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Meet Obama’s Million Dollar Muslim Donor
frontpagemag.com/the-point ^ | October 14, 2012 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 10/14/2012 6:22:36 PM PDT by expat1000

The Free Beacon has a brief profile of Kareem Ahmed from TPM, one of the few million dollar donors to Obama’s SuperPACs.

You’d be forgiven if you don’t recognize Ahmed’s name. Before this year, his political giving was limited to a few four-figure checks to California candidates. Several veteran California politics watchers contacted for this story had no idea who Ahmed was, either. But here’s the thing: so far in 2012, Ahmed’s contributions to Obama, Democrats, and the outside spending groups that support them have totaled more than $1.1 million. Ahmed’s wife, Tayyaba Farhat, has contributed another $75,000. At a time when Democrats were most worried about their ability to attract the big-dollar donors that made Republican outside spending groups such behemoths, Ahmed became a gift that kept on giving.

Ahmed’s big checks started coming in February. The first, on Feb. 6, was for $35,800 and made out to the Obama Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee supporting both the Obama Campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Only a few weeks later, two $250,000 donations went to Priorities USA Action, the most prominent Democratic super PAC. In March, Ahmed sent Priorities another $500,000. In April, the Obama Victory Fund got another $40,000. In May, his wife gave the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee $30,800. In June, Ahmed gave $50,000 to House Majority PAC, a super PAC supporting Democratic efforts to retake the House of Representatives. Thousands of dollars from Ahmed and his wife have ended up in the campaign coffers of Democratic state parties and candidates across the country, including Sen. Bill Nelson in Florida, Senate candidate Tim Kaine in Virginia, and Rep. Brad Sherman in California.

Ahmed’s donations have allowed him to rub shoulders with many of the most powerful people in the country. He has been to high-priced fundraisers and events with Obama and the First Lady, including a headline-grabbing May 10 dinner with the President at the California home of the actor George Clooney.

“I hang out with governors, U.S. Senators, Nancy Pelosi is a personal friend,” Ahmed said. “OK, listen, a lot of people are my personal friends.”

Ahmed’s donations to Priorities alone put him in elite company. According to figures maintained by the Center for Responsive Politics, only 55 individuals and married couples have given $1 million or more to super PACs this cycle. As this article was going to publication, Ahmed ranked 15th on the center’s list of the top donors to outside groups who generally support liberal candidates,



TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Florida; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: ahmadiyya; ahmed; bho2012; billnelson; bundlers; compounddrugs; danielgreenfield; donors; election2012; farhat; fundingtheleft; insurance; islam; kareemahmed; karimahmed; mirzaghulamahmad; muslimdonor; muslimmessiah; muslimvote; nancypelosi; obama; obamabundlers; obamacare; obamadonors; pelosi; priorities; prioritiesusa; prioritiesusaaction; soros; superpac; superpacs; tayabbafarhat; workmenscomp
“I really want to educate you, Eric, I really do,” Ahmed said in an interview over the phone in late August. “Because, you know what, because I’m prepared. My law firms are ready to go, and I’ve got PR firms retained already. They’re waiting for your article.”
1 posted on 10/14/2012 6:22:43 PM PDT by expat1000
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To: expat1000

Democrats support philanthropic work and give religious freedom?

This guy is smoking too much compounded substance.


2 posted on 10/14/2012 6:34:07 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: expat1000

follow the money.


3 posted on 10/14/2012 7:20:10 PM PDT by Twinkie (HUSSEIN OBAMA GOTTA GO!!!)
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To: expat1000

Someone please check if this creature has anything - whatsoever - to do with Ameridose.


4 posted on 10/14/2012 7:20:40 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: expat1000

What does Ahmed get for his money? And what is a Muslim man doing hanging out with men of questionable sexual preference such as Barry Soetero and George Clooney?


5 posted on 10/14/2012 8:11:40 PM PDT by arasina (Communism is EVIL. So there.)
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To: expat1000

Jeez...I thought it said...The Free Bacon.


6 posted on 10/14/2012 9:51:44 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (The Obamas = rude, crude and socially unacceptable)
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To: Cindy; kristinn; kcvl

ping


7 posted on 10/14/2012 10:03:02 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: expat1000

How interesting. It appears in reading this article that Mr. Ahmed has earned much of his millions by scamming the California Workman’s Compensation Insurance system, when he isn’t creating snake oil out of legitimate drugs. I’m guessing that, if Obamacare goes into full swing, this “gentleman” and his company will have the inside track on generating billings and some serious dollars therefrom.

A real stand up guy, this Ahmed. Just the kind of slime I’d expect to be putting up big bucks for Barry.


8 posted on 10/14/2012 10:12:17 PM PDT by ssaftler (With apologies to Gene Kranz: "Obama is not an option")
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To: expat1000

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/prioritiesusa/index

yipes


9 posted on 10/14/2012 10:17:42 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Priorities USA, Soros and other douchebags:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2884251/posts?page=1


10 posted on 10/14/2012 10:45:39 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Some interesting stuff there about Soros I did not know. BM for later.

Thanks!


11 posted on 10/14/2012 10:51:22 PM PDT by expat1000
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To: piasa

Thank you for the ping Piasa.
I appreciate it.


12 posted on 10/14/2012 11:40:02 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: expat1000

SCARY!!


13 posted on 10/15/2012 3:11:00 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: expat1000
No - no; listen Ahmad. It was MAHER's million I blew on weed; NOT yours!

Yeah - yeah - that's right.

We still be tight.



14 posted on 10/15/2012 4:57:40 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: expat1000; Hardraade; Liz

Hardraade: re Ameridose -— no search has paired the two names.

Ahmed made his fortune through a billing operation for California’s workers compensation system, as well as through controversial, unregulated “compound” drugs in the form of pain creams that are altered, mixed, or combined from established medicines. Compound drugs are more expensive than established pharmaceuticals and Ahmed’s arrival on California’s insurance scene led to an 800 percent increase in the state’s use of compounds. He later spent thousands of dollars to water down legislation aimed at limiting the practice.
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Landmark Medical Management, which experts and officials in California say is among several that have made millions of dollars over the past few years by capitalizing on a peculiar and newly carved-out corner of the state’s workers’ compensation system.
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Landmark purchases account receivables from medical providers who prescribe compound topical analgesics — pain creams — to workers’ compensation patients, and makes its money by collecting from the insurance companies who owed on those accounts. The workers’ compensation system in California is so choked up with payment disputes that it can take months for a provider to be reimbursed by insurance companies for a service. The way Ahmed sees it, his company creates “liquidity” in the system by purchasing account receivables from doctors and getting them paid quicker. By his own account, he has also taken on a role promoting the medical practices he profits from.
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There are at least six companies tied to Ahmed that are registered to various suites in the same building as Landmark:

HNW Consulting Inc.,
Healthcare Finance Management LLC,
Med-Rx Funding LLC,
Physician Funding Solutions LLC,
Pharmafinance LLC, and
RX Funding Solutions LLC.

The functions of these companies are unclear. All were formed since 2005, and not one currently has a website (neither does Landmark). Landmark is the only one of Ahmed’s companies that appears on the The Inland Atrium’s wall directory. A former Landmark executive suggested to me that several of the companies are used as holding companies for liability and tax reasons.
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Ahmed is also a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, an Islamic movement founded in the late 1800s in India by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who the community holds to be the messiah. Ahmed expressed great pride in having helped organize a visit of the Ahmadiyya community’s current spiritual leader, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, to Congress in late June, when Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) recognized Ahmed by name during remarks from the House floor.
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SOURCES:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/kareem_ahmed_priorities_usa_action_landmark.php

http://freebeacon.com/major-obama-donor-tied-to-pharmaceutical-industry/


15 posted on 10/15/2012 9:08:46 AM PDT by thouworm (.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks expat1000.


16 posted on 10/16/2012 3:17:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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