Chairman's spending decisions on insiders helped lead to GOP debt
by Tom Scheck, Minnesota Public Radio,
Catharine Richert, Minnesota Public Radio
January 20, 2012
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PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS AND MEDICAL MARIJUANA
The spending included some peculiar choices, too.
One was a payment of $5,000 the party made in November 2010 to Cadfael Investigative Group. The owner, Tom Rucke, said he was paid to look into allegations of voter fraud extending from the 2010 governor's race. He said he reported some allegations to the Hennepin County Attorney's office, the agency that would typically do that type of investigation. (full story, here)
OK, the question was: "Why would an investigative company be running up a tab for "office copies"??!?"
The answer is: they weren't.
"...look into allegations of voter fraud..." is what the expense was for, but the MN GOP reported it as "office copies"??!?
Why would they do that?
Well, as we noted in Part 4 of this continuing Cooked Books Series, they also misrepresented what a Vendor's address was.
There's a pattern here, and it's this: reasonable people have no reason to reasonably believe anything a GOP Official says.
Then-RNC Chair Michael Steele said it best: "You have absolutely no reason - none - to trust our words or actions at this point.".
True then, true now, and tomorrow won't be any different.
It's getting near the point that a RICO Investigation of the Minnesota GOP is warranted.
Stay tuned!
Oh - and make sure you go read Tom Scheck & Catharine Richert's story at Minnesota Public Radio... |
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