Michael Brown, Paul Strasburger, Don Foster MP and the B&NES Liberal Democrats

bath | local government | opinion/analysis Sunday June 21, 2009 14:28 by Joe Public - Concerned Residents Association

Fraud, money laundering, the Liberal Democrats and the City of Bath connection

On the run fraudster Mike Brown, recently sentenced in his absence to 7 years in prison, who donated £2.4m of fraudlently obtained cash to fund the Liberal Democrats election campaign in 2005 was only able to evade justice by being granted bail by the courts. He was clearly helped in his bail application by Mr Paul Strasburger, whose many business interests include providing security for 5000 empty properties around the country, of Bath who:

1) paid out of his own pocket for a very expensive legal team to represent Brown

2) put up the substantial amount of bail money for Brown

3) provided his home address, a large farm on the outskirts of Bath, as Brown's bail address. A property which was subsequently raided by the City of London Police.

What concerns me as a Bath resident is that Paul Strasburger has been bankrolling the B&NES Liberal Democrat party machine including Don Fosters constituency office for at least the past 4 years.

This financial support for the Liberal Democrats in B&NES involved in several instances large cash donations by Strasburger eg: approximately £70,000 cash in 2005, not forgetting the annual £12,000 plus Strasburger gives to Don Foster MP towards his constituency office running costs.

Surely questions need to be asked about these very large cash donations apart from the deeply disturbing issue of the B&NES Liberal Democrats being funded by someone who appears to be intimately connected with the fraudster and money launderer Mike Brown.