Posted on 04/23/2017 7:52:38 PM PDT by Leaning Right
Fox News Channel parent News Corporation may be wrapped up in the sexual harassment accusations surrounding host Bill O’Reilly, but the company is facing another long-running scandal involving what appear to be exuberant payments to a Democrat — payments that occurred even as News Corp. was lobbying the New York State executive branch, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo oversees.
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Wow. News Corporation sure didn't get their money's worth here! On second thought, maybe they did.
Man, he bought 3200 copies?
How many doors does he have that he needs doorstops for?
Oh Boy, A Common Core word problem.
Part B. Did he make the minimum $15 per hour?
Part C. If not, whose fault is it?
News Corp should have at least just outright purchased his books to make the numbers line up. They could have given them to all their employees and friends and avoided the scandal. Then the obviously lame product could have made the bestseller list and possibly produced more sales.
Morons don’t know how to cheat well.
No really, this is a trick question, right?
BTW, if memory serves, didn't Hillary and impeached and disbarred and alleged husband Bill get some similar, um, considerations?
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Same way the Ditsy Chicks played to “sold out” shows that were near empty.
News Corp caught bribing a ‘RAT governor...and ineptly attempting to disguise it as book royalties.
Wow.
What does/did news corp get out of this deal?
Some politician writes a book that literally 3000 people wanted to read, yet they get royalties in the 100Ks if not millions.
Like Jim Wright, they simply have the unions buy up thousands of books, then give them away or donate to libraries, or donors.
Who then throw them away.
The perfect money-laundering/ campaign donation scheme.
Really did ANYONE buy Hillary's *second* autobiography?
How about Obama's TWO books?
The ones from 1995 and 2006?
Nobody even knew who he was back then.
Don't tell me that millions of copies were sold.
Don't get me started on the Obama 60 million dollar advance for he and Michelle's memoirs.
Nobody, except for someone like Stephen King sells that in hard copy.
Yet on his taxes, Obama claimed that he was *still* getting six figure royalties.
Time and the power of compound interest?
It’s the advance against royalties. Some publishers think a book will be an instant best seller and they will advance millions to get it. Hillary pulled that scam off. She only had a few book tour engagements because no one showed up for them.
> What does/did news corp get out of this deal? <
Evidently there are a few media-related bills now winding their way through the NY statehouse. If those bills were passed - and signed by the governor - that would be very helpful to News Corp.
I’m sure you know that the book deal was just the visible part of the transaction.
Quite simple. Using basic mathematics, Gov. Cuomo was paid a royalty of approximately $244.69 for each book sold!
I can't imagine what the book's retail price must have been for the Governor to make such a commission on each copy, but it couldn't have left much of a profit margin for the publisher...
How did he make big money from selling very few books??
He was taught by Hillary how to do it.
He got Cattle Futures training from H->!.....
> It’s the advance against royalties. <
Yep, I’m sure that’s the way it will be explained. And that explanation will fly. It’s the perfect cover for a bribe.
Very interesting.
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