The Clinton corruption appears to moving forward unabated. This time there is news that a new bundler has taken over for Chung Seto and Norman Hsu:
Hillary has a Texas border town bundler, Alonzo Cantu, who, according to the Washington Post,
“…persuaded more than 300 people in Hidalgo County, where the median household income in 2006 was $28,660, to write checks ranging from $500 to $2,300 to the senator from New York.”
According to the Post, Clinton has raised $640,000 from donors in and around McAllen, the principal city in Hidalgo County, while Obama is running at $2,086. One donor, Cantu’s brother-in-law, is quoted as saying, with a smile, “The last thing you want to do is get on Alonzo’s bad side.”
Cantu’s bundling role among a less affluent population is reminiscent of Ms. Seto’s fundraising success among waiters and dishwashers in NYC’s Chinatown. Perhaps in the days ahead we’ll know if all of Cantu’s donors can be found. Or not.
On top of all that is the news that one of the big contributors to her and her husbands campaign is in deep doo doo:
The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an investigation into spending by database marketer InfoUSA Inc.
The Omaha-based company said in a filing Tuesday that it would cooperate with the SEC’s request for documents related to expense reimbursement, transactions with related parties, some corporate expenditures and certain trades of company stock.
The company did not specify what spending the SEC is looking for, but a lawsuit two hedge funds filed earlier this year may offer some clues.
~~~The lawsuit also questions why [InfoUSA founder Vin] Gupta used private jets to fly Bill and Hillary Clinton on business, personal and campaign trips, and why Gupta gave Bill Clinton a $3.3 million (€2.2 million) consulting contract.
According to the lawsuit, InfoUSA has spent nearly $900,000 (€607,533) since 2001 flying the Clintons to domestic and international locations and political events.
You remember InfroUSA don’t you? The group that sold thousands of names and phone numbers to known scam-artists, some of these names (mostly the elderly) were labeled “These people are gullible.”
To top it all off Dafydd at Big Lizards found that the MSM is doing its best to ensure this kinda news doesn’t get read:
So the New York Times printed two articles about InfoUSA:
- The first discussed how InfoUSA criminally preyed upon
“gullible” elderly victims, including veterans and Alzheimers patients
— but didn’t mention the Clinton connection;- The second, published six months later (when the first
article would have dropped into the memory hole), discloses the deep
Clinton connection to InfoUSA through founder Vinton Gupta… but never
mentions the earlier investigative report on InfoUSA’s aiding and
abetting of criminals who prey upon senior citizens.One would think that a top Clinton donor making millions of dollars by knowingly selling victim-lists
of “gullible” elderly and/or sick vets to heartless con artists, who
then bilk the victims out of their life savings, would qualify as part
of “all the news that’s fit to print;” but evidently, when it comes to
the Clintons, the motto mutates to “all the news we see fit to print.”
We shouldn’t be surprised tho. The liberal MSM has anointed Hillary the next coming of Bill and will do anything to ensure she gets into office. Even becoming a shill for her:
The Clintons insist that they did disclose and “reimburse” InfoUSA,
and its Clintonista founder Vinton “Vin” Gupta, for some of its
contributions, according to the New York Times version of the AP story; though so far, this is based entirely on the Clintons’ word:Mr. Gupta has been a major donor to Democrats and gave
at least $1 million to Mr. Clinton’s presidential library in Arkansas.
Mr. Gupta also took part in a June fund-raiser for Mrs. Clinton in
Manhattan.A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton said in May that all the flights connected to InfoUSA were reimbursed and disclosed in accordance with Federal Election Commission and Senate ethics rules.
Note that Hillary Clinton’s campaign only claims that they reimbursed the air transportation; they say nothing about reimbursing or returning the multi-million dollar contract… to Bill Clinton.
And every week it seems we get more stories just like the above two. But hey, Barbara Streisand is backing Hillary!
Now that’s news.
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The cartoon says it all about who influences Shrillary, other than the money men. It appears there’s enough under the table money to get the average American a life sentence, if they are not connected to the criminal Clintons. When did the average (99% of them) democrat become a criminal?
This stuff is really scary because nothing is done about it. The Senate China Gate panel had them dead to rights,but simply moved past any recriminations. I wonder if those F.B.I. records had anything to do with that. She is very dangerous to this country’s well being.
More than dangerous… She also seems untouchable legally. Every time something comes up, it is hushed and the MSM does not bat an eye. One of President Bush’s only true failures while President was to try to work with the opposition and NOT clean out the den of partisan leftists populating the mid-high level government positions in Depts of Justice, State, the CIA, and the FBI. It is these leftists who have been derailing efforts to combat terrorism everywhere and investigate/punish true corruption at home.
These Hsu/Cantu/Seto (and possibly many more we do not no about yet) fundraising scams ring of a mafia “protection racket” and severe foriegn influence. Nothing new for the Clintons, especially since the donor list for Bill’s library came to light (Hint for the BDS trolls: Look who gives to Bill before screaming “Bush is ‘owned’ by the Saudis”).
It is truly sad that IF Hillary is elected President, the media’s “devotion” to “investigating” Presidents will evaporate. We will get another dose of Clinton worshipping sycophants in the face of more abuses of power and silence as we are attacked again and again by islamic terrorists.
To find out how the strike helps Hillary when she deserves none of it, check out this new hit piece on Hillary at http://thirdrailradio.blogspot.com/
I don’t understand the mechanism by which Hillary recruits these people. Did someone supply her with a secret ‘Fixers R Us’ directory? Do they come to her, knowing they can make some sort of deal? I don’t really see the return these shakedown artists are expecting – if I were a crook like Cantu, I’d probably just keep the money for myself, but maybe he figures he can get something of greater value from Clinton. Maybe it’s sort of like Hsu, where there seemed to be some sort of ego issue involved. It’s hard to comprehend.
You know bbartlog, that is a great question and the answers may be terrifying but need to be truly investigated. What have these people to gain from all of this? There is no question they do it, but why?
-Access to Clinton’ coattails as the Clintons pursue absolute power?
-Juicy contracts (I think Sen Fienstein and Boxer have experience with these also, but they are democrats, so ethics seem to not apply to them) or access to no-bid contracts?
During the Dubai Ports issue, few in the media cared that Dubai’s paid agents in the US was none other than Bill Clinton and his former cabinet. The Justice Department cared (a little) because the salary Bill received was not reported by Hillary in violation of Senate Ethics regulations. That alone SHOULD have thrown her from office, but she is as slick as her husband.
-This is really “Protection money” to keep leftists from investigating what these donors do when the left calls for the “rich” to be punished?
-Outright bribes to ‘look the other way’ as these donors engage in illicit activities?
-A conduit for foreign influence to the democrats with plausible deny-ability?
Any one of these is a scary prospect. However, I think a “all of the above” applies and that should make people shudder.