Bernie says the GOP claims that he improperly pressured a bank to lend money

[pnwmom]

to Burlington College are lies -- and they probably are.

Just as the GOP has thrown lies against the Clintons for 25 years.

But this is a sample of the kind of thing that they would attack Bernie with if he were the candidate in the general. It is entirely unrealistic to think that Hillary is the only one who would face smears from the GOP.

http://digital.vpr.net/post/republicans-claim-sanders-used-senate-office-help-wife-burlington-college#stream/0

In a letter to U.S. Attorney Eric Miller, Toensing said that he “was recently approached and informed that Senator Bernard Sanders’s office improperly pressured People’s United Bank to approve the loan application submitted by the Senator’s wife, Ms. Sanders.”

Toensing also called on Sen. Sanders to release any documents related to his involvement in the financing deal.

A spokesman for Sanders said the claims are politically motivated “lying.”

Earlier this year, Toensing called for a federal investigation of Jane Sanders involved in securing financing for the college. He alleges that she committed federal loan fraud by overstating the amount of money the college could raise to pay for a property purchased from the Catholic Diocese of Burlington in 2010.

SNIP

[WhiteTara]

1. She may have committed loan fraud

by overstating the pledged donations by a few million.

[pnwmom]

2. And she did have pie-in-the-sky hopes for what could be accomplished

by going heavily into debt to make that land deal.

Which is relevant because we have been told many times that she is Bernie's top woman advisor.

[WhiteTara]

4. She also steered a couple hundred thousand dollars

to her kids for starting a couple of programs that weren't needed at the college. Crony capitalism at work in the Sanders household.

[ebayfool]

3. “was recently approached ..." I wonder if it was in a dark, shivery alley somewhere?

Makes the reader all goose bumpy and stuff!

Toensing? Now that name is a blast from the past!

[pnwmom]

6. So are "Whitewater" and "Lewinksy." But those are blasts from a past

that the Clintons withstood -- despite a $70 million dollar, several year investigation.

[ebayfool]

7. Yup. And you lend the the name credence in your OP.

I lived through that period once. Once was enough.

[DURHAM D]

5. Copy of the letter here -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1107148469#post17

It is an interesting read.



BS needs to release his phone records.