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The Clinton InfoUSA Ties May Lead to a Scandal


I have a feeling of deja vu.  The Clinton White House is likely to be again faced with many scandals if Hillary gets in.  Below is a brief description of one.  It involves Hillary and Bill Clintons' long financial relationship Info U.S.A.'s CEO is Vinod Gupta, who now faces questions from the Securities and Exchange Commission and a lawsuit with his company's stockholders over his relationship with the Clintons.

Last year, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton rented out some of her lists to  It is drawing attention because, campaigns usually do not rent out of give access to their donor lists until the campaign is over.  They rented the list for $8,225 however most say it is worth $800,000.  Clinton says the rental was for her Senate campaign and that the rentals took place before she began her formal campaign for president last January.  That would mean that the debt went unpaid for at least 11 months, even though Info U.S.A.  settles accounts within 64 days.

Over $900,000 was spent flying the Clintons to various places, which could violate federal campaigning and ethics rules.   Hilary says he has been reimbursed.  Gupta also owns the Opinion Research Corporation, which conducts the political polling for the television network CNN - which in my opinion is very pro-Hillary.

Vin Gupta has a long history of giving and raising campaign money for the Clintons and after they  left the White House he hired Bill Clinton as a consultant.  Clinton has been paid $3.3 million, in addition to the options on 100,000 shares of stock. The corporate spending on behalf of the Clintons helped fuel a shareholder lawsuit against Gupta and 10 corporate directors.

As usual, I think that as usually, all parties involved will be prosecuted and that the Clinton will get out of this, but it still sounds like a brewing scandal the nation will have to face if Hillary is in office.  

You can read more at NPR

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The good folks at NPR covered that story a month ago. Where's the rest of the media?

Yeah, I read this too. The issue is that the article is dated Feb 13, 2008. Meaning that other than NPR, the MSM had a chance to digest this and send it out. But its rather telling of our attitude towards the Clintons that this didn't gain traction.


Instead of keeping this in the forefront, the MSM and the public figure, "oh well, another Clinton scandal - its in keeping with her." But if the same thing happened to Obama, we'd jump all over it.


The goody two shoes kid never gets the credit, but the constantly error-prone kid who suddenly does good looks better. Its social psychology at its best and worst.

Yeah, I read this too. The issue is that the article is dated Feb 13, 2008. Meaning that other than NPR, the MSM had a chance to digest this and send it out. But its rather telling of our attitude towards the Clintons that this didn't gain traction.

But, but, but ... the media are unfair to Hillary. She said so!

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