{"id":144570,"date":"2018-01-08T04:15:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T09:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=144570"},"modified":"2018-01-08T04:15:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T09:15:10","slug":"burlington-college-trustee-says-she-had-federal-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/08\/burlington-college-trustee-says-she-had-federal-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Burlington College trustee says she had federal interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_144574\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144574\" style=\"width: 666px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jane_Sanders.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144574\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jane_Sanders.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Sanders,  4th President of Burlington College (Photo By Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America - This file was derived from: \u00a0Bernie &amp; Jane Sanders (25526100440).jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"666\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jane_Sanders.jpg 666w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jane_Sanders-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Sanders, 4th President of Burlington College (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=47874423\">Photo By Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BURLINGTON, Vt. &#8212; A former Burlington College trustee says she testified about the fundraising deal that was undertaken while U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; wife was president of the now-defunct Vermont school.<\/p>\n<p>Burlington College closed in 2016 after struggling under the weight of its $10 million purchase of property and buildings from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington in 2010 during Jane Sanders&#8217; presidency. The Burlington Free Press reports former trustee Robin Lloyd said Sunday she testified before a panel about the property purchase after receiving a grand jury subpoena.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd is the former chairwoman of the school&#8217;s development committee. She says she was asked mainly timeline questions about the period from 2010 to 2011.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the independent senator&#8217;s family says they have no reason to believe prosecutors have empaneled a grand jury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BURLINGTON, Vt. &#8212; A former Burlington College trustee says she testified about the fundraising deal that was undertaken while U.S. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":144574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[10229,42277,42279,42278,12596],"class_list":["post-144570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-burlington-college","tag-jane-sanders","tag-robin-lloyd","tag-vermont","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}