What did Joe buy with $387K worth of illegal petty cash?

[Rose Siding]

....His campaign disbursed $387,000 in unmarked "petty cash" in just 12 days. That's $32,000 every single day, with no accounting at all for how it was spent.

What's worse, it happened right before the primary.

What was Joe Lieberman buying? Who was Joe Lieberman buying? And did he break the law?

The last answer is undoubtedly, yes.


"A political committee may maintain a petty cash fund out of which it may make expenditures not in excess of $100 to any person per purchase or transaction. If a petty cash fund is maintained, it shall be the duty of the treasurer of the political committee to keep and maintain a written journal of all disbursements. This written journal shall include the name and address of every person to whom any disbursement is made, as well as the date, amount, and purpose of such disbursement. In addition, if any disbursement is made for a candidate, the journal shall include the name of that candidate and the office (including State and Congressional district) sought by such candidate.

11 CFR 102.11."

(Images of Joe's petty cash dispersements provided)
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/21/16929/570

[wakeme2008]

1. kick and NOM nt

[ThomCat]

2. Kick

[Diane R]

3. kicked and recommended n/t

[datadiva]

4. Holy cow!

This needs to be investigated and quickly put out into the MSM. Thanks for posting this.

[speedoo]

5. He definitely broke the law.

So now he's a criminal as well as a traitor.

[midnight]

10. Where are those helpful police when you need them.....

I said this before, but I think under these circumstances that the police ought to be called in this case too.

[Little Star]

6. K&R Bring him down!!!! Friggin Traitor!

[hang a left]

21. Call me crazy but I truely think that Joe is an agent of a foreign

country. Someone convince me he is not.

[Starlight]

23. I just thought he was on the GOP's payroll.

:shrug:

[Pale Blue Dot]

7. LINKS: I remember near the end of the primary there were rumors

that Lieberman was paying people to disrupt Lamont events, doorknock, etc. Some links:

http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=24325

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/8/3/205416/1615

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/08/lieberman_astro.html

[KittyWampus]

8. well, if Lamont can't use this himself....

[fooj]

9. I can hear the denials already...

:grr: He's such a WHINER! What a complete LOSER!

[lumpy]

11. Kick

v

[Straight Shooter]

12. Thirty-two thousand dollars per day, and no accounting?

Yep, he's a Republican.

[me b zola]

29. You made me LOL

Maybe Paul Bremmer is working on Joe's campaign.

[Tom Joad]

13. He bought pizza for the volunteers?

With all the toppings.

[orleans]

16. and lots of cigarettes. he's taking up smoking (as in "smokin joe")

he took it literally. now he's hooked.

[Erika]

14. Joe's looking pretty dirty

But the GOP are backing him. Why expect anything else?

[Duppers]

15. yeah! he's Joe Dirt

He's goin' go down too!

[saigon68]

22. He's Joementum Limpmann

Creepy draft dodger and Bush Catamite.

[badgerpup]

25. "Catamite". THERE'S a word you don't see much anymore...

at least,not in modern literature.
:hi:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catamite

[saigon68]

32. It accurately describes Joementum

[eppur_se_muova]

31. He's Joe LeDirtman. nt

[orleans]

17. quick! call the ethics committee! maybe they will.....

1. ignore it

2. chalk it up with past experiences

3. laugh

4. get right on it

[AzDar]

18. Kick n/t

[Eric J in MN]

19. kick

kick

[Th1onein]

20. K & R

nt

[xchrom]

24. kick

[progressoid]

26. Ummm, donuts?

[sofa king]

27. Ooooh--a slush fund, maybe?

The Washington Post originally reported that the slush fund controlled by H.R. Haldemann was around $350,000.

But watch out--slush funds have a tendency to grow after they're discovered, and kill people. The Nixon slush fund was later revealed to be about $700,000, and even that may be the tip of the iceberg. When Howard Hunt's wife died in a conveniently populated plane crash (.pdf) that year, her purse was found in the wreckage stuffed with at least $10,000 in cash. Some reports claim she had purchased a first-class seat next to her for her luggage.

[WillyT]

28. K & R !!!

:kick:

[Kurovski]

30. Pretty little trinkets for his snuggle-bunny George.

Huggy-smoochy.