{"id":181132,"date":"2016-09-21T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/21\/how-utterly-proper-3\/"},"modified":"2016-09-21T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T22:27:00","slug":"how-utterly-proper-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/21\/how-utterly-proper-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How Utterly Proper"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>It appears that the Clinton Campaign has been erroneously overcharging its donors credit cards, but but only the small donors are effected<\/a>, so no harm, no foul.<\/p>\n

There is a metaphor here, but it is not yet fully formed in my mind:<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign is stealing from her poorest supporters by purposefully and repeatedly overcharging them after they make what\u2019s supposed to be a one-time small donation through her official campaign website, multiple sources tell the Observer.<\/span>

<\/span>The overcharges are occurring so often that the fraud department at one of the nation\u2019s biggest banks receives up to 100 phone calls a day from Clinton\u2019s small donors asking for refunds for unauthorized charges to their bankcards made by Clinton\u2019s campaign. One elderly Clinton donor, who has been a victim of this fraud scheme, has filed a complaint with her state\u2019s attorney general and a representative from the office told her that they had forwarded her case to the Federal Election Commission.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cWe get up to a hundred calls a day from Hillary\u2019s low-income supporters complaining about multiple unauthorized charges,\u201d 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\u2019t overcharge these donors $100 or more because the bank would then be obligated to investigate the fraud.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cWe don\u2019t investigate fraudulent charges unless they are over $100,\u201d the fraud specialist explained. \u201cThe Clinton campaign knows this, that\u2019s why we don\u2019t see any charges over the $100 amount, they\u2019ll stop the charges just below $100. We\u2019ll see her campaign overcharge donors by $20, $40 or $60 but never more than $100.\u201d 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\u2019s campaign \u201cvaries\u201d but the bank usually issues refunds that total between $700 and $1,200 per day.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s some more detail for the metaphor:<\/p>\n

The source said that pornography companies often deploy a similar arrangement pull. \u201cWe see this same scheme with a lot of seedy porn companies,\u201d 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. \u201cThe people who call us are just the ones who catch the fraudulent charges. I can\u2019t imagine how many more people are getting overcharged by Hillary\u2019s campaign and they have no idea.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I so want to go live in a cave until this f%$#ing election is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears that the Clinton Campaign has been erroneously overcharging its donors credit cards, but but only the small donors are effected, so no harm, no foul. There is a metaphor here, but it is not yet fully formed in my mind: Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign is stealing from her poorest supporters by purposefully and repeatedly …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[853,761,766,777,807,823],"class_list":["post-181132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-campaign-finance","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-finance","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}