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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

More Trouble For Coleman: Latest Lawsuit Upends His First Defense

Sam Stein
HuffPost

A second lawsuit has been filed against Nasser Kazeminy, Norm Coleman's longtime friend and financial adviser, again alleging that the Minnesota financier steered $75,000 to the Senator's family.

This suit, like the first, charges that the money was funneled to the Colemans through the insurance company that employs the Senator's wife. Only this time, a new accusation is leveled, one that could upend much of the defense that Coleman has deployed: the money was meant not for Laurie Coleman, but rather -- at least originally -- for the Senator himself.

Indeed, according to the second lawsuit, Kazeminy at first demanded that executives at Deep Marine Technology, a company he controlled, pay $75,000 to the Senator to help with his family's financial situation.

(More here.)

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