Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
David Safier told you about John McCain's campaign fundraiser-bundler Fred Malek, and how the Arizona Daily Star is not reporting the story.
Well, John McCain's other lobbyist problem is also not being reported by the Star. The J.D. Hayworth campaign has been hammering away at the story on the Sonoran Alliance blog (it's not often we cite this blog). It's not often when J.D. is right, but on the rare occasion he is, I will give him his due — especially when it exposes the hypocricy of John McCain.
Here is the latest update on Scott Rothstein, one of John McCain’s close friends, fundraisers and bundlers. According to available records, Rothstein raised over $109,000 for John McCain’s 2008 failed Presidential bid.
Rothstein was sentenced to 50 years for defrauding investors of $1.2 BILLION in an elaborate Ponzi scheme.
— Several video reports.
Sonoran Alliance: Arizona Politics for Conservatives » McCain’s Convenient Loss of Memory
On Thursday [June 10], Dan Nowicki [of the Arizona Republic] finally breached the topic of John McCain’s connections with convicted felon and $1.2 Billion Ponzi schemer, Scott Rothstein. Rothstein was one of John McCain’s largest donors and cash bundlers during the 2008 Presidential campaign.
When John McCain’s Communications Director, Brian Rogers was asked by Nowicki about the association, his reply on Rothstein was, “He wasn’t an adviser. John McCain couldn’t pick him out of a lineup.”
Well maybe I can help jog the convenient memory loss of our senior Senator John McCain with the following photo gallery:
— series of photos of John McCain with Scott Rothstein — oops!
Phoenix, AZ (JUNE 10) – Sen. John McCain must personally and publicly explain why he allowed his staff to lie to the media about returning all $1.1 million given to his presidential campaign by a convicted felon; if he accepted even more from the felon’s law partners; and why he has not donated all the dirty money to charity as his campaign claimed.Federal authorities have been investigating 30 lawyers who worked in the now-defunct firm of Scott Rothstein, who yesterday was sentenced to 50 years in prison for running an elaborate Ponzi scheme.
According to his lawyer and media reports, the convicted felon is giving up the names of people involved and has even gone “undercover” which will likely lead to the arrest of lawyers, business associates and perhaps even politicians.
Tomorrow, Rothstein’s chief operating officer, who personally gave McCain’s political committees at least $30,000, is scheduled to plead guilty to assorted criminal activity.
The lawyers, along with 15 other Rothstein employees, made about $2.2 million in state and federal campaign contributions while he was running the Ponzi scheme from 2005 to 2009.
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Phoenix, AZ (JUNE 15) – U.S. Senate Candidate J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) today said he is dismayed by claims that Sen. John McCain does not know McCain’s number one contributor who is now serving 50 years in prison.
Hayworth called on McCain to admit he knows Scott Rothstein, the convicted Ponzi scheme artist, return all the dirty money he received over the years from investment scams, and promise to return and reject contributions from shady characters.
“Sen. McCain likes to talk about how character matters, how political leaders must rise above even the appearance of impropriety,” Hayworth said. “It’s time his actions match his rhetoric. It’s time for him to clean his own house and start acting like a U.S. Senator.”
— videos of J.D. Hayworth press conference.
I guess the local news media in Tucson did not have the time or inclination to cover this press conference.
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