Bernie Sanders Denies Allegations Over Dirty Land Deal and Blatant Nepotism While His Wife Was...

IWB ^ | Robert Carbery

[davikkm]

Bernie Sanders Denies Allegations Over Dirty Land Deal and Blatant Nepotism While His Wife Was In Charge Of The Now Shuttered Burlington College

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ wife, Jane Sanders, has engaged in blatant nepotism while she was president of the now inoperable Burlington College. The Sanders family are not the lovable old Socialists the left thinks they are. They are a corrupt political family and flawed human beings who will do what they have to do to get ahead in life and help their family along the way.

Jane Sanders approved a deal for Burlington College with the Vermont Woodworking School back in 2009 that surely accelerated Burlington’s severe financial problems. Burlington College poured roughly $500,000 into the school between 2009 and 2012 to cover the costs of students taking furniture-making and woodworking design courses, according to a report from VTDigger.

And guess what, Carina Driscoll, Jane Sanders’ daughter, co-founded this woodworking school and was its president while the deal was made with Burlington. The sweetheart deal was finally formalized into a contract but only after Sanders left Burlington in 2011. An investigation is now underway into Sanders’ potential fraud while head of Burlington, which filed for bankruptcy last year.

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[ETL]

"Bernie Sanders Denies Allegations Over Dirty Land Deal"

What is it with democrats and "dirty land deals"?

"The Whitewater controversy (also known as the Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater) began with investigations into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s."

Whitewater Convictions

Jim Guy Tucker: Governor of Arkansas at the time, removed from office (fraud, 3 counts)

John Haley: attorney for Jim Guy Tucker (tax evasion)

William J. Marks, Sr.: Jim Guy Tucker's business partner (conspiracy)

Stephen Smith: former Governor Clinton aide (conspiracy to misapply funds). Bill Clinton pardoned.

Webster Hubbell: Clinton political supporter; Rose Law Firm partner (embezzlement, fraud)

Jim McDougal: banker, Clinton political supporter: (18 felonies, varied)

Susan McDougal: Clinton political supporter (multiple fraud). Bill Clinton pardoned.

David Hale: banker, self-proclaimed Clinton political supporter: (conspiracy, fraud)

Neal Ainley: Perry County Bank president (embezzled bank funds for Clinton campaign)

Chris Wade: Whitewater real estate broker (multiple loan fraud). Bill Clinton pardoned.

Larry Kuca: Madison real estate agent (multiple loan fraud)

Robert W. Palmer: Madison appraiser (conspiracy). Bill Clinton pardoned.

John Latham: Madison Bank CEO (bank fraud)

Eugene Fitzhugh: Whitewater defendant (multiple bribery)

Charles Matthews: Whitewater defendant (bribery)

Ultimately the Clintons were never charged, but 15 other persons were convicted of more than 40 crimes, including Bill Clinton's successor as Governor, who was removed from office.[40]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_%28controversy%29#Convictions

or,

https://web.archive.org/web/20090326122112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_%28controversy%29
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[rey]

As far as politicians go, this is one of the more honest ones (I know I’m going to catch hell for that, certainly all politicians are dirty to some degree). His net worth is less than any of them, and he is honest enough to tell everyone he is a socialist. Maybe he did it but he didn’t make millions on cattle futures, he didn’t get millions from the Chinese for his senate bid, he didn’t enter the White House worth $87K and leave worth over $17 million.

[TigersEye]

#DirtyBernie and his ho are #CronyCapitalistPigs!

[MGG]

Bernie will throw her under the bus.

[jmacusa]

I am so sick of this sniveling, greedy little socialist bastard. He needs to be run out of the country.

[bobby.223]

Webb: “So I sez to Billy, right on the old cheek huh? Nice shooting boy! Glad to see you don’t waste it on blue dresses or anything dumb like that!”..........

[Slyfox]

Huh.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

flawed human beings

Oh, come on, Carbery. This is far beyond "flaw." A flawed human being occasionally drives over the speed limit or tells a little white lie. This I should blatant corruption and abuse of office for which these two democrat grifters should be imprisoned.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

No, he just managed to buy three homes including prime lakefront property. You seem to be arguing that he doesn’t deserve punishment because he didn’t enrich himself as much as the Clintons. Sorry, that doesn’t wash. He and his wife are crooked as the day is long and deserve prison time. It doesn’t matter if he stole $1 million or $20 million. He’s a filthy crooked pol and, even worse, the biggest hypocrite in Washington.

He’s like the Soviet nomenklatura — professing undying devotion to communism while enriching themselves on the backs of the proletariat to buy their dachas. Is it any wonder they bought their own dacha on the lake? I guess the plane ride to the Black Sea was too long for them.

LOCK THEM UP!!

[AlaskaErik]

I’m retired LE. Criminals almost always deny deny deny.

[packrat35]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_College

[rey]

Yeah, they are crooked and yes there are double standards but essentially they are exempt from the law. These guys deal on insider information and favors all the time, stuff that would get you and me locked up. I am not saying they are more crooked than any other politician, I am saying they are slightly less crooked. That still equals crooked.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Thou dost protest too loudly corrupt commie!

[RetiredTexasVet]

I just love this picture of Chelsea Hubble-Clinton ... just a remembrance of a character in the Tolkien movies.

[Slyfox]

Which one? I know I can see it in my mind ...

[RetiredTexasVet]

Can’t remember the name .... but the face is unforgetable!!!!

[Slyfox]

This one?

Or this one?

[RetiredTexasVet]

Number 2!