Major GOP donor arrested in $100 million veteran charity scam

[CatWoman]

The U.S. Marshal Service announced Tuesday that it had captured one of America’s Most Wanted fugitives who is accused of creating a fake charity for Navy veterans that funneled some of the $100 million collected to Republican candidates.

Between the early 2000s and 2010, a man using the alias “Bobby Thompson” collected millions from unsuspecting donors for the charity U.S. Navy Veterans Association (USNVA), which claimed to provide support for members of the U.S. Armed Forces. Officials believe that very little, if any, of the money was ever used as intended, according to the U.S. Marshal Service.

To help legitimize his charity, Thompson allegedly donated part of the ill-gotten funds to Republican candidates like former President George W. Bush, former Republican presidential candidate John McCain and House Speaker John Boehner.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/02/major-gop-donor-arrested-in-100-million-veteran-charity-scam/

[nanabugg]

1. Time for one of the Dem super PACs to make a new video ad and pump this up!! nt

[jillan]

4. YES! I agree 100%!

[dhill926]

2. scumsucking fuckbag.....

[malaise]

3. This is huge

Spread it all over Facebook and Twitter

[bemildred]

5. Grifters On Parade. nt

[freshwest]

6. Boehner needs to pay back all this stolen money!

[stevedeshazer]

7. I'm especially glad this creep was caught in my town.

[Blue Owl]

8. GOP POS

[Auntie Bush]

9. I hope Romney and all those pacts return every cent he gave them. Rethugs would

expect Dems to do the same. What a creep/thief!

[bluestate10]

10. The Tan Man taking stolen money? Surprise!! nt

[cin63]

11. War, what is it

good for? To the GOP it means money in the bank for them. They care not who dies as long as they get their MONEY.

[Initech]

15. I think it's way past time we establish greed as an addiction.

The greediest of the greedy - whether it's the Koch Brothers or CEOs like Dennis Koczwalski or even this guy are really just addicts when you get right down to it - they're absolutely addicted to their money and just like an an addict - they'll stomp over anything and anyone theu can to get more and they dont care who it is. Their greed knows no boundaries.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. one tiny problem

He donated to Dems and Reps alike. Yes. He got bipartisan support for legislation in Virginia in favor of his "charity."

[Initech]

13. Sigh, their greed knows no boundaries.

[pinboy3niner]

14. Bobby Thompson also was a major contributor to Michele Bachmann:

As reported in 2010:

A tax-exempt Navy veterans group founded by one of Michele Bachmann’s top campaign contributors may be under investigation by the IRS at the request of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA). The group is under investigation in at least six states and has been banned from operating in at least three.

Webb has asked the IRS to investigate the U.S. Navy Veterans Association, a national charitable veterans organization founded by Bobby Thompson of Tampa, FL, after reading “alarming reports” that the charity’s directors cannot be located and its multimillion-dollar expenditures cannot be accounted for.The U.S. Navy Veterans Association was founded by Thompson, who donated $10,000 to Rep. Michele Bachmann’s campaign at her Minneapolis event with former halftime governor Sarah Palin April 7. Thompson was only one of six individuals who ponied up the 10 large to have his picture taken with the Tea Party darlings.

http://www.dumpbachmann.com/2010/07/charitable-veterans-group-founded-by.html

The Dump Bachmann website also posts a photo of Bachmann with Edwin Cain, a registered lobbyist for Thompson's phony charity, as it appears on Bachmann's congressional website:




http://www.dumpbachmann.com/2012/05/us-navy-veterans-scamster-bobby.html