IF YOU REALLY WANT TO DELVE INTO SCHLOZMAN:

The Western District of Missouri US Attorney office under Todd P. Graves had been active in prosecuting Medicare fraud. Medical Supply Chain, Inc.'s civil antitrust suit against Texas based Novation LLC, Volunteer Hospital Association (VHA), University Health System Consortium (UHC) and Neoforma, Inc. alleges the companies formed a cartel and were involved in a scheme to monopolize hospital supplies to defraud Medicare through payments to administrators and kickbacks.

He was replaced by Bradley J. Schlozman. Get this: He worked in the Justice Department - and was one of the primary guys who helped get approval for Tom DeLay's controversial Texas redistricting plan. In other words, a true Bush supporter. Schlozman not only didn't prosecute Medical Supply Chain's case, according to Lipari he helped get Lipari's lawyer disbarred:

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales used a little known provision of the USA PATRIOT Act to replace Todd P. Graves with Bradley Schlozman. Bradley Schlozman failed to prosecute public corruption related to the Medical Supply Chain litigation and failed to enforce civil rights laws related to the Novation LLC defendants success in getting Medical Supply Chain's counsel Bret D. Landrith disbarred. Samuel Lipari raised these concerns before the US Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit. On January 16, 2007 Attorney General Gonzales tried to quell criticism of the mass US Attorney firings and the misuse of the USA PATRIOT Act by announcing John Wood would be taking Schlozman's place in Kansas City.

John Wood:

John Wood, U.S. attorney in Kansas City, who's the husband of Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Julie Myers and an ex-deputy general counsel of the White House Office of Management and Budget.

So Kyle Sampson puts Todd Graves on the list of U.S. Attorneys to be fired. The new guy cones in and Liparai's case gets damaged, if not killed. Obviously there have been other reasons put forward for the firings of the USAt.s - but was one missed is the question. Today's article says Carol Lam was working on similar investigations when she was sacked. Were any of the others?

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=758013&mesg_id=758013

"...As I reported earlier this week, Schlozman apparently gauged potential recruits by whether they were active Republicans..."

Monica Goodling prior to coming to DOJ worked under Tim Griffin at the RNC doing opposition research. It would have ben VERY EASY for Goodling to determine the POLITICAL AFFILIATION of any CAREER EMPLOYEE that would enable Scholzman and others to retalaiate or get them fired if they weren't "Bushie" enough.

The role of Monica Goodling cannot be stressed enough here.

In short, Schlozman was a bully and an abusive pig, who did the dirty work his masters gave him to do. And he liked doing it.

Given the post yesterday:
Though Schlozman left office only last week, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney Office in western Missouri said that he had not left contact information. Even his home telephone number in Kansas City had been disconnected.

Where is he now? Is anyone tracking him down?

It's strange that he's seemingly disappeared. I figured he'd be heading right back to the DoJ mothership and a cushy seat at the right hand of Lord Gonzo.

He also brought charges against 3 time Democratic county executive Katheryn Shields, weeks before a mayoral race. She was indicted the day before she entered the race. She claims that she had been under politically motivated investigation for years, but without any indictments. Scholzman made it happen. There's a trail a set for June of this year.

The voter ID card scam was insidious for two reasons. The first, and most obvious, is the attempt to disenfranchise voters. The second is the cynicism of knowing this will appeal to the crackers, racists, and cave-men that are the Repubecan base.

Never trust a man who wears a gotee! NEVER! Why would you have hair growing around your mouth neatly trimmed? Maybe it's because in fact your a pussy!?

Things are indeed a-changing. I noticed over the last few years a trend in my workplace toward a strongman, "bullying" management style. Right now, hoever, those same bullies who were prospering since 2000 are being unmasked as incompetent in their posts and as bad managers of people who drove out talented workers to staff their department with hack toadies.

It's freakin' eerie. But watching it now feels damn good.

My husband and I have been saying from day 1 (or since election 2000) that RICO needs to be used to prosecute these guys. We've got a criminal racket run out of the White House and the RNC. Imagine how many corporations like the ones mentioned above thread (Medicare fraud) that have given money to the Republicans to make sure they are not prosecuted. Thank goodness we've got Joe Lieberman looking into the billions in Katrina fraud.
This is really scary. These guys need to be in jail and they will not go without a fight.

Or, um, "being laid out." Or "laid out."

Yeah.

Apart from the cases Schlozman opposed or supported, he achieved Dickie Boy Cheney's most ardent desire. He rid a section of the federal bureaucracy of its most talented people.

Poking holes in the fishnet of the Bush Mafia is easy; proving the facts needed to rid the government of them will be harder.

Equally essential, the Democrats have to determine what they are for, and agree on the concrete actions they will take to restore integrity and functioning to the federal govt, including its professional civil service. That'll take a long time, so they better start now.

They also have to act quickly to dismantle the supports for the unbridled abuses of power this administration has gone to such great lengths to construct.

If they don't do that immediately after they take the White House, they will end up like all the other ring bearers except Frodo. They will delude themselves into thinking that they can control and use wisely the power they've inherited. Rather than throw the ring into the fires of Mt. Doom, they'll use it as badly and corruptly as George Bush.

When I was in my early 20's I worked at a small bank run by big bullies. I eventually sued them for paying me less than the paid the man who had the job before I did. Once the investigation started it spread to other areas - until at last, not only were women promoted and/or paid equally, but the president and 3 vice presidents 'took early retirement.' They had bullied the folks there for years, but I got so mad I didn't care what they did to me (I was pretty sure whatever it was would be illegal, anyway) and I took them down. A mere woman, of whom they were contempuous.

My point being, more of the career folks in Justice should start coming forward and telling what has happened for the last 6 years. Bullies always give way in the face of determination and sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Personally due to a medical information loss at SSA headquarters, I wonder what this gentleman's relationship is to Blue Cross and Blue Shield. I have many reasons for asking. It might be interesting to find out how many AG's have relationships with Insurance and Drug companies.
( HINT HINT HINT)

GDubb has done so much damage it's going to take at least a decade to fix everything. Its not like all those career people in the Civil Rights division are going to come back and start working in 08. Plus, you have to get rid of the Regents' grads. I am sure they have fed employees' protections so its not like they are necessarily going to pack up and leave in 08. Same with the EPA,FEMA,CIA,CDC,DHS,HHS etc. etc. etc. I am so angry with the Joe Liebermans and Harold Fords of the world who helped this situtation along. I am not talking about ideology here. I am talking about getting rid of bright talented people who don't have to work at the comparative lowly paid govt jobs. We are talking about a brain drain.

Just look at the pic of this guy. He has nerd written all over him. No doubt he was constantly picked on growing up and now that he has some power to lord over others he does it with relish. He's a putz, pure and simple.

Texas based Novation LLC, Volunteer Hospital Association (VHA), University Health System Consortium (UHC) and Neoforma, Inc. alleges the companies formed a cartel and were involved in a scheme to monopolize hospital supplies to defraud Medicare through payments to administrators and kickbacks.

Dem Underground posted the two murders of Prosecutors investigating this Medicare fraud. Maybe that is why he disappeared - to the unnamed mediterranian country or whereever Ken Lay is now.

A conservative asked me if there were a list of the bush murders as there are so many extensive lists of the clinton murders.

@April 26, 2007 09:44 PM

A Bradley Sclozman of VA and KS is listed at WhitePages.com. Try link below.

See link below for Schlozman's DOJ bio.

B.A. - U. of PA
J.D. - George Washington U. Law School

Schlozman served a two-year federal judicial clerkship with Chief U.S. District Judge G. Thomas VanBebber of the District of Kansas. He then spent a year clerking for U.S. Circuit Judge Mary Beck Briscoe of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

In 1999, Mr. Schlozman moved to Washington, where he joined the Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Practice at Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White, LLP, before moving on to the Department of Justice in November 2001.

Josh,

Look closer at Blount. Katrina neeeded DMORT assistance, one of the Blount's biggest supporters/nepotism links was part of the Katrina mortuary billing, notorious for losing remains, mistagged, etc.

Last year I attended a two-day seminar where I believe Bradley Schlozman spoke. I remember the speech but don’t remember if it was Schlozman or not, but after reading your site and seeing the picture I think it was him. I remember because it was forceful, matter of fact and overall very disturbing for me. Here a year later it comes back to me. The seminar was the Midwest Anti-Money Laundering and Suspicious Activity Reporting Forum for Financial Institutions and Federal Law Enforcement, April 11-12, 2006 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Kansas City Missouri. In essence it was a seminar for financial institutions to learn more about federal and state agencies efforts to deal with money laundering and suspicious activity (9/11’s highjackers and their use of banks/wire transfer activity came up a few times).

Schlozman’s speech was rather long and he was just reading it so it wasn’t really a presentation or even a “let’s work together” deal. In effect, what I got out of it, and others in attendance might disagree, was, to paraphrase, ‘we want to enter your financial institution without subpoenas and we want you to give us anything we ask for and more and we don’t want you to fight ANY effort we make to look at your customers records.’ In other words, yeah, you have a right to ask for a subpoena and you can send us away when we show up without one, but we won’t like it and we will make your life miserable, because we can. It definitely left me with the impression that he doesn’t work for us, but we are to serve him and his office. Real creepy.

JoeD:

C'mon. Don't be coy! Tell us the name of the unnamed Mediterranean country.

I like to know whether I'm being insulted.

Just posted at washington post:

Fired U.S. Attorneys Will Meet in Seattle
Paul Kane, Washington Post

Normally, anything labeled "public policy forum" in the e-mail in-box gets automatically deleted here at Capitol Briefing, especially when it's being hosted in the "other" Washington, way out in Seattle.

But when it's a public policy forum on U.S. attorneys hosted by none other than John McKay, Capitol Briefing takes note!

McKay, the ousted U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington, is now a visiting professor at the Seattle University School of Law. On May 9 he's hosting a pair of his fellow fired federal prosecutors for a forum on the mass sackings last year.

Joining McKay will be David C. Iglesias, the former U.S. attorney for New Mexico, and Paul K. Charlton, the former prosecutor for Arizona. McKay, Iglesias and Charlton are three of the most controversial firings of the eight ousted prosecutors, because they were either conducting sensitive investigations of Republicans or under fire for not prosecuting Democrats around the time of their dismissals on Dec. 7. All three were also contacted by members of Congress or their staff at a sensitive time regarding ongoing criminal corruption investigations.

The four-hour symposium could spark sharp criticism of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the White House for alleged politicization of the Justice Department. One session is titled: "The 2007 Experience -- Myths and Realities: explanation of the current incidents, with comparison of historical similarities and differences."

McKay told the Senate and House Judiciary committees in early March that the chief of staff to Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) contacted him in early 2005 to inquire about alleged Democratic voter fraud in the 2004 gubernatorial election. McKay said he cut off the staffer -- Ed Cassidy, who now works for Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) -- before Cassidy ventured into inappropriate talks about an ongoing case.

Iglesias testified that Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) called him in the weeks before Wilson's razor-thin reelection last November. Iglesias said he felt pressured him to bring indictments against Albuquerque Democrats.

And Charlton has been in the news this week because of reports that he too was contacted by a staffer about a probe, this one an ongoing corruption investigation of the aide's boss, Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.).

Hastings and Cassidy deny the call to McKay was inappropriate. Domenici and Wilson admit they called Iglesias but deny pressuring him, although Domenici acknowledges he asked about the corruption case and has apologized for the call. Renzi has denied any wrongdoing and today issued a statement to Roll Call denying rumors of his retirement.

McKay's legal eagle panel also includes two law professors who've been highly critical of the political nature of the Justice Department under President Bush.

James Eisenstein, a law professor at Penn State and author of a book on U.S. attorneys, told The Washington Post's Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein that it was "very unusual" for Gonzales to appoint so many of his own top aides to the federal prosecutor outposts around the country.

And Laurie L. Levenson, professor at Loyola Law School, testified before Senate Judiciary Feb. 6 that "the increasing politicization of federal law enforcement" was having a "devastating impact on the morale" in U.S. attorney's offices around the nation.

Incidentally, former Rep. Rick White (R-Wash.), one of three finalists to replace McKay, may want to attend the legal forum -- and not just to learn of the travails of being a federal prosecutor. White isn't allowed to practice law in Washington because he still needs 20 to 30 "continuing law education" credits. While White can't practice law, he has run a TechNet, a large high-tech lobbying association in Washington. And he's been a GOP donor, including $1,000 checks the past two election cycles to Rep. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.), the lawmaker who forwarded White's name to the White House for consideration.

But Luckily, according to the press release for the symposium, lawyers can get 3.5 credits for their required continuing legal education to maintain their law license.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2007/04/fired_us_attorneys_convening_i.html

it's time to start putting together the "bottom line" from the u.s. attorneys purge/no-purge affair -

an enumeration of each of the legal/media actions taken against specific democratic candidates or campaigns in 2006 in order to influence the outcome of an election.

which u.s. attorneys attempted to influence the outcome of an election by filing charges?

biskupic did, schlossman did,

who else?

whether a sitting attorney, like buskopic,

or a replacement attorney, like schlossman.

which elections were influenced?

what similar patterns show up in 2004? or 2002?

Hmm..., this guy sounds a lot like John Bolton. But again, none of this sounds illegal, it's just the way it works with political appointees. Sure Republicans are more merciless in their means, but for them, nothing short of their way of life is at stake. A way of life that has as its premise a Hobbesian world view, and insulating themselves from that Hobbesian reality through whatever means necessary, and justified by their specialness for being 'Christians'. Let's call them christofacsists.

Two words: "Watergate Babies".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_babies

Bob Kengle is hardly someone to be taken seriously. The number of investigations he inflated and the stories he concocted at Justice are well known.

Don't believe it? Why is it you're quick to believe one personal attack but not another?

We both know the answer.

Someone (or a group of people) need to knit all these activities together into a narrative that stands as the "theory of the crime." The activities of Karl Rove, the DOJ, the U.S. Attorneys' offices, the packing of courts, the stealing of two presidential elections, and the likely stealing of some seats through fraud in the 2002 midterms, indicate a multi-pronged domestic conspiracy. Then there is the breaking of the law to spy on Americans and the suspension of habeas corpus; the entire Patriot Act. Of course, it is Cheney who is at the center of the conspiracy to wage a war for fraudulent reasons and all the ensuing war profiteering. These people should certainly be charged under the RICO statute.

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