Suit Sheds Light on Clintons’ Ties to a Benefactor

The New York Times ^ | 5/26/07 | MIKE McINTIRE

[XR7]

When former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton took a family vacation in January 2002 to Acapulco, Mexico, one of their longtime supporters, Vinod Gupta, provided his company’s private jet to fly them there.

The company, infoUSA, one of the nation’s largest brokers of information on consumers, paid $146,866 to ferry the Clintons, Mr. Gupta and others to Acapulco and back, court records show. During the next four years, infoUSA paid Mr. Clinton more than $2 million for consulting services, and spent almost $900,000 to fly him around the world for his presidential foundation work and to fly Mrs. Clinton to campaign events.

Those expenses are cited in a lawsuit filed late last year in a Delaware court by angry shareholders of infoUSA...

The disclosure of the trips and the consulting fees is just a small part of a broader complaint...But for the former president, and for the senator who would become president, it offers significant new details about their relationship with an unusually generous benefactor whose business practices have lately come under scrutiny.

In addition to the shareholder accusations, The New York Times reported last Sunday that an investigation by the authorities in Iowa found that infoUSA sold consumer data several years ago to telemarketing criminals who used it to steal money from elderly Americans. It advertised call lists with titles like “Elderly Opportunity Seekers” or “Suffering Seniors,” a compilation of people with cancer or Alzheimer’s disease...

Jay Carson, a spokesman for Mr. Clinton, would not elaborate on what the former president does for infoUSA, but said that he shared the public’s concern about misuse of personal information.

“It goes without saying that any suggestion that seniors are being preyed upon should be fully investigated and addressed by the appropriate agencies,” Mr. Carson said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/us/politics/26clinton.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

[XR7]

[F]or the senator who would become president, it offers significant new details about their relationship with an unusually generous benefactor whose business practices have lately come under scrutiny. In addition to the shareholder accusations, The New York Times reported last Sunday that an investigation by the authorities in Iowa found that infoUSA sold consumer data several years ago to telemarketing criminals who used it to steal money from elderly Americans.

Now the New York Times reports the depths of the corruption.
Could this be what brings "The Legacy" crashing down?

[Darkwolf377]

I think people give Clinton a pass on the corruption because, well, see, they're Baby Boomers, and you know, the economy was so great, and...

The Clintons are a special case, but I think there are just enough voters not enchanted by them that even if they're not rabid Republicans, they just don't feel the need to revisit that particular "co-presidency" again. This story only reinforces feelings already there, it won't turn anyone off to her who isn't already.

[Irish Eyes]

Thanks, interesting that it is from the NYT.

[miliantnutcase]

The Clinton scandals book has to be about as thick has War and Peace by now.

[Goldwater and Gingrich]

Sure they will print it ... on the one day of the year with the lowest readership.

Not one MSM will report this story.

By tusday it is now week old news.

Free pass time.

[jws3sticks]

Where are the freaking cops with these bozos?

[STARWISE]

U.S. actress Sharon Stone waves to the media as she arrives for an Aids-Life Charity Gala for the benefit of The William J. Clinton Foundation under the patronage of the Austrian president at Vienna's Schoenbrunn castle, on Thursday, May 24, 2007

U.S. actress Sharon Stone, Austrian Life Ball organiser Gerry Keszler and former U.S. President Bill Clinton present a one million dollar cheque for the William J Clinton foundation after an Aids Charity Gala Dinner in Schoenbrunn castle in Vienna May 24, 2007.

Barbra At Clinton Breast Cancer Fundraiser

BEVERLY HILLS — Barbra Streisand, Sharon Stone and Brooke Shields turned out at a cocktail party Monday night to hear former President Bill Clinton talk about breasts. Specifically, Clinton spoke about how health care advances and The National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund can eradicate breast cancer, the disease that claimed his mother, Virginia Clinton Kelley, in 1994.

[KAUAIBOUND]

Just more of the same - the royal Clintoons attracting other parasites like fleas on a dog.

Vinod Gupta owns property here on Kauai, right next to Pierce Brosnan in Haena on the North Shore. When Billy visited Gupta here a couple of years ago, he wanted to play golf at the Prince golf course in Princeville, which has been rated as the top course in Hawaii and in the top ten in the US. The entire golf course was shut down for a day for Billy and his cohorts - I have no idea how much that cost, but at a couple hundred bucks a round for the everyday player and maybe 100 players a day, you can make an educated guess in the neighborhood of at $20,000 for the day. What a waste of money - assuming that they even paid anything.

[STARWISE]

Ping ..

[endthematrix]

I’ll never forget the old interview with Sharron Stone when *GASP* she wasn’t ashamed to have SHOTGUNS under her bed.

[endthematrix]

Duplicate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840024/posts

[FreedomPoster]

Ping. We’ve *never* seen anything like this before, from the Clintons, have we?

[maica]

This is preemptive damage control, just like the famous 60 Minutes interview in 1992 made discussion of his sexual activities “Old News.”

Any candidate who may challenge the Clintons on this particular perfidy will just be told “we don’t care to discuss it, it is old news.”

[angcat]

These Hollywood sluts are like flies to shit when it comes to ol Bubba.

[pleikumud]

Great analogy!

[Victor]

'......an investigation by the authorities in Iowa found that infoUSA sold consumer data several years ago to telemarketing criminals who used it to steal money from elderly Americans. It advertised call lists with titles like “Elderly Opportunity Seekers” or “Suffering Seniors,” a compilation of people with cancer or Alzheimer’s disease......."

Seems like Missus Bill is avoiding the Iowa caucuses; so I've read.

Wonder why...?

[LonePalm]

Oh, it passed War and Peace awhile ago.

It's now so thick they refer to it as the Lieble.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[mewzilla]

I see the paper's running this on a Saturday.

Anyone know where this appeared in the dead tree edition? Just curious.

[mewzilla]

Gupta ping.

[Rockitz]

I heard Dick Morris crowing about this “find” on the Hugh Hewitt show on Thursday.