re: How many of you have seen the Budd Dwyer video on YouTube?

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Filter made a hit song about it.

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If you know the story of this incident, you really feel for Dwyer. Though he never accepted bribery, he was on a crooked company's "to bribe" list during a bidding process for a contract to organize paying PA citizens back the taxes they'd overpaid. The scheme came to light, and everyone else on the list cut deals with the authorities, leaving Budd standing holding the bag.

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It was revealed at Dwyer's trial that Dwyer sought and won approval for special legislation that authorized him to recover the FICA overpayments, and that coded computer tape seized from CTA's office in July 1984 showed that Dwyer was to receive a $300,000 pay-off for awarding CTA the contract.[7] Moreover, Smith and Torquato's claims about Dwyer being bribed were corroborated by four independent and impartial witnesses,[8] and Smith's testimony against Dwyer was virtually identical to written statements Smith made long before entering into a plea agreement.[9]. Dwyer maintained that he awarded CTA the contract on the basis of his task force recommendation, yet this conflicted with the fact that Dwyer himself personally handled all matters relating to the contract six days prior to awarding it to CTA.[10] Moreover, Dwyer awarded the contract to CTA— an obscure Californian firm with few employees and little equipment— despite being informed by the major Pennsylvanian-based accounting firm Arthur Young and Associates that they could perform the FICA recovery as fast as, and at half the price than, CTA.

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There is one on live leak in Venezuela of some guys chopping of a mans head with a dull axe. The man was still alive when they started swinging it. It's the worst thing I've ever seen in my life.

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