Ben Carson made massive real estate profits from ties with convicted felon

Daily Mail UK ^ | November 12, 2015

[COUNTrecount]

Ben Carson made massive real estate profits from ties with convicted felon who defrauded insurance companies while he was a dentist

Carson and his wife reap a windfall of between $200,000 and $2 million annually from investing with Alfonso Costa, a disgraced former dentist Costa pleaded guilty to health care fraud in 2008 for phony billings in his oral surgery practice, and Carson helped him win a sentence with no jail time Carson's 2013 book lays out a more draconian punishment for people convicted of defrauding the government through medical billings He recommended 'loss of one's medical license for life, no less than 10 years in prison, and loss of all of one's personal possessions'

[FourtySeven]

Keeping my powder dry until the rest of the story comes out.

Me too. I'm done being a whipping post for the ire of those angry at the media. At least this isn't the Politico this time.

[theBuckwheat]

Will the MSM show renewed interest in how Obama supporter Tony Rezko made millions in Chicago real estate?

How convicted felon helped Obama buy home:

http://www.wnd.com/2011/04/289529/

[thinden]

Is it anything like Whitewater?

not at all.

carson's real estate ventures made money.

[sitetest]

Sounds about right.

[Revelation 911]

....and Hillary has done this how many times?

non issue

In fact I ask the author how many felonies he/she has committed in their lifetime?

There was a football player who barked at a police dog last weekend - THATS a felony

[Logical me]

Doesn’t sound like much here. Might just be normal legal business. Too much of this gotcha for me to just accept on this little face value.

[ETL]

"The Whitewater controversy (also known as the Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater) began with investigations into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s."

Whitewater Convictions

Jim Guy Tucker: Governor of Arkansas at the time, removed from office (fraud, 3 counts)

John Haley: attorney for Jim Guy Tucker (tax evasion)

William J. Marks, Sr.: Jim Guy Tucker's business partner (conspiracy)

Stephen Smith: former Governor Clinton aide (conspiracy to misapply funds). Bill Clinton pardoned.

Webster Hubbell: Clinton political supporter; Rose Law Firm partner (embezzlement, fraud)

Jim McDougal: banker, Clinton political supporter: (18 felonies, varied)

Susan McDougal: Clinton political supporter (multiple fraud). Bill Clinton pardoned.

David Hale: banker, self-proclaimed Clinton political supporter: (conspiracy, fraud)

Neal Ainley: Perry County Bank president (embezzled bank funds for Clinton campaign)

Chris Wade: Whitewater real estate broker (multiple loan fraud). Bill Clinton pardoned.

Larry Kuca: Madison real estate agent (multiple loan fraud)

Robert W. Palmer: Madison appraiser (conspiracy). Bill Clinton pardoned.

John Latham: Madison Bank CEO (bank fraud)

Eugene Fitzhugh: Whitewater defendant (multiple bribery)

Charles Matthews: Whitewater defendant (bribery)

Ultimately the Clintons were never charged, but 15 other persons were convicted of more than 40 crimes, including Bill Clinton's successor as Governor, who was removed from office.[40]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_%28controversy%29#Convictions
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[BenLurkin]

Anthony Rezko?

[17th Miss Regt]

For the Clintons you would add two or three zeroes.

[celmak]

I wonder if this was leaked by Trump. He has a lot of real estate contacts.

I wonder how many investigators Trump has paid to investigate everything on ALL the candidates as well.

[ETL]

Former Obama fundraiser sentenced

By Mackenzie Weinger
November 2011

Tony Rezko, former fundraiser and friend of President Barack Obama and former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, was sentenced on Tuesday to ten and a half years in prison for corruption.

Rezko, 56, has already served about 44 months of the 126-month sentence on his 2008 conviction for corruption - including fraud, money laundering and attempting to get $7 million in kickbacks from companies seeking to win deals during Blagojevich's tenure as governor - the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

-snip-

Obama also involved Rezko in a house deal after he was elected to the U.S. Senate, a move he later called "boneheaded mistake," according to a 2008 report in ABC News.

Obama wanted to purchase a home that the seller had a specific condition on: the adjacent empty lot to the house had to be purchased at the same time, ABC News reported. In the house deal, Rezko's wife paid the full asking price for that parcel, $625,000.

Obama shelled out $300,000 under the house's asking price, paying $1.65 million, according to ABC News. Obama then purchased a part of Rezko's lot for $104,500.

-snip-

http://www.politico.com/story/2011/11/former-obama-fundraiser-sentenced-068935#ixzz3rI7IJ6k3

[dandiegirl]

Everything that was brought out against BO was said to be racist and therefore never talked about. Why isn’t it the same with Carson?

[celmak]

I’m sure Costa is keeping his fingers crossed for a full Presidential pardon.

This is not a reason not to vote for Carson but to attack the drive-bies for their unbalanced attacks on ALL republicans and/or conservatives.

The Intelligent way to compare candidates is to show your candidate's conservative credentials and the other's non-conservative ones.

[Ouderkirk]

Without reading it...it sure look like tey are gunning for Carson.
After reading it, they are still gunning for Carson, and a question, how does this compare to Obama and Tony Rezko?

The parallels are strangely similar.

[conservativejoy]

I’ve been doing that. Carson is not a conservative. He supports amnesty, gun control and TPP, just for starters.

[FR_addict]

Just read the whole article. Freepers ask what does it prove. It doesn’t prove Ben guilty of anything, but this was his best friends for years. It doesn’t sound like he broke off business dealings or his friendship with this man.

I don’t think being a spokesperson for the Mannatech company was an aberration. I watched the recent Carson-Mannatech video and the Carson, I thought I knew was selling 21st century snake oil to cancer patients. There’s a big difference between being a paid motivational speaker and promoting products like Mannatech to cancer patients, especially someone with an MD besides their name.

Evidently his own mother told a different story about the hammer incident in 1988. She was the one with the hammer.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3312824/Ben-Carson-s-MOTHER-Sonya-Carson-contradicted-claim-attacker-hammer-said-actually-way-round.html

[batterycommander]

Right. I’m sure Trump is paying big bucks for opo research.

[celmak]

I’ve been doing that. Carson is not a conservative. He supports amnesty, gun control and TPP, just for starters.

You missed the main point, that this is an opportunity to attack the drive-bies for their unbalanced attacks on ALL republicans and/or conservatives.

[conservativejoy]

Media bias is nothing new. It still doesn’t justify ignoring facts that are uncovered, no matter which candidate they concern.