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Report: FBI investigating Jane Sanders for alleged bank fraud

Op-Ed: The FBI probe you haven't heard about may come back to haunt Bernie Sanders

There's a big story going on right now involving the FBI, the White House, and potential criminal activity.

And no, this one has nothing to do with President Donald Trump's firing James Comey. Rather, the story has the chance to be just as politically damaging as the messy ouster of the former FBI director, even though you probably haven't heard a whisper of it in the mainstream media.

Here are some of the particulars:

  1. A year ago, Vermont's Burlington College was forced to shut its doors after finding itself unable to meet the obligations of a big loan it took out to fund a campus expansion.
  2. Much of that debt was incurred during the tenure of then-president Jane O'Meara Sanders, the wife of none other than former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, Vermont's senator and a progressive icon.
  3. This month, Burlington's board of trustees president confirmed to the Burlington Free Press that the Department of Justice and FBI have been looking into the entire loan approval process for more than a year, amid allegations of fraud.
Intrigued yet?

A key focus of the investigation, according to extensive reporting by the Vermont Journalism Trust's VTDigger, is the question of whether Jane Sanders and Burlington College deliberately gave misleading information about how much donor money was coming in to the institution. Now that some of the people on the donor list have reportedly been interviewed by the FBI, that question could be answered very soon.

Right now, no one knows for certain whether a crime was committed, and it bears mentioning that Senator Sanders, in an interview with a local TV station, recently denounced some of the allegations at the center of the affair as politically motivated. Since the matter is still under investigation, I will leave the legal ramifications to the justice system.

But what can and should be discussed is what this could mean for Bernie Sanders' political career, the progressive movement in general, and the boiling issue of higher education costs in America.

For the senator, all of these issues mesh together. Sanders had been a career backbencher and kind of an oddity in Washington for three decades before his stunning near miss in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary. At 75 years old, he's not expected to run for president again in 2020. Still, he's evolved into an influential leader in the Democratic Party, even as he self-identified as an independent while publicly declaring an affinity for Socialism. His leadership of the progressive forces in America is virtually unchallenged, with the possible exception of fellow New Englander Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.

Burlington College's woes cut right to the heart of the politically charged issue of education costs. Guess what Sanders' main policy goal has been since the election ended? Answer: Free college.

Sanders even introduced legislation last month that would make tuition free for all in-state students at community colleges, as well as those at four-year public colleges whose families earn less than $125,000 a year. This would be no small thing: According to the College Board, the average cost of tuition and fees for the 2016–2017 school year was $33,480 at private colleges, $9,650 for state residents at public colleges, and $24,930 for out-of-state residents attending public colleges. Tuition continues to rise faster than the rate of inflation, but institutions often hike fees or the cost of living in dormitories, even as they say tuition rates are officially "frozen."...

...And that brings us back to Jane O'Meara Sanders and her conduct at Burlington College. In addition to being a well-paid administrator herself, (her salary at the tiny college was $160,000 per year with a $200,000 severance when she left in 2011), Sanders was leading an effort for a major physical expansion at Burlington. Campus expansions and other improvements are also a major trend that so many colleges have latched on to in recent decades, as opposed to using added resources to keep tuition prices down or focus on academic quality.

Burlington's failure came when it couldn't pay the loans it took out to cover just such a major expansion. Now, the FBI is looking into whether those loans were acquired fraudulently in the first place.

All of this looks bad at the same time that colleges continue to claim some degree of poverty, and a general inability to control tuition costs. They routinely blame supposed cuts in state funding and the need to "compete" with other institutions for technological capital.

Sometimes, however, they hide the money. Last month, news surfaced that University of California system President Janet Napolitano failed to disclose $175 million of the school's reserve funds, even as she lobbied for tuition increases. For the record, Napolitano and others insist that audit was politically motivated and not entirely accurate. Nonetheless, Gov. Jerry Brown (a fellow Democrat) decided to withhold $50 million in funding from the U.C. system.

With that in mind, it looks bad when overinflated tuition costs evoke a response from people like Sen. Sanders, who expects taxpayers to subsidize them. It's also a potentially mortal blow to Sanders' moral authority on progressive issues if his own wife ends up being targeted by the FBI for acting like one of the rogue Wall Street executives he's railed against for years....

You don't get a second vacation home by being a progressive champion of the people. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders lost all credibility when they endorsed Hillary Clinton, Warren more than Sanders since she endorsed Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. Ralph Nader is the only leftist who has any credibility left, and he's actually not all that left on some issues like immigration.
 
Since the crazy left declared war on banks (except the ones that support the democrat party) it would seem that the wife of a socialist candidate who defrauded a bank would be viewed as a modern Robin Hood...or not. You can count on the criminal conspiracy in the MSM to do their damndist to ignore the story.
 
Since the crazy left declared war on banks (except the ones that support the democrat party) it would seem that the wife of a socialist candidate who defrauded a bank would be viewed as a modern Robin Hood...or not. You can count on the criminal conspiracy in the MSM to do their damndist to ignore the story.

"Steal from the rich and give unto me." -Bernie Sanders
 
Report: FBI investigating Jane Sanders for alleged bank fraud

Op-Ed: The FBI probe you haven't heard about may come back to haunt Bernie Sanders

There's a big story going on right now involving the FBI, the White House, and potential criminal activity.

And no, this one has nothing to do with President Donald Trump's firing James Comey. Rather, the story has the chance to be just as politically damaging as the messy ouster of the former FBI director, even though you probably haven't heard a whisper of it in the mainstream media.

Here are some of the particulars:

  1. A year ago, Vermont's Burlington College was forced to shut its doors after finding itself unable to meet the obligations of a big loan it took out to fund a campus expansion.
  2. Much of that debt was incurred during the tenure of then-president Jane O'Meara Sanders, the wife of none other than former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, Vermont's senator and a progressive icon.
  3. This month, Burlington's board of trustees president confirmed to the Burlington Free Press that the Department of Justice and FBI have been looking into the entire loan approval process for more than a year, amid allegations of fraud.
Intrigued yet?

A key focus of the investigation, according to extensive reporting by the Vermont Journalism Trust's VTDigger, is the question of whether Jane Sanders and Burlington College deliberately gave misleading information about how much donor money was coming in to the institution. Now that some of the people on the donor list have reportedly been interviewed by the FBI, that question could be answered very soon.

Right now, no one knows for certain whether a crime was committed, and it bears mentioning that Senator Sanders, in an interview with a local TV station, recently denounced some of the allegations at the center of the affair as politically motivated. Since the matter is still under investigation, I will leave the legal ramifications to the justice system.

But what can and should be discussed is what this could mean for Bernie Sanders' political career, the progressive movement in general, and the boiling issue of higher education costs in America.

For the senator, all of these issues mesh together. Sanders had been a career backbencher and kind of an oddity in Washington for three decades before his stunning near miss in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary. At 75 years old, he's not expected to run for president again in 2020. Still, he's evolved into an influential leader in the Democratic Party, even as he self-identified as an independent while publicly declaring an affinity for Socialism. His leadership of the progressive forces in America is virtually unchallenged, with the possible exception of fellow New Englander Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.

Burlington College's woes cut right to the heart of the politically charged issue of education costs. Guess what Sanders' main policy goal has been since the election ended? Answer: Free college.

Sanders even introduced legislation last month that would make tuition free for all in-state students at community colleges, as well as those at four-year public colleges whose families earn less than $125,000 a year. This would be no small thing: According to the College Board, the average cost of tuition and fees for the 2016–2017 school year was $33,480 at private colleges, $9,650 for state residents at public colleges, and $24,930 for out-of-state residents attending public colleges. Tuition continues to rise faster than the rate of inflation, but institutions often hike fees or the cost of living in dormitories, even as they say tuition rates are officially "frozen."...

...And that brings us back to Jane O'Meara Sanders and her conduct at Burlington College. In addition to being a well-paid administrator herself, (her salary at the tiny college was $160,000 per year with a $200,000 severance when she left in 2011), Sanders was leading an effort for a major physical expansion at Burlington. Campus expansions and other improvements are also a major trend that so many colleges have latched on to in recent decades, as opposed to using added resources to keep tuition prices down or focus on academic quality.

Burlington's failure came when it couldn't pay the loans it took out to cover just such a major expansion. Now, the FBI is looking into whether those loans were acquired fraudulently in the first place.

All of this looks bad at the same time that colleges continue to claim some degree of poverty, and a general inability to control tuition costs. They routinely blame supposed cuts in state funding and the need to "compete" with other institutions for technological capital.

Sometimes, however, they hide the money. Last month, news surfaced that University of California system President Janet Napolitano failed to disclose $175 million of the school's reserve funds, even as she lobbied for tuition increases. For the record, Napolitano and others insist that audit was politically motivated and not entirely accurate. Nonetheless, Gov. Jerry Brown (a fellow Democrat) decided to withhold $50 million in funding from the U.C. system.

With that in mind, it looks bad when overinflated tuition costs evoke a response from people like Sen. Sanders, who expects taxpayers to subsidize them. It's also a potentially mortal blow to Sanders' moral authority on progressive issues if his own wife ends up being targeted by the FBI for acting like one of the rogue Wall Street executives he's railed against for years....

You don't get a second vacation home by being a progressive champion of the people. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders lost all credibility when they endorsed Hillary Clinton, Warren more than Sanders since she endorsed Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. Ralph Nader is the only leftist who has any credibility left, and he's actually not all that left on some issues like immigration.
Tramp continues to break the Constitution because he's still making a fortune at the citizens expense and you go after Mrs. Sanders. my... aren't you an enormous turd!
 
Report: FBI investigating Jane Sanders for alleged bank fraud

Op-Ed: The FBI probe you haven't heard about may come back to haunt Bernie Sanders

There's a big story going on right now involving the FBI, the White House, and potential criminal activity.

And no, this one has nothing to do with President Donald Trump's firing James Comey. Rather, the story has the chance to be just as politically damaging as the messy ouster of the former FBI director, even though you probably haven't heard a whisper of it in the mainstream media.

Here are some of the particulars:

  1. A year ago, Vermont's Burlington College was forced to shut its doors after finding itself unable to meet the obligations of a big loan it took out to fund a campus expansion.
  2. Much of that debt was incurred during the tenure of then-president Jane O'Meara Sanders, the wife of none other than former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, Vermont's senator and a progressive icon.
  3. This month, Burlington's board of trustees president confirmed to the Burlington Free Press that the Department of Justice and FBI have been looking into the entire loan approval process for more than a year, amid allegations of fraud.
Intrigued yet?

A key focus of the investigation, according to extensive reporting by the Vermont Journalism Trust's VTDigger, is the question of whether Jane Sanders and Burlington College deliberately gave misleading information about how much donor money was coming in to the institution. Now that some of the people on the donor list have reportedly been interviewed by the FBI, that question could be answered very soon.

Right now, no one knows for certain whether a crime was committed, and it bears mentioning that Senator Sanders, in an interview with a local TV station, recently denounced some of the allegations at the center of the affair as politically motivated. Since the matter is still under investigation, I will leave the legal ramifications to the justice system.

But what can and should be discussed is what this could mean for Bernie Sanders' political career, the progressive movement in general, and the boiling issue of higher education costs in America.

For the senator, all of these issues mesh together. Sanders had been a career backbencher and kind of an oddity in Washington for three decades before his stunning near miss in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary. At 75 years old, he's not expected to run for president again in 2020. Still, he's evolved into an influential leader in the Democratic Party, even as he self-identified as an independent while publicly declaring an affinity for Socialism. His leadership of the progressive forces in America is virtually unchallenged, with the possible exception of fellow New Englander Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.

Burlington College's woes cut right to the heart of the politically charged issue of education costs. Guess what Sanders' main policy goal has been since the election ended? Answer: Free college.

Sanders even introduced legislation last month that would make tuition free for all in-state students at community colleges, as well as those at four-year public colleges whose families earn less than $125,000 a year. This would be no small thing: According to the College Board, the average cost of tuition and fees for the 2016–2017 school year was $33,480 at private colleges, $9,650 for state residents at public colleges, and $24,930 for out-of-state residents attending public colleges. Tuition continues to rise faster than the rate of inflation, but institutions often hike fees or the cost of living in dormitories, even as they say tuition rates are officially "frozen."...

...And that brings us back to Jane O'Meara Sanders and her conduct at Burlington College. In addition to being a well-paid administrator herself, (her salary at the tiny college was $160,000 per year with a $200,000 severance when she left in 2011), Sanders was leading an effort for a major physical expansion at Burlington. Campus expansions and other improvements are also a major trend that so many colleges have latched on to in recent decades, as opposed to using added resources to keep tuition prices down or focus on academic quality.

Burlington's failure came when it couldn't pay the loans it took out to cover just such a major expansion. Now, the FBI is looking into whether those loans were acquired fraudulently in the first place.

All of this looks bad at the same time that colleges continue to claim some degree of poverty, and a general inability to control tuition costs. They routinely blame supposed cuts in state funding and the need to "compete" with other institutions for technological capital.

Sometimes, however, they hide the money. Last month, news surfaced that University of California system President Janet Napolitano failed to disclose $175 million of the school's reserve funds, even as she lobbied for tuition increases. For the record, Napolitano and others insist that audit was politically motivated and not entirely accurate. Nonetheless, Gov. Jerry Brown (a fellow Democrat) decided to withhold $50 million in funding from the U.C. system.

With that in mind, it looks bad when overinflated tuition costs evoke a response from people like Sen. Sanders, who expects taxpayers to subsidize them. It's also a potentially mortal blow to Sanders' moral authority on progressive issues if his own wife ends up being targeted by the FBI for acting like one of the rogue Wall Street executives he's railed against for years....

You don't get a second vacation home by being a progressive champion of the people. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders lost all credibility when they endorsed Hillary Clinton, Warren more than Sanders since she endorsed Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. Ralph Nader is the only leftist who has any credibility left, and he's actually not all that left on some issues like immigration.
Tramp continues to break the Constitution because he's still making a fortune at the citizens expense and you go after Mrs. Sanders. my... aren't you an enormous turd!

Trump never claimed to be a socialist. There's a special place in hell for politicians like Bernie and Jane Sanders who mislead the people.
 
Ho hum, another deceitful political family lining their pockets at the expense of others.

You didn't even bother reading the story. There are no allegations that Sanders lined her own pockets here. The allegations are that she mislead the lenders on how much money the College could raise on donations, not that she stole money.

Sanders is not being accused of theft, and quite frankly, the charges do appear to be political in nature. The college raised half of the money she claimed they would raise, the college went bankrupt, and the lender lost money.

Sanders is being accused of lying about the amount t of donations coming in, not that she stole money.
 
Jane Sanders's Fraud Investigation: Bernie Sanders's Wife Hires Lawyers Over Burlington College Loan Allegations

Jane Sanders's Fraud Investigation: Bernie Sanders's Wife Hires Lawyers Over Burlington College Loan Allegations


Bernie Sanders’s wife, Jane Sanders, has reportedly hired lawyers following a federal investigation into her time as president of the now-defunct Burlington College in Vermont. She is accused of fraudulently obtaining a $10 million bank loan that was purportedly used to buy 33 acres of land for the school. But, the full story is a little stranger than that.


In a lengthy feature, Politico magazine reports that the investigation into Jane Sanders began in 2016 under then U.S. President Barack Obama. His administration was notified of Sanders’s alleged financial irregularities by Brady Toensing, a Republican lawyer who headed up Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Vermont.


Toensing was alerted to the story after a local Vermont paper, Seven Days, published an article about the $10 million of debt Burlington College was in. Toensing looked at the school’s loan documents and allegedly saw that Jane Sanders had convinced a bank that the college—which had an annual budget of $4 million—could repay the sum. He passed his findings on to VTDigger (another local news site), which found Sanders had assured the bank and a state agency that donors had pledged $2.6 million to secure the loan. In reality, two donors had been listed as pledging more than they had, while a third—who had authorized a donation to be made after she died—was down as willing to donate it over the next few years.

In January 2016, Toensing reportedly passed this information onto the U.S. attorney for Vermont, with a follow-up letter to federal investigators in March. In that second document, he alleged that Bernie Sanders’s office had put pressure on the bank to authorize his wife’s loan. Speaking to Politico, Sanders’s adviser, Jeff Weaver, said the charge was “ridiculous.”

News of the investigation into Jane Sanders is bound to rile left-leaning supporters of her husband. When asked about the allegations against him in May, Bernie Sanders said it would be improper to comment...
 
Scumbag socialists like Bernie and his ugly, fat pig wife should be forced to live in Venezuela.
Damn, you weren't kidding, were you? YUCK!

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