Bernie Lawyered Up

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and his wife, Jane, have hired top-notch defense attorneys amid an FBI investigation probing Jane for potentially committing fraud.

It was reported last month that the FBI is actively investigating Jane for potentially committing fraud during the time that she served as the president of Burlington College between 2004 and 2011.

At the center of the investigation is a $10 million loan that Jane secured from People’s United Bank in 2010 in order to purchase 33 acres of land for the school. When applying for the loan, FBI investigators allege that Sanders distorted donor levels to make it appear the school was in a better financial position than it really was.


http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/0...estigated-by-the-fbi-now-theyre-lawyering-up/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...re-lawyers-loan-fraud-probe-article-1.3274923

“This implication came from Donald Trump’s Vermont campaign manager. It’s from Donald Trump’s campaign manager in Vermont,” he said in May. “Let me leave it at that because at this point it would be improper for me to say any more.”

The original request for an investigation into the potential bank fraud came from Brady Toensing, an attorney who chaired Trump’s Vermont campaign, and whose January 2016 letter to the U.S. attorney for Vermont put federal agents on the trail.

“The investigation was started more than a year ago under President Obama, his Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and his United States Attorney, all of whom are Democrats,” Toensing said in an email to CBS News.

According to Politico, prosecutors might also be looking into allegations that Sen. Sanders’ office inappropriately urged the bank to approve the loan.