April 21, 2010 06:49 PM UTC

At Least He's Not Your Former House Speaker

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• by: jaytee

Federal investigators are circling fiscal conservative Marco “Tea Party” Rubio for using his special Republican Party AmEx card to spend on his personal life. He didn’t leave home without it! Here, though, is how the investigation got underway:

The U.S. attorney’s office in Tallahassee, the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service are all involved in the probe, which grew out of the state investigation into former House Speaker Ray Sansom. He was indicted on criminal charges that he stashed $6 million in the state budget for an airplane hangar for a friend and campaign donor. […]

Doh! I guess if you’re gonna steal, think big.