Madoff & Stanford Give Big to Democrats

The American Thinker ^ | March 14, 2009 | Randall Hoven

[Scanian]

In case you were wondering, take a trip to Opensecrets.org and search on Bernard Madoff as a contributor. My search says he gave $183,250 over all election cycles, with a cool $100,000 going to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign since 2005 and most of the rest going to individual Democrats.

The usual suspects such as Chuck Schumer, Charlie Rangel, Chris Dodd and Hillary Clinton show up, as well as Ron Wyden, Ed Markey, Frank Lautenberg and other Democrats. Yes, a few Republicans show up, too.

I also looked up that other rip-off artist, R. Allen Stanford. He gave $855,177 by my search. A cool $500,000 of that went to DSCC/Non-Federal Unicorp Association (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee). I also count another $55,000 going to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign, with Chuck Schumer and Chris Dodd again showing up as individuals. Yes, Stanford also gave to Republicans, perhaps as much as 10% of that $855,177.

[Rumplemeyer]

“The usual suspects such as Chuck Schumer, Charlie Rangel, Chris Dodd and Hillary Clinton show up, as well as Ron Wyden, Ed Markey, Frank Lautenberg and other Democrats.”

FOLLOW THE MONEY it always leads to the guilty.

[Farmer Dean]

I would not have expected anything else.It’s just automatic that Dems get stolen money.

[Spok]

I suspect that Madoff will be expecting his quid pro quo at sentencing. I predict he’ll get it. He may also know where enough bodies are buried to get off with a stern talking to. As always, the MSM will ignore/spin/rationalize the result to protect the culpable.