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In reply to the discussion: Goldman Sachs CEO Key Investor in Hillary's Son-In-Law's Hedge Fund [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)50. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. A whole family of grifters.
Last edited Sat Feb 7, 2015, 05:40 AM - Edit history (1)
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. Marc Mezvinsky's parents were both grifters. Chelsea's father-in-law, or as some refer to him "felon-in-law" is Ed Mezvinsky. Since Ed Mezvinsky's own mother-in-law was one of his fraud victims, HRC & Bill would have been smart not to invest either their private millions or the Clinton Foundation's funds in son-in-law's hedge fund. And just where did Marc M get his faulty international insights as to Greece? Or was Bill selling short on Eaglevale's choices all along?
(F)ederal prosecutors said Ed Mezvinsky habitually dropped the Clintons' names and boasted of their friendship during the 1990s as he defrauded friends, family members and institutions out of more than $10 million.
Ed Mezvinsky was sentenced in 2003 to serve 80 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to a massive fraud that prosecutors said amounted to a Ponzi scheme. He was released from custody in April 2008, but remains under federal probation supervision.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/mezvinsky.asp#W86TSmhCqGEkOYkR.99
After serving five years in federal prison, he was released in April 2008. He remained on federal probation until 2011, and still owes $9.4 million in restitution to his victims.
And the groom's mother, Marjorie Margolies? Well, she tried to file for bankruptcy but the bankruptcy judge wasn't having it. Somehow the female bankruptcy judge didn't believe a woman who had served in the US Congress when said woman whined that she had no knowledge of her family's finances because her husband took care of all finances.
Shortly thereafter, she filed for bankruptcy, but failed to receive a discharge from her debts, based on 11 U.S.C. §727(a)(5). The court found Mezvinsky had failed to satisfactorily explain a significant loss of assets in the four years prior to her bankruptcy filing. The bankruptcy judge stated, in her published opinion, "I find that the Debtor has failed to satisfactorily explain the loss of approximately $775,000 worth of assets (the difference between the $810,000 represented in May 1996 and the $35,000 now claimed in her Amended Schedule B)." Sonders v. Mezvinsky (in re Mezvinsky), 265 B.R. 681, 694 (Bankr. E.D. Pa. 2001).
When she filed for bankruptcy, a judge rejected her assertion of ignorance in a scathing decision that, depending on how you read it, either calls her feminist assertions into question or suggests she knows more than shes letting on. Her consistent response to questions asked by her creditors about the disposition of her assets is lack of knowledge or my husband handled it, a mantra that is completely at odds with her public persona, background, and accomplishments, the judge wrote.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/the-clinton-in-law-marjorie-margolies-100696_Page3.html#ixzz3PH7Y4Lsv
Who would HRC seat these grifters next to at state dinners? Whomever they might be, they'd better hang onto their wallets.
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Yeah, and how many degrees of separation can you claim from anyone engaged in wrongdoing?
stevenleser
Feb 2015
#55
Who's ''us?'' And how many degrees of separation are needed to gain or lose one's integrity?
Octafish
Feb 2015
#59
It has everything to do with the issue, because tagging Hillary with this is stupid
stevenleser
Feb 2015
#66
No, it doesn't, any more than the conduct of your third cousin twice removed
stevenleser
Feb 2015
#71
Oh. If you're asking me how many degrees of separation from me to the banksters, a lot.
Octafish
Feb 2015
#63
Look up the concept of six degrees of separation. It will explain everything. Nt
stevenleser
Feb 2015
#72
NO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MOONLIGHT FOR PRIVATE COMPANIES.
JDPriestly
Feb 2015
#89
I heard his cousin was also best friends in elementary school with Chelsea's neighbor's uncle
alcibiades_mystery
Feb 2015
#3
These connections between bankers and politicians have been well documented for quite some time
btrflykng9
Feb 2015
#32
Chelsea Clinton's Husband Suffers Massive Hedge Fund Loss On Greek Investment
Ichingcarpenter
Feb 2015
#4
So you are outraged that Chelsea Clinton married someone without getting your approval first? nt
geek tragedy
Feb 2015
#8
Yeah no big deal that the undeclared Democratic candidate is in bed with the very people that
ChosenUnWisely
Feb 2015
#9
Your friend is trying--he/she is trying to bowl you over with his/her "vehicular!"
MADem
Feb 2015
#27
agree that mm's pretense of not knowing the meaning of 'in bed with' was manipulative ==
ND-Dem
Feb 2015
#93
What specific personal relations and relevant careers of in-laws should be used to disqualify
LanternWaste
Feb 2015
#12
And a similar question, how many degrees of separation do you need from anyone accused of wrongdoing
stevenleser
Feb 2015
#54
Is it safe to assume you'd react the same if this story was about a republican candidate's family?
whatchamacallit
Feb 2015
#44
Yes. Whom Chelsea Clinton marries is none of my--or your--fucking business.
geek tragedy
Feb 2015
#45
Normally, I'm willing to give some of these stories the benefit of the doubt when there's a lot of
hughee99
Feb 2015
#10
Yeah, this is silly. Son in Law? Is that to what the anti-Hillary crowd has reduced themselves?
stevenleser
Feb 2015
#43
Nothing to see here. It's not like all of us other progressives don't have Goldman investing in us.
Scuba
Feb 2015
#15
+100. and we all have friends and relatives who are crooks, too. (just not as successful at
ND-Dem
Feb 2015
#95
So he pays himself $2M/yr to lose his investor's money, while similar hedge funds made
Faryn Balyncd
Feb 2015
#17
If Hillary is like my mother-in-law, this would be bad for the Goldman Sachs CEO
FLPanhandle
Feb 2015
#20
Well, you would certainly know about indefensible messengers, octafish of DU...
SidDithers
Feb 2015
#105