New lawsuit alleges businessman originally tried to steer money directly to Coleman.
New lawsuit alleges businessman originally tried to steer money directly to Coleman.
A recent lawsuit alleged that Nasser Kazeminy, a close friend of Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), used his business DMT to funnel $75,000 to Coleman’s wife’s insurance firm. A new lawsuit, however, claims that Kazeminy originally tried to steer the money directly to Coleman, Politico reports:
[T]he second lawsuit alleges — and it’s breathtakingly stupid if true — that Kazeminy at first ordered DMT execs to pay Coleman directly.
“Our clients were advised that Mr. Kazeminy first sought to have DMT make quarterly cash payments of $25,000 to Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota,” writes plaintiff’s attorney Anthony Paduano, citing a “confidential” informant.
What’s more, this latest suit reveals that the payments to Coleman’s wife’s firm were hardly for insurance purposes, “because DMT, which services offshore oil platforms and port facilities, already used Aon for its insurance.”
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Hmmm. Maybe this will distract Normie – and keep him from filing any more lawsuits to stop the Minnesota recount.
November 10th, 2008 at 4:03 pmIf the MN gov is a Dem then Al Franken can be appointed to replace the criminal Norm Coleman regardless of the recount.
Maybe Norm and Teddy Stevens can bunk together at Levenworth.
November 10th, 2008 at 4:06 pmDuh, Dr. Matt. DUH.
November 10th, 2008 at 4:15 pmThe Minnesota governor is republican so Franken won’t get the nod from him. In fact, Pawlenty could even appoint himself to the seat if he wished. That would be poetic justice because RoverBoy and the RNC folks told Pawlenty to stay out of the race for this Senate seat six years ago — they were grooming Normie and didn’t want anyone upsetting the apple-cart.
On the other hand, Franken may end up ahead in the vote count before long. In that case, Normie would just be out of a job and would have plenty of time to defend himself in the event of a lawsuit. He certainly will have a hard time rehabilitating his reputation.
November 10th, 2008 at 4:33 pmI have faith that Franken will win in the recount. Nate Silver at http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ thinks so too. He’s been pretty right on on everything he has done this election cycle. Here’s what he said today:
November 10th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
The recount is going to be a hand count too. That will give a more accurate account because they were apparently counted on Sequoia machines that were proven to be wildly inaccurate. Black Box Voting did a test on these machines feeding the same ballots through three or four times and it never once came up with the same count. Franken was ahead in the polls by about 5 last I saw before the election. I think he’s going to pull it out.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:00 pmNorm Coleman is toast. There is no rational business purpose for such payments, and the company who made them has a substantial tax fraud and criminal bribery problem on its hands.
First, Laurie Coleman was an employee on Senate disclosure forms, then, an independent contractor according to the company. First, Nasser Kazeminy order direct corporate payments to Norm Coleman, and when rebuffed, has them instead funneled through Laurie Coleman.
These clown make Al Capone and his associates seem like ‘legitimate businessmen…’
November 10th, 2008 at 5:01 pmLeftside Annie Says:
Hmmm. Maybe this will distract Normie – and keep him from filing any more lawsuits to stop the Minnesota recount.
Wasn’t that ridiculous! He challenged something like 34 absentee ballots because they had somehow been misplaced. He said that since they were out of the “chain of command” they should not be counted. How desperate is that for 34 votes.
Besides, if you want to see “chain of command” go watch a couple of the videos Brad Friedman at Bradblog.com has up. The so called “chain of command” everywhere is a total joke. It’s a wonder if we will ever have a fair election until we do something about voting machines.
Did you know that Canada hand counts all their votes? A couple of years ago they bought some voting machines and figure out really quick how unsecure they were and the next election went back to paper ballots and hand counts.
It is totally insane to privatize our vote.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:05 pmMinnesota doesn’t have a final vote yet. I wonder if, when they have the final vote and Franken is ahead by 100 or so, is Norm Coleman going to do what he said he would do if he was in Franken’s position, which was to concede. I’m betting ole Norm would forget what he said and demand the recount.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:07 pmNorm Coleman is a big fat idiot.
Go Al Go!
November 10th, 2008 at 5:14 pmExperts on computer security say it CANNOT ever be made safe. They’re happy to take your $$ for software & hardware, but the inside scoop is, they know its a total bust.
November 10th, 2008 at 6:41 pmI’m sorry – Coleman is the sleaziest kind of politician and DESERVES to LOSE by those 34 votes . . .
November 10th, 2008 at 10:27 pmThis is just another indication of why we need public financing of all Federal elections, no exceptions. Determining what a fair amount is would be difficult but not impossible. What to do about third party candidates and unopposed incumbent budgets are other issues to deal with but none of these are items that can’t be worked out. The alternative is what we see with Coleman being repeated over and over and over again.
November 11th, 2008 at 8:32 amMN has some of the best vote protection policies in place…
A half a percentage point mandates a recount.
Every vote is hand counted in the process.
Each County is responsible for an accurate vote count, but in a recount scenario, every vote is hand counted anyway.
I agree with Bilbo above. For example, last Wed. the count ’spread’ was 1,200 votes. As of this morning, it’s 206.
Yes, Norm is already whining about Franken not conceding, but that’s what Coleman does…whine.
Norm, here’s some cheese to go with that whine, now STFU.
November 11th, 2008 at 11:33 amI live in MPLS and the media here are such a bunch of apologists for this DB. If it weren’t for the national media this lawsuit wouldn’t even be on the radar here. Liberal media my @ss!
The only consolation is that since Norm is such a fair-weather-everything he’ll probably turn BACK into a liberal when he smells which way the wind is blowing.
November 11th, 2008 at 5:31 pm