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OBAMA CONTRIBUTIONS: THE RNC FINALLY BLINKS!, ATLAS GETS RESULTS! NEWSWEAK PLAGIARIZES ATLAS

ATLAS BROKE THE STORY ON ILLEGAL OBAMA CONTRIBUTIONS. All of our hard work pays off.  Finally, the RNC has stepped out of its self induced coma and is taking some action.

RNC to file FEC complain accusing Obama campaign of taking money from foreign nationals. Chicago Sun Times (hat tip Miira)

I have been exposing these egregious acts since July (Obama's Contributions: Foreign and Domestic) and nothing has been done, and the media has averted it eyes.

The RNC is a  tough party to support. They are so lethargic.

UPDATE: Newsweak has it here - cites all my work, doesn't cite Atlas  Exclusive (typical big media pigs). And the got it wrong. Isikoff is taking plagiarizing lessons from Biden. The Newsweek article includes statement by the  Obama campaign that they returned all the money from Palestinian brothers. The records show they did not.   Also, they do not point out that they sent the tee shirts to GAZA.  The brothers had them and sold them.

I started my investigation back in July and came up with "donors" like this

The name:  Hbkjb, jkbkj

City: Jkbjnj

Works for:  Kuman Bank (doesn't exist)

Occupation:  Balanon Jalalan

Amount:  $1,077.23

On July 30th, I posted Obama's Anonymous Foreign Donors and Other Bizarre Illegal Activity where I found 500k donated by "not employed" people.

On July 31st: Obama's Contributors: Good Will? Loving you? UPDATE: Doo da DooDa

and the contributions from Gaza.

OBAMA LIED: "Palestinian" Campaign Contributions NEVER RETURNED OR REFUNDED

OBAMA'S CONTRIBUTIONS: I SEE FAKE PEOPLE ... OVER THE LIMIT

Obama's Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes American Thinker

UPDATE: tc wrtes, "hussein obama's heavy hitters are now circling their wagons around the anointed one - and beginning the usual obfuscation, misinformation, misdirection campaign ..."oh, we have no idea who these donors are, where they come from...and it's only a few thousands of dollars, ...besides we tried to give the donations back...""

Yeah right.

UPDATE: xdhimmi advise, Unlike Isikoff, Jack Kelly *did* credit your work in the 'Toledo Blade' here

More Fraud in the Obama Campaign Donations

Cathy is on the fraud like white on rice:

In the Hawaii donation database submitted by the Obama for America campaign there are donations from a couple of interesting characters.

Name: HKVKV, K VKN K V City: KHVKHVHKVHKV State: HI Employer: GH Occupation: GF

Another interesting donation is: HDUSAHFD, DAHSUDHU

He (could it be SHE?) gave $7,597.59 in July and August of this year. Works for: CZXVC Occupation: ZXVZXV

Now if this is the level of fraud being reported, what the heck is buried in the over $200 million in WALKING AROUND MONEY?

(Excerpt) Read more at spreadsheets.google.com ...

OBAMA FOREIGN ILLEGAL CONTRIBUTIONS: INFILTRATION AT FEC, DOJ, and FBI

OBAMA'S FISHY 200 MILLION American Spectator

FEC Auditor Blows the Whistle on $200 Million in Fishy Obama Donations

REQUESTS TO INVESTIGATE IGNORED BY FEC, DOJ, and FBI

I could not understand why the stories I broke back in Julyof Obama's illegal foreign contributions did not lead to further investigations. Laws were broken. 

Now we know why. We are looking at a Marxist takeover of the White House, no I am not exaggerating.

An auditor for the Federal Election Commission is attempting to have his bosses seek a formal investigation into the collection by the Obama for President campaign of more than $200 million in potentially illegal political donations, including millions of dollars of illegal, foreign donations, and has sought a request for assistance from the Department of Justice or Federal Bureau of Investigation.

But the analyst’s requests have largely been ignored. “I can’t get anyone to move. I believe we are looking at a hijacking of our political system …no one wants to touch it.”

…One reasons cited by his superiors, says the analyst, is that involvement by the Justice Department or FBI would be indicative of a criminal investigation, something the FEC would prefer not take place a month before the presidential election. Such actions, though, have been used to scuttle Republican campaigns in the past, the most famous being the Weinberger case in the days leading up to the 1992 re-election bid of President George H.W. Bush.

The analyst, who declines to be identified for fear of retribution, says that on four different occasions in the past three months, he sought to open formal investigations into the Obama campaign’s fundraising techniques, but those investigations have been discouraged….

“Without formal approval, I can’t get the resources I need, manpower, that kind of thing. This is a huge undertaking.” And the analyst says that he believes that campaign finance violations have occurred…

I started my investigation back in July and came up with "donors" like this

The name:  Hbkjb, jkbkj

City: Jkbjnj

Works for:  Kuman Bank (doesn't exist)

Occupation:  Balanon Jalalan

Amount:  $1,077.23

On July 30th, I posted Obama's Anonymous Foreign Donors and Other Bizarre Illegal Activity where I found 500k donated by "not employed" people.

On July 31st: Obama's Contributors: Good Will? Loving you? UPDATE: Doo da DooDa

and the contributions from Gaza.

OBAMA LIED: "Palestinian" Campaign Contributions NEVER RETURNED OR REFUNDED

OBAMA'S CONTRIBUTIONS: I SEE FAKE PEOPLE ... OVER THE LIMIT

Obama's Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes American Thinker

Obama's Foreign Contributions: Who is Ronald Hickel?

Obama, who is Jeanne McCurdy?

OBAMA'S FOREIGN DONATIONS: Jagan, Son of chief minister of Andhrapradesh

The donation scandal is oof the rails and the left is so in the tank for uh uh uhbama, there is no accountability. It's sick.
Here's an illegal donation for you: (hat tip the ever intrepid Cathy)

YS Jagan Mohan Reddy - Indian National donated $500

City:  SCH?NECK

Occupation: IS IT

Employer: NESTL? GLOBE CENTER EUROPE

Here's his home page:

"Son of chief minister of Andhrapradesh, an industrialist, leader of youth in Andhrapradesh, a deciplined social worker who worked for the development of youth by setting up industries, serving the aged,orphans and widows by means of charitable trusts has become a role model for the youth.There are many fanclubs and yuva senas on his name in Andhrapradesh who are carrying forward his good works on his name.All this shows how his image is stamped in the hearts of the people.

 

All this shows how his image is stamped in the hearts of the people.All of this is because of his works towards these people for about 15 years honestly.

If he's so honest, why is he making illegal contributions.

More media on Obama's Foreign, Illegal Contributions

Good to see Ken Timmerman over at Newsmax picked up on my series of  Obama foreign contributions story I broke on July 31st. Timmerman does a good job, read it.
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He also picked up on Doodad and Good Will - broken July 31st here

Malkin mentions it (here) but doesn't mentionObama's Gaza contributions, which is odd.

Burt Powerline does :)

OBAMA LIED: "Palestinian" Campaign Contributions NEVER RETURNED OR REFUNDED

OBAMA'S CONTRIBUTIONS: I SEE FAKE PEOPLE ... OVER THE LIMIT

My piece over at American Thinker on Obama's Foreign Donations 

Obama's Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes

By Pamela Geller

I have been researching, documenting and studying thousands upon thousands of Obama's campaign donations for the past month. Egregious abuse was immediately evident and I published the results of my ongoing investigation. Each subsequent post built a more damning case against Obama's illegal contribution activity.

The media took little notice of what I was substantiating. I went so far as to upload the documents so that anyone could do their own research.  I asked readers to download the documents and a number of folks pitched in.

Despite dropping the groundbreaking bombshell  story of "Palestinian" brothers from the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza who donated $33,000 to Obama's campaign, no big media picked up the story. Jihadis donating to Obama from Gaza? Could there be a bigger story?  Foreign donations are illegal, but this story was all  that and so much more. The "Palestinian" brothers were proud and vocal of their "love" for Obama. Their vocal support on behalf of "Palestinians"  spoke volumes to Obama's campaign.

And yet still no media.

But Obama pricked up his ears. He smelled trouble and while no media asked, he answered anyway. Sen. Obama's campaign immediately scrambled and contended they had returned the  $33,500 in illegal contributions from Palestinians in Hamas-controlled Gaza, despite the fact that records do not show that it was returned and the brothers said they have not received any money. Having gone through all of Obama's refunds redesignations etc, no refund was made to Osama, Hossam, or Edwan Monir in the Rafah refugee camp. And still no media. 

One of the Gazan brothers, Monir Edwan (identified here),  claimed he bought "Obama for President" T-shirts off Obama's website  and then sold the T-shirts in Gaza for a profit. All purchases on the Barack Obama website are considered contributions.

The Palestinians allegedly claimed "they were American citizens", so said Obama's people. They listed their address -- zip code 972 (ironically the area code for Israel) and they input "GA"the state abbreviation for Georgia (screen shot here) They actually lived in a Hamas controlled refugee camp.  So if Obama's people thought it was "Georgia" why did they ship the tee shirts to the correct address in Gaza?  Shipping overseas to a Gaza refugee camp is vastly different than the state next door.

Still no media. 

"Some young men even bought the T-shirts for 60 shekel ($17.29), which is a lot to spend in Gaza on a T-shirt, but that is how much Gazans like Obama," Edwan claimed in a follow up article in the conservative websiet WorldNetDaily.  And Hamas has publicly endorsed Obama.

And still no media.

Obama's campaign said the  Palestinian brothers in the Middle East made $33,000 in illegal donations to the campaign via the internet.

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 weren't reported to the Federal Election Commission due to a technical error, campaign officials said.

If McCain had been involved with something so dark and nefarious, taking money from Islamic jihad, his candidacy would never withstand the media blowback.

But it was the son of hope, the agent of change, the one we have been waiting for , so the media yawned.

The jihad donations were hardly the only bloody red flags.  The first in my series of posts ran July 19th. The documents were so unwieldy, readers like John, Doc, and Cathy (who discovered Rafah) were working furiously to cross check our findings at the FEC site and then mine the data.

Obama's overseas (foreign) 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 are aggregating in excess of the maximums when all added up.   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, Mississauga, 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,

Half a million dollars had been donated from overseas  by unidentified people  "not employed".

Digging deeper, all sorts of very bizarre activity jumped at us. Dr and JJ continued to break it down and pull data from various sources. We found  Rebecca Kurth contributed $3,137.38 to the Obama Campaign in 112 donations, including 34 separate donations recorded in one day, 

How about this gibberish donor on the 30th of April in 2008.

A donor named  Hbkjb, jkbkj

City: Jkbjnj Works for:  Kuman Bank (doesn't exist)

Occupation:  Balanon Jalalan Amount:  $1,077.23

or the donor Doodad, The # of transactions = 1,044

The $ contributed = $10,780.00

This Doodad character works for FDGFDGF and occupation is DFGFDG

The more questions we answered the more questions we discovered.

Thousands of  Obama's foreign donations ended in cents. The  "cents" did not make sense. And we compared McCain donation documentss  to Obama's. McCain's records are nothing like Obama's. McCain's are so clean. No cents, all even dollar amounts.  But Obama's contained thousands of strange, odd amounts -- evidence of foreign contributors, since Americans living overseas would almost uniformly be able to contribute dollars. Still no media.

Julia Gorin told me a funny story two months ago. Her husband's co-worker wanted to see what would happen if he tried giving a contribution to the Obama campaign via a credit card. He used his Macy's card. The system accepted it. He tried the same with McCain's campaign, and the transaction wouldn't go through.  Now, obviously, down the line, the Obama transaction would fail as well, but it goes to the point that there is no safety system in place -- it'll just accept any and all money, which helps explain how his campaign raised so much more money than everyone else's.

Go read my whole article -- it's been ignored too long.

UPDATE:  Bingo!

I've been saying this for weeks: Obama went to Berlin to encourage illegal oveseas contributions.

Also, here in the USA, illegal Obama contributions are being made by key operatives with "walking around money".

The method used is to buy disposable charge cards and give amounts under $200. With a disposable charge card, any name can be used. The ones mentioned in the article were easy to find.

You can find the rest of them by examining Obama's server logs. You'll see that on many occassions, inside of 20 minutes, several people have given money from the same IP address.

More than likely, thats Soros funded "volunteer", a union hack or some other connected person sitting at a Starbucks wiht a laptop, using the disposable charge cards and phony names to make contributions.

This would explain a significant portion of all the "new" small donors Obama claims to have.

Posted by: Rex | October 1, 2008 01:21 PM

Here is my anonymous  foreign donor post back on July 30th here.

ALSHEIKH, RIYADH CAMPAIGN $$ FOR OBAMA

More wahhabi donations for Obama. (more on Obama's illegal here) Much thanks to Cathy for the research.

Obama for America
Donations thru 7/31/08
name city state
ALSHEIKH, ABDULLAH RIYADH NA
employer occupation amount date
BERU OF INVESTIGATION AND PROPROSECUTER [sic] 200.00 12-Jan-08

And then there is this Rehan Atiq, co-founder of MXV Capital - gave $250 - location Qatar. More here Rehan Atiq does not appear to be a  US citizen.

More jihad money for the Muslim candidate -- you may not like it but the Islamic world believes Obama is a Muslim and I am not so sure they're wrong.

One only has to look at someone like Ibn Warraq who lead a somewhat parallel life to Obama - both born Muslims, raised in Muslim countries, and attended madrassah until early teens.  I can assure you Ibn Warraq would not be receiving money from Riyadh or Muslims living in Rafah, Gaza.

Look at Ibn Warraq - this from Andrew Bostom:

Ibn Warraq's formal childhood experience of Islam mirrored Barack Obama's -- it was no more extensive. Yet despite copious evidence to the contrary, Barack Obama has gone to great lengths to deny even a nominal childhood Muslim upbringing.  These repeated, often shrill and accusatory denials are accompanied by a disturbing, if predictable silence: not once has Senator Obama celebrated the remarkable freedom of conscience he had here in America to decide in his mid to late 20s that he would practice Christianity openly, and devotedly, absent any consideration of his childhood Muslim background.

Mr. Obama has thus far squandered the unparalleled opportunity to highlight and extol a profoundly important virtue of this flawed, but still great country of ours, personified by his life story: America's singular, unwavering support for true freedom of conscience.

Surely if Obama is to live up to his followers (and his own) pretensions of being a "transformative" figure, then he should be ready to elucidate, frankly, the utter lack of freedom of conscience in the Muslim world, relative to the US; why his own life trajectory demonstrates this difference; and how the fight against global jihadism is, at its core, about the protection of this most profoundly important Western ideal.

Obama, 9/11, and Freedom of Conscience Dr. Andrew Bostom

During an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News which aired Sunday September 7, 2009, Barack Obama bemoaned what he claimed were insidious Republican attempts to "promulgate," falsely, his "Muslim connections." Senator Obama then made a minor gaffe (at ~ 2 minutes 50 seconds, here), in his half-hearted exculpation of Senator McCain: "John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith." Stephanopoulos, who earlier defended McCain against Obama's general anti-Republican allegations, then corrected Obama's misstatement with instantaneous, politically-correct alacrity, reminding the Democratic Presidential nominee,  "...[you meant] your Christian faith." And certainly the full context of the discussion makes clear Obama was not in any way acknowledging some personal embrace of Islam, when he responded, "What I meant to say, he [McCain] hasn't suggested that I am Muslim."

But the self-aggrieved, whining tone of Senator Obama's interview struck me as particularly inappropriate occurring just four days prior to his scheduled appearance with Senator McCain at Ground Zero, in lower Manhattan. Both men will suspend their Presidential campaigns to be present at a joint, non-partisan event, Thursday, September 11, 2008, commemorating the 7^th anniversary of the cataclysmic acts of mass-murdering jihad terrorism on September 11, 2001.

Those savage attacks represent a jihadist assault on our core Western values-prominently among them, the freedom of conscience Barack Obama's personal biography epitomizes-despite his apparent obliviousness to, or denial of, this reality.

Sober, independent analyses by academics, including published essays in The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times, concur that Obama's childhood experience of Islam -- as perceived by Muslims from Islamic societies, in particular -- has two critically important, and inter-related ramifications: his status as a Muslim; and more ominously, as an apostate from Islam.

During his childhood years in Indonesia, Barack Obama was enrolled as a Muslim (see here, here, here, and here) at his primary schools (this is confirmed, conclusively, in a registration document -- which the Associated Press photographed -- made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta, Indonesia, demonstrating that his Muslim step-father listed Obama's boyhood religion as Islam), and also attended the mosque during that period.

Tine Hahiyary, a former teacher at one of these schools, claimed that the young Obama actively took part in "mengaji" classes (consistent with devout Islamic education), which instruct students to read the Koran in Arabic. And the Indonesian daily Banjarmasin Post interviewed Rony Amir, a Muslim classmate  of the young Obama, who characterized Obama as "...previously quite religious in Islam." While disputing Obama's childhood Muslim religiosity, a subsequent Chicago Tribune report still concedes that the young Obama was at least an irregularly practicing Muslim, who occasionally prayed with his step-father in a mosque.

Irrespective of Obama's Muslim devoutness as a child, one must also bear in mind how contemporary (and classical) Islamic Law views the offspring of any marriage between a Muslim man (Obama's birth father and step-father were both Muslims), and a non-Muslim woman. Sheikh 'Abdus-Sattar Fathallah As-Sa`eed, professor of Koranic Exegesis and Koranic Sciences at Al-Azhar University -- for more a thousand years, the pre-eminent center of Sunni Islamic religious education -- in a recently issued a fatwa (June 20, 2002), reiterated plainly the Islamic principle that paternity determines (Muslim) religious identity for a child born of a Muslim father, and a non-Muslim wife: 

OBAMA SUPRRESSES TRUTH VIA GOOGLE SEARCH

This is what the man does. He is an enemy of free speech. He suppresses the truth, a true child of his mentors Marshall and Alinsky.

Barack Obama Uses Google to Combat Vicious Rumors US News World Report

Searches for some of the "most pervasive Internet rumours" often turn up links to his campaign website

Barack Obama is waging an quiet battle in the Googlesphere to combat damagingrumors, as well as his opponent, John McCain.

Specifically, Obama's campaign has waded into online auctions for Google search terms to snap up not only obvious phrases like "Barack Obama" but also potentially negative ones like "Barack Obama birth certificate" or "Barack Obama as a Muslim," according to Hitwise, an Internet audience monitoring firm.

This means that, as of Wednesday morning, Google searches for Obama being a Muslim often turn up a prominent "sponsored" link at the top of the results page that connects to a page on Obama's campaign website that debunks the myth and details his Christian faith. Searches for Obama's birth certificate produce a link to a page showing the official document.

lol

It's not clear how many Web surfers are being driven to his site through these search ads. Data from Hitwise suggest the numbers are relatively low.

Whether or not people visit the Obama site, the Google search results page displays, underneath the link, text that denies the specific rumor, such as "Barack Obama is a Christian. Get the facts at his official site."

Similarly, a search for "Obama flag pin"—referring to another Internet myth that Obama refuses to wear a U.S. flag pin (which is also false)—frequently turns up a link to his site, with the text, "He says the Pledge, puts his hand on his heart and wears a flag pin." Other searches, like "Obama Koran" or "Obama Pledge of Allegiance," also usually contain sponsored links to Obama's website.

His campaign is not just playing defense. Searches for terms like "Palin Bridge to Nowhere" and "McCain maverick" sometimes display sponsored links back to Obama's campaign website.

JUST WHO THE HELL IS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA?

Jamal M. Barzinji Gave Obama $1,000.

Dr. Jamal al Barzinji is a noted American businessman and political operative, most recently associated with the International Institute of Islamic Thought, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth and the SAAR Foundation.

Barzinji is a long-term business associate of Muslim Brotherhood activist and al Taqwa Bank chairman Youssef Nada.^[1] Barzinji also serves as a trustee and officer of the Amana Mutual Funds Trust, a growth and income mutual fund headquartered in Bellingham, Washington, along with SAAR co-executive Yaqub Mirza and Talat M. Othman. (more at Wikipedia)

World Assembly of Muslim Youth

In 1980 Barzinji was a representative of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), alongside Abdallah Osama bin Laden, a younger-half brother of Osama bin Laden.

On March 20, 2002, a U.S. Customs Service investigative unit called Operation Green Quest conducted a raid on an allegedly interrelated group of Wahhabiist interests in northern Virginia. Among these were the Herndon, Virginia, VA, offices of Dr. Barzinji, and the SAAR Foundation, created by wealthy Saudi Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi.

Obama and those all those Saudi connections. Much thanks to Slim Guy for all of his help.

MUSLIMS IN TERROR PROBE MAKING DONATIONS TO OBAMA

It's an international Muslim supremacist organization, along the lines of the Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan. Jamal M. Barzinji earlier this year gave Obama $1,000, a gift that records show has not been returned. . ^[1]

Jamal M. Barzinji earlier this year gave Obama $1,000,.Barzinji remains at the center of an active federal investigation.  ^[2] Jamal M. Barzinji earlier this year gave Obama $1,000, a gift that records show has not been returned. Other Democratic candidates, including Rep. Jim Moran, have refunded donations from Barzinji since federal agents raided his Virginia home and offices in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Obama's top Muslim adviser resigned earlier this month over controversy surrounding his ties to an alleged Muslim Brotherhood front connected to Barzinji, who heads a network of Islamic charities and businesses. ^[3] In the sea of faces and waving flags stood a woman by the name of Marilyn Katz. Like several of the other radicals who populate Obama's sphere, she once advocated guerilla tactics against police officers and participated in violent riots. Unlike some of her more infamous counterparts like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn - who are in self-imposed exile until November 5 - Katz is deeply, and officially, involved in Obama's presidential campaign. ^[4]

Barack, you've spent what, a couple of years being a committee chair for some group in Chicago - oh yeah, and your buddy Ayers was also a committee chair on that group. That comprises the totality of your executive work and that really doesn't count when the rubber has to hit the road. Sarah Palin was a mayor and a now a governor - both positions meaning you make a decision and live with the consequences. ^[5] True to the marxist ideology that both Obama and Catro hold, Obama's threats toward people who are critical of what he's said in the past, about his relationship with Ayers as an example, or what has been happening to the man who accused him of having homosexual sex and doing cocaine in the back of a limo in 1999, Larry Sinclair - are both very similar to what happens in Castro's Cuba. ^[3]

It is impossible to begin to "understand" the kind of insanity that fills Osama Obama's head. They were Bill Ayers writ large. It is a measure of America's greatness that demented, foolish children like Obama can mouth their stupid and traitorous beliefs and survive. It is a measure of America's decline that millions of Americans appear to take him seriously. ^[6]

UPDATE: Trivia: Barack was horse's name of the prophet Mohammad

OBAMA LIED: "Palestinian" Campaign Contributions NEVER RETURNED OR REFUNDED

On July 31, Atlas broke the explosive bombshell that Obama was receiving big foreign donations andin particular,  from the Hamas controlled Rafah refugee camps in  Gaza. Jihad money to the tune of 33,000.

Despite big media's reluctance to publish anything negative about Obama no matter how important and damning, a couple of  publications and talk radio hosts picked up on the story-- and Obama responded. Obama and co. claimed the money was returned. Chalk this up to another Obama lie - the money was never returned. Cathy has been combing through the latest filing and reviewing all past documents.

Nothing. Gotz. Nada. 

According to Glenn  Simpson of the Washington Wire in the Wall Street Journal back on August 5th:

$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.

Strangely, the tee shirts found their way to Gaza. So was it Georgia or Gaza. C'mon fellas we're not stupid.

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 weren’t 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.

There is no refund made to the Gaza donors Adwan, Osama and Edwan .......... and when Simpson of the Wall Street Journal was asked if he would be following up on the Gaza story - he said, no. There is no governance, there is no rule of law -- it's chaos.

OBAMA'S CONTRIBUTIONS: I SEE FAKE PEOPLE ... OVER THE LIMIT

And real people too .....giving Obama over the limit in the continuing expose of Obama's dirty campaign contributions (Monir is the Paleostinian from the Rafah refugee camp, Dooda and his gibberish friends. Here's the breakdown over at Google docs. (hat tip Cathy)

ADLER, ROBERT C Total						11,500.00
ANDREAS, LOWELL W MR. Total						10,000.00
						4,600.00
BARBAKOW, MARGO B Total						13,800.00
BEHRMAN, GRANT G. MR. Total						13,100.00
BERGER, JONATHAN						18,400.00
COZEN, STEPHEN Total	Actual total is $10,500.00 (see Stephen A Cozen on detail sheet)					1,000.00
COZEN, STEPHEN A Total	Actual total is $10,500.00 (see Stephen Cozen on detail sheet)					9,500.00
DATE, RAJEEV Total						18,400.00
DIES, MARTIN Total						13,800.00
EDWAN, MONIR Total						24,321.41
FRIEDMAN, PAULA D Total						18,400.00
HATCH, FRANCIS III Total						11,500.00
MCGARR, CAPPY R Total						10,600.00
MESSERLY, JOHN Total						11,476.20
PRO, DOODAD Total						10,780.00
WILL, GOOD Total						10,450.00
WINTROUB, CAREY J Total						11,500.00
Grand Total						223,127.61

Thanks again to Cathy for the research and the hard work. Atlas readers rule.

ATLAS, AMERICAN THINKER..... MEDIA AVERSION

Gotta love this, Atlas-eans! Yours truly over at the venerable American Thinker and Lucianne!

UPDATE: National Review too ........

August 14, 2008                         

Obama's Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes

By Pamela Geller

I have been researching, documenting and studying thousands upon thousands of Obama's campaign donations for the past month. Egregious abuse was immediately evident and I published the results of my ongoing investigation. Each subsequent post built a more damning case against Obama's illegal contribution activity.

The media took little notice of what I was substantiating. I went so far as to upload the documents so that anyone could do their own research.  I asked readers to download the documents and a number of folks pitched in.

Despite dropping the groundbreaking bombshell  story of "Palestinian" brothers from the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza who donated $33,000 to Obama's campaign, no big media picked up the story. Jihadis donating to Obama from Gaza? Could there be a bigger story?  Foreign donations are illegal, but this story was all  that and so much more. The "Palestinian" brothers were proud and vocal of their "love" for Obama. Their vocal support on behalf of "Palestinians"  spoke volumes to Obama's campaign.

And yet still no media.

But Obama pricked up his ears. He smelled trouble and while no media asked, he answered anyway. Sen. Obama's campaign immediately scrambled and contended they had returned the  $33,500 in illegal contributions from Palestinians in Hamas-controlled Gaza, despite the fact that records do not show that it was returned and the brothers said they have not received any money. Having gone through all of Obama's refunds redesignations etc, no refund was made to Osama, Hossam, or Edwan Monir in the Rafah refugee camp. And still no media. 

One of the Gazan brothers, Monir Edwan (identified here),  claimed he bought "Obama for President" T-shirts off Obama's website  and then sold the T-shirts in Gaza for a profit. All purchases on the Barack Obama website are considered contributions.

The Palestinians allegedly claimed "they were American citizens", so said Obama's people. They listed their address -- zip code 972 (ironically the area code for Israel) and they input "GA"the state abbreviation for Georgia (screen shot here) They actually lived in a Hamas controlled refugee camp.  So if Obama's people thought it was "Georgia" why did they ship the tee shirts to the correct address in Gaza?  Shipping overseas to a Gaza refugee camp is vastly different than the state next door.

Still no media. 

"Some young men even bought the T-shirts for 60 shekel ($17.29), which is a lot to spend in Gaza on a T-shirt, but that is how much Gazans like Obama," Edwan claimed in a follow up article in the conservative websiet WorldNetDaily.  And Hamas has publicly endorsed Obama.

And still no media.

Obama's campaign said the  Palestinian brothers in the Middle East made $33,000 in illegal donations to the campaign via the internet.

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 weren't reported to the Federal Election Commission due to a technical error, campaign officials said.

If McCain had been involved with something so dark and nefarious, taking money from Islamic jihad, his candidacy would never withstand the media blowback.

But it was the son of hope, the agent of change, the one we have been waiting for , so the media yawned.

The jihad donations were hardly the only bloody red flags.  The first in my series of posts ran July 19th. The documents were so unwieldy, readers like John, Doc, and Cathy (who discovered Rafah) were working furiously to cross check our findings at the FEC site and then mine the data.

Obama's overseas (foreign) 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 are aggregating in excess of the maximums when all added up.   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, Mississauga, 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,

Half a million dollars had been donated from overseas  by unidentified people  "not employed".

Digging deeper, all sorts of very bizarre activity jumped at us. Dr and JJ continued to break it down and pull data from various sources. We found  Rebecca Kurth contributed $3,137.38 to the Obama Campaign in 112 donations, including 34 separate donations recorded in one day, 

How about this gibberish donor on the 30th of April in 2008.

A donor named  Hbkjb, jkbkj

City: Jkbjnj Works for:  Kuman Bank (doesn't exist)

Occupation:  Balanon Jalalan Amount:  $1,077.23

or the donor Doodad, The # of transactions = 1,044

The $ contributed = $10,780.00

This Doodad character works for FDGFDGF and occupation is DFGFDG

The more questions we answered the more questions we discovered.

Thousands of  Obama's foreign donations ended in cents. The  "cents" did not make sense. And we compared McCain donation documentss  to Obama's. McCain's records are nothing like Obama's. McCain's are so clean. No cents, all even dollar amounts.  But Obama's contained thousands of strange, odd amounts -- evidence of foreign contributors, since Americans living overseas would almost uniformly be able to contribute dollars. Still no media.

Julia Gorin told me a funny story two months ago. Her husband's co-worker wanted to see what would happen if he tried giving a contribution to the Obama campaign via a credit card. He used his Macy's card. The system accepted it. He tried the same with McCain's campaign, and the transaction wouldn't go through.  Now, obviously, down the line, the Obama transaction would fail as well, but it goes to the point that there is no safety system in place -- it'll just accept any and all money, which helps explain how his campaign raised so much more money than everyone else's.

Despite the evidence of dirty campaign donations, crickets chirped in newsrooms across the country. The moment my Gaza story started to get some chatter on talk radio, the left and their supplicant handmaidens in the media sprang into action and created a McCain illegal campaign contribution "scandal".   The Washington Post published an inaccurate allegation  and then retracted not a day later, at the risk of looking stupid. They are jeopardizing the little credibility that they have left.

....a Washington Post story detailing some suspicious looking contributions to the McCain campaign bundled by Harry Sargeant III. Shortly after posting, a correction appeared in the original report, as follows:

An earlier version of this story about campaign donations that Florida businessman Harry Sargeant III raised for Sen. John McCain, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton incorrectly identified three individuals as being among the donors Sargeant solicited on behalf of McCain. Those donors -- Rite Aid manager Ibrahim Marabeh, and lounge owners Nadia and Shawn Abdalla -- wrote checks to Giuliani and Clinton, not McCain. Also, the first name of Faisal Abdullah, a McCain donor, was misspelled in some versions of the story (noted by Amanda Carpenter).

So here an intrepid blogger finds a keg of dynamite of dirty dollar donations to Obama and what does the media do? They ignore it. And when forced to confront it by the sheer newsworthiness of the story, what happens? They go after McCain. They punish McCain.

And that is meant to be a lesson to all of us,  Whatever you find, whatever you discover about the Candidate of Mystery, they will blow it back in your face. And they did. Almost immediately.

The irony and the upshot of all this. John McCain is reviewing contributions. Ain't that a kick in the head. I can tell him he needn't bother. Been there, done that. Nothing to see, keep moving.

Obama's out there raising millions, some in illegal donations and the Washington Post jumps on McCain for a  $50k, which hasn't been shown to be illegal, but merely "inappropriate." The left and their handmaidens, the mani stream media, were so quick to deflect this hit, it seems we have hit a raw nerve. I intend to keep digging. Stay tuned.,

Pamela Geller is Editor and Publisher of the blog Atlas Shrugs.

UPDATE: Told you so: Monitors say McCain did not violate finance laws Guardian hat tip Van

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain won a round against Democrats on Thursday when the Federal Election Commission rejected their contention that he violated campaign finance laws during the GOP primary.

The FEC's draft opinion affirms McCain's right to bypass the public financing system and the strict spending limits that come with it. That was a rejection of the Democratic National Committee's complaint asserting that McCain's campaign had wrongly received loans based on his participation in public financing before later withdrawing from that system. CONTD...

To the Best of Obama's Ability

Obama said he would gather the best and  brightest, the best and the brightest what? Fixers and creative racketeering accountants?

The campaign is required by LAW to collect employer/occupation information from donors.  That might help in that annoying requirement to verify that a donor is actually legitimate.

The Obama for America campaign wrote a letter to the FEC back in October of 2007 stating that they trying their best!  See the letter.

In the meantime, they have submitted over 25,000 individual donations that do not include that individual’s employer.  There is no record of a report supplying the employer names in follow up compliance required by law.  They’ll try harder next time.

They’ve just been failing to do it since January, 2007, the earliest date of a donation without employer. Here's the letter: Download ObamaLtrtoFECreNoEmployer.pdf

and thisDownload noemployerfilterredesigfromrefundout25571records.zip (hat tip Cathy on research who is aces)

Obama Contributions: Moving On MoveOn's Money

Isn't Obama pushing the 527 limitations on coordination with a campaign which they are not allowed to do by law?

Obama paid  MoveOn  ‘credit card fees’ of $18,000 because they ‘processed campaign contributions’ for the Obama campaign. When did MoveOn become a bank or a finance company?   Was Obama REIMBURSING MoveOn for their cost to process contributions for the Obama campaign?   Why would Obama do this unless MoveOn was giving the contributions to his campaign?  They cannot legally give money to Obama.  It appears they did.

MoveOn.org spent 1.5 million  setting up Obama's facebook page- Cost me nothing to set up mine---See attached FEC info.  UPDATE: CORRECTION SEE BELOW(not for set up, but for ads)

Download 2008iedetail.xls (hat tip to Cathy and Laura, super sleuths, great Americans)

Barack has been accused of:  Contributions-Excessive;  Contributions-Prohibited;  Electioneering in the 2006 election in the case of CITIZENS FOR GIANNOULIAN aka GIANNOULIAS FOR TREASURER

UPDATE: American Thinker: Soros, Obama, and the Millionaires Exception (hat tip Cathy)

Because Obama was running against Blair Hull in the primary and then Jack Ryan in the general (both multi-millionaires), Obama could, and did, receive especially large donations from individuals, to so-called "millionaires exception." Normally individuals are limited to giving $2300 to candidates in federal elections, but when candidates are running against millionaires, these limits are lifted and candidates are allowed to receive up to $12,000 from a single individual. Soros and his family gave Barack Obama $60,000. This does not include money that Soros was able to funnel to so-called 527 groups (Moveon.org, for example) that have also been politically active; nor does it include money that Soros was able to raise from tapping a network of friends, business associates, and employees.

After taking advantage of the special freedom to raise large amounts of money from influential individuals, and as the campaigns entered their closing rounds, news was leaked to media outlets that both Hull and Ryan had personal scandals associated with them. The release of this news devastated both of their campaigns, leading to an easy run to victory for Obama in the primary and then in the general election. The New York Times Magazine revealed earlier in the year that David Axelrod, Obama's chief political and media adviser, may well have been behind the leak of the story that doomed the Hull candidacy as the primary reached its home stretch.

Axelrod is known for operating in this gray area, part idealist, part hired muscle. It is difficult to discuss Axelrod in certain circles in Chicago without the matter of the Blair Hull divorce papers coming up. As the 2004 Senate primary neared, it was clear that it was a contest between two people: the millionaire liberal, Hull, who was leading in the polls, and Obama, who had built an impressive grass-roots campaign. About a month before the vote, The Chicago Tribune revealed, near the bottom of a long profile of Hull, that during a divorce proceeding, Hull's second wife filed for an order of protection. In the following few days, the matter erupted into a full-fledged scandal that ended up destroying the Hull campaign and handing Obama an easy primary victory. The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had "worked aggressively behind the scenes" to push the story. But there are those in Chicago who believe that Axelrod had an even more significant role - that he leaked the initial story. They note that before signing on with Obama, Axelrod interviewed with Hull. They also point out that Obama's TV ad campaign started at almost the same time. Axelrod swears up and down that "we had nothing to do with it" and that the campaign's television ad schedule was long planned. "An aura grows up around you, and people assume everything emanates from you," he told me.

UPDATE: Cathy sent this for clarification:

About MoveOn.org Political Action

MoveOn.org Political Action, one of the largest Political Action Committees in the country, brings real Americans into politics to fight for a more progressive America and elect progressive candidates. It conducts major campaigns, from its work to protect the Supreme Court from a hard-right justice to its campaign to defeat the right wing and elect moderates and progressives in 2008. But in contrast to most PACs, which funnel industry contributions to candidates in exchange for access, MoveOn.org Political Action brings hundreds of thousands of small donors together to elect candidates who will represent the American people. With one secure online credit card transaction, you can immediately make contributions to several campaigns. All contributions go to the individual campaigns in the amounts you specify. MoveOn.org Political Action takes care of all the required FEC paperwork by transmitting necessary contributor information to each campaign.

Because it’s a federal PAC, MoveOn.org Political Action can’t accept donations greater than $5,000. And in fact, MoveOn.org Political Action is mostly funded by people who give less than $100 – folks who don’t have a lot of money but want to see a change. Through 2004, MoveOn.org Political Action raised approximately $11 million for 81 candidates from over 300,000 donors. In 2005, MoveOn.org Political Action grew to 3.2 million members and 125,000 members contributed $9 million to progressive candidates and campaigns (average donation: $45).

UPDATE CORRECTION:sLIMGUY ADVISED:

From just a quick glance that wasn't for a facebook site but for reimbursement of advertisements on facebook that were done by moveon. I don't have a facebook account so I don't know what the ads were saying that they were serving up.

So technically it wasn't for creation of a site but spreading the word.  Similar to a google adsense buy which they also did.

[...]

Another questionable set of line items shows BHO giving money to something called "Republican Majority Campaign"

But I don't know the legal end ..not a lawyer but for BHO to give moveon money to run a moveon ad is really strange in a mutual backscratch circle kind of way.

It is like his campaign getting an issue ad out there without it being direct from them. Would have to figure out what the ad content was and did it advocate BHO or a position he holds only or was it an over the line anti McCain ad..??

Obama Response to FEC: Chicago Style "Plausible" Deniability?

More obfuscation and Chicago style three card monty.

No mentiion of the jihad donations from Gaza, or gibberish donors etc. . “As part of a continuous review the Committee researches and reviews for any errors, then subsequently updates to make the necessary corrections.  The Committee is constantly reviewing the contributor’s information in order to rectify any potential data entry errors.”

Here's the file: Download ObamaforAmerica5.15.08ResponsetoFEC.pdf

May 15, 2008


Vicki Hubbard
Reports Analysis Division
Federal Election Commission
999 E Street NW
Washington, DC 20453

Re: Obama for America; FEC ID No. C00431445, Year End Report (10/1/07-12/31/07)

Dear Ms. Hubbard,

Per your request, this letter serves as the response for additional information pertaining to the above listed report of Obama for America Committee. The requested information regarding the reattribution, redesignation or refund of particular contributions is contained within this report. The Committee has reviewed and researched the contributions noted by you, and in response is filing an amendment to correct or clarify where needed.

In several cases, the Committee found instances where the Commission had confused two different contributors, who happen to have the same name. The contributors are:  Brown S., Ladd E., Leitner S., Ludwig S. (2), Mcfarland G., Morrow D., Robinson M., Rogers W (3), Sargent J., Smth D., Smith L., Thompson D., White L.  As confirmed by the Committe, these contributors have both different mailing addresses and differnt employers and occupations.

What about the Monir brothers from Gaza?

As part of a continuous review the Committee researches and reviews for any errors, then subsequently updates to make the necessary corrections.  The Committee is constantly reviewing the contributors? [sic] information in order to rectify any potential data entry errors.

For a few of the contributions notes by the Commission, the Commitee timely refunded or reattributed the excessive portion, within the sixty days and is so reported on subsequent monthly reports.

Two contributions you noted from Bessemer Company and Shirley Wesse Young were refunded in the original filing and can be located on line 28A.

In accordance with the guidelines set forth by the Commission, the Committee has made every effort to comply in a timely manner.

If you have any further concerns, please contact Treshawn Shields at (312) 819-2444.

Sincerely,

Martin H. Nesbitt, Treasurer

OSAMA FOR OBAMA!!3rd "PALESTINIAN" BROTHER/DONOR EXPOSED! "GAZAN" CONTRIBUTIONS FLAGGED BY FEC, OBAMA NEVER REPORTED

A third brother has emerged from the Palestinian donation cache for Obama, His name OSAMA! I previously broke the story of Edwan and Hosam .  there is a third brother: Osama Debbie caught it here

Osama Edwan----another brother form Gaza-2-donations-Both dated 11-10-2007 here and here

Not only did Obama not report this jihad cash to the FEC, despite what they've claimed, the "Pali" brothers have not received their jihad cash back.

In digging deeper into the illegal foreign campaign contributions from Palestinians, Cathy came across these FEC letters. Obama knew these contributions were illegal and "Palestinian". He didn't report them. He took a page from his days as a "commnity organizer" for the most corrupt political machine in America. It's what they do.

Bringing the worst in American politics to the national level.

It seems the FEC actually did their job. But the chosen One-bama is special and above the law....... he is a citizen of the world.

Obama’s campaign filed their 10/01/07 thru 12/31/07 “Year End” report with the FEC on 1/31/08.

On 4/15/08 the FEC sent a letter requesting additional information for 36 contributors the Obama campaign had submitted.  There is an attachment to this letter with the names, dates and amounts.  On this attachment, 7 of Hosam Edwan’s contributions/transactions are questioned (even though there are 10 transactions) and only 1 of Monir Edwan’s contributions is questioned (even though there were 22 contributions/transactions).  The response date to this letter is May 15, 2008.

Obama’s campaign filed an Amended 10/01/07 thru 12/31/07 “Year End” report on 5/15/08.

On 7/30/08 the FEC sent another letter requesting additional information for SIXTEEN PAGES of questionable contributions/transactions.  The time period covered in the amended report is the same as the first report.  Now there are many more questions.  Included in the questions this time are contributions/transactions for Monir Edwan, this includes the same contribution in the earlier report plus twenty more for Monir Edwan.

This can only mean that the Obama campaign failed to report the contributions of Monir Edwan in the first report .He knew.

There's another red flag in the FEC letter of July 30, 2008.  They advise, “It appears that several transactions on Schedule(s) A supporting line(s) 17(a) of your report disclose the original contribution of an individual more than once”.  If this is true, the Obama campaign is inflating the total of the contributions that they have received.  This could have a negative impact on additional fund raising if known by the general public.

Attachments:  FEC Letter 4/15/08; FEC Letter 7/30/08 and Monir & Hosam Edwan detail contributions worksheet (notations added referencing FEC requests for additional information)

Thanks to Cathy and Laura who continue to work diligently to uncover this skulduggery.

Download FECLtr7.30.08.zip

Edwan Monir