The Corrupt List (Beta)

United States of America

United States of America

• George W. Bush- George Walker Bush is the 43rd and current President of the United States. Nine months into George W. Bush's presidency, nineteen hijackers sponsored by al Qaeda carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• Dick Cheney- Richard Bruce Cheney is the 46th and current Vice President of the United States. In the private sector, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services; he is still a major stockholder.
• John Negroponte- John Dimitri Negroponte is currently serving as the first ever Director of National Intelligence. Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985 during which time he supported and carried out an extreme US-sponsored policy of severe violations to human rights and international law.
• Bill O'Reilly- Bill O'Reilly is host of The O'Reilly Factor on the FOX news channel, an objective independent news analyst with a no-spin zone. In reality, he's a biased Republican with an all spin-zone.
• Alberto R. Gonzales- 80th Attorney General of the United States.
• Harry Reid- Harry Mason Reid is the senior United States Senator from Nevada and a member of the Democratic Party. Reid is the U.S. Senate Majority Leader in the 110th Congress. He took over Senate leadership after the Democratic Party won control of the Senate in the 2006 congressional elections.
• Jim McDermott- James Adelbert "Jim" McDermott is the current U.S. Representative for Washington's 7th congressional district. The 7th District includes most of Seattle and Vashon Island and portions of Shoreline, Tukwila, SeaTac, and Burien.
• Jeb Bush- John Ellis "Jeb" Bush is a Republican politician, and was the forty-third Governor of Florida from 1999-2007. He is a prominent member of the Bush family, the younger brother of President George W. Bush and the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush.
• Trent Lott- Chester Trent Lott, Sr. is a United States Senator from Mississippi and a member of the Republican Party. Trent Lott forced to relinquish his position as Senate Majority Leader after he stated that the United States would have been better off if segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond had won the presidency in 1948.
• John Boehner- John Andrew Boehner was elected House Majority Leader after Tom DeLay was forced to resign from the post after a criminal indictment. His political action committee collected nearly $300,000 from private student lending companies and for-profit academic institutions from 2003-2004. He has taken more than $157,000 in free trips, placing him in 7th place for such questionable activity. More than 20 of his staff members have taken jobs in the private sector as lobbyists or corporate public affairs specialists. He handed out checks to his colleagues from tobacco company political action committees on the floor of Congress in 1995. He will undoubtedly use this key position to undercut ethics and lobbying reforms in the House of Representatives.
• Karl Rove- Karl Christian Rove is Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush. Rove's election campaign clients have included Bush , Senator John Ashcroft, Bill Clements, John Cornyn, Rick Perry, and Phil Gramm.
• Jack Abramof- Abramoff is at the center of a massive public corruption investigation by the Department of Justice that, in the end, could involve as many as a dozen members of Congress. Abramoff pleaded guilty to conspiracy, fraud and a host of other charges on January 3, 2006, and was sent to prison in November to serve a five-year, 10-month sentence for defrauding banks of $23 million in Florida in 2000.
• Sen. Hillary Clinton- In January 2006, Hillary Clinton’s fundraising operation was fined $35,000 by the Federal Election Commission for failing to accurately report more than $700,000 in contributions to Clinton’s Senate 2000 campaign.