Posted on 09/06/2011 12:24:05 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
Federal authorities have arrested an accountant who has served as treasurer on hundreds of political campaigns, the Ocean County Register reports.
Kindee Durkee, whose clients have included Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) as well as state legislators and L.A. City Council members, is being held on mail fraud charges.
Durkee is expected to make her first court appearance on Tuesday. The charge against her is reportedly related to her work with a member of the California assembly, but the full criminal complaint against her has not yet been posted. Durkee was arrested at the office of her business, Durkee & Associates, in Burbank on Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com ...
Durkee has had enforcement actions taken against her four times by the state Fair Political Practices Commission, primarily for failing to report transactions or information. She has also received at least a half a dozen enforcement warning letters from the commission and stipulated to a violation before the City of San Diego Ethics Commission.
What sort of "enforcement actions" were taken? Apparently, she has never been punished. Life is great for democrap crooks, huh? They just keep rollin', until they forget a kickback or two.....
The more, the better.
God bless her. She leaves the house looking like this, and thinks it’s, well, a nice style?
Your sin will find you out.
I know.
She probably should be put on obamacide watch.
Durkee, sweetie, you're my fave!
LOL. Isn’t Durkee a seasoning...??
Or is it a brand of stuffin......
Because those contributions do not go directly to the candidates, those campaigns do not have report the source or count them among donations restricted under the city law.
A check of Irvine City Clerk records shows how intertwined Durkee has been in city politics. She was treasurer for: Agran's City Council bids in 1998, 2004, 2008, 2010, and for mayor in 2000 and 2002; Kang's 2010 mayoral race; and Krom's council bids in 2002 and 2008 and mayoral runs in 2004 and 2006. Durkee was also treasurer for the Irvine City Employees Association PAC and the "victory funds" for Measures R and S, which dealt with public support for the Orange County Great Park, in 2010.
Now under arrest, Democrat Kinde's company, Durkee and Associates, says on its website: “Since 1972 we have worked for 5 presidential campaigns, 4 gubernatorial campaigns, numerous senate, congressional, state and local candidates, initiatives, political action committees and many non-profit associates and small businesses.” (Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com.
There's a zillion ways to scam using non-profits, PACS, and other campaign accounts.
1. Lack of internal control policies;
2. Difficulties in obtaining documentation;
3. Untimely account balance reconciliations;
4. Lack of compensating controls in: journal entries, bank reconciliations, cash disbursements, and utility billing revenues;
5. No consistent process of financial enties;
6. Excessive financial entries made to correct or adjust initial entries;
7. Bank reconciliations not correctly reconciled to general ledger.
Did Kinde use the Madoff MO to stash stolen money? Bernie's Ponzi assets were stashed in a super-secret labyrinth of interrelated international funds, institutions and financial entities of almost unparalleled complexity and breadth......with assets and businesses in multiple places overseas that hid thievery, money laundering and tax evasion.
Assemblyman Jose Solorio today told his constituents that he fell victim to alleged mail fraud by Burbank-based Democratic campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee, writing that the FBI contacted him Friday to break the news. According this Associated Press story, the FBI arrested Durkee Friday and she is expected at appear in court Tuesday.
Under the headline "I've Been Robbed. The FBI Has Arrested My Treasurer," Solorio, D-Santa Ana, posted the following letter today: Dear Friends, I wanted to reach out to you directly with the facts regarding the recent arrest of Kinde Durkee, the person I trusted as my campaign treasurer. I hired her because she was regarded as a highly respected professional, and for decades, the treasurer for the campaigns of many prominent elected officials in the state. (Excerpt) Read more at blogs.sacbee.com ...
I’m sure her defense will be that it’s genetic. After all, all dems have those genes, don’t they? Or perhaps she was simply redistributing democratic wealth. What could be wrong with that?
A longtime Democratic campaign treasurer with tax problems is accused of siphoning off nearly $700,000 from a California candidate's account to pay her credit cards, a mortgage and business bills.
Kinde Durkee - who heads Durkee & Associates in Burbank, Calif. - was arrested Friday by the FBI.
...A federal complaint filed Tuesday outlines an elaborate shell game in which Durkee secretly shifted money out of a state Assemblyman Jose Solorio's campaign to pay for an array of debts, from a Disneyland restaurant to shopping at Costco.
If only they’d arrest/incarcerate (and report on) all the other ones!
If only they’d arrest/incarcerate (and report on) all the other ones!
LOL. Good point. :-)
the above pic looks like she’s stuffin her piehole for a living.
Shouldn’t that be “Kindee Dykee”?
Kinda Dyke-ee
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