Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumFraud "investigation" against Jane Sanders
"So a financial institution would go ahead and ascertain how firm those pledges are. It would do it's due diligence," said Craig Nolan, a former U.S. Attorney. Nolan says investigating the alleged fraud would require getting an explanation from the college as to why the donations never came through. "The first thing I do is call the FBI and I talk to the FBI about their thoughts. Probably schedule an interview with the financial institution," he said.
In a statement, a spokesman for Senator Bernie Sanders called this nothing more than mud slinging in a presidential election year. "This recycled, discredited garbage is the handiwork of Brady Toensing, the Vice Chairman of the Vermont Republican Party. These kinds of attacks on family members of candidates are one of the reasons why the American people are so disgusted with politics in America today," the statement said.
Amid controversy, Jane Sanders resigned as the school's president in 2011, and the school has a largely new board of trustees. "From the board's perspective, this is an incident that occurred in the past that we have no knowledge of personally on the board, and we view it, frankly, as a distraction from our mission right now which is to continue the forward movement of the college," said Yves Bradley, Chair of the college's board of trustees.
http://www.wcax.com/story/30935632/group-calls-for-fraud-investigation-into-jane-sanders-land-deals
A few things worth noting:
The College is treating it as a non-incident. If there was any substance to this, why are they acting as though its a non-issue?
Toensing (vice-chairman of the Vermont Republican Party) put in a request to the FBI to investigate Jane Sanders... to date, Toensing's request has been met with silence.
In short, unless the FBI gets involved, this can largely be dismissed as a non-issue, and a partisan attempt to discredit the Sanders name.
revbones
(3,660 posts)We can look forward to new breaking headlines from propaganda outlets such as Blue Nation Review owned by Hillary super-PAC Correct the Record which is ran by admitted liar and previous right-wing hatchet man David Brock who slimed the Clintons until they hired him... or BNR's propagandist Peter Daou
Other outlets such as The Daily Beast, where Chelsea Clinton is on the board, or DailyNewsBin - all of which are propaganda sites for Clinton now.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)in Camp Weathervane a couple months ago.
Bubzer
(4,211 posts)I figured that warranted addressing it as the non-issue it is.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)They would consider that legitimate.
LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)then the FBI is going to laugh in their faces. Was Sanders moving the money through a foundation she was part of?
The college wanted to buy the property. The diocese and Sanders agreed to a price, if the school could raise it. The school could not.
Deal fell trough.
PCPrincess
(68 posts)By bringing it up in order to dismiss it as a non-issue, you would need to assume that all possible readers are able to ascertain fact from fiction and able to logically dissect information without emotional involvement.
We know this is not possible for a majority of American voters. I'd just leave it alone.
mak3cats
(1,573 posts)Most of them have been thrown before, and a lot of them more than once. Flop sweat redux.