Saturday, March 28, 2009

Deposition: Businessman ordered money funneled to Norm Coleman

TPM:


We now have some new evidence in a story that dogged Norm Coleman in the final days of his 2008 Senate reelection campaign. According to the original report, businessman Nasser Kazeminy, a longtime Coleman friend, arranged for money to be paid to Norm Coleman's wife, for no work done, as a way of funneling money to Coleman himself.

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 -- even though he found no evidence of actual work.
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1 comment:

airJackie said...

Another nail and more to come. Norm will be sitting on the park bench with Issa as they recall those glory days on the Hill.