PrintJuly 21, 2010
Biden's '08 campaign fined by FEC for accepting illegal contributions
Apparently gross negligence and fiduciary malfeasance by high-ranking Democrat politicians no longer warrants mention by the propaganda arm of the ruling American leftist party. The latest mid-summer Friday night news-dump involves the levy by the Federal Election Commission of a significant fine against the clodhopper 2007-08 campaign of Vice President Joe "The Plagiarist" Biden.
Andrew Malcolm , blogging at the Los Angeles Times reports that:
[A]fter an audit of Biden's notoriously unsuccessful presidential campaign of 2007-08, during which he accepted more than $2 million in federal funds, the agency was fining him $219,000... The audit found that Biden's campaign illegally accepted a corporate charter air transportation gift...(involving) a plane owned by a New York hedge fund, the Clinton Group, controlled by major Democrat donor, George E. Hall, (who was) investigated by state Atty Gen. Andrew Cuomo.The audit also found that Biden's campaign accepted at least $106,000 in contributions above the legal $2,300 individual limit, and that Biden owed the U.S. Treasury $85,000 for stale-dated checks.
But wait, there's more: the audit also found that Biden's campaign failed to disclose $3.7 million in payments-and that his campaign failed to disclose $870,000 in debts.
Other than that, his sloppy campaign reports may have been perfect.
Who's Blatherskite Joe got doing his books, Tim Geithner?
It remains entirely conceivable that the American people are willing to forgive the glaring foibles of Joseph Robinette Biden. Even delusional Democrats couldn't possibly be laboring under the illusion that Biden could provide anything more than comic relief to the nation while serving as Barack Obama's wacky sidekick. It seems the pattern of turning a blind-eye toward the misuse of both public funds and private donations by Democrats has become so commonplace that the New Pravda media doesn't even feel the need to report nearly $5 million in undisclosed funds lurking in the coffers of a candidate whose campaign was nearly as big a joke as his current role as rodeo clown for the failed Obama presidency.
Ralph Alter blogs at Right on Target www.rightot.blogspot.com
