Posted on 05/21/2013 2:10:15 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Edward "Ed" Mezvinsky born January 17, 1937, is a former Democrat congressman.
As a Democrat, he represented Iowa 's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977.
He sat on the House Judiciary Committee that decided the fate of Richard Nixon.
He and the Clinton's were very politically intertwined for years.
In March 2001, Mezvinsky was indicted and later pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 charges of bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud.
He was sentenced to 80 months in (Federal) prison.
Ed Mezvinsky embezzled more than $10 million dollars from people via both a Ponzi scheme and the notorious Nigerian e-mail scams.
After serving five years in federal prison, he was released in April 2008. He remained on federal probation through 2011, and still owes $9.4 million in restitution to his victims.
So who is he?
He's Chelsea Clinton's father-in law...this is Marc and Chelsea (Clinton) Mezvinsky.
Has anyone heard mention of this in any of the media?
If this guy was Jenna or Barbara Bush's, or better yet, Sarah Palin's daughter's, father-in- law, the news would be an everyday headline.
Some say there are no double standards in politics . . . S-u-r-e there aren't...
That is Grand Father in law, I believe.
Was it in an email from Charles Adobo who claims that his uncle was the Nigerian Minister of Finance who died in a recent plane crash who had deposited $60 million in a Sierra Leone bank and if you would be so kind as to send him your bank info, he would like to transfer it to your account and give you 20% of the amount for your help?
Mezvinsky grew up in Ames, Iowa and played high school football there. He received his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1965. After being elected to the Iowa Legislature in 1968, he lost a race for Congress in 1970, then won in 1972. He made several unsuccessful Senate attempts in the 1980s.
In 2001, he was convicted of several dozen charges of fraud, and served five years in federal prison.[4]
Sounds like a guy who needs a POTUS pardon from Baraq as this year’s Hanukkah gift.
Read up on Marjorie Margolies. A mating pair of reds.
If they come any greasier that would be a surprise.
He reportedly wanted to "find himself".
Leni
Yes, this whore of Satan is a felon and also Webb Hubbell’s daughter’s father-in-law. She’s used to daddy-felons.
These are well known facts. They’ve been covered in all the media. In fact, Chelsea’s wedding was postponed for several years until he got out of prison.
It is true, and well known as well. I’m no friend of the Clintons, but facts are facts.
A simple search of Chelsea Clinton would have confirmed all of this. It was noted at the time of their engagement and marriage by some conservative sights
It’s true. And his wife, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, was the deciding vote on Clinton’s ‘93 budget. The Repubs waved to her saying “bye bye Marjorie” and she was defeated in the next election. She is actually considering a run again for her old seat!
Rumor has it that marji baby was a school teacher in NJ in her earlier days.
She abruptly left that gig when word got out she was diddling some really young stud.
Just a rumor though. The Fox campaign refused to look into it.
They're scum.
Is there any chance they won’t reproduce?
Only if they stick with cigars.
You made me LOL with that post!!!
Glad to be of service. ;-)
Read something recently about Chelsea & Marc Mezvinsky purchased a loft in lower mid-town Manhattan for $5 million. An acquaintance of mine, originally from Chicago, said they probably got the money from Mezvinsky Sr. Clinton's are sleaze and hob-nob with those of a similar persuasion.
As I remember it, she swept into Congress on the coattails of Bimbo Bill, by aping his "New Democrat" mantra - ie that the Republicans were in reality the tax-raisers, while these New Democrats were bonafide tax-reducers. (C'mon, let's show that GHWB Read My Lips snippet for the million and oneth time....)
She ran as a New Dem in a fairly conservative CD near Philly that hadn't had a Dem representing it in just about forever. Her stump speech over & over was "I will NEVER raise your taxes!! I will LOWER them!" And in the Democrat-tide year of 1992, she won the race.
Then a few months into the Klintoonarchy, she came to Rush's attention when the Dem House leadership (Foley et al) forced her to vote for Beelze-Bubba's first major tax increase. She begged & begged to get on the list of "Permission To Vote Against My Party's Leadership Due To Probable Tough Fight In Next Re-election Cycle".
But there were large numbers of other Dems who were desperate to get onto that list, far more than could be allowed without the entire measure going down. Which meant the Dem leadership had to prioritize the list and establish the required cut-line in order to get as many Desperate Dems onto it as possible, without killing the measure.
One big problem for incumbents is that the way these types of massively arm-twisted votes go, is that the party in control wins the vote by the exact margin of one, count 'em, *ONE* vote. This allows their opponent in the next election cycle to trumpet the fact that "YOUR REP IN CONGRESS provided the crucial game-winning(losing) vote that gave us this horrendous bill that is so unpopular in our District! It is fair to claim they are SOLELY responsible for it, because a last-minute conscience-prodded switch of their vote would have saved us from this monstrosity."
Since The Honorable Minnie-Mickey-Mousey-LeMizSkink was a first-termer, the rules of seniority placed her well below the cut line. She was forced to vote for the huge Tax Hike of '93.
So Rush was gleefully playing soundbites of her No-Tax-Pledge-Which-I-Promise-Cross-My-Heart-Hope-To-Die stump speeches - I believe on both his TV & Radio shows. This spotlight he shone under her rock greatly raised her ... "visibility" shall we say.
In the Great Political Tsunami of '94, she sank like a rock.
In fact, the day after the election, she was the number one race outside of my own state that I yearned for news of. That didn't take long to find, as her race was decided early enough to make it into all the papers the next day.
Remember that story quite well.
She’s a college prof now but with the Clinton connection back at work looks like she’s trying again:
“Margolies is considering a return to Congress in the 2014 elections. She would be running to replace Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Penn.), who is running for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2014”
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