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1. Rubio’s top donor paid Rubio’s wife $54,000 a year for a part-time job running a “charity” that gave away a mere $250.
Everybody in the political world knows that Rubio’s presidential candidacy—and his private lifestyle—have been buttressed by millions from auto-dealer and ex-Philadelphia Eagles owner Norm Braman. They know that Rubio made six times the going rate for poor underfed adjuncts to teach a single class at Florida International University after Braman dropped 1oo Gs on the school.
But do they know Braman’s $9 million charitable trust paid 216 times more to Rubio’s wife Jeanette for freelance work than it paid out in charitable donations?
In an otherwise kitschy “meet the woman behind the man” profile of the Rubios last Friday—which mentioned Jeanette’s past work as a Dolphins cheerleader multiple times—Tampa Bay Times political reporter Alex Leary dropped a teeny tiny bomb:
Jeanette Rubio has eschewed the Washington scene, staying home in West Miami. In 2011, she got a job with a charity financed by Norman Braman, the former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles. They knew the job would raise questions, and it has as Rubio’s close ties to Braman, who has funded his political career and employed him as a lawyer, are exposed.
Records show Mrs. Rubio was paid at least $54,000 for her part-time job in 2013. The charity’s IRS forms show it gave out only $250 that year despite having assets exceeding $9 million. The charity spent nearly $150,000 in air travel.
Indeed, that IRS form shows that on Jeanette Rubio’s watch, the Braman trust did more stock trades—at least 266—than it gave away in dollars. Those trades included 250 shares of Conoco Phillips, 419 shares of Eli Lilly, 226 shares of Glaxo Smith Kline, and 829 shares of Bristol Myers Squibb, for a profit of $276,099. The trust also spent $149,237 on “misc airplane trips for charitable purchases.” The only charitable purchase it performed was a $250 donation to a breast-cancer research fund. Unless, of course, you count as charity the $54,000 Jeanette got for her part-time job—a salary that’s about 25 percent higher than the median household income where the Rubios live.
“To succeed in life, you don’t just need skills and a good job,” Rubio writes in his bestselling American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone. “You need to have values like hard work, discipline and self-control.” Apparently, his surefire plan for economic opportunity involves everyone finding a millionaire to finance his family’s lifestyle.
Values like, lying cheating and stealing.
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