Teabagger Christine O’Donnell At Center Of Criminal Investigation
December 29, 2010
As if these allegations were not already well-known during the fall campaign.
The Associated Press reported today that federal authorities opened a criminal investigation into whether O’Donnell used campaign money for personal expenses.
The criminal probe is being conducted by two federal prosecutors and two FBI agents, an anonymous source told the AP. The matter has not yet been referred to a grand jury.
Spokespersons with the FBI in Washington and the Delaware Attorney General’s office declined to comment.
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Of course..mind fixing your site so reply comments don’t get squashed like a spaghetti string?
No. You are really wrong on this one.
One can not just use campaign cash for any reason that comes to mind.
There are strict guidelines.
As a former county chairperson of a political party, former administrative aide in the Wisconsin State Assembly, former campaign manager to a candidate for state assembly, I can assure you that this matter is serious.
Not for partisan reasons, but for the purpose of making the process clean and honest.
This blog will watch this story, and I predict that a fine in the months down the road (these issues take time to sort out) will be leveled against O’Donnell.
As to Rangel, you will note that I called for him to resign his seat.
There is no double standard here when it comes to ethics.
I have long defined myself as a process democrat.
STOP!!!! the war on conservatives
Christine O’donnell’s only crime is not knowing how to handle her money, that’s all. What are they going to do, lock her up? Charlie Rangel just walked away from his blatant corruption with a slap on the wrist. Give me a break!
The libs are angry because their RINO Mike Castle suffered the same fate as Arlen the defector Specter. Now they’re riding all their hopes on that other RINO from Alaska, Lisa Murkowski.
They are so transparent…..pathetic.
Vincent,
Do not be an ass when commenting.. First and last warning. Your panty boys type crap gets only one strike before you are out of here.
Now to the facts that you seemed to have missed .
From ABC News and from my blog.
In March, the IRS initiated an audit and placed a lien against her for $11,744.59 in taxes and penalties from the 2005 tax year.
“They made up an accusation about an IRS tax lien,” O’Donnell said Wednesday on “Good Morning America,” hours after winning the primary. “The IRS said it was a mistake. They cleared it up right away. We gave my opponent and the Republican administration, showing them that the IRS had admitted to a computer error. They chose to ignore the truth because they don’t have a record to stand on.”
Since 1994, Farleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey has sued O’Donnell five times for outstanding debts of about $5,000.
O’Donnell claimed to have graduated from the school 17 years ago — and claimed to have a degree during her 2006 Senate campaign — but the school said she did not officially graduate until two weeks ago.
In previous interviews, O’Donnell said the school withheld the diploma because of the money. But a school official interviewed by Politco.com said the degree was not conferred because she had not completed her coursework.
“It took me 12 years to pay off my college loans,” she told “GMA.” “I’m not a trust fund baby. Most Delawareans can relate to having to work hard to pay for their own college education. I was never dishonest about that.”
In a March interview with Delaware’s News Journal, O’Donnell admitted to living in a three-bedroom home with David Hust, a campaign staffer and Christian rock musician, and paying half her rent — between $1,645 and $2,020 a month — with campaign donations because she used the home as a campaign office, as well.
“I am renting from the campaign,” she told the paper. “I’m an unconventional candidate because I believe that we have to make sacrifices.”
O’Donnell, who previously owned a home, also was sued by her mortgage holder in March 2008 at the height of her campaign against then-Sen. Joe Biden.
The company secured a mortgage default against her for $90,421 and the house was to be foreclosed and sold at auction. Instead, O’Donnell told the News Journal, she sold the house to a campaign lawyer. She said she intended to buy the house back, but decided instead to run again.
When asked on “Good Morning America” about her financial past, O’Donnell said, “We’ve addressed all of this stuff on our website.”
Anyone looking for that information on the site this week, however, would be unable to find it.
Visitors to the site were given just one option when they visited the site Wednesday, the chance to donate money. No other pages or information were available on the site except for the link allowing one to donate to the campaign.
Did she buy an ice cream cone with sprinkles on the campaign trail? Give me a break! Two federal prosecutors in the Obama administration going after a tea party gal…no surprise there.
After all, this is a justice department that won’t prosecute black panthers for intimidating voters at the polls on election day.
That’s it Eric Holder, go after Christine O’donnell while she’s still fodder for the late night comedians but make sure Al-qaeda killers get tried in civil court so they have access to the best pro-bono attorneys my tax dollars can buy.
Between Sarah Palin and Christine O’donnell, two women who hold no political office, you liberal-progressive panty boys sure do feel threatened. I guess Michele Bachmann doesn’t appeal to you either, but then again, good looking Conservative women who don’t ride their husbands’ coat tails to power never did appeal to you gals anyway;^)
Finally someone will humiliate Christine O’Donnell besides herself…
But she’s not a witch! Hummmm!
Sad part is, there are still a lot of tools out there to whom this will give her even more anti-establishment cred. They hear her talking about all the forces aligned against her and they eat it up. She’s their martyr.