Florida AG Endorses Drumpf After Taking His Money and Backing Off Trump University Investigation

[KamaAina]

https://theintercept.com/2016/03/14/florida-attorney-general-endorses-trump-after-taking-his-money-and-backing-off-trump-university-investigation/

Donald Trump just won a key endorsement going into Tuesday’s Florida primary: the state’s attorney general, Pam Bondi.

But her bigger favor to Trump may have been her decision in 2013 not to pursue an investigation of Trump’s for-profit education chain after he made a big donation to her re-election campaign.

As Scott Maxwell of the Orlando Sentinel reported at the time, Bondi announced in September 2013 that her office was reviewing a series of complaints related to the Trump Institute of Boca Raton, a for-profit education company that is no longer in operation. Three days after the report that Bondi was considering joining other states’ attorneys general in taking action against Trump’s for-profit education chain, the real estate mogul dumped $25,000 into a committee organized for Bondi’s re-election.
Bondi ended up taking no action.

In numerous Republican presidential debates, Trump has explained that he donates big to politicians to buy influence. In one, he explained that he “supported Democrats, and I’ve supported Republicans. And as a businessman, I owed that to my company, to my family, to my workers, to everybody to get along.”

[Initech]

1. Move along nothing to see here!

[DirkGently]

2. Bondi is horrible.

I can't even remember all the ridiculous things she's been involved in, but it's pretty much non-stop.

Scott Maxwell of the Orlando Sentinel is aces. Too bad the paper has been bought out and all but gutted.

Gift records examined by The Associated Press found that Bondi had taken more than $51,000 worth of free trips, meals and hotel stays — much of it thanks to corporations that funneled money through the Republican Attorneys General Association.

But the Times found that corporate lawyers did more than just stroke checks. They also stroked Bondi's ego, with one helping arrange for her to be featured on the cover of Inside Counsel — a magazine whose target audience is corporate attorneys.

The Times article suggests that the lobbyists got their way.

One of the attorneys lobbying Bondi represented online travel companies that were trying to avoid paying certain taxes in Florida. Bondi's predecessor, Bill McCollum, had sued the companies, trying to get the money. But Bondi dropped the matter, saying it wasn't something her office needed to pursue.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-pam-bondi-dickstein-shapiro-scott-maxwell-20141115-column.html

[HuckleB]

3. Drumpf, working to bring back 19th century corruption levels ASAP!