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Please give money. Our friend and colleague, Gov. Bob McDonnell, a loyal and trusted civil servant, needs money to defend his pristine reputation against accusations that he accepted gifts from Star Scientific and didn’t report them on his annually financial disclosure statement, friends of Bob say.
It must have been an oversight, Gov. Bob’s friends say.
Gov. Bob, his friends say, needs money to defend his innocence against the thought police of the Obama administration, the US Dept. of Justice.
Please, please, give to the Restoration Fund, a legal defense fund, so he can pay lawyers $500 to $1,000 an hour to give him out of this mess. Ironic, then that two lawyers from Virginia Beach, Stanley Baldwin and Jason Miyares, are setting up the restoration fund for Bob.
If they are so altruistic, they should defend Gov, Bob for free.
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The press is calling Gov. Bob’s brush with possible allegations of gift taking (legalized bribery) and possibly the feds “Bobgate.” The nonprofit will not accept money from state employees or administration officials, those who were appointed to boards or commissions, or others doing business with the state, an Associated Press article said.
Donations are not tax deductible, and those who contribute more than $200 will be disclosed to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and made public, AP said.
Federal officials are investigating gifts troubled Star Scientific, a nutritional Products maker, Star Scientific gave to Reverend Bob. Our governor keeps good company. Star Scientific is the target of a federal securities investigation and shareholder lawsuits.
But who are these benefactors of Bob?
Stanley Baldwin, a Virginia Beach lawyer. Yes, he’s also Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary at AMERIGROUP Corporation. AMERIGROUP, which was bought by Wellpoint Inc., a healthcare management conglomerate, manages healthcare for Medicaid recipients.
The company’s former CEO was Jeff McWaters, who is a Republican who represents Virginia Beach in Virginia’s Senate. Baldwin is also a member of the Board of Directors of CareFamily.com, which is owned by Tom Knox, another Bob supporter.
Knox, founder of CareFamily.com and SeniorCorps., workd for CBN and sat on the board of trustees of Regent University. Knox’s Linkedin profile says he graduated from George Mason University with a BA in International relations in 1991.
It also lists University of Oxford on his profile, from 1988 to 1988. Actually, Knox graduated from Rumson-Fairhaven High School in Rumson, N.J., in 1985 and attended Allegheny College in Pennsylvania on a baseball scholarship.
After he tore a rotator cuff and couldn't play, Knox attended several colleges including George Mason University, from which he graduated. He also studied at the University of Hawaii and spent a summer studying comparative politics at Oxford University.
Jason Miyares, an attorney at Faggert &
Frieden PC, Norfolk, likes to express his views, especially on conservative issues, including a pitch to Hollywood to produce a Braveheart-esque film of King David.
Frieden PC, Norfolk, likes to express his views, especially on conservative issues, including a pitch to Hollywood to produce a Braveheart-esque film of King David.
Read his column at conservative political blog Bearing Drift, March 15, 2013. The title: Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, “The Bible” and other Random Musings.
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