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发帖数: 24733 | 1 Sanders investigation: Bernie's wife attempted to evict disabled group home
residents, report claims
Sen. Bernie Sanders’s wife has been accused of heartlessly trying to boot
disabled group home residents when she was president of a Vermont college
and closed on a real estate deal now under FBI scrutiny.
The home with 16 residents was on property Jane O’Meara Sanders purchased
for Burlington College in 2010 as part of an expansion project, the
conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch claimed Thursday.
Reports this week say Sanders is under FBI investigation in connection with
her role in securing financing for the project which didn’t pan out and led
to the college’s closure.
Sanders and Sen. Sanders have reportedly hired defense attorneys in
connection with the probe. Sen. Sanders called the accusations against his
wife “pretty pathetic” and politically motivated.
Judicial Watch says Mrs. Sanders sent a letter to an attorney representing
the HowardCenter group home in January 2011, saying she was having trouble
evicting the 16 residents.
“It is simply not fair to expect the College to continue to carry the
burden of the expenses associated with housing both you population and ours
until February 2012,” she said in the letter Judicial Watch obtained under
a public records request.
“The home for the disabled was being leased from the diocese and Jane was
supposed to help relocate the residents, not evict them,” Judicial Watch
reported. The group contended the comments showed Mrs. Sanders’
heartlessness.
The office of Sen. Sanders, I-Vt., did not return a request for comment.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vermont initiated eviction proceedings against
HowardCenter after selling the 32-acre property to Burlington College,
Vermont’s alternative weekly Seven Days reported in March, 2011.
The eviction notice gave HowardCenter until November 2010 to leave.
But the diocese extended the notice after HowardCenter said it needed more
time to find another home, the paper reported.
Mrs. Sanders was chagrined to be caught up in what amounted to an eviction
of mentally disabled tenants, according to the paper.
“We are not trying to be the bad guys here,” she was quoted as saying. “
We have always said that we’d be helpful and we’d try to help them as they
found a new home — and we have. At first, we agreed to delay for one
semester, and even that was pushing it for us. Six months beyond that is not
realistic.”
Sanders told the weekly that Burlington and the diocese had made financial
sacrifices to allow HowardCenter to stay past the eviction date.
“We thought a year’s time was appropriate, and it’s worrisome that they
haven’t found a place yet, but there is really no choice any longer,” she
was quoted as saying.
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: Sanders investigation: Bernie's wife attempted to evict disabled group home
: residents, report claims
: Sen. Bernie Sanders’s wife has been accused of heartlessly trying to boot
: disabled group home residents when she was president of a Vermont college
: and closed on a real estate deal now under FBI scrutiny.
: The home with 16 residents was on property Jane O’Meara Sanders purchased
: for Burlington College in 2010 as part of an expansion project, the
: conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch claimed Thursday.
: Reports this week say Sanders is under FBI investigation in connection with
: her role in securing financing for the project which didn’t pan out and led
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发帖数: 4911 | 3 "My wife is about the most honest person I know," Sanders said |
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