{"id":192469,"date":"2009-03-27T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/27\/norm-coleman-may-go-to-jail\/"},"modified":"2009-03-27T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T22:45:00","slug":"norm-coleman-may-go-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/27\/norm-coleman-may-go-to-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Norm Coleman May Go To Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has now been testimony that Nasser Kazeminy, a close friend of Norm Coleman instructed his CFO to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/41952432.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DUs\">pay $100,000.00 to Coleman&#8217;s wife&#8217;s insurance agency for nothing in the way of services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/03\/deposition-businessman-ordered-money-funneled-to-norm-coleman.php?ref=fp8\">money quote is from TPM<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Now the Star-Tribune has obtained a March 19 deposition from the lawsuit that first surfaced the scandal. The deposition is from B.J. Thomas, the chief financial officer of the company that paid out $75,000 to a firm where Laurie Coleman worked as a consultant &#8212; even though he found no evidence of actual work.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas was asked: &#8220;In that conversation that you had with Mr. Kazeminy, did he tell you, quote, United States senators don&#8217;t make sh#$, close quote? Or words to that effect?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thomas answered: &#8220;Yes, sir.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kazeminy is boned, unless he roles on Coleman, and Coleman is a rat, so you gotta figure so is Kazeminy.<\/p>\n<p>Pass the popcorn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has now been testimony that Nasser Kazeminy, a close friend of Norm Coleman instructed his CFO to pay $100,000.00 to Coleman&#8217;s wife&#8217;s insurance agency for nothing in the way of services. The money quote is from TPM: Now the Star-Tribune has obtained a March 19 deposition from the lawsuit that first surfaced the scandal. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,972,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-justice","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}