By Demian Brady June 5, 2021
Washington bureaucrats have stymied efforts to ensure that a law against the practice is being enforced.
Members of Congress convicted of corruption should be legally prohibited from receiving taxpayer money. This is simple common sense, as even Congress itself agrees. Yet federal bureaucrats have stymied efforts to make it so.
After several high-profile scandals involving politicians, the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act (HLOGA) of 2007 specified corruption-related crimes that would lead to the loss of a lawmaker's congressional pension. Additional crimes were added to the list in 2012 by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act.
Since these restrictions could not be applied retroactively, the
National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF) monitored the criminal cases
of crooked politicians to see who would be the first to lose a pension.
It looked like it would be Representative Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.) who was
found guilty of 23 charges of corruption and sentenced to ten years in
prison in 2016. Fattah's 22 years in Congress would have entitled him to
a $55,000 annual pension assuming he opted for the maximum benefit
level, had he not been convicted........To Read More....
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