
		Jim Traficant spoke for me, and he spoke for all of you.
		Jim Traficant stood up for those one minute speeches and gave America hope that only Jim Traficant had the guts to give.
		Jim spoke of terrible government misdeeds, by the IRS, the FBI, the BATF and the Janet Reno "Justice" Department.
	www.federalobserver.com /archive.php?aid=3463 (477 words)

	No sympathy for Jim Traficant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Traficant, convicted of bribery, racketeering and tax evasion, was thrown out of Congress last week by a 420-1 vote.
		Traficant responded by saying the judge was part of the “witch hunt” that he always claimed was out to get him, a view shared by many of the voters of Youngstown, Ohio, who sent him to Congress for nine terms.
		Polls show Traficant still has tremendous support in what used to be his district in Ohio (a district eliminated by party bosses when Congressional lines were redrawn after the 2000 census).
	www.capitolhillblue.com /artman/publish/printer_158.shtml (536 words)

	Traficant Speaks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		D own—but definitely not out—Jim Traficant is on the ballot for the November election as an independent, challenging the candidates of both major parties.
		Traficant’s attorneys intend to raise all legal questions pertinent to the matter if Traficant is permanently placed in a prison outside Ohio.
		In the meantime, however, even Traficant’s Republican opponent, Anne Benjamin admitted to The Cleve land Plain Dealer that she understands from Ohio state election officials that Traficant is eligible to run from an out-of-state prison.
	americanfreepress.net /08_09_02/Traficant_Speaks/traficant_speaks.html (1302 words)

	AJR - Tracking Traficant
		Traficant, 61, imprisoned at the low-security Allenwood Federal Correctional Institution in White Deer, Pennsylvania, declined to be interviewed for this article.
		Traficant's recent public pronouncements about his bowel movements and his gastric emissions make it clear that all those meals at Taverna, a restaurant in Washington, D.C., paid for by USAerospace, a Cafaro Co. enterprise, have played havoc with his intestinal tract.
		Traficant is running from prison as an independent candidate in the redrawn 17th Congressional District.
	www.ajr.org /article_printable.asp?id=2650 (3281 words)

	MBN - Autographs - James A. Traficant, Jr.
		Jim is an interesting character - he's only the 2nd person to be expelled from the House of Representatives since the Civil War.
		But really, Jim was a great politician, and one of the most flamboyant.
		I truly believe Jim was set up and railroaded, and several Congressmen on the Hill do too.
	www.mrbrown.net /signatures/jimtraficant (192 words)

	Prison no bar to Traficant bid for president
		A group called "Draft Traficant for President 2004" communicated with the imprisoned former Ohio congressman by mail and received permission to start a campaign.
		Traficant, a Democrat who represented northeast Ohio in the House for nine terms, was expelled in July 2002 after being convicted in a federal court of racketeering, bribery and tax evasion.
		Traficant ran an unsuccessful jailhouse campaign last year for his redistricted congressional seat.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/07/25/loc_oh-traficant25.html (304 words)

	The ConWeb's Favorite Convicted Felon
		Much of the ConWeb gave Ohio Rep. James Traficant the benefit of the doubt even though he was convicted of multiple crimes of bribery, tax evasion and racketeering.
		Perhaps NewsMax wants one of those prosecutors who went after Traficant -- you know, the ones for whom "sending a congressman or senator to jail can be a feather in the cap." Just like NewsMax to believe only liberals can be guilty of prosecutorial abuse.
		WorldNetDaily, for its part, hasn't done much with Traficant aside from an Aug. 2 piece on the hypocrisy of it all written, surprisingly, by Ellen Ratner, the closest thing to a liberal WND has.
	conwebwatch.tripod.com /stories/2002/traficant.html (833 words)

	Traficant On Trial The Business Journal Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Traficant to Cleveland Mafiosi, the Carabbia brothers: "I am a loyal fu---er, and my loyalty is here and now we've gotta set up the business that they've run for all these fu--in' years and swing that business over to you, and that's what your concern is. That's why you financed me, and I understand that."
		The Fox TV hosts had Traficant on in August 2000, after he had repeatedly warned that an indictment of himself was imminent.
		When Traficant began to flirt with switching parties, and the House margin had narrowed enough that his vote might make a difference, the two parties scrambled to court him, ignoring and probably reinforcing his bad behavior.
	www.business-journal.com /TraficantTrial/rollcall3-15.html (1082 words)

	Jim Trafficant Is A Dangerous Man, Although It Depends On Whom You Ask (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		After all, this is a new age, a new order--a new world order; and what Jim Traficant has said before Congress, and is certain yet to say, counters the official story of those who wish to press this dog and pony show toward world subjugation.
		Okay, perhaps Jim Traficant is guilty of several or all of the 10 charges.
		But, after reading Jim Traficant's own words to Congress, one has to wonder whether there might be some other reason why so many agents from so many federal agencies have worked so hard and long, since the 1980s, to take this man down.
	www.geocities.com /abcolombo/may01/051001.htm (673 words)

	Do you believe Jim Traficant should be permitted to run for Congress from his prison cell? (Poll) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Traficant, who is serving an 8-year sentence at a federal prison in Pennsylvania, is on Ohio's ballot for now, but residency requirements could knock him off, officials said.
		Traficant, a Democrat who often used the television science-fiction phrase "beam me up" in his rambling political speeches, is trying to win reelection even though in July he was thrown out of the House of Representatives where he had been a member for nine terms.
		Traficant has appealed the conviction and also requested that he serve his sentence in Ohio, his home state, but was shipped on Monday to the Allenwood low-security federal prison in White Deer, Pennsylvania.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/729676/posts (2242 words)

	Jim Traficant: A little old fashioned karma coming 'round (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Traficant, in typical bombastic style, called his conviction a conspiracy against him, promised to appeal, and vowed never to quit his job in Congress.
		But Traficant was the Hill’s O.J. Simpson, a man everyone knew was guilty, even if a jury of his peers was too stupid to convict him.
		Traficant, of course, vowed to beat the system once again, declaring that no lawyer was smart enough to defend him.
	www.capitolhillblue.com /artman/publish/printer_559.shtml (731 words)

	OpinionJournal - The Western Front
		Jim Traficant is a buffoon, a felon and a disgrace to the Ohio voters who put him in office.
		Traficant is, of course, the loudmouth Democrat who was convicted of 10 felony counts of corruption in April and is facing expulsion from the House this week.
		In Traficant's world, even the loss of his career and freedom are no cause for seriousness.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/bminiter/?id=110002023 (826 words)

	God Bless James Traficant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Democratic Nationalists, are urging Congressman Traficant to formally declare his candidacy in the upcoming primaries.
		After reading Traficant's speech, "The Bankruptcy of the United States" delivered on the floor of Congress in 1993, it was evident why THEY wanted to shut him up.
		Traficant, 61, is healthy and fit so he may be required to either work as a furniture maker in the prison factory, or he could end up as a groundskeeper or plumber.
	www.american-partisan.com /cols/2002/shenandoah/qtr3/0814.htm (794 words)

	ESR \| July 22, 2002 \| Jim Traficant's case: The right to be judged by hypocrites
		Traficant is rude, unkempt, threatening and politically incorrect.
		But with Traficant running for re-election as an independent, albeit from prison, he will take away lots of votes from the Democrats.
		Even if Traficant agreed to become a Republican, and even if the voters did send him back despite his legal difficulties, the truth is they don't want him in the Republican caucus.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0702/0702traficant.htm (671 words)

	210 West Magazine » Welcome to Youngstown... » June 12, 2003
		Traficant recanted his confession, and told jurors in federal court inCleveland that he took the money, but he did so as part of “the most unorthodox sting operation in the history of Ohio politics.” At the time he took the bribes, Traficant was a candidate for sheriff.
		Traficant boasted that he was a son of a truck driver, albeit one with post-graduate education.
		Jim Traficant was expelled from Congress, one of only two men since the Civil War to suffer that ignominious fate.
	www.210west.com /archives/news/000011.php (4672 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Jim Traficant
		Traficant was expelled following his conviction on federal charges of bribery and racketeering.
		Jim Traficant, a Democrat expelled from Congress and sent to prison for accepting bribes.
		James Traficant: "A school board in Georgia removed the word Christmas from their school calendar because the ACLU threated to sue.
	politics.surfwax.com /files/Jim_Traficant.html (414 words)

	Rep. Traficant Charged With Bribery
		Traficant said the FBI learned about some of the damaging evidence on Reno during a 1993 background check prior to her appointment to attorney general.
		Traficant is accusing Reno of "treason" for her failure to appoint a special counsel to look into charges that China stole sensitive nuclear weapons data from the United States as well as a range of other Clinton administration scandals.
		Traficant claims that he has sources that have "videotaped evidence" of sexual improprieties as well as the testimony "of five police officers" who have "stopped Reno for substance abuse." Traficant said Reno's alleged improprieties occurred while she was a Dade County (Miami, Fla.) state prosecutor and municipal judge.
	www.apfn.org /apfn/traficant.htm (9888 words)

	Rep. Jim Traficant Ranting Complaint about Scientists Too Smart to buy into gods
		I had known that Sen Traficant was poorly educated about science but I didn't know that he was...
		The following is a one minute speech given to the House of Representatives by Rep. Jim Traficant one August 3rd, 1998.
		I hope Jim actually reads my letter and bothers to consider that what he said is dangerous to society.
	www.skeptictank.org /hs/frantr5.htm (629 words)

	georgebush.ca - Jim Traficant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Jim Traficant One Minute Speach - Sept 15th
		Traficant was the second person ever to run for federal office while in prison.
		One example that comes to mind is a fellow named J. John Gordon who ran for president in 1976 and eventually filed a lawsuit claiming that the election had been effectively stolen from him: Gordon v.
	www.georgebush.ca /Jim-Traficant/reference/fullview/wikipedia/1285641 (255 words)

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