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发帖数: 1193 | 1 Hillary Clinton Campaign Systematically Overcharging Poorest Donors
Hillary for America processed a total of $94 in unauthorized charges to
Carol Mahre's US Bank account. This follows a pattern in which unwitting
donors are charged multiple times, but always for a total of less than $100,
which is a key trigger point for banks'internal action systems. Photo:
Courtesy Carol Mahre
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is stealing from her poorest supporters by
purposefully and repeatedly overcharging them after they make what’s
supposed to be a one-time small donation through her official campaign
website, multiple sources tell the Observer.
The overcharges are occurring so often that the fraud department at one of
the nation’s biggest banks receives up to 100 phone calls a day from
Clinton’s small donors asking for refunds for unauthorized charges to their
bankcards made by Clinton’s campaign. One elderly Clinton donor, who has
been a victim of this fraud scheme, has filed a complaint with her state’s
attorney general and a representative from the office told her that they had
forwarded her case to the Federal Election Commission.
“We get up to a hundred calls a day from Hillary’s low-income supporters
complaining about multiple unauthorized charges,” a source, who asked to
remain anonymous for fear of job security, from the Wells Fargo fraud
department told the Observer. The source claims that the Clinton campaign
has been pulling this stunt since Spring of this year. The Hillary for
America campaign will overcharge small donors by repeatedly charging small
amounts such as $20 to the bankcards of donors who made a one-time donation.
However, the Clinton campaign strategically doesn’t overcharge these
donors $100 or more because the bank would then be obligated to investigate
the fraud.
“We don’t investigate fraudulent charges unless they are over $100,” the
fraud specialist explained. “The Clinton campaign knows this, that’s why
we don’t see any charges over the $100 amount, they’ll stop the charges
just below $100. We’ll see her campaign overcharge donors by $20, $40 or $
60 but never more than $100.” The source, who has worked for Wells Fargo
for over 10 years, said that the total amount they refund customers on a
daily basis who have been overcharged by Clinton’s campaign “varies” but
the bank usually issues refunds that total between $700 and $1200 per day.
The fraud specialist said that Clinton donors who call in will attempt to
resolve the issue with the campaign first but they never get anywhere. “
They will call the Clinton campaign to get their refund and the issue never
gets resolved. So they call us and we just issue the refund. The Clinton
campaign knows these charges are small potatoes and that we’ll just refund
the money back.”
The source said that pornography companies often deploy a similar
arrangement pull. “We see this same scheme with a lot of seedy porn
companies,” the source said. The source also notes that the dozens of phone
calls his department receives daily are from people who notice the
fraudulent charges on their statements. “The people who call us are just
the ones who catch the fraudulent charges. I can’t imagine how many more
people are getting overcharged by Hillary’s campaign and they have no idea.”
The source said he’s apolitical but noted that the bank’s fraud department
is yet to receive one call from a Donald Trump supporter claiming to have
been overcharged by Trump’s campaign. “I’m only talking to you because
what Hillary’s doing is so messed up, she’s stealing from her poorest
supporters.”
Carol and Roger Mahre.
Carol Mahre has been charged multiple times after signing up for a one-time
donation. Her son, Roger Mahre, is an attorney who filed a complaint with
Minnesota’s Attorney General. Photo: Courtesy Carol Mahre
Wells Fargo recently came under fire after news broke that various
regulators fined the big bank $185 million for opening 2 million phony
customer accounts without their customers’ permission. This massive scandal
resulted in the firing of 5,300 Wells Fargo employees.
Carol Mahre, an 81-year-old grandmother of seven from Minnesota, is one of
the victims of Clinton’s campaign donor fraud scandal. In March, Mahre said
she made a one-time $25 donation via Clinton’s official campaign website.
However, when she received her US Bank card statement, she noticed multiple
$25 charges were made. Mahre, who said in an interview she only contributed
$25 because she’s “not rich” and that’s all she could afford, contacted
her son, Roger Mahre, to help her dispute the unauthorized charges.
Roger, who is an attorney, told the Observer that he called the Clinton
campaign dozens of times in April and early May in an attempt to resolve the
issue. “It took me at least 40 to 50 phone calls to the campaign office
before I finally got ahold of someone,” Roger said. “After I got a
campaign worker on the phone, she said they would stop making the charges.”
Incredibly, the very next day, Carol’s card was charged yet again and the
campaign had never reversed the initial fraudulent charges. “I was told
they would stop charging my mother’s card but they never stopped.” He
added that he knows his mother did not sign up for recurring payments. “She
’s very good with the Internet so I know she only made a one-time payment.
” Roger also pointed out that even if his mother mistakenly signed up for
recurring monthly payments then she should’ve been charged for the same
amount of money each month, not multiple charges for varying amounts on the
same day or in the same month. Furthermore, Roger said that after the
campaign was made aware of this situation, the charges should’ve stopped
but they never did.
The Clinton campaign overcharged Carol $25 three times and then overcharged
her one time for $19, a grand total of $94 in fraudulent charges. The
campaign’s overcharges to Carol were just a few dollars short of $100. This
is in line with what the Wells Fargo bank source revealed to the Observer.
Since the campaign failed to amend the problem for Carol, Roger contacted
her bank, US Bank. However, he ran into problems when he asked US Bank to
refund his mother’s money. Roger told the Observer that the bank would not
reverse the charges and that a bank spokesperson told him that they had no
control over companies that make unauthorized charges. At that point, Roger
decided to contact his local news and filed a fraud complaint with Minnesota
Attorney General Lori Swanson’s office on behalf of his mother. After
local TV news Kare 11 ran a story, someone from US Bank contacted Roger the
next day and said that they had reversed and stopped the charges to his
mother’s card.
A representative from Minnesota’s Democratic attorney general’s office
told Roger that this problem wasn’t in their jurisdiction and that they had
forwarded the case to the FEC. However, FEC spokesperson Julia Queen told
the Observer they have no record of the case. “We don’t have it,” Queen
said. The Observer contacted Swanson’s office and did not hear back.
Roger did eventually get a letter from a lawyer representing the Clinton
campaign. In the letter, the lawyer wrote that his mother would be removed
from their donor list; however, the campaign did not take any responsibility
for the fraudulent charges.
“They basically said that they weren’t accepting responsibility for this
but they’d remove my mom from the donor list,” he said. Roger is less than
happy with the way the Clinton campaign has handled this nightmare for him
and his mother. “This is a load of crap!” Mahre said. “The self-
righteousness of politicians drives me insane. If you and I did this, we’d
be thrown in jail. This is theft, fraud or wire fraud – it’s a federal
crime!”
Since Carol’s story became public, Roger said he’s heard from other people
who have been ripped off by the Clinton campaign. “I’ve heard this is
happening to other small donors,” Roger said. “People will donate $25 but
then when they receive their credit card statement they are charged $25
multiple times.”
The incident hasn’t just left a bad taste in Roger’s mouth. Carol decided
she’s not going to vote for Hillary even though she’s voted for the
Democratic presidential nominee every election since President Dwight
Eisenhower won reelection in 1956. “My mother is a lifelong Democrat and
she’s voted every election in her life for a Democrat but she’s not going
to vote for Hillary,” Roger said.
The New York Times reported in 2007 that Clinton’s first presidential
campaign had to refund and subtract hundreds of thousands of dollars from
its first-quarter total often because donors’ credit cards were charged
twice. Additionally, it was reported that Clinton had to refund a stunning $
2.8 million in donations, three times more than the $900K President Barack
Obama’s campaign refunded.
Another bank source told the Observer that Clinton’s motivation in
purposefully overcharging donors is not only to rake in more money for her
campaign but also to inflate her small donor numbers reported to the FEC. “
This gives a false impression about how much money Clinton has raised,” the
source said. “The money that the bank has refunded would not be reflected
in the FEC filings till after the election. This gives off the illusion to
the public that her support and the amount she’s raised is much greater
than what it is in reality.”
A Clinton campaign worker named Kathy Callahan, who worked on Clinton’s
presidential campaign in 2008, claimed in a blog post that Clinton
fraudulently overcharged her by several thousand dollars. She wrote that she
voluntarily left the campaign’s finance committee after she discovered $3,
000 in unauthorized charges made by Clinton’s campaign to her Visa card.
Callahan said the unauthorized charges caused $400 in overdraft and bank
charges and put Callahan over the legal donor limit. Callahan said that
after a month of “begging and pleading,” she wasn’t able to get her money
back until she threatened to go to authorities. However, when she was
finally refunded her money the Clinton campaign refused to compensate her
for the $400 in overdraft and bank charges.
Callahan also wrote that Matt McQueeney, who worked in the compliance and
accounting department at Clinton’s campaign headquarters at the time, told
her: “What happened to you with credit card errors is happening to others.
” McQueeney reportedly parted ways with the Clinton campaign shortly after
this incident occurred. Backing up what McQueeney claimed, there were
several incidents similar to Callahan’s reported in 2008. Callahan and
McQueeney could not be reached for comment.
In 2001, the Clintons were accused of attempting to steal items donated to
the White House during Bill’s presidency as he exited office. There was $
190,000 worth of gifts in question that the Clintons shipped to their then
new estate in Chappaqua, New York. Multiple donors said that they had
understood that the items they had donated during Clinton’s presidency were
to stay in the White House as part of the 1993 White House redecoration
project. Initially, the Clintons claimed that the items in question were
given to them prior to President Clinton taking office; however, government
records proved otherwise. Facing strong criticism, the Clintons decided to
return several items including $28,500 in furnishings and they paid $86,000
for other gifts.
Murmurs of theft are nothing new to the Clintons. In 2001, the Clintons were
accused of attempting to steal items donated to the White House during Bill
’s presidency as he exited office, including $190,000 worth of gifts in
question that the Clintons shipped to their new estate in Chappaqua, New
York. But Bill begs to differ.
He recently compared himself to Robin Hood and said that through their
foundation he asks people with money to give to people who don’t have money
. In reality, the Clintons steal from people who have little money and they
’re robbing some of Hillary’s most impoverished supporters—including a
poor elderly grandma—to fund her campaign. | j***j
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【在 M******e 的大作中提到】
: Hillary Clinton Campaign Systematically Overcharging Poorest Donors
: Hillary for America processed a total of $94 in unauthorized charges to
: Carol Mahre's US Bank account. This follows a pattern in which unwitting
: donors are charged multiple times, but always for a total of less than $100,
: which is a key trigger point for banks'internal action systems. Photo:
: Courtesy Carol Mahre
: Hillary Clinton’s campaign is stealing from her poorest supporters by
: purposefully and repeatedly overcharging them after they make what’s
: supposed to be a one-time small donation through her official campaign
: website, multiple sources tell the Observer.
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发帖数: 1997 | 5 dems are super predators
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100,
【在 M******e 的大作中提到】
: Hillary Clinton Campaign Systematically Overcharging Poorest Donors
: Hillary for America processed a total of $94 in unauthorized charges to
: Carol Mahre's US Bank account. This follows a pattern in which unwitting
: donors are charged multiple times, but always for a total of less than $100,
: which is a key trigger point for banks'internal action systems. Photo:
: Courtesy Carol Mahre
: Hillary Clinton’s campaign is stealing from her poorest supporters by
: purposefully and repeatedly overcharging them after they make what’s
: supposed to be a one-time small donation through her official campaign
: website, multiple sources tell the Observer.
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原来那个求大家捐一刀是这个意思
100,
【在 M******e 的大作中提到】
: Hillary Clinton Campaign Systematically Overcharging Poorest Donors
: Hillary for America processed a total of $94 in unauthorized charges to
: Carol Mahre's US Bank account. This follows a pattern in which unwitting
: donors are charged multiple times, but always for a total of less than $100,
: which is a key trigger point for banks'internal action systems. Photo:
: Courtesy Carol Mahre
: Hillary Clinton’s campaign is stealing from her poorest supporters by
: purposefully and repeatedly overcharging them after they make what’s
: supposed to be a one-time small donation through her official campaign
: website, multiple sources tell the Observer.
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