Feinstein sues bank, treasurer in alleged theft

[The Northerner]

Washington -- California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's campaign filed suit on Friday against a small Los Angeles County bank and the Democrat's former campaign treasurer, alleging that Kinde Durkee and her associates "stole millions" in funds from Feinstein campaign committees in the last two years.

The suit, filed in Los Angeles, charges that First California Bank knew about the alleged embezzlement and "ignored multiple red flags."

Feinstein, who is running for her fourth full term, had amassed a $5.2 million campaign war chest that Durkee managed in her Burbank office along with more than 400 other bank accounts for which she had signature authority.

Durkee, a campaign treasurer for many top California Democrats, was arrested on Sept. 2 by the FBI and charged with stealing or misappropriating $670,000 from the campaign of state Assemblyman Jose Solorio, D-Anaheim.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/23/MNIA1L8N49.DTL

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Maybe that is how we will end up getting the banks, eh?

Small lawsuits....LOTS of them.