Banner ad

Monday, November 26, 2007

Doesn't this story of another Clinton donor scandal sound all too familiar?

Doug Ross has a lot of information looking at the rather suspicious relationship between the Clintons and a man named Vin Gupta who has donated millions to various Clinton outlets - his library, her 1999 Millennium party and her campaigns. He's signed Bill on as a consultant and provided his jet for them to travel around in. Gupta's company is InfoUSA that provides marketing lists, and the New York Times has investigated their use of the lists to target vulnerable elderly people and milk them over the phone of their savings. After promising to keep the list of donors to the Clinton library private, the library sold that list to InfoUSA. This is a list that the Clintons refuse to make public. But they're willing to make money off of selling it to InfoUSA. The company is being sued by shareholders and investigated by the SEC for all the money Gupta has shoveled to the Clintons.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an investigation into spending by a database marketer in Omaha that already faces a lawsuit contending that the company misspent millions, some of it on Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The shareholder lawsuit contends that Vin Gupta, founder of the company, InfoUSA, used private corporate jets to fly the Clintons on business, personal and campaign trips; that Mr. Gupta gave Bill Clinton a $3.3 million consulting contract; and that the company paid for luxuries that Mr. Gupta enjoyed.
And then, there are the other Democrats that Gupta has made wealthier.
Mr. Gupta signed Mr. Clinton as a consultant after he left office. Over the years, he appointed Mr. Kerrey, Mr. Pressler, Mr. McAuliffe and Senator Ben Nelson, a Nebraska Democrat, to the boards of his companies, and gave jobs to Mr. Kerrey’s brother, William, and Ms. Pelosi’s son, Paul.
And Gupta has now bought a company that does some of the polling for CNN.

It all is typical Clinton stuff with the whiff of an unseemly big donor to the Clintons and suspect connections. As Glenn Reynolds said,
I HAVE TO SAY that when the Clintons were off the national stage, I didn't miss stuff like this.
When Obama says he represents a change from old-time politics, stories like this give his claim some resonance.

Check out Gateway Pundit for more.

No comments: