Report: Obama attempting to block major story on donor scandal

[Moneyman]

On Thursday, the Washington Examiner reported that the Obama campaign has been trying to block a story that reveals a major donor scandal being prepared by a national magazine and web site.

"But," Paul Bedard wrote, a "key source said it plans to publish the story Friday or, more likely, Monday."

According to Bedard's sources, "a taxpayer watchdog group conducted a nine-month investigation into presidential and congressional fundraising and has uncovered thousands of cases of credit card solicitations and donations to Obama and Capitol Hill, allegedly from unsecure accounts, and many from overseas."

"That," he added, "might be a violation of federal election laws."

Bedard said that the Obama re-election campaign has received "hundreds of millions in small dollar donations, many via credit card donations through their website. On Thursday, the campaign announced a record September donor haul of $150 million."

"To raise $150 million in a month, you need an awful lot of donors," a post at Hot Air observed.

A similar problem was unearthed during the 2008 campaign when a Kansas City couple reported a "strange" $2,300 donation to Obama that appeared on their credit card statement. The couple said they were McCain voters and would never donate to Obama.

Although Chase dropped the charge, further investigation revealed a number of donations from fictional characters like Bart Simpson, Daffy Duck and King Kong, all using prepaid credit cards. Even "O. J. Simpson" donated $5 to the campaign.

"At the time," Bedard said, "the Washington Post reported that the Obama campaign let donors use 'largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity.'"

In 2008, the Post said that questions were raised when they discovered that Mary T. Biskup, a retired insurance manager from Manchester, MO., had donated $174,800 to the Obama campaign, according to FEC reports.

"Contributors are limited to giving $2,300 for the general election," the Post said.

Worse yet, Biskup told the Post she never donated to the Obama campaign and her credit card was never billed for the donations.

Hopefully this gets published on Monday.



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[Sarah G]

You dummies should start worrying about your registration fraud scandal instead of continuing to dream up Obama scandals that just never seem to work out for you.

 

[rdean]

Republicans complaining about "another" scandal? The problem is that every time they start pointing fingers, they end up being the ones involved in "scandal". Look at voter fraud. Now the felony charges are flying and none of them at Democrats.

 

[chesswarsnow]

Sorry bout that,


1. Obama's a fraud, and all the money in the world won't get him elected again.
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Regards,
SirJamesofTexas

 

[hazlnut]

The teatards are going hog-wild with these conspiracy theories.

It's somewhat amusing watching them scurry around like bugs.

And sad.

 

[Wroberson]

Key word here is "might".

 

[tyroneweaver]

Republicans complaining about "another" scandal? The problem is that every time they start pointing fingers, they end up being the ones involved in "scandal". Look at voter fraud. Now the felony charges are flying and none of them at Democrats.

I would like to but I can't afford the gas to get there.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

You dummies should start worrying about your registration fraud scandal instead of continuing to dream up Obama scandals that just never seem to work out for you.

.....And, THE PATTERN CONTINUES!!!!

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Stupid Fuckin' TEABAGGERS!!!​

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