Bernie and Jane Sanders, under FBI investigation for bank fraud, hire lawyers

[Anonymous]

Bernie is the Trump of the left. The media should stop giving him so much attention.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Even with all the "help" they received Sanders blew it, their college went bankrupt with no recovery, didn't it?
How did he plan to govern a country is a mistery.

Obviously, if Sanders's wife can't run a college, then Sanders is incapable of being president. Or something?

I'm not a fan of Bernie Sanders, but I do understand that Jane Sanders and Bernie Sanders are different people.

+1

Wasn't she a prominent figure in his campaign? In fact, she was the one in charge of releasing his tax returns. She just couldn't find them, darn it.

Ha! Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jane Sanders is being investigated for something she did at work, therefore Bernie Sanders is a fraud?

Many of us could have told you that

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.google.com/amp/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/bernie-and-jane-sanders-under-fbi-investigation-for-bank-fraud-hire-lawyers/

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According to Politico, prosecutors might also be looking into allegations that Sen. Sanders' office inappropriately urged the bank to approve the loan.

Burlington attorney and Sanders supporter Rich Cassidy has reportedly been hired to represent Sen. Sanders. And high-profile Washington defense attorney Larry Robbins, who counseled Libby "Scooter" Robbins, former Chief of Staff for the Vice President, is protecting Jane Sanders.

Bernie was in on it too!

Yes, frauds. Both frauds. Charges of fraud.

Wow! Shame on Bernie.

There's nothing in the document to support that claim.

[Anonymous]

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/06/youll-never-believe-this-but-republicans-are-start.html

In fact, the outline of the real story is pretty damn simple. Here’s what’s happening:

1. In 2004, Jane Sanders, Bernie’s wife, became the president of Burlington College in Vermont. She orchestrated the purchase of lakefront property at a discount from a Roman Catholic diocese who were financially burdened by lawsuits. It was a bad move—she had to take out a bunch of loans from various quarters, and the anticipated financial benefits never materialized. The deal was finalized in 2010, and Sanders was forced out in 2011, partly because of financial matters, and partly because of personal conflicts. Burlington College closed in 2016. It seems fair to say that Jane Sanders was not the ideal leader for this institution.

2. Brady Toensing, a Republican apparatchik in Vermont who chaired Trump’s campaign in the state and has never liked Bernie Sanders, managed to get federal investigators involved, and soon introduced allegations (with absolutely no supporting evidence) that Bernie Sanders used his position as Senator to exert pressure on certain banks to approve the loans for the land deal. Toensing is famous for launching attacks on Democrats in the state, including the former Governor—he even tried to nail Bernie Sanders on a bogus campaign finance charge in 2016, and his mom was one of the Benghazi power players—but this is frivolous even by his standards, which we’ll see in a moment.

3. This, in turn, forced the Sanders’ to hire lawyers. Jaffe, or some editor, decided to title his article “Jane Sanders Lawyers Up,” as though hiring a lawyer is an implication of guilt.

4. If Trump really wanted to stick it to Sanders, he could appoint someone like Toensing as U.S. Attorney for Vermont, and Toensing could go full Benghazi with this thing.

That’s it. Even Jaffe, as he tries desperately to conjure actual accusations against Sen. Sanders from thin air, can’t fake it very well. Here’s how he introduces the idea that there was some undue influence exercised by then-Senator Sanders on his wife’s behalf:

A second letter to federal prosecutors in early 2016 alleged that Senator Sanders’ office had pressured the bank to approve the loan application submitted by Jane Sanders. “Improper pressure by a United States Senator is a serious ethical violation,” the letter asserted….The FBI, it seems, is looking into exactly what Jane Sanders did or didn’t do—and whether her husband Bernie, hero of the progressive left, tried to ease along one of the loans.

This comes after a theatrical introduction in which Jaffe tries to make hay by narrating how a local TV reporter recently held Bernie’s feet to the fire on the topic, and the Senator wouldn’t comment beyond calling it “nonsense,” due to the fact that it’s an ongoing investigation and this is a standard response.

Here’s Jaffe, doing his best to take the accusations at face value, hitting his full melodramatic stride:

End of conversation. But not the end of the investigation or the potential for damage to the senator from a small New England state who has rocketed to the top of the world of progressive politics nationwide.

Amazingly, he then waits THE ENTIRE STORY to tell us what the accusations really are. We have to wade through thousands of words of “context” before he finally gets to the basis of Toensing’s witch hunt, which really should have been in the third paragraph:

The evidence for that charge seems to be thin, at best. According to sources familiar with the matter, the alleged “pressure” may have simply been a casual suggestion—perhaps chatter by a Sanders staffer over lunch, instead of a written document or email—and though such a suggestion might still be improper, it would be difficult to prove a direct connection to the senator.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This doesn't merit a thread.

It's biased slander, with zero basis in reality. There is NO investigation.

Jeff, you should delete this thread immediately. It's diminishing the credibility of your site.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2680892/LTR-to-USATTY-and-FDIC-IG-Re-Apparent-Fraud-Sen.pdf

That's not a credible source. It's just republican propaganda and fake news.

Notice no legitimate news agencies are reporting this.

I'm a moderate liberal, and I like National Review. News about her unethical decisions was out last year, and then it conveniently died down.

Mrs. Sanders Promised Other People’s Money Would Pay for Burlington College. It Didn’t.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435483/bernie-sanderss-wife-burlington-college-lesson-financial-mismanagement
May 17, 2016

During her seven-year tenure as president of the college, from 2004 to 2011, Jane Sanders pledged to double the student enrollment by spending millions of dollars of borrowed money on a beautiful new campus — 33 acres along the bank of Lake Champlain that was purchased in 2010 from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vt. President Sanders predicted that the new campus would attract more students and donations from alumni. It didn’t. The next year, Sanders took her $200,000 severance package and left Burlington College in such dire straits that by July 2014, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) put the institution on probation for not meeting its financial-resources standard. The Chronicle of Higher Education concluded that since the Federal Department of Education allows a college only two years of probation, Burlington College would have lost its accreditation in January 2017. On May 13, 2016, the Burlington College Board of Trustees voted unanimously to close the college effectively at the end of this month.

[Anonymous]

Mr. and Mrs. Sanders need to apologize for this scandal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mr. and Mrs. Sanders need to apologize for this scandal.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mr. and Mrs. Sanders need to apologize for this scandal.

How about we let it get investigated fully first.

[Anonymous]

Bernie Sanders presented himself as one of the "common folk," but he owns three (3!) homes and his earnings put him in the top 4% of Americans.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/bernie-sanders-summer-house

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/06/youll-never-believe-this-but-republicans-are-start.html

In fact, the outline of the real story is pretty damn simple. Here’s what’s happening:

1. In 2004, Jane Sanders, Bernie’s wife, became the president of Burlington College in Vermont. She orchestrated the purchase of lakefront property at a discount from a Roman Catholic diocese who were financially burdened by lawsuits. It was a bad move—she had to take out a bunch of loans from various quarters, and the anticipated financial benefits never materialized. The deal was finalized in 2010, and Sanders was forced out in 2011, partly because of financial matters, and partly because of personal conflicts. Burlington College closed in 2016. It seems fair to say that Jane Sanders was not the ideal leader for this institution.

2. Brady Toensing, a Republican apparatchik in Vermont who chaired Trump’s campaign in the state and has never liked Bernie Sanders, managed to get federal investigators involved, and soon introduced allegations (with absolutely no supporting evidence) that Bernie Sanders used his position as Senator to exert pressure on certain banks to approve the loans for the land deal. Toensing is famous for launching attacks on Democrats in the state, including the former Governor—he even tried to nail Bernie Sanders on a bogus campaign finance charge in 2016, and his mom was one of the Benghazi power players—but this is frivolous even by his standards, which we’ll see in a moment.

3. This, in turn, forced the Sanders’ to hire lawyers. Jaffe, or some editor, decided to title his article “Jane Sanders Lawyers Up,” as though hiring a lawyer is an implication of guilt.

4. If Trump really wanted to stick it to Sanders, he could appoint someone like Toensing as U.S. Attorney for Vermont, and Toensing could go full Benghazi with this thing.

That’s it. Even Jaffe, as he tries desperately to conjure actual accusations against Sen. Sanders from thin air, can’t fake it very well. Here’s how he introduces the idea that there was some undue influence exercised by then-Senator Sanders on his wife’s behalf:

A second letter to federal prosecutors in early 2016 alleged that Senator Sanders’ office had pressured the bank to approve the loan application submitted by Jane Sanders. “Improper pressure by a United States Senator is a serious ethical violation,” the letter asserted….The FBI, it seems, is looking into exactly what Jane Sanders did or didn’t do—and whether her husband Bernie, hero of the progressive left, tried to ease along one of the loans.

This comes after a theatrical introduction in which Jaffe tries to make hay by narrating how a local TV reporter recently held Bernie’s feet to the fire on the topic, and the Senator wouldn’t comment beyond calling it “nonsense,” due to the fact that it’s an ongoing investigation and this is a standard response.

Here’s Jaffe, doing his best to take the accusations at face value, hitting his full melodramatic stride:

End of conversation. But not the end of the investigation or the potential for damage to the senator from a small New England state who has rocketed to the top of the world of progressive politics nationwide.

Amazingly, he then waits THE ENTIRE STORY to tell us what the accusations really are. We have to wade through thousands of words of “context” before he finally gets to the basis of Toensing’s witch hunt, which really should have been in the third paragraph:

The evidence for that charge seems to be thin, at best. According to sources familiar with the matter, the alleged “pressure” may have simply been a casual suggestion—perhaps chatter by a Sanders staffer over lunch, instead of a written document or email—and though such a suggestion might still be improper, it would be difficult to prove a direct connection to the senator.

He must be related to Rachel Maddow!

[Anonymous]

Bernie Sanders presented himself as one of the "common folk," but he owns three (3!) homes and his earnings put him in the top 4% of Americans.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/bernie-sanders-summer-house

What??? He's not a 1 percenter?? He makes less than 250K per year?? OMG.

And anyone in Congress has to have at least 2 abodes. He's probably got the third one as a vacation/retirement home. And how much are each of those homes worth? That matters. One could be a shack for all we know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bernie Sanders presented himself as one of the "common folk," but he owns three (3!) homes and his earnings put him in the top 4% of Americans.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/bernie-sanders-summer-house

Kind of like Barack Obama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Bernie Sanders presented himself as one of the "common folk," but he owns three (3!) homes and his earnings put him in the top 4% of Americans.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/bernie-sanders-summer-house

What??? He's not a 1 percenter?? He makes less than 250K per year?? OMG.

And anyone in Congress has to have at least 2 abodes. He's probably got the third one as a vacation/retirement home. And how much are each of those homes worth? That matters. One could be a shack for all we know.

Or a trailer? Right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his wife, Jane Sanders have hired prominent defense attorneys amid an FBI investigation into a loan Jane Sanders obtained to expand Burlington College while she was its president, CBS News confirms.

Politico Magazine first reported the Sanders had hired lawyers to defend them in the probe. Sanders' top adviser Jeff Weaver told CBS News the couple has sought legal protection over federal agents' allegations from a January 2016 complaint accusing then-President of Burlington College, Ms. Sanders, of distorting donor levels in a 2010 loan application for $10 million from People's United Bank to purchase 33 acres of land for the institution.


Sanders is such a fraud.

I get why Jane Sanders is under investigation. But why Bernie?