Texas lawsuit involving Coleman donor delayed 30 days

As predicted, the Texas lawsuit accusing Minnesota businessman Nasser Kazeminy of funneling money to Norm Coleman has been delayed 30 days. A Houston judge approved the extension on Thursday, which follows a 60-day stay granted in February.

Coleman isn’t named in the lawsuit (or in a similar suit pending in Delaware), but he is implicated by charges that Kazeminy ordered officers of a business he controlled, Houston-based Deep Marine Technology, to send $100,000 to Hays Companies, the St. Paul insurance company that employs Coleman’s wife, Laurie.

The two former Deep Marine executives who brought the suit have given sworn testimony that although the payments were ostensibly for insurance advice, they don’t know of any such service being rendered. And, they claim, Kazeminy introduced his instructions by saying, “United States senators don’t make shit.”