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Major Scandal Brewing Among Clinton Associates, Former DNC Official
Weekly Standard ^ | 8/9/11 | Mark Hemingway

Posted on 08/09/2011 3:10:42 PM PDT by Nachum

A major scandal amoung influential Democrats just broke, and so far it appears to be flying under the radar. Stephen Losey at Federal Times has the scoop. bilde.jpg

In a nutshell: Alan Kessler, the former finance vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's finance chair during her 2008 campaign, resigned suddenly from his position on the USPS' Board of Governors last month. Turns out, he was pressuring postal officials to back off of a land deal that would have cost his friend, Douglas Band -- who is Bill Clinton's lawyer, helps run the Clinton Foundation and helped found the Clinton Global Initiative -- millions of dollars.

Band, some of his family members, and his business partners own property in Sarasota that the Postal Service has leased since the mid-60s. The original owner agreed to a clause that would let the USPS buy the property whenever they wanted to for a song -- $825,000 on a property now valued at $12 million. It turned out to be a really bad deal for the current owners (Band & Co.) but is apparently legal, according to everybody in the Postal Service except Kessler.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: associates; cankles; clinton; clintons; dnc; hillary; major; postal; scandal; yawn

1 posted on 08/09/2011 3:10:48 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Aren’t all RATS scandals supposed to fly under the MSM radar?


2 posted on 08/09/2011 3:12:52 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: 353FMG

They don’t fly, they slither.


3 posted on 08/09/2011 3:13:34 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (My mind is like a steel trap: rusty and illegal in 37 states.)
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To: Nachum

Some things never change. You’d think the Clintons and their cronies would have enough money by now and they wouldn’t need to do things like this but, like the scorpion in the fable, I guess its just their nature.


4 posted on 08/09/2011 3:14:11 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Nachum

Team Bammy eliminating a threat?


5 posted on 08/09/2011 3:14:14 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin)
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To: Nachum
What's with the “Republicans Rigging Elections” ad showing up on so many erstwhile conservative sites?
6 posted on 08/09/2011 3:15:15 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Obamacare, the Enabling Act of 2010.)
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To: Nachum
It sounds to me that the Band & Co real estate attorney(s)
should be open to a malpractice sui, since they apparently missed that not so little clause. Hell I would think a first year law student would know how to read (make that READ) a contract.

As for Alan Kessler, just another case of some political hack trying to serve two masters at one time.
Same shit every day with both parties.

7 posted on 08/09/2011 3:22:36 PM PDT by Tupelo ( 2012 TEA PARTYER but no longer a Republican)
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To: Nachum
and so far it appears to be flying under the radar

It's not flying under the radar; the radar is not even on. It was turned off by the MSM.

8 posted on 08/09/2011 3:23:35 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Nachum

Is there a “RAT LEADER or Follower” who isn’t Corrupt,Dispicable, and Hates AMERICA?

The Answer is “NO!”!! “Infinitely NO!!”

WAKE UP!! AMERICA!!


9 posted on 08/09/2011 3:26:17 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD SAVE OUR AMERICA from ALLAH and his Prophet, HUSSEIN OBAMA!!)
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To: Nachum

Typical Clinton cronyism.


10 posted on 08/09/2011 3:27:47 PM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: Nachum

The word “yawn” in KEYWORDS sums it all up for me.


11 posted on 08/09/2011 3:41:25 PM PDT by lbryce (BHO:Satan's Evil Twin)
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To: Nachum

Yet more slime from the king and queen of slime!

Will it EVER end?


12 posted on 08/09/2011 3:43:56 PM PDT by Bigun ("The most fearsome words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help!")
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To: cripplecreek

exactly - somebody doesn’t want anyone to even consider challenging him.


13 posted on 08/09/2011 3:52:15 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Nachum
Hate to be the bearer of bad news: This isn't a MAJOR scandal

Common everyday Dem cronyism

Barely even worthy of a response

14 posted on 08/09/2011 3:59:38 PM PDT by Popman (Obama. First Marxist to turn a five year Marxist plan into a 4 year administration.)
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To: True Republican Patriot

Good post. Thanks. These POS socialists, their cronies they shuffle around in socialist-created jobs/NGOs or hook up with their neo-fascist business friends, their enablers and their something-for-nothing useful idiots have taken us far down the dark alley of destruction.

DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic...NOW. C’mon republicans/conservatives/tea party. We control the purse-strings. WAKE UP!


15 posted on 08/09/2011 4:02:41 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Nachum

No shocker there. Between Bill and Hillary, the things they’ve done in their lifetimes would make the devil jealous, and turn him green with envy.


16 posted on 08/09/2011 4:04:48 PM PDT by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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To: Nachum

17 posted on 08/09/2011 4:05:18 PM PDT by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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To: nnn0jeh

ping


18 posted on 08/09/2011 4:24:07 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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