3 Mar-a-Lago Members are Secretly Running the VA

[Pig Bellmont 8691]

https://www.propublica.org/article/ike-perlmutter-bruce-moskowitz-marc-sherman-shadow-rulers-of-the-va

 

Apparently 3 members of Trump’s club in Florida regularly give orders to the organization with no transparency or accountability to veterans or the public. This is plutocracy and god damn unAmerican.

And there will be no investigation or consequences, because nothing matters. 

[Pig Bellmont 8691]

But hundreds of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and interviews with former administration officials tell a different story — of a previously unknown triumvirate that hovered over public servants without any transparency, accountability or oversight. The Mar-a-Lago Crowd spoke with VA officials daily, the documents show, reviewing all manner of policy and personnel decisions. They prodded the VA to start new programs, and officials travelled to Mar-a-Lago at taxpayer expense to hear their views. “Everyone has to go down and kiss the ring,” a former administration official said.

[Brisketexan 104561]

26 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

 

 

The word "triumverate" is one of the bestest in the English language.

[hayden_horn 11360]

58 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The word "triumverate" is one of the bestest in the English language.

i prefer pentaverate:

 

[hayden_horn 11360]

more seriously, this is fucking outrageous. 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23356]

21 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

more seriously, this is fucking outrageous. 

Right but completely expected.

Manafort literally sold the position to head the US Army for a $16 million loan. THE ARMY THE UNITED STATES.

and this is just one of the stories we know about. 

Imagine how many we don’t know about.

[wildcat09 29226]

It's not remotely surprising, but it's still worth noting what a cheap whore Trump always is. Wasn't Cohen demanding $1 million just to arrange a meeting? Trump is selling control of executive agencies for golf club memberships and reservations at his DC hotel. 

[RomaVicta 29775]

Disgraceful. Shameless. The usual for Trump. I read the post on the other thread. If Trump goes down, I wonder if Mar A Lago can be seized for being used as a location for conspiracy, subversion and treason.

What is the Manafort selling an Army position story? It's either been lost in the wash or I've just forgotten it.

[Hugo Stiglitz 23356]

15 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

What is the Manafort selling an Army position story? It's either been lost in the wash or I've just forgotten it.

It came up in court yesterday and some of the witnesses with immunity are employees of the bank where it went down.

 

Rick Gates testified in federal court Tuesday that his longtime business partner Paul Manafortsuggested appointing one of his bankers to a role in then-President Elect Donald Trump's administration.

Chicago's Federal Savings Bank had extended Manafort $16 million in home loans from December 2016 to early 2017, NBC News reported in February. The bank's founder and CEO, Stephen Calk, was one of Trump's economic advisors during the 2016 campaign and sought to become the Secretary of the Army under the new administration, according to Gates' testimony and prior news reports.

"We need to discuss Steve Calk for Sec of the Army," Manafort wrote Gates in a November 2016 email. Manafort had resigned as Trump's campaign chairman in August 2016, but Gates, who was also a top campaign official, continued working on Trump's post-election transition team.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/08/07/rick-gates-set-to-face-paul-manafort-lawyers.html

[RomaVicta 29775]

Thanks. They certainly seem to be laying the foundation for shattering Trump's absurd claim that Manafort's influence was short-lived and insignificant. His number one toady was on the transition team and he was tossing out secretary choices himself.

Not a bad start to this.