Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Mass. GOP Official Resigns After Charges

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Latest Breaking News Donate to DU
 
Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:08 PM
Original message
Mass. GOP Official Resigns After Charges
Mass. GOP Official Resigns After Charges

Wednesday September 14, 2005 6:46 PM


BOSTON, Mass. (AP) - The vice chairman of the state Republican Party resigned after a federal sting led to money-laundering charges accusing him of offering to ``cleanse'' drug proceeds for a legal client.

Lawrence Novak, an attorney, was arrested at his home Tuesday after investigators said he allegedly offered to launder drug profits for Scott Holyoke. Novak resigned his party position on Tuesday after his release on bond.

Holyoke is awaiting trial on federal drug trafficking charges and agreed to be a cooperating witness against Novak for the FBI.

Novak allegedly offered to have Holyoke sign false affidavits in an attempt to gain a reduced sentence for Holyoke. Holyoke told Novak that he had more than $100,000 in cash in a safe deposit box, repeatedly telling Novak that the money was drug proceeds, according to an affidavit filed by Lauren Youngquist, an Internal Revenue Service agent.
(snip/...)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5278053,00.html



Lawrence Novak

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:11 PM
Response to Original message
1. Gee, maybe we won't have to ty to unseat the Pubs. They'll
soon all be arrested, indicted, or jailed!!!!!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
iconoclastic cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:13 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. Don't worry. Jail is their natural habitat. n/t
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 06:38 PM
Response to Reply #2
22. No sweat. He can bunk in with the Repug ex-governor of CT.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:13 PM
Response to Original message
3. This ass clown looks like a Rush/Karl lovechild
:puke:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
blossomstar Donating Member (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:20 PM
Response to Reply #3
4. That is so funny!!!!! THANKS for the good LAUGH!!!! How true!
why is it that these creaps have a certain "look"... it's like they are all related! Soft skin, shifty eyes, mostly overweight, judgemental look on their face! Repukes!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:23 PM
Response to Reply #4
5. Doughy is the word I am going for....
:rofl:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
arikara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:30 PM
Response to Reply #4
7. So true
We were watching a bit about Roberts where they were featuring a couple of repukes and showing closeups of Roberts. My husband remarked that all those republicans have the same eyes of the devil. Its true. The blackness of their souls does shine out through their piggy eyes.

...no offense meant to pigs...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MGKrebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:42 PM
Response to Reply #4
16. Any comments about his wife and kids while your at it?
I'm just sayin'...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:48 PM
Response to Reply #4
18. As pudgy and out of shape as they are, they all want to know
Edited on Wed Sep-14-05 03:52 PM by Judi Lynn
there are young American men and women who are in harm's way, who are also running themselves ragged, slaughtering lots of other people the Republicans want out of the road, just because the Republican chickenhawks want them to do it, and have created a collossal lie to explain why they're doing it.

Republicans want the freedom to get as big as all outdoors, through gluttony, sloth, etc., while depending upon the labor of people they refuse to pay properly for their services. Yep, they're real freedom lovers.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
OKthatsIT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:25 PM
Response to Reply #3
6. LOL...that's a RIOT!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
leftofcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:14 PM
Response to Reply #3
11. with Newt in the middle. n/t
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:38 PM
Response to Reply #11
12. OMG A PIG NEWTON sandwich!
:puke:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Shoeempress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 01:40 PM
Response to Original message
8. Here's a link to Mass. Board of Bar Overseers decisions.
You can follow his bar proceedings.

http://www.mass.gov/obcbbo/decisions.htm
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
kilgore65 Donating Member (97 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:05 PM
Response to Reply #8
9. God, what an obese shithead loser...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MissMarple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 02:14 PM
Response to Original message
10. Oh, you guys. There are decent people who look like he does.
Come on.....resist the urge to act like gossipy 5th graders. I did. :crazy:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Spirochete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:09 PM
Response to Original message
13. One Novak down...
one to go.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Frances Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:37 PM
Response to Reply #13
14. Is this Novak related to the Novak who identified Plame?
nt
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Spirochete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:44 PM
Response to Reply #14
17. I have no idea
but they're brothers under the skin. I think I'll even hunt up Kim Novak, and slap her once, just in case. hehe
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Akoto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 03:40 PM
Response to Original message
15. How can this be?! Republicans are honest and moral folks!
This story must be some sort of malevolent liberal plot based on falsified evidence.

...

:hide:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 05:25 PM
Response to Original message
19. The Party of Personal Responsibility
strikes (out) again.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 05:39 PM
Response to Original message
20. Vice-chair Novac has been flushed down the ol' memory hole! Help needed!
Edited on Wed Sep-14-05 05:44 PM by paineinthearse
I searched http://www.massgop.com/ There is not one mention or photo of Vice Chair Novac. Down the ol' memory hole so fast?

Great job, GOP webmaster!!!

But wait, there are other rethug sites to comb for images, let's capture all we can before these are scrubbed:

Mass GOP Chartered Organizations

Barnstable Republican Town Committee
http://www.barnstablegop.com

Cape Cod Republican Club
http://www.capecodgop.org

Concord Republican Town Committee
http://www.concordgop.com

Malden Republican City Committee
http://www.maldenrepublicancity
committee.com

Massachusetts Alliance of College Republicans
http://www.ma.college
republicans.org

Massachusetts Asian American Republican
Association
http://www.asianrepublican.org

Massachusetts Federation of Republican Women
http://www.nfrw.org/statefederations/massachusetts.htm

Massachusetts Federation of Young Republicans
http://www.massyr.net

Massachusetts Republican Assembly
http://www.ma-ra.org

Western Mass. Republican Club
http://www.westernmass
republicans.com

Worcester County Republican Club
http://www.worcestercountyrepublicanclub.com
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 06:36 PM
Response to Original message
21. That's terrible news! It's like 25% of the state's republicans quitting.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhahaha.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
slay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 07:01 PM
Response to Original message
23. Now if only the rest of the corrupt GOP would follow suit
we might actually be able to save this country.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Fri May 03rd 2024, 06:58 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Latest Breaking News Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC