Texas exec: Kazeminy said senators ‘don’t make shit,’ steered thousands of dollars to Coleman’s wife’s firm

Just what exactly does Mr. Kazeminy make? Other than a lot of noise?

I would have 2 simple questions for the Hays Companies: what service did you provide to merit receiving the money? (possible evidence: invoices, status report of services provided, etc.) What compensation did Laurie Coleman receive during the same period and the period immediately following receipt of the money? (possible evidence: pay records) If this is an innocent transaction, it should be pretty simple to demonstrate that. I wouldn’t think that the Colemans would have any problem with the Hays Companies releasing this information if there is nothing to hide. On the other hand if $100,000 went to Hays and shortly thereafter $75,000 or so went to Laurie Coleman for work that cannot be confirmed with billing documents, then Norm and Laurie have a serious problem.

AMAZING…..why doesn’t Coleman take his loss, he is facing two investigations, he and Texas Senator John Cornyn are involved in the story above and the Stanford ponzi scheme. Maybe the people will understand why a senator from Texas is so afraid of Al Franken, when Franken takes the Senate seat all of this dirt is going to pour out.

We have problems in this country….BIG…….Cornyn is part of the “Just say NO” and is up to his eyeballs in fraud charges along with Coleman.

If these so called elected officials really cared about the people they would face the charges and Coleman would step aside.

But with the GOP it has never been about the people, it is all about the power and the greed……the GOP controlled Congress got us into this mess with de-regulation, out of control spending and we have alot of work to do.

It makes me sick……here they are involved in all this crap and they are fighting for Coleman to win a race he has lost. Pawlenty’s poll numbers are dropping….the people are sick and tired of these rabid republicans who are covered in a shroud of deceit and unethical actions, their own personal agenda to line their pockets…..

Being a Texan, we are so sick of the stronghold the Republicans have here, our courts are full of right wing fanatics, all the way to the Texas Supreme Court….who spit on the little guy……

We have a lot of changes to make in this country, people need to educate themselves and listen to the truth, do not base their knowledge on the likes of a pill popping, Rush Limbaugh……a guy who was arrested for drugs…..I think the same kind of drugs that Palin’s daughters boyfriends mother was arrested with….they are referred to as hillbilly heroin according the Alaska press.

So, Coleman, get out of the way of the way……we don’t need your kind…and what a joke, if the new face of the GOP will include criminals like Coleman, Cornyn, Jhindal, that is great, we will have the time to restore this nation’s domestic and foreign policies, the disaster that Bush, Condi, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the rest of those pieces of trash left behind as they took one last grab of big money and left.

So what happened to the money?

KellyO, Hays Companies got $75,000 from Deep Marine. The next $25,000 check from Deep Marine that would have brought the total to $100,000 never got cut. That’s all we know. Beyond that, I don’t think there’s been any public accounting of it.

I heard there was more then one payment. It was the last one that got noticed. “Thomas added that McKim “grumbled” whenever he saw an invoice for consulting from Hays. “Paul was very unhappy about making the payments,” he said” -Strib.

So – What did Hays did for their money? If they were the “new” insurance company – where did the money go?

Having been involved in Risk Management for several companies, it is not unusual for a company like DMT to hire a consulting compnay like Hayes, in some cases to act as a kind of “super-broker” to deal with other brokers, review bids, keep brokers honest, make sure the company (in this case, DMT) is getting its money’s worth, etc. Unless someone can prove that Laurie or Norm Coleman actually received a single dollar from the arrangement, it is likely that this is merely a “favor” to the Hayes company, not an illegal campaign contribution.

It is also not impossible that McKim or even Thomas, who had as one of his duties the management of risk insurance, did not know what DMT received, given that Kazeminy and crew (Ellingboe, etc) might not have been overwhelmed by the competence of the management team at DMT. While a bit unusual for the majority investor or even a board member (Kazeminy was both) to take over the responsibility for insurance shopping, there is likely nothing illegal in doing so (again, assuming money did not flow to the Colemans).

My big problem with this web site and with virtually all news bloggers is that they rarely, if ever, have the ability, the wherewithal or the integrity to do any investigation into these matters; they rely entirely on court documents, what other bloggers are saying and the opinions of their readers. The public is not well-served by trial by blogging.