What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to Briggs are you
sick of politics yet I am I'm also really done with people doing things
that get themselves indicted to almost every week we get a story of an elected
official involved in a bribery a fraud or some other form of corruption
normally the higher up the official the higher chance they have of walking or
just getting a slap on the wrist in a little light jail sentence in past
videos we talked about corrupt states cities and mayors today I thought we
should look at the states that sent corrupt people to Congress I could do
three videos just on conviction since 2000 I could probably do a month's worth
if I went all the way back to the beginning in the country we are only
doing people that were convicted in this video please don't leave comments about
how I missed someone that's never been convicted I don't care how strongly you
feel about your conspiracies and we don't need links to Facebook groups that
detail all their dirty deeds if we're gonna talk about corrupt lawmakers we
should probably start with number 10 New York representative Michael Grimm the
Empire State sent Michael Grimm to Congress and he didn't stay long Michael
Grimm is an American businessman convicted felon Marine Corps veteran and
politician who represented New York in the United States Congress from 2011 to
2015 the congressman was indicted in 2013 on 20 counts involving tax fraud in
connection with a Manhattan restaurant video and with some other people he
pleaded guilty to felony tax evasion and was sentenced to eight months in prison
he was released on may 20th 2016 after serving only seven months got an extra
month off for being a good boy I guess he thinks New Yorkers are either dumb or
have a really short memory cuz little over a year after getting out of prison
he ran again on October 1st 2017 rim launched a campaign to attempt to win
back his old house seat in New York's 11th district on June 26 2018 he lost
his Republican primary and we haven't heard from him since I'm sure some
people have but really not in the news number nine Pennsylvania Rep Chaka
Fattah in August of 2014 Fox's longtime aide and close confidant
Gregory Naylor pled guilty to federal charges in a money laundering scheme to
hide a million dollar loan to the candidate
or failed campaign to be mayor in 2007 now the loan was paid back you've seen
federal grant money intended for nonprofit organizations affiliated with
Fattah so apparently he needed a million dollars more than the cause the money
was intended for Chaka Fattah is a man of the people I guess all those
nonprofit groups and charities you know they could do without the million bucks
thought I needed it the congressman was indicted in 2015 on charges of
racketeering and taking an illegal million dollar campaign loan he was
sentenced to ten years in federal prison number eight Arizona the Grand Canyon
State sent Rick Renzi to Congress in 2003 and on February 22nd 2008 a federal
grand jury in Arizona handed up a 35 count indictment charging Renzi with
conspiracy wire fraud money laundering extortion insurance fraud corruption and
influence peddling from a scam involving a federal land exchange that included
property in Arizona he was convicted in 2013 on 17 felonies and served three
years in prison now he tried a couple different things
peels couple different appeals and he finally asked for a pardon from
President Trump and I think they lost his pardon request in the mail because
nothing ever happened with it in the and II served all his time and got out of
jail in January of 2017 he was a busy boy while in office and no word on if
he's gonna try and run again number seven Florida the Sunshine State sent
Corrine brown to Congress Corrine brown is a former politician and current
inmate who served as a member of the US House of Representatives from Florida
from 1993 to 2017 so she'd been there a while and I'm sure she had a good grasp
of all the rules the congresswoman was indicted in 2016 on fraud and conspiracy
charges tied to allegations that she and two
associates solicited donations for education scholarships from minority
students and then diverted most of the funds to their own accounts she was
convicted in 2017 and sentenced to five years in prison Corrine brown lost her
appeal on January 10th of this year 2020 she's still in the big house and it
looks like she'll get the full ride number six Louisiana the Pelican state
sent William Jefferson to Congress in 1991 like so many others I'm sure he saw
the memo about not taking envelopes of cash from people he really know well the
congressman was indicted in 2007 on charges of accepting about a half a
million dollars in bribes ninety thousand of which was hidden in a
freezer at his home and well that was until the FBI found it he was convicted
and sentenced to 13 years in prison on November 13 2009 Jefferson was given the
bad news that he had a reservation at the federal prison for bribery and
corruption he is a record holder he got the longest sentence ever given to a
congressman at 13 years yeah he began serving finally after some Appeals in
May of 2012 at the federal prison in Beaumont Texas at least he got out of
Louisiana I think they still got chain gangs there they got a backwards prison
system from everything I've read number 5 Texas the Lone Star State sent Steve
Stockman it's a tongue twister to Congress twice in two different
districts Steve Stockman served as the US Representative for Texas's 9th
congressional district from 1995 to 1997 then for the 36th congressional district
from 2013 to 2015 now my favorite story about this dude is a story of
humiliation the 1992 Republican National Convention was held in Houston Stockman
organized a congressional cruise on the Houston shipping channel as a
fundraising opportunity but no members of Congress attended he was like there
alone with his supporters and nobody else
he wasn't very popular a Democrat actually defeated him 56 percent to 44
that's kind of hard to do in Texas Stockman ran in the Republican primary
for the United States Senate in 2014 but lost to incumbent John Cornyn losing to
Cornyn would seem like a good time if he knew what was going to happen next on
March of 2017 Stockman was arrested for using contributions meant for charity to
fund his campaign and of course his personal use on November 7th 2018 he was
sentenced to serve 10 years in prison and ordered to pay over a million
dollars in restitution and then that was to be followed by three years of
supervised release Stockman is incarcerated at a facility in the
federal prison system in Beaumont Texas and is scheduled to be released on
December 26th 2026 good luck Steve number for North
Carolina the Tar Heel State sent Frank balance to Congress after he had been a
member of the North Carolina State Senate for almost 15 years he's an
attorney you know the guys that went to school to learn about what's legal and
what a on September 2nd 2004 ballots was indicted on federal charges including
money laundering mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud the
charges arose after allegations were made that balance took 2.3 million in
state funds he secured as a state senator for the John a Hyman Memorial
Youth Foundation and he used the cash to enrich himself his family and his church
at least he was given money to the church you know he can't be all that bad
right idiot anyway he did his time and sadly passed away almost exactly a year
ago today about two days ago actually it was a year
number-three Illinois the Land of Lincoln sent Jesse Jackson jr. to
Congress in 1995 he was representing Illinois 2nd congressional district in
the United States House of Representatives and tell his resignation
in 2012 his son of activist and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson jr. pleaded guilty on February 20th 2013 to one count of wire
and mail fraud in connection with his misuse of 750,000 campaign dollars now I
get a hard time for my wife if I misuse $100 but this guy spent seven hundred
fifty thousand dollars of somebody else's money and finally got in trouble
anyway Jackson was sentenced to two and a half years he was released in the
morning of June 22nd 2015 and spent the remaining sentence in a halfway house
number two New York the Empire State gave Congress a real
piece of work recently Christopher Collins served as the US Representative
for New York's 27th congressional district from 2013 until his resignation
in 2019 Collins the former western New York congressman who admitted his role
in an insider trading scheme was sentenced to more than two years in
prison he jumped into the spotlight in 2016 as the first member of Congress to
endorse Donald Trump's presidential campaign on December 9th 2019 Collins
and the SEC agreed that Collins would be permanently barred from acting as an
officer for any publicly traded company in January of this year
federal prosecutors req that Collin's receive a maximum prison
sentence nearly 5 years in prison on january 17th of this year he was
sentenced and Cullen's got 26 months in prison I don't think he's checked into
his new digs yet but I'm sure that's coming soon since there's not many
appeals when you you know kind of admit it you know and make a deal and number
one California the Golden State sent us this nugget duncan hunter duncan duane
hunter is a politician who served as the US Representative for California's 50th
congressional district from 2013 to 2020 in August of 2018 a federal grand jury
indicted hunter and his wife on 60 counts of wire fraud falsifying records
campaign finance violations and conspiracy the San Diego US Attorney's
Office accused the couple of conspiring to misuse about a quarter of a million
dollars in campaign funds for personal expenses as well as filing false
campaign finance reports personal expenses charged to the campaign
included vacations to Italy and Hawaii theatre tickets purchases on the gaming
platform steam the indictment says that hunter wanted to buy some shorts for
himself and his wife suggested that he falsely report the purchase as golf
balls for the Wounded Warrior Project which that did fly on another occasion
he tried to unsuccessfully arrange a tour of a Navy base in Italy to cover
the family's vacation when the Navy couldn't arrange something on the date
hunter wanted he told his chief of staff to tell the Navy and I won't use the
real word but it was till the Navy to go F themselves that's what he officially
sent over to him dickweed the indictment also alleges that hunter
spent campaign money on personal relationships with five different women
in the Washington DC area he's getting a divorce
the sentencing was scheduled for March 17th 2020 he faces a maximum penalty of
five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 yeah he's in deep I don't think
we're gonna be hearing much from him in the political forum for quite some time
alright so that is my list the most corrupt congressional representatives
and the state they're from hope you guys enjoyed it hope you guys got some
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