"Alors, cheri---le Chateaubriand c'est fini, et le Cabernet Sauvignon is chilled."
Posted on 11/09/2008 8:02:15 AM PST by george76
Senator Still Stonewalling On Curious Loans.
Since the Dodd story broke in June, the five-term senator has offered contradictory fragments of explanations and intentions. Scheherazade after a six-pack of Red Bull would not have told more desperate tales. Dodd gallops the gamut from calling the allegations of special treatment "outrageous" to pledging repeatedly and specifically to release documents related to the $800,000 in sweetheart deals he got from Countrywide.
Still claiming "there's nothing there," Dodd refuses to say whether his Senate campaign committee's payments of $60,000 last summer to a Washington law firm, which has a history of representing Democratic senators in trouble, were for his defense in the Senate ethics investigation of his dealings with Countrywide. He suggested, before he fled to his third home in Ireland in August, that Countrywide was not cooperating in providing information.
the course those loans took was very strange. The standard routine is for the homeowner to sign the loan documents, the borrowed money is sent to the lender being paid off and the new mortgage is recorded on local land records within a few days.
Dodd, however, signed some but not all of his loan documents himself. Agents of Countrywide signed his $275,042 Connecticut mortgage.
His previous mortgage with Countrywide was paid off but the new mortgage did not appear on the local land records for an astonishing 16 months. For nearly a year and a half, Countrywide failed (or declined) to secure its interest in Dodd's home by taking the ordinary and essential step of presenting the documents to the local town clerk and recording them in the land records.
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
Friends of Angelo
This man needs to be investigated and prosecuted if be.
Don’t let this weasel slip under the rug.
Beth Wilkerson is married to David Gregory of NBC News.
In 2007, while General Counsel of Fannie Mae, Beth Wilkinson contributed the max to Senator Dodd
Shouldn’t NBC disclose this information to their viewing audience?
Yes, I am sure that the Obama Justice Department will get right on it. Of course, it will have to wait until they are done prosecuting Bush, Chaney and Rove for war crimes.
Absolutely not. It would require disclosing the
rest of the NBC ‘partners in crime’.
I think the corruption is widespread and may be one of the reasons the push for Obama was so blatant. They were all afraid of being exposed.
A Democrat, Senate House banking Committee Chairman would never do anything illegal would he?
Collapsing the economy by using ponzi financing schemes that benefit his Countrywide buddies or his Fanny and Freddy Friends wouldn’t be a national disgrace now would it?
The blame game points directly to Dodd. He should resign his committee, and resign the Senate. This is not the kind of open, ethical representation Pelouseys congress was supposed to be, IS IT??
No, I mean we need to pursue this. Do not let it die. Do not let Barney die either.
Dodd is behaving like a typical democrat...bobbing and weaving until the media bails him out by dropping the story entirely.
Have little faith that anything will be done with this total Democratic/Communists control. Dodd, Frank, Pelosi, and the rest of the gang will continue to get elected. Until we get control of the Senate and House with the strength of a new Republican Party, they will continue to rule. Even if we manage to get a Republican President, the main control of Government is the Senate and House.
l can no more disassociate myself from the Senator Dodd than I can disassociate myself from the White community
There you are correct and it went to people in both parties.
Waiting for a Democrat to be prosecuted is like me waiting for Catherine Deneuve to show up at my door to ask me out on a date. Could happen. Not likely.
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Too bad for Doddsy mortgages leave detailed paper trails. Dodd's making the same mistake as his ousted crooked Cong father----thinking he's dealing with a bunch of amateurs----well, maybe Conn liberals (snicker).
Now, it's likely that Dodd is on his hands and knees pleading with Obama to call off the Feds. That's why we need to take other routes to see that justice is done.
For example----Dodd (and his wife and family) are probably enrolled in high-roller comp programs at Conn casinos (and/or in other gambling venues). These programs show every nickel high rollers bet---including wins on which high rollers may not have paid taxes.
Casinos are very tightly regulated. They are more than happy to cooperate with authorities---to protect their licenses.
Casinos would also have records on the amount of untraceable casino chips Dodd (his wife and his family) received-----maybe gifts from his pal Angelo.
Authorities should also inquire if Dodd wire-transferred--- or if Angelo wore-transferred---monies to Dodd's casino account........and if taxes were paid on these monies.
Connecticut Division of Special Revenue (Gaming Control Board)
WEB SITE http://74.125.95.104/search?q=cache:EPdMRVRy8g8J:www.ct.gov/dosr/
Mailing Addresses:
Division of Special Revenue
555 Russell Rd.
Newington CT 06111-1523
Division of Special Revenue
P.O. Box 310424
Newington CT 06131-0424
Another possibility: Dodd, his family and Angelo may have used NETeller Plc to illegally convert monies that were then transferred offshore---to overseas gambling companies, for their personal use later.
NETeller is an Isle of Man-based payment processor for gambling Web sites (suspected of having operations in the US Virgin Islands---a notorious money-laundering bank haven).
It could happen.
"Alors, cheri---le Chateaubriand c'est fini, et le Cabernet Sauvignon is chilled."
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