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Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says

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‎May‎ ‎25‎, ‎2017‎ ‎5‎:‎47‎ ‎PM


U.S. Senator Ted Cruz improperly accounted for loans he received from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. during his 2012 campaign, saying the funds were his own personal contributions to the Senate race, the Federal Election Commission said Thursday.

The finding, released on the FEC website, marked a rare instance of agreement among the agency’s five commissioners, who voted unanimously that the $1.1 million of loans from the banks should have been disclosed to voters. The FEC didn’t say whether there would be a penalty.

Under federal election law, candidates can take out loans from commercial banks as long as they disclose the source of funds, the interest rate they are paying and the term of the loan. They can also lend or give their campaigns unlimited amounts from personal funds.

In his bid for the Senate, Cruz said that he was financing his bid in part with personal funds, liquidating assets to compete in an expensive runoff election against a well-funded candidate. Cruz’s 2012 financial disclosure showed that he hadn’t sold enough assets to be able to lend his campaign as much as he had claimed. It also listed personal loans from Goldman Sachs, where his wife was an executive, and Citigroup.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-25/ted-cruz-failed-to-show-2012-loans-from-goldman-sachs-fec-says
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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2017, 02:43:15 am »
From Jan 2016:


https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-01-14/ted-cruz-says-he-may-amend-u-s-financial-disclosures-to-show-loans-to-2012-senate-campaign


So why is this story being republished now?

Exactly.  The DEMS are going after everyone!!  You wait ... next they'll be accusing Cruz of colluding with the Russians.
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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2017, 02:44:47 am »
   Really good question @Hoodat why now?
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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2017, 03:16:42 am »
   Really good question @Hoodat why now?

The hearing finished yesterday.
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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2017, 03:34:03 am »
The hearing finished yesterday.

   Good point @EC and I'll shamelessly admit I read the Article before I posted it.
   The @Hoodat post got me thinking about this massive media Conspiracy against Cruz and the many leaks inside his 2020 Campaign.
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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2017, 03:38:12 am »
   Good point @EC and I'll shamelessly admit I read the Article before I posted it.
   The @Hoodat post got me thinking about this massive media Conspiracy against Cruz and the many leaks inside his 2020 Campaign.

GD Lyin' Ted living up to his name. When is someone going to have the courage to get a Special Prosecutor into his shenanigans?

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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2017, 03:55:54 am »
Exactly.  The DEMS are going after everyone!!  You wait ... next they'll be accusing Cruz of colluding with the Russians.

Or his great grandfather being in cahoots with John Wilkes Booth./s

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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2017, 01:53:03 pm »
Or his great grandfather being in cahoots with John Wilkes Booth./s

Or his great-great-uncle being involved with the assassination of William McKinley?
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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2017, 02:00:30 pm »
Or his great-great-uncle being involved with the assassination of William McKinley?


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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2017, 02:18:17 pm »
My understanding was it wasn't so much an attempt to conceal the loan (other required forms were filed) than it was an oversight - the failure to file a particular form.

Thats not clear in this article.

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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2017, 02:20:02 pm »
My understanding was it wasn't so much an attempt to conceal the loan (other required forms were filed) than it was an oversight - the failure to file a particular form.

Thats not clear in this article.

That's how I remember it.  :shrug:
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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2017, 02:27:53 pm »
The Cruz Connection to the Moneychangers can only mean one thing. The Cruz family colluded to killed JC.
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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2017, 02:32:51 pm »
That's how I remember it.  :shrug:

Same here.
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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #15 on: May 26, 2017, 02:37:02 pm »
My understanding was it wasn't so much an attempt to conceal the loan (other required forms were filed) than it was an oversight - the failure to file a particular form.

Thats not clear in this article.

When it comes to the vagaries of filling out forms for Big Bureaucracy, Albert Einstein said it best:

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Think about it, one of the smartest men who ever lived did not prepare his own taxes.
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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #16 on: May 26, 2017, 02:50:07 pm »
CRIPES, are we going to rehash this again?

Ohhh, I forgot, 2018 comes soon....

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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #17 on: May 26, 2017, 02:50:47 pm »
When it comes to the vagaries of filling out forms for Big Bureaucracy, Albert Einstein said it best:

Think about it, one of the smartest men who ever lived did not prepare his own taxes.

And Einstein died in 1955. The federal tax code has expanded by about a billion pages since then.

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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #18 on: May 26, 2017, 02:53:04 pm »
You can only rehash the rehashed hash so many times before it turns to slime.
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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #19 on: May 26, 2017, 02:54:00 pm »
CRIPES, are we going to rehash this again?

Ohhh, I forgot, 2018 comes soon....


Considering the fact that the loan was paid off and the filing amended, this ranks right up there with not paying the tax on a $5 parking ticket.

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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #20 on: May 26, 2017, 03:04:20 pm »
Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says

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Bill Allison

‎May‎ ‎25‎, ‎2017‎ ‎5‎:‎47‎ ‎PM


U.S. Senator Ted Cruz improperly accounted for loans he received from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. during his 2012 campaign, saying the funds were his own personal contributions to the Senate race, the Federal Election Commission said Thursday.

The finding, released on the FEC website, marked a rare instance of agreement among the agency’s five commissioners, who voted unanimously that the $1.1 million of loans from the banks should have been disclosed to voters. The FEC didn’t say whether there would be a penalty.

Under federal election law, candidates can take out loans from commercial banks as long as they disclose the source of funds, the interest rate they are paying and the term of the loan. They can also lend or give their campaigns unlimited amounts from personal funds.

In his bid for the Senate, Cruz said that he was financing his bid in part with personal funds, liquidating assets to compete in an expensive runoff election against a well-funded candidate. Cruz’s 2012 financial disclosure showed that he hadn’t sold enough assets to be able to lend his campaign as much as he had claimed. It also listed personal loans from Goldman Sachs, where his wife was an executive, and Citigroup.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-25/ted-cruz-failed-to-show-2012-loans-from-goldman-sachs-fec-says

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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #21 on: May 26, 2017, 03:06:31 pm »
GD Lyin' Ted living up to his name. When is someone going to have the courage to get a Special Prosecutor into his shenanigans?

Ye jest.  But know.... that someone.... somewhere.... is uttering those same words in serious.   ^-^
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« Reply #22 on: May 26, 2017, 03:08:58 pm »
Who gives a crap?  Really?

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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #23 on: May 26, 2017, 03:30:18 pm »

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Re: Ted Cruz Failed to Show 2012 Loans From Goldman Sachs, FEC Says
« Reply #24 on: May 26, 2017, 03:35:32 pm »
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While attending college, Cruz conspired to tear a tag off of a mattress.

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