Jill Kelley, Woman Who Sparked Petraeus Scandal, Ran Questionable Charity

[octoberlib]

Source: Huffington Post

Tampa, Fla., socialite and military hostess Jill Kelley, one of the women at the center of the ever-expanding scandal that brought down former CIA Director David Petraeus, founded a questionable charity for cancer patients with her surgeon husband, Scott Kelley.

Based out of the couple's mansion, the Doctor Kelley Cancer Foundation claimed on its tax forms that it "shall be operated exclusively to conduct cancer research and to grant wishes to terminally ill adult cancer patients."

From the records, it appears that the charity fell far short of its mission. While the origins of the seed money used to start the charity in 2007 are unclear, financial records reviewed by The Huffington Post reveal that the group spent all of its money not on research, but on parties, entertainment, travel and attorney fees.

By the end of 2007, the charity had gone bankrupt, having conveniently spent exactly the same amount of money, $157,284, as it started with -- not a dollar more, according to its 990 financial form. Of that, $43,317 was billed as "Meals and Entertainment," $38,610 was assigned to "Travel," another $25,013 was spent on legal fees, and $8,822 went to "Automotive Expenses."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/jill-kelley-charity-david-petraeus_n_2124213.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

[SemperEadem]

1. so much for the glowing reference her brother gave to the media about her character

seems little sis was off on some other shit..

[Kber]

2. Fer fucks sake

[rzemanfl]

3. Not "questionable" at all. This was an outright fraud. The IRS needs to audit

the good doctor and his wife.

[1StrongBlackMan]

16. Yep ...

What do you bet the good doctor and his wife took a charitable donation write-off in the amount of $157,284?

[rzemanfl]

25. I am sure it was them or her restaurateur Daddy.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

43. The IRS should but won't.

[demhottie]

75. Why won't it? It would look suspicious not to

[AnotherMcIntosh]

82. There's a potential that the IRS would investigate because it "would look suspicious not to"?

No more suspicious than failing to investigate and prosecute openly admitted war criminals. No more suspicious than failing to investigate and prosecute, for example, Cheney who openly admitted on television in a happy way that he participated in the approval of torture and particularly water-boarding.

No more suspicious than failing to investigate and prosecute banksters who collectively engaged in the most masisve fraud that this world has ever seen.

There seems to be a policy described by some as "It's OK if you're a Republican."

[wordpix]

65. +1 When I think of the nonprofit I started and the hoops I had to go through to get that status

I am amazed at how easy it is for repukes from this dingbat to KKKarl to start nonprofits without a nonprofit purpose.

[octoberlib]

4. Both the sisters are deeply in debt

I'm beginning to wonder if there's a money angle to all this. Don't know what it would be though.

[flamingdem]

6. blackmail?

their timing was a bit off though..

[rzemanfl]

14. Can you say "book rights?"

[Roland99]

15. The Kelleys had a commercial foreclosure pending, right?

plus credit card debt?

[rzemanfl]

27. They would call it a strategic default, I'm sure. The twin lost custody of her three year-old and

went bankrupt on $3 million.

[orpupilofnature57]

17. Kkkarl and his boss the 1% trying to salvage what they can ?

As far as putting the President in a bad light or inconveniencing him however they can, those losers of the Election and the Millions they vaporized trying to STEAL it, this could be one more ploy .

[Bernardo de La Paz]

63. No. Rove is incompetent. Petraeus proved incompetent judgement. All round incompetence.

Don't blame evil intentions when incompetence adequately explains.

Obama is not involved. Eric Cantor is involved.

[davidpdx]

70. I agree about Cantor

The little fucking weasel.

[orpupilofnature57]

89. That's unfair to little fucking weasels .

[Blasphemer]

64. I agree... something is up with Kelley, her sister and husband

Broadwell might be a social climber but these three are money hungry social climbers.

[wordpix]

66. definitely money but also sex and Middle East intrigue adds to the question$

[Anthony McCarthy]

5. And these are the people hob knobbing with the movers and shakers in the military

the FBI and the CIA.

Not to mention the people in the alleged media and the think tank set like Michael O'Hanlon who I heard say he was good friends with Petraeus and Broadwell.

[Dont call me Shirley]

7. Parties, fun, leisure, hiding assets: That's what most charities are for, aren't they?!

[Blue_Tires]

83. Yeah, most "charities" and "foundations" of this sort are

1. cash grabs
2. money washers
3. tax shields

[jberryhill]

8. Hey, maybe it was some dying patient's wish that they have a good time with 157K

[progressoid]

9. Oooo, that was an episode of Law and Order wasn't it?

[orpupilofnature57]

10. Unpaid social director ran a questionable charity, Hmmmm

A hell of an opportunist, or should I say candidate, for the 1% to employ as a shit stirrer. Kkkarl probably did his best to make sure it came out before the elections .

[JackRiddler]

21. I don't think that's what's going on here.

Rove isn't the only one who plays dirty.

Who put up the money for this charity?

[DURHAM D]

11. From the Tampa bay Times -

http://www.tampabay.com/news/military/macdill/petraeus-friend-jill-kelley-found-place-hosting-military-parties/1261272

"They hired Abbe Lowell, a Washington lawyer who has represented clients such as former presidential candidate John Edwards and lobbyist Jack Abramoff. And the couple are employing crisis PR person Judy Smith, who has represented big names like Monica Lewinsky, Michael Vick and Kobe Bryant."

[libdem4life]

23. Adultery and dog fighting. "Birds of a feather" come to mind...and I don't mean Big Bird.

[orpupilofnature57]

32. Opportunists

[octoberlib]

34. Considering that these people are bankrupt and have no money

I wonder who's paying for all this high powered help.

[aletier_v]

61. " I wonder who's paying for all this high powered help"

Other people with secrets which are still secret.

[Berlum]

79. + 1,000 - secret secrets (R)

[dixiegrrrrl]

44. Wonder how they can PAY the lawyer and the PR person...?

[csziggy]

57. The PR person's job is to make sure the lawyer gets paid

And the crooked cancer doc and his socialite wife make a bundle out of ruining other peoples' lives. Given the Kelleys' level of debt, what did they have to lose? No one would bother to sue them for slander or defamation - they have no assets to take.

[olddad56]

12. so if you connect the dots,

you have the head of the CIA, a former 4 star army general who is chummy with a "socialite" who blows more money than her Dr. Hubby can make, giving lavish parties to high ranking military personnel while her twin sister's husband is luring investors into his get rich quick schemes in Iraq.

I think this story will get much more interesting when we learn more about the "socialite, the twin sister, and the business ventures of her ex. Just my guess.

[DURHAM D]

18. Sorry, but I missed the twin sister's husband story.

What is that about.

Do you know if the twins were born in the U.S.?

[JBoy]

22. Twins were born in Lebanon, came to the US as young children

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/13/petraeus-scandal-women-general-agent

Husband of twin sister is Grayson Wolfe, a partner in a DC-based private venture firm

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/twisted_sister_wPCTY0kcH9xu9DPh8RN7yL

[DURHAM D]

29. Good lord - they got a quote from a Taliban spokesman.

Some Pentagon officials strongly deny Allen had an affair with Kelley but the sheer volume of emails has raised questions about just what kind of relationship the pair had.

The denials did not stop a Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, from attempting to exploit the US army's evident embarrassment.

"I can say that this shows how shameless all the American troops are, starting from the top commander to the soldiers. Having unlawful relations with a woman is very normal in America," he said.

And this -

A former member of the general's military staff told the Washington Post that Kelley was a "self-appointed" go-between for US central command officers in Florida and Middle East government officials. Kelley and her siblings were born in Lebanon and brought to the US as small children.

This is getting more and more interesting.

[Skittles]

49. LOL

let's not even talk about what is "normal" in the Taliban

[octoberlib]

55. About Grayson Wolfe, the twin sister's husband

http://www.akkadianpv.com/readsenior.php?id=5

Grayson P. Wolfe

Grayson Wolfe is a Partner at Akkadian. He previously served as Director of Broader Middle East Initiatives and Iraqi Reconstruction and Special Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer at the Export-Import Bank of the United States. He was appointed to the bank by President Bush in June 2002. Between January and August 2004, Wolfe served as Manager of the Private Sector Development Office of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq. In this capacity he was directly responsible for implementing a wide range of initiatives to attract foreign direct investment and provide financing to Iraqi companies. During this time, Wolfe worked extensively on the ground with senior Iraqi and Kurdish officials, and with the Ministries of Finance, Trade and Oil.

From 2001 to 2002 Wolfe worked as an attorney for the law firm of Fleischman and Walsh, LLP, where he represented clients engaged in Homeland Security, Telecommunications and Intellectual Property matters. He served as a member of a seven-person team that worked with the North American Railroads and Chlorine Chemical Industries to develop a National Homeland Security Risk Analysis and Management Plan. This plan was adopted by the Class I Freight Railroad CEOs on Dec 6, 2001. Wolfe served as Legislative Director and Counsel for members of Congress from 1999-2002. He has also served in numerous positions in presidential, federal and state political campaigns. Before this, he worked for Citicorp in Poland focusing on emerging markets and franchise development opportunities in Central and Eastern European countries.

[JBoy]

56. Holy crap!

My tinfoil hat just jumped off the shelf...

[exboyfil]

76. Bush: "Wolfie you are doing a hell of a job"

[ElsewheresDaughter]

59. and the missing $8 Billion from the truckloads of cash Peterus was handing out in Iraq

[Roland99]

13. Was Sean Insanity one of their charitable advisers?

[olddad56]

19. Stories like this are going to ruin day time soap operas.

[JBoy]

20. Fuck, doesn't get any lower than that.

[Iliyah]

24. Do I smell HBO Special

Hollywood, you just can't make this shit up huh - LOL

[BeHereNow]

33. I'm thinKing "Lifetime" series...

I picture the writers already hard at work on this one.
BHN

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

81. Maybe an episode of "Repo Games"

I'd like to see them smile with their cars hoisted by the tow trucks.

[Ash_F]

26. And avid Republican

"socialite and military hostess Jill Kelley"

AND AVID REPUBLICAN. Don't let Repubs use this scandal against the Prez. They desperately want to.

[Kingofalldems]

28. Republicans?

[DURHAM D]

52. Yep - Some of her friends...

As for the Army Ball, there were 45 General-level officers on the list (most were with their spouses, and some were retired), from the USA, Great Britain, Australia and Canada.

Here's a sampling of the names on the VIP invite list with the Kelleys, and their roles at the time (April 2011):

Military officers:

General James Mattis, USMC, Commander, USCENTCOM
Admiral Eric Olson, USN, Commander, USSOCOM
Lieutenant General John Allen, USMC, Deputy Commander, USCENTCOM
Lieutenant General David Fridovich, USA, Deputy Commander, USSOCOM
Major General Joseph Votel, USA, Chief of Staff, USSOCOM
Major General Michael Jones, USA, Chief of Staff, USCENTCOM
Major General Charles Cleveland, USA, Commander, SOCCENT
Major General Clive "Chip" Chapman, GBR, Sr. British Military Adviser, USCENTCOM
Civic leaders:

Rick Scott, Governor, State of Florida
Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator
Bill Nelson, U.S. Senator
Kathy Castor, Congresswoman, 11th District
C.W. "Bill" Young, Congressman, 10th District
Artheia Joyner, State Senator, District 18
Bob Buckhom, Mayor of Tampa
Bill Foster, Mayor of St. Petersburg
Not bad company for an "unpaid social liaison."

[underpants]

30. She reminds me of a Reality TV "personality" Bethenny Frankel

Several Reality shows

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethenny_Frankel

[orpupilofnature57]

31. They did, with the hope money would flow and they could fudge the numbers...

because looking at their financial history, they fudged up all the time .

[libdem4life]

35. Had a neighbor who was first generation Lebanese, and his Armenian wife, and a houseful of relatives

Reactionary is an understatement, and I never brought up politics. I can imagine the RWCF/Israeli outrage.

[HuckleB]

60. The plural of anecdote is not data.

Please don't push racist stereotypes.

[libdem4life]

62. Please don't preach and stop with the racist kneejerk. I learned a great deal of otherwise non-PC

cultural and human experiences. They were economic refugees who were born in Beirut. And the food is to die for. And it's very similar to Israeli food.

[HuckleB]

84. Nice try.

Take a longer look in the mirror. I'm not the one who's knee is jerking here.

[Bigleaf]

36. According to the Washington Post, the Kelley's are having some financial problems...

Behind the glamour, though, the couple was racking up substantial debt. Banks have initiated foreclosure proceedings on two of the Kelleys’ properties — not including their six-bedroom home — and other creditors have sued them for tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt, according to court records filed in Hillsborough County District Court. A lawyer who represented the Kelleys in the civil suits said he had not been authorized by his clients to discuss the cases.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/tampa-woman-was-hostess-to-the-military-but-had-deep-financial-troubles/2012/11/13/45cea33c-2d19-11e2-9ac2-1c61452669c3_story.html?hpid=z1

[Vinnie From Indy]

37. One wonders if the doners/marks to Mrs. Kelley's charity/grift

will become aware of use/theft of their money by Mrs. Kelley.

If this GOP'er saga follows the traditional formula, hookers and strippers are undoubtedly going to be thrown into the mix shortly.

Cgeers!

[dixiegrrrrl]

48. One wonders if the doners/marks to Mrs. Kelley's charity/grift

were actually making payments for services which could not stand scrutiny?
Money laundering.

[Lasher]

77. I suspect the donors knew how their money would be used.

The money could have come from the Kelleys themselves.

[Pachamama]

38. I find this very odd and very questionable:

"A military officer who is a former member of Petraeus’s staff said Kelley was a “self-appointed” go-between for Central Command officers with Lebanese and other Middle Eastern government officials."


Go-betwen with Middle Eastern government officials....

Anybody remember "Homeland" the series with the call girls for the Middle eastern royalty/businessmen?

I also want to know when the military started having non-military wives coordinating social activities....I always thought of this as part of the role of the "Officer's Wives Club"...

[dgibby]

45. Bingo!

In my 22 years in the Navy, I never once saw a set up like this. Something is seriously wrong with this picture.

[TwilightGardener]

47. I said this morning, how the hell does someone with no

link to the military, or to an employer that is involved with the military, manage to insert herself into CentCom functions with the brass who are running the war? Who authorized her to do ANYTHING on base or in regard to any military function? Very frightening to see how easily someone can infiltrate the top levels of our military, with NO DoD sponsor or contractor being accountable for her actions.

[Glimmer of Hope]

53. She would never pass a security clearance with her financial problems.

She doesn't have just sloppy credit but some very big debt issues which makes her a very risky person to associate with. This doesn't make sense at all.

[Blasphemer]

67. Interesting angle....

Maybe she retired from the "trade" but maintained her high level relationships. I wonder where the seed money for her "charity" came from.

[Marrah_G]

86. I'm wondering exactly what sort of parties she was giving

I think this is all just the tip of the iceberg and there are a lot more sordid details to come out.

[Kali]

39. the "twins" are going to turn out to be the absolute center/cause/source of all the fun

that is my useless prediction

[Pachamama]

87. Source & cause, but not the only ones...I think there may have been more of a national security risk

....with these two twins than there was necessarily with Paula Broadwell. I think the involving of a rogue FBI agent doing side investigations without warrants and also the business dealings of Grayson Wolfe, now ex-husband of Twin Natalie, is also very suspicious and worrisome. He was involved in oil dealings....hmmmmm....

[anobserver2]

40. GOP FL attorney general Pam Bondi partied at Jill Kelley's

According to this news article in the UK, Florida's Attorney General Pam Bondi was
a guest of Jill Kelley's parties:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9673429/David-Petraeus-ordered-lover-Paula-Broadwell-to-stop-emailing-Jill-Kelley.html


...Mrs Kelley, whose role as "social liaison" is unpaid, was a frequent guest at Central Command functions. After being presented at one event with a certificate naming her an "honorary ambassador" for allied nations, she began using the title minus the "honorary", according to The Associated Press.

She and her husband hosted Mr Petraeus at a party on their lawn for Tampa's annual Gasparilla parade in 2010. He arrived with a 28-car motorcade. Other guests included Pam Bondi, Florida's [GOP] Attorney General and a close ally of Mitt Romney, the former presidential candidate....

Meanwhile, the NY Post had a different spin:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/battle_john_allen_also_helped_jill_YjkEYUNY2INC4smBMEYqUI

And in court documents filed by Kelley's sister Natalie Khawam, she name-drops both Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island -- who both have ties to a Providence, RI, lawyer/Democratic fundraiser who loaned a whopping $300,000 to Khawam.

A spokesman for Whitehouse today that lawyer, Gerald Harrington, has dated and "may have been engaged to Khawam." Harrington has not returned a call seeking comment.

Khawam claimed in a July 12 letter to her estranged husband that she took their now 4-year-old son "on vacation last year to Martha Vineyard," where their son and "I had a great time at the DSCC [Democratic Senate Campaign Committee] event."

...A spokeswoman for Kerry – who the Washington Post reports is being considered as President Obama's next secretary of defense -- in an email comment wrote, "Senator Kerry’s friend Jerry Harrington introduced him to his girlfriend (Natalie) at a DSCC event."

[DURHAM D]

54. Oh my.

I have decided that Jill and Natalie (and one or both spouses) are grifters.

[Skittles]

41. more exposure of the 1%

BRING IT ON

[Fumesucker]

42. This is going to be a bonanza for porn producers

Sultry twins?

A hot-but-psycho chick in conflict with them?

Generals?

The cameras are probably already rolling.

[Hissyspit]

46. Let me guess... She's a Republican?

I actually really don't know.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

50. So our military elite are rubbing elbows with the 1%

As a private citizen I want to know Petraeus's net worth. I think we would all be in for a surprise.

[adieu]

51. And Romney, Ryan and the rest of the GOP

wants us to rely on charitable organizations like this POS for our health care? For reals. Another reason to go universal health/single payer/socialized medicine.

[HuckleB]

58. There are no likeable characters in this story. -eom-

[IndyJones]

68. Holly is a likable character. I actually feel sorry for her.

[WeekendWarrior]

69. WHAT. THE. FUCK?

So it seems to me that all of the people involved in this sordid little affair are Republicans. Could that be the real reason why none of it came out before the election?

[davidpdx]

71. Maybe there should be a pool as to who the next big figure involved in this scandal will be

I'm looking at the US House....

[StrictlyRockers]

72. Curiouser and curiouser...

How far down the rabbit hole do we get to go here?

moar popcorn, plz...

[manchu]

73. veryyyy interesting

Hmm either its the kelleys setting out the ladies or espionage, or both. In any case this could bring down a LOT of people. For foreign intel operatives, the Kelleys are exactly what they are looking for, people with access to some of the big movers and shakers in the military and elected officials and have serious financial problems. The whole middle eastern nexus does not look promising at all.

[anobserver2]

74. Also:t WHO IN GOVT sponsored Jill Kelley at McDill Air Force Base?

Proocedures for visiting an American airforce base require a govt sponsor who is "responsible" for the conduct of the visitor.

Who is Jill Kelley's required govt sponsor when Jill Kelley is allegedly "strutting" around McDill AFB and needs to "take it down a notch"
as was alleged in allegedly existing anonymous emails to Kelley?

More here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021814192

[Marrah_G]

85. Yup!

I can't just drive onto Otis to visit my son.

[MrYikes]

78. I'll just wait for the "South Park" episode to understand it all.

[LibertyLover]

80. This morning on my way to the train station

I heard a story on the news that one of the sisters, and I can't remember which one now, called 9-1-1 to complain about the media outside her house and wanted the police to do something about it. In the call she stated that she was an honorary US Consul, entitled (!) to diplomatic immunity (IIRC the phrase she used was something along the lines of "I'm an honorary US consul and have diplomatic inviolability.&quot and that perhaps the police could invoke that when clearing the media away. A State Department spokesman, when questioned about it, said that she was not an honorary consul. These people are loons.

[RedEarth]

88. That's despicable

[Megahurtz]

90. This is No More Than

typical Republican financial behavior. Buncha thieves wanting to pocket money for themselves. Isn't that what they all do all the way up including the most wealthy? That's why so many others are broke, they are stealing form them.