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June 03, 2004

Don't Confuse Us With The Facts

Read today's Strib piece about the fraud investigation of Pat Forciea, longtime political consultant.

Pat Forciea, a well-connected Minnesota political consultant and sports marketing entrepreneur with deep hockey ties, is under criminal investigation by the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office for alleged financial manipulation and fraud worth millions of dollars, the Star Tribune has learned.

Part of the investigation concerns a $2.56 million loan Forciea obtained in late March from a Minneapolis bank to buy the River City Lancers professional minor league hockey team in Omaha. The bank has sued Forciea, alleging he forged signatures of two of his wealthy partners on documents promising that they would personally guarantee repayment of the loan. The partners, investor and financier Phil Ordway and Ford Nicholson, an Ordway-3M heir from White Bear Lake, have told the bank through their attorneys that they never signed such documents and that the signatures were forged.

OK, so there might be some shenanigans.

Now, read the article and see how far down you have to go before you see he's a Democrat consultant.

Paragraph eight.

How far do you think the Strib would have waited if he were in the GOP?

Posted by Mitch at June 3, 2004 06:17 AM
Comments

Paragraph? Hell, it would have been in the headline!

Posted by: Donavan at June 3, 2004 08:01 AM

Donovan,
I think that you would be correct in your belief that the headline would be screaming GOP connections as if that alone would make him guilty. That is one of the reasons why I don't read the "official Organ of the Peoples Republic of Minnesota." I would use it for bird cage liner, but I don't know of too many birds who would not be offended by having to poop on that.

Posted by: Leo at June 3, 2004 09:33 AM

My son's guinea pigs go through a lot of newspaper (more than we generate with our PiPress subscription), so I periodically grab a large stack from the recycle bin at work and bring it home. This is the only positive aspect of the Fibune that I've found for a long time. But then guinea pigs aren't too particular.

PS Even when I lived in MPLS, I read the PiPress on Sundays. They didn't deliver where I lived, so I had to make a trip to the store. Still beat home delivery of the Strib.

Posted by: Mark D at June 3, 2004 12:35 PM
hi