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Too many scandals to remember. And NEVER let it be said that I post inaccurate information. :)
Judge Matsch, who DID have the McVeigh trial (later), was the judge who had earlier acquitted the guy connected to MDC Holdings, Denver homebuilder David Mandarich, which many at the time thought was related to his daughter’s bizarre death a few weeks earlier while spending time with a new boyfriend. Her death/murder happened when she fell into a volcano hot spring while alone with a man she’d recently met (after the MDC trial started).
Colo. Woman Dies; Seattle Man Escapes
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19920226&slug=1477840
http://www.westword.com/1996-07-11/news/making-it-big/
Making It Big - The big boys from Denver buy a little bank in booming Parker.
By T.R. Witcher Thursday, Jul 11 1996
Mandarich was forced to resign as president of MDC in the late Eighties after allegations from the Securities Exchange Commission that he reported inflated profits from 1985 through 1987. The SEC settled the case in 1989, and Mandarich was retained as an MDC “consultant” at a salary of $480,000 a year; he subsequently was appointed president of Richmond Homes.
In the early Nineties Mandarich and Mizel both came under investigation of allegations that MDC illegally coerced subcontractors to contribute money to political campaigns and then reimbursed them by ordering them to submit inflated invoices. Recipients allegedly included then-U.S. Representative Hank Brown and presidential contender Gary Hart. Federal Judge Richard Matsch threw out the case in June 1992, but three MDC employees pled guilty, including Gary Mandarich, David’s brother.
Mandarich acquitted
Judge: U.S. fails to prove its case
Peter G. Chronis;
DENVER POST
June 13, 1992; Page 1-A
Article ID: DNVR110853
Homebuilder David Mandarich yesterday was acquitted of five counts of alleged federal election-law violations when U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch ruled that prosecutors hadn’t proved their case.
Matsch ruled that prosecutors, who ended their case Thursday, didn’t present enough evidence to uphold the charges against the former president of homebuilding giant M.D.C. Holdings Inc. Matsch said that while the corporate practices of M.D.C. might have been wrong,....
Thanks for the info on this!