Obama '08 campaign fined $375,000 by FEC

Commission for reporting violations related to a set of donations received during the final days of the campaign.

The fines are among the largest ever levied on a presidential campaign by the FEC and stem from a series of missing notices for nearly 1,200 contributions totaling nearly $1.9 million.

Dubious donations: A case study
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/10/dubious-donations-a-case-study-2.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+%28Power+Line%29

Here’s Evidence of Foreign Campaign Donations
http://bigjournalism.com/jdunetz/2010/10/12/attn-msm-heres-evidence-of-foreign-campaign-donations/

Hypocrisy? CNBC Shows More ‘Foreign-Connected’ Money Goes to Dems by a ‘Healthy Margin’

It seems like a phony issue for the a struggling Obama administration to be promoting – the allegations that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce may or may not be using foreign contributions to fuel political ads against Democrats. However, President Barack Obama would be best advised to make sure his party wasn’t doing something similar before using the bully pulpit to push this meme.

On CNBC’s Oct. 11 broadcast of “Power Lunch,” CNBC Washington correspondent Eamon Javers laid out the latest ramped up attacks on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce from the president.

...more (w/video)...

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/10/11/hypocrisy-cnbc-shows-more-foreign-connected-money-goes-dems-healthy-margi

Obama Turns Blind Eye to Credit Card Donation Fraud

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_illegal_donations/2008/10/21/142761.html

What do Bart Simpson, Family Guy, Daffy Duck, King Kong, O.J. Simpson and Raela Odinga have in common?

All are celebrities; and with the exception of Odinga and O.J. Simpson, they also are fictional characters. And yet, all of them gave money earlier this month to the campaign of Barack Obama, without any apparent effort by the campaign to screen them out as suspect donors.

The Obama fundraising machine may owe its sensational success in part to a relaxation of standard online merchant security practices, which has allowed illegal donations from foreign donors and from unknown individuals using anonymous “gift” cards, industry analysts and a confidential informant tell Newsmax.

**“OBAMA’S FOREIGN DONORS: THE MEDIA AVERTS ITS EYES”**

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_donor_contributions_sil.html

(He accepts credit cards including Macy’ s!)

**Fictitious Donors Found in Obama Finance Records**

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/us/politics/10donate.html?ref=politics

Last December, someone using the name “Test Person”, from “Some Place, UT”, made a series of contributions, the largest being $764, to Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign totaling $2,410.07.

Someone identifying himself as “Jockim Alberton”, from 1581 Leroy Avenue in Wilmington, Del., began giving to Mr. Obama last November, contributing $10 and $25 at a time for a total of $445 through the end of February.

The only problem? There is no Leroy Avenue in Wilmington. And Jockim Alberton, who listed his employer and occupation as “Fdsa Fdsa”, does not show up in a search of public records.

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