Henry Cisneros  Democrat  US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from  to  Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of lying to the FBIJames A Traficant Jr Democrat  Member of House of Representatives from Ohio Expelled from Congress after being convicted of corruption charges Sentenced today to eight years in prison for accepting bribes and kickbacks John Doug Hays  Democrat  member of Kentucky State Senate from  to  Found guilty of mail fraud for submitting false campaign reports stemming from an unsuccessful run for judge He was sentenced to six months in prison to be followed by six months of home confinement and three years of probation  xcxaxcxaHenry J Cianfrani  Democrat  Pennsylvania State Senate from  to  Convicted on federal charges of racketeering and mail fraud for padding his Senate payroll Sentenced to five years in federal prison David Hall  Democrat  Governor of Oklahoma from  to  Indicted on extortion and conspiracy charges Convicted and sentenced to three years in prisonJohn A Celona  Democrat  A former state senator was charged with the three counts of mail fraud Federal prosecutors accused him of defrauding the state and collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars from CVS Corp and others while serving in the legislature Celona has agreed to plead guilty to taking money from the CVS pharmacy chain and other companies that had interest in legislation Under the deal Celona agreed to cooperate with investigators He faces up to five years in federal prison on each of the three counts and a  fine xcxaAllan Turner Howe  Democrat  US Representative from Utah from  to  Arrested for soliciting a policewoman posing as a p rostituteJerry Cosentino  Democrat  Illinois State Treasurer Pleaded guilty to bank fraud  fined  and sentenced to nine months home confinementJoseph Waggonner Jr  Democrat  US Representative from Louisiana from  to   Arrested in Washington DC for soliciting a policewoman posing as a p rostitute nnLafayette Thomas  Democrat  Candidate for Tennessee State House of Representatives in  Sheriff of Davidson County from  to  Indicted in federal court on  counts of abusing his power as sheriff Pleaded guilty to theft and mail fraud sentenced to five years in prisonMary Rose Oakar  Democrat  US Representative from Ohio from  to  Pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of funneling  through fake donorsDavid Giles  Democrat  candidate for US Representative from Washington in  and  Convicted in June  of child r apeGary Siplin  Democrat state senator Florida found guilty of thirddegree grand theft of  or more a felony and using services of employees for his candidacyEdward Mezvinsky  Democrat  US Representative from Iowa from  to  Indicted on  federal fraud chargesxcxaLena Swanson  Democrat  Member of Washington State Senate in  Pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting unlawful payments from veterans and former prisoners of warAbraham J Hirschfeld  Democrat  candidate in Democratic primary for US Senator from New York in  and  Offered Paula Jones  million to drop her s exual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton Convicted in  of trying to hire a hit man to k ill his business partner nnFrank Thompson Jr  Democrat  US Representative from New Jersey from  to  Implicated in the Abscam sting convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges Sentenced to three years in prisonMichael Joseph Myers  Democrat  US Representative from Pennsylvania from  to  xcxaAlcee Lamar Hastings  Democrat  US Representative from Florida Impeached and removed from office as federal judge in  over bribery chargesxexxaMarion Barry  Democrat  mayor of Washington DC from  to  and again from  to  Convicted of cocaine possession after being caught on videotape smoking crack cocaine Sentenced to six months in prisonxexxaMario Biaggi  Democrat  US Representative from New York from  to  Indicted on federal charges that he had accepted bribes in return for influence on federal contractsConvicted of obstructing justice and accepting illegal gratuities Tried in  on federal racketeering charges and convicted on  felony countsxexxaLee Alexander  Democrat  Mayor of Syracuse NY from  to  Was indicted over a  million kickback scandal Pleaded guilty to racketeering and tax evasion charges Served six years in prisonxcxaBill Campbell  Democrat  Mayor of Atlanta Indicted and charged with fraud over claims he accepted improper payments from contractors seeking city contracts xexxaFrank Ballance  Democrat  Congressman North Carolina Pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering related to mishandling of money by his charitable foundation Hazel OLeary  Democrat  Secretary of Energy during the Clinton Administration  Oleary took trips all over the world as Secretary with as many  staff members and at times rented a plane which was used by Madonna during her concert tours nnDan Walker  Democrat governor of Illinois from to  served less than two years of a sevenyear sentence for receiving improper loans a decade after leaving office Gerry Eastman Studds  Democrat  US Representative from Massachusetts from  to  The first openly g ay member of Congress Censured by the House of Representatives for having s exual relations with a teenage House pageHiram Monserrate Queens City Councilman and state Senatorelect  who has claimed to be an advocate of victims of domestic violence  was arrested for breaking a glass over his girlfriends face Monserrate  a former cop won election to the state Senate as a Democrat in November  James C Green  Democrat  North Carolina State House of Representatives from  to  Charged with accepting a bribe from an undercover FBI agent but was acquitted Convicted of tax evasion in xcxaFrederick Richmond  Democrat  US Representative from New York from  to  Arrested in Washington DC in  for soliciting s ex from a minor and from an undercover police officer  pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor Also  charged with tax evasion marijuana possession and improper payments to a federal employee  pleaded guiltyxcxaRaymond Lederer  Democrat  US Representative from Pennsylvania from  to  Implicated in the Abscam sting  convicted of bribery and sentenced to three years in prison and fined Harrison Arlington Williams Jr  Democrat  US Senator from New Jersey from  to  Implicated in the Abscam sting Allegedly accepted an  interest in a titanium mine Convicted of nine counts of bribery conspiracy receiving an unlawful gratuity conflict of interest and interstate travel in aid of racketeering Sentenced to three years in prison and fined  nDaniel David Rostenkowski  Democrat  US Representative from Illinois from  to  Indicted on  felony charges pleaded guilty to two counts of misuse of public funds and sentenced to seventeen months in federal prisonMelvin Jay Reynolds  Democrat US Representative from Illinois from  to  Convicted on sexual misconduct and obstruction of justice charges and sentenced to five years in prison Wayne Bryant  Democrat NJ state senator was convicted was found guilty on all  counts against him including bribery and pension fraudCharles Coles Diggs Jr  Democrat  US Representative from Michigan from  to  Convicted on eleven counts of mail fraud and filing false payroll forms sentenced to three years in prisonGeorge Rogers  Democrat  Massachusetts State House of Representatives from  to  Member of Massachusetts State Senate from  to  Convicted of bribery in  and sentenced to two years in prisonDon Siegelman  Democrat Governor Alabama  indicted in a bidrigging scheme involving a maternitycare program The charges accused Siegelman and his former chief of staff of helping Tuscaloosa physician Phillip Bobo rig bids Siegelman was accused of moving  from the state education budget to the State Fire College in Tuscaloosa so Bobo could use the money to pay off a competitor for a state contract for maternity care John Murtha Jr  Democrat  US Representative from Pennsylvania Implicated in the Abscam sting in which FBI agents impersonating A rab businessmen offered bribes to political figures Murtha was cited as an unindicted coconspiratorOtto Kerner  Democrat governor of Illinois from  to  was jailed after the manager of two horseracing tracks admitted to bribing the then governor charges were filed after Kerner left office he was convicted in nBarney Frank  Democrat  US Representative from Massachusetts from  to present Admitted to having paid Stephen L Gobie a male p rostitute for s ex and subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant Gobie used the congressmans Washington apartment for p rostitution A move to expel Frank from the House of Representatives failed and a motion to censure him failed under a Democratic majorityDNC  The Federal Election Commission imposed  in fines against participants in the  Democratic Party fundraising scandals involving contributions from China Korea and other foreign sources The Federal Election Commission said it decided to drop cases against contributors of more than  million in illegal DNC contributions because the respondents left the country or the corporations are defunct Sandy Berger  Democrat  National Security Advisor during the Clinton Administration Berger fined  for illegally removing highly classified documents and handwritten notes from the National Archives during preparations for the Sept  commission hearingsxcxaRobert Torricelli  Democrat  Withdrew from the  Senate race with less than  days before the election because of controversy over personal gifts he took from a major campaign donor and questions about campaign donations from   James McGreevey  Democrat  New Jersey Governor  Admitted to having a gay affair Resigned after allegations of sexual harassment rumors of being blackmailed on top of fundraising investigations and indictmentsJesse Jackson  Democrat  Democratic candidate for President Admitted to having an extramarital affair and fathering a illegitimate childGary Condit  Democrat  US Democratic Congressman from California Condit had an affair with an intern Condit covered up the affair and lied to police after she went missing No charges were ever filed against Condit Her remains were discovered in a Washington DC parkxcxaEliot Spitzer Democrat  New York governor  resigned from office after being tied to a p rostitution ringSowande Ajumoke Omokunde  Democrat  the son of newly elected US Rep Gwen Moore was booked on charges of criminal damage to property for allegedly slashing tires on  vans and cars rented by the Republican Party for use in Election Day voter turnout efforts nnAnthony Weiner  Democrat  Takes pictures of his p enis and t weets it to under age teen and six other women while his wife is carrying his child His p enis ends up on the internet for all of time and resigns from officeJohn Edwards  Democrat  Extramarital affair admitted to in August  by John Edwards a former United States Senator from North Carolina and Democratic Party presidential candidate The affair was initially reported by The National Enquirer an American supermarket tabloid newspaper but was given little or no coverage by many sources in the American mainstream media The Enquirer cited claims by an anonymous source that Edwards had engaged in the affair with Rielle Hunter a filmmaker hired to work for his presidential campaign and that the relationship had produced a child Durin the time when his wife made a announcement that her cancer had returned and was found to be incurable Elizabeth died on December  xcxaMaxine Watersxcxa  Democrat  As a congressional ethics panel prepares to try Maxine Waters for steering federal funds to her husbandxexxs failing bank a newspaper reports that the veteran California lawmaker is embroiled in a separate corruption scandal involving her beloved hubby xexxaxexxaxexxaxexxaCiting federal records the story says that a powerful lobbyist paid Watersxexx banker husband Sidney Williams  in xexxcconsulting feesxexxd as she cosponsored a law aimed at saving a business that was among the lobbyistxexxs top clients The Internal Revenue Service IRS had determined that the real estate finance firm and others like it were xexxcscamsxexxd and the congresswomanxexxs measure would have overturned a federal ban that would have allowed the shady enterprises to keep raking in lucrative profitsFor years the firms acted as a middleman to help sellers finance down payments so that lowincome buyers could qualify for mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration FHA The lobbyist who paid Watersxexx husband represented the nationxexxs largest such middleman Sacramentbased Nehemiah Corp which stood to lose hundreds of millions of dollars if the ban wasnxexxt reversed by friendly lawmakers like Waters Implemented in  the federal ban was never overturned but not for lack of effort on Watersxexx part The tenterm congresswoman sponsored legislation three times to stop the ban or repeal it once it became law She claims she did it because the program allowed hundreds of thousands of lowincome families to become homeowners News of this latest scandal comes as the House Ethics Committee prepares to try Waters for using her influence to steer  million in federal bailout funds to a failing bank that subsequently got shut down by the government in which she and her board member husband held shares A few months ago the congresswoman got in trouble again for skirting federal elections rules with a crooked fundraising gimmick that allows her to receive unlimited amounts of donations from certain contributors Instead of raising most of her campaign funds from individuals and political action committees Waters sells her endorsement to other politicians and political causes for as much as  a pop allowing her to rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars in short periods of time Neil Goldschmidt xexx Democrat xexx Oregon governor Admitted to having an illegal sexual relationship with a yearold teenager while he was serving as Mayor of PortlandxcxaxcxaWilliam Jefferson Clinton Democrat xcxa Impeached by the House of Representatives over allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice but acquitted by the Senate after a s ex a scandal with an internEdward Moore Kennedy  Democrat  U S Senator from Massachusetts Pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after his car plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechnen