The Obama re-election campaign has accepted at least one foreign donation in violation of the law — and does nothing to check on the provenance of millions of dollars in other contributions, a watchdog group alleges.
Chris Walker, a British citizen who lives outside London, told The Post he was able to make two $5 donations to President Obama’s campaign this month through its Web site while a similar attempt to give Mitt Romney cash was rejected. It is illegal to knowingly solicit or accept money from foreign citizens.
Walker said he used his actual street address in England but entered Arkansas as his state with the Schenectady, NY, ZIP code of 12345.
“When I did Romney’s, the payment got rejected on the grounds that the address on the card did not match the address that I entered,” he said. “Romney’s Web site wanted the code from the back of card. Barack Obama’s didn’t.”
In September, Obama’s campaign took in more than $2 million from donors who provided no ZIP code or incomplete ZIP codes, according to data posted on the Federal Election Commission Web site.
The Obama campaign said the FEC data was the result of “a minor technical error.”
Read More at NY Post . By Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein.
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To tell you the truth most people do not care if God dams America,our country is so full of atheist,communist,Muslims and all other false crap it wouldn’t even phase them, they would love it…I do believe God will dam us if we choose the scum that are in there again we will deserve to be damned if that happens.
JoAnn523 , you do know that , in this country , U.S., most people are Christians , right ? And , most people do give a care . It’s only Hussein who is telling some more lies . He wants more Muslim’s to come to this country . Since he became the president , Muslim’s came here over 256,000 a year , where-as when W.Bush was on the Office , it was only 12,000 a year .
LIAR! You did the SAME thing LAST CYCLE! and no one did a DAMN THING about it….TIME to CLEAN HOUSE!
Where the hell is the FEC?!! They should be investigating the Obama campaign. This same kind of stuff was alleged in the 2008 campaign and the FEC did nothing. What good is it?
Boggles my mind how much this Piece of Crap gets away with. I am sick of the Rep who do NOTHING, they just let him do whatever the hell he wants and believe me he does whatever he wants.. This is just disgusting. The good for nothing loafers need to be fired too! to many been there way to damn long
Heard rumors about this during the last general election, too. Obviously team O is breaking the law by omitting the security code requirement and then calling it a “minor technical” error. Typical Obama.