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Obama camp still can't verify return of Arab cash
More questions than answers in illegal donor
WorldNetDaily ^
| August 11, 2008
| Aaron Klein
Posted on 08/11/2008 8:46:17 PM PDT by Syncro
Obama camp still can't verify return of Arab cash
More questions than answers in illegal Middle East donor affair
Posted: August 11, 2008
10:13 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
JERUSALEM One week after WND reported Palestinian brothers inside the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip illegally contributed to Barack Obama's campaign, the Democratic presidential candidate's team has not responded to repeated WND requests for a clarification regarding how purported refunds were returned. The brothers told WND their money was not refunded.
Last week it was exposed Palestinian Gazans Monir, Hosam and Osama Edwan made a series of donations online at Obama's official campaign website totaling more than $30,000.
The donations violate election laws, including prohibitions against receiving contributions from foreigners and accepting more than $2,300 from one individual during a single election.
The Wall Street Journal reported it spoke to Obama officials who said the nearly $33,500 in donations were received between Sept. 20 and Dec. 6 of last year and that most of the money was returned by Dec. 6. The campaign claimed, however, the refunds were not reported to the Federal Election Commission due to a technical error.
The Obama camp insisted the remaining $2,500 was refunded Aug. 4 and that all the refunds will be reflected soon in an amended report. The campaign said new controls are in place to prevent any similar attempts in the future.
But WND spoke to the brothers, who denied the Obama campaign refunded their money.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arab; campaignfinance; donations; hamas; islam; mohammedanism; obama
Here is the complete title:
Obama camp still can't verify return of Arab cash
More questions than answers in illegal Middle East donor affair
Free Republic limits the number of characters in the title of an article, so I had to edit it somewhat.
WND has to be excerpted, so the rest of the article can be read Here
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posted on
08/11/2008 8:46:17 PM PDT
by
Syncro
The Wall Street Journal link in the article goes this:
August 5, 2008, 5:13 pm
Obama Camp Routed Out Illegal Donations from Palestinians
Glenn R. Simpson reports on the presidential race.
Obama campaign officials said a trio of Palestinian brothers in the Middle East attempted last year to make $33,000 in illegal donations to the campaign via the internet.
The brothers sought to buy Obama for President T-shirts in some 97 attempts, 32 of which were initially successful.
They wrongly identified themselves as American citizens, campaign officials said, and listed their address as GA, the abbreviation for Georgia, when in fact they live in a refugee camp in Gaza, a rump city-state between Israel and Egypt that is under the control of Hamas.
The donations came in between Sept. 20 and Dec. 6 and virtually all of the money, about $33,500, was returned by December 6. But the refunds werent reported to the Federal Election Commission due to a technical error, campaign officials said.
The remaining $2,500 was refunded Monday. The refunds will all be reflected shortly in an amended report. New controls to prevent such attempts are now in place, the campaign said.
LOL, hay they were just buying t-shirts!
It does seem that the money actually wasn't returned.
My favorite line from the article:
Gaza, a rump city-state between Israel and Egypt
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posted on
08/11/2008 8:51:34 PM PDT
by
Syncro
To: Syncro
To: Syncro
**More questions than answers in illegal Middle East donor affair**
This will be one to watch.
Anyone want some popcorm?
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posted on
08/11/2008 9:04:49 PM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Salvation
Thanks for the comments.
I found this article because I was reading about this in the FR area called Bloggers & Personal and thought it was an important enough story to be in News/Activism.
Here is a Link to the other article.
Lots of good comments.
Someone asked the Mods to move it to this forum, but it stayed where it was.
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posted on
08/11/2008 9:29:41 PM PDT
by
Syncro
To: Syncro
How can all these things come to light and people still refuse to entertain the thought that he could be a Trojan Horse?
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posted on
08/11/2008 11:00:20 PM PDT
by
Califreak
(Time to give the empty suits a one way ticket to the cleaners!)
To: Syncro
But the refunds werent reported to the Federal Election Commission due to a technical error, campaign officials said. “
Their pencil broke???
Is this another failure to properly report election monies like Hillary is accused of?
BTW- haven’t seen any posts from Doug From Upland lately...Is that trial of Hillary still going forward? Anyone have any news on that front?
To: ridesthemiles
Thanks for the bump
I doubt Hilliary will go to trial for anything.
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posted on
08/12/2008 10:09:31 AM PDT
by
Syncro
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