Kennedy served in the United States House of Representatives and now he is contemplating running for a term in the United States Senate which he will undoubtedly win. In between he had his salary paid by a foreign dictator. This last year he has received funds from a foreign dictator to spend, tax free, on a series of television commercials which extolled his personal image. In effect, he has had $16 million of campaign commercials funded by foreign dictator. Had these transactions had occurred while Kennedy was still serving they would constitute criminal offenses.
But Kennedy contrived to wash many of these through a charity.
The article does not elaborate but it says that Kennedy was also involved in profit-making energy ventures on places like Indian reservations. One can only speculate without actual knowledge, but it is an easy bet that the profits which came to this private enterprise operating on Indian reservations were harvested by farming the government.
did Clearly, if that is the case, Kennedy used his name and government contacts for government contracts. Like taking campaign donations through a charity during an interregnum in your political career, using influence to get government money and government contracts is not necessarily illegal.
But Kennedy's activities seen in this light makes no difference to his election chances. He could drive a charity off a bridge and swim away with Bernie Madoff and still be handily elected.
