Posted on 09/21/2015 4:41:01 AM PDT by jimbo123
Carly Fiorina, a Republican candidate president and the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, presents herself on the campaign trail as a hawk on Iran. Shes promising to take a hardline on the regime in Tehran.
However, during her time as the chief executive of HP, she sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of products to Iran through a foreign subsidiary, despite strict U.S. export sanctions, Bloomberg reports.
While running the show at HP, Fiorina thwarted sanctions by dealing with Iran through European and Middle Eastern companies, allowing for the tech company to dominate the market in Tehran. By 2007, HP-made printers accounted for 41 percent of the total market share in the country, the report states.
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Except that under the sanctions regime, selling to Iran either directly or by proxy was illegal.
It was a 3rd party vendor. It was investigated and no one at HP was found to be responsible for their re-sales.
So now they have to buy ink for them? No wonder they want to kill us.
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