Earlier: October 14, 2010
PINGREE USES BILLIONAIRE'S LAWYERS TO SUPPRESS POLITICAL AD WCSH TV Pulls Maine GOP Ad After Sussman Threatens Legal Action
AUGUSTA - Portland, Maine NBC affiliate WCSH has decided to pull an ad critical of Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, after lawyers for Pingree's billionaire fiancé Donald Sussman threatened legal action against the channel.
In an email to WCSH station manager Steve Thaxton, Dana Lukens of the law firm Bernstein Shur threatened on behalf of Sussman "that Paloma Partners will exercise all legal remedies available to it to protect its good name and business reputation should WCSH run an advertisement to the effect that Paloma Partners received TARP funds"
Thaxton contacted the Maine GOP on Thursday, and offered to continue running the ad if the state party agreed to indemnify WCSH against legal action. WCSH asked that the Maine GOP agree to cover legal costs if Sussman sued the station. The Maine GOP declined, and WCSH pulled the ad from its rotation.
WCSH did not take issue with Pingree and Sussman's complaint that Sussman did not receive bailout funds. Thaxton indicated that there was sufficient factual backup to the GOP's claim about bailout funds.
Maine is overlooked in the national press unless popular pundits come down on Collins and Snowe--this Chellie Pingree story is finally reaching more national press.
Dean Scontras[R] who is a fairly newcomer and and name unknown outside the state is running against the very liberal incumbent Pingree--we need all the help we can get to get this Pingree/Sussman story out.
Pingree had not announced herself as Sussman's fiancée until recent questions arose over the use of Sussman's corporate jet to and from NY fund raisers (heavy donor money coming from outside of Maine) and on to the Hill to cast her vote was uncovered by MaineWatchdog. Up until recently their relationship was reported to the press by Chellie as a partner status; but quickly shifted to being recognized, after falling under closer ethics examination, as under a "family" status; since a fiancee [fiance'] relationship changes what is allowed under the rules of ethics (talked about only when an agenda finds it necessary, but "rarely enforced" - Pingree's own earlier admission). Pingree's spokesman finally surfaced after the discovery became local news and told the press Chellie and Sussman had just kept their marriage intentions secret since 2008 (one has to wonder why), but when after the video her reported use of Sussman's corporate jet came under scrutiny, the two decided to reveal their marriage intent.
The hypocrisy is that Pingree had spoken out on hedge fund owners and their tax havens, but then became engaged to a hedge fund billionaire who was reported as using the same tax shelters? The Left has even more recently brought attack against Meg Whitman under the same charges of using tax shelters.
Formerly, the President of Common Cause, a non-profit citizens’ lobbying group, Representative Chellie Pingree [D] had chastised any lawmakers who traveled on corporate jets.
Complete 2006 testimony of Pingree before Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution.
The Left is rabid over this attack of Pingree and Donald Sussman saying he resides in Maine (2010), but he was found by the maine watchdog group to be a resident of US Possession, St. John, The Virgin Islands.
Under a Federal "umbrella" the Virgin Islands has enacted economic incentive legislation that provides, among other tax benefits, a tax credit equal to 90 percent of the tax that would otherwise be due on income from the business for which benefits are granted. US taxpayers with foreign-source income may be able to use foreign corporations and trusts to defer realisation of income. [source]
Sussman has now called out his highly paid team of legal eagles to threaten suit as aforementioned above.
Chellie Pingree Candidate Call-in Tuesday, October 19 at 1:00 pm
Your Vote 2010 On The Line live candidate call-in on MPBN Radio.
We may all have to consider doing this, if, the RINOs cave, and COMMUNISM AND TAX SLAVERY eventually comes to the USA.
Pay your fair share.
We need the money. :)
US Virgin Islands... does this guy have an Epstein /pedo island connection?
Big Money Lib buys 75% of Maine’s Major Newspapers
3/27/2012, 8:42:15 PM · by paul in cape · 11 replies
Maine Biz ^ | 3-27-12 | Maine Biz
Husband of Dem rep Chellie Pingree has purchased a 75% share in Maine’s Largest Newspapers.Sussman to get 75% stake in MaineToday Media A new restructuring plan finalized today between MaineToday Media and Maine billionaire Donald Sussman gives Sussman 75% ownership in the media company. In February, Sussman outlined a deal to become a 5% equity partner through a $3.3 million loan to MTM. But as the deal went through its due diligence, investors, including out-of-state pension funds, insisted on changes. Maine Values, Sussman’s company, is providing the same money, but as a straight stock purchase, resulting in a 75% ownership...