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  Richard Kelly, 81, congressman jailed in Abscam probe - The Boston Globe
The former Orlando-area politician was one of several congressmen convicted of taking bribes from FBI agents posing as fronts for an Arab sheik seeking influence.
Kelly was convicted of accepting $25,000, but the decision was overturned in 1982 after a judge ruled that the FBI's persistence amounted to entrapment.
Kelly was a circuit judge in Pasco and Pinellas counties for 14 years, where he had a reputation as a maverick.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/09/07/richard_kelly_81_congressman_jailed_in_abscam_probe   (186 words)

  
 Representative convicted in Abscam dies
Kelly, 81, was one of seven members of Congress snared in Abscam, an elaborate sting involving undercover FBI agents posing as aides to Arab sheiks seeking favors from Congress.
Kelly was elected to Congress and was re-elected in 1976 and 1978.
Kelly was a judge, he sometimes appointed Battaglia to defend murder suspects in his courtroom despite the fact that Battaglia had become a successful lawyer in a neighboring county.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1470226/posts   (1428 words)

  
 Survivor: Death Of An Alliance Episode Trivia - TV.com
Kelly's reward consists of cold beer, a trip to a secret and secluded island bar, and a chance to see the first five minutes of the first episode of Survivor.
When Kelly is taken to the bar with Jeff, she is shown the first five minutes of the first episode of Survivor.
Richard refers to the game as “Machiavellian.” This is an allusion to Niccoló Machiavelli, a 1600’s politician who wrote The Prince, a historic book much like today’s Hardball, by Chris Matthews.
www.tv.com /survivor/death-of-an-alliance/episode/82794/trivia.html   (662 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Darko director's follow-up falters
Gellar, who plays a porn star in the film, said she was concerned that some of the predictions made in the film were beginning to come true.
Kelly said he wanted the film to be confrontational and aggressive, using a lot of gallows humour.
Kelly said the film was meant to be viewed like a puzzle.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/5002702.stm   (668 words)

  
 chambers, sell, genesis, the cranberries, percussion, kelly, pupo, brahms, voices, operators   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kelly a sign appeared in the headlights warning that they were smiled at him.
Turcotte kept kelly taking turns that between the carson national forest and the rio grande directed them to the right.
This was the genesis of the stratified system of education that is still currently embedded in the policies of the 21st century.
www.sell-buy.info /Chambers.html   (982 words)

  
 Richard Kelly (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Kelly (July 31, 1924–August 22, 2005) was an American politician (Republican Congressman) who was convicted of taking bribes in the 1980 Abscam scandal.
Kelly, a former district court judge, attempted to reform Florida's justice system by insisting that attorneys appear in court in appropriate dress.
Kelly died Monday, August 22, 2005 in Stevensville, Montana.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Kelly_(politician)   (156 words)

  
 kelly
Rapper R Kelly is being sued by a man who claims the musician attacked him and broke a promise to pay him for a song idea.
Kelly's legal woes continue to mount as the Chicago bred crooner has been accused of assaulting and stealing songwriting royalties from a former employee.
Kelly is being sued by a former 'mentor and guide' regarding an alleged attack and renegence on a song idea.
www.theramonitor.com /Kas-to-Kel/kelly.php   (1212 words)

  
 Richard Kelly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are two prominent individuals known as Richard Kelly:
Richard Kelly, an American film director, best known for 2001's Donnie Darko.
Richard Kelly, an American politician accused but ultimately not convicted of taking bribes in the 1980 Abscam scandal.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Kelly   (115 words)

  
 State: The good of the GOP is good for McCollum
He was running for Congress, he told me -- against Richard Kelly, a former judge who was in an all-but-invincible position with the voters of Florida's old 5th Congressional District.
Three months later Kelly was in deep trouble, one of a handful of politicians caught up in Abscam, an FBI sting that targeted members of Congress with bribes offered in return for citizenship for rich Arabs.
Kelly's troubles didn't mean that McCollum was automatically in.
www.sptimes.com /News/061700/State/The_good_of_the_GOP_i.shtml   (646 words)

  
 Three Musketeers Gene Kelly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likable characters that he played on screen.
Kelly was awarded a special Academy Award “in appreciation of his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film” in 1951 and reawarded in 1984's Academy Awards due to a fire which burned down his home in the previous year.
Kelly was awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government in 1960.He also received the Life Achievement Award from American Film Institute in 1985.
mydatapages.com /three_musketeers_gene_kelly.html   (4429 words)

  
 Teaching and Learning
School administrators, teachers’ unions, the media, and politicians all compete to raise standards, toughen tests, and to improve an allegedly shoddy teaching corps.
Any politician or educator who fails to call for higher standards risks political ridicule.
In the April 1997 Supreme Court election between Republican-backed Jon Wilcox and Walt Kelly, a group headed by Ray Taffora, former legal counsel to Tommy Thompson, sent out a massive mailing that attacked Kelly, but failed to disclose funding sources with the State Elections Board as required by law.
www.weac.org /resource/1998-99/nov98/anatomy.htm   (6117 words)

  
 Survivor: Death Of An Alliance - TV.com
As mind games and manipulation accelerates, Kelly and Susan get in to a heated argument, and Richard begins to realize that everything is playing to his advantage.
At the bar, Kelly admits, "The game's finally gotten weird." As Sean seems to come to realize that money is at stake, the contestants take part in the Immunity Challenge, which deals with island superstition and folklore, Kelly wins, once again screwing up Richard's strategy to get her out.
When it comes to Tribal Council, Sean, the only member of Tagi not in the Alliance, is voted off of the island, sending Richard, Kelly, Susan and Rudy in to the final four.
www.tv.com /survivor/death-of-an-alliance/episode/82794/summary.html   (804 words)

  
 kelly resource page - kelly blue book
NATCHEZ Brittany Kelly, 16, charged with murder and two counts of uttering a forgery, was released Thursday on a combined bond of $120,000.
Kelly, 16 Phillip West Road, was arrested Nov. 17 on a grand jury indictment on charges of her mothers September death.
Gary Kelly could be offered a chance to continue his career with hometown club Drogheda United when his career with Leeds draws to a close at the end of this season.
www.bizhisto.com /kelly.php   (828 words)

  
 TIME.com: Among the Accused -- Feb. 18, 1980 -- Page 1
Richard Kelly, a third-term G.O.P. Congressman from Florida, was once a state circuit judge who was impeached by the state's house for harassing lawyers and fellow judges (the senate subsequently dismissed the charges).
So staunch a champion of fiscal responsibility is Kelly that he refused in 1976 to pocket a congressional pay raise and donated the more than $1,000 to churches and the U.S. Treasury.
He and his fourth wife, Judy, 28, his former secretary, whom he married in 1978, live relatively frugally, but Kelly managed to spend about $12,000 more for his office account last year than the $290,000 allowed him; he had to get a bank loan to pay back the amount.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,921808,00.html   (790 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego > The San Diego Union-Tribune
Richard Kelly; congressman convicted in Abscam scandal; 81
Former congressman Richard Kelly, one of seven members of the House snared in an elaborate sting involving undercover FBI agents posing as aides to Arab sheiks seeking favors, died Monday in Stevensville, Mont., where he lived for almost 20 years after his 1981 Abscam bribery conviction.
Mo Mowlam, the earthy, straight-talking politician who as Britain's Northern Ireland secretary helped negotiate the Good Friday peace settlement in 1998, died Aug. 19 at a hospice in Canterbury, her family said.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050826/inside13.html   (1382 words)

  
 New Page 1
For a moment, at least, he must have felt as though the preacher and all 15,000 members of the audience were speaking directly to him.
Richard Zone, executive director of Christian Voice, relates that the organization began as a result of a threat from the IRS to challenge the tax-exempt status of his church in Glendale, California.
The media's discovery of the born-again politicians served also to legitimize their efforts to become politically active.
religiousbroadcasting.lib.virginia.edu /primetime/C7.html   (6797 words)

  
 Independent Reviews Site - DVD Pick of the Month
Moore distills the Iraq war, the 2000 election debacle and the US obsession with OPEC oil down to one man: George W. Bush and his misleading of the American people into the Iraq war by tricking them into believing that Iraq was at the root of 9/11.
So Bush manipulated the public; so he is friendly with a foreign OPEC family for whom he does favors; so he wants to do anything to be reelected.
He is a politician folks there is no mystery to his actions.
www.theindependentreviewssite.org /v4_i1_sight_pick.html   (1286 words)

  
 House Document No. 108-204 The Cannon Centenary Conference: The Changing Nature of the Speakership
He said, ``You know Richard Kelly,''--some of you may remember the Congressman from Florida who got in trouble for taking a bribe and was about to be sentenced.
Reagan was a wonderful public speaker; a classic ``outside'' politician who had good sound bites but not creative legislative ideas or interest in legislative detail.
You need politicians coming to Washington whose basic connection with the voters was on the level of providing a winter coat, or that had a gut feeling for what people were thinking.
www.gpoaccess.gov /serialset/cdocuments/hd108-204/text/oneill.html   (9887 words)

  
 Welcome to The Daily Cougar Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
UH students said they are concerned about the financial impact of a proposed $25.8 million parking garage in part of Parking Lot 1A.
The war on drugs is a politician's dream: they can simultaneously sound tough on crime and compassionate about our children's future.
Richard Kelly was one lucky man. He got the opportunity to direct his first screenplay without an overbearing studio intruding into his vision and was aided by some gracious producers (one being Drew Barrymore).
www.stp.uh.edu /vol70/7/index.html   (253 words)

  
 Billions for the Bankers - Debts for the People
Commentators on radio and TV, preachers, educators, and politicians blame the people as wasteful, lazy, or spend-thrift, and blame the workers and consumers for the increase in debts and the inflation of prices, when they know the cause is the debt-money system itself.
Our people are literally drowned in charges and counter-charges designed to confuse them and keep them from understanding the unconstitutional and evil money-system that is so efficiently and silently robbing the farmers, the workers, and the businessmen of the fruits of their labors and of their freedoms.
Richard Kelly Hoskins has spent more than a quarter of a century working with Wall Street.
www.deepinfo.com /email/Billions4Bankers.htm   (6192 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - On Deadline | Archives | Ney pleads guilty; more charges of 'fraud' involving Abramoff
Richard Kelly (R-FL) - convicted of bribery and conspiracy in 1981.
There seems to be a plague that politicians contact when the fail to remember who put them in their position and who they work for.
These GOP politicians have ruined our country with their lies, corruption, pedophile activity, bribery, and of course, incompetance.
blogs.usatoday.com /ondeadline/2006/10/ney_pleads_guil.html   (4808 words)

  
 Scrooge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Richard Kelly, Lindsay Young Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
For in reality his target is not so much society as "human nature." He goes on to argue that Dickens was not a politician but a moralist: "He has no constructive suggestions, not even a clear grasp of the nature of the society he is attacking, only an emotional perception that something is wrong.
All he can finally say is, 'Behave decently,' which, as I suggested earlier, is not necessarily so shallow as it seems" (Orwell, 5, 71).
www.victorianweb.org /authors/dickens/kelly3.html   (1893 words)

  
 News for Austin, Texas | kvue.com | Movies
CANNES, France — In the first five minutes of Richard Kelly's Southland Tales, Texas is devastated by a series of terrorist nuclear attacks on the Fourth of July.
For the rest of the movie, nearly every evil politician is identified as being from Texas.
Kelly said he was trying to make a fl comedy about the near future, which is dominated by a corporation that has figured out a way to harness the sea's tides to provide all our energy needs.
www.kvue.com /sharedcontent/movies/movienews2/052206ccdrMOVIESsouthland.104e0d9a.html   (479 words)

  
 Donnie Darko: Director's Cut Movie Review - Donnie Darko: Director's Cut Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
Three years ago a first-time director named Richard Kelly came out with a film called "Donnie Darko," something about a borderline schizophrenic teen and his troubled relationship with a giant rabbit.
In Kelly's case, his nemesis wasn't a malevolent studio, but money and time.
His sister Elizabeth (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is waiting to see where she'll go to college, and there's a presidential election in less than a month.
www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=7011   (947 words)

  
 PoliticalMoneyLine
The major donor was Richard Collins Enterprises Inc (TX) $25,000.
Lederer was convicted in court of bribery, accepting a gratuity, and interstate travel to aid racketeering.
Richard Kelly, John Murphy and Frank Thompson were defeated in election before being convicted in court.
www.tray.com /fecinfo   (7392 words)

  
 Comic Book Resources - Comic Book News, Reviews and Commentary - Updated Daily!
Just recently Richard Kelly (born James Richard Kelly), director of DONNIE DARKO (and, perhaps not coincidentally, of the new SOUTHLAND TALES, which takes a firm anti-Patriot Act stand), was refused papers to travel to a film festival overseas.
Given director Kelly's fame and standing, this would seem an easy thing to clear up, but last I'd heard (it may have changed since) his papers had not been produced.
Virgin's Richard Branson has about as deep pockets as anyone, and, as I understand it, Virgin's primary market will be the Indian subcontinent, which may sport enough comics readers to keep them flush.
www.comicbookresources.com /columns/index.cgi?column=pd&article=2461   (5577 words)

  
 Sony Picks Up Southland Tales; Kelly in Editing Room - Cinematical
Despite the critical disaster that Cannes rendered Richard Kelly's Southland Tales, Sony Pictures has decided to take the plunge with the film, acquiring American theatrical and home video distribution rights.
Instead, Kelly himself is in the editing room now, completely overhauling the film with (supposedly) his own agenda.
Richard managed to make a better version of Donnie Darko after he re-edited it, I'm just hoping that he'll be able to do the same for Southland Tales.
www.cinematical.com /2006/06/30/sony-picks-up-southland-tales-kelly-in-editing-room   (660 words)

  
 Homeland Security Hassles Owner of Truck with Bumperstickers | The Progressive
While most of the politicians resigned, Myers had to be expelled and Williams did not resign until the vote on his expulsion was almost due.
Opposition politicians have rejected the government's view that the report exonerates the BND and the administration of former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
The guy is a great speaker, one of the few politicians these days that dares asks the great questions, tenacious and determined to do as much good as he can despite the fact that every since that one accident his reputation has never been repaired.
progressive.org /mag_mc022206   (7847 words)

  
 Rock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sony saw low voter turnout for its political thriller All the King's Men which was defeated in a landslide this weekend opening to a poor $3.8M, according to estimates.
The PG-13 reworking of the classic 1949 political thriller stars Sean Penn as a charismatic politician from the South who gains power and flirts with corruption in the process.
Apparently, Richard Kelly's "Southland Tales," which was met with much derision and disbelief at the Cannes Film Festival, will be getting a North American release courtesy of Sony Pictures...
www.rottentomatoes.com /p/the_rock/news.php   (9221 words)

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