Do you Know this Guy?
He is Edward "Ed" Mezvinsky, born January 17, 1937. Then you'll
probably say, "Who is Ed Mezvinsky?"
Well, he is a former Democrat congressman who represented Iowa's 1st Congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977.
He sat on the House Judiciary Committee that decided the fate of Richard Nixon. He was outspoken saying that Nixon was a crook and a disgrace to politics and the nation and should be impeached.
He and the Clintons were friends and very politically intertwined for many years.
Ed Mezvinsky had an affair with NBC News reporter Marjorie Sue Margolies and later married her after his wife divorced him.
In 1993, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, then a freshman Democrat in Congress, cast the deciding vote that got President Bill Clinton's controversial tax package through the House of Representatives.
In March 2001, Mezvinsky was indicted and later pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 counts of bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud.
Ed Mezvinsky embezzled more than $10 million dollars from people via both a Ponzi scheme and the notorious Nigerian e-mail scams.
He was found guilty and sentenced to 80 months in federal prison.
After serving less than five years in federal prison, he was released in April 2008 and remains on federal probation.
To this day, he still owes $9.4 million in restitution to his victims.
About now you are saying, "So what!"
Well, this is Marc and Chelsea Mezvinsky.
That's right; Ed Mezvinsky is Chelsea Clinton's father-in law.
Now Marc and Chelsea are in their early thirties and purchased a 10.5 million dollar NYC apartment (after being married in George Soros' mansion).
Has anyone heard mention of any of this in any of the media?
If this guy was Jenna or Barbara Bush's, or better yet, Sarah Palin's daughter's father-in- law, the news would be an everyday headline and every detail would be reported over and over.
And yet liberals say there are no double standards in political reporting.
And people are already talking about Hillary as our next President!
And then there is possibly Chelsea for president in our future!
The cycle never ends!
Lying and corruption seem to make Democrat candidates more popular.
(Thought it was interesting that she was married in George Soros' mansion. I didn't know this, and since I loath him and credit him as a major player in the ruination of our country, I checked it out via Google. Most wedding articles state a 'mansion in upstate NY'...finally found an article that said George Soros' daughter hosted the wedding...All the same thing/family!!!)
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By JOSEPH RHEE and DREW SANDHOLM
Chelsea Clinton and fiancee Marc Mezvinsky are shown in this file photo, left./Marc's father, Edward M. Mezvinsky, is shown in this file photo.
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Will Father of the Groom Be Welcome Figure at Chelsea Clinton's Wedding?
Dec. 1, 2009
By JOSEPH RHEE and DREW SANDHOLM
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If Ed Mezvinsky, the disgraced father of Chelsea Clinton's newly-announced fiancé Marc Mezvinsky, attends his own son's wedding, he might want to consider ducking out before the reception. Mezvinsky was convicted in 2002 of bilking his associates, friends and family members -- even his own late mother-in-law -- out of millions of dollars. Despite being released in April 2008 after serving five years in prison, Mezvinsky remains on federal probation and still owes almost $9.4 million in restitution to his victims.
An ABC News investigation revealed that Mezvinsky, a former Democratic Congressman from Iowa, had been caught up in a series of Nigerian e-mail scams and began to steal from people to further his schemes.
"He was always looking for the home run. He was always trying to find the business deal that would make him as wealthy as all the people in his social circle," said federal prosecutor Bob Zauzmer. According to Zauzmer, Mezvinsky, who is now 72, will be on supervised release, the federal version of probation, until 2011.
ABC News was unable to reach Ed Mezvinsky for a response, but did reach his ex-wife Marjorie. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky refused to comment on whether or not her ex-husband would be attending their son's wedding, referring all questions to a Clinton family spokesperson. Margolies-Mezvinsky did confirm that no wedding date has yet been set.
Asked whether Ed Mezvinsky would be attending the wedding, a spokesperson for former President Bill Clinton said he didn't know. "I don't know anything at this point beyond the fact that they're engaged," Matt McKenna told ABC News in an e-mail.
In their heyday, Ed Mezvinsky and his then wife Marjorie, herself a former Democratic congresswoman from Pennsylvania as well as an ex-TV reporter, were part of the political and social elite in Philadelphia. The Mezvinskys were close to Bill and Hillary Clinton and were frequent guests at the White House. Prosecutors say Mezvinsky exploited his ties to the Clintons, including his son's relationship with Chelsea, to woo investors to contribute more money to his schemes.
Marc Mezvinsky's Dad Served Time For Nigerian E-mail Scam
Mezvinsky used those funds to travel to Nigeria to pursue one hare-brained scheme after another. He ultimately lost more than $3 million to the scammers, falling especially hard for the notorious "black money" scam, where victims are told millions of dollars have been coated with black ink so the money could be smuggled out of Nigeria. The scammers then offer to sell a special, expensive chemical to clean the ink off of the money. Prosecutors say Mezvinsky fell for at least three separate "black money" schemes.
Mezvinsky pleaded guilty to more than 30 counts of fraud, and was sentenced to 80 months in federal prison. He has blamed bipolar disorder for his behavior.
In an interview with Des Moines Register from prison in 2003, Mezvinsky said he found the scam convincing. "The man later came out with a chemical, threw it on the money, and it all turned to $100 bills. He gave me 10 to have them tested back home. And they were real," Mezvinsky told the Register.
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Ties might not bind Clintons to Margolies campaign
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Dan Loh
Marjorie Margolis-Mervinsky, Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania Lt. Governor, laughs upon hearing positive results on her performance on primary election day Tuesday, May 19, 1998, in Norristown, Pa. At right is Colleen Alexander. Margolis-Mervinsky was named the winner.
Who's who
Marjorie Margolies
Age: 71
The one-term congresswoman, mother of 11, author, award-winning television journalist and founder of an international charity hopes to mount a political comeback after trying to declare bankruptcy and divorcing her husband while he served time for fraud. She cast the deciding vote for Bill Clinton's 1993 budget and is Chelsea Clinton's mother-in-law.
Edward Mezvinsky
Age: 77
A two-term Iowa congressman and former Pennsylvania Democratic chairman, he lost races for U.S. Senate in 1980, state attorney general in 1988 and lieutenant governor in 1990. His marriage to Margolies collapsed when he went to federal prison for defrauding people of millions of dollars. Released in 2008, he watched his son Marc wed Chelsea Clinton.
Marc Mezvinsky
Age: 36
Mezvinsky married Chelsea Clinton in 2010 during a large, private ceremony in Rhinebeck, N.Y., about 100 miles north of New York, on the banks of the Hudson River. The former Goldman Sachs investment banker co-founded the hedge fund Eaglevale Partners in 2012. The couple lives in Manhattan.
Chelsea Clinton
Age: 31
The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Mezvinsky in the 1990s while she was first daughter. They attended Stanford University. Clinton went on to earn degrees from Oxford and Columbia universities and is vice chairwoman of the Clinton Foundation.
Hillary Clinton
Age: 66
The most successful woman in American political history, she is once again the early favorite for the Democratic nomination for president. Clinton campaigned for Margolies in 1994 but couldn't hold back the GOP tide that year. In 2008, Clinton carried Pennsylvania over then-Sen. Barack Obama by nearly 10 percentage points.
Bill Clinton
Age: 67
The former president remains enormously popular in Democratic politics. His endorsement helped former U.S. Rep. Mark Critz beat rival Democrat Jason Altmire after state lawmakers combined their Western Pennsylvania districts in 2010. Clinton went on the 2014 campaign trail last week, stumping for Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes.
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By Mike Wereschagin
Saturday, March 1, 2014, 10:30 p.m.
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Marjorie Margolis-Mervinsky, Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania Lt. Governor, laughs upon hearing positive results on her performance on primary election day Tuesday, May 19, 1998, in Norristown, Pa. At right is Colleen Alexander. Margolis-Mervinsky was named the winner.
The biggest name in Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District race isn't on the ballot.
Marjorie Margolies, a former one-term congresswoman, is reminding Democratic voters of her crucial vote that won Bill Clinton his 1993 budget and cost her the U.S. House seat a year later. Her ties to the Clintons deepened when her son, Marc Mezvinsky, married Chelsea Clinton in 2010.
But whether the Clintons campaign for Margolies could depend on how close they want to get to her political baggage less than two years before Hillary Clinton's possible 2016 presidential run.
Bill Clinton is scheduled to speak at a Temple University Law Foundation event in Philadelphia on April 20, a month before the primary. The event will be about three miles from the border of the 13th District.
“She's had a fairly rocky road, given her ex-husband's issues and some of the other questions about her honesty in those proceedings. So if (Hillary) Clinton comes in, she could be somewhat attached to Margolies,” said Christopher Borick, director of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion. “But you're somewhat attached to her anyway. She's tied now, in some ways, to your family.”
Margolies and members of her campaign did not respond to requests for an interview. Spokesmen for the Clintons declined to say whether they would endorse, campaign or raise money for Margolies, 71, of Wynnewood.
The 20 years since Margolies lost her House seat were marked by personal, financial and political losses that her opponents now are dredging up.
Margolies' ex-husband, Edward Mezvinsky, pleaded guilty to defrauding banks and clients out of millions of dollars. He traded on Margolies' name and the family's connection to the Clintons, and doctored financial disclosure forms she filed with Congress, according to court records.
State Rep. Brendan Boyle, one of three other Democrats running for the congressional seat, reminded voters of that trouble when Margolies filed her disclosure forms late for this campaign in September.
Margolies told The Philadelphia Inquirer that “a personal attack from a decade ago made from behind the trousers of a campaign spokesperson is no profile in courage.”
Investigators never charged Margolies. She told a bankruptcy judge in 2000 that her husband handled the family's finances and that she signed off on the forms without verifying their accuracy.
“She was present for some of the discussions that Mr. Mezvinsky had with people that later turned out to be victims. I think she introduced one or two,” said Robert Zauzmer, the assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted Mezvinsky.
But investigators did not find evidence she knew her husband's business dealings were illegitimate.
The fraud
Margolies married Mezvinsky in 1975 when he was an Iowa congressman and she was an Emmy-winning television reporter in Washington. She divorced him in 2007 when he was serving a five-year prison sentence.
Mezvinsky brought four children to the marriage; Margolies had two girls she adopted from overseas. They had two sons and adopted three children together.
Mezvinsky lost his House seat in 1976, and the family moved to Margolies' native Philadelphia.
While she continued her television career, Mezvinsky jumped into Pennsylvania politics. He lost a race for U.S. Senate in 1980, won election as chairman of the state Democratic Party in 1981, and lost statewide races in 1988 and 1990.
His business dealings appeared to generate millions of dollars for the family, until a federal grand jury indictment in 2001 exposed frauds reaching back more than 10 years. He pleaded guilty in 2003 to 29 of counts of bank, mail and wire fraud.
From 1995 to 2000, Mezvinsky made $13 million, almost $11 million of it fraudulently, the grand jury indictment stated. He burned through $6 million by taking money from some people, including Margolies' mother, to pay off others, the indictment said.
About $2.6 million went to con men who duped Mezvinsky out of money, including an early version of the Nigerian email scam in which he traveled to Africa to collect millions of dollars he was promised after paying the con men thousands.
“Only in January 2000 did this pattern end, when Mezvinsky ran out of victims from whom to obtain money,” the indictment said. “At that time, he filed for bankruptcy protection.”
Margolies filed for bankruptcy the next month.
Mezvinsky lives in Wellsville, N.Y. Records for their divorce are sealed; the proceedings took two years. Margolies told The New York Times in 2010 that she believed Mezvinsky intended to repay everyone.
After losing her House seat, Margolies won a Democratic primary for lieutenant governor in 1998, but lost to Republicans Tom Ridge and Mark Schweiker. She ended her 2000 challenge of former Sen. Rick Santorum as her husband's schemes — and her family's finances — unraveled.
Margolies tried to declare bankruptcy, but U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Diane Weiss Sigmund rejected her petition.
“Her consistent response to questions asked by her creditors about the disposition of her assets is lack of knowledge or ‘my husband handled it,' ” Weiss Sigmund wrote.
The excuse “is completely at odds with her public persona, background and accomplishments,” the judge wrote, citing Margolies' political and television careers, authorship of several books and advocacy for women's rights.
Margolies founded the charity Women's Campaign International in 1998.
The vote
The 13th Congressional District encompasses parts of North Philadelphia and southern Montgomery County, deep inside the state's largest media market. Philadelphia and its four surrounding counties are home to one-third of Pennsylvania voters and 38 percent of Democrats — voters Hillary Clinton will need if she runs for president.
Outgoing Democratic Rep. Allyson Schwartz, who is running for governor rather than re-election, won the district with 69 percent of the vote in 2012. The winner of the May 20 Democratic primary likely will replace Schwartz in November.
Dr. Valerie Arkoosh led the money race at the end of last year with $644,000 cash on hand — $160,000 more than anyone else and $470,000 more than Margolies. State Sen. Daylin Leach is the favorite of the party's liberal base, and he had the second-most in cash. Boyle won the support of U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, chairman of the Philadelphia Democratic Committee.
Margolies relies on her deep, decades-old connections in Democratic politics, particularly to the Clintons. Bill Clinton donated $2,600. Former Clinton advisers and administration officials Harold Ickes, Tony and Heather Podesta, and Robert Rubin gave a collective $9,700.
The center link atop Margolies' website, “The Vote,” leads to a 45-second online ad about her tie-breaking vote in favor of Clinton's '93 budget.
“I really didn't want Margolies-Mezvinsky to have to vote with us,” Clinton wrote in his autobiography, “My Life.” “She was one of the very few Democrats who represented a district with more constituents who'd get tax hikes than tax cuts, and in her campaign she had promised not to vote for any tax increases.”
In return for her vote, Clinton visited her district for a conference on entitlement reform a few months later. His appearance was not enough to hold back the GOP tide that gave Republicans control of the House in 1994.
“She took a vote that she knew would cost her her seat,” Borick said. “That itself usually draws some type of loyalty. You toss in the family relationship, and it's going to be hard not to come in on her side.”
Mike Wereschagin is a Trib Total Media staff writer. Reach him at 412-320-7900 or mwereschagin@tribweb.com.
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This must be what political capitol is all about!!!