Tennessee Campaign For Liberty
18Jun/123

Is Diane Black The Most Corrupt Member Of Congress?

A judge in Tennessee has found that ethics allegations against Representative Diane Black are "true".

From the article:

David Black, husband of Diane Black (R-Gallatin), and his drug testing firm, Aegis Sciences Corporation, filed suit in the midst of a hotly contested U.S. House primary campaign against Lou Ann Zelenik in 2010 after her campaign began airing ads that accused Black of steering millions of dollars in no-bid state contracts to her husband’s firm through her position as a state senator, in violation of state law.

“The communication was true or at least substantially true,” reads the April ruling by Binkley, who sided with Zelenik and summarily dismissed Black’s lawsuit as frivolous....

Documents reveal accusations of Black and her husband profiting from her political power in the state senate were nothing new, having been copied nearly word-for-word from a Tennessee Democratic Party mailer during Black’s 2008 re-election campaign for state senate.

Additionally, Black’s actions were detailed in a December 2007 issue of The Gallatin Newspaper, and were the subject of a WSMV Channel 4 News investigation in January of the same year....

Black and her husband are in the process of building what could be the largest residence in the state, a palatial 27,000-square foot home on Old Hickory Lake in her home county of Sumner, and her required  financial disclosures indicate millions of dollars in yearly profits from Aegis and other ventures.

She is listed as one of the wealthiest members of Congress, and, since her election to the U.S. House of Representatives, Aegis Sciences has expanded heavily by winning additional drug testing contracts nationwide.

SOURCE: http://www.murfreesboropost.com/charges-of-ethics-violations-substantially-true--cms-31530

 

This makes perfect sense given her previous behavior:

Diane Black FAILS Small Government Test!

Diane Black Votes For More Spending Again!

Is Lt. Gov Ron Ramsey Corrupt With Congresswoman Diane Black? (DNA Bill)

DNA bill scandal possibly uncovered in TN?

Diane Black’s personal finances

Diane Black voted for pork and waste

Tea Party REJECTS Diane Black

Diane Black Votes For More Debt

Comments (3) Trackbacks (1)
  1. Can you really do anything to get her out? Send that lying bastard Bob Corker his walking papers too. All these blogs articles and news stories talk about this stuff but know there is nothing we can do about it. If there was you would tell us what to do.

  2. Did I miss something or did those minority women owned business grants by the US Government benefit the Zelenik (“51% minority’) construction business, or was that subsidy for undocumented workers who her company hired?

    In any event I hope the Black family continues creating hundreds more jobs for Middle Tennesseans. We need the work.

  3. Stealing from one group of people to give jobs to another is immoral. Read “The Law” by Fredric Bastiat to understand the concept of “legal plunder”.


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