Romney campaign official quits after indictment

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Source: The Boston Globe

Romney campaign official quits after indictment

By Ryan Haggerty , Globe Correspondent

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign said today it has accepted the resignation of a major fundraiser who has been indicted in Maryland for allegedly shady business dealings.

Alan B. Fabian, 43, a Maryland businessman who was the co-chairman of the campaign's national finance committee, resigned this week, said Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom.

Federal prosecutors have charged Fabian with defrauding companies out of $32 million. He was indicted Wednesday by a Maryland grand jury on 23 counts, including mail fraud, money laundering, bankruptcy fraud, perjury and obstruction of justice, according to the Baltimore U.S. attorney's office.

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Fabian faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for each of the nine counts of mail fraud; 10 years in prison for each of the nine counts of money laundering and one count of obstruction of justice; and five years in prison for each of the two counts of bankruptcy fraud and two counts of perjury.


Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/08/charged_with_sh.html

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1. Co-chair of the FINANCE Committe??? Hmmmm n/t

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10. The campaign calls him an unpaid volunteer

Makes it sound like he was stuffing envelopes in Takoma Park, doesn't it? Instead, he's the national co-chairman of the campaign's finance committee. Now, while Mitt has been self-financing his campaign to a startling degree (a fact which has escaped notice in the popular media, obsessed as it is with playing gotcha with the Democratic candidates), you have to figure the finance committee would, at one point or another, figure prominently in carrying out the goals of Romney's campaign.

But darn the luck! How many times do you have someone walk in off the street for an unpaid volunteer position, and then they get indicted for defrauding folks of $32 million? Bummer, Mitt.

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13. Funny, I heard nothing about this on Sun AM MSM

How come Why For?!?!?

Time to crank up the letters, emails and/or faxes to MSM

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2. Did Mitwit accept

the resignation before of after Fabian drove a busload of paid supporters to Ames?

Mz Pip
:dem:

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3. Are all politicians crooked?

Or only Republicans?

Or - - - - (fill in the blanks)

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11. The Republican party doesn't have a monopoly on crooked politicians

But they certainly have more than their share of them. Even with the impunity provided by their politicized Justice department, we're still up to our eyeballs in indictments. I wonder just how far the cancer has really progressed.

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4. Well, you know Romney's sunk...

...part of being a successful Republicon is associating with the criminals that don't get caught. Obviously he lacks that critical skill.

[tanyev]

5. Oh, this is a new problem.

Here's the last one.

Jay Garrity, an aide to Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and Presidential hopeful, has taken a leave of absence as he is being investigated for impersonating a law enforcement officer, reports the Associated Press.

Garrity serves as director of operations and is said to always be at Romney's side. He is accused of impersonating and officer in two states. The allegations stem from Garrity's having left a long message with the answering service of a plumbing company on Mother's Day. In the message, Garrity identified himself as "Trooper Garrity" of the Massachusetts State Police and complained of the poor driving of a one of the company's drivers.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/289969/mitt_romney_and_rudy_giuliani_both.html

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6. Mitwit...I love it.

You know this guy might be the scariest of them all. (OK Tancredo is certifiable, but we all know he is un-electable.) But Romney is smart and can play the game. I still think him being a Mormon will keep the true Christers home on the election day. But I can see many following him for his looks and carisma.

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7. Romney fund-raiser quits after indictment

Source: The Boston Globe

By Ryan Haggerty, Globe Correspondent | August 12, 2007

A fund-raiser for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign resigned from his volunteer post last week after being indicted in Maryland for allegedly defrauding companies of $32 million.

Alan B. Fabian, 43, a Maryland businessman who cochaired the national finance committee for Romney's campaign, was indicted Wednesday by a Maryland grand jury on 23 counts of mail fraud, money laundering, bankruptcy fraud, perjury, and obstruction of justice, according to the US attorney's office in Baltimore.

Fabian had served as cochair since January and had contributed the maximum amount of $2,300, said Eric Fehrnstrom, a campaign spokesman.

"We have accepted Mr. Fabian's resignation from his unpaid, volunteer position on the national finance committee, and we are returning his contribution to the campaign," Fehrnstrom said in an e-mail yesterday.

The campaign, however, will not return contributions from donors who were recruited by or have ties to Fabian, Fehrnstrom said.

Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/08/12/romney_fund_raiser_quits_after_indictment/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+City%2FRegion+News

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8. republicons & sleaze - you always find them together

What a pack of morally bankrupt deviants the republicons are.

Puh-lease give us all another freaking lecture on you so-called republicon family values. Snarf.

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9. Grand Old Pickpockets.

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12. Hmm, I wonder just what exactly the scam was.

Prosecutors allege that Fabian defrauded an equipment leasing company, financial institutions, and a government consulting company through his two companies, Strategic Partners International Inc., and Strategic Partners International LLC.

$32M is a lot of scamming.