McGreevey Donor Pleads Guilty

By JEFFREY GOLD

NEWARK, N.J. - A major donor to embattled Gov. James E. McGreevey pleaded guilty Wednesday to tax violations and charges stemming from a witness tampering scheme in which he was accused of having a prostitute seduce his own brother-in-law.

Real estate mogul Charles Kushner pleaded guilty in federal court to 18 charges, including retaliating against a federal witness and violating campaign finance laws.

Kushner also pleaded guilty to 16 counts of filing false tax returns through various real estate partnerships. McGreevey was not implicated in the criminal complaint against Kushner.

Kushner, flanked by his two attorneys, stood before U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares and answered a nearly hourlong series of questions.

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The headline you never saw and will never see.

Compare that to the opening line in this Associated Press story: "A major donor to embattled Gov. James E. McGreevey pleaded guilty..." under a headline that reads: "McGreevey Donor Pleads Guilty".

Folks and dear friends at the DU, if you do not believe that there is an orchestrated effort by the national media to destroy John Kerry's chances to take back the White House, then please take off your rose colored spectacles.

CNN is now openly hostile to John Kerry and going beyond General Electric (NBC) and Fox to influence the public against the Democratic Candidate.

Remember, I warned many of you here who were joyous at the Media's destruction of Howard Dean that this would happen to John Kerry, too.

As DemStrategist recently posted here, the enemy is not the Bush Campaign as much as it is the national media. We ignore this at our own peril.

Sometimes Nader is right: the enemy of American Democracy is the 2 party system.