Posted on 06/03/2009 7:48:53 AM PDT by SmithL
Attorney General Jerry Brown, whose office has issued subpoenas in a widening public pension fund corruption probe, has received $52,500 in recent campaign contributions from relatives and a company of the two California businessmen he's now investigating.
The contributions from four family members of Sacramento lobbyist Darius Anderson and the company of Los Angeles political fundraiser Daniel Weinstein went to Brown late last year – months before his office reportedly subpoenaed companies run by the two men. They have not been charged in a public pension scandal that has migrated west from New York and resulted in a handful of indictments and two guilty pleas, including one by one of Weinstein's former employees.
Brown received $48,000 in contributions from the wife, brother and parents of Anderson in late December 2008, state campaign finance records show. That included $12,000 from brother Kirk Anderson, with whom Darius Anderson co-founded Gold Bridge Capital, a "placement agent" that helps money managers secure major investments from public pension funds like the California Public Employees' Retirement System. Darius Anderson controls 75 per cent of the firm.
As a registered lobbyist, Anderson is prohibited by state law from making contributions himself.
Anderson spokesman Dan Newman defended the contributions.
"Darius and his family have known Jerry Brown for decades, and they've always supported candidates and causes they believe in," Newman said.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
LOL
Just saw this little item, interesting. Thanks for posting this.
This state has nothing but a bunch of courrupt dems and liberals running it these days.. one big incestuous family of ‘Rats.
The title of this piece is just so wrong.
Linda Ronstadt should be an expert in that area.
please don’t use “Jerry Brown” and “probing” in the same headline...
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