Steele's Campaign Spending Questioned

[TacticalPeek]

Source: Washington Post


Agents Contact Sister After Ex-Aide's Claims

By Henri E. Cauvin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 7, 2009; Page A01

Michael S. Steele, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, arranged for his 2006 Senate campaign to pay a defunct company run by his sister for services that were never performed, his finance chairman from that campaign has told federal prosecutors.

Federal agents in recent days contacted Steele's sister, a spokesman for Steele said yesterday.

The claim about the payment, one of several allegations by Alan B. Fabian, is outlined in a confidential court document. Fabian offered the information last March as he was seeking leniency for himself during plea negotiations on unrelated fraud charges. It is unclear how extensively his claims have been pursued. Prosecutors gave him no credit for cooperation when he was sentenced in October.

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The recent allegations outlined four specific transactions. In addition to the payment to Steele's sister, Fabian said that the candidate used money from his state campaign improperly; that Steele paid $75,000 from the state campaign to a law firm for work that was never performed; and that he or an aide transferred more than $500,000 in campaign cash from one bank to another without authorization.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/06/AR2009020604151.html?hpid=topnews

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What, no child molesting?

[FrenchieCat]

1. Steele ought to know that there is a new Sheriff in Town!

Who's going to tell Steele? :shrug:

[opihimoimoi]

2. OMG Damaged Goods in a week.....OMG...did not take long did it?

[Politicalboi]

3. Well like Steel said

"Government doesn't create jobs" so I'm sure he won't mind giving his up. LOL! Wonder how long it will be before he plays the race card.

[No Elephants]

4. Well, if he's like Clarence Thomas, in 3-2-1-

[FrenchieCat]

5. ta-da!

http://www.washblade.com/2006/5-19/news/localnews/Steele,%20Michael%20LtGov.jpg

[JI7]

7. might be kind of tough considering Obama is the one representing our side

and Holder is AG.

[lanlady]

15. RNC chair is not a government job

Steele robbed GOP donors, not us. For once.

[MrModerate]

6. The irreducibe minimum probity a political leader *must* have . . .

is that he/she is not currently under indictment. Looks like Steele's going to slip below that very relaxed standard pretty soon now.

[bjobotts]

8. Those are qualifications for RNC chair is all. Do I have a sister?

[Number23]

9. Wow. Just when you thought Steele was the lesser of three evils, the other two being...

the fool who sent the world a CD of "Barack the Magic Negro" and the dude who sees NOTHING wrong with being a member of a lily-white country club in the 21st century.

We all thought Steele was just a simpleton but he's doing his darndest to prove there's much more under his collar than just stupidity...

[Chipper Chat]

10. That leaves.......

Ken Blackwell. Such a fine upstanding American.

[1776Forever]

12. Oh my God - That's right - ROFL! This stuff can't be believed it is so raw!

:rofl: :popcorn: :rofl: :popcorn: :rofl: :popcorn:

[pepperbear]

11. haven't you heard? child molesting is SO 2006. n/t

[santamargarita]

13. The Perfect Republican is Always a Criminal, Liar, Pedophile...

:puke:

[billybob537]

16. you forgot

Diaper wearing brothel patron!

[Downwinder]

20. Don't forget Snitch.

[Window]

14. Oh, yeah. 'How does Obama like you now?' Since President Obama wouldn't dignify

your crap with an answer, I'll answer for him.

Just fine, dummy. :rofl:

[RBInMaine]

17. Just Another Corrupt RePUKElican hack.

[shaniqua6392]

18. I can't wait until the MSM picks up on this story.

Oh wait....I just saw MSNBC showing Steele give a statement on how the Dems are spending a trillion dollars, etc. but they never brought up this story. Color me surprised!:rofl:

[lanlady]

19. OMG, the name of the sister's company--

--was Brown Sugar. A catering company that was dissolved in 2006. Steele made a payment to Brown Sugar in 2007, now claims it was a "clerical error."

[rainbow4321]

27. Clerical error..that is how HCA explained their Medicare fraud when I went thru their orientation

several years back. The lady teaching the orientation class said it was a "typo in the El Paso office". Uh-huh. Guess it's the ol' RNC standby excuse.

[Historic NY]

21. Of course no tax was paid either.

[tanyev]

22. That just proves he's eminently qualified to be the leader of the Republican party.

Kind of like having to commit a murder to join the mafia.

[MidwestTransplant]

23. CULTURE OF CORRUPTION

[CitizenPatriot]

24. Once again, it's the MEDIAS fault!

In case you missed the "Gotcha Media!", the GOP has more finger pointing and blame razzle dazzle for you!

Evoking memories from last fall, when their VP Candidate ran around in red spike kitten heels and cried "Sexism!" any time anyone asked her a question she couldn't answer (which was just about all of the time), Micheal Steele's sister, benefactor of the fraud, rebranded Steele's illegal act as:

""Ah, it's the 'sabotage Michael Steele' story," "

[Wizard777]

25. This is what Republicans call business as usual. See: KBR

They're real fond of paying for services not rendered.

[kwenu]

26. ROFL!!!!!!!!

:rofl:

[Historic NY]

28. Steele fired RNC people..too funny

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/rnc-shakeup-as-steele-asks-for-resignations-2009-02-05.html

[NoodleyAppendage]

29. "Prosecutors gave him no credit for cooperation" == Punishing informant who squeals on a Repuke

Sounds like the prosecutors didn't like what the informant had to say about Steele...inconvenient info.

J

[rainbow4321]

30. Maybe the Dems should use the same "clerical error" excuse to pass the Dem version of the job bill

"Oooohh, did we make the stimulus amount $900 billion?? It was a CLERICAL ERROR, we meant for it to be $700 billion. Whoops. Too bad we already spent that extra $200 billion"!!!!!!!!!!!!!