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McInnis camp still ‘following up’ on Hasan payment tax questions

By | 08.06.10 | 5:44 pm

GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy told the Colorado Independent Friday afternoon that he’s still following up on tax questions regarding $112,500 of the $300,000 payment he received from the Hasan Family Foundation for plagiarized water articles.…

McInnis still not talking about Hasan payment to Invest 2 corporation

By | 08.06.10 | 10:27 am

Colorado Republican candidate for governor Scott McInnis and his staff have refused for weeks to discuss payments made to him for plagiarized water articles by the Hasan Family Foundation and why part of that money was diverted to Invest 2 corporation.

Hasans: McInnis trying to ‘wiggle out’ of repaying $300K for plagiarized articles

By | 07.30.10 | 10:03 am

Embattled Colorado Republican candidate for governor Scott McInnis has so far avoided making any arrangements to pay back to the influential conservative Hasan Family Foundation the $300,000 he was paid to produce a series of water articles he plagiarized. After…

McInnis says he paid taxes on entire ill-gotten $300,000

By | 07.22.10 | 1:29 pm

One-time Republican frontrunner for governor Scott McInnis told the Colorado Independent he paid taxes on the entire $300,000 he was paid by Hasan Family Foundation to produce a handful of articles that, as has been widely reported, McInnis didn’t write but mostly lifted from papers written years ago by Gregory Hobbs, now a Colorado Supreme Court Justice.

But the money wasn’t all paid directly to McInnis. According to Foundation tax returns, McInnis received the $300,000 in three installments, including one in 2006 for $112,500, which went to Invest 2 LLC, a now defunct limited liability corporation that listed McInnis’s wife Lori as its registered agent.

McInnis closely guarding Hasan Foundation payback arrangements

By | 07.21.10 | 12:16 pm

Journalists may not like to think of themselves playing school teachers to public officials and candidates, but they often serve this function. Are candidates following the rules? Are they telling the truth? Are they doing the things they said they’d…

McInnis poll numbers plummet in wake of plagiarism scandal

By | 07.19.10 | 9:19 am

Democratic Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper has tied former Republican Scott McInnis for the first time in the Colorado race for governor, suggesting voters have been turned off to the former Congressman by revelations he plagiarized an

Hasan Foundation demands McInnis money back, but questions remain

By | 07.17.10 | 9:40 am

VAIL – In the wake of the Hasan Family Foundation concluding its internal probe of the Scott McInnis plagiarism scandal Friday and demanding repayment of his fellowship funds, questions continue to swirl about whether the $300,000 was in fact some form of a political contribution.

Wadhams: GOP voters will ‘determine our nominees’

By | 07.15.10 | 5:26 pm

Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dick Wadhams issued the following statement Thursday amid reports the party is looking to replace former U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis on the GOP gubernatorial primary ballot against Dan Maes on Aug. 10.

McInnis is embroiled…

Report: GOP money pouring in for Maes

By | 07.15.10 | 2:45 pm

Republican gubernatorial candidate and tea party favorite Dan Maes said he has been getting more donations since his rival, former Rep. Scott McInnis, was accused of plagiarizing a series of articles he wrote on water issues for the Hasan

Fischer tells Channel 7 McInnis is lying

By | 07.15.10 | 8:27 am

Rolland “Rolly” Fischer, the former head of the Colorado River Water Conservation District now at the heart of the Scott McInnis plagiarism scandal, told Denver’s Channel 7 Wednesday that McInnis is lying.

McInnis, a Republican gubernatorial candidate and…