While Coleman didn’t agree to sit down for a interview, his campaign did agree to share billing records of the remodeling project. Original projections in 2006 estimated a cost of $328,000, but four months later, the construction cost was estimated at $414,000, over-budget by $86,000.
During that time is when, the lawsuit alleges, Kazeminy was trying to get money to Coleman.
According to the lawsuits, in March of 2007, Kazeminy said that “U.S. Senators don’t make s — -” and he was going to try to find a way to get money to Coleman.
Yes, it might be a coincidence. MinnPost’s David Brauer notes:
Things to keep in mind: Kazeminy is the target of two lawsuits alleging misuse of corporate funds, but the evidence has not been vetted in court. FBI agents have begun interviewing officials of the Texas company involved, but no charges have been filed. Coleman has denied any knowledge of the unproven scheme and no links to to him have been established.
While the Fox9 story “raises questions” connecting the renovation to the potential scandal, the web version includes no explicit comment from Coleman or a spokesperson on the alleged link.
While what Brauer says is true about the evidence not being vetted in court, I think the documents do speak well for themselves and note that two people have already gone under oath, under penalty of perjury on this.
LOL. I was wondering when you’d pick it up here.
Norm is really starting to look dirty. While I don’t like him & would be happy to see him go,
this is really getting to be a serious thing that we should all be concerned about!
Its really going to make us a laughingstock if he is disgraced.
Norm — — > REALLY!?
What a convenient time for Michael Brodkorb to take a fulltime job with the Minnesota Senate Republicans. I guess he didn’t want to stick around to add “paid spokesperson for a convicted felon” to his resume.