A Quick Summary of the Charges Against Davison

by Don Pogreba on August 25, 2006 · 75 comments

in Montana Politics, Senator for Saginaw Chippewas

Wow. This sure doesn’t look like a registration mistake or an accounting error; this is theft and massive fraud. The Auditor’s Office is charging Davison with defrauding two families of $1.2 million:

  • conducting securities business without proper registration
  • fraudulently claiming to a client that he invested $664,000 into an IRA account that never existed.
  • Beginning in  2003 , the investor received monthly checks of $5,560, until February 2006, when a check came back marked Insufficient Funds. The investor then found out that he had no IRA account in his name at the bank Davison claimed.
  • fraudulently failing to return an investment of $250,000, as promised
  • inventing an investment opportunity called the St. Labre Indian School Trust, and taking $275,000 from a second complainant and spouse

All of this is from two complainants, who contacted the Auditor’s office quite recently. There’s every reason to believe that further investigation will reveal more fraud here.

I’m tempted to draw the connection back to Senator Burns here. After all, I am told that because Jon Tester links to Daily Kos, he is a leftwing radical. What conclusion should I draw from the fact that Conrad Burns seems to draw fraudulent, law-breaking characters like flies to Jason Klindt?

Countdown to claims  that these charges are politically motivated… 10…9…8

Update: Let the spin begin. Klindt is claiming that Davison resigned last month, even though "a search of the campaign’s Web site turns up no press release announcing the departure, and a search of the Nexis database results in no articles mentioning the split."

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Don is an English/Debate teacher and debate handbook author who lives in Helena, MT, and who can't imagine living anywhere other than this glorious state. Much of his writing happens late at night and he is unlikely to respond to your comments during the day.

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Wulfgar August 25, 2006 at 3:04 pm

Kind of an aside here, but if I read those charges correctly, Davison (alledgedly) commited fraud and faces *NO* jail time?!? Crimany, boosting a candy-bar will get you at least a couple days in county. This guy, (alledgedly) snookered two clients for a rob-Peter-to-Pay-Paul shuffle game, and he faces no jail time. How is this fair?

clark bar August 25, 2006 at 6:13 pm

I’m really out of the loop on this one. Is there a link anywhere?

clark bar August 25, 2006 at 6:14 pm

Missed the update. NM.

anon August 25, 2006 at 9:25 pm

“Judge him by the company he keeps” – there seems to me some wisdom in that … however

Yet do not rush to make rash statements

We have a relatively long time to November…

Our current State Auditor is incompetent in his current job and we should not attach much significance to the charges until proven. In fairness to Mr. Morrison, many of his predecessors, both Repulicans and Democrats, also attained the office through political strategy as a stepping stone to other things and without any background in what the job entails…. and I probably know more whereof I speak than 99.99% of Montanans.

All I’m saying is do not rush… watch and let it unfold…

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