| Subject: Re: Did an embezzlement scandal force Sarah Palin to resign? |
| From: "Sir Arthur C.B.E. Wholeflaffers A.S.A." <science@zzz.com> |
| Date: 04/07/2009, 08:15 |
| Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.alien.visitors,alt.alien.research,alt.paranet.ufo |
On Jul 3, 6:20 pm, Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/03/palin-hockey-arena-scandal/
July 3rd, 2009
Did an embezzlement scandal force Sarah Palin to resign?
Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have
quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major,
yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal.http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/03/palin-resign/
The gist of the rumor is that an Alaska building company called
Spenard Building Supplies (SBS) was awarded a contract by Palin to
build a hockey arena in Wasilla, AK, and in return, SBS helped
construct Palin’s home:http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-03/did-a-scand...
Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal
investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months,
searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered
lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for
gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in
2002.
The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for
governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant
building contracts in the wide open state.
SBS has close ties to the Palins.
The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin’s snowmobile team,
according to the Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin
to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.
Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with
the help of a few “buddies,” according to Barrett’s report, public
records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house.
While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative
that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus
momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.
Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she
awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports
Complex.
The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex
cost the city an addition $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into
severe long-term debt.
For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.
Alaska bloggers have reported in recent weekshttp://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&...
that “a long simmering embezzelment/IRS scandal is still being looked
at by the feds.”http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/palins-ethical-challenge...
In her press conference today, Palin asked the public to “trust me
with this decision and know that it is no more politics as usual.”http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/07/03/palins_remarks_in_step...
But she also bemoaned “political operatives” who have “descended on
Alaska” to investigate “all sorts of frivolous ethics violations.”
Palin said this “politics of personal destruction” was one of the key
motivating factors behind her decision today.
Update
Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore writes, "For weeks the rumors of a
criminal investigation against the governor have been brewing. They
are rumors, but are swirling fresh again with Palin's resignation. I'm
holding my breath for the other 'Naughty Monkey' to drop."http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/sarah-palin-resigns-as-al...
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Harry
Good research!