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Virginia Virtucon has been covering some shady donations to the Krystal Ball Campaign for the last few days, you can check out those post here and here, but there seems to be more possible illegal donations to her.

Per United States Title 18 AKA the federal government legal code,

Making political contributions

(a) It shall be unlawful for an officer or employee of the United States or any department or agency thereof, or a person receiving any salary or compensation for services from money derived from the Treasury of the United States, to make any contribution within the meaning of section 301(8) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. § 431(8))

Well I will be damned Krystal has received 3 donations from Federal Government employees, including one, who claims to be a  White House lawyer.

DAVIS, BARBARA D. ARLINGTON

VA 22206 12/24/2009 250.00 U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGEN

DAVIS, BARBARA D. ARLINGTON

VA 22206 03/21/2010 500.00 U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGEN

DEROSA, MARY WASHINGTON

DC 20008 03/23/2010 250.00 WHITE HOUSE/ATTORNEY

So per Title 18 this would sure seem as being illegal.

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Deceased Yankee’s owner George Steinbrenner left behind a legacy of charitable donations that helped many including the families of the Virginia Tech massacre victims and sons and daughters of fallen Fire fighters and Law enforcement officers.

The Silver Shield Foundation:

Our Origins

In 1982, George Steinbrenner, the principal owner of the New York Yankees baseball franchise, while attending the funeral of a police officer killed in the line of duty, was deeply moved by the ceremony in which the American flag was folded military-style and presented to the officer’s surviving spouse and young children. “George could not forget the image of the children. He was concerned about their education and who would help with the cost, so he established the Silver Shield Foundation,” said Foundation President James E. Fuchs, a close friend of Mr. Steinbrenner’s.

Who We Are… What We Do… How We Do It

Since that impressionable ceremony experienced by Mr. Steinbrenner, the Silver Shield Foundation has been helping children of police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty with the cost of their education. We set aside an education fund for each surviving child to assist with tuition payments for prep school, college and university undergraduate and graduate school, vocational and technical school, and tutoring services (see Benefits & Services page for a detailed look at education-related and many other vital benefits and services we provide to the families of line of duty death police officers and firefighters). We send payments directly to the schools and tutors, and we maintain contact with the families to follow the children’s education. Individual and corporate contributions are the source of our funding, so these surviving spouses and children depend on your generosity. As a non-profit 501(c) 3 tax-exempt organization (tax ID number 13-3120746), all contributions we receive are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

“The Silver Shield Foundation sincerely cares about its education fund recipients and their families. I will always remember the Foundation’s support.”

—Jennifer Rowley, scholarship recipient

Who We Cover

Our safety net covers the children and spouse of all members of the Fire Department of the City of New York; Police Department of the City of New York; Port Authority of New York/New Jersey Police Department; New York, New Jersey and Connecticut State Police; police departments of Nassau and Suffolk Counties; all police departments in Connecticut, and all other law enforcement agencies within a 75-mile radius of Manhattan.

Our Vision… Our Mission… Their Future

We are charged with the responsibility of preserving the hopes, dreams and future that police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty had for their children. Our work and your contribution is an investment in the lives of these children whose mother or father heroically and selflessly made the supreme sacrifice, laying down their own life to save another. Let’s make sure their sacrifice will never be forgotten. Your generosity enables the Silver Shield Foundation to carry out its mission of helping these children achieve a brighter tomorrow. After all, it’s the least we can do for their future.

“My husband’s death was overwhelming, particularly with four young children. The Silver Shield Foundation pledged to help with the financial costs of their education, support not only promised, but delivered with consistency. Without them, the education opportunities afforded my children would have been out of reach.”

—Susan Blackmore, spouse of FDNY Lt. James W. Blackmore, killed on June 5, 1998

From Silive.com:

Virginia Tech baseball coach Pete Hughes never met New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and always rooted against his team as a devout Boston Red Sox fan.

But in 2008, he said Steinbrenner became part of the Hokies history forever.

On March 28, 2008, Steinbrenner sent the Yankees to Blacksburg to play a game against the Hokies. It was the second part of a promise Steinbrenner made to Virginia Tech once he saw news of a shooting massacre in which a gunman killed 32 teachers and students on campus.

The first part was a $1 million donation to the “Hokies Spirit Memorial Fund,” which was set up to help the families of those killed and wounded in the April 16, 2007 shootings.

“To respond to a need as he did and put it into action tells me everything about what kind of a human being he was,” Hughes said Tuesday from Las Vegas, where he paused from a recruiting trip to recall a most remarkable, emotional day in his time with the Hokies.

From WSLS 10 Roanoke:

Virginia Tech President Charles Steger’s statement on George Steinbrenner’s death

“We are saddened at the passing of George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees.

While Mr. Steinbrenner will certainly be remembered for his almost four decade long ownership of the baseball marquee Yankees and their seven World Series rings, we will remember him for his graciousness and generosity after the tragedy of April 16, 2007.

He reached out to our community in its time of need and suffering. He donated $1 million to the nascent Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund – a spontaneous fund of donations ultimately totaling more than $10 million. He invited the Virginia Tech Police and Rescue Squad departments and me to Yankee Stadium in May 2007 lifting the spirits of Virginia Tech Hokies around the world. And he sent THE New York Yankees to Blacksburg in March 2008 for an exhibition game against the Hokies.

While that match was no match, it exemplified Steinbrenner’s huge heart and passion for helping others ….and helping this community to heal.“

From WSLS 10 Roanoke:

Virginia Tech baseball coach Pete Hughes never met George Steinbrenner, but says his caring will keep him as part of the Hokies history forever.

In 2008, Steinbrenner sent the New York Yankees to Blacksburg to play an exhibition game against the Hokies. It was the second part of a promise Steinbrenner made once he saw news of a shooting massacre at Tech in which a gunman killed 32 teachers and students on campus.

The first part was a $1 million donation to a relief fund set up to help the families of those killed and wounded in the April 16, 2007 shootings.

Hughes says sending Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees to Blacksburg helped the community heal for a day, and was a big part of the healing process at Virginia Tech.

From Google News via the AP:

Steinbrenner had no connection to Virginia Tech, but after a gunman killed 32 students on the campus in 2007 he donated $1 million to the “Hokies Spirit Memorial Fund” and sent the Yankees to Blacksburg, Va., for an exhibition game.

“To respond to a need as he did and put it into action tells me everything about what kind of a human being he was,” Virginia Tech baseball coach Pete Hughes said. “It was an immediate response, too, by him — ‘How can we help them?’ — and within 24 hours, the logistics of that game was being talked about.”

A graduate of Williams College, Steinbrenner, nonetheless, funded the Ohio State marching band for years — his name is on a campus building.

“Mr. Steinbrenner and his wife were the driving force behind the new marching band facility in Ohio Stadium,” said Jon Waters, assistant band director. “We will always remember George Steinbrenner’s love of music and his love of the Ohio State University marching band.”

He was charitable with his time and money before he became the Yankees owner in 1973.

“I met George when I was 9 years old on a baseball field in a Cleveland public park. I prefer to remember him as a young man who encouraged girls and boys to play sports with enthusiasm, skill and courage,” said Donna E. Shalala, University of Miami President and former Clinton cabinet member, of the man who taught her how to slide.

From WCBSTV 2:

George Steinbrenner lived a very aggressive public life. But those close to him say his private side was surprisingly subdued — awash in unexpected humility and generosity.

Just ask thousands of New York’s beneficiaries of his good will.

And as CBS 2 HD found out from one of his oldest friend, “the Boss” didn’t want anyone to know.

Few people knew the private side of Steinbrenner better than Jim Fuchs. Boyhood buddies, Steinbrenner eventually became godfather to Fuchs’ youngest sons. They all got together a few months ago at spring training – just like close friends and confidants.

“He was a very sentimental guy. He didn’t want to show it. He thought it sometimes showed weakness,” Fuchs said.

But despite the tough facade, Fuchs said his friend’s emotions ran deep. He recalled a meeting in 1982 with a distraught Steinbrenner who had just attended a police officer’s funeral. He was particularly concerned about the kids.

“There were four boys and a widow and they folded up the flag and gave it to the widow,” Fuchs said.

He said Steinbrenner was worried about how the fatherless boys would afford an education.

“He said, ‘We have to do something about it.’ I said what do you mean we have to do something about it? He said, ‘What we will do is we have to start a foundation and you run it.’ I said wait a minute, how do you run a foundation? And he said, ‘You get money and you give it away,’” Fuchs said.

Based on that conversation they co-founded the Silver Shield Foundation, helping children of fallen police officers and firefighters pay for school. Kids like Nick Demutiis.

“Growing up without a father is like an extremely tough to go through. You see other kids, their parents take them to baseball games; their dads take them to Little League games and basketball games. I didn’t have that,” Demutiis said.

His dad, Officer Demutiis, was killed when Nick was just 2 years old. Now 19, he just finished his freshman year at Syracuse University with financial help from Steinbrenner’s Silver Shield. He said he knows his father would approve.

“I think he’d definitely be proud of me and definitely proud of the school I wanted to go to,” Demutiis said.

He said he’s learned about manhood from both men – the father who gave his life in the line of duty and Steinbrenner, who gave generously but quietly.

Silver Shield helps families in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Steinbrenner also ran similar foundations in Ohio and Florida.

Steinbrenner’s legacy will live on not just through his success as the owner of the New York Yankees, but will also live on through everybody he cared for and helped. His legacy will live on through all the family members of law enforcement and fire and rescue personnel that died in the line of duty, that were allowed to attend college at no cost. His legacy will live through in the healing he brought to the families of the Virginia Tech Massacre, and how he attempted to heal the victims and families with his kindness.

The Boss was a great and caring man and he will be greatly missed, but he will live on through all the great things he did and accomplished.

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Deceased Yankee’s owner George Steinbrenner left behind a legacy of charitable donations that helped the home city of the Yankees, New York City and Steinbrenner’s adopted home of Tampa.

The Gold Shield Foundation – The foundation provides full college scholarships to the spouses and children of law officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty. From books to room and board, it’s all paid for by the foundation.

From Tampa Bay Online.com

After the recent killings of two Tampa police officers, the Gold Shield Foundation – founded by Steinbrenner – stepped in to assist the surviving families. His annual Christmas concerts have delighted thousands of youngsters. Story after story has arisen of how Steinbrenner – without publicity – paid for a high school band trip, stadium lights, a police car or something else his community needed.

From Tampa Bay.com

In the span of two weeks during the summer of 1981, a Tampa police detective and two Tampa firefighters lost their lives in the line of duty.

As George Steinbrenner III read about their deaths in the newspaper, he thought first about their families. When he realized there were no resources available to help them, he created his own.

That’s when the Gold Shield Foundation was born.

“He loved children and wanted to make sure they were taken care of and taken care of properly,” said Joe Voskerichian, executive director of the foundation.

Steinbrenner started a similar program, the Silver Shield Foundation, in New York City in 1980 after he saw a newspaper photo of a grieving family receiving the American flag from the coffin of a slain police officer.

“It’s just been a tremendous thing,” Steinbrenner said in 1997 interview with the St. Petersburg Times. “We don’t understand the problems of families where the man goes to work and doesn’t know if he’ll come home.”

From ABC Action News – Tampa:

Juan Serrano can relate to the families of Officers Curtis and Kocab. When he was 18, his father, Detective Juan Serrano, was killed in the line of duty in 2006. His police car was struck by a hit and run driver.

“It’s very painful. It’s an experience that there’s no words to explain the pain that you receive,” he said.

Fortunately for Juan, the Gold Shield Foundation was there to help.

The Bay area group, established by Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, pays all college costs for children of fallen officers like Curtis and Kocab. They paid Juan’s way through USF, and he just graduated in December.

From ABC  Action News – Tampa:

Don Alvino has no doubt.

“If it wasn’t for Mr. Steinbrenner, Jack Willie’s wouldn’t be here,” Alvino says.

Jack Willie’s Tiki Bar and Grill is in Oldsmar. Former Yankee pitcher David Cone and former Yankee pitching coach Billy Connors launched the restaurant and bar.

But in the early part of the decade, the restaurant was floundering. Connors had worked for Steinbrenner and counted him as a friend. The two went and saw Alvino, a local restaurant owner, and asked his advice on what to do.

Initially, Alvino suggested closing the restaurant. But Steinbrenner and Connors came back later and asked if there was another alternative. Alvino had one: Give him $100,000 and see what he could do.

“(Steinbrenner) wrote me a check on the spot,” Alvino remembers.

“Actually I have the check framed.

This was not Steinbrenner’s restaurant. He had not invested any money into it yet. But his friend was involved in it, and Steinbrenner wanted it to succeed. So he wrote the check.

Alvino took the money and turned the restaurant around. He paid back the money in six months.

George Steinbrenner has left a legacy of helping fund schools, supporting families of law enforcement and fire and rescue personnel killed in the line of duty, and giving a charitable hand where needed, whether it was in New York City or Tampa, Florida. His memory will live on through these acts of kindness and that is what made George Steinbrenner a great man.

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George Steinbrenner, a towering and intimidating figure who dominated the New York sports scene for 35 years, winning 11 American League pennants and seven world championships as owner of the Yankees, in and around two suspensions from baseball and multiple feuds and firings, died Tuesday morning in Tampa after suffering a massive heart attack. He was 80.

“The Boss” – as he was so aptly named by Daily News columnist Mike Lupica, his longtime antagonist – died at around 6:30 a.m. He had been suffering from failing health, the result of a series of strokes, for the past few years.

His family released a statement Tuesday morning. “It is with profound sadness that the family of George M. Steinbrenner III announces his passing,” the statement said. “He was an incredible and charitable man. First and foremost he was devoted to his entire family – his beloved wife, Joan; his sisters, Susan Norpell and Judy Kamm, his children, Hank, Jennifer, Jessica and Hal; and all his grandchildren. He was a visionary and a giant in the world of sports. He took a great but struggling franchise and turned it into a champion again.”

In Steinbrenner’s blustering and bombastic reign as the longest-termed owner in their history, the Yankees recovered from the rubble of their darkest era under CBS’ ownership (1964-72) to win world championships in 1977 and 1978, only to fall and then rise again with another dynastic string of four championships under manager Joe Torre from 1996-2000 and then winning a seventh world championship for him under Joe Girardi this past season.

At the same time, the franchise Steinbrenner and a group of 15 limited partners purchased on Jan. 3, 1973 for $8.8 million from CBS (or $4.4 million less than the network had paid for it), skyrocketed in value to over a billion dollars, according to analysts, after Steinbrenner brokered unprecedented worldwide marketing deals for the Yankees and formed his own cable television network (YES) to broadcast the team’s games. Steinbrenner’s personal initial investment in the team was $168,000.

But until his mostly glorious sunset years, during which his management team of chief adviser Gene Michael, GM Brian Cashman and Torre remained intact and the team payroll escalated to the $200 million plateau, Steinbrenner’s operation of the Yankees was one of constant upheaval, turmoil and instability. This was no better evidenced than by his hiring and firing of 12 managers (including Billy Martin five times) between Ralph Houk (whom he inherited in 1973) and Torre. And prior to Cashman’s ascension at age 30 to the Yankee GM role in 1998, no less than 14 people (including Michael twice) held that position before ultimately finding the working conditions intolerable and, in many cases, hazardous to their health.

Hard as he was on his managers and general managers, Steinbrenner feuded with his players as well, the most notable being Dave Winfield, whom he signed to a then-record 10-year, $23 million free-agent contract in 1980. The ink was barely dry on the deal when Steinbrenner discovered his lawyers had neglected to inform him of cost-of-living clauses in it that greatly enhanced its value. This, in turn, led to a bitter feud between Steinbrenner and his new superstar left fielder that culminated with the Yankee owner’s second suspension from baseball, July 30, 1990, after it was revealed he’d paid $40,000 to a self-described gambler, Howie Spira, to provide dirt to him on Winfield.

Through the years, Steinbrenner had acrimonious fallings out with many of his star players such as Reggie Jackson, Lou Piniella, Goose Gossage, Graig Nettles and Sparky Lyle, only to later patch things up and welcome them back into the Yankee fold. With Yankee icon Yogi Berra, however, the feud was a lasting one. Berra, who Steinbrenner fired as manager just 16 games into the 1985 season, vowed never to return to Yankee Stadium “as long as (Steinbrenner’s) there,” and was estranged from the organization until January of 1999 when a peace pact was finally brokered between the two with Steinbrenner issuing a public apology to him.

And when Steinbrenner wasn’t publicly sparring with his own Yankee underlings, he was seemingly in constant war with commissioners, league presidents, umpires and other team owners and officials. From 1983 until 1995, it was calculated that he’d accrued $645,000 in fines stemming from those feuds. In 1983 alone, Steinbrenner was levied fines totaling $305,000 for various offenses against baseball mankind, as well as being suspended for a week by American League president Lee MacPhail for making derogatory remarks about umpires Darryl Cousins and John Shulock.

If nothing else, Steinbrenner’s public jabs at his many targets of derision and contempt were colorful. He once called White Sox owners Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn “those two pumpkins” and “the Katzenjammer twins” (for which he was fined $5,000). Responding to a 1981 off-the-cuff remark by Mets GM Frank Cashen about Yankee Stadium being “Fort Apache,” Steinbrenner referred to him as “that pus-sy face little man” – a term he used a variation of some 25 years later when he called his Japanese pitching prodigy Hideki Irabu “a fat pus-sy toad.” And during the height of the Yankee-Red Sox hostilities in 2003, he referred to Boston CEO Larry Lucchino as a “chameleon” after Lucchino labeled the Yankees “the evil empire.”

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The underfunded, crackpot, pending felon, and kicked out of 2 branches of the military candidate in the South Carolina Senate race, Alvin Greene wants to stimulate the economy by making dolls of himself.

From the UK guardian:

“Another thing we can do for jobs is make toys of me, especially for the holidays. Little dolls. Me. Like maybe little action dolls. Me in an army uniform, air force uniform, and me in my suit. They can make toys of me and my vehicle, especially for the holidays and Christmas for the kids. That’s something that would create jobs. So you see I think out of the box like that. It’s not something a typical person would bring up. That’s something that could happen, that makes sense. It’s not a joke.”

Well maybe he can get some dolls made of him in a prison jumpsuit, or better yet with a clown suit or court jester costume.

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This will be probably the only time in my life I will agree with anything Eric Holder does or says.

RICHMOND- United States Attorney General Eric Holder has responded favorably to Governor Bob McDonnell’s request to deny previous Governor Tim Kaine’s authorization for the transfer of convicted murderer Jens Soering to Germany.

In his letter to the Governor dated yesterday, Holder writes, “You should be assured that it is the position of the United States Department of Justice that Jens Soering will not be considered for transfer to Germany unless and until the Commonwealth of Virginia provides clear and unambiguous consent to such a transfer.”

Regarding former Governor Tim Kaine’s previous request that Soering be transferred to Germany, Holder notes, “Here, of course, former Governor Kaine consented to the transfer of Jens Soering. You have withdrawn that consent. From a federal perspective, that withdrawal is controlling…..”

During his final week in office, former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine requested that the United States Department of Justice transfer Soering to German authorities. On January 19^th, three days after taking office, Governor Bob McDonnell sent a letter to the Department of Justice revoking the previous request for transfer and stating the position of the Commonwealth that Jens Soering must remain in Virginia’s custody. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli joined the Governor in expressing the official position of the Commonwealth. Additionally, the Virginia General Assembly passed a resolution, sponsored by Senator Steve Newman (R-Lynchburg), supporting the revocation of the previous Administration’s request for transfer. Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-6^th), in whose district Soering’s murders took place, strongly opposed the possible transfer.

On May 17^th the Governor reiterated the Commonwealth’s position in a follow-up letter to Attorney General Holder. In that letter the Governor wrote, “I want to formally reiterate that Virginia has clearly revoked authorization for a transfer of Jens Soering to Germany. Soering is currently in Virginia’s custody for state offenses and he will remain so in order to serve out his Virginia sentence for the horrendous crimes he committed in our Commonwealth.” Today’s letter from the Attorney General is a response to that communication.

For the May 17^th release from this office please click here: http://www.governor.virginia.gov/News/viewRelease.cfm?id=179

Jens Soering was convicted of the March 1985 double murders of Derek and Nancy Haysom in their Bedford County home. He is currently serving a double life sentence.

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Never Forget

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Wittman Statement on New U.S. Military Leadership in Afghanistan

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-1), a Member of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, today issued the following statement in response to the President’s decision to accept the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal and replace him with General David Petraeus, the current Commander of U.S. Central Command:

“As this situation unfolded, thousands of American troops continued to serve their country in Afghanistan, in a mission critical to the national security of this country. Our focus must remain on this mission, defeating those who would bring harm to our country and across the globe. General Petraeus has a proven record at success with counterinsurgency strategy and will provide continuity to the mission. I believe the President made the right decision in accepting General McChrystal’s resignation, and we thank him for his service to this country.”

Congressman Wittman recently returned from a Congressional delegation trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he met with General Stanley McChrystal, as well as President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, and President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan.

Congressman Rob Wittman represents the First District of Virginia. He serves on the Natural Resources Committee and the Armed Services Committee where he is the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.

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