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Thursday, March 6th, 2008"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Senate candidate Al Franken will pay a $25,000 fine to the state of New York for failure to carry workers' compensation insurance. Franken was fined for not carrying the insurance for three years. The judgment was entered more than a year ago, but Franken's campaign says he didn't find out about it until [...]
KSTP REPORTS ON FRANKEN’S FAILURE TO PAY WORKERS’ COMP INSURANCE
Thursday, March 6th, 2008### This post also appears on Blogs for Norm!, an online community and blog covering the 2008 U.S. Senate campaign in Minnesota. The primary goal of Blogs for Norm! is to organize bloggers who support U.S. Senator Norm Coleman.
THE HILL NEWSPAPER PICKS UP STORY ABOUT FRANKEN’S FAILURE TO PAY WORKERS’ COMP INSURANCE
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008"Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken owes the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board $25,000 for not providing workers’ compensation insurance for his employees between 2002 and 2005. Franken moved back to Minnesota, the state he grew up in, in 2005. Notices were reportedly sent beginning that year. Spokeswoman Jess McIntosh said the company penalized, Alan [...]
COMMENTS ABOUT AL FRANKEN’S LEGAL TROUBLES DELETED FROM MN PUBLIUS
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008I was rather surprised to see an entire blackout in the liberal blogosphere about Al Franken's legal troubles in New York. I later found out one potential reason. According to a dedicated reader of Minnesota Democrats Exposed, numerous comments have been left today on various MN Publius' posts about the legal problems that were recently [...]
LET’S BE CLEAR HERE: FRANKEN WAS LIVING IN NEW YORK WHEN THE STATE OF NEW YORK ATTEMPTED TO CONTACT HIM ABOUT PAYING WORKERS’ COMP INSURANCE
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Let's be clear here: Al Franken was living in New York at the same address where the State of New York starting sending notices that he needed to provide workers' compensation for his corporation's employees. Team Franken's desperate spin is that Franken wasn't in New York or that he didn't get the notices. "Campaign spokesman [...]
MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: “REPUBLICAN PARTY OF MINNESOTA CALLS ON AL FRANKEN TO IMMEDIATELY COME CLEAN ON BREAKING WORKERS’ COMP LAW”
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Ron Carey today called on Al Franken to come clean about the $25,000 judgment rendered against him by the state of New York over his years-long failure to pay workers’ compensation insurance. "Al Franken's story is full of holes. The truth is clear: Franken willfully violated the law [...]
AP: “AL FRANKEN COMPANY FACES $25,000 FINE”
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The state of New York fined the personal corporation of Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken $25,000 for not carrying workers' compensation insurance for almost three years. The New York Workers' Compensation Board levied the fine against Alan Franken Inc. in August 2006 for failure to carry the insurance from June 2002 to [...]
FROM STAR TRIBUNE: FRANKEN WAS REPEATEDLY NOTIFIED BY STATE OF NEW YORK THAT HE NEEDED TO PAY WORKERS’ COMP
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008"The Workers' Compensation Board began sending Franken notices in April 2005 after discovering that the insurance hadn't been paid for nearly three years. Officials first sought an explanation. Receiving no response, they sent a penalty notice to Franken in June 2005 that outlined rights to appeal. The state then turned to a collection agency to [...]
MORE LEGAL TROUBLES DISCOVERED ON FRANKEN: HE DIDN’T PAY HIS TAXES
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008"Alan Franken Inc. appears in New York records one other time, when it failed to pay withholding taxes for July 1996. A lien against the corporation was filed in Nassau County in June 1997 for $2,948.30, and the case was closed a short time later, said Tom Bergin, a spokesman with the New York Department [...]
STAR TRIBUNE: “FRANKEN FACES $25,000 PENALTY FOR LACK OF WORKERS’ INSURANCE”
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008"DFL Senate candidate Al Franken owes a $25,000 penalty to the New York State Workers' Compensation Board for failing to carry workers' compensation insurance for employees of his namesake corporation from 2002 to 2005, state officials said. New York officials have made numerous attempts to contact Franken about the matter since April 2005 but have [...]
MDE EXCLUSIVE: AL FRANKEN CLAIMS TO BE FRIEND OF THE WORKING MAN AND WOMAN, YET $25,000 JUDGMENT FILED AGAINST FRANKEN’S COMPANY FOR FAILURE TO CARRY WORKERS’ COMP INSURANCE #3
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008In an update to my earlier post, I spoke with representatives of the State of New York Workers' Compensation Board regarding the judgment filed against Alan Franken Inc. As I reported, the judgment is still open and no payment has been made. Staffers at the board told me that according to public records, Alan Franken [...]
MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: “NY STATE FILES $25,000 JUDGMENT AGAINST AL FRANKEN INC. FOR NOT PAYING WORKERS’ COMP”
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Ron Carey today issued the following statement regarding public documents in New York that Al Franken has refused to pay a judgment to the state of New York for $25,000 for failure to pay workers' compensation. "Al Franken is at it again. While he demands that others play [...]
MDE EXCLUSIVE: AL FRANKEN CLAIMS TO BE FRIEND OF THE WORKING MAN AND WOMAN, YET $25,000 JUDGMENT FILED AGAINST FRANKEN’S COMPANY FOR FAILURE TO CARRY WORKERS’ COMP INSURANCE #2
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008My post about the State of New York Workers' Compensation Board filing a $25,000 judgment in the Supreme Court of the State of New York against Alan Franken Inc, for "Failure to Carry Workers' Comp Ins 6/29/2002-03/28/2005" has been picked by national blogs and news outlets. Red State, The American Spectator, and Bill O'Reilly's website [...]
MDE EXCLUSIVE: AL FRANKEN CLAIMS TO BE FRIEND OF THE WORKING MAN AND WOMAN, YET $25,000 JUDGMENT FILED AGAINST FRANKEN’S COMPANY FOR FAILURE TO CARRY WORKERS’ COMP INSURANCE
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Al Franken, who has scored an impressive series of union endorsements in his campaign for the Senate, probably didn't mention a little issue he had going on while he was still living and working and enjoying his life as a New York resident. Of course, mentioning this problem while screening with Minnesota's labor unions probably [...]
HOW DOES THIS SQUARE WITH FRANKEN MOCKING THE CARLETON COLLEGE STUDENT?
Thursday, February 28th, 2008This is a real whopper from Team Franken: "'Al is taking this campaign seriously, and if he uses humor, it will only be in the service of talking about the very serious reasons he is running for the Senate,' Franken spokesman Andy Barr said." Source: Associated Press, February 28, 2008 Click here for the complete [...]
LTE FROM MN GOP CHAIRMAN RON CAREY: “FRANKEN DEMONSTRATES HE’S NOT RIGHT FOR THE JOB”
Thursday, February 28th, 2008"To the editor, During a recent visit to International Falls, DFL U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken sought to dramatically reinvent himself. Given his long history of extreme and nasty name calling, I would advise all readers of this newspaper to be very wary of Franken’s election year rhetoric. To be sure, the kind of ugly [...]
MDE IN THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR: “MDE HAS CLEARLY GOTTEN UNDER FRANKEN’S THIN SKIN”
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008"Many of Franken's malicious remarks and attention-grabbing gaffes are being reported for Minnesotans to see via blogs and YouTube. While the state's mainstream newspapers have embraced his candidacy, New Media outlets have raised awareness — even wreaked havoc — on Franken's viability as a candidate. Michael Brodkorb, who operates Minnesota Democrats Exposed (MDE), has meticulously [...]
DAVID SCHULTZ: CIRESI’S $2 MILLION CAMPAIGN LOAN SUGGESTS HE MAY RUN IN PRIMARY
Sunday, February 24th, 2008"David Schultz, a Hamline University professor who specializes in government ethics and politics, said the loan suggests 'a long-haul strategy' laying the groundwork for a possible primary race. Ciresi last year promised not to run in the primary if he fails to get the party's endorsement at the convention, although he said he might reconsider [...]
CIRESI SPOKESWOMAN: FRANKEN “RAISING MONEY AND SPENDING IT LIKE WATER”
Sunday, February 24th, 2008"'It's been an unusual year,' Sandberg said, 'with an early presidential race and a celebrity [Franken] raising money and spending it like water. We are going to be competitive.'" Source: Star Tribune, February 22, 2008 Click here for the complete story. ### This post also appears on Blogs for Norm!, an online community and blog [...]
OOPS, HE DID IT AGAIN: AFTER SAYING HE WOULDN’T SELF-FUND, CIRESI LENDS CAMPAIGN ADDTIONAL $2 MILLION
Sunday, February 24th, 2008In January, Mike Ciresi donated over $500,000 to his U.S. Senate campaign. Now Ciresi is loaning his campaign an additional $2 million: "DFL Senate candidate Mike Ciresi, a multimillionaire attorney, is lending his campaign $2 million to 'build on the momentum' demonstrated in a recent poll, campaign officials said Friday." Source: Star Tribune, February 22, [...]
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