Posted on 07/25/2010 1:54:45 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009
If reports are true that Chelsea Clinton and her boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky are considering marriage, the father of the groom won't be able to attend the wedding until he is released from prison in November 2008.
Ed Mezvinsky, a former Democratic Congressman from Iowa, is serving a seven-year sentence for fraud after getting caught up in a series of Nigerian e-mail scams.
Initially, Mezvinsky became the victim of "just about every different kind of African-based scam we've ever seen," federal prosecutor Bob Zauzmer told 20/20 for a report to be broadcast this evening.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
I love it. The guy was in jail for defrauding his own family and friends and clients a la Bernard Madoff ...
What the headline should say is "Not too bright Congressman tries over and over, unsuccessfully, to cheat Nigeria and Nigerian scammers, traveling to Nigeria 'many times' in an effort to get $$$ millions of dollars illegally --- and when he failed at that, started to cheat his own friends family and clients out of same."
Not too bright, wouldn't you say?
Who the hell is dumb enough to fall for the "Nigerian Black Ink" scam three times in a row?
And then he also fell for numerous other Nigerian scams.
Didn't reading the very first email tip him off???
Dear Sir: we have $24,000,000 that we don't need, and would like to give to you".
Or, better yet, "We will sell you the secret formula for taking off all the black ink that we painted all our money with, for only $3,000,000".
I swear, my kids are smarter than this.
Oh wait, he has a kid, who works in a hedge fund --- now Chelsea Clinton will be marrying into this "main line, high society family".
Obama will be there, as will the former Rapist fondler of course.
Odd.
What does everyone think?
Chelsea is so lucky with her $3,000,000 wedding --- wait: isn't that exactly how much Ed Mezvinsky stole from his clients... ???
Wow. Coincidence? Or not?
“The Mezvinkskys were also close to Bill and Hillary Clinton and were frequent guests at White House state dinners.
Prosecutors say Mezvinsky used his connections to the Clintons and his son’s social relationship with Chelsea to persuade people to give him money to participate in the scams.
Mezvinsky traveled to Nigeria numerous times and ultimately lost more than $3 million as a victim of the scammers.
Prosecutors say Mezvinsky fell particularly hard for what is known as the “black money” scam. Victims are told millions of dollars have been coated with black ink so the money could be smuggled out of Nigeria.
Click here to see undercover video of the “black money” scam.
The scammers then offer to sell a special, expensive chemical to remove the black ink so the currency can be used.
Prosecutors say Mezvinsky fell for at least three separate “black money” schemes that he thought would bring him millions.”
“This ABC article puts the emphasis of the report in the wrong place by saying “Former Congressman Duped by Nigerian Scams”.”
No, no. This DEMOCRAT scandal was not reported on ABC news. It was blogged on ABC blogs. Big difference.
And yes, even when blogged, they misled in the headline.
When will the propaganda be stopped.
It’s unbelievable that anybody who hasn’t been hiding under a rock for 20 years would not realize that the word “Nigerian” coupled with a get rich quick scheme is a hoax for the most naive and gullible among us. Let’s hope this guy’s wife is smarter. Chelsea has had several years to considers the pros and CONs of this family.
Or birds of a feather flock together.
The Pravda Media never rests.
Scamming Nigerian scammers on their own soil? That ain't gonna happen plus you just might get knifed for your efforts. Beyond stupid.
What was that TV series “All In The Family” about?
This confirms the adage that girls marry guys like their father.
Chelsea Clinton['s father-in-law] Ed Mezvinsky, a former Democratic Congressman from Iowa, is serving a seven-year sentence for fraud
“main line, high society family”.
Mezvinsky from Ohio?
I don’t think so.
At least she is marrying someone whose family makes her own look high-class. Hillary better inventory the silverware before hosting Hannukah.
Chelss had a crook for a Dad
Now she has a crook for a Step-dad.
Good.
Chelss had a crook for a Dad
Now she has a crook for a Step-dad.
Good.
Does she know that Bill flies on an airplane now nick-named
Air F*** One ???
... For all the underaged girls that also travel on it?
(See Vanity Fair mag article)
Go Dad go! Go step-dad go! (Since they are both ultra-rich, guess that makes everything OK !!!!!!!!!!!!)
This confirms the adage that girls marry guys like their father.
Ha ha I laughed.
how can any normal person be around the clintons without feeling like they need a shower
JournoList ABC news liars manage to twist an act of FRAUD that JAILS this man, to being DUPED.
You said it better than I did.
What the headline should say is “Not too bright Congressman tries over and over, unsuccessfully, to cheat Nigeria and Nigerian scammers, traveling to Nigeria ‘many times’ in an effort to get $$$ millions of dollars illegally
Scamming Nigerian scammers on their own soil? That ain’t gonna happen plus you just might get knifed for your efforts. Beyond stupid.
Yes.
He must have been really really really greedy to travel to Nigeria !!!!!!!!
Looks like the gene pool is going to take another hit.
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