The FBI is hinting that Jane Sanders, Bernie's wife, inflated actual donors to Burlington College, where she was President, earning $160k/yr.
She decided that Burlington should buy a nice 33-acre lakefront tract of land from the Diocese of Burlington and relocate the campus there. But she needed a $6.5-million loan. The local bank OK’d it, on the condition that the school come up with $2.27 million in pledges.
Jane agreed to that requirement, in writing, but in the end she could only come up with $676,000. Word is that her signature wasn't worth very much. The school began hemorrhaging cash. An old story: They ran out of Other People’s Money.
According to The Associated Press, a local Republican has alleged that Sanders’ Senate office pressured the bank to make the loan. Sen. Sanders denies everything, calling the attacks “pathetic” and describing his wife as “the most honest person I know.”
If only the Sanders could prove their innocence conclusively. Sadly, though, shortly after the school folded last year, its main office was burglarized, and according to the Vermont news website VTDigger, its computers, external hard drives and main computer server were stolen. There were no signs of forced entry.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/co...ocialist_sanders_and_wife_over_bank_loan_deal
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She decided that Burlington should buy a nice 33-acre lakefront tract of land from the Diocese of Burlington and relocate the campus there. But she needed a $6.5-million loan. The local bank OK’d it, on the condition that the school come up with $2.27 million in pledges.
Jane agreed to that requirement, in writing, but in the end she could only come up with $676,000. Word is that her signature wasn't worth very much. The school began hemorrhaging cash. An old story: They ran out of Other People’s Money.
According to The Associated Press, a local Republican has alleged that Sanders’ Senate office pressured the bank to make the loan. Sen. Sanders denies everything, calling the attacks “pathetic” and describing his wife as “the most honest person I know.”
If only the Sanders could prove their innocence conclusively. Sadly, though, shortly after the school folded last year, its main office was burglarized, and according to the Vermont news website VTDigger, its computers, external hard drives and main computer server were stolen. There were no signs of forced entry.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/co...ocialist_sanders_and_wife_over_bank_loan_deal
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