“Just Hitting Another
Brick Wall”
Golden Pig Award:
ELDER Scam:
Since leaving office in 2001, former president Bill Clinton has been paid $3.3 million dollars by InfoUSA, an Omaha, Nebraska company that has been identified as a key provider of specially designed databases that have been sold to criminals who use the detailed information to defraud the elderly.
The consulting fees paid to Bill Clinton were only part of the largess InfoUSA has bestowed on the former president.
Vinod Gupta, the CEO of InfoUSA, lent the Clintons the company's jet which took them to such places as Switzerland, Hawaii, Jamaica and Mexico. The jet service was worth a staggering $900,000.00.
Gupta also gave the Clinton Library a six-figure gift as well. And just months after leaving office, Bill Clinton was paid $200,000 for a speech he gave to InfoUSA in Omaha.
According to the New York Times, InfoUSA compiled and sold lists that disclosed the names of elderly men and women who would be likely to respond to unscrupulous scams. They are not the kind of company which a former president and the husband of a presidential candidate should be associated.
InfoUSA sold lists to companies that were under investigation or closed down by courts because of their criminal activities. The company's internal emails show that employees were aware that the investigations for elderly fraud involved their customers, but sold the lists anyway.
The Times profiled one unfortunate 92 year-old man who entered a sweepstakes sponsored by InfoUSA. The information that he innocently provided was then sold to the predator marketers. After responding to their telemarketing calls seeking financial information, his entire life-savings was stolen from his bank account at Wachovia Bank. These practices, using listssupplied by InfoUSA, were repeated all across the country.
Last week, Hillary sought and obtained an extension of time to file her presidential candidate financial disclosure statement (probably to give her time to find a way to cover up her and Bill's connection to InfoUSA).
Unlike the the information required by Senators, this filing requires her to list not not just the sources of Bill's income, but exactly how much he was paid.
The relationship between Vinod "Vin" Gupta, the CEO of InfoUSA and the Clintons is both long-standing and deep:
Gupta raised over $200,000 for Hillary's Senate Campaigns and contributed thousands to the DNC and Democratic House and Senate campaigns.
InfoUSA was one of the sponsors of the Aspen Festival of Ideas last summer where Bill and Hillary both spoke.
Gupta built the Bill Clinton Science and Technology Center and the Hillary Clinton Mass Communications Center in his hometown of Rampur, India.
InfoUSA appointed Terry McAuliffe, the Clintons' long-time moneyman to the Board of Directors of its subsidiary company videoyellowpages.com.
Clinton appointed Gupta to the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees only a few days before he left office.
Gupta's generosity to the Clintons is only matched by his generosity to himself.
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“Abouna” Gregori
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