Alcee Hastings — a longtime Florida representative in the House who was elected to Congress after he was impeached as judge — died Tuesday morning, the Orlando Sun-Sentinel reported.
…And now we’ll see if De Santis slow walks an election…RIP Rep. Hastings.
Crook Dies, Will Hopefully Be Replaced By Someone Less Prone To Bribery.
A lifetime of service and we only focus on a single charge. I would like to think of him as a man who rose quick, failed, picked himself up and provided decades of valuable service to his constituents.
The crook found not guilty by a jury? I don’t know anything about Hastings outside of the info in this article, so I’d like to hear what you know that makes you believe he was guilty. That’s not a challenge - I’m just looking for more info.
Counterpoint: Crooked judges are the worst human beings on the planet.
I have known about Alcee Hastings for more than 30 years. The man was impeached and removed from office for bribery, the evidence of which was quite extensive. He was acquitted at his criminal trial because his previously-convicted co-conspirator who had actually collected the cash refused to testify.
ETA: The articles of impeachment, issued by an overwhelmingly Democratic House of Representatives, were approved by a vote of 413-3. The crooked judge was guilty as hell.
The Pennsylvania “kids for cash” judicial scandal being one of the worst.
Being a Texas Lawyer, you should know.
Seen one way, Al Hastings was a contradiction. When he began, South Florida was no better for African-Americans than any other part of the country and he stood courageously against the oppression. Alas he also worked on behalf of himself, rather too assiduously.
Here he was in happier times:
“Truth in Government.”
The photograph was taken fifty years ago, before he was appointed to the bench.
Yes, and even after being elected to the House his misconduct continued.
No comment.
OK, good to know, thanks. I see on wiki that he was known for being the poorest congressman, but also that he was accused of nepotism hires and misuse of taxpayer money.
The only reason he was “poor” on the books was that he nominally owed millions of dollars to the attorneys who defended him at trial and in the impeachment. I assume those obligations were written off, resulting in it all being taxable income to Hastings. He certainly was generous and creative to himself and his cronies with his uses of public funds and campaign donations, although I don’t know of anything post-judiciary that rose to the level of criminal offenses.
Followed by crooked AGs and DAs.
Fully agreed. Hastings is far from the only civil rights advocate who ended up doing a lot of good in office while also getting their own beaks wet. We’ve had more than a few of them here in Dallas.
O lord have we.
Seems to me that, knowing that he was dying, Hastings should not have run in 2020. He has jeopardized the Democrats’ hold on the House.
Strategizing by considering one’s own mortality like that must be very difficult. Even RBG took the risk, thinking Hillary would be the next president, and wanting to be a part of that. Then she hoped she’d make it through the end of trump’s (hopefully) one term. 
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Nope. TMFWSNBN was not a crooked judge. Ergo…
