Obama's $175,000 Donor?

Washington Post ^ | Oct 21, 2008 | Matthew Mosk and Sarah Cohen

[george76]

There have been a smattering of incidents reported in which people have seen credit card charges surface suggesting they donated to Barack Obama when they did not.

Now comes the story of Mary T. Biskup, of Manchester, Missouri. Biskup got a call recently from the Obama campaign, which was trying to figure out why she donated $174,800 to the campaign -- well over the contribution limit of $2,300.

The answer she gave them was simple. "That's an error."

Biskup, a retired insurance manager who occasionally submits recipes to the local paper, says someone used a credit card to donate the money in her name. No charges ever showed up on her credit card statement.

"We're not out a penny," Biskup said. "I gather that someone has hacked into something using other people's credit cards and putting my name on it."

[george76]

Fraudulent registrations. Fraudulent donations. Fraudulent candidate.

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[ari-freedom]

hmmm

[MaxMax]

Now we know how all that money is being funneled into his coffers.
I'll bet Obama will be personally worth over 100-mil before the end of next year.
We need palin in office to clean up crooked Congess and Senators.

[Jet Jaguar]

ping.

[MaxMax]

Wait a minute!@! Do the RATS get to keep the money since there's nobody to give it back too?
LMAO this is getting ridiculous.

[rawcatslyentist]

Fake Butt, accurate description of Dhim candidate.

[Fred]

oh, let me see, could it have been

Odinga, the billionaire cousin from Kenya

[Cindy]

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[Auntie Mame]

This paragraph in the article amused me:

As for Biskup, she said she's been closely following the campaign, and watched every debate. She wouldn't say who she's going to vote for, though she identified herself as a one-time independent who, "after the last eight years" has become "a liberal knee-jerk yellow dog Democrat."

Of course, I don't believe anything I read anymore from the MSM, so apologies in advance to this woman if she didn't actually say this. But what a STUPID STUPID STUPID comment.

[Hanna548]

But wait a minute, the Obama campaign called her to find out what the deal was. It is not as if that donation was discovered by someone outside the campaign.

[smokingfrog]

2008 - The year of the hyped, hijacked and hacked election.

[Robert A Cook PE]

No charges on the printed credit card bill?

How the he*l did THAT happen - and where DID the money come from ?

(Well, at least KNOW where it went - where it ended up that is - but where did the dollars originally come from ? Or which countries from overseas it came from ?)

[A. Goodwin]

There is someone to give it back to: the credit card company. What it sounds like happened is someone got hold of this woman’s credit card info and entered a whole series of donations to Obama. The person who did it either doesn’t like the cardholder, doesn’t like Obama, has a nasty sense of humor, or all three. The CC company transferred the money to the Obama campaign, along with a report of the transaction. The campaign saw the unusual pattern, and inquired. If they hadn’t, the card holder would have noticed when she got the bill, and the transactions would have been reversed then.

This woman should be asking two questions: who is it that has access to her CC info and doesn’t like her, and why is her CC issuer so inept that they didn’t pick up on $175k of unusual activity?

[MaxMax]

"We're not out a penny," Biskup said.

They didn't give her money away, it seems they opened a card with her
name and made donations that way. Possibly pre-paid cards.
That's how I'm reading it.

[A. Goodwin]

That would be good news for her, but either way, if the donations are fraudulent or illegal the money would have to go back the CC company. Unless it was a prepaid card, in which case it would go back to the original purchaser. If the purchaser can’t be found, I guess they’ll just have to put the cash in my account.

[montag813]

Just wait until the ObamaNazis control the nation.

[cardinal4]

How the he*l did THAT happen - and where DID the money come from ?

Thats how they are washing the illegal campaign donations from Kim Jong-IL (pharmaceutical cocaine), Odinga(Thugs for internal security force), Achmedinejad (Barrels of oil at 35.00), and mounds of cash from our friends the Communist Chinese, and Saudi Wahbists.

[sten]

i have to admit... if the obambi campaign called and said i had 'over donated' by $175,000... i would have to say 'sorry... please send it back to me'

take cash from the enemy and enriching my own coffers?
priceless

:)

[Nateman]

It looks like they are using credit card donations to launder money from foreign sources. Read about it here.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/