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Guinta "Mystery Bank Account" Timeline

by: William Tucker

Wed Oct 13, 2010 at 16:17:09 PM EDT


After documenting how unlikely it is that Frank Guinta was able to earn the funds he loaned to his campaign, NHPR’s Jon Greenberg filled in some of the gaps and proposed a potential source for the funds: Guinta's parents. We can now construct a plausible timeline of events documenting that scenario.

William Tucker :: Guinta "Mystery Bank Account" Timeline

    December 5, 2008. Guinta’s parents, Richard and Virginia Guinta, sell a second house in New Jersey for $820,000.

    January – April, 2009. Greenberg speculates Guinta’s parents give or loan Guinta up to $500,000 for his congressional race which Guinta deposits in Bank of America.

    May 11, 2009. Guinta officially announces his candidacy for the 1st District Congressional seat.

    June 30, 2009. Guinta loans his campaign $20,000.

    March 28, 2010. Guinta loans his campaign $100,000.

    May 15, 2010. Guinta files a financial disclosure statement covering 01/01/2009 – 12/31/2009, reporting three bank accounts with assets totaling between $17,000 and $80,000, an annual salary of $72,000 as Manchester mayor, and various stocks and mutual funds.

    June 27, 2010. Guinta loans his campaign $125,000.

    July 11, 2010. Nashua Telegraph's Kevin Landrigan first asks, “Just where did Republican congressional candidate Frank Guinta get $125,000 to loan to his own 1st District campaign?”

    Late July, 2010. Guinta files an amended financial disclosure statement to report a bank account worth $250,001 - $500,000 and changing the reporting period from 01/01/2009 – 12/31/2009 to 01/01/2009 – 04/30/2010.

    August 18, 2010. In an interview with Union Leader’s Drew Cline, “[Guinta] reiterated that the money was his own and did not come from family members.”

    October, 2010. Guinta refuses to answer Greenberg's question whether Guinta's parents are the source of the funds he loaned the campaign.

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Hit the e-mails (0.00 / 0)
Hey folks.

This story needs national attention, now.

Please send it out to every blogger and new media newsie you can think of.

I already hit up Taegan Goddard.

Who knows Chuck Todd? Or has a contact at TRMS?

www.KusterforCongress.com - www.paulhodesforsenate.com

www.nikitsongas.com - www.devalpatrick.com


Young Dud (0.00 / 0)
When Frank Guinta begged Eric Cantor, et al to be put on the "Young Guns" list, did he have to show that he could raise money on his own or self-fund.

How did this "Mystery Bank Account" go into the NRCC's determination?

Eric Cantor, demand Frank Guinta come clean!

www.KusterforCongress.com - www.paulhodesforsenate.com

www.nikitsongas.com - www.devalpatrick.com


fat chance (0.00 / 0)
Cantor wants the money to keep flowing. Who cares from where?

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Under The Gun (0.00 / 0)
Did Guinta need this mystery money to entice the NRCC to play in NH-01? They don't just throw their money away. It isn't taxpayer money, y'know. That they GIVE to their donors.

www.KusterforCongress.com - www.paulhodesforsenate.com

www.nikitsongas.com - www.devalpatrick.com


[ Parent ]
Tuck - consider editing this slightly (4.00 / 1)
It might avoid possible confusion and complaint, and out-of-context reading, if you edited the "Jan-Apr 2009" item to say "Guinta's parents may have given or loaned... (The other events in the timeline are documented: this is plausible speculation.)"


Agreed (0.00 / 0)
We should be fair and accurate, not assert speculation as fact.  



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    


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Fair enough. (4.00 / 2)
I thought that was covered by the introductory paragraph, but I'll make that clear.

"Politics ain't beanbag" - Finley Peter Dunne

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Always consider... (0.00 / 0)
the possibility of being taken out of context.

I made the mistake in 1999 of saying that although I disagreed with a Repubican office holder on the issues, he was a "nice guy".  He edited it down to "nice guy" and used it in a mailing a year later as if I had endorsed him.  Lesson learned - always consider the out of context possibilities.



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    


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persistence (0.00 / 0)
Thank you, BH community, for not letting this pass.

Your persistence is paying off.  The issue should have had traction from day one, but what matters is that FINALLY, it's getting the attention it deserves.  We shouldn't have to do this kind of pestering, but it's nice to know that this community will not rest until questions are answered.


Paula M. DiNardo
Dover NH

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