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kstewart33

(6,551 posts)
Sun May 29, 2016, 11:42 AM May 2016

Bernie accused of funneling campaign $$$ to family members.

I just saw this article that was published in Vanity Fair in January. Interesting...

A new report suggests that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and his wife have repeatedly done the most socialist thing ever: funnel thousands of campaign and nonprofit dollars toward family members and friends.

According to an investigation by the right-leaning Washington Free Beacon, Sanders’s spouse of 27 years, Jane O’Meara Sanders, and his stepdaughter, Carina Driscoll, both drew sizable salaries from Sanders’s House campaigns between 2000 and 2004. Public records examined by the online paper reportedly show O’Meara Sanders was paid “more than $90,000 for consulting and ad placement services” between 2002 and 2004, while Driscoll received $65,000 from the campaign over the course of four years.

But while it’s not unheard of for campaigns to bring family members on board, the Free Beacon’s revelations about Sanders’s wife’s tenure as the president of Burlington College will certainly raise eyebrows. During her time there, the college paid nearly $500,000 to the Vermont Woodworking School, run by Driscoll, for classes, according to the Free Beacon. The college also reportedly paid tens of thousands of dollars to an all-inclusive Caribbean resort run by Jonathan Leopold, the son of a family friend, for a study-abroad program. Between 2009 and 2011, when O’Meara Sanders stepped down, Burlington College paid around $68,000 to the resort. The Free Beacon reports that payments to both the woodworking school and the resort stopped soon after she left.


http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/01/bernie-sanders-family-money

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Bernie accused of funneling campaign $$$ to family members. (Original Post) kstewart33 May 2016 OP
There's a reason he refuses to turn over his 2015 tax returns. nt SunSeeker May 2016 #1
Wonder if, and how much, Jane is getting paid by the campaign as his "advisor" and.... George II May 2016 #10
Wow! workinclasszero May 2016 #2
many questions the sanders are running from answering beachbum bob May 2016 #3
And some think that Sanders is clean. LiberalFighter May 2016 #4
They will surely be here soon to scream at you that Vanity Fair DURHAM D May 2016 #5
They only wanted to release 2014 tax returns! for some reason! Her Sister May 2016 #6
Crony Capitalism at its finest! WhiteTara May 2016 #7
Tax returns please BS. fleabiscuit May 2016 #8
Crooked Bernie!?! Walk away May 2016 #9

George II

(67,782 posts)
10. Wonder if, and how much, Jane is getting paid by the campaign as his "advisor" and....
Sun May 29, 2016, 01:55 PM
May 2016

....media consultant?

WhiteTara

(29,676 posts)
7. Crony Capitalism at its finest!
Sun May 29, 2016, 01:42 PM
May 2016

Go Bernie! Go Jane! Then tell everyone how horrible it is for others to do the same.

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