Hillary Campaign Caught Stealing from Donors [semi-satire]

Some supporters of Hillary Clinton are coming to rue giving out their credit card data to the campaign. It seems that individuals who thought they were agreeing to one-time charges are discovering repeated levies on their accounts in their monthly statements. Upon inspecting her recent Visa Card statements, Carol Mahre found multiple charges amounting to $94. "On the phone they asked me to give $25, which I said was okay," Mahre recounted. "But when I looked at my bill there were three deductions of $25 and one for $19."

Campaign manager Robby Mook attributed the unauthorized charges to "simple human error. As everyone knows the campaign has been hit hard by pneumonia. Hillary hasn't been the only one afflicted with memory loss and neurological seizures. It's easy to see how this could've happened. Thankfully, the overcharges were all of relatively small amounts the loss of which should not result in any major hardship for the victims. At worst it's a case of petty theft, not even a felony. And it pales in comparison with the much bigger stakes of this election."

Keeping the cumulative overcharges under $100 may be a key to the scheme avoiding scrutiny. Roger Mahre, Carol's lawyer son, speculated that "a lot of people don't look carefully at small charges on the credit card bill. So, it wouldn't surprise me that this scam goes largely unnoticed."

Whether the overcharges are just random mistakes or a conscious strategy is a good question. The New York Times reported that Hillary Clinton's first campaign for president in 2008 was forced to reimburse $2.8 million in unauthorized credit card charges. Obama's campaign was forced to reimburse $900,000. And this was just in response to donors who questioned the charges. There's no telling how many donors might have been unaware of the thefts.

MSNBC talking head Chris Matthews wondered whether "we are making too much of this whole business. Most of the money these people are spending is wasted on nonessential junk. Is the redirection of some of these squandered resources toward the important objective of aiding the election of a person who will advance the progressive agenda really a bad thing? I would have to say that on balance that it is not."

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If people never learned to lie, this is how they would justify cheating and stealing. In their minds they are doing good deeds, taking money the donors would otherwise ‘waste’ and putting it to use for the ‘common good’.

Keeping the total under $100 is deliberate since this is the threshold credit card companies use to determine fraud. Under $100, they just charge it back and forget about it. Over $100 and they investigate the charges. The fact that each of these victims are robbed of amounts that total in the $90 range proves they are keeping records of how much they have stolen and from whom they stole, and that is why the 4th charge is an odd number like $19 instead of $20 or $25 - to ensure the total stays under $100.

This is obviously a deliberate, orchestrated and systematic fraud. They must have some kind of spreadsheet or accounting system to track how much they have stolen and who they stole from, which would be evidence of a large scale conspiracy to commit fraud, and interstate wire fraud/mail fraud. This is no act of a rogue volunteer, no accident, no error human or otherwise. The pattern and breadth of the scheme proves it to be an intentional, conscious, purposefully thought-out crime with intent to avoid detection from any type of authority including the policies of the credit card companies. But of course, I expect that no Attorney Generals will investigate, there will be no Justice Dept inquiry, the cc companies won’t revoke charging privileges, and no FBI or FEC investigation will ensue.

< Some supporters of Hillary Clinton are coming to rue giving out their credit card data to the campaign. It seems that individuals who thought they were agreeing to one-time charges are discovering repeated levies on their accounts in their monthly statements. Upon inspecting her recent Visa Card statements, Carol Mahre found multiple charges amounting to $94. "On the phone they asked me to give $25, which I said was okay," Mahre recounted. "But when I looked at my bill there were three deductions of $25 and one for $19." Campaign manager Robby Mook attributed the unauthorized charges to "simple human error.

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