Is John Edwards tough? He lets his wife fight his battles. Obama? He may be a nice guy for a liberal, but tough? He hasn't shown it. Hillary? Ok, Hillary is tough ... and mean and bitchy. She had to be to put with Bill.
massive corporate white collar crime. political corruption
You mean like Feinsteins husband's corporations doing lots of contracting for the govt? Or Pelosi making sure American Samoa doesn't get a minimum wage increase to benefit tuna canneries her husband owns big chunks of stock in? How about Hillary and Bills taking big bucks from InfoUSA which supplies mailing lists to swindlers of the poor and elderly?
Since he left office in 2001, former president Bill Clinton has been paid by $3.3 million 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 unsuspecting elderly.
The consulting fees to the former president were only part of the largess InfoUSA showered on the former president.
Vinod Gupta, the CEO of InfoUSA, lent the Clintons the company's jet which took them to places like Switzerland, Hawaii, Jamaica and Mexico.
The jet service was worth a staggering $900,000.
And Gupta gave the Clinton library a six-figure gift as well. Indeed, just months after he left the presidency, Bill Clinton was paid $200,000 for a speech given to InfoUSA in Omaha.
InfoUSA is not the kind of company with which a former president and the husband of a presidential candidate should associate.
According to the 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.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/5/28/203543.shtml
Oh yeah, did you know that Pelosi's son has a second job with InfoUSA.
Paid $180,000 for Second Job
Just four weeks after Nancy Pelosi became speaker of the House this past January, Gupta and InfoUSA hired her son as a senior vice president. He told NewsMax InfoUsa pays him $180,000 a year.
Even though his job with InfoUSA is considered full-time, Paul Pelosi continues another full-time job, as a home loan officer at Countrywide Home Loans, part of Countrywide Financial, in San Mateo, a suburb of San Francisco.
While InfoUSA is based in Omaha, Pelosi said he reports to a small InfoUSA office in San Mateo.
In two interviews, Paul Pelosi confirmed that Gupta hired him as senior vice president for strategic development starting Feb. 1, just after Pelosi's mother took the gavel as speaker on Jan. 4. He said his mother is aware of his new job.
A person familiar with the arrangement says Gupta treats Pelosi as a "trophy" and has the Speaker's son accompany him at high profile meetings around the country.
Pelosi denied the suggestion he is being used because of his family ties.
"I don't think that's really what happens," he said.
Nor does he "think" his hiring was related to his mother becoming speaker, he said. But he acknowledged the timing raises a "good question."
"It's interesting, timing-wise," Pelosi said. "I don't see it that way, but I could see why you'd ask the question ... I guess you always wonder why somebody hires you, right?"
Asked how he can hold two full-time jobs at once, Pelosi said Countrywide is satisfied as long as he fulfills his quotas.
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