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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Bernie and Jane lawyer up
2017-06-27
[Dhaka Tribune] The probe is looking into whether Jane falsified bank documents in 2010 in an attempt to secure a $10m loan to expand the college’s campus

US Senator Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
 and his wife Jane Sanders have hired lawyers amid an FBI investigation into a loan Jane obtained to expand Burlington College while she was its president.

Jane Sanders served as president of Burlington College from 2004 to 2011, reports the Huffington Post.

She has been accused of falsely inflating projected donor contributions in the loan application, reports said.

The probe is looking into whether Jane falsified bank documents in 2010 in an attempt to secure a $10m loan to expand the college’s campus.

According to Politico magazine, the FBI probe may also look into whether Bernie Sanders used his political influence to pressurise the bank to approve the loan which was a factor in the school shuttering its doors in 2016 after it found itself unable to pay off its debt.
Posted by:Fred

#16  Which won't be all that long for Bern, #7 Darth.
Posted by: Barbara   2017-06-27 15:43  

#15  Their lawyering up is obviously an admission of guilt!
Posted by: dk70 the scantily clad   2017-06-27 14:55  

#14  This isn't a show of failure, they just implemented their corruption wrong.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-06-27 14:42  

#13  There seems to be a lot of local animosity directed at Jane's tenure as BC prez... grudges age like granite in New England, so weaselly DC lawyer words won't get her unhoisted off the petard she finds herself on.
Posted by: Capsu78   2017-06-27 11:09  

#12  The first link was to a story back in early 2015 accusing Jane Sanders of Fraud, well before Trumpism.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2017-06-27 10:37  

#11  Here's this.
And this.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2017-06-27 10:35  

#10  Bernie is a bald-faced liar.

All socialists are liars. They have to be to assert economic horseshit that runs counter to the basics of supply and demand curves.
Posted by: Crusader   2017-06-27 10:32  

#9  This has been going on longer than Trump's campaign. Bernie is a bald-faced liar.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2017-06-27 10:27  

#8  Big trouble! The story has made it to the WaPo (according to Snopes). On 24 June 2017, the Vermont Senator played down the story in comments made to the Washington Post. The WaPo article is behind the pay wall.

Bernie says it's all nonsense, orchestrated by Trump's Vermont campaign manager. All nonsense.

I sure hope this story grows legs.
Posted by: Bobby   2017-06-27 09:47  

#7  I really hope they find lots of dirt on these shmucks and lock them up for the rest of their natural life.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-06-27 08:49  

#6  Should have established a foundation Bernie. Like the Clintons.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-06-27 08:16  

#5  The shop class was a separate school run by Jane's daughter that taught woodworking. It was not affiliated with Burlington College until Jane, with no written contract, started sending some students from Burlington there and paying a considerable sum. That school closed after Burlington did because it was no longer being subsidized by Burlington.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2017-06-27 07:40  

#4  Bernie claims to be a socialist but turns out to be a Democrat Corruptocrat.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-06-27 07:39  

#3  You forget, THEY have no rules.

Of course they've rules.
(1) We mean well: so anything we do is good, and anybody who opposes us, is evil.
(2) We are entitled to modest compensation for our Herculean (in the face of your racism, sexism, etc...) labors.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-06-27 06:49  

#2  You forget, THEY have no rules. You do.

This is how you spend 30 years after learning not shit in the Federal Government as a "Civil Servant"

3 houses here and there and a good bank account and some good stocks on the market - that is exactly where Marx was when he spewed his diarrhea.

Make a perfect system while you game the only system that can sustain human Life.

You are a scumwhore of epic novelty, Bernie.

No one in history will ever remember you.
Posted by: newc   2017-06-27 02:13  

#1  Fox news also reported Jane paid their daughter several hundred thousand dollars to teach some shop class at the college.
Posted by: texhooey   2017-06-27 00:30  

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