Breitbart: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) selectively enforced the law regarding financial crimes as a local prosecutor, often to the benefit of friends and political allies.
The bombshell revelations are detailed in Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite—a new book by Peter Schweizer, a senior contributor at Breitbart News and president of the Government Accountability Institute.
Klobuchar cut a profile as a tough-on-crime prosecutor during her tenure as the chief legal officer of Minnesota’s most populous county in the early 2000s. Not only did she push for locking up more juvenile offenders, but she was also a leading exponent of the “broken windows” theory of policing.
“What I’ve heard again and again is that no crime is a small crime and that we must enforce the law down the line,” she wrote in a policy paper at the time.
Left unsaid, though, is that certain “small” crimes were more likely to warrant prosecution than others, especially depending on one’s personal connection to Klobuchar. As Profiles in Corruption notes, that inequitable approach was nowhere more apparent than “white-collar” crimes.
While Klobuchar aggressively pursued small actors, like airline pilots not paying state income taxes or a home remodeler upcharging his clients, bigger and more nefarious financial crimes were ignored.
“But the largest financial fraud by far in her jurisdiction involved a massive conspiracy that she never even appeared to investigate, despite plenty of warning signs,” Schweizer writes. “It involved the second-largest Ponzi scheme in American history to date.”
The man at the center of the crime was Tom Petters, a Minnesota philanthropist and longtime Democrat campaign donor. Petters, who counted among his friends not only Klobuchar, but also former Vice President Walter Mondale, operated a series of shady investment funds. read more
WTF is a Amy Klobuchar?
Looks like that thing in High School running for Class President that no one ever heard of,,,
Never mind, I just stepped in a huge pile of Klobuchar,
A fetching creature, as in here boy, fetch
What’s with the sheepdog look?
https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/tinytoons/images/7/73/SamSheepdog.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20120926123322
Don’t trust anything that shields its eyes from view – the gander looks away just before it strikes – the shark’s nictating membrane covers its eyes when it feeds – the Klobuchar covers its eyes when it lies.
izlamo delenda est …
Hey – leave Ringo Starr outta this!!! 😳
I wanna see the DNA test. If “she” has two x chromosomes I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. Looks more like a man than failed Mayor Pete.
Heard she has anger management issues too.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/telling-reactions-tales-amy-klobuchars-rage/584104/
“failed to pursue massive ponzi scheme”
It’s no wonder … how could she see it with those ridiculous bangs!?
But, then, Amy Klobberchair is a ridiculous person. Never could figure out why MN loved her.
@ Claudia – They loved her liberal drunken newspaper columnist father.
Same reason the likes of Mark Dayton was elected for anything. They loved Dayton’s department store (which is now part of Macy’s) not knowing that Mark was the “Fredo” of the family and he was wisely kept out of the family business.
Saxindacity, ok, now I understand – thanks! That was before I moved there in ’83. I seriously couldn’t figure it out. Really didn’t want to ask my lefty friends.
Nice fat bangs, said no one ever.