Marcus and Michele Bachmann could be heading to prison
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/06/michele-bachmann-congress-prison-doj-launches-investigation.htmlAlthough Bachmann may have technically retired from Congress, in reality she quit because the criminal investigations were closing in on her. This is the first time that Marcus Bachmann has been named in reports as part of an investigation. The same troubled presidential campaign that the Department of Justice is looking at is also the subject of an investigation in Iowa, an FBI investigation, and a House Ethics Committee investigation.
The Iowa and FBI investigations are centered on secret payments that her campaign made to state Sen. Kent Sorenson in exchange for his support and help in the 2012 Iowa caucuses. The House Ethics Committee is investigating Bachmann’s potential misuse of staff and campaign finances to promote her poorly selling biography Core of Conviction.
The DOJ investigation stems from information obtained in the FBI investigation that appears to show the Bachmann’s violating at least 11 election laws by coordinating their campaign with a super PAC. (If Bachmann violated 11 laws with her activities, Mitt Romney easily committed thousands of violations throughout the 2012 election cycle. Romney’s super PAC and campaign were so coordinated that they even shared a building.)
It is ironic that Bachmann’s people used conviction in their title because the Bachmanns are going to be lucky to avoid conviction and jail time. Michele Bachmann is in a huge amount of trouble, as it it appears that she was running one of the most ineptly corrupt presidential campaigns in recent memory.
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If you are a politician/banker, et al, you pay a fine and then deny you ever did anything wrong. End of story.
Now, if they could catch them with some hash, it would be a thing of beauty.
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Oh ya!
Real sweet 
For when there is a .gif of the perp walk on DU upon which to feast my eyes. 
Plead insanity.
rocktivity
"Core of Conviction" tells the story of one woman's jihad against the tyranny of tolerance. It's not always a pretty story, but then waging holy war against agents of diversity and other belief criminals is never pretty. It's just something that must be done before the Prince of Peace returns to cleanse the world with fire.
"Core of Conviction" is also a love story. It tells the tale of how Rep. Bachmann met her soulmate, Marcus, and how the consummation of that love led to one of her most important pieces of legislation: the "Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act of 2008."
Rep Bachmann may never achieve the presidency, but by simply running, she's promoting important issues. Someday, as Americans bow their heads in compulsory prayer, they will thank her for preventing the imposition of sharia law. Not-men will also thank her for freeing them from the responsibilities of managing their uteri. And many very excited men--men like Marcus, who are fully committed to the heterosexual lifestyle--will thank her every time they purchase GE 48688 60-Watt A19 Reveal Bulbs, 4-Pack.
snip: To anyone else, her pandering to her political base and interjections are quite revealing to the point of being inadvertently amusing. Throughout the book, she contrasts the difficulties of her life with her critique of American government - the most memorable comparison was her settling for a sub par prom dress because unlike the government she could not print her own money.
Poor Michelle
I'm also a big fan of this gem from the next review:
I think Marcus and Michelle being together is the most natural thing in the world and for people who don't like it, I don't care. This is the United States and the Pilgrims fought for us and our freedom. Freedom to marry whomever you want regardless of your secret shameful longings is one of those freedoms.
They belong to the canton of Thurgau in Northeast Switzerland. So they can live there, presumably at the Cuckoo House:
http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html?t=11571414#page:showThread,11571414
Both Bachmanns and their three kids are now Swiss citizens. I see an extended holiday in their future. Say, twenty or thirty years.
Just sayin'
With legal issues and possible loss of wealth here, it would be feasible for her, Marcus and the children, to take an extended holiday soon.
And like every characer who screams 'socialism' here, she and the family will find a way when she can get a benefit, just like Ayn Rand did. The 'producers' always feel they are entitled.
She can still complain like the baggers protesting the ACA did:
