BushCo Crooks List Grows ...

Josh is compiling a thorough list of the bad and the ugly ...
* Lester Crawford ... Pleaded guilty to conflict of interest and making false statements.
* Carl Truscott - ... wasted tens of thousands of dollars on luxuries, wasted millions on whimsical management decisions and violated ethics rules by ordering employees to help his nephew with a high school video project.
* Joseph Schmitz - ... personally intervened to protect top political appointees.
* Brian Doyle - ... child sex scandal. Pleaded no contest to 32 criminal counts.
* Claude Allen ... pleaded guilty to shoplifting from Target stores.
* David Safavian ... convicted of lying to ethics officials and Senate investigators about his ties to lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
* Steven Griles ... under investigation by the Justice Department for his ties to Jack Abramoff.
* Susan Ralston ... accepted thousands of dollars in gifts from Abramoff without compensating him, counter to White House ethics rules.
* Dusty Foggo ... corruption in connection to the Duke Cunningham scandal. Under investigation.
* Larry Franklin ... pleaded guilty to passing secrets to Israel.
* Janet Rehnquist ... blocked a politically dangerous probe on behalf of the Bush family.
* Roger Stillwell ... pleaded guilty to failing to report Redskins tickets and free dinners from Jack Abramoff.
* Ken Tomlinson ... broke laws in spending CPB money to hire politically connected consultants to search for "bias" without consulting the board ... running a "horse racing operation" out of his office ... hired politically-wired individuals to do "consulting" work for him. He's still there.
* George Deutsch ... prevented the agency's top climate scientist from speaking publicly about global warming.
* Richard Perle ... conflict-of-interest charges.
* Frank Figueroa ... pleaded no contest to exposing himself to 16-year-old girl in Florida mall. Girl says he fondled himself for ten minutes.
* James Roche ... rather crudely pushed for Boeing to win a $23 billion contract.
* Darleen Druyun ... pleaded guilty and sentenced to nine months in prison for her role in the Boeing tanker lease scandal.
* Philip Cooney ... watered down reports on global warming.