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Count 1:
ROBERT F. MCDONNELL and MAUREEN G. MCDONNELL did knowingly and intentionally:
conspire with each other and with others, both known and unknown to the grand jury, to commit wire fraud, that is: having devised and intending to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud the citizens of Virginia of their right to the honest services of the Governor of Virginia through BRIBERY, to transmit and cause to be transmitted by means or wire communication in interstate commerce....in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343.
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The fraud, the bribery, the coverup....and now the fall.....from the Indictment PDF:
G. The Defendants Efforts To Conceal The Scheme
"102. On or about October 3, 2012, as part of required paperwork for a loan on one of the MoBo Virginia Beach properties through TowneBanke, ROBERT MCDONNELL caused TowneBank to receive a personal financial statement that listed total liabilities of $2,075,00 and listed no loans payable.
(Note: MAUREEN had checks of $50,000 and $15,000 as "loans" from Star Scientific to explain away now not being disclosed as liabilities)
103. On or about February 1, 2013, both DEFENDANTS caused a signed Uniform Residential Loan Application to be transmitted to PenFed as part of an effort to refinance four loans, including loans on the two MoBo Virginia Beach properties. The URLA listed total liabilities of 2. 8 Million dollars and listed no loans or liabilities to JW."
(JW is named as the Chief Financial Officer of Star Scientific Corporation)
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They apparently both lied to law enforcement investigating, failing to note loans from JW, JW's family, shares purchased in Star Scientific.....all to cover their tracks in the massive gift and money giving they were actually hounding the company for.
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106. In or about March, 2013, MAUREEN MCDONNELL met with JW's brother at the defendants' residence and told JW's brother she had been interviewed by law enforcement. At that meeting, MAUREEN MCDONNELL - for the first time - asked JW's brother to send her a bill for the work JW's brother had performed for the defendants since approximately November, 2012. Thereafter, on or about March 4, 2013, JW's brother sent an email to MAUREEN MCDONNELL states "Find attached a list of expenditures for your residence.
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The Purpose and The Conspiracy - GREED
110. The purpose of the conspiracy was for the defendants to secretly use ROBERT MCDONNELL's official position as Governor or Virginia to enrich the defendant and their family members by soliciting and accepting payments, loans, gifts, and other things of value from JW and Star Scientific in exchange for ROBERT F. MCDONNELL and the OGV performing official actions on an as-needed basis, as opportunities arose, to legitimize, promote, and obtain research studies for Star Scientific's products.
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All in an attempt to back date free work done on the MCDONNELL residences by JW's brother.....to pass off to law enforcement.
Much, much more. Some mighty fine reading:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/201273460/Mcdonnell-Indictment
malaise
(269,187 posts)The New Jersey goons
Tansy_Gold
(17,873 posts)The name is "McDonnell," not McConnell.
Just for the sake of accuracy, y'know?