Posted on 02/18/2022 8:58:29 AM PST by bitt
Long before FBI computer contractor and Clinton operative Rodney L. Joffe allegedly trolled Internet traffic for dirt on President Trump, he mined direct-marketing contact lists for the names and addresses of unwitting Americans to target in a promotional scam involving a grandfather clock.
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Not just any clock, mind you, but a “world famous Bentley IX” model, according to postcards his companies mailed out to millions of people in the late 1980s claiming they'd won the clock in a contest they never entered. There was just one hitch: the lucky winners had to send $69.19 in shipping fees to redeem their supposedly five-foot mahogany prize.
Tens of thousands of folks forked over the fees, only to discover the grandfather clock that arrived was nothing as advertised. It was really just a table-top version made of particle board and plastic and worth less than $10. Some assembly was required.
The scheme generated thousands of complaints, sparking federal and state investigations. Joffe and his then-California partner, Linda M. Carella, were eyed by federal postal authorities and several state attorneys general for allegedly operating a multi-state mail-order scheme. Joffe settled several state lawsuits by agreeing to refund hundreds of thousand of dollars mainly to elderly victims, according to several published reports at the time.
Joffe and his attorney did not respond to requests for comment. But in a phone interview, Carella told RealClearInvestigations that Joffe ran the operation. “I was just the secretary, the receptionist,” Carella, 76, said from her home in Florida, where she is now retired (though she picked up the returned postcards and checks from mailboxes).
Carella said she quit after the investigation: “I said I don’t want anything more to do with this … I have not seen Rodney since then.” But Joffe pressed on with his direct-mail marketing
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com ...
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Oh, wait...
Whatever happened with that Pakistani IT company that spied on congress. I never made a significant effort to follow it, but it sure seems like that got massively swept under the swampy rug
Whatever happened with that Pakistani IT company that spied on congress. I never made a significant effort to follow it, but it sure seems like that got massively swept under the swampy rug
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good question.
imran awan & his tribe fell off the radar screnn after they returned home to pakistan
(after leaving behind another one of those pesky lap tops that nobody wants to investigate)
So a company headed by a spam-scam pioneer passed the background checks needed to access White House communications. Wonder if that was questioned and overridden during the contract process, and by whom.
WHO???
Prior criminal experience was probably a requirement for the job.
I know you did not write the headline, but why the pejorative quotes around “spied?”
On Imran Awan, FBI finished investigation summer of 2018. Couple of fed charges, and he pled guilty.....doing time served and three months of ‘supervision’. I think there was a fine somewhere in the mix.
January of 2020, this guy and associates file a civil suit against the Daily Caller (slander I think). Nothing much has come from that episode.
CHECKERED PAST??? OMG!!! CHECKERED PRESENT!! What a TOTALLY CORRUPT DEMOCRAT!!! FRIEND OF COMEY, TOO!!!
GREAT QUESTION!!~ WHERE are the TOTALLY CORRUPT AWAN FAMILY??
He*&...I took more grief over traffic violations than THEY get for major crimes!!
Send the sonofabitch back to South Africa, from whence he came and where he belongs.
Why, rino’$, of course! It’s a gravy train!
Another kind of clockboy
Law is for the little people.
Just the kind of slime-ball Hillary was looking for...
It WAS swept under the rug.
A pretend investigation and the obligatory “Nothing to see here. Move along. Don’t be an islamaphobe, you bigot”,
Hillary surrounds herself with the lowest of low life unethical crooks. They are the only ones that would carry out her devious illegal orders.
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