Bernie sanders and his wife hire lawyers as FBI investigated for bank fraud

[Matty]

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Cbs reporting

[Green Line]

Thieving Bernie stole millions from the less fortunate in 2016.  He should be rotting in prison anyway.

[Adam Griffin]

Robbing Wall Street in his spare time when he's not railing against them publicly: the hero we need but not the one we deserve!

[mvd10]

Thieving Bernie stole millions from the less fortunate in 2016.  He should be rotting in prison anyway.

[Intell]

Robbing Wall Street in his spare time when he's not railing against them publicly: the hero we need but not the one we deserve!

[GoTfan]

Thieving Bernie stole millions from the less fortunate in 2016.  He should be rotting in prison anyway.

Lock up some bankers who defrauded millions. Then we'll talk.

[TheSaint250]

Thieving Bernie stole millions from the less fortunate in 2016.  He should be rotting in prison anyway.

[mvd10]

Thieving Bernie stole millions from the less fortunate in 2016.  He should be rotting in prison anyway.

Lock up some bankers who defrauded millions. Then we'll talk.

Deal

[Shadows]

His mother, Victoria Toensing, is one of the most committed conservative lawyers in Washington, D.C. She was Barry Goldwater’s chief counsel and served in Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department. The two now run a law firm active in conservative causes (both had cameos on Fox News when they represented the whistleblowers in the Benghazi attacks).  For more than a decade, Brady Toensing has been vice chair of the Vermont Republican Party. He chaired Donald Trump’s campaign in the Green Mountain State and remained loyal even as more moderate elected Republicans vowed not to vote for Trump.

Known in Vermont political circles as a jocular, entertaining activist, he’s constantly on alert for cases where he can slip the knife into Democratic politicians. On July 7, 2014, Seven Days, a Vermont alternative weekly newspaper, published a deeply reported piece by Alicia Freese about Burlington College’s plummeting fortunes. The August 1 response from the bonding agency produced a trove of documents that detailed how Jane Sanders convinced the bank and the church that Burlington College could pay back its millions of dollars in loans. Toensing started receiving documents and began sharing them with reporters. They began digging into the details, but the Daily Caller, a conservative outlet, broke the story under the headline: “Exclusive: Bernie Sanders’ Wife May Have Defrauded State Agency, Bank.” The Daily Caller based its story on reporting from the bonding agency that Toensing had contacted.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/22/bernie-sanders-jane-sanders-lawyer-bank-fraud-investigation-burlington-college-215297

Why do people crib about losing jobs to immigrants or to China? Look at some of the responses of conservative posters & some hacks. Most people are idiots (not directed at anyone in particular) & probably don't deserve a job. And these idiots don't even have the intelligence to understand that getting a Uni degree, a Masters maybe will give them some intelligence & possibly a better job, so that they don't make such embarrassing posts

[Devout Centrist]

I don't think Bernie is personally involved, but this is still a very disturbing development. Not for profits have become very problematic as of late.

Heading a cash-rich non-profit might rank second only to running over pedestrians with a vehicle as the easiest way to get away with murder in the United States. It'll be very disappointing if this bears out significant wrongdoing.

Cop shoots black person ranks pretty high on that list too.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Oh I see, it's no longer "guilty until proven innocent." Apparently merely hiring a lawyer is now the admission of guilt.

[RINO Tom]

I mean, you should ALWAYS hire a lawyer if you can afford to, LOL.

[Devout Centrist]

Heading a cash-rich non-profit might rank second only to running over pedestrians with a vehicle as the easiest way to get away with murder in the United States. It'll be very disappointing if this bears out significant wrongdoing.

Cop shoots black person ranks pretty high on that list too.

"Get away with" legally, yes, but a large chunk of public opinion has turned - enough that some police departments have begun to change their behavior, although in much of the country little or nothing is being done. You rarely see the same kind of judgment directed at negligent vehicular homicides (excepting drunk or drugged drivers), or even at heads of large non-profits who use their owner to benefit themselves at the expense of others. It's not even polarizing.

Fair point.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Politically motivated nonsense by the right-wing media.

[Badger]

Guys. While this definitely sounds Shady comma by all accounts is entirely involve Sanders wife rather than himself. Let's put things in perspective shall we?

[NOVA Green]

Time to move along folks, nothing to see here, regardless of the provocative post title from the OP....

[publicunofficial]

Politically motivated nonsense by the right-wing media.

The people I've seen most excited about this story are the hardcore Hillary cultists.

[GoTfan]

Politically motivated nonsense by the right-wing media.

The people I've seen most excited about this story are the hardcore Hillary cultists.

Of course. They're still crying out that Bernie cost them the election because MUH BERNEH BRUS! Even though Hillary ran the single most incompetent campaign I've ever seem and that Bernie campqigned his ass of for her.

[Cashew]

Politically motivated nonsense by the right-wing media.

The people I've seen most excited about this story are the hardcore Hillary cultists.

Of course. They're still crying out that Bernie cost them the election because MUH BERNEH BRUS! Even though Hillary ran the single most incompetent campaign I've ever seem and that Bernie campqigned his ass of for her.

Anybody not part of the establishment is a Russian agent seems to be what it boils down to.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Politically motivated nonsense by the right-wing media.

The people I've seen most excited about this story are the hardcore Hillary cultists.

Of course. They're still crying out that Bernie cost them the election because MUH BERNEH BRUS! Even though Hillary ran the single most incompetent campaign I've ever seem and that Bernie campqigned his ass of for her.

I mean, bernie running in the primary in the way he did was one of the many things that weakened Hillary enough to lose, along with every part of the emails, the media's obsession with said emails, comeys final email announcement, the right wing hate machine, not campaigning in MI, WI, PA, etc(though IIRC the polls were looking good there before the election), the unexpected decline in black turnout due to a lack of Obama on the ballot, trump not being as unnacceptable to the public as was thought, etc. Its easy to say "she should have done X" in hindsight, but seeing those things beforehand( and not in a "would have always assumed it because of ideological blindness" kind of way) is significantly harder. I didn't see much criticism of the campaign from the left before the election.

Plus certain people on the more left-populist side of the party obsessed with the evils of muh hillary and putting sanders on a giant pedestal happen to be noticably more vocal then these "hillary cultists".

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Bernie-Shkreli 2020!

Seriously, how much more evidence do you people need to see this man for the monster he is.