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Biden fined $219k for '08 violations
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Posted on 07/17/2010 12:22:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Biden fined $219k for '08 violations By: Kenneth P. Vogel July 17, 2010 02:40 PM EDT

The Federal Election Commission has penalized Vice President Joe Biden’s 2008 presidential campaign $219,000 for accepting over-the-limit contributions and a deeply discounted flight on a private jet owned by an embattled New York hedge fund, as well as for sloppy record-keeping.

Biden’s campaign has indicated to the FEC that it will pay the penalty to the U.S. Treasury to resolve the campaign finance compliance issues, which were revealed in an audit report released Friday by the commission.

Elizabeth Alexander, a spokeswoman for Biden in the vice president’s office, called the FEC-ordered repayment “relatively small,” and said "some repayment is commonplace after presidential campaign audits.”

Biden was subject to the audit as a condition of accepting taxpayer funds for his campaign through the presidential public financing system. In all, Biden, who dropped out of the race after coming in fifth in the Iowa caucuses and was tapped eight months later to be Barack Obama’s running mate, received $857,000 in taxpayer money for his presidential campaign (including thousands of dollars after he was elected vice president) which raised $8.2 million from individual contributions, according to the report.

It found that the campaign accepted an illegal corporate contribution in the form of a round-trip flight between New Hampshire and Iowa in June 2007 for three people (it does not indicate if Biden, then a Senator from Delaware, was among the passengers) on a private jet owned by GEH Air Transportation, LLC. Federal Aviation Administration records show that GEH Air Transportation is owned by the Clinton Group, a New York hedge fund controlled by George E. Hall.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenfail; corruption; democrat; democratcorruption; democrats; liberalfascism; littlejoe; obama; obamafail; roadtosocialism
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MSM will ignore.........
1 posted on 07/17/2010 12:22:49 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

he’s a crook- smart ass is a crook


2 posted on 07/17/2010 12:27:36 PM PDT by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: Sub-Driver

“Biden to resign for health reasons...Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is widely expected to be his replacement...”


3 posted on 07/17/2010 12:28:02 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Mexico is the U.S. version of Hamas)
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To: reefdiver

Our media is a joke too.

If Cheney or Quayle did this...


4 posted on 07/17/2010 12:31:14 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (Obama will sink as fast as he rose. (False) Idolatry will not succeed. Be patient, folks...)
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To: Sub-Driver

Is there no one in this administration who is not a crook?


5 posted on 07/17/2010 12:32:29 PM PDT by Paperdoll (REGISTER TO VOTE THEN DO IT RIGHT!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Let's see if I get this straight.

Biden violates election rules.

His campaign gets fined.

They send the money in.

The money is just enough to cover Biden's salary.

In the end nothing changes.

6 posted on 07/17/2010 12:33:23 PM PDT by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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To: Sub-Driver
“A major Democratic donor who has contributed more than $180,000 to Democratic candidates and causes since 1999 (including $19,000 to Biden’s various committees), Hall’s firm has been implicated – but not charged – by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in a New York state pension fund kickback investigation into a joint venture that paid the Clinton Group $750 million in state funds.”

$750,000 million in taxpayer money and all they had to do was buy off a few corrupt politicians. This is easy money. Does anyone wonder why all the Wall Street firms donate so much to Democrats?

7 posted on 07/17/2010 12:33:32 PM PDT by detective
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To: Sub-Driver

on a Friday, of course


8 posted on 07/17/2010 12:33:57 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Sub-Driver

How far we have gone into the ditch when $250,000 in Washington think is relatively small.


9 posted on 07/17/2010 12:37:04 PM PDT by Enten (How's that hopey changey thing working out for you?)
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To: Paperdoll

Is there no one in this administration who is not a crook?
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Yeah, I think the jury is still out on their dog, Bo. /sarc


10 posted on 07/17/2010 12:39:40 PM PDT by 23 Everest (Zero, Glittering Jewel of Colossal Ignorance.)
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To: elpadre
on a Friday, of course

Indeed. So even federal regulatory agencies now hide announcements on Friday afternoons so it is old news by Monday? One word: Despicable.

11 posted on 07/17/2010 12:40:26 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: Sub-Driver
And how about Obama’s taking donations from foreign sources? What would be surprising is to find a campaign where the democrats haven't employed fraud and illegal money.
12 posted on 07/17/2010 12:41:55 PM PDT by highlander_UW (Education is too important to abdicate control of it to the government)
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To: Sub-Driver
Biden’s campaign has indicated to the FEC that it will pay the penalty to the U.S. Treasury to resolve the campaign finance compliance issues, which were revealed in an audit report released Friday by the commission

I didn't know gov't workers have to work on Fridays.

13 posted on 07/17/2010 12:45:22 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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Didn’t Nixon’s VP get in trouble for something similar and
ended up resigning?


14 posted on 07/17/2010 12:45:29 PM PDT by maxsand
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To: Sub-Driver

Greed.


15 posted on 07/17/2010 12:47:05 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Now can we forget about that old rum-runner Joe Kennedy and his progeny of philandering drunks?)
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To: vbmoneyspender

Then again, maybe there are special Friday workdays for gov’t workers called ‘press release Fridays’


16 posted on 07/17/2010 12:47:48 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: Sub-Driver






17 posted on 07/17/2010 12:49:16 PM PDT by 4buttons
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To: 23 Everest

“Yeah, I think the jury is still out on their dog, Bo. /sarc”

Sorry—When I hear that Bo got his own plane on the taxpayers dime to meet up with the posers family and him on vacation, I gotta think that even Bo must be a crook.


18 posted on 07/17/2010 12:50:10 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: vbmoneyspender
I didn't know gov't workers have to work on Fridays.

They are not really expected to work on any day of the week, they just have to show up and be there.

19 posted on 07/17/2010 12:53:47 PM PDT by SFConservative
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When are they going to fine Obama for all the illegal overseas donations and the election fraud by ACORN?


20 posted on 07/17/2010 12:55:48 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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