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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1005660" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><strong>Alcee Lamar Hastings</strong> (born September 5, 1936) is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" target="_blank">U.S. Representative</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%27s_23rd_congressional_district" target="_blank">Florida's 23rd congressional district</a>, serving since 1993. He is a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29" target="_blank">Democratic Party</a>. He is one of only eight federal officials in American history to be impeached and removed from office.</p><p>In 1977, he became a judge of the circuit court of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broward_County,_Florida" target="_blank">Broward County, Florida</a>. In 1979, he was appointed by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" target="_blank">Carter</a> as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_district_court" target="_blank">U.S. District Judge</a> for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Southern_District_of_Florida" target="_blank">Southern District of Florida</a>.</p><p> In 1981, Hastings was charged with accepting a $150,000 bribe in exchange for a lenient sentence and a return of seized assets for 21 counts of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeering" target="_blank">racketeering</a> by Frank and Thomas Romano, and of perjury in his testimony about the case. In 1983, he was acquitted by a jury after his alleged co-conspirator, William Borders, refused to testify in court (resulting in a jail sentence for Borders).[SUP]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcee_Hastings#cite_note-0" target="_blank">[1]</a>[/SUP]</p><p> In 1988, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives took up the case, and Hastings was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States" target="_blank">impeached</a> for bribery and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perjury" target="_blank">perjury</a> by a vote of 413-3. He was then convicted in 1989 by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" target="_blank">United States Senate</a>, becoming the sixth federal judge in the history of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States" target="_blank">United States</a> to be removed from office by the Senate. The Senate, in two hours of roll calls, voted on 11 of the 17 articles of impeachment. It convicted Hastings of eight of the 11 articles. The vote on the first article was 69 for and 26 opposed,[SUP]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcee_Hastings#cite_note-1" target="_blank">[2]</a>[/SUP] providing five votes more than the two-thirds of those present that were needed to convict. The first article accused the judge of conspiracy. Conviction on any single article was enough to remove the judge from office. The Senate vote cut across party lines, with Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_J._Leahy" target="_blank">Patrick J. Leahy</a>, Democrat of Vermont, voting to convict his fellow party member, and Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlen_Specter" target="_blank">Arlen Specter</a>, Republican of Pennsylvania, voting to acquit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1005660, member: 12952"] [B]Alcee Lamar Hastings[/B] (born September 5, 1936) is the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives"]U.S. Representative[/URL] for [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%27s_23rd_congressional_district"]Florida's 23rd congressional district[/URL], serving since 1993. He is a member of the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29"]Democratic Party[/URL]. He is one of only eight federal officials in American history to be impeached and removed from office. In 1977, he became a judge of the circuit court of [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broward_County,_Florida"]Broward County, Florida[/URL]. In 1979, he was appointed by President [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter"]Carter[/URL] as a [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_district_court"]U.S. District Judge[/URL] for the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Southern_District_of_Florida"]Southern District of Florida[/URL]. In 1981, Hastings was charged with accepting a $150,000 bribe in exchange for a lenient sentence and a return of seized assets for 21 counts of [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeering"]racketeering[/URL] by Frank and Thomas Romano, and of perjury in his testimony about the case. In 1983, he was acquitted by a jury after his alleged co-conspirator, William Borders, refused to testify in court (resulting in a jail sentence for Borders).[SUP][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcee_Hastings#cite_note-0"][1][/URL][/SUP] In 1988, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives took up the case, and Hastings was [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States"]impeached[/URL] for bribery and [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perjury"]perjury[/URL] by a vote of 413-3. He was then convicted in 1989 by the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate"]United States Senate[/URL], becoming the sixth federal judge in the history of the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States"]United States[/URL] to be removed from office by the Senate. The Senate, in two hours of roll calls, voted on 11 of the 17 articles of impeachment. It convicted Hastings of eight of the 11 articles. The vote on the first article was 69 for and 26 opposed,[SUP][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcee_Hastings#cite_note-1"][2][/URL][/SUP] providing five votes more than the two-thirds of those present that were needed to convict. The first article accused the judge of conspiracy. Conviction on any single article was enough to remove the judge from office. The Senate vote cut across party lines, with Senator [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_J._Leahy"]Patrick J. Leahy[/URL], Democrat of Vermont, voting to convict his fellow party member, and Senator [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlen_Specter"]Arlen Specter[/URL], Republican of Pennsylvania, voting to acquit. [/QUOTE]
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