Inquiry Into Bernie Sanderss Wife May Tarnish His Liberal Luster
WASHINGTON A federal investigation into a long-ago land deal by Senator Bernie Sanderss wife is threatening to take some of the luster off the senators populist appeal, attaching the phrase bank fraud to the biography of a politician practically sainted on the left for his stands against millionaires and billionaires.
Mr. Sanders, a Vermont independent, is still riding high on popularity from his presidential campaign, delivering rousing speeches to cheering progressives in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
But he has been shadowed by talk of a deepening investigation into his wifes role in a 2010 land deal for a Vermont college that ultimately contributed to her ouster as its president. His wife, Jane Sanders, has hired a lawyer to represent her as federal authorities look into a $10 million sale of about 33 acres of lakefront property by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington to Burlington College. Ms. Sanders was hoping to relocate and expand the institution.
The couple and many of their supporters maintain that the investigation is politically motivated and that it was set in motion by the Vermont state chairman for Donald J. Trumps presidential campaign, Brady Toensing, who filed a complaint with the local United States attorneys office in January 2016 on behalf of the dioceses parishioners.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/15/us/politics/bernie-sanders-jane-sanders-investigation-burlington-college.html
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)Heaven Sent
(39 posts)Note the date.
You keep posting that stuff, you are backing Toensing's narrative.
emulatorloo
(44,192 posts)However, there's no rule here against posting articles from the New York Times.
4now
(1,596 posts)StevieM
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Doug the Dem
(1,297 posts)Try not to die from the shock.