Monday, November 26, 2007

Dubious Pol Associates of IPA

More questionable activity by International Profit Associates, this time in Florida. Dan Curry, Reverse Spin, has been following complaints about the suburban Chicago company, which has donated heavily to Democrats, including Democrat state Attorneys General, the same people who would be investigating them. Latest here.

This should be an election issue. More background here, including charges of sexual harassment at IPA. Note the prominent recipients of IPA's cash, as outlined in Curry's post this summer:

Notable unreturned donations
Hillary Clinton $150,000 including ride on IPA corporate jet in 2004
John Edwards $6,000
Democratic National Senatorial Committee $86,000
Democratic National Congressional Committee $32,500
John Kerry $47,500
Melissa Bean, U.S. House, $23,700
Ted Kennedy $2,000
Rod Blagojevich, Illinois Governor $25,000
Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General $20,750
Dan Seals, Congressional candidate, $8,400
Jan Schakowsky,U.S. House, $2,000
Chris Lauzen, Illinois State Senator $77,650

Notable returned
Barack Obama, $2.000
Rod Blagojevich, Illinois Governor, $195,200
Andrew Cuomo, New York Attorney General, $20,000
Jim Doyle, Wisconsin Governor, $10,000
Peg Lautenschlager, former Wisconsin Attorney General, $25,000

This list does not include donations from IPA’s lawyer, Myron “Mike” Cherry, deemed by the news media to be “Individual H” in the Tony Rezko indictment. Cherry was on the host committee of a recent Hillary Clinton fundraiser in Chicago and he raises and or donates money to many Democrats, including the slow-on-the-draw AG Madigan.

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