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Jan 7, 2019 · RICHMOND — Former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell has filed for divorce from his wife, Maureen, his onetime co-defendant in a “tawdry” corruption trial that exposed their marital woes and...
Jan 7, 2019 · Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, face federal charges for receiving gifts in exchange for political favors, which the couple denies.
- Star Power
- The Charges
- The Gifts
- The Trial
- The Dissolution of The McDonnell Marriage
- The Transformation of A Culture Warrior
McDonnell, 60, is more than just another former US governor facing prison time (see Messrs DiPrete, Moore, Rowland, Edwards, Siegelman and four out of the last seven governors of Illinois). He was a bona fide national star. A good-looking former US Army officer, he was a successful Republican politician in a crucial swing state, a former attorney g...
Bob and Maureen McDonnell are accused of taking between $165,000 and $177,000 in gifts and loans from a businessman in exchange for helping him obtain an air of legitimacy for a dietary supplement he was selling. The couple threw a launch party for the product, called Anatabloc, at the Virginia governor’s mansion in Richmond. They arranged meetings...
The head of Star Scientific, Jonnie Williams, met the couple after lending Bob McDonnell his private plane during the politician’s gubernatorial campaign. Over time the McDonnells would become well acquainted with the plane, as well as with Williams’ vacation home on a Virginia lake, his country club and his Ferrari. The indictment listsgifts from ...
Over the course of the month-long McDonnells’ trial, a story of marital discord has been interwoven with scenes of the couple’s clumsy attempts to promote Anatabloc. On 4 August, Phil Cox, a former head of McDonnell’s political action committee, testified and described one such scene from 2012, when Bob McDonnell traveled to South Carolina to endor...
Bob McDonnell married Maureen Gardner, a former Washington Redskins cheerleader, in 1976. They have five children together: three daughters and twin sons. During a family trip to Disney World in the mid-1990s, McDonnell testified, he realized that the marriage was in trouble. Tensions grew, he said, during his time as attorney general and especiall...
In August 2009, McDonnell’s campaign to become governor hit a major speed bump, when the Washington Post unearthed a master’s thesis he had written to graduate from an evangelical Christian college founded by Pat Robertson, the mogul and minister. In the thesis, called “The Republican Party’s Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of The Decad...
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Jan 8, 2019 · Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell - the once-rising Republican star who became tangled up in a corruption scheme with his wife Maureen – has filed for divorce after 42 years of marriage....
Aug 19, 2014 · Former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell (R) and his wife, Maureen, are battling a 14-count public corruption indictment that alleges that they lent the prestige of the governor’s office to a...
McDonnell married Maureen Patricia Gardner in 1976; they have five children, the eldest of whom, Jeanine, served as a U.S. Army Signal Corps officer in Iraq.
Jul 30, 2014 · -- Former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, are currently standing trial on federal corruption charges that began this week with surprisingly personal revelations about the McDonnells' marriage. The couple stands accused of accepting over $165,000 in lavish gifts and loans from a friend of the family.
