Obama, who is Jeanne McCurdy?

John Jay has been assisting me in analyzing small foreign contributions to Obama's campaign that Atlas reader Laura sent me. It appears to be, after cross checking FEC documents, a list of the Obama For America Contributors.

On its face, the list (under 500 pages) is suspect. So many foreign addresses giving money to the Presidential campaign. There are numerous  individuals who are "bundling" contributions, some are smaller from the same person on same day, not to mention lots "unemployed or student".  Further,  there's a ton of  foreign service and State Department admissions.

lots and lots of multiple entries.

 

lots of foreign service, diplomat entries.

 

lots of military analyst types.

 

lots way over any $200 non-reporting caps.

Other overseas contributors are making multiple small donations ostensibly in their own names over a period of a few days, some under maximum donation allowances, but others aggregating in excess of the maximums when all added up.   So while some of the contributions appear legal, others appear clearly over the maximums allowed without greater reporting requirement.  Some of the contributions may bel egal as reported, but "fishy" can only describe the Obama campaign reporting with regard to aggregate contributions. The countries and major cities from which contributions have been received France, Virgin Islands, Planegg, Vienna, Hague, Madrid, London, AE, IR, Geneva,Tokyo, Bangkok, Turin, Paris, Munich, Madrid, Roma, Zurich, Netherlands, Moscow, Ireland, Milan, Singapore, Bejing, Switzerland, Toronto, Vancouver, La Creche, Pak Chong, Dublin, Panama, Krabi, Berlin, Geneva, Buenos Aires, Prague, Nagoya, Budapest, Barcelona, Sweden, Taipei, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Zurich, Ragusa, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Uganda, Mumbia, Nagoya, Tunis, Zacatecas, St, Croix, Mississiauga, Laval, Nadi, Behchoko, Ragusa, DUBIA, Lima, Copenhagen, Quaama, Jeddah, Kabul, Cairo, Nassau(not the county on Long Island,lol), Luxembourg (Auchi's stomping grounds), etc,etc,etc,  but nare ot limited to these countries, as we've have just begun to read through almost 500 pages.

There are way too many overseas contributions and I find it hard to believe they are all American citizens. How does the FEC monitor that? Some of contributions appear to be "bundled" from one person as source to hide the contributions of many, and an example of one among many such "incidents" will clearly show why I arrive at such a conclusion..

A  red flag is a donor like Jeanne McCurdy. Look at the contribution excerpt below. It's a compilation of a mere four pages of listings, pages 40-44,  approximately 9% of the pages of the total document I received, and it lists contributions made by a Jeanne McCurdy, who is always listed as unemployed, and who does not have an address at least as can be found in the files provided (and, as you might well expect, no phone number or email address either).

John did a computation of her contributions from roughly Aug. 07 through Feb/Mar of 08, and it is over $1200.  She ranges from a $15 to a $400 contribution, most running $25/35 to $50. Several of her separate contributions are listed on the same day, a very curious way to make campaign contributions, which are usually in response to mailed solicitations. (She should accumulate them, save on postage.)

This is a scam. It appears to us he is fronting the contributions to hide the contributors.  Now, why in the hell would he do that?  He doesn't want people to know who his contributors are?  What an odd approach for a politician.  Now, this woman, Jeanne Mccurdy (is she is a woman, a real or ficticious person?) appears to be mining a population of people who do not wish their identities known.....

How do we find Jeanne McCurdy?

We need to convert this list to a data sheet, so we can compile individual contribution, , the dates and the amounts paid in, and aggregate the total contributions.  There are about 5 or 6 people who "feel" like the Hitchcockian Ms. McCurdy in this mess, so far, and we're only 44 pages through  a close to 500 page document. Can any Atlas reader tell me how to convert a word document to a data sheet?

excerpt:

 

page 44.

C00431445,"P80003338","Obama, Barack","MCCURDY, JEANNE","APO","AE","092135000","NOT EMPLOYED","NOT EMPLOYED",35,18-AUG-07,"","","","SA17A",325774

C00431445,"P80003338","Obama, Barack","MCCURDY, JEANNE","APO","AE","092135000","NOT EMPLOYED","NOT EMPLOYED",50,30-SEP-07,"","","","SA17A",325774

C00431445,"P80003338","Obama, Barack","MCCURDY, JEANNE","APO","AE","092135000","NOT EMPLOYED","NOT EMPLOYED",25,28-SEP-07,"","","","SA17A",325774

C00431445,"P80003338","Obama, Barack","MCCURDY, JEANNE","APO","AE","092135000","NOT EMPLOYED","NOT EMPLOYED",50,19-FEB-08,"","","ORIGINAL TRANSACTION","SA17A",328366

C00431445,"P80003338","Obama, Barack","MCCURDY, JEANNE","APO","AE","092135000","NOT EMPLOYED","NOT EMPLOYED",50,07-FEB-08,"","","ORIGINAL TRANSACTION","SA17A",328366

C00431445,"P80003338","Obama, Barack","MCCURDY, JEANNE","APO","AE","092135000","NOT EMPLOYED","NOT EMPLOYED",-25,10-FEB-08,"REDESIGNATION FROM","","REDESIGNATION FROM","SA17A",328366 

Pages 40-44, jeanne mccurdy

20-sep-07 -- $100

29-sep-07 -- $ 10

29-sep-07 -- $ 25

13-feb-08 -- $ 25

29-feb-08 -- $117

07-feb-08 -- $ 50

17-aug-07 -- $ 35

18-sep-07 -- $ 35

26-sep-07 -- $ 25

28-sep-07 -- $ 25

27-feb-08 -- $ 50

08-feb-08 -- $ 25

27-feb-08 -- $ 15

18-oct-07 -- $ 35

13-nov-07 -- $400

18-aug-07 -- $ 35

30-sep-07 -- $ 50

28-sep-07 -- $ 25

19-feb-08 -- $ 50

07-feb-08 -- $ 50

10-feb-08 __ $ 25

Total $1,207

Wait there's more:
05-may-08              --      $ 25

23-may-08              --      $ 50
05-may-08              --      $-25
05-may-08              --      $ 25
23-may-08              --      $ 50
23-apr-08              --      $ 25
18-apr-08              --      $ 25
23-apr-08              --      $ 25
18-apr-08              --      $ 25
24-apr-08              --      $-25
24-apr-08              --      $ 25
18-apr-08      redesignation  $-25
25-apr-08      redesignation  $-25
23-may-08      redesignation  $-50
29-mar-08              --      $ 15
19-mar-08      redesignation  $-15
13-mar-08              --      $ 25
29-mar-08      redesignation  $-15
06-mar-08      redesignation  $ 25
27-jan-08                      $ 25.60
11-jan-08              --      $ 50
28-jan-08      redesignation  $-250
28-jan-08      original tra.  $250
07-feb-08      redesignation  $ 50
28-sep-07              --      $ 25
27-feb-08              --      $ 50
24-apr-08              --      $ 25
total                          $775 app.

UPDATE Jeanne McCurdy works for CBS! TRK sent me this.

She has a blog on Obama's site & shows up on a Huffington Post page donating over $3K to Obama 

Here she is at the Huff Po's Fundrace

Also shows up as a writer for CBS on Linkedin.com also see this:
In part of our initial discussion, the New York Giants asked us to produce and provide a two-minute video about FOP that they would play on the big-screens during the pre-game ceremonies. A request was made to Hillary's friend - Jeanne McCurdy - to help in this regard. (here)

UPDATE: Why would Rebecca Kurth  give $3137.38 in 112 donations including 34 separately recorded donations on 30-Apr-2008? (ha tip gadget doc)

UPDATE: Interesting tidbit from Dee: Check out Kurth’s middle name ... Hussein. Rebecca Kurth’s Obama blog (Milton Keynes, UK)

Another interesting tidbit from gadget doc. 500k donated by "not employed" people.

heh.

Comments

[Davod]

This is the beauty of the FEC. The most they could do is fine the candidate. However, it takes so long for the investigation to be completed that the dammage caused by corrupt financing cannot be corrected. A fine does not mitigate for a stolen election.

The current situation is made worse because there is not sufficient member on the FEC to conduct its work. The Dems will not fill enough posts so they can operate. This will probably happen just before the election so they can attack McCain as being in breach of the election laws.

[SlimGuy]

From the looks of your data, it appears to be in CDF format which should import into excell or a similar program.

What is your original source? Have an online link to the FEC or something since their whole data base is downloadable and I just haven't been checking on this kind of stuff until after the convention finalizes the nominee.

[SlimGuy]

Generally in MSWord you will need to convert the raw text data into a table format (see help files) and then cut and paste into and excell file.

[SlimGuy]

From the word menus

Table > convert > Text to Table

Try that to see if you can get it.

Then see the help file for 'table to excell' and note the issue with format on conversion which may take a couple tries till you get a feel for it.

[Rohan]

Ms. Geller,

Keep up your great work on this matter, Israel, etc. You are shining daylight on an awful lot of cockroaches. It's a damn shame the MSM doesn't grab your stuff and run with it. Of course, I am not surprised. But, I thank God there are people like you willing to do the hard work. Well done!

[RISE_UP]

Pamela I cannot describe how important and valuable you are. Thank you. I am putting this everywhere. (i have a lot of everywheres)
No blog is as valuable as this one. You truly are a hard worker and dedicated. God bless you. (sand on the dough)

[Spectre]

I wonder if Obama has the same people from ACRON that did such a great job on voter registrations helping him out with FEC filings?

[kobi]

whaaaat?? say it aint' so...george saudi soros!!!

[bobn1955]

In MSWord, Save the file as plain text, in a file with extension .csv.

Then open the .cvs file in Excel. If you atreprompted chose, "delimited", then choose the comma as the delimiter.

At this point you will be able to use escel functions like sorting and searching.

Note: this may not work if the file has more than 65,535 lines.

In that case, the .csv will need to be imported into a database program (Access might work).

[clyde]

Looks like Jeanne McCurdy is in violation of election donation law. Wouldn't surprise me, being a Democrat AND an employee of CBS. It would be nice if these jackasses could be arrested and charged with election fraud BEFORE the election. Isn't there someone you can report this to that actually could do something about it BEFORE the election? I also bet you find others. Many others. Hopenchange doesn't change much after all does it? Looks like the same old Chicago bullshit politics to me, regardless of donator's city of origin.

[Johnny Unitus]

kobi's solution is the right one. if it is over 65000 lines, you could split it into smaller chunks for excel if you're not familiar with access

don't convert it into a table as one poster said - with that much data, it would almost certainly crash the computer

[SlimGuy]

Guess I mis understood what they were trying to do.

I thought they were discussing this one persons donations not the whole file set.

For that the other method is much improved and quicker.

I convert mine directly from the old FEC database format which is way cryptic in how you do it since the overload and recode fields depending on the data record type each record item is.

To work from the raw FEC files has a long explanation on the FEC site itself you have to download to do the conversions.

[amber]

Just found this on BHO's site about Rebecca Hussein Kurth

MARCH MADNESS
By Rebecca Hussein Kurth - Mar 20th, 2008 at 4:17 pm EDT
MARCH MADNESS!

To all visitors, new and regular, to this blog… if you’re thinking about making a donation to Senator’s Obama’s campaign, please do it through one of the fundraiser links below… that way YOU SCORE TWICE: Barack Obama gets the BASKET and one of the good folks below gets an ASSIST!

Please reach for your wallet right now, click on a link below, and help our team win!

The Top Ten List:

1. Here’s a Mama For Obama. She needs $4491 more to reach her goal, now $4476-$4471-$4461-$4351-$4326-$4276-$4256-$4241-$4191-$4166-$4141-$4116-$4106-$4096-$4071-$4046-$3996-$3971-$3951-$3926-$3876-$3861-$3836-$3586-$3576 (or 143 donations of $25)

http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gGxTf5

[Charles Martel]

Yes, this data is most certainly CSV (coma separated values) with strings enclosed in double quotes. It should be a breeze to import in Excel, just save as plain text, open in Excel and follow the conversion wizard (or at least that's how it's done in the last MS Office I own - 2000).

Keep up the good work, Pamela! You are a gem.

[scrapiron]

Hussein uses Clorox on his web site on a regular basis but he had a link instructing 'overseas' sites on how much and how to get the money to him so he doesn't have to identify the donar. Right now you are getting the worst president terrorists and terrorist nations can buy for the U.S. No one in this country should be so stupid they think he's getting this amount of money from the 'minimun wage working stiff's', and welfare riders in this country. Then they are backing a candidate who thinks there is 57 states, thinks Il doesn't connect to Ky but Ark does, and hasn't a clue as to what happened at Pearl Harbor, so if they are as stupid as he is they are stupid enough to believe anything.

[navyvet48]

Contact me at renaissancelady46@yahoo.com. I will be able to get you help. I can't do it myself but a good friend is very adept at making spread sheets. If you need help going through anything that I will do. Here is another interesting rumor that I believe is true acording to someone who saw this happen in Indiana. Obama's campaign is using the homeless to may donations at local libraries. They go into the campaign offices and then head directly to the library. They are given a $50 prepaid atm, they donate $40 and get to keep $10. Now that leaves you with a question....Who is donating the money allowing for this to happen?

[navyvet48]

500k donated by "not employed" people.

I believe those are your homeless people the Obama campaign has been using. I bet they are fairly small amounts aren't they!

[Mr_Peabody]

Obama has big money donors like Soros and fewer working class donors. When his supporters make many smaller donations rather than one large one it brings down the average donation amount. That's how he can claim his average donation is $25.

[Denice]

At the weekend I spent a lot of time looking for Rebecca Hussein Kurth.
192.com threw up no addresses for that name, or for Rebecca Kurth - nothing for the Milton Keynes area, or Bucks, in fact nothing for the name Rebecca Kurth at all. According to Kurth, SHE works for glaxosmithkline. Google didn't throw up much either...

Just about to give up and then decided to add rebeccakurth in google, and low and behold, 2nd from the top, is a site called rebeccakurth.com, which is hosting a business called Lifeciper Ltd - deals in psychology. The Co., is based in Milton Keynes LOL. Coincidence, nah, somehow I don't think so.

I don't believe the middle name is anything other than the person showing her blind support for Mr O himself.

[Citizen Skippy]

I'm adept at converting data to spreadsheets. Please forward the word document to this account's email address and I'll get to work on it for you. These are comma delimited values which can be parsed into data.