Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, and his wife Jane, left, hug as they walk through downtown in Philadelphia, Thursday, July 28, 2016, during the final day of the Democratic National Convention.
Credit: AP/John Minchillo
MONTPELIER, VERMONT — A Republican lawyer who reported independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and his wife to federal officials was passing on information he heard from a GOP lawmaker who said he didn’t have direct knowledge of the allegations.
The lawyer, Brady Toensing, sent letters to the U.S. attorney for Vermont and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. alleging that Sen. Sanders pressured a bank to approve a loan to a now-closed college run by Sanders’ wife.
The source of that information was Republican State Rep. Don Turner, the minority leader of the Vermont House.
Turner told WCAX-TV that friends at the bank described pressure from Sanders’ office, but he says those friends didn’t have direct knowledge of the negotiations. Turner says he told Toensing about it in May 2016, adding that he would not have brought it to the attention of federal […]
I guess we can add this red sleaze to the pile of blue sleaze from the Democratic National Committee sabotaging Sanders campaign for president. Sad.