And no, as Teach notes, it's NOT Tom Delay. In this case, it's a Democrat Congressman who embezzled and stole taxpayer money. He's gone to jail for 4 years.

He's also been told to "give back" over $200,000 "to the taxpayers." That will likely just drop into the "special" personal check-writing funds of legislators.

Now what this person did was take taxpayer money and place it into a "foundation" that he controlled, and then he spent the money however he wanted. What did he do wrong? He put the money in the foundation instead of spending it directly!

Seriously! The "leaders" of the North Carolina General Assembly have personal checkbooks that they can use to write checks of any amount for any purpose, with literally millions of dollars in those accounts. They aren't voted on by anyone, the money is just spent wherever they want to spend it.

Now tell me how it's illegal when funneled through a foundation, but not illegal to do EXACTLY the same thing without using a foundation? Oh wait -- the one who got caught was using federal funds, while the other guys are using North Carolina funds. I see. Do you?

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