Alito "bequeathed" $161,000 of Exxon/Mobil stock in 2004(family friend?)

Alito and Exxon-Mobil...just wondering

We had the TV on for part of the Sam Alito hearings today, until we became worried that after our late night out in Philly with Jerry Falwell and Rick Santorum, we might collapse atop our keyboard in a mixture of exhaustion and unrelented boredom.

We do have one question -- when do they get to the part when he has to explain this?

In his questionnaire, Alito provided new details about his financial holdings, including that he owns $161,000 of Exxon Mobil Corp. stock. Altogether, Alito estimated his net worth at $2.1 million, of which $870,000 is in real estate, $789,000 in stocks and mutual funds, $244,000 in cash and $60,000 in federal Series EE bonds.

According to previous financial disclosures reported last month by the Associated Press, the Exxon Mobil stock was a bequest from a family friend.

Maybe it's a commentary on my family, but we don't have any friends that would bequeath us $161,000 in Exxon-Mobil stock. (Do you?) In fact, we don't even have any friends who use the word "bequeath."

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WTF??

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002634.html

Oh yeah, my daughter bequeathed me her dog when she went to college..... Thats right. I had him 12 years.

He was a good dog!

Wouldn't trade him for 1000 shares in Exxon Mobile Stock.



My neck hurts from watching the Alito and his wife with their noses in the air all day.

Feingold, go get him!

There is too much in the news about DeLay and friends and if the "family friend" turn out to be a lobbyist......

Someone, who knows how, should follow that little money trail!

Unless there's something I'm missing here, the "bequeather" isn't going to be getting favors from his "bequeathee" turned SCOUTUS nominee.

We need to know WHO 'bequeathed' this assload of cash to him
before we respond.
Jumping the gun on this might SERIOUSLY bite us in the ass.

Sure, it may have come from some UBER-CoNNECTED scumbag...
but it might just as easily have come from his dear sainted old granny who bought
$200 worth of stock back in 1950.

"Proceed boldly, but with caution."

seem to get him askew with the family values crowd.

But to put this in perspective, 161K is not that much of a gift in the billionare crowd that Alito is well connected to. You don't get a net worth of 2.1 million from a government salary, and he has been a government employee for at least 15 years.

then it's nothing...

SURELY there's no harm in asking, right?