Durkee may be 'Bernie Madoff of campaign treasurers,' Rep. Davis says

[The Northerner]

The Democratic campaign operative arrested on suspicion of stealing campaign funds from her clients may be "the Bernie Madoff of campaign treasurers," Rep. Susan Davis (D-San Diego) told contributors in an email.

Kinde Durkee, a Burbank accountant who handled funds for numerous local, state and congressional candidates, is accused of stealing more than $250,000 from the Davis campaign, the email said.

"Our treasurer was arrested and is accused of funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars, maybe millions, to herself from our campaign, and the campaigns of many, many others," Davis said in the "Dear Friends" email.

Davis said her campaign, however, is not without funds because it had a reserve account that Durkee could not access: "This leaves us with funds to fight back and renew our campaign."

Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/09/kinde-durkee-campaign-fraud-allegations.html

[Loudmxr]

1. I am a Burbank guy. I have never heard of this woman.

I have calls into my politico friends. So far they don't know her.

However we have drug dealers up in the hills that the police cannot touch. They are the type that never get their hands dirty.

SO

We have enough problems in Burbank to be concerned with the Durkee dunce.