[dennisw]

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank didn’t get just a free luxury jet ride to the Virgin Islands with a financier who got a $200 million federal bailout, he also stayed at the billionaire’s tropical mansion, his aide said.

“They’re friends. Are you not supposed to have friends if they’re wealthy?” Frank spokesman Harry Gural said of the Newton Democrat’s relationship with S. Donald Sussman.

The Herald reported yesterday that Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, flew to the Virgin Islands last Christmas on Sussman’s $25 million Dassault Falcon 2000EX luxury jet.

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1288694

[Thom Pain]

Bawney's lifestyle and brothel-in-the-townhouse may be his least offensive aspects of his existence.

[ncfool]

do you believe that the boston herald stuck a knife in barneys back