Posted on 10/02/2008 8:21:29 AM PDT by hecht
Why is FEC Keeping Lid on OBAMA SCANDAL?
It looks as if Senator Obama may have received MORE THAN $200 MILLION in illegal donations including millions overseas campaign donations. Four times during the last three months an FEC Auditor has asked his bosses to start an investigation into Senator Obama's illegal campaign donations such as this one
Similarly, a donor identified as “Pro, Doodad,” from “Nando, NY,” gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations, most of them for $25. For most of these donations, Mr. Doodad Pro listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You,”
"Loving You" is a noble thought but perhaps "Ignoring the Law" would have been a better name for this obviously bogus donor. The FEC Auditor has been pushing for an investigation since July, but his bosses are refusing to launch an investigation so close to the election. The question is WHY? Shouldn't Americans know one of the candidates are breaking the rules? More below:
Obama’s Fishy $200 Million By The Prowler Published 10/2/2008 12:08:46 AM
FUNNY MONEY An auditor for the Federal Election Commission is attempting to have his bosses seek a formal investigation into the collection by the Obama for President campaign of more than $200 million in potentially illegal political donations, including millions of dollars of illegal, foreign donations, and has sought a request for assistance from the Department of Justice or Federal Bureau of Investigation. But the analyst's requests have largely been ignored. "I can't get anyone to move. I believe we are looking at a hijacking of our political system that makes the Clinton and Gore fundraising scandals pale in comparison. And no one here wants to touch it."
One reasons cited by his superiors, says the analyst, is that involvement by the Justice Department or FBI would be indicative of a criminal investigation, something the FEC would prefer not take place a month before the presidential election. Such actions, though, have been used to scuttle Republican campaigns in the past, the most famous being the Weinberger case in the days leading up to the 1992 re-election bid of President George H.W. Bush.
The analyst, who declines to be identified for fear of retribution, says that on four different occasions in the past three months, he sought to open formal investigations into the Obama campaign's fundraising techniques, but those investigations have been discouraged. "Without formal approval, I can't get the resources I need, manpower, that kind of thing. This is a huge undertaking." And the analyst says that he believes that campaign finance violations have occurred.
The Obama campaign has already had to deal with several FEC complaints about fraudulent donors and illegal foreign contributions, and the FEC says it has no record that those complaints have been resolved or closed. As well, the Obama campaign has been cagey at times about the means by which it has made its historic fundraising hauls, which now total almost $500 million for the election cycle. The Hillary Clinton campaign raised questions about the huge amount of e-retail sales the Obama campaign was making for such things as t-shirts and other campaign paraphernalia, and how such sales were being tracked and used for fundraising purposes. While the profits of those items counted against the $2,300 personal donation limit, there have always been lingering questions about the e-retail system.
"The question has always been, if you buy a $25 t-shirt and you go back to that purchaser eight or nine times with email appeals for $200 or $500 donations, and you have people donating like that all the time, at what point does the campaign bother to check if the FEC limit has been exceeded?" says a former Clinton campaign fundraiser. "There are enough of us from the 1992 and 1996 and 2000 races around to know that many of these kinds of violations never get caught until after the election has been won or lost. In this case, there is no way the Obama campaign will be held accountable before Election Day, unless someone raises holy hell."
The FEC analyst says that Obama's filings indicate he has received large, bundled sums of donations from overseas, sometimes exceeding a quarter millions dollars. "It's suspicious, but it's the small donations made by credit card that need to be examined. We've raised red flags on many of these and the Obama campaign just ignores us. After this election, after we've sifted through everything -- if we're allowed to sift through everything -- I am confident that we are looking at perhaps the largest fine every leveled against a national campaign entity."
Just as frustrating as the lack of desire on the part of his bosses to act, says the analyst, is that major media outlets have ignored the story he has been attempting to tell. Thus far, Newsmax is one of the few publications to cover the Obama campaign finance scam story.
Pamela at Atlas Shrugs originally broke this story back in JULY, here is her latest installment on the Obama Campaign Financing Scandal.
Fix is in. How is Palin going to explain going for the bailout?
President Bush's FEC asppointments are intentionally blocked in the Senate... until after the election!
Thus the FEC is lacking a quorum with which to act upon anything!
Because the FEC only does what it has done for the past 35 years that it has been with us: Nothing.
Bush's Fault (tm)
No scandal here. Move along...
after all the threads yesterday I’m sick to my stomach for what is in store for this country and my children and grandchildren if Nobama wins-
Obama is our anointed savior, and everyone seems to know it but us peons. Still, we will do our part by bashing McCain, and assuring his godness a win. It’s the least we can do. ...A god can do no human wrong. Obama need not prove he is a US citizen, or prove that any of his past is what he says it is, or prove that his incredible accumulation of fabulous wealth is anything other than divine revelation of his greatness. A new age is upon us. This is the dawning of the age of Obama.
Cause he’s a RAT?
It’s the same reason
Gwin Ifill is moderating the vice presidential debate.
Uh oh - this guy better be careful or the Obama Truth Squad will see him behind bars!
Sounds like a great question for Palin to present to Sen Biden this evening, with the proper set up.
FEC has asked DOJ to get involved and they have not heard back. Bush’s DOJ is no better then Clintons IMHO.
For those on this thread that want to keep moaning about the bailout, put a lid on it. You have two choices to suck it up and vote for McCain/Palin or to whine and get Obama/Biden at which time the buyout is going to look like pennies to what we see going out of your pockets with Obama/Biden, two of the biggest liberals in the Senate.
McCain had no choice but to vote for it — he was already getting slammed and a vote NO would not have brought him any votes and most people whining now were either not going to vote for him because _______, are 3rd party types, don’t like any of the candidates that could get elected, and/or are trolls trying to stir things up. That’s the way I see it.
I don’t like the bailout, but it is not a make or break issue with me because I see a bigger picture and that is the tax and spend Obama especially in foreign countries. Don’t want to hear any of the we are going to teach the GOP a lesson again. We got the message when the House/Senate flipped to Dem control and caused this mess.
Want to get mad at someone? How about Paulson, Bernacke, along with Cox for allowing it to get this far or better yet how about the people that caused it starting with Carter, then Dodd and Franks. Greed took over and we are left holding the bag. Anyone who bought a home that couldn’t afford it was stupid. Selling paper to China was stupid. A lot of stupid things have happened and now some of you want to blame the one man that has been yelling about the problem for years? Give me a break!
Want to do something constructive, get out and work for a candidate for a change instead of sitting behind a computer whining.
My more then two cents!
Does anyone remember reading the post earlier this week that said that they had a friend in an important newsroom that had a few too many glasses of wine and started talking? The post said that the MSM had so much on Obama that they were waiting until after the election because scandals bring in huge ratings. Probably all BS. Did anyone else read this?
Go here
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html, read ‘The Making of a fuerher’- the best explanation I’ve found of the Obama- worship insanity. It’s a legitimate psychological disorder.
Obama has a mental disorder and Obama supporters are his co-dependents.
For her sake, if asked tonight whether she would have voted for the bill if she were a senator from Alaska, I hope she says no. She disagrees with McCain on this one.
The analyst, who declines to be identified for fear of retribution,SPIN
My more then two cents!
You are almost up to a nickle but spot on.......
The US has ceased being a nation of laws and has become a nation of privilege and graft. The government will gladly put someone in jail for many years for having a few grams of cocaine, but if you steal $50 million from employee pension funds, completely ignore campaign finance laws, threaten people with prosecution for speaking their minds against the powerful, and generally cook the books in order to get huge bonuses you get off scot free.
Rules and laws don’t apply to the powerful and the Republicans don’t have the guts to do the right thing. Probably because when you scratch off the filth the ‘Rats have stained everything with, you’ll find Republicans right in there with them.
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