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Recently it has been reported that Jane Sanders has hired a criminal defense attorney to defend her in the FBI investigation regarding the bank loan that she obtained for Burlington College.
The couple has retained Rich Cassidy, a well-connected Burlington attorney and Sanders devotee, and Larry Robbins, the renowned Washington-based defense attorney who has represented I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and disgraced former Rep. Bill Jefferson, to represent Jane Sanders in the matter.
When it comes to the FBI investigation of Bernie Sanders, a second letter to federal prosecutors sent in January 2016 alleged “Improper pressure by a United States Senator” to get the bank loan approved, “a serious ethical violation.”.
There was no mention of an FBI investigation that report: Sanders told People’s United Bank that the college had $2.6 million in pledged donations to support the purchase of the former Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington property on North Avenue.
The original request for an investigation into the potential bank fraud did indeed come from Brady Toensing, an attorney who chaired Trump’s Vermont campaign, and whose January 2016 letter to the U.S. attorney for Vermont put federal agents on the trail.
Bernie Sanders and his wife, Jane, are under FBI investigation. It’s been reported that Jane falsified bank documents in a land acquisition deal while she served as president of Burlington College, and that Bernie used his clout as a U.S. Senator to push the deal through.
In January 2016, after reporting by VTDigger showing former Burlington College President Jane Sanders overstated pledged donations in applying for a loan so the school could purchase its former North Avenue campus, Republican lawyer Brady Toensing made a formal request to the U.S. attorney for a fraud investigation.
Vermont-based watchdog new-site VTDigger first reported in September 2015 that Jane Sanders had misrepresented donor amounts on a loan application for College to acquire a $6.7 million parcel of land to expand its campus in Lake Champlain, Vermont. There was no mention of an FBI investigation that report: