A month after his aide said he’d seek “necessary approvals at the proper time,” former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman apparently has not asked the Federal Election Commission for an advisory opinion about whether he can spend campaign cash…
Minnesota’s U.S. Senate contest is not likely to be settled any time soon. Norm Coleman’s decision to contest the election in court means that a three-judge panel will likely spend weeks scrutinizing the details of the election and ensuing statewide recount that determined Al Franken won by 225 votes. While the extended time-frame is relatively good news for Coleman — in that it means his electoral prospects remain alive — it could also allow time for more details to emerge in a pair of lawsuits that surfaced late in the campaign.
Nasser Kazeminy, who is accused in a Texas civil suit of funneling $75,000 in hidden money to U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman via two private businesses, is in the news again. This time he’s suspected of distributing money in…
I was killing time on a back bench of an 8th floor Ramsey County courtroom Wednesday, waiting with about 50 others for something to happen (all the action in the RNC8 case that day took place behind closed doors, as it turned out), when a person with a familiar face took a seat in the next row. Could it be Coleen Rowley, famed FBI whistleblower, TIME magazine 2002 person of the year and the DFL Party’s 2006 candidate in Minnesota’s Second Congressional District? Indeed it was.
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…
As Paul Demko reports, the Alliance for a Better Minnesota announced it had written to the FBI and the Senate Select Committee on Ethics urging the bodies to investigate allegations that a wealthy Coleman donor,
Alliance for a Better Minnesota has sent letters to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics and the Federal Bureau of Investigation calling for investigations into allegations contained in a recently filed lawsuit involving Sen. Norm Coleman. The lawsuit, filed in a Texas court, alleges that Nasser Kazeminy, a longtime associate of the Senator, funneled $75,000 that was intended to benefit Coleman to a Minneapolis insurance firm.
Transcript of Coleman’s October 10 press conference.
I had originally planned to exclusively talk about the economy and the financial crisis, which I still intend to address. But, these are fearful anxious times – and people are looking for hope…
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