CNN is reporting that Sen. Norm Coleman has hired Minneapolis-based defense attorney Douglas Kelley to help with two lawsuits that include allegations about Coleman and wealthy donor and friend Nasser Kazeminy. The Star Tribune reports Coleman’s wife,…
Fox 9′s Tom Lyden’s reports that U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman and his wife Laurie were in the midst of a major home remodeling project in the spring of 2007, at the same time that a Texas firm controlled by Coleman benefactor Nasser Kazeminy was making payments to the insurance firm where Laurie Coleman works. So there is a circumstantial link between the payments and the house costs — and a potential motive for Kazeminy to steer a sum like that to the Colemans, as two lawsuits allege and the FBI is now looking into.
If anyone took it seriously when an unnamed U.S. senator floated the name of his senate colleague Norm Coleman as a prospective chair of the Republican National Committee in The Washington Times three weeks ago, they likely aren’t anymore. And…
Rod Blagojevich was arrested today on charges that included alleged schemes to funnel money to the Illinois governor through his wife, Patricia. Because the charges against Blagojevich are criminal and made by the U.S. Department of Justice, they are on a wholly different order (at least so far, pending results of a newly reported FBI probe) from allegations about U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman that were made by private plaintiffs in a pair of Texas civil suits from October.
The dissimilarity, however, ends there.
A pair of men have been arrested in the Denver metro area after one of them was found to have methamphetamine and numerous guns, including a “sniper rifle,” during a routine traffic stop in Aurora, Colorado. The Secret Service, ATF,…
While 33 robberies in the metro area since January might seem like a lot compared with some previous years, the statistic “isn’t alarming,” according to FBI spokesperson Paul McCabe. If robberies continue at their current pace, the…
Neither the FBI nor the Muslim community denies that they had a rocky relationship that reached climax in the wake of 9/11. But now, both sides express enthusiasm for a new advisory group that hopes to put the past behind…
Mankato resident Tom Maertens, former National Security Council director for proliferation and homeland defense in the George W. Bush White House, and 16 other former members of the U.S. military, State Department, Defense Department, CIA and FBI have
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