Back when the first indictment of Jimmy Dimora went public and everyone got to read about his alleged taste for hookers and sex with woman who are not named Mrs. Dimora, we had a half-cocked idea to go find the ladies he allegedly slept with and grill them.
Logistically, how did that work?
Was there a contraption to hold up his stomach?
Was it worth whatever you were paid? Seriously, was it worth it?
It never happened, mainly because we really didn’t want the answers to any of those questions.
Testimony the last two days in Dimora’s trial, however, indicates we would not have had to look very far to find one of these women: she was an escort who advertised in the back of this very magazine. You’re welcome, Jimmy. And here we thought we weren’t friends. Turns out you were leafing past all the pages where we eviscerated you and flipping straight to the boobs. Jimmy, maybe you would have known people were onto you earlier if you had just taken the time to actually read the stuff in our paper before looking for nookie. Oh well.
Details after the jump.
This article appears in Jan 18-24, 2012.
Everyone does know that this is a diversion from the reality of where our tax money and higher-up white collar bribes and crime are happening. While we worry about who Jimmy porked and how much some other little guy paid for his sexual favor, the real money flows into the hands of the 1% ever-so-rich legal thieves. Like Mitt, an under fifteen percent tax rate is the norm for the rulers of the USA. Jimmy and Frank and gang are just little guys who thought they were connected to power and money, but they were just set-ups for the real power which you never will hear about. Not that Jimmy is not a grabby and greedy little creep, but he has no real power and never did. All which he thought he had was an illusion. Chump change gets distributed daily and Jimmy and Frank were nothing but chumps….cards to be played by the power structure at the right time. OK, it’s time to play the Cuyahoga card and get our boys into office. We can probably even get our boy JK the governorship if we play the Jimmy and Frank cards right in Cuyahoga. The PD is with us so we can make the libtards look really crooked and sleazy and dirty. Then OWS blew the whistle on the 1% and now the game has changed. 2012 looks to be a land slide for the democrats. Sherrod Brown is not as easy to attack with ugly million dollar pieces of crap-film as the right wing thought. The wheels are coming off of the once decent republican party and they do not look capable of changing fast enough to restore any trust. Censorship does not seem to be as easy as the media has had it for the last thirty years. The controlled Columbus media will soon be exposed and the FCC will have to take away the grandfather pass given to the Wolfe family and the republican party. Even the tons of money from underwear boy will not trump the freedom of speech in Ohio. The shift started last year and will crank up big time in the next two-three months. OWS and OC and the whole USA will protest peacefully against the rulers of our country..the 1% have had it all their way long enough. Debate them in the open areas like the City Club and broadcast the debates. Play them over and over once a clear cut winner is seen and educate the country properly.
Judging from the size of Jimmy D’s bulging stomach, maybe the “sexual services” involved a scantily-clad female feeding him plates and plates of food?
Kenny, your dribble is due to ignorance or envy. Which is it? The 15% capital gains tax rate has helped hundreds of millions with pensions and 401k retirement benefits. That 15% tax rate made a 20% savings of taxable income from dividends that helped increase the retirement portfolios of every person with a pension (mostly union members) and white collar employees that have a 401k. That savings was also reinvested back into the stock market which helps feed the economic engine.
Few individuals such as Romney, Buffett, and the late Steve Jobs (the 0.5%’rs) have the ability to take their income in strictly dividends. Their tax accountants were smart to tie their incomes to something associated with the middle class masses. The right moves in the stock market can reap good benefits but at the same time it can bite you hard as it did with Buffett. In 2010 Buffett investments lost about $10 billion (20% of this total value, not including his other assets like his home). His total value went from $49 billion down to $39 billion.
Also keep in mind the $39 billion Buffett value is on paper only. Its an illusionary number. If Buffett tried to liquidate his stocks, unlike you or me, he’d have to list the intentions with the SEC because of the size of his shares, which then becomes public knowledge. By the time he was allowed to sell his shares, the stock value would plummet from his followers selling before he did. He would be LUCKY to get about 1/10 of their current value. So in reality, those that live by dividend income are also sort of prisoners to the markets. Whereas, if you keep your money in a bank, there is little risk, and also little reward, BUT when you withdraw it, its still the same amount as what is listed on your savings passbook.
By the way Kenny, you too can do the same as Romney, Buffett, and Jobs. As Nike has always said…”Just do it”. Just take all your savings and put it into the stock market. Or are you adverse to risky endeavors? Those men took great risks and are being rewarded. The bigger the risk, the bigger the reward. Usually you read stories about those that made it but rarely you ever read or remember the stories of the failures. Why? Because once a wealthy person is poor, he/she is not newsworthy anymore. He/she becomes one of us 99%’rs.
If you look at the membership of the 1% over the past 60 years you will see a high turnover rate. From the Fortune Magazine article I read, less than 10% of the 1% have stayed on the list. More have lost their fortunes than those that have stayed on the list. Lets see, any Mellons on the list? Doubt it. Any Rockefellers? Doubt it. Those two were once the wealthiest individuals in the world 80-90 years ago and at a greater income disparity than today’s wealthiest to middle class ratio.
So you are willing to raise the tax rate of capital gains to go after about 31,200* ultra wealthy American individuals while at the same time hurt 10’s of millions in their retirement portfolios? Its a double edged sword and it cuts both ways.
*1/10 of 1% of the US population of 312,000,000 equals about 31,200.
kenmer..it was nice of you to take the time to explain some of these things going on in today’s society which points fingers at the 1% who have worked harder and risked milions more than regular guys like you and I.
My dribble is due to ignorance and envy and arrogance and many more emotions and dysfunctions. All I know is that I am a vet who went to college on the GI Bill in 72′. I went into business and became one of the best salesmen in the country in a high-tech area of industrial, micro-processor based systems used in manufacturing. I started several businesses in the area and I intend on starting more. My goals are to create jobs and to manufacture and assemble products that can help people. I care little of money and savings and 401k’s and other such discussions. That would be partly because I lost everything five years ago..everything from house, cars, health insurance, manufacturing equipment…everything…at the peak of my business I had just under twenty employees all of whom were given good wages and good benefits even if it took me having to go deeper in debt to make payroll and about two hundred thousand dollars per month in costs of business, mostly hi-tech equipment to be installed on production lines all over the state of Ohio and Michigan.
I am in the proscess of making a great come-back as a result of intellectual property which I have created. I have fought with lawyers and accountants and MBA’s who think that law and money are more important than spirit and invention.
So according to this testimony, rubbing jelly doughnuts all over his face was a sexual turn on?