• @[email protected]
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    132 months ago

    Yet the D.C. Recorder of Deeds office shows no investors in the three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath, three-fireplace house other than Stefanik’s parents and her younger brother. And the ownership entity on file for the property, a 15-minute walk from the Capitol steps, bears Stefanik’s initials and nobody else’s.

    Nonetheless, she was back to describing the family business as a modest, often struggling enterprise in an interview a few months after capturing her congressional seat, which encompasses a vast swath of rural northern New York, hundreds of miles from the state’s titular metropolis. She recalled how her father started working in the lumber industry straight out of high school, first as a salesman and then as a manager for a larger operation before cutting out on his own.

    Daily Beast has been killing it lately.

    • @disguy_ovahea
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      92 months ago

      Agreed! The whole article is well investigated and a very enjoyable read.

      But this humble origin story falls away under a little pressure, like cheap laminate off a plywood panel.

  • rigatti
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    32 months ago

    So her parents are rich from their business and they put her name on a couple properties? The most interesting thing in there was about the lake house which they owned before starting the plywood company, but there’s no real details on that.

    Anyway, she sucks, but I didn’t find anything in the article to be that damning.