As Sen. Joe Manchin's Star Rose in West Virginia, the FBI and IRS Probed His Closest Allies

[Reader Rabbit]

From The Intercept:

Decades of federal investigations looked into Manchin’s inner circle and business associates.

For more than 20 years, Manchin stayed a step ahead of federal investigations as they closed in around his inner circle. A review of statehouse investigation reports, public court records, and sealed documents obtained by The Intercept reveals a decadeslong history of investigations into employees, contractors, and business associates of Manchin. These incidents involve investigations into tax evasion, grand larceny, campaign finance violations, and an investigation by federal agencies including the FBI and IRS into a wide range of alleged criminal activity centered around Manchin’s governor’s office.

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But the parables of the Manchins and the Kennedys are not one and the same. The Kennedys — through patriarch Joseph Kennedy — first amassed a fortune through rank corruption and organized crime, then used that fortune to fund a political empire. The Manchins inverted this trajectory: first winning political power and then using it to build a financial fortune. While Manchin continues to serve in the Senate, he has kept one foot in the private sector through his coal empire, and both of his children used their connections not to win office but to grow wildly rich.

Manchin’s daughter Heather Bresch received a $30 million golden parachute after finishing her tenure as CEO of Mylan and overseeing the sale of the pharmaceuticals company to Pfizer — a deal that led to the devastating closure of the company’s Morgantown plant. His wife Gayle Manchin now heads the Appalachian Regional Commission, which JFK created in 1965. Years before heading ARC, Gayle served as the head of the National Association of State Boards of Education, where she used her position to require schools to buy the EpiPens her daughter’s company produced.

And Joe Manchin IV is doing well too, running the multimillion-dollar family coal empire that Manchin the senator reminds voters is kept in a blind trust. Meanwhile, Manchin has objected to a wide swath of the Biden agenda, arguing it could produce an “entitlement mentality” and insisting that any tax credit parents with children get come along with work requirements.

[Irish_Dem]

1. All this kowtowing to a corrupt senator is sickening.

A senator who rakes in the dough using his political connections, while refusing to help the people he represents.

[MagickMuffin]

2. All FOR ME NONE FOR THEE

I hope the Feds find what they are looking for and to also keep looking into the last admin and the connection of said businesses in blind trust.

[oasis]

3. A dissaponting revelation.

This senator has some explaining to do.

[Carlitos Brigante]

4. "Aw shucks I'm just a regular ol' country boy. Just like you!". This guy

reminds me of Phil Hartman's "Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer".

[CentralMass]

5. If it walks like a duck.

[msfiddlestix]

6. What are the odds that the mainstream ignores this report, in fact rarely brings these things up

would be good to give attention to Moscow Mitch's fortunes through his politically ascendancy. and so many others.

[Reader Rabbit]

7. There's reason it's an Intercept article...

... and not from a mainstream media source.

[BigBearJohn]

11. From TYT: Manchin's Coal Haul Tops $5 Million

Manchin has a vested and longstanding interest in the coal industry as a senator from West Virginia. The state is second in the nation in coal production and coal is part of its identity. Between 2011, the year covered by his first Senate disclosure filing, and 2020, Manchin raked in a total of $5,211,154 in dividend income from Enersystems, a coal and energy resource company he founded in 1988, before entering the public sector, according to annual financial disclosures. The senator earned $491,949 in dividends last year alone, as journalist Alex Kotch reported this summer.

https://tyt.com/stories/4vZLCHuQrYE4uKagy0oyMA/2bUPGFk5gVC4rAZQw5Hkno

[NurseJackie]

9. I'd say it's very good that they "ignore" it... because they have higher standards.

Lulz. It's from the Intercept.

[BigBearJohn]

12. FROM SALON: Joe Manchin has made $5.2M from his coal company and gets big donations from fossil-fuel

Senator blocking Biden's agenda has gotten rich off coal, and takes more fossil-fuel money than any other Democrat

SOURCE: https://www.salon.com/2021/10/02/joe-manchin-has-made-52m-from-his-coal-company--and-gets-big-donations-from-fossil-fuel-industry_partner/

[KS Toronado]

8. Manchin & his kids all make more than $400,000 a year

No wonder he's fighting against Biden's agenda, he's only thinking about the increased taxes his family
will have to pay if passed, more important than helping millions of people with our needs. Follow the money.

[UTUSN]

10. K&R

[Faux pas]

13. Kickin'