A Texas businessman who claims he was forced to make $75,000 in secret payments to the wife of Minnesota Sen. Norman Coleman has produced documents showing cash transfers to an insurance firm that employs the senator’s wife Laurie.
A lawyer for Paul McKim — who is accusing Coleman pal Nasser Kazeminy of funneling cash to the Laurie Coleman — handed over internal accounting sheets to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
They show a Kazeminy-controlled oil-rig servicing company paid “service fees” to the Mrs. Coleman’s employer, the Hays Companies. McKim served as the company’s CEO until last Friday.
(Here’s the link. The key pages are 29-33.)
The documents, intended to bolster a lawsuit McKim filed Monday against Kazeminy over the latter’s handling of the company’s finances, includes an invoice for an April 2007 payment of $25,000 to the Hays company and a wire transfer showing the payout.
From The Politico:
I loved the comment in the Politico article - “Is Norm Coleman in bed with Iranians?”
The Star Tribune seems to be scared of this story. They have shut down comments on it on their website. Very unusual.
Not sure where it is in the print edition, but it was buried on the web site. Funny how Norm’s suit against Franken was top and center yesterday.
Pioneer Press online it was prominent (twincities.com)
Star trib .com it was the third bullet point under the small politics sub heading
Fox 9 last night it was the lead story
Everyone else is rolling, but it was the Trib that broke it?