{"id":240,"date":"2003-12-02T01:30:21","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T06:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/congressional_bribery\/"},"modified":"2003-12-02T01:30:21","modified_gmt":"2003-12-02T06:30:21","slug":"congressional_bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/congressional_bribery\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Bribery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/novak\/cst-edt-novak27.html\">Bob Novak&#8217;s Thanksgiving column on Rep. Nick Smith<\/a> can be believed, someone <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2091787\/\">should be in trouble<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marc Miller, a Washington attorney who advises clients on ethics issues, told Chatterbox that what Novak described not only looked like &#8220;a slam-dunk violation of the bribery law&#8221; but probably also included &#8220;a smorgasbord of other criminal violations.&#8221; Rep. Smith, Miller said, &#8220;should really be sharing the specifics with the Justice Department.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[sarcasm]I&#8217;m sure a DOJ investigation is already underway.[\/sarcasm]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/congressional_bribery\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Congressional Bribery?\"><p>If Bob Novak&#8217;s Thanksgiving column on Rep. Nick Smith can be believed, someone should be in trouble: Marc Miller, a Washington attorney who advises clients on ethics issues, told Chatterbox that what Novak described not only looked like &#8220;a slam-dunk violation of the bribery law&#8221; but probably also included &#8220;a smorgasbord of other criminal violations.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}