Posted on 09/26/2011 2:59:03 AM PDT by radioone
Reporting from Washington and Sacramento A suspected embezzlement scheme that has ensnared hundreds of campaign accounts of Democrats has sent candidates scrambling for new cash as they prepare for an election season that could reshape California's political landscape.
Just when they need to start hiring staff and commissioning polls, many candidates have no idea how much might have been taken from them or how much they have left, and they cannot find out: As many as 400 political accounts have been frozen by the banks holding the funds since the Sept. 2 arrest of treasurer Kinde Durkee.
This January 2008 photo provided by the California Democratic Council shows Kinde Durkee at a California Democratic Council Leadership Training session in Ventura, Calif. (California Democratic Council / Associated Press)
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Yup, one look lets you know - she’s a Democrat......
It seems like the only experience partisan democrats exhibit is as a thief. ;-)
Criminals stealing from criminals
I read in an earlier article that she spent a lot on cosmetics.
Even trainloads wouldn’t be enough.
Just remember folks, this is the type of person who gets to dictate what type of light bulb you can buy, lectures you to be "green", uses homosexual propaganda to indoctrinate your children all the while demanding more in property taxes and other taxes, regulates your business until you have to lay people off or close your doors, and screams that we need more deadbeats sitting around on their arse collecting unemployment for 99 weeks, EBT cards, subsidized housing, and racial quotas for jobs and schools.
Just remember.
Guilty!
Has anyone ever had an account frozen? Do they really not tell the owner of the account how much is there?
Has anyone ever had an account frozen? Do they really not tell the owner of the account how much is there?
Can someone post a photo of Tor Johnson?
These two were separated at birth.
The woman could have plugged the hole in the Titanic!
The funds were co-mingled between unaffiliated third parties. Until each of the third parties forfeit claims or lawyer up and reach agreement in mediation or a courtroom on a division of remaining assets, all assets are frozen by the presiding mediator or judge in this particular situation.
Which leads to my question... do political organizations and campaign committees carry E&O insurance for staffers?
I thought it was a yurt
If they don’t, they are stupid.
Just my opinion, but anyone dumb enough to trust this woman with anything that could be exchanged for food deserves to be broke.
I thought it was a yak.
this on top of the news that the Cali Dems also lost money on Solyndra. the good news just keeps on coming...!! turns out O will be here in LA to scramble traffic here yet again. all those who give money to this group deserve what they get, which clearly isn’t good money management (!) and seems to be redistribution of $ to those not necessarily intended to receive, ha ha!
Kinde Jerkee of them.
Well?
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