{"id":26477,"date":"2009-05-12T18:19:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T18:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/05\/12\/coleman-under-investigation-wa\/"},"modified":"2009-05-12T18:19:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T18:19:12","slug":"coleman-under-investigation-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/12\/coleman-under-investigation-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"Coleman, under investigation, wants to use campaign funds for criminal case"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Attorneys for Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) have asked the Federal Election Commission for permission to use campaign funds to pay his legal bills stemming from allegations that a Coleman confidante funneled improper payments to the lawmaker via his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman and his wife have denied any wrongdoing, but the former CEO of Deep Marine Technology, a Houston, Texas, company, filed a lawsuit claiming that Nassar Kazeminy, a DMT investor, &#8220;coerced DMT to make improper payments of $75,000 to Laurie Coleman through her employer, for the ultimate benefit of her husband.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A similar lawsuit was also filed in Delaware after media reports that Kazeminy may have paid &#8220;large bills for clothing purchases&#8221; by Coleman and his wife at Neiman Marcus.<\/p>\n<p>A liberal watchdog group in Minnesota, Alliance for a Better Minnesota, wrote to the FBI in November asking it to investigate the allegations, and also filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, another liberal organization, filed a complaint with the ethics panel as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/glennthrush\/0509\/Coleman_wants_to_use_campaign_funds_for_criminal_case.html\">source and more information<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys for Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) have asked the Federal Election Commission for permission to use campaign funds to pay his legal bills stemming from allegations that a Coleman confidante funneled improper payments to the lawmaker via his wife. Coleman and his wife have denied any wrongdoing, but the former CEO of Deep Marine Technology, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/12\/coleman-under-investigation-wa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coleman, under investigation, wants to use campaign funds for criminal case<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4537],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6T3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}