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Posted on 07/21/2009 5:02:32 PM PDT by TitansAFC
Outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated state ethics laws by letting supporters set up a legal defense fund to help her battle ethics complaints, a preliminary report on the issue has found. Sarah Palin's attorney says the report is not final, and he is preparing more information for the investigator. An investigator hired by the state personnel board recommended Palin -- who gives up her office on Sunday -- refuse money from the defense fund and ask the state to pay legal fees for ethics complaints that have been dismissed. Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein said the report is not final, however, and he is preparing "supplemental information" for the investigator. Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate in 2008, cited the cost of battling ethics complaints from her critics as one of the reasons she is giving up her office about two-thirds of the way through her term. Most complaints have been dismissed, though one led to her paying back taxes on state per diem funds, and she agreed to repay about $8,100 in travel expenses for her children in another case.
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“So why is no prosecutor feeling the need to “have to enforce the law, whether they like it or not” when it comes to Kim Chatman?”
How about Sarah’s attorney filing a civil suit upon chatman (once Sarah becomes a civilian) for defamation, harrassement, slander, etc?......how does subpoena power, discovery and chatman deposition under oath sound? See, this chatman creature will provide open doors to Royal and others in chatmans reportoire....
BTTT
I will bet you they are getting help from the RAT leadership to file these.
As a private citizen, I hope Sarah sues all of these liberals filing bogus ethics complaints.
April 27th, 2009
Kim Chatman, 49, of Eagle River filed the complaint with the attorney general’s office, seeking an investigation by the state personnel board for violations of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.
Chatman claims Palin, the former Republican vice presidential candidate, is misusing the governor’s office for personal gain by securing unwarranted benefits and receiving improper gifts.
“Gov. Palin is perched to improperly receive an enormous amount of money for herself and her family and position a pool of pre-paid defense lawyers organized to deflect consequences of wrongdoings,” the complaint says.
Try here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297729/posts?page=283#283
Nice to see even when she’s out of office she is popular, AND ESPECIALLY STILL A THREAT TO THESE PARASITES! You go girl!
Rasmussen July 20, 2009......
2012: Obama 48 Palin 42. Wasn’t Obama’s glow supposed to last forever and ever?
Get this idiot some mental help because she needs a net thrown over her! How can she keep filing frivolous lawsuits without being held accountable herself?!
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"First off, I find it offensive that they're calling it the Alaska Fund Trust," Kim Chatman said. "It is deceptive, misleading and has absolutely nothing to do with either trust or Alaska ."
Chatman believes that Gov. Palin's legal bills are the direct result of Gov. Palin's actions. "It's time for her to accept responsibility for the manner in which she decided to handle the legislative council investigation." Chatman says. "She could have cooperated like she promised. Instead, Governor Palin chose to fight it and incur legal bills."
Chatman has further concerns. "With 20 months remaining in the governor's term, this contrived money scheme leaves a lot of room for people to buy favors from Palin and her cronies," Chatman says. "And what about all these other state officials involved in this plot. Aren't they in violation of the Ethics Act too?"
Wait a second, according to Chapman, Sarah has cronies, who knew. I’d love to be one of Sarah’s cronies, I’d hunt these pricks down and knock em out. These “women” who file these complaints, they are either unemployed, or suffering from some sort of mental illness. That is why the Dems target them and use them to do this, because they find the ones who are obviously nuts, give them some cash, and the rest as they say is history. Just follow the money trail, these loons are too stupid to come up with this on their own
I think I figured it out!
The stimulus money is spent on lawyers dreaming up ethics charges to be filed by third “useful idiot” parties
I am astonished that no one among Governor Palin’s wide circle of friends in Alaska or elsewhere has refrained from inflicting terrible harm on these people for this level of harassment....I’m not recommending anything but lawful and legal action of course...just expressing my amazement at the restraint being shown.
"All options are open in terms of legal remedies. It is a clear violation of Alaska law that Mr. Daniel explicitly reviewed with Ms. Chatman prior to her illegal actions. We will be contacting the appropriate authorities for review and action."Via Conservatives4Palin.comThomas Van Flein Private Attorney for Sarah Palin
It should be noted that the report states that it is not to be made public unless Gov. Palin grants a waiver. She didn’t grant the waiver, but Chatman released it any way. I would think that that would be an actionable offense by Gov. Palin once she leaves office. Sue Chatman for $1 million.
If you read the report you will see that the guy who wrote it tied himself all in knots trying to find that the fund was unethical. Rambling on about gifts of $150 or less don’t need to be reported, but because the total was more than $150 it has to be reported, that’s crap. He also rambled on about how a private citizen would not be able to raise funds for legal defense, because they aren’t known, that’s BS, I’ve seen lots of private citizens raising money for legal defense, and they get it too. The clincher is that he says Palin should reject the money, close down the fund, but don’t bother to take it to the Personnel Board. What a crock. This a$$hole knows that the Personnel Board may very well rule that there is no ethics violations.
Oh, BTW, the guy who did the report represents Organizing America, the 0bama front group, and his wife is a big shot in the dem party. That in itself sounds unethical that anyone clearly representing 0bama’s interest having anything to do with making a ruling about anyting Palin does.
Good.
It is time to turn the tables on Chatman and let her pay for her ACTUAL offenses and law-breaking, as opposed to sarah Palin continuing to pay for non-offenses andd junk lawsuits filed by Chatman.
This attorney had BETTER go on offense as such.
Bottom line is that the State AG says the state won’t defend the Governor against charges that she violated the State ethics act.
And the establishment of a legal defense fund violates the ethics act because payment of legal fees to defend those charges is a “gift” to the Governor as “gift” is defined in the ethics act.
The state won’t defend her and donations to a fund to defend her are violations of the act also. Therefore she must pay lawyers fees out of Palin personal monies.
Obama’s brownshirts have her boxed in nicely, unfortunately.
Source:
http://media.adn.com/smedia/2009/07/21/14/Legal%20Defense.22542.source.prod_affiliate.7.pdf
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