{"id":194964,"date":"2008-08-06T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/06\/mccains-fundraising-corruption\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T22:40:00","slug":"mccains-fundraising-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/06\/mccains-fundraising-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain&#8217;s Fundraising Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmmm&#8230;.It appears that one of McCain&#8217;s major campaign bundlers, Harry Sargeant III,  is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/05\/AR2008080503502.html?hpid=topnews%E2%8A%82=AR\">using straw donors to funnel money to the campaign from non-US citizens in the Middle East<\/a>, which is a felony.<\/p>\n<p>Actually it&#8217;s two, straw donors and foreign campaign donations.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article.  Many of the donors don&#8217;t make much money, and many of them are <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not even registered to vote<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>And all the contributors in the story have Arab names, which when juxtaposed with Sargeant&#8217;s statement that, &#8220;I have a lot of Arab business partners. I do a lot of business in the Middle East. I&#8217;ve got a lot of friends,&#8221; does lead one to wonder what&#8217;s going on here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmmm&#8230;.It appears that one of McCain&#8217;s major campaign bundlers, Harry Sargeant III, is using straw donors to funnel money to the campaign from non-US citizens in the Middle East, which is a felony. Actually it&#8217;s two, straw donors and foreign campaign donations. Read the article. Many of the donors don&#8217;t make much money, and many &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,970,1052,986,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-corruption","category-crimes","category-middle-east","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194964"}],"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=194964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}