AP spins it as “See, Obama is so transparent that we actually know when his fundraisers get accused of crimes.”
The New York donor, Abake Assongba, and her husband contributed more than $50,000 to Obama’s re-election effort this year, federal records show. But Assongba is also fending off a civil court case in Florida, where she’s accused of thieving more than $650,000 to help build a multimillion-dollar home in the state — a charge her husband denies.
Obama is the only presidential contender this year who released his list of “bundlers,” the financiers who raise campaign money by soliciting high-dollar contributions from friends and associates. But that disclosure has not come without snags; his campaign returned $200,000 last month to Carlos and Alberto Cardona, the brothers of a Mexican fugitive wanted on federal drug charges.
The Obama campaign is not transparent. It may not even be fundraising within the law. At the other end of the Obama campaign’s fundraising, the low dollar donation end they have been emphasizing and using to raffle off dates with the president, they have apparently switched off the credit card address verification system again. Adrian Murray posted this on facebook, on March 31.
The fraud continues. Just went to barackobama.com and donated $3 using the name Adolph Hitler, 123 Nuremburg Way, Berlin, Germany and for good measure put in Dictator of Nazi Party as employer. Got an email back saying Dear Adolph, Thank you for your generous donation….
The point? To prevent credit card fraud, merchants require that the address match what the credit card issuer has on file. Called the Address Verification System (AVS), an additional layer of protection requires the three digit security code. The Obama team has disabled the AVS so anyone anywhere in the world can anonymously donate to his campaign, thereby exceeding campaign donation limits and violating federal finance laws. They pulled the same stunt in 2008, but the media wouldn’t report it.
The Obama campaign switched the AVS off in 2008, and the MSM never called them on it. Murray followed up by trying the same trick with two of the Republican candidates’ web sites:
I then went to the Romney and Santorum websites and tried the same thing. Both rejected the donations with a message that the address could not be verified as belonging to the card holder.
Try it. Make up a name and an address and donate to Obama. Then try it with the other two. Only Obama will accept the donation.
Disabling the AVS system has to be done intentionally. According to Adrian Murray, it has been done on the Obama campaign web site — again.
Most transparently corrupt administration ever.
The Obama team has disabled the AVS so anyone anywhere in the world can anonymously donate to his campaign, thereby exceeding campaign donation limits and violating federal finance laws.
From Russia With Love…
This is why if you allow Democrats in executive office, we may one day find that there is no rule of law left, and that corruption becomes endemic. Not because GOP officials are necessarily more angelic, though the fact that churchmembers are a big part of their base means that there is at least a need to be not openly brazen with the corruption (just look at what has happened to Ben Nelson and the “Nebraska Kickback”. Hints of corruption and deals can in fact doom candidates in red-leaning areas if too obvious). No, in my view the reason why, if you care about liberty and corruption, that ypu do to not want a Dem in an executive office is that with the GOP the MSM will be vigilant for the public, and aggressively so.
With a Democrat, they just will not, and I think enough empirical evidence can be mustered if needs be to prove the point. This means every time a Democrat is President you are just hoping he doesn’t violate some law or the other–because unless it is a big violation, the newshounds aren’t really looking that hard.
Thus–If Officer Campos had not been killed, would “Fast and Furious” still be going on? Because why should I believe that the New York Times would have really dug into the story? Why?
Sorry–”Cornhusker Kickback” and Officers Terry and Zapata.
– one election cycle left.