When a member of the US House of Representatives gains a spot on the House Appropriation Committee, the campaign dollars can flow in fast, so it's important to hire a good campaign consultant to go get those dollars, or you can just hire your wife as Rep John Doolittle did.
Doolittle paid his wife, Julie, over $180,000 in commissions through her company Sierra Dominion Financial Solutions. She must be pretty good at fundraising, huh. Actually, she had no fundraising experience prior to forming SDFS and simply took a 15% cut of money that she brought in, or umm, to put it kindly, the money that was steered to her.
It's not like the phone was ringing off the hook from people wanting to donate money to Doolittle's campaign through SDFS, because they don't have a listed phone number. Of course, if they did, there would be nobody to answer it as the company doesn't have any employees.
One of the people that did know how to get in touch with Julie Doolittle was Brent Wilkes of Duke Cunningham bribing fame. Mrs. Doolittle made a cool $14,400 off of Wilkes' contributions, which of course brought in earmarks from her husband to the tune of $37 million dollars.
Seems like an open and shut case, doesn't it? Nah, I'm sure it was on the up and up. It's not like her other clients were Abramoff related, oh wait, they all were.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment