When bad congressmen write bad screenplays
This is one of those ‘sock drawer’ items, where there are so many possible angles to a pithy little blog post that, well, we don’t know which sock we’re going to pull out of the drawer. Huntington Beach congressman Dana Rohrabacher turns out to have accepted a $23,000 option payment for a screenplay he wrote from indicted fake Hollywood producer Joseph Medawar, who faces a possible life sentence on twenty-three fraud-related counts.
The issue isn’t whether it was appropriate for Rohrabacher to sell a piece of creative intellectual labor as a congressman but whether the assistance he provided to Medawar (which in turn, aided Medawar in his fraudulent activities) after making the deal was quid pro quo, or if Rohrabacher was just helping out a constituent.
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