McCain aided developer's bargain-price purchase of Fort Ord land

[scytherius]

Source: Monterey Herald

McCain aided developer's bargain-price purchase of Fort Ord land


"An Arizona businessman with help from Sen. John McCain's office paid the federal government a mere fraction of the market value when he bought a Fort Ord land parcel in 1999, an Army appraisal obtained by The Herald shows. "

Read more: http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_10703347

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I have complete faith in the Obama campaign on just how negative they should go, but I would sure like to see more of this stuff in the MSM

[xen]

1. LINK

Could not find the Link.Could you double check please

[truthisfreedom]

2. Try this link instead

http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_10703347

[UpInArms]

3. scytherius, you need to edit your post to reflect the actual headline

and here is the correct link for your story

http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_10703347

great post, btw

[scytherius]

5. Ah. My bad. Thanks guys. =) n/t

n/t

[Dystopian]

4. Great find. KandR.

peace~

[seasat]

6. Here's the NY Times story from April on this deal...great quote from Diamond

The NY Times reported on this back in April and it makes the relationship between Obama and Rezko seem minuscule beside it.

Here's the "money" quote from Donald Diamond.

Mr. Diamond is close to most of Arizona’s Congressional delegation and is candid about his expectations as a fund-raiser. “I want my money back, for Christ’s sake. Do you know how many cocktail parties I have to go to?”

McCain has also done similar deals for developers Stephen Betts and general gazillionare Carl Linder Jr. Linder was fined 25 million dollars by the US government for supporting Colombian paramilitary groups. He was also a big supporter of the swift boat attacks against Kerry and Charles Keating was one of his proteges (Completing the corruption circle).

Many of McCain's bundlers are big real estate developers calling into question his involvement with the deregulation leading up to the current crisis and his commitment to aiding average Americans in the future.

[Shallah Kali]

19. Thank you for all those articles

I didn't know about these other unethical doings by mccain

[seasat]

21. I wish the traditional media would pick these up

The original article came out during the Democratic primary and other than a few major papers, no one really covered them. The articles didn't get the attention they deserved. If these came out on either the cable or network news, it would make clear that McCain's maverick shtick is really a phony image.

[Hubert Flottz]

7. K&R

Had some sad and some happy times there! Parts of Fort Ord overlooking the sea were beautiful.

Stillwell Hall was an Awesome EM club.

[madame defarge]

9. I used to work at Stone(d) Dental Clinic...

Ever go there?

[Hubert Flottz]

11. I went to the dental clinic and the hospital both while I was at Ord.

Can't remember the names of either one.

Took BCT at B/3/3, Feb. - Apr. 1970.

[BrotherBuzz]

23. Sadly, Stillwell is just about falling into the ocean

Several wings have been razed, and serious shoring-up has been attempted to delay the inevitable. Erosion has done some serious demage to the beach and sand dunes along Fort Ord. Sand mining at the mouth of Salinas river was the main culprit. The mining has stopped, but it will take years and years before Mother Nature repairs herself (water being diverted upstream for farm use isn't helping, either), salads take lots of water).

BCT H33 drafted in '72.

[Hubert Flottz]

24. Those half dozen beers I had at Stillwell at the end of BCT were

the coldest, best tasting beers I ever can remember drinking.

8 Weeks of eating that dust, breathing CS gas and crawling through those sand burrs might have had something to do with how good the beer was at the end.

I was a US too.

[Roland99]

8. Sure sounds like some change we can believe in!

:rofl:

[Miss Chybil]

10. It always amazes me how these "patriotic Americans" are always lining

their pockets at the expense of the rest of us.

[sellitman]

12. McCain helped businessman buy Fort Ord land for a fraction of its market value

Source: The Mercury News

MONTEREY -- An Arizona businessman, with help from Sen. John McCain's office, paid the federal government a mere fraction of the market value when he bought a Fort Ord land parcel in 1999, an Army appraisal obtained by The Monterey Herald shows.

Donald R. Diamond, an 80-year-old real estate developer, lobbyist and top fundraiser for McCain's presidential campaign, bought the land for $250,000, though it was valued at $7.2 million, according to Pentagon appraisals made three years before the sale.

He held on to the parcel for a little more than two years before selling it and the buildings on it for an estimated profit of more than $18 million.

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/centralcoast/ci_10703310

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Lets see if this little tidbit makes it to the National News Sites! If it does this should sink McSame. (Where have I heard that before they say?)

[seemslikeadream]

13. It better

[Justice]

14. I'd call that "festoon of goodies" sounds like McCain has his own idea of earmarks!

[NMDemDist2]

15. let's get this on the Greatest eh??

we all know that KO and Rachel's staff cruise the Greatest don't we?

[sellitman]

17. This looks like a story KO would wallow in.

And I'd be right there rolling in the mud.

[benh57]

16. McCain's Whitewater

Shady land deals, eh?

Somehow, i don't expect much cry from the right on this one.

[Raine]

20. JESUS H. CHRIST!!! He paid only $250,000

for that kind of prime property on the CA coast.....geesh I wish he had given me a crack at it I would've sold my house and I could've paid double what that ass paid for it...but then again I'm not a "bud" of McSAME so that let me out. :mad:

[xxqqqzme]

22. no shit - in '99, I could have

paid $500,000 cash for Ord (I had just inherited my share of a grandchild trust) - all that spectacular coast

[Ichingcarpenter]

18. kick nominated n/t