Jobsgate
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Jobsgate refers to the scandal in the Obama Administration where someone in the White House allegedly offered Congressman Joe Sestak a federal job in exchange for his withdrawal from the primary against incumbent U.S. Senator Michael Bennet.[1][2] Under American law, it is a federal crime to offer someone a federal position in exchange for favors.[3][4]
| “ | Jobsgate, as we call it here, refers to the emphatic charge of Congressman Joe Sestak, the Pennsylvania Democrat challenging Senator Arlen Specter for renomination, that someone (unnamed) in the Obama White House offered him a job if he would withdraw his candidacy. [...] Senator Arlen Specter, on Friday, said that making this offer, as Sestak claims was done, is a federal crime. And that Sestak may be committing "misprision of a felony" simply by not reporting a federal crime to the proper authorities.[3] | ” |
References
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- ↑ Jeffrey Lord. Specter Opens Door on White House Felonies, The American Spectator, March 16, 2010.
- ↑ Tim Shoemaker. Jobsgate: Obama's Watergate?, Campaign For Liberty, March 18, 2010.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jeffrey Lord. Gibbs' Jobsgate Stonewall: Day 23, The American Spectator, March 18, 2010.
- ↑ Watergate to Jobsgate, VOX, March 17, 2010.