{"id":193422,"date":"2008-12-16T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/16\/minnesota-corruption-update\/"},"modified":"2008-12-16T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T03:12:00","slug":"minnesota-corruption-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/16\/minnesota-corruption-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Corruption Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Star Tribune notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/36206844.html?cache=n&amp;uccb=1229404334#post_comments\">Norm and Laurie Coleman, her boss, Jim Hays, and Coleman Supporter Nasser Kazemini have all high-powered retained lawyers<\/a> on a matter currently being investigated by the FBI, in which allegations have been made that Kazemini funneled money to Norm Coleman via Laurie Coleman, using Jim Hays insurance company as a conduit.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting paragraph in the article, and I did not catch it, the  <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/12\/separate_lawyers_for_norm_and.php\">good folks at TPMMuckraker did<\/a> is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Norm Coleman has hired Doug Kelley, Laurie Coleman is represented by Earl Gray, Hays is aligned with Doug Peterson and Kazeminy has secured the services of Joe Friedberg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Norm and Laurie have <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">separate lawyers<\/span>.  While this does not mean that they will roll on each other&#8230;yet&#8230;but it does mean that this is serious, and that they are taking this <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Star Tribune notes that Norm and Laurie Coleman, her boss, Jim Hays, and Coleman Supporter Nasser Kazemini have all high-powered retained lawyers on a matter currently being investigated by the FBI, in which allegations have been made that Kazemini funneled money to Norm Coleman via Laurie Coleman, using Jim Hays insurance company as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193422"}],"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=193422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}