Back in August, we published an exclusive report about multiple allegations of Bernie Sanders enriching his family and friends with campaign money.
Today, Lachlan Markay of the Washington Free Beacon released a new report which expands on this subject.
A pattern is becoming apparent:
Sanders and Wife Steered Campaign, Nonprofit Money to Family and Friends
Bernie Sanders and his wife have on numerous occasions steered money from organizations under their control to friends and family members, public records show.
The payments benefitted the wife of the Democratic presidential candidate, his stepdaughter, and the son of a former colleague in city government whom Sanders has described as a close friend.
Sanders, a self-described socialist, is now running for the presidency on an anti-corruption platform, decrying public officials’ attempts to use their positions for personal financial gain…
According to Jane O’Meara Sanders, the senator’s wife, Sanders’ House campaigns paid her more than $90,000 for consulting and ad placement services from 2002 to 2004. She pocketed about $30,000 of that money.
After working for the campaign, the senator’s wife would come under scrutiny for expenditures at Burlington College, where she was hired as president in 2004. While she led the school, it paid six-figure sums to her daughter and the son of a family friend.
Burlington College offered its students a study abroad program in the Caribbean, according to tax filings. It reported spending about $47,000 on that program in the tax year beginning in mid-2008.
Around that time, the son of Jonathan Leopold, a Burlington College board member, purchased a small resort in the Bahamas called Andro’s Beach Club and an accompanying hotel, Nathan’s Lodge.
There’s much more and you should read the whole thing.
It’s amazing that Sanders is allowed to campaign on getting big money out of politics with no questions about these numerous instances of political cronyism from the media.
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