FBI probe into Sanders' wife started with 'hearsay'

[Hassin Bin Sober]

34. And maybe there is a wide gap between what people said before the collapse and after the collapse.

It sounds to me like a bunch of he said she said. And quite possibly donors covering their asses.

At the very least nobody should be prosecuted for all of this nonsense. At least that's what reasonable people would think. Jagoffs like Bradley Toensing obviously have different opinions.

One donor is said to have given $30k but was listed for $60k. He said he never "formally" agreed to the second $30k. Okay, but did he "informally" promise the second $30k? Or did he just promise it? If the guy backed out of course he isn't going to admit to making a promise because he could be on the hook for the money. Because even verbal promises can be enforced.

The $million dollars from Maietta sounds pretty murky too. It sounds like she agreed to give a $one million dollars as a gift but then changed it to a bequest on advice of her accountant. This was done as a hedge against the college failing. She was writing checks at the time with the understanding those amounts would be deducted from the bequest amount.

Everyone keeps quoting Maietta as if her recollection and what she will say now might not be different from what she said or promised verbally to her friend the VP of Finance. There are several quotes from other people involved in the fundraising that cast a lot of doubt.



Christine Plunkett, the Finance VP at the time, seems to be the one who had the personal relationship with Maietta.


https://vtdigger.org/2017/05/04/burlington-college-donor-says-never-signed-pledge/

So much so that Maietta took the college out of her will due to how the staff and students treated Plunkett:

" Maietta said she had a personal relationship with Plunkett and was dismayed by how students and faculty treated Plunkett in 2014. When she was forced to resign under pressure from student protests, Maietta decided to remove Burlington College from her will."

In 2014, Christine Plunkett, who succeeded Sanders as Burlington College president, told WCAX in an interview about Maietta’s gift that “the understanding at the time was that it was a cash gift and we proceeded until we understood it was a bequest.”



“I know that particular donor, probably about a year after making a commitment, she began to question whether Burlington College would be successful, and that led, as I understood it, to a rescission of that commitment,” Leopold said.

Maietta said she had stopped cutting checks to Burlington College, partly based on advice she got from Moss. “He said, ‘They don’t know what they’re doing. They’re going to go belly up,’” she said.

Moss said he didn’t necessarily tell Maietta to stop giving the college money, so much as he floated the idea of leaving money in her will as a hedge against the possibility that the college might fail in its effort at expansion.

He said he had a gut feeling that the college was overextended, and by deferring the gift until her death, Maietta would be less likely to put money toward a lost cause.

In 2014, Christine Plunkett, who succeeded Sanders as Burlington College president, told WCAX in an interview about Maietta’s gift that “the understanding at the time was that it was a cash gift and we proceeded until we understood it was a bequest.”