Maureen McDonnell's daughter trashes her mother to help her father

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Maureen McDonnell's daughter trashes her mother to help her father

By Petula Dvorak Columnist December 29 at 2:32 PM
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No, the crowning crime against Virginia motherhood was the public evisceration of the state’s former first lady, Maureen McDonnell — by attorneys, by her husband and, in the end, by her daughter.

The same grown children who helped trigger the federal investigation that led to their parents’ trial and convictions; the adult kids who allegedly raided the state’s executive mansion for glasses, pots and pans, and stacks and stacks of food, crates of eggs and cases of alcohol; who had a wedding catering bill paid for; who flitted across the country on a private jet; who played $2,000 golf rounds and took a $10,000 party gift — now at least one of them blames Mom. ... Yuck.

Convicted along with her husband, former governor Robert F. McDonnell (R), on public corruption charges, the mother of five was publicly battered one last time at the close of this year with letters to a judge asking for leniency at McDonnell’s Jan. 6 sentencing.

All five of the children painted their father as a saint with a heart of gold who never longed for material goods. Their oldest daughter, Jeanine McDonnell Zubowsky, went further and said it was her mother’s obsessions that were to blame for Saint Daddy’s political downfall.