Thread: Frist takes another hit.

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FEC hits Frist camp with $11,000 fine
By Jared Allen, jallen@nashvillecitypaper.com
June 02, 2006

The Federal Election Commission has fined Sen. Bill Frist’s re-election campaign $11,000 for failing to accurately report a $1.44 million bank loan taken out by the majority leader’s re-election committee.

News of the initial FEC complaint against Frist 2000 Inc. broke in June 2005, after it was filed by watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Denied hiding loan in July

In July, Frist addressed the media to deny that he had attempted to hide the $1.44 million loan, as the FEC complaint charged.

At the time, Frist told the Atlanta Journal Constitution the loan paperwork filed with the FEC was “all done within the FEC guidelines.”

On Thursday, Frist officials said they had reached a conciliatory agreement with the FEC.

“The Frist 2000 campaign settled a FEC complaint over a reporting matter about how a loan taken out by the 1994 campaign was reported,” said Jason Torchinsky, an attorney for the Frist 2000 campaign. “The loan was fully disclosed, but what the FEC ultimately suggested, we believe, would have resulted in double reporting of the loan.”

Tennessee Democrats came out charging upon hearing the news Thursday afternoon.

“How can Tennesseans trust Washington Republicans when we’re told once again that Bill Frist has attempted to keep his activities hidden from the public eye?” Bob Tuke, chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party, said in a statement sent Thursday to reporters.

“His failure to report the flow of millions of dollars into his campaign coffers — reportedly to cover stock market losses — exemplifies the type of shady activity that has disgusted voters and become common practice in Washington during Frist’s time as leader of the Senate.”

Last year the FEC fined Frist’s Volunteer PAC — which raised $4 million in the 2004 election cycle — $10,000 for misreporting its finances.

If he's hiding these things, then the truth needs to come to light.

He looked in Bill O'Reilly's face and told a bold face lie, that much, I do know

His investments and financial activities have come into question a few times.

Originally Posted by ConcernedCitizen

If he's hiding these things, then the truth needs to come to light.

He looked in Bill O'Reilly's face and told a bold face lie, that much, I do know

You know what they say, everytime a politican is moving his/her lips, he/she is lying.

It it just amazing how politicians will simply come to an agreement or settlement even though overwhelming evidence indicates impropriety. This is what happens when government has no term limits with the resultant institutionalization of elected officials. I wonder what dastardly deeds McKain and Kennedy are involved in along with their brother Bush. I also read an article about MS-13's very large presence in Maryland resulting in numerous crimes as murder, robberies, rapes, thefts and break-ins especially in the area where the alleged "loss" of veterans data ocurred.


1. Iraq mess
2. Immigration mess
3. New orleans still unprepared for 2006 hurricane season
4. "loss" of my and other veterans personal data to drug cartels and illegal aliens
5. Just being jackasses and wastes of taxpayer dollars

INVESTIGATE AND IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!!!!!

THE SENATE: The most corrupt institution money can buy!!!!!!!

Yet, another one !? These people are unbelievable.

I'm still waiting for the investigation into his "alleged" insider trading of his blind trust stocks in his family's US Healthcare Company -which his brother is President of- to be dealt with by the SEC

Originally Posted by ConcernedCitizen

If he's hiding these things, then the truth needs to come to light.

He looked in Bill OReilly's face and told a bold face lie, that much, I do know

Frist probably WAS hiding the truth. Its the latest fad in DC now, to see how far you can go, before getting caught.

Originally Posted by LunaLun

I'm still waiting for the investigation into his "alleged" insider trading of his blind trust stocks in his family's US Healthcare Company -which his brother is President of- to be dealt with by the SEC

Is that the SouthEastern Conference? I'd love to see the Tide roll over him

Yeah...Frist snuck through that trade with few scars. I have another way to get at him and his family....Let Billy Boy do it. His family has been great for Middle Tennessee and have met some of them at fundraisers. His family is wonderful to say the least. Billy Boy is a sellout and everything his family has worked for in Middle Tennessee is going to go to crap (some already has) because of illegal migrants.