Palin accused of attempted bribery

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Palin accused of attempted bribery

Motion to amend says new evidence shows bribery

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who left office in disgrace July 26th under a cloud of ethics charges, is now being accused of a federal claim of attemped bribery. See federal claim (PDF 52 kb)

To clarify a previous complaint, the motion also accuses Palin of a violation of Alaska's constitution.

From the motion to amend:

"2.Plaintiffs wish to add a very serious federal claim of attempted bribery and other violations of similar federal and state statutes under supplemental jurisdiction....

....offering state funds and support of legislation to third parties in exchange for them convincing Plaintiffs to drop this lawsuit in federal or state court."

Palin has had 21 ethics complaints filed against her, two of which she has been found guilty, three are still pending. One of those involves the Alaska Fund Trust set up by Palin and her friends to fend off ethics compalints. Palin has claimed she has over $600,000 in legal bills from these complaints, documents so far have shown only $120,000 in bills.

http://alaskareport.com/news39/x71288_palin_bribery.htm

Full discolsure that alaskareport is very heavily anti republican paper.
So take the news article with a large grain of salt. If the charges are proven in a court of law though it could explain her resignation.

The other snipet was the legal defence fund. Primarly the investigation ongoing which was "leaked" to the press. Ironicly though a press release form Cole denies any involvement in the legal fund until after the investigation was triggered.

Also point out the interesting co-incidence with Palins "death panel" story grabbing the headlines instead of the ethics complaint.

Again there are reservations about the source.

 

[AngryZealot]

This is probably why she resigned when she did.

 

[FriendlyFire]

"There's a lot of good folks who have come together to help the governor respond to these frivolous complaints that have really distracted her," said Kristan Cole, the fund's trustee and a personal friend of Palin. "Our goal is to pay the legal expenses to allow her to get back to the business of being governor, which is what we elected her for." - Sunday, April 26, 2009

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/042609/sta_433093790.shtml

"When the Governor gave Kristan Cole permission to launch a legal expense fund, she had one request: keep it in Alaska. Campaign Solutions is not based in Alaska," said SarahPAC spokesperson Meghan Stapleton April 24, 2009
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/eye-on-2012/palin-fundraising-firm-part-wa.html

The first and only time I have spoken with the Governor about the Trust was yesterday to alert her that I was responding to this violation of the law and leak of preliminary and confidential materials from the complaint. Kristan Cole 22nd July 2009

http://www.themudflats.net/2009/07/22/alaska-fund-trust-who-knew/?cp=8#comments

Donation prompts hand-written Palin thank you
When Alaskan Mark Bowers made his donation to the Alaska Fund Trust, he didn't expect to receive a hand-written thank-you note from Gov. Sarah Palin. But the governor so appreciated his gift to the legal defense fund that she sent him a very personal note of thanks. Sarah's Web Brigade has the full story. Tuesday, May 26, 2009

http://texas4palin.blogspot.com/2009/05/donation-prompts-hand-written-palin.html

This sparked my interest so i read through the comments
Interesting that Coles could announch back in April the creation of the Defence fund but didnt talk to Palin about it until July. Despite the MSN play it recieved and reports of its creation to help Palin pay for legal bills.

Well see how this plays out

 

[woody60707]

To many times I heard someone crying wolf about Palin.

Motion to amend says new evidence shows bribery

Conveniently they didn't show the evidence...

There is a good reason this stuff isn't major news.

EDIT: http://alaskareport.com/index.htm Dude, what kind of news site is that???

 

[Godwynn]

I'll reserve my judgment until a major news source reports.

 

[FriendlyFire]

To many times I heard someone crying wolf about Palin.
Conveniently they didn't show the evidence...

There is a good reason this stuff isn't major news.

EDIT: http://alaskareport.com/index.htm Dude, what kind of news site is that???

Your probably right if Orly can file a lawsuit and then produce evidence which collapsed immediately when examined.
Thought again ironicly the Main stream media did give play to her claims on Obamas kenyas Birth certificate.

I did post two disclaimers on the source for the story.
Well see when they submitt evidence to back there clamins of bribery.

 

[dutchfire]

The OP article sounds pretty biased, so I'll wait until a major news source covers this.

 

[Patroklos]

What disgrace?

Honestly, with all the frivolous and warrantless accusations headed Palin's way you would think she was Obama.

 

[illram]

This is a private suit and is in no way a criminal charge of any kind. This is basically meaningless at this point.

 

[GenMarshall]

Only Palin, can we lock her in a cage and never let her out?