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Charlie Crist Linked To Fraud, Money Laundering

Crist Campaign Goes to Orange Alert

By: streiff (Diary)  |  June 5th, 2010 at 07:23 PM  | 

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Schadenfreude.

Damn but I love schadenfreude.

Remember back earlier in the year when then-Republican Charlie Crist was pushing a story that Marco Rubio had misused an AmEx card issued to him by the Florida Republican Party. This was supposed to be a killer allegation. Like just about everything else Charlie Crist has touched that strategy has rapidly turned to crap.

On Wednesday of last week, former Florida GOP chair Jim Greer was arrested and charged with theft, fraud, and money laundering in connection with a diversion of at least $125,000 dollars from the Florida GOP to himself by the use of a shell company called Victory Strategies LLC.

Jim Greer has apparently decided that he has no intention of going down by alone and probably figures that Charlie Crist will adapt to life in the prison laundry room much easier than he will.

Gov. Charlie Crist personally signed off on his former Republican party chairman’s confidential fundraising role with the state party – according to Jim Greer’s attorney, whose allegation contradicts the governor’s statement that he “didn’t know anything” about the deal now part of a criminal investigation.

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But Greer’s attorney, Damon Chase, said Saturday that the deal giving them a 10 percent cut of party donations was legal. What’s more, Chase said Crist’s former right-hand man, now U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, first proposed the idea that they earn a fundraising commission to save the party money and replace the $30,000-a-month contract with fundraiser Meredith O’Rourke.

“You guys work hard. You deserve it,” Chase said Greer was told by the governor as they played pool in February 2009 at a Palm Beach golf tournament.

So now we have the sitting governor and a sitting senator from Florida in danger of being indicted for theft, fraud, and money laundering. In addition, we have the spectacle of the national Democrat party apparently tossing their own candidate, Representative Kendrick Meek, an African American from a prominent Florida political family, under the bus in order to support the newly “independent” Charlie Crist.

One hopes Michael Steele is reading this.

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  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Well done.

  • redneck_hippie

    as a full-fledged Democrat. It is getting confusing. Will they pull Meeks back out from under the bus and toss Charlie under?

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    ………the past ten minutes of concentrated thought has afforded the following:

    Heh.

    I repeat…….

    Heh.

    • RedBeard

      A hearty “heh” along with Streiff’s schadenfreude and a good mug of black coffee are a great combination to start the day.

  • redneck_hippie
  • http://www.voterubio2010.com nelsa

    Because he thought that THEY always get away with this kind of CRAP!
    Not this time RINO-Former RINO-Future Fed Country Club Member. :)

    Lets not forget that Greer’s lawyer also implicated a sitting State Senator appointed by Crist . Crist’s former Chief fo Staff George LeMeuix.

    Kendrick Meek is the happiest guy in Florida today!

    BTW GO Marco!!! We need you in Washington.

  • gawntrail1

    FED PEN……….. You deserve it.

  • renny

    Crist isn’t’ over till he’s behind bars.

  • Darin_H

    Yeah, he should read it, but this one (thumbs pointed to self) hopes John Cornyn is reading this.

    PS. FIRE Rob Jesmer

    • streiff

      because the way he’s run the RNC sounds a lot like the way the FL GOP was run.

  • joecollins

    Slippery little suckers, aren’t they? But don’t count them gone until the steel prison doors slam shut.

  • IJB

    ( Smells like burnt toast…)

  • Scope

    is the fear of getting caught. That was before the Obama/Holder administration. No wonder Crist ran to them.

  • liberty3

    According to Moe Lane et al Obama is deserting another ?non-compliant? African American to favor Crist. The firm is SKDKnickerbocker headed by Anita Dunn as in:

    ?Was an advisor to the political campaigns of such notable Democrat U.S. Senators as John Glenn, Bill Bradley, Evan Bayh, and Tom Daschle. Played a major role in laying the groundwork for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Was appointed to serve as President Obama’s White House communications director in 2009

    Delivered a June 2009 speech to high-school students in Maryland, where she cited Mao Zedong as one of her “favorite political philosophers.”
    Resigned her post as White House communications director in November 2009.? Dunn is married to Robert Bauer, who serves as a personal attorney for Barack Obama, and as counsel to the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees. (reportedly in charge of protecting Obama from Sestak and Rothenberg charges)

    Thanks to Discover the Networks by indefatigable David Horowitz at http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2434

  • bk

    to blanket black neighborhoods with ads about the Democratic Party abandoning a black Democrat in favor of a white (ex)Republican. They need to vote for Meeks, not Crist, and it would help if they get pissed off at Democratic Party officials for treating them like trash.

    • http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/blog/loren_heal Socrates

      the same things the folks in those neighborhoods believe: they can make it if they get a shot. Then we add that the Democrats are determined that they not get a shot, so that they can’t get a job.

      25% unemployment is their reward for loyalty to skin color.

      It is a human right to have one’s skin color ignored. That should be our mantra.

      Orange jokes may help, in a perverse kind of way.

  • http://whereswalden.com/ Jeff Walden

    Language? Site rule and all.

    No other complaints about content, to be sure, except that I personally remain wary of taking too much glee in advance of a successful Rubio election. Don’t count your chickens, pride goes before the fall, karma, &c. Still, a laugh every now and then, as long as you don’t get unmoored from reality, is always a good thing. :-)

    • edintexas

      Used to varying levels of obscenity as commentary, but I didn’t find any real examples of language violating the site rules. “Crap”, “pissed off”? Surely can’t be schadenfreude (I jest).

      I’ve heard worse on news commentary shows (from guests).

  • pittbull

    The upper level managers of Enron, and the Clintons did no wrong
    and didn’t know wrong either.

  • uselogic

    and it’d be really nice to see him get his just deserts. That said, I’m not sure Kendrick Meek may be able to profit at Charlie’s expense. He has a few legal issues of his own. Orlando Sentinel liberal columnist piles on ol’ Kendrick:

    http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/os-mike-thomas-kendrick-meet-060610-20100604,0,7783668.column

    • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

      As a dog returneth to it’s own vomit.