A one-time senior adviser to John Kerry was arrested on Nantucket for being a “fugitive from justice,” the island police said in Saturday’s blotter.
Daniel Burrell was arrested at 3 Brewster Street on the island late Friday in a six-bedroom, eight-bath dwelling that had an estimated price of $15.3 million, based on Zillow. That property, based on a “New England Hot Property” alert and the Nantucket Present, was bought at public sale the day earlier than for $12.52 million.
Burrell served as senior adviser to Kerry in the course of the Bay State senator’s failed presidential marketing campaign in 2004 and his Senate reelection in 2002. He as soon as described Kerry as “an incredible mentor,” the Present added. Burrell additionally served in former President Invoice Clinton’s administration as a member of its Home Coverage Council from 2000-2001.
Burrell is accused of writing a nasty verify for $1.5 million, which he allegedly handed to a Las Vegas on line casino, based on a number of experiences. On line casino.org writes that Burrell has a protracted historical past of monetary stumbles and that all of it caught as much as him on Nantucket this weekend.
Burrell’s Nevada legal professional, Andrew Fritz, was “on the road and can’t call,” his workplace advised the Herald Monday afternoon.
Fritz advised the Present his consumer was “picked up (Friday) on an arrest warrant out of Nevada where he is owing money, presumably on these casino markers, to a casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.”
Burrell was previously the CEO of Rosemont Realty out of New Mexico which had ties to Hunter Biden, a New York Submit story from 2022 alleges. Hunter Biden, the president’s son, reportedly served on Rosemont’s advisory board.
The Denver Submit, the Herald’s sister paper in Colorado, reported in April that Burrell was sued by an Aspen financial institution for not repaying an eight-figure mortgage and is asking a choose to let it take a $39 million home of his in lieu of fee. Different enterprise funds have been additionally listed in that report.
As a contributor to the Huffington Submit, Burrill wrote that Kerry created a “vulnerability” for his 2004 marketing campaign “when he argued very technically that he voted ‘for’ the war (with Iraq) before he voted ‘against’ it.”
Kerry didn’t maintain President George W. Bush from profitable reelection that 12 months.
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