Linda Chavez is a Bunco Artist

So is her Husband, Christopher Gersten.

The Monday WaPo had a very very good article describing how Chavez and Gersten used a phony PAC to bilk people out of money. Only 1% of the money contributed went to politics. The rest went to salaries and expenses of Chavez, Gersten, and her friends and family.

Instead, most of the donations were channeled back into new fundraising efforts, and some were used to provide a modest but steady source of income for Chavez and four family members, who served as treasurers and consultants to the committees. Much of the remaining funds went to pay for expenses such as furniture, auto repairs and insurance, and rent for the Sterling office the groups share. Even Chavez's health insurance was paid for a time from political donations.

"I guess you could call it the family business," Chavez said in an interview.

There is nothing illegal about running political committees the way she and her family have done, and Chavez said that none of the money has been spent for personal items and that she has done nothing wrong.

They are useless, both of them. Linda Chavez is little more than a talking head, and Gersten took AIPAC down it's right wing Likudnik path.

In a community with a moral center, it is unlikely that either of them would ever work again. In Washington, DC, not so much. They probably got high fives from political consultants on both sides of the aisle.