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Warren Takes In $16 Million From Sites Without Foreign Donation Protections


120905_elizabeth_warren_ap_328Apparently Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren raised $12.1 million for her campaign in the 3rd quarter of 2012, which ended September 30. The total fund she raised amounted to $36 million. However, apparently 40%, roughly $16 million, came from online donations from two websites that do not have industry standard protections and are vulnerable to fraud and illegal foreign national donations.

Michael Patrick Leahy writes,

Warren made her reputation as an anti-fraud advocate for consumers.

Of the $28 million Democrat Elizabeth Warren raised for her Massachusetts Senate campaign at the time she had filed the August 17 pre-primary report (covering contributions to June 30, 2012), 42% (approximately $13 million) came from “unitemized” individual contributions donated on two online websites that lack industry standard security protections to prevent illegal donations from foreign nationals. When the Warren campaign’s third quarter reports are finally available, we’ll see if that percentage remains.

It is likely that her most recent $8.7 million of donations includes approximately the same percentage of unitemized small donations. If that pattern holds, then slightly more than $3 million of her previously unreported donations came from unsecure online websites, bringing the total amount that her campaign has raised through websites that are vulnerable to fraud to approximately $16 million.

According to FEC regulations, political campaigns are not required to list the name, address, and occupation of individual donors who contribute less than $200 in an election cycle. Campaigns are only required to report the total amount received from these small donors as “unitemized” individual contributions.

Leahy goes on to demonstrate just how open the websites are for fraud and illegal campaign donations. Neither website have the standard credit card industry CVV and AVS code protections.

According to ACT Blue, a website that reportedly raised $240,000 for the Warren campaign:

ActBlue is an online toolset that makes it easy for donors to connect with the candidates and causes they support… At ActBlue, our mission is to democratize power by putting powerful fundraising tools in the hands of grassroots donors across the United States…

ActBlue only accepts donations from individuals, and we direct the money as they specify. We disclose every donation made through ActBlue to the relevant bodies, working to keep the lines of accountability between donors and recipients open.

Warren’s campaign is seems to be just as susceptible to corruption as the Obama campaign has demonstrated and should be just as open to investigation of taking illegal contributions.

Currently the race between Warren and Scott Brown remains a virtual dead heat.




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  • Mass.Communist State

    Besides being Nancy Pelosi secret sister the Chief Warren Halloween mask could be #1 in the state.

  • TexasfedupGramma

    Another lying, cheating, dishonest Democrat….they all have the same fraud DNA! They’ll take their money anywhere they can get it!

  • J J

    This is the Democrats being the ‘do as I say, not as I do’ party. This is the Democrats talking out of both sides of their mouths. This is the Democrats playing games with the American people. Why can’t Democrats see that they need to be more above board than they ever have been to gain the confidence of the American people – not just make unprovable claims of being an American Indian? I am already extremely leery of any Democrat and anything they say. But when our national security is at stake, every politician and want-a-be politician needs to follow the rules. Democrats already have a reputation for breaking the rules for personal gain. Are the rules only for Republicans to follow?

  • grannylake

    Seriously, is anybody surprised? It’s standard operating proceedure for the liberal supporters. Win at all costs – lie and cheat, intimidate, name-call, accuse, etc. anyone who not only opposes but fails to praise the progressives program. They have taken over the education system and brain-washed our children generation after generation in familes that let the government raise their children. They are as frightening as the radical Islamic terrorists.

  • Irma

    Gee, she gets foreign donations as well as donations from the Hollywood set (holding onto Obama’s coat tails) – guess the people of Massachusetts are not that crazy for her so she has to go to outside sources. Says a lot about her character – or shall I say LACK of character!

  • RightWingLeftyGolfer

    Better start checking for more donations transmitted by smoke signal!! Can’t say it was done by “smoke and mirrors” ’cause the mirror would break!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G75RVM5S3L2G2BHBHGAXG6X5PI Jim

    Much of that money comes from the Chinese government and middle east Muslims.

    Do you want them to control how our Senate votes?

    • Phillip_in_TX

      At this point in time, it does not matter how they vote, “it’s not my fault Obama” by-passes them an issues an “Executive Order.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G75RVM5S3L2G2BHBHGAXG6X5PI Jim

    Her Great Great Grandfather was a farmer who volunteered to join the army to march the Cherokees on the “trail of tears” in which hundreds of Cherokees died.

    Two questions:

    1. Would you think that he would have married a Cherokee woman?
    2. Would you think that a Cherokee woman would have married him?
    He later volunteered to march the Seminoles from their homes.

    In order to be considered a “Native American” one of your grandparents must be a full blooded “Native American”. She lied on her admission form to get into college by checking the box marked “Minority”, stealing an admission from a real minority, moving to the top of the list. She lied on an application to be a professor at Harvard, stealing a $300,000.00 per year job from a real minority. Should any minority person vote for her? I think not.

  • Josephco

    i will believe she is a true Indian when she shows up in her feather headdress and moccasins but I have a feeling she has neither.

  • A. Levy

    And yet, the American sheeple sit at home and actually believe there are such things as fair elections in this country. The great P.T. Barnum once said, “you can’t fool all the people all the time”. What he didn’t realize was, you can surely fool enough of them, as our electoral process proves.

    • Phillip_in_TX

      However, thanks to “it’s not my fault Obama” more people have awakened. It took a long time to get here, it will take time to fix. Politicians are one part of the problem. The other part is the “Career Civil Service” who work for the politicians. Yes, Washington D.C. needs a “great big enema,” there is no doubt about it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Young/100001630951601 Mike Young

    Has she donated any of this money to her “Indian” heritage or the tribes of her decendants.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G75RVM5S3L2G2BHBHGAXG6X5PI Jim

      She refused to meet with a panel of representatives from the Cherokee Nation. They were going to confront her with the evidence that she has “0″ zero, nada, none, Cherokee ancestry. The Cherokee Nation and others keep detailed records of who is and who isn’t a member of their tribe.

    • johnny b

      Maybe she means from India………. She could you know…. See if she likes curry…

  • fliteking

    She prefers foreign donations, she dislikes most Americans.

    • Phillip_in_TX

      Sounds like she has a lot in common with “it’s not my fault Obama.” They probably use the same web site company.

  • Nadine

    Sheis a slime! Must be foreign donors & friends of Obummers…she’s raising more than BO! WHY!! GO SCOTT…let her have it at next debate!

  • reagangs

    It’s time for chief Warren to meet her doom at Little Big Horn. Where’s General Custer when you need him.

    • TLady62

      I know. Pocahontas needs to go back to her wigwam.

    • Phillip_in_TX

      If she was Eskimo, they could put her on an “ice flow.”

    • Remington 870

      The communist state of Mass will support the Warren Woman whose Native American status is a hoax and who practiced law without a license.

    • reagangs

      Damn!!! It’s worse than I thought.

  • Jack Parker

    Q: How can you tell that is a duplicitous, cheating fraud? A: She’s a Democrat.

    • Phillip_in_TX

      Destroying Everything Mocking Others Continuously Ranting And Testing Sanity = Democrat. Yep, she fits the mold.