Rut Roh...Is Normie Coleman A Target???

[KharmaTrain]

The sore loser may need to keep Benji Ginsburg and the rest of those high-priced rushpbulican laywers around...looks like he's got more court dates in his future...and this one isn't about a 6 year term...

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/

Losing his Senate seat may be the least of Norm Coleman's worries.

It's looking more and more like the former Minnesota senator has heard from federal investigators who are investigating the Nasser Kazeminy allegations.

Asked by the Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial board whether he had been contacted with the FBI in connection with the probe, Coleman refused to say, instead pivoting to attack the paper:

Seems like the corporate media has said precious little about Normie's living arrangements or this scandal. Guess IOKIYAR.

Discuss...

[Ghost in the Machine]

1. Exec says Coleman donor ordered $100K payments

Exec says Coleman donor ordered $100K payments
Sworn statement backs allegation that Kazeminy directed fees to an insurance firm to benefit the Colemans.

By PAUL McENROE and TONY KENNEDY, Star Tribune staff writers

Last update: March 26, 2009 - 11:51 PM

The former finance chief of a Texas company controlled by Nasser Kazeminy, a close friend of former Sen. Norm Coleman, said in a deposition last week that Kazeminy ordered $100,000 in fees be paid to a Minneapolis insurance agency where Coleman's wife was employed.

B.J. Thomas, who was chief financial officer of Deep Marine Technology Inc., said that $75,000 of that sum was paid to Hays Companies even though he saw no evidence of Deep Marine receiving any consulting services from Hays.

Thomas' deposition, taken under oath on March 19 and obtained by the Star Tribune, is the first corroboration from an official at Deep Marine of allegations made by company founder Paul McKim in a lawsuit filed last year against the company.

In the two weeks before the November U.S. Senate election, two lawsuits were filed against Deep Marine -- one by McKim and one by a group of minority shareholders. In them, Kazeminy was accused of funneling payments to Hays to benefit the Colemans, as well as other alleged financial wrongdoing.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/41952432.html

[KharmaTrain]

2. Thanks For Posting This...

Kinda smells like the situation we had here in Illinois with George Ryan. The first words of investigation came before he was elected as the probe was kept quiet...and the same with our fomer gov/assclown Blago. Generally prosecutors try not to press cases in or around an election so not to look like it's politically motivated (except if you were Brad Slotzman). I wonder if this case has been on ice as long as the outcome of the Senate race remained in limbo...and inversely that Coleman wants to keep the "recount" going is to keep the other investigation off his tail.

Cheers...

[Ghost in the Machine]

10. Glad to help out.. here's a latenight kick

:kick:

[dysfunctional press]

3. IOKIYAR...?

:shrug:

[KharmaTrain]

7. ...

IOKYAR = It's OK if you're a rushpublican.

[tblue37]

8. It means "It's OK If you are a Republican," and it refers to the fact

that Republicans are not called out for or punished for things that are either endlessly publicly shamed or even prosecuted if committed byt Democrats.

[ieoeja]

9. Acronym

It's
OK
If
You're
A
Republican

[Canuckistanian]

4. He's a one-man legal employment agency

I wonder if he gets a bulk discount?

[williesgirl]

5. This still won't get their Repuke Gov to certify Franken's election. rec'd

[KharmaTrain]

6. Maybe Normie Is Using This To Keep His Bacon From Being Indicted

The longer this fiasco goes on, the longer it keeps the Prosecutor from pressing charges...trying to avoid making their case look political...and keeps Normie from having to appear in court as the defendent rather than the litigant. Of course Palwenty is playing along but he's doing it for other reasons...winning "brownie points" for a 2012 run. It's sleezy any way you look at it.

[Richard Steele]

11. K&R

[a kennedy]

12. Coleman: Media ‘could have waited’ until after Nov. 4 to ask about money-funneling

Norm Coleman told the Star Tribune editorial board Thursday that its reporters “could have waited” until after the Nov. 4 election to ask questions about charges that businessman Nasser Kazeminy funneled him money. Instead, Coleman charged, the reporters knowingly “inserted themselves” into a DFL Party TV ad by shouting questions to him as he left an Oct. 29 campaign event (video below).

Coleman’s statement that “it could have waited until afterwards” repeats a blame-the-messenger riff he first played in a Feb. 1 interview with WCCO-TV’s Esme Murphy, when he implied the reporters’ questions cost him crucial votes:

They could have asked those questions quietly. … They could have gone back and had a quiet conversation if that was the purpose. … That could have been a quiet story. It could have been a story that came out the day after the election. … And it’s unfortunate that those last-minute, eleventh-hour charges can have an impact on the race.

The reporters, Tony Kennedy and Paul McEnroe, shot back that they had repeatedly sought an interview with Coleman on the subject. When the campaign rebuffed those requests, Kennedy and McEnroe warned Coleman they intended to raise the issue at his Oct. 29 campaign stop in St. Cloud.

Video clips showing the reporters shouting questions to an unresponsive Coleman as he gets into a waiting car immediately appeared on the Web and soon were featured in a DFL Party TV ad.

When asked at the editorial board interview yesterday about the charges in a Texas civil lawsuit that Kazeminy ordered executives at Deep Marine Technology to send $100,000 to the St. Paul insurance firm where Coleman’s wife works, Coleman turned the question against the newspaper:

http://minnesotaindependent.com/32578/coleman-kazeminy-strib-reporters

[KharmaTrain]

13. This Story Has Been Around For Well Over A Year...

IRC, it came out when questions arose about Normie's neat little Capitol Hill bachelor pad that was paid for by a lobbyist group. He's been mum about this as more has been revealed. The fact he ignored even addressing the question shows he knows how damaging this scandal will be to his career...rather than refute the charges...cause he can't.

[a kennedy]

14. sorry for posting it again.....but it's always good to hear it again.

[Hubert Flottz]

15. It's only wrong if it's a democrat that does it...

Norm will get a road guard badge or a gold broom award from the Repub kangaroo judges that the GOP has installed all over the country.