Mystery Donor Funnels $250K To Edwards

New York Sun ^ | 9/15/06 | JOSH GERSTEIN

[bitt]

A mysterious $250,000 donation used to bankroll a political committee controlled by a potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, John Edwards, highlights a gap in federal laws requiring reporting of political contributions.

In June, a closely held company gave a quarter of a million dollars to the One America Committee, a so-called 527 organization affiliated with Mr. Edwards, who became the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in 2004 after making a spirited but ultimately unsuccessful bid for the presidential nomination.

A report that the committee filed with the Internal Revenue Service identified the donor as Oak Spring Farms, LLC, and listed an address of 160 Central Park South, which is the location of the Jumeirah Essex House Hotel. The firm's "occupation" was described as "investments/savings." No other details about the company were made public.

However, a search of Federal Election Commission records linked the firm to a Manhattan trust attorney, Alexander Forger. Reached at his midtown office Wednesday, the lawyer told The New York Sun that he was not a principal in Oak Spring Farms.

[texastoo]

Hey, that fish is rotten! Whew!!!

[antceecee]

"'"I'm simply acting on behalf of somebody else," Mr. Forger said. He declined to identify the owners of the company or to discuss its other activities."


Mr. Forger.... LOL! Is the double-entendre of his name indicative of his other activities?

[antceecee]

Somethin' is very fishy!!!!!


(Love the graphic).

; ~ )

[bitt]

[nopardons]

Soros or Hillary.

[Don Corleone]

Thank you McCain/Fiengold

[windchime]

Some interesting posts here:

The Breck Girl's mystery donor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702128/posts

[goresalooza]

I think this is evidence of even more fun: things are so bad within the dim party that even the lowly Breck girl is getting contributions. They are continuing to implode. And yawn kerry thinks "he's all that." Algore is possibly going to run, and hitlery is possibly NOT going to run.

LOL. The dims don't know who to fund, who their "man" is.

[MinuteGal]

"The donors listed an address which is the location of the Jumeirah Essex House Hotel".

"Jumeirah"???????

Ah yes, by Allah (blessed be his name).

Leni

[MinuteGal]

bump

[pepperdog]

Somebody should tell McCain about this, I'm sure he'll get right to work finding out and exposing the person who is circumventing his nifty little campaign finance reform law. McCain, you idiot see what you've done? You are so stinking smart, you've set up a system that will allow people like OBL and Soros funnel $$$ through fake organizations and buy elections!

[MinuteGal]

"The donors (to Edwards) listed an address which is the location of the Jumeirah Essex House Hotel".

Well, here it is, folks........

The Jumeirah is owned by Dubai (Arab /Muslim) Holdings, a Dubai government entity.

And here we thought they were only buying up the management of all our ports (/s).

Leni

[finnigan2]

My top three guesses as to the identity of the "mystery donor":

1. The ACLAA (Ambulance Chasing Lawyers Association of America)
2. The Mellon Foundation
3. Soros (or one of his shell charity organizations)

[pepperdog]

I proudly posted before reading, it's ironic that so many of us id'd Soros and muslims isn't it? Great minds do think alike. Can't wait to see the headlines on this...there will be headlines won't there???

[Arizona Carolyn]

I admit up front the whole campaign contributions issue confuses the heck out of me, more since since McCain muddied the waters. Is this legal for an unknown party to funnel $250K to a Presidential candidate without revealing who it it? What if it' Hugo Chavez or another foreign country trying to manipulate our political process?

[KenmcG414]

WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY???

[bitt]

see #52
""The donors (to Edwards) listed an address which is the location of the Jumeirah Essex House Hotel".
Well, here it is, folks........

The Jumeirah is owned by Dubai (Arab /Muslim) Holdings, a Dubai government entity.

And here we thought they were only buying up the management of all our ports (/s)."

[devolve]

[bitt]

timely!

[potlatch]

I like that one!