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Jill Kelley, Key Figure In David Petraeus Scandal, Led Lavish Life
LA Times ^ | November 14, 2012 | Shashank Bengali, David S. Cloud and Joseph Tanfani

Posted on 11/14/2012 10:02:41 PM PST by Steelfish

Jill Kelley, Key Figure In David Petraeus Scandal, Led Lavish Life The Tampa, Fla., socialite cultivated ties with military leaders and obtained honorary titles. She also has had financial troubles.

Jill Kelley's license plate carries an emblem that reads “Honorary Consul.” Gen. David H. Petraeus helped her obtain that title from South Korea. By Shashank Bengali, David S. Cloud and Joseph Tanfani November 14, 2012

TAMPA, Fla. — When Jill Kelley believed a reporter was trespassing at her white-columned mansion in a wealthy neighborhood this week, the Tampa socialite called 911 and claimed diplomatic immunity.

"I'm an honorary consul general, so I have inviolability," an exasperated Kelley told the dispatcher in recordings released by police. "I don't know if you want to get diplomatic protection involved as well."

Kelley isn't a diplomat; she holds the ceremonial title of "honorary consul" for South Korea, one of many informal ties to prestige and power that the energetic 37-year-old mother of three has brandished to climb to the top rungs of the social ladder in this conservative military community.

Kelley, the wife of a cancer surgeon, has a thin resume, a troubled family, shaky finances and a reputation for being, as one acquaintance here put it, "Tampa Kardashian." Now she is central to an unfolding scandal that has forced out David H. Petraeus as CIA director, threatens the career of Marine Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, and cast previously unknown figures and a sex affair into international notoriety.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beneghazi; coocooforcocoapuffs; jillkelley
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To: arasina

Call girl service??? These girls are into BIG MONEY....you don’t get big money by SHAVING LADY PARTS.


41 posted on 11/15/2012 4:57:20 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....the HUMAN sacrifice to the god of CONVIENCE.)
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To: Ann Archy

Maybe not hair, maybe discreet referrals for cosmetic surgery.


42 posted on 11/15/2012 5:01:34 AM PST by Stalwart
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To: oldbill

There is a lot of intentional character assasination going on....Don’t buy into everything you hear.......


43 posted on 11/15/2012 5:05:44 AM PST by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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To: onyx
Check out this article and you may find some answers

http://www.tampabay.com/news/military/macdill/article1261383.ece

Social climber extraordinare.

44 posted on 11/15/2012 5:09:18 AM PST by vis a vis
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To: Ann Archy
Call girl service??? These girls are into BIG MONEY....you don’t get big money by SHAVING LADY PARTS.

Please calm down. I said nothing about them being part of a call girl service. I was just trying to direct you to an answer to your question. Just remember that the Obama regime likes it when what they do evokes hysteria.

45 posted on 11/15/2012 5:52:22 AM PST by arasina (Communism is EVIL. So there.)
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To: Ann Archy
All freepers need to read those e-mails....they are WEIRD!!!!!

Link?

46 posted on 11/15/2012 6:02:12 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Beware the Rip in the Space/Time Continuum)
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To: bigbob

RUN AWAY from the “Kardashians”!


47 posted on 11/15/2012 6:13:08 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: MestaMachine
The last real General we saw publicly was Norman Schwarzkopf, and Colin Powell got him stopped before the fight was over.

So you have these biggie Generals who really have no power at all, they can direct battles only after they receive specific instruction from civilians in D.C., hence the idiotic rules of engagement that get our guys killed or taken to court and jailed. And therein lies the reason we haven't won a war since WWII. It must be very frustrating to be a General. Perhaps the frustration leads to their peccadilloes.

48 posted on 11/15/2012 7:05:43 AM PST by pepperdog ( I still get a thrill up my leg when spell check doesn't recognize the name/word Obama!)
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To: PJ-Comix

I don’t have the link....wouldn’t know how to post it if I did.....it was on another thread a few days ago.


49 posted on 11/15/2012 8:48:38 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....the HUMAN sacrifice to the god of CONVIENCE.)
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