James Traficant
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James Anthony Traficant Jr. (May 8, 1941 – September 27, 2014) was a Democratic, later independent, politician, and member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio.
He represented the 17th Congressional District, which focused on his hometown of Youngstown and included portions of three counties in northeast Ohio's Mahoning Valley.
He was booted from the House after being found guilty of taking bribes, filing false tax returns, racketeering, and coerceding his aides to perform household duties at his Ohio farm and houseboat in Washington, D.C. After serving a seven-year term, he was sentenced to jail and released on September 2, 2009. Traficant died on September 27, 2014, as a result of injuries suffered in a traffic collision several days earlier when his tractor turned over as he was driving it into his barn.
Early life and education
Traficant was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and was the son of Agnes (née Farkas) and James Anthony Traficant Sr. He was mainly of Italian and Hungarian descent. Traficant graduated from Cardinal Mooney High School in 1959 before receiving a B.S. In 1963, the University of Pittsburgh received a bachelor's degree in education. He was a quarterback for Pitt's football team, and his teammates included Mike Ditka. Traficant was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1963 and played for the Steelers and the Oakland Raiders of the American Football League, but did not play professionally. He later obtained an M.S. In 1973, the University of Pittsburgh earned a master's degree in counseling as well as a second master's degree in education from Youngstown State University.
Prison and later life
Traficant entered Allenwood Low, a federal Correctional Facility, on August 6, 2002, despite the Federal Bureau of Prisons ID # 31213-060. He spent his first seventeen months at Allenwood. After his arrival for solitary detention as a result of the incitement to riot, he told a guard, "People can't hear you." "Speak up" is a word that has been a big influence in society. Traficant refused any visitors during his seven years of detention, saying he didn't want him to see him. He was released on September 2, 2009, at the age of 68, and was subjected to three years of probation.
Traficant spent time in prison with the help of neo-Nazi David Duke, who pleaded for visitors to contribute to his personal fund. Duke wrote a letter by Traficant, claiming that the US Department of Justice had criticized him for, among other things, helping John Demjanjuk. Traficant also stated in the letter that he knew the truth about "Waco, Ruby Ridge, Pan Am Flight 103, Jimmy Hoffa, and the John F. Kennedy assassination," which he may reveal in the future. Michael Collins Piper, a writer who wrote Target: Traficant, and The Untold Story, a journalist, said, "There's stuff I've written about Traficant that's turning up in places I don't even know." It's like (six) degrees of separation with the Internet now, and Traficant has no implied links to Duke.
On September 2, 2009, a criminal was released from jail. 1,200 supporters welcomed him home at a banquet with an Elvis impersonator and a Traficant lookalike competition on September 6, 2009. On T-shirts, the phrase "Welcome home Jimbo" was printed. "I think it's time to tell the FBI and the IRS that this is our country, and we're worn down," Trump said, "tired of the pressure, irritated by the political exploitation, and sick of a centralized government that is crippling America." He also suggested that he might run for his old seat in Congress. In January 2010, Traficant signed a limited, three-month deal to work as a part-time weekend talk radio host for Cleveland's news/talk station WTAM. If he wanted to run for office, his deal enabled him to resign.
A column in the American Free Press continued his defense of convicted concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk on November 2, 2009. Michael Collins Piper defended Traficant against his accusers.
Traficant was allowed to run in September 2010 for the same position he had before his dismissal, and he announced that his platform would be to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Traficant lost the election to his former aide Tim Ryan, to whom he lost a previous election in 2002, in which Traficant ran as an outsider from his prison cell. Traficant received 30,556 votes, or 16%.
Post-prison life
He was elected as a guest speaker at a Tea Party rally in Columbiana, Ohio, among other events associated with reactionary politics, following his release from jail.
Traficant started a grassroots movement in July 2014, called "Project Freedom USA" for, among other things, compelled Congress to remove the IRS from the Treasury and "divorce" the Federal Reserve.
Early career
Traficant was the Youngstown Community Action Program's consumer finance manager at the start of his career. At Youngstown State University and Kent State University, as well as lecturing on opioid use and recovery for colleges and government agencies outside of Ohio, he taught classes on heroin and alcohol use and recovery. In addition, Traficant was a graduate of the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy. He served as the executive director of Mahoning County Drug Program from 1971 to 1981, as well as Sheriff of Mahoning County from 1981 to 1985. Traficant made national news when refusing to serve foreclosure orders on several unemployed homeowners, many of whom had been left out of work. Following the closures and relocations of steel manufacturing and steel-related companies, this endeared him to the local population, which was dealing with a dwindling economy. Traficant's time in Youngstown was a focus of Crooked City: Youngstown, OH, a Marc Smerling-produced podcast.
He was charged in 1983 with racketeering for receiving bribes. Traficant, a witness who testified himself, argued that he accepted the bribes only as part of his own alleged undercover probe into corruption. Traficant was cleared of the charges and became the first person to win a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) case while defending himself.
Traficant's local exposure was boosted by the RICO trial's publicity. He was elected as a Democrat to Congress from Ohio's 17th District, defeating Lyle Williams, a three-term Republican incumbent. He was reelected eight times without a single protest.
He was found guilty of ten criminal charges, including bribery, racketeering, and tax evasion in 2002.