Obama’s Illegal Contributions And The FEC Complaint
By NancyA on August 4, 2008 at 6:29 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Federal Elections Commission, Obama
Earlier today UppityWoman wrote a satirical piece on the illegal contributions. I am however addressing the need for a citizen, any citizen, to file a complaint with the Federal Election Commission so Obama can’t skate on these illegal filings.
For some months now there has been speculation that Obama’s campaign has been taking illegal donations. Last night, the Federal Election Commission filings for Obama for America were released at Right Side News.
I know these illegal contributions are against the law of the FEC.
Not too long ago the Wall Street Journal Market Watch released an interview with the brothers, Mosir and Hosam Edwan, who live in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip originally published in the World News Daily. Their stories are conflicting. They said they bought t-shirts for $9 from the campaign and resold them for a profit, that doesn’t hold water since Obama t-shirts are $20.08. They did admit to giving money to the campaign finally.
Since I am a policy/law wonk (much the same as Hillary) I did some digging and got an education on filing a complaint with the FEC. I have furnished that information for you.
Introduction
The Federal Election Commission frequently receives questions about how to file a complaint concerning possible violations of federal election campaign laws.1 This brochure explains how to file a complaint with the Commission and describes how complaints are processed.
I. Filing a Complaint
Any person may file a complaint if he or she believes a violation of the Federal Election Campaign Laws or Commission regulations has occurred or is about to occur. The complaint must be made in writing and sent to the Office of General Counsel, Federal Election Commission, 999 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20463. The original must be submitted along with three copies, if possible. Facsimile or e-mail transmissions are not acceptable. A complaint must comply with certain requirements. It must:
Provide the full name and address of the person filing the complaint (called the complainant); and
Be signed, sworn to and notarized. This means that the notary public’s certificate must say “…signed and sworn to before me…,” or words that connote the complaint was affirmed by the complainant, (such as “under penalty of perjury”).
Furthermore, in order for a complaint to be considered complete and proper, it should:
Clearly recite the facts that show specific violations under the Commission’s jurisdiction (citations to the law and regulations are not necessary);
Clearly identify each person, committee or group that is alleged to have committed a violation (called the respondent);
Include any documentation supporting the allegations, if available; and
Differentiate between statements based on the complainant’s (the person who files the complaint) personal knowledge and those based on information and belief. Statements not based on personal knowledge should identify the source of the information.
For self-reported complaints (called “sua sponte” submissions), the submission should include an admission of the violation(s), a complete recitation of the facts along with all relevant documentation that explains how the violation was discovered, the internal actions that were taken in response to the violation and what other agencies, if any, are investigating the violation (or facts surrounding the violation).
The Commission seeks to increase the number of self-reported submissions in order to expedite enforcement of the law. To encourage self-reporting, the Commission will generally negotiate penalties between 25 and 75 percent lower than those for matters arising by other means, such as through complaints or the Commission’s own review of reports. In certain circumstances, the Commission may allow committees who voluntarily report their violations and make a complete report of their internal investigation to proceed directly into conciliation before the Commission makes a finding as to whether there is reason to believe the committee violated campaign finance laws or Commission regulations.
I am the complainant and of course Obama for America will be the respondent. While this educated me on filing the complaint there is no sample complaint form. They have the requirements listed for the complaint but no letter.
As I was unsure of how to proceed with “my complaint”, I called the FEC Information Office. I spoke with a young man in that office, very nice by the way, and read him my complaint. He said that my complaint had just the correct information in the body of it. Here is my complaint in its entirety, minus personal information:
Federal Election Commission
999 E Street NW
Washington, DC 20463
FEC Complaint:
Obama for America Campaign
According to FEC filings from the Obama for America campaign they have
accepted ionations totafing nearly $29,000 from someone living inGaza’ None of
the money has been returned as far as we can tell. According to laws no donations
may be taken from non-US citizens’
I believe that the obama campaign took these donations with full knowledge that
they come from someone living inGaza.It appears on the filings that they tried to
hide the fact it was from Gaza by abbreviating it GA. There is no Rafah GA.
That is about all the information you have to put in your complaint. And remember to put any supporting evidence, which I have, in the envelope before mailing it. The FEC information office was helpful and asked if I had their address.
There is one other piece of advice that I received via counsel, submit duplicate copies of the complaint and supporting documents to the Department of Justice. I did write a letter addressed to the Attorney General of the United States, the envelope did contain the copy of the complaint and supporting documents. I know it sounds redundant, but this is an outright violation of federal laws and should not go unpunished.
The Obama campaign is not above the law!
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Thank you Nancy for the information.
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can You prove this accusation??? How You know about???
If this can be proven, Peliosi should be hold account for, and this should be publish. Pelosi is two face person, so as Obama and Dean, not to ferget about Richardson or Edwards!!!
Will the MSM pick this story up?
I don’t like the idea of Obama, oe anyone else, taking money from people that aren’t Americans. In Obama’s case it is people who are not American giving money to Obama, who is not an real American, might still be a citizen of Idonesia, hung out with many America haters and even has a wife that doesn’t like America, this country never treated her right.
NancyA:
Why is there a need for any one person to file a complaint? Shouldn’t the FEC be looking into this by themselves? What is their role after all???
I understand they are busy but they must have
some special task force looking into Presidential campaign contributions… Shouldn’t they be checking Obama’s camp (and McCain’s) complies and investigate if there are doubts??
Also: why isn’t the FBI looking into this I want to know.
No, they are too busy looking into to Hillarys! She is the only one they watch, the others can get by with anything!
Barky has an attack ad against McCain on all things-campaign contributions. LOL! The fight is on! How freakin’ delusional is Nobama? Does he honestly think McCain will take that laying down? All Barky’s dirty money is fair game. Old men may yell at clouds, but they also have no qualms about opening a can of whoop ass on you!
That’s what Obama does; he attacks his opponents for what he is guilty of and they are sometimes innocent of. He distracts from his own faults that way. There is a seeming rule that if he makes the charge, he is the guiltiest of all. Obama is like the guy in jail who swears he didn’t do it, rats out his “friends,” and then he sleeps like a baby, giving himself away.
Psychologically it’s called “projection” (projecting one’s faults outward onto others). It’s not uncommon among human beings generally, but some do it more than others.
Obama has made a habit of it, having (most likely) learned it from Donna Brazile who has been chummy with Karl Rove the past couple of years.
I saw that commercial. How timely. Hahahahah. Can’t wait till they fire back with this. And guess WHO opened the worm can? Karma. It’s a bitch.
He will just say oops and give it back… I want him called out and all of the USA and the world to know for a fact what and who he is….Jail time too
The reason the FEC isn’t doing anything is because Congress (Republicans and Democrats) have allowed GWB to leaveit without a quorum. They cannot function at all in this most important election because there aren’t enough members to have a meeting. I think both parties have gone out of their way to keep the FEC nonfunctional.
the FEC is a weak agency and understaffed. they can’t even process all the information regarding donors because their software and computers are old
I called the FEC and was told by the man in the information that a file must be filed. They won’t look into whether they are aware of the fraudulent filings or not. That’s the law. Obama’s campaign can self report but of course they won’t. So a citizen has to do it! I think it is a bull$hit rule.
PRAY TELL JUST WHEN IS THE NEWS MEDIA GOING TO INVESTIGATE THIS.
I RECALL HOW THEY WERE ALWAYS ALL OVER THE CLINTONS ABOUT EVERY HONEST DIME THEY RECIEVED.
NOW WE HAVE SELF ADMITTED TERRIOST TAKING PART IN OUR ELECTION TO HELP ELECT OBAMA AND THE NEW MEDIA SAYS NADA. I COULD PUKE.
NO SHIT!
Another bad polling day for Obama.
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/wsjreader/2008/aug/04/surveyusa-florida-mccain-50-obama-44/
I’d like to know if his boatloads of money comes from abroad… puts things in perspective. Why are SD’s accepting money from Obama from abroad? Looks very bad.
They don’t care so long as they can take their place at the trough.
sucking it up BOBOstyle
http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/jdo0293l.jpg
ROFL. I’m printing it.
This looks bad for the Democratic Party. This is the face of the “NEW” Democratic Party. We need to bring the Party back to its roots.
It seems our young have a problem with the old. That is, until they too are old.
The we need to trim a few dead branches off the tree, starting with the DNC and the Rules committee.
It’s Dean/Brasile/Obama/Pelosi/Reid that need to leave the Democratic Party; not the loyalist that have successfully pushed for equality, environmental controls, corporate responsibility, etc.
The DNC and Rules Committee must go before I’d ever consider rejoining. They gave us Oblahblah and should pay the price for having done so. This was not democracy in action.
Agree.
The concern is that even if they are deleted, a new group like Dean/Brasile/Obma/Pelosi/Reid may find loop holes in the future of any new process.
Demanding ethical leadership and an open process is critical.
Absolutely. Ethical and open leadership is the key. You’re spot on.
It does come from all places except the little obots..
Soros is in charge of laundering it but it looks like thye don’t care to do that anymore. They do not try to hide it.
http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/fans-realize-obama
Disturbing new evidence indicates that Americans by the millions are failing to deify Sen. Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, reflecting mounting fears among rabid early supporters that their charismatic Boy Messiah may not even be divine.
…………………
Hillary 08or12 Boots Are Made for Walkin’ *BETTER*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC_C1bdpQwo
Hand it to Hannity.
No, hand it to Obama and his friends…
You are right. Fox will investigate this and they know exactly who to give the information to. If we are going to get him out of there we need something to come out about him and soon.
Hannity would have to file a complaint too. I will however e-mail him with my info. There is no guarantee he will listen. Hmmmmmmmmm!
It wouldn’t surprise me if HAMAS were bundling money together in small amounts, combining it as a single maximum donation, and directing it to the campaign via dual citizens.
If the listed donators are indeed, US dual nationals, I’d be interested in knowing if their income stream supports the size contributions that they’re offering.
There are so many ways to cheat, if a person has a mind to so do. And Team Obama is expert at cheating, now, aren’t they?
Cheating is job 1. Trolling is 2.
yes, yes they are. I believe lots of Obama’s money was either illegal or otherwise not disclosed properly.
Oblahblah has had FEC complaints lodged against him before.
Links, please, though I’m not surprised to hear this. It just sounds like there’s an interesting story here.
See Katmoon’s post, below.
You mean like the pakistani billioniare Dual Citizen who threw the party in San Francisco where Obama called rural America “bitter”?
PRECISELY.
It’s a way of getting around the law, you see, while at the same time, advancing an agenda of interest to another nation, using an individual with divided loyalties as the frontman.
“But, but…I HAVE American citizenship…I do!!!! I DOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! It’s….LEEEEgal!!!”
My only point is, if I were hellbent on gaming the system, and didn’t want to get caught (or, if I did get caught with, say, that “GA” bullshit, and needed a fallback position) that’s how I’d do it.
Obama’s bunch are mendacious, but they’re not completely stupid, more’s the pity.
Or The Iranian biz man down the road that held a fundy for him that weekend as well?
He has a Pakistani buddy from his Columbia days, with whom he traveled to Pakistan, and there’s a hint out there that that friend bundled money for Obama, from Pakistanis.
I agree. I’m sure this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Here is the FEC’s web address…
http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/srssea.shtml
Yes, I will do whatever I can do to particpate. Absolutely!
Would it be an imposition to take a poll to ask and run a tally as to what States we here represent for an overall view? With all due respect, of course, to all who wouldn’t want to divulge – just a voluntarily action. It just may give us a bird’s eye view of what states that we here may be be affecting and an idea of where we might need to activate.
Just wondering and would never ever want to offend.
Pennsylvania
I am from Indiana,
Pennsylvania
New Hampshire
Oklahoma
Florida
CT-with family in RI & FL who are also NOBAMA
Massachusetts
me too, MA
California
PA
I am from Massachusetts- – But according to posters on Huffing Poop, since I am a PUMA, I must be an old, bitter, poor, uneducated racist from some backwoods hollow deep in the country where there is no indoor plumbing. I have to be, since a young (ish) woman from a Blue State with a master’s degree would naturally support the “One” .
Minnesota here!
Florida here
California.
Louisiana here.
Indiana
Texas
PA
Los Angeles, California here!
Colorado…
An old case involving Obama on the FEC page, where the FEC found he did not violate the law, however-noted this has not ever come up before as far as I know. I hadn’t ever heard about it.
MUR Case #5718
ttp://eqs.nictusa.com/eqs/searcheqs?SUBMIT=page&ORDERBY=&PAGE_NO=1
OCuld be that he is getting money from AMericans living abroad? I understand there is a campaign promoted by celebrities (Gwenneth Paltrow et al) for Americans abroad to vote for Obama early.
Mcccain camp needs to be on top of this.
Check out:
http://www.votefromabroad.org
The 2 brothers from Gaza admitted that they are not U.S. citizens and that they don’t hold Green Cards. That’s why they were saying that they bought shirts, but it was found out that they were lying about that.
Wow…in that case, he’s fucked!
And if there are more like that, well, his ENTIRE DONOR BASE needs to be well scrubbed.
I’m in California, with family in CT, MA, NY, and FL.
New Zogby National Survey: “The McCain camp seems to have turned lemons into lemonade”
The race it tied.
The national Associated TV/Zogby International telephone poll of 1,011 voters surveyed July 31-Aug. 1 finds McCain (R-Arizona) leading 42 percent to 41 percent over Obama (D-Ill.), which represents a sudden turnaround from the Reuters/Zogby poll of July 7-9 that showed Obama ahead, 46 to 36 percent in a four-way race with Libertarian Bob Barr of Georgia and liberal independent Ralph Nader. McCain made big gains among some of Obama’s strongest demographic groups – young adults, women and independents.
The survey, commissioned by Associated TV, included 1,011 likely voters and was conducted July 31-Aug. 1, The margin of error is 3.1 percentage points.
McCain gained 20 percent while Obama lost 16 percent among voters ages 18-29. Obama still leads that group, 49 percent 38. McCain closed 10 points on Obama among women, although Obama still leads by a 43 percent to 38 percent. Obama and McCain are tied among independents after Obama held an 11-point lead. Even Democrats have cooled on Obama, dropping from 83 percent support to 74.
Among single voters, Obama’s support slid by 19 to a 51-37 advantage.
Even with African Americans and Hispanics, Obama showed smaller margins of support.
The poll follows what had been described as a blockbuster tour of the Middle East and Europe that was intended to boost Obama’s foreign policy profile. McCain used the trip as a launch pad to question whether Obama’s popularity abroad would translate into leadership at home.“
The McCain camp seems to have turned lemons into lemonade. Huge crowds and mostly favorable press reviews of Obama’s overseas trip have been trumped by McCain’s attacks on Obama,” said pollster John Zogby. “Loss of support for Obama among young voters may also be due to his perceived reversals on issues they care about, such as the war and government eavesdropping.”
The poll suggests McCain is making gains in winning key battleground states. His numbers improved most in the West and Middle America. Obama’s narrow lead in the central U.S. is now a 45 percent to 36 percent McCain lead. In the West, Obama’s 15-point lead has evaporated into a 43-40, McCain advantage
Catholics, who favored Obama by 11 points in mid-July, now favor McCain by 15 percent.
whose chickens are coming home to roost now??
McCain has a gift for turning around a bad situation and coming up from behind when he’s seemingly out. And Obama peaks early and overpolls. I never believed that Obama could beat McCain, and I still don’t.
Unless this has been corrected real recently I don’t think there are enough members in the FEC to investigate anything .
Unless I’m thinking of the wrong organization. This was the way the Dems wanted it for this election.
Please tell me I’m wrong, I would be happy to be.
I don’t know the answer to that one. I’ll have to do some checking. It seems to me I remember seeing somewhere that there was a vacancy at the FEC. I just don’t recall when.
All:
I would be reticent to give out any information at all about where you live, even the state. Remember that the bots have new marching orders to insinuate themselves into pro-anyone but Obama websites (dailykos blog posting on NQ from yesterday).
Not afraid of these morons. A bunch of nerds playing thugs hiding behind computers.
I’m not, either. But an ounce of prevention, etc.
I know just remember
You realize, this is exactly why BHO is going down, because it’s all deception. So let them play spooks.
You’re absolutely right.
You know “our” Patty got her name spoofed over the past few days, just an FYI, be careful.
Off topic: I was just watching a video of David Gergen, and he stated that “everyone in the South understands all the racist “code” by comparing BO with Moses.” I’m from the North and have no idea what he’s talking about. Someone from the South please explain what he’s trying to say. The charges of racism in the last 2 ads seem totally ridiculous to me. I never thought of Moses, Paris, or Britney as symbols of racism.
David Axelrod,
Is that you trolling?
I’m from the south and I have no clue.
I’m also from the south and clueless but I am sure Mc Cain will win Louisiana with Hillary out of the race. A lot of independant voters were for Hillary but couldn’t vote in the primary. Also MaRY lANDREU will bite the dust because the coward waited for Obama to be annointed to back him to get black votes and angered whites who now have turned on her.
I am from Middle of USA, and I think tha D.Gregen neet to stop talking nonsense!!!
I heard that as well, he was comparing the use of “The One” phrase as being code for calling someone “uppity.” I grew up in the south and had many AA friends and I never, ever heard of that.
Palestinians losing their shirts making illegal donations to Obama campaign
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/13039.htm
The source of that article was World Net Daily. They are about the least reliable tabloid journalists out there. I would not believe a thing that they wrote, and I would seriously question anyone who did.
New Hampshire here!
caleeforneeuh
CalifornIA
just the fact obama has taken money from Hamos members should disqualify him as a presidential candidate. There’s no way he can justify that period.
NC Here.
This would be rich, Obama being burned by a technicality during a campaign.Caught at his own game.