Bernie Sanders "Redistributed Wealth" to Friends and Family
And isn't that what "public service is all about"?
January 8, 2016
Daniel Greenfield
What good is being a Socialist if you can't steal from taxpayers to give to your pals? As this Lachlan Markay report at Free Beacon documents, Bernie Sanders found all sorts of ways to redistribute wealth to friends and family. And isn't that what "public service is all about"?
According to Jane OMeara Sanders, the senators wife, Sanders House campaigns paid her more than $90,000 for consulting and ad placement services from 2002 to 2004. She pocketed about $30,000 of that money.
Her daughter Carina Driscoll, Sanders stepdaughter, also drew a salary from the campaign. She was paid more than $65,000 between 2000 and 2004, according to her mother.
After working for the campaign, the senators wife would come under scrutiny for expenditures at Burlington College, where she was hired as president in 2004. While she led the school, it paid six-figure sums to her daughter and the son of a family friend.
Leopold served with Sanders in the Burlington city governmentas mayor, Sanders appointed Leopold city treasurerbefore becoming embroiled in scandal involving millions of dollars in payments to a Burlington telecommunications company.
Sen. Sanders has described Leopold as so close a friend as to be considered family.
There's more there involving her controversial time at Burlington College. Bernie Sanders spends a lot of time talking about banks. But l*****ts like him view the taxpayers as a giant piggy bank they can steal from for their own benefit.
About Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
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