Palin Implicated In Ethics Probe (Yawn, again) [Update from Palin Attorney Thomas Van Flein]

WFTV ^ | 7/20/09

[My Favorite Headache]

Investigator: Palin May Have Violated Ethics Laws An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by accepting private donations to pay her legal debts.

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Update from Palin Attorney Thomas Van Flein

"All options are open in terms of legal remedies. It is a clear violation of Alaska law that Mr. Daniel explicitly reviewed with Ms. Chatman prior to her illegal actions. We will be contacting the appropriate authorities for review and action."

Thomas Van Flein Private Attorney for Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin's Notes

315 posted on 07/21/2009 5:08:55 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)

More:

Additional Statement from Statement from Palin Attorney Thomas Van Flein Regarding Legal Fund News Report

"The resolution of the Trust Fund is not final. I have been working with the investigator regarding supplemental information. The matter is still pending. Whatever you have seen was released in violation of law. There has been no Board finding of an ethics violation and there is a detailed legal process to follow before there is a final resolution."

Thomas Van Flein
Private Attorney for Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin Notes

318 posted on 07/21/2009 5:14:53 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Update from Palin Attorney Thomas Van Flein

"All options are open in terms of legal remedies. It is a clear violation of Alaska law that Mr. Daniel explicitly reviewed with Ms. Chatman prior to her illegal actions. We will be contacting the appropriate authorities for review and action."

Thomas Van Flein Private Attorney for Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin's Notes

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Additional Statement from Statement from Palin Attorney Thomas Van Flein Regarding Legal Fund News Report

"The resolution of the Trust Fund is not final. I have been working with the investigator regarding supplemental information. The matter is still pending. Whatever you have seen was released in violation of law. There has been no Board finding of an ethics violation and there is a detailed legal process to follow before there is a final resolution."

Thomas Van Flein
Private Attorney for Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin Notes

[hattend]

Who is funding these attacks? BO or Soros?

Yes.

And maybe Romney, too... /jk

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

There’s nothing to this, but that doesn’t matter to the media. They will save it in their archives, then when they need a slur, they will say “Palin, who was implicated in an ethics probe...”

[lowbridge]

Is Alaska the only place where that is illegal?

Apparently if you're Sarah Palin, everything you do in Alaska is illegal.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Well, Clinton and the Democrats had the Chicoms paying for their elections.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Money-Grubbing Smear Merchants Rex Butler and Tank Jones Target Governor Palin

George Soros Group Attacking Sarah Palin Again

[Al B.]

The Personnel Board DID authorize the Fund Trust, didn’t they?

Correct. The same people that rule on the ethics complaints HAVE PRE-APPROVED the fund.

This is slime of the worst kind. I never thought it possible that D'Oro and the AP could go any lower, but they have.

[Jeff Head]

They are sooooo scared of her. So scared. They are going to keep throwing the BS against the wall in the hopes that something sticks...never realizing that down home Americans are rallying more and more to her cause.

So be it.

GO SARAH GO!

Sarah initiated a brilliant flanking manuever and counter attack against the left, the libs, the DNC, the MSM, and the RINOs that has them all in a frenzy wondering what her next move will be and how it will be perceived...and has them frothing at the mouth in their efforts to discredit her.

But, their efforts will come to naught as Sarah gets her book out, go on tour, give speeches and promote conservatie principles all over this country in the midst of the Obama administration disaster and gain great political capital in the process. Then she will support conservative candidates in 2010 and help them win, amassing much more political capital. She will then take all of that and make an awesome, stunning run for the Presidency in 2012.

MANY MORE STICKER DESIGNS HERE

[the long march]

The story claims an “independt investigator”. Hollis French just had one of his complaints thrown out ——the dem state senator who wants to be governor

[free me]

This is a hit piece by the AP.

There was an ethics complaint filed concerning Legal Trust fund,

Personnel Board’s investigator must detrmine if complaint worthy of investigation, report says worth a look, report is leakd illegally to AP, hit piece by AP mis-charecterizing report.

[kcvl]

If that is the case the CLINTONS should be IN PRISON!!!

[hattend]

Palin recent tweet:

Rep.Lynn’s good HB3 Visa/Drivers Lic law:”If u dont have legal right to walk down AKn street, why should u have right to drive same street?”

Anti-illegal alien BTTT

[reagandemocrat]

Does Alaska have a ‘vexatious litigation’ statute?

Or abuse of process?

[techno]

As with the NY Times if Obama told the AP to print that Sarah was seen around Michael Jackson’s ranch on the day of his death, that she was seen dropping that strange algae into Alaskan waters, or that she was born on Mars they would print it.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Apparently in Alaska, if your Sarah Palin, you can’t take a piss without it being an ethics violation. Seriously, they will NEVER leave this woman alone. She has been through hell and back and STILL standing. Notice this, whenever something positive comes out about Sarah, what happens, an ethics complaint. She wrote that Washington Post Op-Ed piece, BAM ethics complaint, the poll showed yesterday that she is within SIX points of Obama, an election that is 3 years away, BAM, ethics complaint. I’m telling you all, this stuff it’s coming from the TOP, it’s coming either from Obama himself, or from Axelrod and Emmanuel

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

FOLLOW THE MONEY

"During the Congressional Election of 2008, Alaska had only two viable Democrat candidates seeking office. One was Mark Begich, seeking (and successful) in vying for the U.S. Senate seat held by Senator Ted Stevens; the other was the unsuccessful campaign of Democrat Ethan Berkowitz opposing Republican Don Young (incumbent) for Alaska’s District 01 seat."

"Are we expected to believe that all of the $1,075,252.00 that Alaska accounts for from the DNC went to these two candidates alone? Each of the two candidates seemed to have done just fine raising money on their own. That returns us to the question that continues to remain unanswered: How much of this money has been paid to Democratic operatives for continued and unceasing attacks including the 16 ethics charges which have been brought against Governor Sarah Palin since her introduction as the Republican Vice Presidential candidate?"

[Lexinom]

So let me get this straight: The ethics implication is that she used donated money to fight bogus ethics charges?

[Ocarterma]

She’ll be exonerated if it doesn’t get thrown out for lack of merits. Notice the intensity of the attacks each day she approaches leaving office. And besides everyone knows the AK leftists blogosphere have been whispering about a contrived “other shoe”. They wanted this to get picked up by the AP, then leak out into the other leftist media. In the short run it looks “serious”. In the long run this frivolous trash will go into the heap bin too.

[kcvl]

Bill Clinton wasn't an elected official in Alaska.

No, he was an elected official in the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT! What about HILLARY CLINTON?! You can bet your *ss she got money to pay her legal bills (& GOD only knows what else) the same way Sarah Palin is doing.

This is getting ridiculous! The leftist bunch of crooks need to give it a rest if they want to have the least bit of credibility left!

[ripley]

All Democrats are cut from the same a**hole cloth.

IMHO

[Sarah Barracuda]

Someone posted this on C4P:

“The practical effect of the ruling on Palin will be more financial than anything else. The report recommends that Palin refuse to accept payment from the defense fund, and that the complaint be resolved without a formal hearing before the Alaska Personnel Board.”

WHAT, so that means that the money I gave and others gave won’t be going to her, what kind of BS is that. I sent the money to GO TO SARAH