Say goodbye, Governor McDonnell

[Chris]

A prominent political donor gave $70,000 to a corporation owned by Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and his sister last year, and the governor did not disclose the money as a gift or loan, according to people with knowledge of the payments.
The donor, wealthy businessman Jonnie R. Williams Sr., also gave a previously unknown $50,000 check to the governor’s wife, Maureen, in 2011, the people said.

The money to the corporation and Maureen McDonnell brings to $145,000 the amount Williams gave to assist the McDonnell family in 2011 and 2012 — funds that are now at the center of federal and state investigations.
Williams, the chief executive of dietary supplement manufacturer Star Scientific Inc., also provided a $10,000 check in December as a present to McDonnell’s eldest daughter, Jeanine, intended to help defray costs at her May 2013 wedding, the people said.
Virginia’s first family already is under intense scrutiny for accepting $15,000 from the same chief executive to pay for the catering at the June 2011 wedding of Cailin McDonnell at the Executive Mansion.

McDonnell?s corporation, wife benefited from $120,000 more from donor, sources say - The Washington Post

 

[National Socialist]

Isn't he term limited anyways? I know the election is coming up soon....

 

[deltex1]

wow....this will jump to the top of the charts.....

 

[CrusaderFrank]

This takes Obama's police state and Benghazi lies out of the news rotation

 

[TheOldSchool]

Governor McDonnell... how in the world did you mess up the cushiest governorship in America? All you had to do was not accept any phony money and you'd be a Senator for years and a VP or P candidate for life. You're state is on auto-pilot. What's wrong with you?

 

[Oddball]

If only the WaPo were as interested in who gave guns to Mexican drug cartels that ended up killing Americans, when and why they did so.

But they're not.

Ho-hum.

 

[Stephanie]

Isn't it funny how the WashingtonCompost can dig up the dirt on Republicans, but we never see anything from them about Democrats...

 

[TheOldSchool]

Isn't it funny how the WashingtonCompost can dig up the dirt on Republicans, but we never see anything from them about Democrats...

They dig it up all the time. For some reason no one cares though. I mean shit Marion Barry still has a job somehow

 

[whitehall]

The donation wasn't illegal. The disclosure of the donation for tax purposes is the issue. Too bad Americans had no recourse when Clinton accepted a million dollar donation from the wife of one of the FBI ten most wanted in exchange for his pardon on Clinton's last day..

 

[Avatar4321]

Didn't you say Governor Walker of Wisconsin was going to be gone too?

Ill wait to see what actually happens.

 

[TheOldSchool]

The donation wasn't illegal. The disclosure of the donation for tax purposes is the issue. Too bad Americans had no recourse when Clinton accepted a million dollar donation from the wife of one of the FBI ten most wanted in exchange for his pardon on Clinton's last day..

There should be a thread about awful pardons by outgoing Presidents

 

[BreezeWood]

just because he is not on food stamps doesn't make him automatically an honest person ....

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Obama's Commerce Secretary "Forgot" to list $80 Million in income

 

[Oddball]

Obama's Commerce Secretary "Forgot" to list $80 Million in income

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l00GGEy_72c]I Forgot.... - YouTube[/ame]

 

[blackhawk]

Obama's Commerce Secretary "Forgot" to list $80 Million in income

Didn't Tim Geithner do the same? And hell he got confirmed as Treasury Secretary.

 

[MeBelle]

Gotta read the article!
Snazzy headline though.

"McDonnell viewed the payments to MoBo and to his wife as loans and not gifts, according to three people familiar with the transactions. State law requires elected officials to disclose their personal loans but not loans made to their corporate interests.

Tucker Martin, a spokesman for the governor, declined to comment on the payments other than to say that McDonnell has been diligent in filling out legally mandated disclosures.

“The rules that I’m following have been rules that have been in place for decades,” McDonnell said Tuesday on a Norfolk radio show. “These have been the disclosure rules of Virginia. I’m following those. To, after the fact, impose some new requirements on an official when you haven’t kept record of other gifts given to family members or things like that obviously wouldn’t be fair.”

State law requires the disclosure of any gift valued at more than $50, but gifts to family members are exempt."

/thread

 

[Lakhota]

Yes, this should be enough to finally take this crooked clown down.

 

[Avatar4321]

Yes, this should be enough to finally take this crooked clown down.

I highly doubt that. especially if MeBelle is correct about the law not requiring them to disclose loans to corporate interests.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Yes, this should be enough to finally take this crooked clown down.

I highly doubt that. especially if MeBelle is correct about the law not requiring them to disclose loans to corporate interests.

It's more than just that money. There are many personal gifts in question such as jewelry, clothing, and the wedding catering that started it all. As well as use of the Governor's mansion by the donor in unethical ways.

But of course this is definitely driven by the McAuliffe campaign. Oh and it just so happens to be an election year?

This next one is going to be the worst VA governor's race since... oh yeah 2009 when we had McDonnell and Creigh freakin Deeds. It's a good thing this state is strong enough to survive both the assholes running this time around.

 

[Dot Com]

it just doesn't pass the smell test Scandals grow for Bob McDonnell - Video on NBCNews.com Looks like Cuccinelli is implicated as well