Posted on 09/13/2008 7:12:23 AM PDT by kronos77
The photograph substantiates reports that in late August, 2006, McCain celebrated his 70th birthday aboard a yacht, the Celine Ashley, rented by A-list con man Raffaello Follieri and his then-movie star girlfriend Anne Hathaway. Follieri, who posed as Vatican chief financial officer in order to win friends and investments, pleaded guilty Wednesday in a Manhattan district court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, eight counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering. As part of the plea, Follieri admitted to misappropriating at least $2.4 million of investor money and redirecting it to foreign personal bank accounts that were disguised as business accounts.
At the time he met McCain, Follieri was adept at collecting friends in powerful places and using those connections to attract investments in projects which later turned out to be bogus. His ties to Bill Clinton and his entourage have been well-documented; the charismatic Follieri, whom Vanity Fair has likened to an ambitious nineteenth-century protagonist from a Balzac novel, ingratiated himself to President Clinton and aides by posing as a mega-donor to the Clinton Global Initiative. He also formed an investment partnership with California business mogul and Clinton donor Ron Burkle to develop surplus real estate properties owned by the Catholic Church, which Follieri claimed to represent. Burkle later sued Follieri for $1.3 million in misappropriated funds.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
Ping!
(Sorry for absence, I was on vacation)
Con man for McCain vs. terrorist for Obama. You decide which is worse.
So the Messiah now wants to compare “evil friends” lists??!! Where do I start...
Does the dem/media really want to compare “business associates?”
At least John and Cindy McCain did not dress up in matching Top Gun costumes and throw Hollywood parties aboard our aircraft carriers like our former Clintoon SecDef “Hollywood” Bill Cohen and wife Janet.
PS:
Anyone heard from the Cohens in the past 8 years?
Did I miss something?
Poor Anne Hathaway was taken hook, line and sinker by this guy and she was sleeping with him.
ie: after the yacht party
Big story ... big, big story. lol
You think that’s bad? I have it on absolute authority that Al Gore was in the SAME Country as was Charles Manson when the Manson Family massacred the Tate party. And just as bad, Barack Obama was also in the SAME COUNTRY when the Towers were hit on 9/11/01!
If the title of this article is the original, somebody tell me why the writer chose to use McCain’s name in the title instead of Clinton’s? Sounds to me like clinton was in on a larger scale.
I had noticed that also ...
" ... the charismatic Follieri, whom Vanity Fair has likened to an ambitious nineteenth-century protagonist from a Balzac novel, ingratiated himself to President Clinton and aides by posing as a mega-donor to the Clinton Global Initiative. He also formed an investment partnership with California business mogul and Clinton donor Ron Burkle to develop surplus real estate properties owned by the Catholic Church, which Follieri claimed to represent ..."
It certainly wouldn't be because The Nation is in the socialists tank? ... no that couldn't be. lol
Oh ... and the title is original.
She would have been off sleeping with me!!!
You are sooooooo right!!!!
I think she is darling and didn’t deserve that idiot.
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