Obama Campaign Runs Afoul of Finance RulesWednesday, October 8, 2008 8:25 PM By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
A Newsmax investigation of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign
finance reports has turned up more than 2,000 cases in which
individuals have made donations far above the legal limit of $2,300 per
election.
Such donations, if not returned within 60 days, violate federal campaign finance laws.
Some can be chalked up to common names, such as Michael Brown, William Taylor, or James Smith.
But many others cannot.
On Aug. 31, for example, the Obama campaign filed a report listing a
single donation from a Debra Myers in “Rancho Palos Verde, Calif.,” for
$28,500 – more than 10 times the amount the law allows per election.
Although Debra Myers is identified as a physician, only two individuals
with that last name have a listed phone number in Rancho Palos Verdes
(the city’s name actually does have an “s” at the end). Neither is a
Debra or a “D” Myers, or a physician.
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