FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 3, 2010
CONTACT: JAMES SLEPIAN
James@Renacciforcongress.com
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While Still Refusing to Return Rangel’s Money, Two More Boccieri Donors Indicted for Corruption
Canton, OH—Following yesterday’s news that John Boccieri’s network of corrupt donors expanded beyond Charlie Rangel to include Anthony Cafaro Sr., who was indicted last Thursday on corruption charges, FEC reports show that Boccieri also took thousands of dollars from John Reardon and John McNally—both of whom were also indicted last week. Reardon, the former Mahoning County Treasurer, was indicted on a slew of corruption charges including perjury, conspiracy and filing false financial disclosures with the state Ethics Commission. Mahoning County Commissioner John McNally was also indicted on a string of corruption charges including bribery, perjury and conspiracy. Throughout his career, Boccieri has accepted nearly $2,500 from McNally and Reardon, $1,750 of which was donated to Boccieri’s congressional campaign committee.
News of Reardon and McNally’s financial ties to Boccieri comes on the heels of numerous media reports detailing Boccieri’s refusal to part with the $69,829 he took from embattled Congressman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y), who was charged with 13 ethics violations by a House panel last week. The discovery of a growing pool of corrupt contributors and criminals with ties to Boccieri’s political operation—combined with his failure to return any of their donations, is raising new questions each day about Boccieri’s own ethics. While dozens of Boccieri’s Democratic colleagues in the House have already returned Rangel’s donations and called on him to resign, so far Boccieri has refused to do either.
“While John Boccieri takes a sledge hammer to our economy and our district suffers through double digit unemployment, he has been lining his own pockets with nearly $100,000 in corrupt cash. In the past 7 days alone, John Boccieri has been tied to four deeply corrupt financial supporters—three of whom are under indictment, yet he continues to ignore calls to return their money and condemn their conduct. At this point the people of the 16th district realize that John Boccieri won’t ever cut his strings from Nancy Pelosi, but they do expect and deserve him to cut his ties to the criminals that are financing his campaign,” Jim Renacci said today.