do I really have to say it???
Posted on 05/29/2007 2:58:42 PM PDT by stm
Since he left office in 2001, former president Bill Clinton has been paid by $3.3 million by InfoUSA, an Omaha, Nebraska company that has been identified as a key provider of specially designed databases that have been sold to criminals who use the detailed information to defraud the unsuspecting elderly.
The consulting fees to the former president were only part of the largess InfoUSA showered on the former president.
Vinod Gupta, the CEO of InfoUSA, lent the Clintons the company's jet which took them to places like Switzerland, Hawaii, Jamaica and Mexico.
The jet service was worth a staggering $900,000.
And Gupta gave the Clinton library a six-figure gift as well. Indeed, just months after he left the presidency, Bill Clinton was paid $200,000 for a speech given to InfoUSA in Omaha.
InfoUSA is not the kind of company with which a former president and the husband of a presidential candidate should associate.
According to the The New York Times, InfoUSA compiled and sold lists that disclosed the names of elderly men and women who would be likely to respond to unscrupulous scams.
he lists left no doubt about the vulnerability of the elderly targets.
The Times reported, for example, that InfoUSA advertised lists of "Elderly Opportunity Seekers," 3.3 million older people "looking for ways to make money," and "Suffering Seniors," 4.7 million people with cancer or Alzheimer's disease. "Oldies but Goodies" contained 500,000 gamblers over 55 years old, for 8.5 cents apiece. One list said: "These people are gullible. They want to believe that their luck can change."
InfoUSA sold lists to companies that were under investigation or closed down by courts because of their criminal activity. The company's internal emails show that employees were aware that the investigation for elderly fraud involved their customers, but sold the lists anyway.
The Times profiled one unfortunate 92-year-old man who entered a sweepstakes sponsored by InfoUSA. The information that he innocently provided was then sold to the predator marketers. After responding to their telemarketing calls seeking financial information, his entire life savings was stolen from his bank account at Wachovia Bank. These practices, using lists supplied by InfoUSA, were repeated all over the country.
Last week, Hillary Clinton sought and obtained an extension of time to file her presidential candidate financial disclosure statement.
Unlike the information required of Senators, this filing requires her to list not just the sources of Bill's income but exactly how much they paid him.
While Senator Clinton offered no reason for the postponement, one cannot help wondering if a desire to conceal InfoUSA's payments to her husband while the company is under fire.
The extent of the company's payments to Bill only came out as a result of a lawsuit by disgruntled stockholders against the company management.
The relationship between Bill Clinton and Vinod "Vin" Gupta, the CEO and Chairman of InfoUSA is both long-standing and deep.
A frequent Clinton donor, he has stayed in the Lincoln Bedroom, admitted to donating $1,000,000 to the Clinton Library and told the press that he'd consider an additional donation.
Again, since the Clintons refuse to disclose who donated money to the library, we don't know the total that he actually gave. In late 1999, Gupta gave $2,000,000 for Hillary Clinton's Millennium New Year's Eve bash. (They party cost $16 million and was closed to the press!)
The links between Gupta and the Clintons are extensive:
# Gupta raised over $200,000 for Hillary's Senate campaigns and contributed thousands to the DNC and Democratic House and Senate campaigns.
# InfoUSA was one of the sponsors of the Aspen Festival of Ideas last summer where Bill and Hillary Clinton both spoke.
# Gupta built the Bill Clinton Science & Technology Center and the Hillary Clinton Mass Communications Center in his hometown of Rampur, India.
# Bill and Gupta traveled to India together.
# Gupta reportedly paid for a golf outing for Bill at a legendary Scottish course.
# InfoUSA appointed Terry McAuliffe, the Clinton's longtime moneyman to the Board of Directors of its subsidiary company videoyellowpagesusa.com.
# Clinton appointed Gupta to the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees only a few days before he left office.
# Clinton also nominated Gupta as Consul General of Bermuda and U.S. Ambassador to Fiji, but Gupta was never confirmed.
# Gupta's company co-sponsored the 2006 Clinton Global Initiative.
# Gupta sent a $7000 treadmill to Chappaqua days after the Clintons left the White House. After the New York Post disclosed the gift, the Clintons returned the gift.
Gupta's generosity to the Clintons is only matched by his generosity to himself. InfoUSA has lately been attacked by some of its shareholders, particularly by the Greenwich, Connecticut company Cardinal Capital that went after Conrad Black. Lord Black is now on trial in Chicago for corporate fraud.
Cardinal Capital objected to Gupta's purchase of a $600,000 skybox at the University of Nebraska, his family's charges of $13.5 million in private jet charges, and $2.5 million for the long term lease of a yacht – all with corporate funds.
In addition to his 2001 visit to the company's headquarters, Bill Clinton was back there to speak at a conference on privacy issues in September 2006. Senator Clinton's disclosure statement for that period has not been publicly released, so we don't know how much he was paid.
This connection between the Clintons and InfoUSA only underscores the necessity of full disclosure of income sources and amounts by all the presidential candidates and the release of their income tax returns, a step Mrs. Clinton has, thus far, refused to take.
Why and you not surprised?
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God protect us from these two.
The only thing that is surprising is that it has been made public. Finally.
I don’t know about you, but I’m emailing this link to everyone I know.
I need to proofread better! LOL
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Sounds like the shareholders should be more upset at the corporate business model (not that Bill & Hill don’t deserve complete and total scorn). Is Gupta even a citizen? Probably so but he sure sounds like he should be PNG.
So when it is brought up during the actual election season, Billary can just say that’s old news. Why are we dredging up old news?
Hopefully the New Media will keep on top of this stuff and not let it become old news.
We need to utilize the politics of personal destruction. We can’t just leave it up to them.
Lord they are such scum.
Gupta and CNN on YouTube — http://youtube.com/watch?v=hFXgpG0R83U
Just a wild guess . . . because the Clintons scammed the American sheeple for eight long years and are looking forward to another eight with the complicity of their buddy George Bush who is now campaigning to give us 20 million more Democrat voters.
>>>> SMOKING GUN ALERT <<<<<<<<
Trailer-trash, marxist hillbillies!
Emailing this link is about the only way anyone will find out about it. Dont expect to see this on the Today show. Or any of the news outlets either.
Exactly why I’m emailing it. No one will know until the media is deluged with emails asking for an investigation.
I pray every night that Democracy’s enemies will be exposed and that the leadershihp of this country is given to those who can govern in righteousness.
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One of the most vivid memories I have of the Clinton years was hearing him on the radio talking about the scam artists out there trying to take advantage of the elderly. I remember thinking, “Doesn’t he have more important issues to address?” I’m not surprised that he was talking about himself.
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