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Politics : A Hard Look At Donald Trump -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (6460)	11/30/2016 1:09:31 PM
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Trump campaign chief’s hidden ties to Sarasota grifter Posted on September 21, 2016 by Daniel Hopsicker http://www.madcowprod.com/2016/09/21/trump-campaigns-bannon-ties-to-sarasota-grifter/ When Donald Trump’s campaign manager Steve Bannon hastily changed his voter registration residence from an empty house in Miami to a beach house on Casey Key in Sarasota, it made news. The man he moved in with was described as one of Bannon’s Breitbart writers. But Andrew M. Badolato the owner of Bannon’s new ‘registered to vote here’ digs — is a lot more than that. Trump campaign chief Bannon and Andy Badolato are not just comrades-in-right wing-arms. Bannon was business partners with the Sarasota-born Badolato, who has been — take your pick: either the unluckiest man in American business history, or a penny-ante penny stock fraudster. In his favor, he has a few powerful associates: a Tampa man with New York Mob ties, a former CIA agent, several former members of U.S. military intelligence. On the other hand, a handful of Badolato’s business associates — presumably the less-powerful ones — are currently in prison for financial fraud. That this kind of shady activity is occurring just one degree of separation away from a major American Presidential candidate no longer seems surprising. It’s exactly the kind of chaos, though on a far grander scale, that caused a global melt-down in 2007. Tagging ‘homie’ Andy Badolato as a Bannon underling ‘might could’ be a little like saying Al Capone used to run a bar in Cicero: true as far as it goes, but well-short of an adequate description. Fleeing the mere taint of voter fraud The story begins when Steve Bannon gets tipped to an upcoming Guardian report — one of a spate of negative reporting after his announcement as Trump’s new campaign chief, — revealing Bannon “was registered to vote in a key swing state at a vacant house in Miami where he does not live, in an apparent breach of election laws.” ... more http://www.madcowprod.com/2016/09/21/trump-campaigns-bannon-ties-to-sarasota-grifter/