2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Did Bernie's wife commit a felony when she secured a loan for Burlington College? [View all]virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)I read the article.....weak tea.
The initial "investigation" and spin of this came from a Daily Caller - Newsmax pair of articles.
They spun this story in the worst possible way back in April..........
I've worked in fundraising for Colleges.........comparing pledges to donations and finding that people might not honor them is not some shocking thing. Colleges don't normally harass people who do not honor the pledges. Having a reporter calling around and asking people who did not send money in if they actually pledged is a great way to embarrass people and some of them would say no, that they didn't pledge......most reasonable people would not assume fraud on the part of the college.
The fact that the college presented the pledges to a bank for consideration in terms of a loan....does not magically turn it into fraud. But Newsmax and the gang....that is how they would spin it....and the Hillary gang are lapping it up, albeit through a secondary source (prompted by Brock emails? who knows?),