The Daily Beast gives us a view of the criminal issue involved, it makes the point that this abuse of funding laws has been around, in the Obama camp, since the 2008 campaign cycle.
From The
Daily Beast:
Further complicating the issue are websites like
Obama.com—which is owned not by the Obama campaign but by Robert Roche, an
American businessman and Obama fundraiser who lives in Shanghai. Roche’s
China-based media company, Acorn International, runs infomercials on Chinese
state television. Obama.com redirects to a specific donation page on
BarackObama.com, the official campaign website. Unlike BarackObama.com,
Obama.com’s traffic is 68 percent foreign, according to markosweb.com, a
traffic-analysis website. According to France-based web analytics site
Mustat.com, Obama.com receives over 2,000 visitors every day.
The name Robert W. Roche
appears 11 times in the White House visitors log during the Obama
administration. Roche also sits on the Obama administration’s Advisory
Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations, and is a co-chair of Technology
for Obama, a fundraising effort. (In an email exchange, Roche declined to
discuss his website, or his support for the Obama reelection effort, referring
the inquiries to the Obama campaign team. The Obama campaign, in turn, says it
has no control over Roche’s website; it also says only 2 percent of the
donations associated with Obama.com come from overseas.)
But it isn’t just foreign
donations that are a concern. So are fraudulent donations. In the age of
digital contributions, fraudsters can deploy so-called robo-donations, computer
programs that use false names to spew hundreds of donations a day in small
increments, in order to evade reporting requirements. According to an October 2008 Washington Post article, Mary
Biskup of Missouri appeared to give more than $170,000 in small donations to
the 2008 Obama campaign. Yet Biskup said she never gave any money to the
campaign. Some other contributor gave the donations using her name, without her
knowledge. (The Obama campaign explained to thePost that it caught the
donations and returned them.) . . . . . . curiosity up?? I suggest you read the full article at TheDaily Beast.
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