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5. Apparently Kelley and her husband are a couple of grifters
Fri Nov 16, 2012, 04:54 AM
Nov 2012

Her husband's a cancer surgeon and they ran a questionable 'charity' which it looks like they looted.

4. The Kelleys bankrupted their sketchy cancer charity
Jill Kelley and her cancer-surgeon husband, Scott, spent their way into Tampa society by throwing lavish parties for military leaders and visiting with dignitaries at their mansion on swanky Bayshore Boulevard. That house was also the listed headquarters for the Doctor Kelley Cancer Foundation, an apparently short-lived charity they founded in 2007 "exclusively to conduct cancer research and to grant wishes to terminally ill adult cancer patients." To put it mildly, "it appears that the charity fell far short of its mission," say Jason Cherkis and Christina Wilkie at The Huffington Post. "By the end of 2007, the charity had gone bankrupt, having conveniently spent exactly the same amount of money, $157,284, as it started with — not a dollar more" — on such things as "meals and entertainment" ($43,317), "travel" ($38,610), legal fees ($25,013), office expenses and supplies ($12,807), "automotive expenses" ($8,822), and utilities and telephones ($7,854). The couple also faces millions in lawsuits from banks for not paying mortgages on property they own and credit card debt.

http://theweek.com/article/index/236330/the-8-strangest-details-of-the-david-petraeus-affair-updated

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I Agree, Sir: This May Not Be An Espionage Set-Up, But It Sure Looks Like One The Magistrate Nov 2012 #1
Yeah, almost the textbook way you'd imagine someone would go about it, too. nt Poll_Blind Nov 2012 #10
Respectfully disagree, sir. lapislzi Nov 2012 #23
so that's why she didn't go for that creepy looking FBI guy who hoped to use Republican's messing JI7 Nov 2012 #2
Anybody throwing such parties risks attracting the attention of foreign intelligence services. Selatius Nov 2012 #3
I wonder who they really are, and who got them that kind of access sabrina 1 Nov 2012 #4
Apparently Kelley and her husband are a couple of grifters GCP Nov 2012 #5
heard on npr yesterday am... she and hubby haven't paid their mortgage since 2009. salin Nov 2012 #6
It's a game in Florida to play it close to the edge. Baitball Blogger Nov 2012 #18
Hopefully, this situation will lead to investigations of BlueMTexpat Nov 2012 #7
Interestingly, the honorary consularships issue falls more on foreign countries. Poll_Blind Nov 2012 #9
The honorary consulship, in and of itself, is not the troubling point for me. BlueMTexpat Nov 2012 #21
I don't think there's much "there" there jmowreader Nov 2012 #8
Is that what the kids are calling it these days? Fumesucker Nov 2012 #11
The Repug National Convention Was In Tampa..... global1 Nov 2012 #12
how petty TorchTheWitch Nov 2012 #13
The hostesses with the mostess. Historic NY Nov 2012 #14
vacuous d_r Nov 2012 #15
They seem like the Tampa version of that crazy D.C. area couple. Mayberry Machiavelli Nov 2012 #16
Like that, times 100 or 1000 it seems! nt Poll_Blind Nov 2012 #19
I wrote about it yesterday. Baitball Blogger Nov 2012 #17
I hear they served hubris on a croissant. nm rhett o rick Nov 2012 #20
I'm kind of impressed she went skydiving. aletier_v Nov 2012 #22
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