2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Did Bernie's wife commit a felony when she secured a loan for Burlington College? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)a major university that shall remain nameless. Full - time jobs, with fabulous compensations. One is recently retired, the other one is still on the job.
Both of them say she fucked up and--at a MINIMUM--she made a serious error of judgment when it came to the pledges. Both say that misrepresenting a bequest in the way that she did was fraudulent. Not a mistake--fraudulent.
And, FWIW, one of the two is a rather ardent "Bernista," and he is unable to come up with a rational reason why she'd confuse that unless she was trying to cook the books. The phrase "No one could be that stupid," was used.
A million bucks (and that was the bequest amount) is not chump change--and like I said, the only way she could be sure to get the money is to go club the donor to death with a tire iron, and hope they read the will quickly.
I'll believe my relations before I believe you--sorry.
This is not spin, or smear--this is documents. You can click on the links and read the actual documents, and see Ms. Sanders' signature. But hey, rationalize away if you must. It doesn't change the fact that she signed that certification of her financials, and what she signed wasn't true.