Posted on 05/27/2004 6:10:05 AM PDT by OESY
Yeah, like any of us could keep a rental car without making a payment for 16 MONTHS! Two weeks and we'd be served with papers.
In fact, none of us could rent a car without a credit card which the rental company would be charging weekly and in advance.
Looks to me like he just got caught. Interesting how quickly this poor common man managed to cough up $13,000 to quiet it all down.
Makes one wonder how many other sweet deals he had/has going that have never had the light shown on them.
It's always amazed me how many millions congressmen and senators spend to get elected to a job that only pays a hundred thousand dollars or so a year.
Ah yes, the Bob Brest "rental" car controversy.
From www.howiecarr.com, under a picture in the "Kerry Korner" section of his website:
On the right, see Cong. Nicky "Pockets" Mavroules, D-Mass, an ultra-liberal nuclear-freeze proponent who later went to prison for, as the federal indictment put it, "operating his Congressional office as a racketeering enterprise." Among his crimes: receiving free Buicks from a shady dealer in his district named Bob Brest. Another recipient of a free Bob Brest Buick: Sen. John F'in Kerry. He claimed his non-payment was "an oversight" and wrote a check. Unlike Nicky Pockets, Kerry was not indicted.
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