The only source I've been able to find for the "Dean Broke" story is a salon.com article where the journalist says an advisor confirmed a meeting where Dean asked workers to work without pay for two weeks, but says that the advisor did not confirm the $3 million amount.
Nowhere in the article does the journalist say anything else about the $3 million. The journalist does not confirm the dollar amount comes from anywhere other than his own imagination.
So, does anyone have a source that confirms Dean is broke? Or that Trippi pissed away $40 million in Iowa and New Hampshire?
Or is this just another example of a sonic boom in an echo chamber?
I currently don't see any reason to disbelieve the "Dean Broke" claims.