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misterhighwasted

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11. Perhaps THIS has something to do with the Tax secrecy.
Sun Apr 3, 2016, 02:36 PM
Apr 2016
Sanders and Wife Steered Campaign, Nonprofit Money to Family and Friends

Public records show pattern of payments to Democratic presidential candidate’s inner circle

http://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-and-wife-steered-campaign-nonprofit-money-to-family-and-friends/

And THIS:
A new report suggests that Democratic presidential candidateSen. 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.

A request for comment from the Sanders campaign was not immediately returned.

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

Vanity Fair also reported that:
"Infamously, O’Meara Sanders was not known for her fiscal responsibility while president of Burlington,"

But this was immediately attacked by Weaver, sayng,"..Everything here has been churned through stories before. Just because a partisan source regurgitates them does not make it news.”

Right, Mr Weaver, doesn't this sound exactly what bernies campaign has done to Hillary on a daily basis. .."churned through stories..partisan regurgitation"

Google has more..if you"re interested :

https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-att-us&source=android-browser&q=jane+sanders+charitable+caribbean+tax+shelter

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