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Curt Weldon Now Confirmed Liar, Too
One of the 2006 Philadelphia Will Do People of the Year, ex-U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon, is already making news in 2007. Yesterday, the House Ethics committee released a statement saying Weldon agreed to repay $23K from a lobbying trip, the Daily News‘ Bob Warner writes. The repayment, no doubt part of a scheme by Nancy Pelosi, Jane Fonda and FDR, didn’t say where Weldon went, who paid for it or really any details that might prove of interest to anyone. But it does clear up that Curt Weldon was lying — the Daily News says “misleading” — when he said he had been investigated and cleared by the House ethics committee before the election. It probably, though, has something to do with his daughter, as the trip took place in Jan. 2003 and — surprise! — two of his three trips that month were to firms that later became clients of her and Weldon buddy Charlie Sexton’s consulting firm. Surely this is all a conspiracy, though. Weldon, in reversal, to repay $23G [Daily News] |
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I think $23k in travel expenses is the least of Weldon’s worries. I have been documenting information about Weldon and his contributors at the TPM Cafe with some very interesting results.
For example, Media PA-based lobbyist, Cecilia Grimes and her partner, Cynthia Young (Rep. C. W. Bill Young’s daughter-in-law) made federal campaign contributions as executives of Galaxy Scientific in 2004 even though they were supposed to be lobbyists at the time.
One of Grimes & Young’s client, Dynamic Defense Materials (DDM), has ties to another defense contractor, High Performance Materials Group, LLC (DDM). HPMG was awarded a $5 million contract to produce 20,000 ceramic inserts for body armor in January 2004 but HPMG produced only 346 pieces in 11 months.
I suspect that an Austrian financier, Heinz Schimmelbusch, who operates out of 435 Devon Park Drive in Wayne PA, is behind the body armor business even though NJ businessman, Robert Lipinski, is the owner of DDM.
Heck, I even traced Weldon’s 2000 purchase of his house to federal contractor, Frank Mongelluzzi, who is based in Rep. Young’s district.
How about all… Curt’s Weldon’s Ex-Girlfriends who got jobs “filing their nails” in the Delaware County Courthouse working under, around and on, Judge Jimbo F. Proud’s, legendary record of incompetence or just plain “blackmail”?
Weldon has ex-girlfriends? After reading about Grimes, I wondered if she was Weldon’s girlfriend. From her online photo, she appears to be an attractive woman in her ’40s.
According to her online bio, Grimes was appointed to a three-year term on a state commission board in 1997 which would indicate that Grimes had political connections then. The appointment also gave her an excuse to be away from home.
I don’t think anyone believes that Grimes just happened to find a house to rent to Robert and Cynthia Young two doors from her own house. Nor does anyone believe that Grimes became partners with Cynthia Young in the lobbying business because they hit it off so well.
The lobbyist business was probably an idea cooked up by Weldon and C. W. Bill Young before the Youngs moved to Media.