Gov McDonnell, When Will Spare Your State The Embarrassment

[bodecea]

Still waiting for Rabbi to formulate his disapproval of Gov. McConnell.

 

[The Rabbi]

Still waiting for Rabbi to formulate his disapproval of Gov. McConnell.

I'm waiting for actual facts and evidence of wrong doing.

 

[J.E.D]

Still waiting for Rabbi to formulate his disapproval of Gov. McConnell.

I'm waiting for actual facts and evidence of wrong doing.

Here you go:

People familiar with the probe say Williams and the company have turned over records showing that he paid for golf outings for the governor at elite country clubs in the Richmond area a half-dozen times between May and September 2011. The records are also said to indicate that Star reimbursed Williams that year for $7,500 in greens fees, golf equipment and apparel for the governor, his twin college-aged sons and members of his staff.

Star, likewise, underwrote a trip Williams arranged for the governor and first lady to Cape Cod a year ago, paying for private plane travel and a stay at a seaside inn.

The governor’s disclosure form appears to report the gift, noting that Star paid nearly $7,400 for flights between Richmond and Massachusetts, lodgings and event expenses in 2012.

The disclosure form doesn’t note these details: that the first couple went together to the Cape, joined by Williams, Williams’s wife and Johns Hopkins University doctor Paul Ladenson, who has served as a top consultant to Star. The weekend was part of a campaign by Williams to sell the governor and other top state officials on his company’s new dietary supplement, Anatabloc, the people said.

Virginia State Police records show taxpayers paid $2,967.83 for the governor’s protective detail to join him for the five-day stay at the Chatham Bars Inn, a hotel once described by Boston Magazine as a likely haunt of a modern-day Jay Gatsby.

Another example of Williams’s gift-giving submitted to investigators involved a September 2011 fundraiser in Richmond for the American Cancer Society, which Williams attended as a guest of the first lady. The event, “Cure By Design,” featured a fashion show with cancer survivors as models and an auction of clothing and other fashion-related items.

Williams arranged for a male model with whom he is friends to travel to Richmond from New York for the event and escort Maureen McDonnell down the catwalk, recalled designer Alex Garfield, who served as a celebrity auctioneer at the event. Pictures on the charity’s Facebook page show the governor and first lady posing with Williams, the model and Garfield.

Garfield recalled that as the auction began, the governor appeared on the stage to take part. In front of a large audience, Williams agreed to pay $15,000, the winning bid, to give the first lady one of the evening’s most prized items: a weekend in New York and a tour of the fashion district conducted by Garfield.

 

[Stephanie]

they don't need facts all they need is an article from the WashintonCompost

 

[Stephanie]

and here's something to notice...not one thread was posted on Filthy Filner and how he abused all these WOMEN they crow they care more about by the libs-Democrats on the board...unless I missed it

so spare us the faux rage over this

 

[MeBelle]

...and step down already?

Gov. McDonnell described as aware of gifts from Virginia businessman

July 30, 2013
Gov. Robert F. McDonnell said Tuesday that he will return all gifts from businessman Jonnie R. Williams Sr. and indicated for the first time that he was not aware of everything that the Star Scientific executive had given to his family.

McDonnell announced that he was returning the gifts one week after apologizing for the scandal and disclosing that he had repaid $120,000 in loans that Williams provided: $70,000 to a real estate company owned by the governor and his sister and $50,000 to first lady Maureen McDonnell.

McDonnell says he will return other gifts - Washington Post

What's the new uproar about?

 

[The Rabbi]

...and step down already?

Gov. McDonnell described as aware of gifts from Virginia businessman

July 30, 2013
Gov. Robert F. McDonnell said Tuesday that he will return all gifts from businessman Jonnie R. Williams Sr. and indicated for the first time that he was not aware of everything that the Star Scientific executive had given to his family.

McDonnell announced that he was returning the gifts one week after apologizing for the scandal and disclosing that he had repaid $120,000 in loans that Williams provided: $70,000 to a real estate company owned by the governor and his sister and $50,000 to first lady Maureen McDonnell.

McDonnell says he will return other gifts - Washington Post

What's the new uproar about?

OK, case closed.

 

[J.E.D]

What's the new uproar about?

OK, case closed.

The uproar is about a governor accepting gifts and donations in return for political favors. He won't step down and won't even admit to any wrongdoing.

The case is not closed. Prosecutors are looking into charges as we speak.

 

[J.E.D]

and here's something to notice...not one thread was posted on Filthy Filner and how he abused all these WOMEN they crow they care more about by the libs-Democrats on the board...unless I missed it

so spare us the faux rage over this

Staph, the USMB Queen of Diversion.

Sorry, honey, but Filner resigned. So did Weiner. McDonnell hasn't and neither has Vitter for that matter.

You should try a new act. You're not very good at this one.

 

[squeeze berry]

Right. Because a Democrat congressman or mayor caught in a sex scandal who was then forced to resign by his colleagues is exactly the same as a Republican gov caught in a corruption scandal whose colleagues aren't asking him to resign, who has no plans on resigning, and who won't even admit to any wrong doing.

Yep, those are exactly the same. Thanks for pointing out the hypocrisy of Democrats

In your mind the only difference is the Democrat is right and the Republican is wrong.

Filner was totally and completely wrong and so glad to see him gone. so....what do you say about Gov. McDonnell?

he qualifies for a position in Obama's cabinet

 

[whitehall]

Isn't that the way it works? Bill Clinton extorted a million dollars from a woman who's husband was on the FBI's most wanted list and the radical left thought it was business as usual.

 

[rdean]

how nice now they care about gifts

when does the Compost ever dig up anything on a Democrat?

I guess the people who LIVE there will decide eh?

Why is it always a race to the bottom for you? If your highest standard is "But a Democrat did it", then you will never have standards. Well, not "reputable" standards.

 

[rdean]

Isn't that the way it works? Bill Clinton extorted a million dollars from a woman who's husband was on the FBI's most wanted list and the radical left thought it was business as usual.

Why would he bother? He's made over a hundred million since the end of his last term.

Oh, it's just more right wingnut bullshit. Slander and smear.

OK, maybe jealousy too. Remember Bush? He made like a hundred grand as the fifth speaker. Besides, what can you learn from an ex Republican president. They don't know economics or policy or science. And no one wants to listen to a failure boast how he "got there".

 

[squeeze berry]

New Obama tax-evasion scandal: Tom Daschle; Update: Even more evasion! « Hot Air

 

[rdean]

New Obama tax-evasion scandal: Tom Daschle; Update: Even more evasion! « Hot Air

Looks more like a "Daschle" scandal that he paid back. I missed the part about it being an "Obama" scandal.

But if you really want a scandal, check out what Republicans are doing in Virginia. You won't believe it.