Here's something to make you laugh and start your weekend in a good mood: AP reports "
Three lawyers, including Clark supporter, file complaints on Dean bank stock sales"
Three lawyers, including a supporter of Wesley Clark, are requesting an inquiry by federal regulators into Howard Dean's sale of about $15,000 in stock in five Vermont banks in 1991, arguing that the then-governor may have engaged in insider trading.
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One of the three attorneys filing the complaints, Michael Spadea, donated $50 to Clark's campaign and is a county coordinator is Connecticut for Clark's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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"This is the worst kind of 11th-hour dirty tricks by Wesley Clark's campaign," said Dean spokesman Jay Carson.
Clark's press secretary, Bill Buck, responded: "It's time for Dean to come clean and stop seeing shadows on the wall."
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The other attorneys filing the complaints are Christopher J. Frisco, a local prosecutor in Los Angeles County, Calif.; and Michael Ng, who works for a law firm in New York City. Frisco, Ng and Spadea all say they filed the complaints of their own volition.
What a joke! It is just laughable to suggest that Howard Dean might have engaged in naughty "insider trading" by selling $15,000 worth of bank stocks after he became governor.
$15,000! Heck, that's not even what Clark was getting paid for his speeches. I seem to recall Clark was getting $30,000 a pop for his 'non-campaign campaign' gigs -- money that he returned after it became an issue.
Now seriously, how much "ill-gotten gains" could there be on such a paltry sum? Maybe 100 bucks? On the other hand, Dean's a known tightwad, and 100 bucks of ill-gotten gains is a hundred bucks would buy a lot of house paint down at the Burlington Big Lots.
If this amateur smear is coordinated by the Clark campaign, may I recommend to the Clark folks that they fire them? At least you can drop Spaldea. These guys are just too darn dumb to have anything to do with. "Insider trading" -- ha!