Things are not going well for the Hillary campaign these days.
She is without a doubt sick, but no one knows from what. Anyone trusting
the pneumonia diagnosis as the full truth has mush for brains.
And today we learned that the Clinton campaign has been dinging donors
multiple times for “one time” donations.
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
Note the varying charges.
“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.
I cannot prove any of this. Nor can anyone else unless they have a
recording of the call.
But there is a moral to this story, two actually.
