Vacation homes on pristine lakes don’t come cheap...
Was there that much demand for woodworking classes at this “college”???
Was there that much demand for woodworking classes at this “college”???
BURLINGTON — The Justice Department was investigating the activities of the now-defunct Burlington College as recently as February, according to emails obtained through a public records request. The emails show the U.S. attorney for Vermont and an FBI agent reviewed Burlington College records in the state’s possession earlier this year pursuant to an investigation. Both enforcement agencies declined to comment on the substance of that probe or whether it has been completed.
“It’s typical for us not to comment or to confirm whether or not there’s a current investigation. We would not comment on any active investigation,” said Kraig LaPorte, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office. An FBI spokeswoman cited a similar policy. The chair of the Burlington College board of trustees said Thursday that the FBI investigation has been going for more than a year, and at least one former school employee was subpoenaed as part of the probe.
In January 2016, after reporting by VTDigger showing former Burlington College President Jane Sanders overstated pledged donations in applying for a loan so the school could purchase its former North Avenue campus, Republican lawyer Brady Toensing made a formal request to the U.S. attorney for a fraud investigation.
The Vermont Agency of Education took possession of records left at the college in the wake of its sudden closure in May. When a college closes, state law requires the school or the state to keep academic records so students can obtain transcripts and graduate certificates.
Burlington College opted to let the state handle that process. Agency officials said they found the school’s records in disarray, in part because of an unsolved burglary. The state, as a result, took possession of nonacademic records as well as the student records it was required to take.
In November, Toensing requested an index of the records in the state’s possession. Education officials provided a list showing business records, board materials such as meeting minutes dating back to 1998, and records relating to the school’s accreditation. ---SNIP---long read
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Bernie's spouse, Jane Sanders, "overstated donation amounts in a bank application" for a $6.7 million loan. She told People’s United Bank in 2010 that the college had pledges to support the purchase even as she knew the sum of actual donations did not measure up.
People who pledged say their personal financial records show their pledges were overstated.... and they were not advised pledges were used to secure a bank loan.
Jane Sanders did not respond to a request for comment as to whether she was subpoenaed or otherwise contacted by the FBI or the US attorney. NOTE She left the job considerably richer----they gave her a golden parachute.
Criminal socialists. These bums should be in prison or exiled for life. Yet ankther LIB-maggot family of parasitic losers.
Typical socialists. ‘Everyone should be equal, under me’..
I’ve lived in communist countries - and I assure you EVERYTHING is rent-seeking, insider-dealing, and gaming the system based on connections.
Socialist twits like Sanders see nothing wrong with it - they have they “correct” views, and they are elites, so its all OK.
Wasn’t there also a real-estate deal where the college acquired like 30 acres as well....which was worthless property?
Hmmm looks like the Socialists who hate money sure went through a lot of trouble to make themselves RICH
Communists are so predictable you could set your watch to them :)
As I have observed before, nepotism is the most serious of several fatal flaws of socialism and communism.
China groans under the weight of all the incompetent sons, daughters, nieces and nephews of the government officials with hiring power in their government.
Nepotism is completely inescapable under totalitarian systems. Every leader has a family, and a spouse, and the spouse is always going to be demanding that the kids be taken care of job-wise, and hubby (let's be honest, it's usually males in the high-powered jobs) is going to be henpecked and badgered until every one of his loser kids is in a nice comfy job.
That's true of the Ministry of Hospitals, and the Ministry of Railroads, and the Ministry of Water and Sewage, and the Ministry of Electric Power, etc., etc.
The results are inevitable.
Bernie’s Army is pretty significant within the Democrat Party ranks. I wonder what they think about all of this. I just think it’s Deep State shenanigans to throw the investigation off of Hillary, but also to rid themselves of Bernie from being a significant factor in 2020.
With the Clintons, “Always two there are, no more, no less.” A carrot and a stick:
1) Lake House(s)
2) A free pass on the college fraud investigation
Just ask Loretta Lynch after the Tarmac meeting.
Socialism! Because it’s always about other people’s money.
Liberals who campaign on making everyone else a socialist certainly are a greedy and capitalistic lot, aren’t they?
Ya all get free school so I can get power and do whatever I want, deal?
Socialist Bernie Sanders who has millions of dollars and has 3 homes is also involved in other criminal acts. No surprise.
Burlington College paid for roughly half of the tuition of each student attending the woodworking school through their agreement. The woodworking school earned $460,000 in gross tuition the 2015-2016 fiscal year, half of-which went to Burlington College.
I’m seeing a problem right there.
Maybe it’s just creative book keeping....?