Former Pa. governor Rendell says he wasn’t seeking favors for visa program

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Source: Washington Post

Former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell said he was trying to save job-creating projects, not reap political favors, when he complained to a top Homeland Security official about a foreign investor visa program that he called “a mess.”

“We never asked Alejandro (Mayorkas) to do anything other than to speed up the decision-making process,” Rendell said in a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. “The programs was a mess and disorganized, with different standards in different regions.”

Rendell held the conference call one day after the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security issued a report that found Mayorkas, now the department’s No. 2 official, helped several politically powerful individuals seek special visas for foreign investors. In addition to Rendell, the list included Terry McAuliffe (D), now governor of Virginia, and Sen. Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.).

Mayorkas has said his intervention in those cases was meant only to address problems with how the program was operating.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/former-pa-governor-rendell-says-he-wasnt-seeking-favors-for-visa-program/2015/03/25/a7c31d84-d32f-11e4-8fce-3941fc548f1c_story.html

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Meanwhile, CNN found a way to tie Hillary Clinton into this:

Among those who got special treatment to obtain visas, according to the report: investors in a project to build a casino in Las Vegas, after then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid asked for Mayorkas's help; an investor proposal to fund electric car manufacturing, with ties to McAuliffe, now Virginia governor; and Anthony Rodham, brother of then-Secretary of State Clinton. A third project to fund movies produced by Time Warner Inc., also got Mayorkas's special attention, the report says. CNN parent company Turner Broadcasting System is a unit of Time Warner.

[tech3149]

1. Gee, Thanks CNN!

After all if you can't say something to tear down a Democrat, why say anything at all?

[6000eliot]

2. Another fake scandal? Thanks, CNN!

[cali]

6. The EB-5 program is rife with corruption

We have a project in Vermont that stinks to high heaven.

[Android3.14]

3. They got caught

Probably shouldn't be using the government to help out your rich friends...unless you are a Republican I guess.

[Jane Austin]

4. Rich friends?

Politicians don't have any other kind.

[CTyankee]

5. and cold hearted bastards at that...

really, does anybody decent LIKE these republicans? Buncha back stabbing blood sucking leeches on society...but don't get me started...