So today Sarah Palin FINALLY released her financial disclosures from Jan. 1 to July 26, the day that she officially became the "Quitter in Chief".
(You can read them for yourself in pdf form here)
It was pretty interesting.
I learned that she is the owner of a marketing business called PIE SPY, LLC. (I have NO idea what the name means and I refuse to allow my deviant mind to think about it too long.)
(P.S. Wait! I found out that the description of this business is as follows: "Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities". What? Sarah did NOTHING for the elderly while she was Governor, why would she suddenly start a business to help them? Can anybody say "Tax Shelter"?)
For debts that she owes to Clapp, Peterson, Van Flein, Tiemessen & Thorsness Sarah actually says on the form that the costs are "to fight false allegations while Governor". Can you believe she has to deny her guilt even in a financial form? (I wonder if this also counts the money she paid to Van Flein to send threatening letters to Shannyn and myself, and the time Van Flein spent talking to a certain right wing website in an attempt smear my name?)
Palin also lists $3,750.00 in checks sent to her and Todd personally which she claims that she has not cashed and will be sending back to the individuals who sent them. (Oh you KNOW that has to hurt! Palin does not give up money easily. Perhaps that is why she has not sent them back yet.)
But the VERY interesting number is the $1.25 million that she received from Harper Collins as a retainer for her book deal. At first I was stunned that the amount was so small, but one of my blogger buddies pointed out that this is just her RETAINER, not her ADVANCE. In other words this money was just to keep her from jumping to another publishing company. She would not get the REAL money until she had resigned as Governor so that no pesky financial disclosures would have to be made about the amount. Tricky.
And this is pretty much confirmed by, you guessed it, Meg Staplemouth: "The Governor has complied with Alaska disclosure law by her filing yesterday. Now, as a private citizen, her business dealings, including her publishing agreement, are confidential." In other words "F**K OFF!" (God I love it when Meg talks like that!)
Well gang that is all the time that I can spend digging through this moose crap for today. But hey if you find anything interesting that I missed, please share it in the comments section. The title links to the ADN story about the report so you can go there and see what they are coming up with as well.
Have fun!
She is as slick as a serpent....
ReplyDeleteUnless her publishing agreement was inked after she quit I'd think it is still subject to Alaska disclosure laws.
ReplyDeleteGood thing she didn't quit her job and responsibilities as Governor of the great state of Alaska just for money.
ReplyDeleteOh, wait a minute, she did.
Well, first off there is the Yankee baseball tickets which she states came to a total of $4,250.00. for 3 tickets (herself, Todd & Willow).
ReplyDeleteThat comes out to a total of $1416.66 per ticket! Interestingly enough back in April of this year, the NY Times published the cost of Tickets and they were $2,500.00 each. So if that was the price of the tickets, shouldn't the total be $7,500.00??
Perhaps there were really only two tickets given (for her and Todd) since they were the only ones spotted at the game. There is no evidence that Willow was at the game, she was not mentioned in any of the write ups about the event, she was not shown in any of the photo's of the event, so it seems logical to assume that Willow was not there.
This would also throw a bit of a twist on the entire Palin/Letterman "feud" wouldn't it?
There there is the matter of her claiming only $3,252.00 in discounts for Todd from Arctic Cat, when it has been reported that the machines are aprox. $10,000.00 each, we know that Todd got 2 of them, and Palin had already disclosed that Todd got 50% off in discounts, so that right there would be a total of $10,000.00 in discounts and that doesn't include the clothing, the spare parts and whatever else he got.
Seems to me that this financial document has some very questionable numbers on it.
O/T but Team Sarah is stuffing the ballot boxes on NPR.org: In White House Vs. Fox News War Of Words, Who Gets Your Vote?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/10/in_white_house_vs_fox_news_war.html
I voted, anyone else?
PIE SPY, LLC...."Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities". What?
ReplyDeleteMakes me wonder which came first, Sarah Palin's first use of the term "death panel" -- or the purpose of this "business"?
What is PIE SPY, LLC, anyway, a crematorium?
I put PIE SPY into the anagram translator website and here's what it found:
ReplyDeletehttp://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=pie+spy&t=1000&a=n
I'm going with "Yes Pip" as we all know that Sarah gets her best advice from her youngest child....
I read somewhere that author's book advances are usally paid in 1/3. 1/3 to sign the contract, 1/3 for the manuscript, and one third for publishing. Added up, the book advance would come out to about $3.75 million. And that's only before the taxes and other things are taken out. She's no working-class "Joe Sixpack." First the $150,000 wardrobe, then she quits her jobs to cash in. But, that $1.25 million book advance, sure doesn't come close to what the Palinbots (and probably Queen $arah herself) thought she was going to get: $7 million, or more. Hillary Clinton got $11 million for her book.
ReplyDeletePalingates has some information about Pie Spy LLC which was set up in April 2009 for the purpose of marketing, and its registered agent is surprise-of-surprises Thomas Van Flein (where have we heard that name before?)
ReplyDeleteAccording to Palingates, the document was faxed from Rebound Sports, an Orthopedic Physical Therapy place which belongs to another-big-surprise Meg Stapelton's husband, Eric Steenburgh. Eric is listed as an orthopedic specialist in strength and conditioning.
The other time that Eric's name came up is that he was reported to have been paid $4683. from Sarah PAC. Meg had to explain that she used her husband's credit card for travel expenses and he was being paid back. Still,in a report on Sarah PAC, there was plenty of money being paid to the Stapelton/Steenburgh family.
I have several theories as to the meaning of the name Pie Spy.
#1 Sara liked that Bill Cosby/Robert Culp action TV show "I Spy" and kept misprouncing the title. Her family thought that was cute.
#2. There is a child's book, "The Case of Pizza Pie Spy," which must have been the favorite of one of the Palin Children
#3. Pie Spy is an IRC bot which monitors IRC channels, no that's too technical for Sarah
#4. There is a Fotosearch picture with a wooden fence in the background. Peeking through a knot hole is an eye, spying on the freshly baked pie in the foreground, cooling on a window sill. They sell these photos for $29. to $189. but I think that I may have seen something similar done as a refrigerate magnet, the source of great philosophy.
#5. I tried one of the anagram makers on-line, and there is one strange possibility: Yes ipp. Doesn't sound like anything, but suppose you are trying to a baby to talk, and you keep repeating something for him to say, like, "Yes, Tripp." You know how it is with babies; what they say is so cute, "Yes..Ipp"
On second thought, that involves too much thinking. I'm sticking with someone in the Palin family mispronoucing "I Spy" which could be a kid's game like peek-a-boo. It's a cute family in-joke. Sorry, it's late. Thinking machine turning off.
People.In.Extreme. Sarah.Palin.Yearnings.
ReplyDeleteWhen was that custom AR-15 rifle given to her in May by the NRA reported? An all white "Alaskan Hunter" modeled after a .50 caliber M-4 with a Beowulf chamber. Worth a lot, I'll bet. C'mon Sarah, spit it out.
ReplyDeleteif Levi says i want half a million for my sons or i will talk, is that extortion?
ReplyDeletecan one extort your own family to benefit your own family?
OH, but Gryphen, it's get's SO much better! Go check out Bree's latest post. Team Sarah is soliciting donations that will go directly to the Palin family, to "enable her to have resources she directly controls to take care of all the things she needs to do as she launches her national effort to restore the core values of our Conservative movement." In other words, pay for Moose Chateau and some shopping trips to Neiman's next time she's in the lower 48. Un.effing.believable.
ReplyDeleteHope her books sells good as it appears she will have to pay Levi a lot to keep his mouth shut.
ReplyDeleteyou people are nuttier than squirrel shit
ReplyDeleteOver on Palin-gates she brings up an interesting question about the number of dependents Sarah claimed this year and last year.
ReplyDeleteSarah's use of the word "retainer" is simply a display of her ignorance. Lawyers take retainers; publishers make agreements and then pay advances. It is not uncommon for there to be a delay between when the deal is verbally "made" and when the contracts are drawn up and the check is cut, but no one pays retainers to hold the author until the paperwork is done. It's also not uncommon for publishers to release money early or delay payments for authors (as in the case of a divorce or to trip the payment over into a new tax year--they've done both for me). But there was no reason to delay paying it--everyone knew she'd made the deal. So that $2.25 is the first part of her advance, pure and simple.
ReplyDeleteIf you'll remember, I said last summer that I'd heard from two HC editors that Sarah's advance was $2.5m. The $7m rumor was just that--rumor. Advances are frequently split into thirds, but they can also be split 50-50, with no residual upon publication. So Sarah's deal was for at most $3.75m (split into thirds), or, more likely, $2.5m (split 50/50)
Megamouth's little comment about now Sarah's financial deals are private leads me to the conclusion that the real reason she quit was because she struck a deal with SOMEONE (no idea who) to be their paid puppet. That's why she had to resign--it's one thing to make a book deal as governor, but she couldn't report that she was being paid millions to be someone's puppet. In return for a hefty "retainer" with the first installment to be made immediately after resigning (maybe that's where she got the word), she agreed to allow this puppet master to put up those political screeds on her Facebook and print "her" op ed pieces in the WSR. When you look at how restrained she's been since her resignation, it's the only explanation. She's not going rogue; she's on a tight diamond-studded leash.
Midnight Cajun
Midnight Cajun;
ReplyDeleteYou just may have created a job for yourself. You seem to have some sort of inside track into the publishing industry, thereby maybe allowing you access not permitted most. Like in "Mission Impossible", "Should you take this mission", we would all be interested in what you may find, and welcome the new perspective. At least I would, just speaking for myself.
More like a "Pie in the Sky" tax shelter!
ReplyDelete254 seniors and disabled DIED waiting for care under Palins watch!
It was SO egregious that: "the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements.
No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IN-HOME CARE: Lawsuits, huge case backlog prompt moratorium on applications .
July 14th, 2009
State programs intended to help disabled and elderly Alaskans with daily life , are so poorly managed, the state cannot assure the health and well-being of the people they are supposed to serve, a new federal review found .
The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements.
No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium, according to a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
In the meantime, frail and vulnerable Alaskans who desperately need the help are struggling.
The moratorium is expected to last four or five months. State officials estimate about 1,000 Alaskans will be affected.
A particularly alarming finding concerns deaths of adults in the programs. In one 2 1/2 year stretch, 227 adults already getting services died while waiting for a nurse to reassess their needs.
Another 27 died waiting for their initial assessment, to see if they qualified for help.
http://www.adn.com/life/health/story/864670.html
dominionism. cronyism. Yankeeism.(Wllow was NOT at the game..I watched it live).
ReplyDeleteKarma will kick her conartist ass one of these days. Can't wait to watch her burn.
ReplyDeleteLady_Rose
ReplyDeleteI had the same thought about the three dependents. Does that mean that she is not paying 50% of Bristol's and Tripp's upkeep? Does that mean that she doesn't want to expose what Bristol is being paid by Candies? In prior years, she disclosed Track's and Bristol's earnings? My guess is that for tax purposes she would be claiming Bristol and Tripp, unless Bristol is able to get some assistance if she claims no family support.
If she runs for office in 2012, she will have to disclose her tax returns. Don't know how many years have to be disclosed. Does any one know the rules for tax return disclosure for candidates for national office?
@ Anonymous@5:20 a.m.:
ReplyDeleteYour mother is nuttier than squirrel shit.
Hi. I posted this over on Palingates (as Quiet1, but I couldn't get my login to work here) & thought I'd share it here as well. I think Pie Spy is SP backwards . . . and (yikes, this is scarey) the remaining letters are PIEY. Sarah Palen President in Eleven Years? Aaaak!
ReplyDeleteWhooops. I actually meant eight years. Either way, still aaaak!
ReplyDeleteAnon @ 5:20
ReplyDeleteHi, Meghan! So how's it going?
Saw that you had a lot to say, today--thought you'd be tuckered out by now--but, Whoa! Guess I was wrong!
So, let me mull your insult over for a couple of seconds..tick tock, tick tock..okay, all done.
in my life i have made some interesting observations for example i have noticed that people who do not understand that sentences begin with capital letters and end with either periods exclamation points or question marks are generally either under educated or have low self esteem in addition even squirrels have the intellect required to recognize a nut when they see one so while you may have intended your comment as an insult the truth is that the feces of a squirrel is really only the byproduct of a pretty smart little creature who has the ability to differentiate between a nut case and a case of nuts
This is for all of the pro=Palin Christian lurkers out there that read this blog. How can you support this woman?
ReplyDeleteShe's CHARGING the Iowa pro-life group to go speak to them? With Team Sarah shilling for her? She accepted over $1600 in plane tickets from the Graham group to attend to poverty stricken Natives in Alaska last winter??? This was not part of her regular duties as Governor?
NO disclosure yet as to the finances and expenditures of the Alaska Fund Trust? Hundreds of thousands of dollars raised by the SarahPAC with a paltry $10,000 sent out to sympathetic candidates?
She's gotten at least a $1.25 million dollar advance, she's building a huge second home in Wasilla, she got six figures for her speech in Hong Kong. . .yet she's still charging/begging for money to speak to a group in Iowa?
And what of all of the other requests by pro-life groups that she turned down because she was 'too busy' or they couldn't/wouldn't pay her?
Most of the legal fees owed to Van Flein she incurred herself when she filed for a SECOND investigation by the Personnel Board for Troopergate. The first one, brought by the bipartisan Legislative Council, was entirely paid for by Alaska. And now, your good money is being used to pay for a second investigation that was entirely unnecessary, totally redundant. That's right, you are paying for an investigation that SHE filed on HERSELF for purely political reasons during the campaign.
I also note an extreme absence of charitable giving listed on any of her past disclosures, as compared to the money she makes.
This latest PIE SKY gambit, I predict, will be just another sham to launder donations. Wierd that it has been in place since April of this year, yet no advertisement of it or activities reported by it up until now?
Wake up, Christians. Where's the "charity"? Palin is no Christian, she is a grifter who is after your wallet, not your "servant's heart." As a Christian, I am deeply offended by her behavior.