Jordanian businessman linked to McCain donations

iht.com ^ | 8-7-08 | Michael Luo Published: August 7, 2008

[Nachum]

RIVERSIDE, California: The Jordanian business partner of a prominent Florida businessman, who has raised more than $500,000 for Senator John McCain, appears to be at the center of a cluster of questionable donations to his Republican presidential campaign. Campaign finance records show that McCain collected a little more than $50,000 in March from members of a single extended family, the Abdullahs, in California and several of their friends. Amid a sea of contributions to the McCain campaign, the Abdullahs stand out. The checks come not from the usual well-off coastal addresses, but from lower-income inland California towns like Downey and Colton. The donations also stand out because of their size - several donors initially wrote checks of $9,200, exceeding the $2,300 limit for an individual gift.

[Anti-Hillary]

The moonbats at DU are licking their chops with this one.

[marron]

I’m ok with looking into McCain’s financing as long as we do the same with Obama.

Arabs in California are donating to McCain? Fine, lets look at it, but lets also look at arabs in Gaza supporting Obama.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Gotta love the New York Slimes. Hope they will be as diligent in checking Hussein’s contributors.

[SolidWood]

How will the media handle this as compared to Palestinian donors for Obama?

[jamese777]

Gotta love the New York Slimes. Hope they will be as diligent in checking Hussein’s contributors.

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The article was from the International Herald Tribune, not the New York Times.

[Nick Danger]

The wheels of Campaign Finance Reform grind exceedingly Feingold.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Bring up the link and read the mast head.

[101voodoo]

There is but ONE thing in this article that appears to illegal. I say APPEARS to be because if the maximum amount for a single contributor was violated and the money not returned then that would in fact be an infraction. But these people are all American citizens and despite their not being obviously wealthy the article says the seem to be owners of successful businesses.

I see this as an attempt to use the pathetic old moral equivalency argument to try and get the “One “ off the hook with his completely illegal foreign donations fro Hamas.

[SierraWasp]

Whata you guys think about this from MarketWatch?

[calcowgirl]

I agree with most of the first page.

I couldn’t access the 2nd page (dang javascript!)

[SierraWasp]

Go back to that first page and tell it to format for “print” and it will put it all out there for ya at once...

[calcowgirl]

I tried that and it wouldn’t load. It started, but after a few seconds it just went to a white screen.

[rabscuttle385]

The Jordanian business partner of a prominent Florida businessman, who has raised more than $500,000 for Senator John McCain, appears to be at the center of a cluster of questionable donations to his Republican presidential campaign.

So much corruption, so little time...

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