The Angry Clown steals from children

Michelle Malkin and Brian Maloney have already claimed this year’s top award for Blog Investigative Reporting with their on-going coverage of the Air America/Gloria Wise loan scandal.

The latest installment of their investigation uncovers what Al Franken knew about the fraudulent loans, and when he knew it From the August 8, 2005, Air America radio monologue:

FRANKEN: And about three weeks into the life of Air America, I became an involuntary investor. I stopped being paid.

So now, we started to make arrangements, and I didn’t know anything about this until late last week…

However, from court documents it looks like Al knew about the loans at least 9 months prior to him claiming (on air) that he knew nothing about them:

Franken signed the settlement agreement, which includes detailed information about the Gloria Wise loan, on November 22, 2004. (See signature above.) The document shows that the signatories knew about the Gloria Wise scheme and other liabilities…

In other words, Franken claimed on the air he knew nothing of the Gloria Wise “or something” fiasco nine months after he signed a legal agreement that specifically outlined the loans to Gloria Wise and required Air America to pay them back.

Go read the entire report, which points out several other bald-faced lies told by Al Franken about the Air America scandal.