www.justiceforchandra.com

blondie · Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 567

It does seem strange, but I never thought about is until now.

laskipper · Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 1232 Location: Northern Ohio

Good info from both of you, rd and blondie.

If the check for the reward fund for Chandra was expensed in 2001, I wonder how they handled the income when the check was returned??

Ordinary income? Where do Pols receive income? Contributions and..?

jane · Joined: 22 Sep 2002 Posts: 3227

This just tells us that the $10,000 was returned on 7 July 2003

http://herndon2.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00247544/97909/sa/ALL

SCHEDULE A
ITEMIZED RECEIPTS
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Committee: CONDIT FOR CONGRESS

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Chandra Ann Levy Reward Account
1623 J Street
Modesto, California 95354

07/07/2003

10000.00

10000.00
Return of Payment

jane · Joined: 22 Sep 2002 Posts: 3227

Modesto Commerce Bank
1623 J Street, Modesto, CA 95354
(209) 521-4100

It looks as if the money might have been held in an escrow account.

jane · Joined: 22 Sep 2002 Posts: 3227

There was a 27 Feb 2002 AP article entitled "Condit loans his campaign $50,000" - no doubt his funds were low in July 2003 when he had the reward money returned.

fallout · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 1:46 pm Post subject:

Thanks RD and Jane,

Yes, I tried googling "Chip Dent" and its frustrating as *heck*. It did turn up two other photos from the Washington Monthly with a blond woman in each who could be the femme fatale in the Condit picture.

Ok, why don't I call The Washington Monthly? Why not...

James

laskipper · Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 1232 Location: Northern Ohio

http://www.washingtonlife.com/backissues/archives/02feb/photos/cc06.jpg

Chip Dent

??

rd · Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 9277 Location: Jacksonville, FL

It's my understanding that pols can keep unspent campaign funds when they retire (or get retired). It's not getting the money back that's unusual, it's writing a check in the first place when parents of someone you are "mentoring" call to tell you your protoge is missing.

He went back to Washington and had a reward fund started and a cut check from his campaign. How many people write a check instead of just pledging a reward to help find someone who is missing? Why write a check?

I say writing the check was overcompensation.

rd

rd · Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 9277 Location: Jacksonville, FL

fallout, something on Chip Dent does come up out of all that stuff for sale. :) He's identified in the first two links, but I think that is him a quarter of the way down the third link standing in front of a grandfather clock.

rd

http://www.washingtonlife.com/backissues/archives/00feb/teatro_goldoni_opening2.htm

http://www.washingtonlife.com/backissues/archives/02feb/santa_soiree2.htm

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:QCvMETUJ7fIJ:www.capital-club.com/gallery/gallery-santa02.html+
%22capital+club%22+%22santa+soiree%22&hl=en

and something on that club. Notice mention of Gold Cup event.

http://www.hillnews.com/living/042804_club.aspx

waveca · Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Toronto

Condit indeed probably "jumped the gun" writing the cheque for the "reward." Is that a "telling sign" of guilt...hard to say...maybe he figured that it would show he was a "man of action" and had Chandra's best interest at heart. Or...he knew by the Levy's phone call that he was in trouble and was "buying time" to figure out how to get out of the mess.....
Some other thoughts to ponder.....WHAT IF

> Condit had used the word "Acquaintance" instead of "Good Friend" - would the media have gone into the "crazed pack" they did? (I guess until Linda Zamsky came out)
> On Connie Chung...Condit "broke down" and confessed to his indiscretions...and tugged at the heartstrings of the viewing public...would he STILL be a congressman ?? (A better "spin Dr. might have saved him....On the A&E Biography...as Dan Walters says.."The usual crimes in politics are pretty small, it's the coverups that get you in trouble"
> In NO picture do we ever see Condit wear jewellery....no rings, no watch...in fact I remember reading somewhere that he was "upset" that Joleen Argentini-McKay gifted him with the Tag-Huer, as he does not wear watches !! (makes sense that he would "re-gift" it then....)
Why in the People Magazine article is he wearing the now famous "pinkie ring" ? What's up with that ? Just something I have always wondered about....
I know you guys have probably already posted some of this before, pardon me if I am 're-hashing" , but all this "juicy" info of late on this thread has got me wonderin' !!! LOL
Take care everyone !

rd · Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 9277 Location: Jacksonville, FL

"Good friend" definitely showed a problem he had, that being explaining a relationship he knew about but others didn't. He was so busy trying to spin the relationship that he forgot he didn't have to explain it at all. His spin of "good friend" was worse than "a constituent I have met". That's what happens when you lie.

From my research, press almost let it die down and go away until Zamsky turned up the pressure mid-June, almost a month after his good friend statement, also same day he went to Luray.

True, he was upset with being given the watch by Joleen. I cover that in Murder on a Horse Trail. I don't know about rings before and after, other than he took his wedding ring off a lot if he ever wore it.

Rehashing until we get it right is what we're here for! :)

rd

blondie · Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 567

Politicians cannot just keep unspent, unused campaign funds. They are allowed to use them in a different election if they run for something in the future or they can donate them to another candidate. That's my understanding anyway, but I researched a long while ago.

rd · Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 9277 Location: Jacksonville, FL

I recall a rules change where that may be a recent rule. I recall a candidate who was pondering retiring so he could keep his campaign funds.

Also, the PAC funds couldn't just be kept, true. He doled it out to Chad and Cadee instead. This would have similarly been expensed to his "consultants" as well.

rd

blondie · Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 567

Could the girl in the Condit picture be Cindy Jones? She is shown in one of the other pictures? Looks like it could be to me - sort of slightly buck teeth and turned up nose and blond. What do you think?