Fundraisers Convinced Conservatives to Donate $10 Million —
Jul 26, 2019 15:11:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2019 15:11:37 GMT
Then Kept Almost All of It
"After recruiting thousands of donors for the American Conservative Union — the powerful organization behind the annual CPAC conference — a Republican political operative pushed the same contributors to give millions to a PAC that promised to go after then-President Barack Obama, but then steered much of their donations to himself and his partners.
The PAC, called the Conservative Majority Fund, has raised nearly $10 million since mid-2012 and continues to solicit funds to this day, primarily from thousands of steadfast contributors to conservative causes, many of them senior citizens. But it has made just $48,400 in political contributions to candidates and committees. Public records indicate its main beneficiaries are the operative Kelley Rogers, who has a history of disputes over allegedly unethical fundraising, and one of the largest conservative fundraising companies, InfoCision Management Corp., which charged millions of dollars in fundraising fees."
Too bad most of those folks won't read anything by ProPublica or anything else outside of the Fox Bubble.
Being gullible opens one up to all kinds of fraud. The simplest and oldest in the book: Create a boogeyman, profile for gullible people, profit (aka "fundraise") from basic scare tactics about the boogeyman, pay the funds to your related "operations company" vendor at gigantically exorbitant rates, make bank.
Too bad I'm not more unethical. Sounds like a great grifty gig.
www.propublica.org/article/conservative-majority-fund-political-fundraising-pac-kelley-rogers
"After recruiting thousands of donors for the American Conservative Union — the powerful organization behind the annual CPAC conference — a Republican political operative pushed the same contributors to give millions to a PAC that promised to go after then-President Barack Obama, but then steered much of their donations to himself and his partners.
The PAC, called the Conservative Majority Fund, has raised nearly $10 million since mid-2012 and continues to solicit funds to this day, primarily from thousands of steadfast contributors to conservative causes, many of them senior citizens. But it has made just $48,400 in political contributions to candidates and committees. Public records indicate its main beneficiaries are the operative Kelley Rogers, who has a history of disputes over allegedly unethical fundraising, and one of the largest conservative fundraising companies, InfoCision Management Corp., which charged millions of dollars in fundraising fees."
Too bad most of those folks won't read anything by ProPublica or anything else outside of the Fox Bubble.
Being gullible opens one up to all kinds of fraud. The simplest and oldest in the book: Create a boogeyman, profile for gullible people, profit (aka "fundraise") from basic scare tactics about the boogeyman, pay the funds to your related "operations company" vendor at gigantically exorbitant rates, make bank.
Too bad I'm not more unethical. Sounds like a great grifty gig.
www.propublica.org/article/conservative-majority-fund-political-fundraising-pac-kelley-rogers
