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I accidentally stole a triathlon/running magazine this weekend from my LBS. Gotta go in today to pay for it.

Try that:

http://www.slate.com/id/2137895/%3C/a%3E

Fo... Bush Aide Charged in Felony Theft

Claude Allen had recently resigned as White House domestic-policy adviser.

Claude Allen

News today may shed light on the mystery of Allen's resignation. According to the Montgomery County Police Department, Allen was arrested yesterday and charged in a felony theft and a felony theft scheme. According to a department press release, Allen conducted approximately 25 fraudulent "refunds" in Target and Hecht's stores in Maryland. On Jan. 2, a Target employee apprehended Allen after observing him receive a refund for merchandise he had not purchased. Target then contacted the Montgomery County Police. According to a source familiar with the case, Target and the police had been observing Allen since October 2005.

Allen is charged with practicing a form of shoplifting called "refund fraud."

In general, a refund-fraud scam goes like this: You purchase an item—a CD player, let's say—and leave the store with it. Then you come back to the store and pick up exactly the same CD player; you take the CD player and receipt from the original purchase to the returns desk, claiming that this is the item you bought, and get a refund for it. You keep the original CD player, and pay nothing. Professional shoplifters like refund fraud because it's relatively safe. Since you never actually steal an object from the store, no one can chase you out to the parking lot. According to Richard Hollinger, a professor at the University of Florida-Gainesville and the author of the only yearly survey on retail theft, figures vary but "some say that figures lost to refund fraud reach $16 billion a year."

According to the department, Allen sought refunds for more than $5,000 in the past year. Allen allegedly stole items as expensive as a Bose theater system and a photo printer. Theft of more than $500 is a felony in Maryland.

Allen was released on his own recognizance. A message left at his home was not returned by the time of publication.

i worket at a target, and if I know anything, it's not to mess with them.  Eveyone thinks the KGB was dissolved with the fall of the USSR and they have been living in hiding ever since.  WRONG!  Target hired them all to be "assets protection."

They don't just go after you, they go after you, your family, and your friends.  They make old town Vegas look tame.

So that's where Kaizer Soze went... 

-C 

Nevermind.....

Where'd I say that? My point is if you're going to talk the talk, you should walk the walk.

There are more republicans in this administration apparently, under indictment or investigation than any one since the Nixon administration.

Well...this article is just about Claude Allen who worked in the Bush Whitehouse as a domestic policy advisor. But if you want a list, here's a quick one of Republican Officials or campaign contributors who are either currently under indictment, investigation, or have been named as "unindicted co-conspirators":

• Donald Rumsfeld (Abu Ghraib prison scandal)
• Karl Rove (Valerie Plame leak)
• Tom DeLay (illegal campaign contributions)
• Scooter Libby (Valerie Plame leak)
• Bob Ney (accepting bribes)
• Jack Abramoff (illegal campaign contributions)
• Adam Kidan (conspiracy/wire fraud)
  
• MIchael Scanlon (bribery)
• David Safavian (obstruction)
• Tony Rudy (Abramoff "unindicted co-conspirator"
  
• Tom Noe (money laundering/illegal campaign contributions)
• John Colyandro (illegal campaign contributions)
• Jim Ellis (illegal campaign contributions)
• Randy Cunningham (conspiracy/tax evasion)
• Mitchel Wade (conspiracy to commit bribery--see Bob Ney)
• Brent Wilkes (conspiracy to commit bribery--see Bob Ney)
• Neil Volz (conspiracy to commit bribery--see Bob Ney)
• Jim Tobin (New Hampshire "get out the vote" phone jamming scandal)
• Allan Raymond (New Hampshire "get out the vote" phone jamming scandal)
• Chuck McGee (New Hampshire "get out the vote" phone jamming scandal)
• Warren RoBold (illegal campaign contributions)
• Brent Pfeffer (conspiracy to commit bribery)
• William Jefferson (accepting bribes--"unindicted co-conspirator"
  
• John Michael (bribery)
• Thomas Kontogiannis (bribery)

And of course W. himself may be in a bit of trouble for illegal wiretaps.

Jim, if there was any question before, it has now become abundently clear that you have WAY too much time on your hands!

Kinda like all those guys I listed above will (hopefully) eventually have, wehn they're either out of jobs or in the pokey. 

What cracks me up is that you talk as though Republican politicans are the only ones who could possibly do something like that.  It's politicans in general doing this garbage (as is being metioned on another thread).

Google "Clinton Scandal" and you'll have enough reading to last you a lifetime.  I don't even begin to have time to list all the xxxxgate's that went on involving countless "top officials" to say nothing of the trail of bodies that the conspiracy theorists do so love to speculate about.

There's no need to add republican or democrat in front of the word politican for us to know they're probably slimy...

bts
 

LOL...and they set the gold standard that everyone thought was unapproachable.  We have met the enemy and he is us.

"Tough day for the Bush administration. A guy named Claude Allen has been arrested and charged in Maryland with swindling Target and some other department stores out of refunds. He allegedly made off without about $5000 or so which is officially the smallest amount of money ever stolen by a Republican." --Jimmy Kimmel

ba dum bump

"Bush's former domestic policy advisor Claude Allen, he's now charged with defrauding department stores. And when Bush heard about this he was stunned, he was shocked. He had no idea he had a domestic policy adviser." --David Letterman