(Update) Obama, Nigeria and More Questionable Money
By NancyA on September 8, 2008 at 11:15 AM in ACORN, Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Federal Elections Commission, Gaza, Obama
The BBC reported 5 days ago about money that was destined for Obama here in the United States. Guess where it was coming from? Nigeria. What part of illegal donations don’t our overseas friends understand? Or for the matter doesn’t Obama realize he can’t take overseas donations? We do know Obama doesn’t understand federal election laws when it comes to financing a campaign.
The story begins with a very expensive fund raiser dinner by most standards. This dinner cost $21,000 for an eight seat table. Fortunately the money never reached the USA. The money was raised to influence relatives of native Nigerians to vote for Obama by running advertisements.
The money was seized by some very astute Nigerians.
Nigerian anti-graft investigators have seized money raised by the head of the Nigerian Stock Exchange to support US presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The money will be returned to the individuals in Nigeria that attended the soiree according to The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. They also had this to say:
The EFCC said it had seized 74m naira ($630,000, £314,000), but said no Nigerian laws had been broken.
According to the BBC, the Obama campaign distanced itself from the group. Unfortunately the Nigerians left their footprints on Obama’s website. More on that:
Stock exchange chairwoman Ndi Okereke-Onyuike is also the head of Africans for Obama, a Nigeria-based support group.
She was interviewed by the EFCC after media reports that the Obama campaign had disassociated itself from the group.
Obama manages to escape everything with any appearance of illegality. He either disassociates himself from people or he is allowed to plead “mea culpa” as in the case of the Gaza Strip brothers and fraudulent reports to the FEC concerning Citizens Services Inc. a front company for ACORN. Mrs Okereke-Onyiuke said,
“We never said we were going to donate money for the campaign,”
“We paid for the hall and the entertainers and the surplus, we said it would be spent on advertisements aimed at persuading Nigerians to tell their relatives in America to register to vote.
“There is not one Nigerian who doesn’t have a relative or friend in America. Our aim was to encourage those people to tell their family who have the right to vote in America to vote for Obama.”
A statement from the EFCC said they had ordered Mrs Okereke-Onyuike to “steer clear of such activities in future”.
Mrs Okereke-Onyiuke said the press was trying to attack her because they were jealous of her success.
“I am a woman of the highest integrity,” she told the BBC News website.
By all appearances Obama’s activity with this lady and her group looks like his activity may not have been on the up and up. I will leave that conclusion to you!
Again, where is the MSM????
AS ALWAYS THERE HEAD IS IN THE SAND
no, I believe I saw it up Obama’s ass.
For all of those who want to be able to watch Sarah Palin events live, round the clock, Team McCain has put up a new site called ‘McCain 2008 Live:’
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mccain-2008-live
All McCain and Palin, all the time, including all live events.
Please pass this around. There are a lot of people who want to be able to see Palin and McCain more as they attend various rallies. This is their way to do so, via the internet.
Thank you for posting the link Paul! I just finished listening to Robert Duvall speaking, I adore him. I’ve heard several now in Hollyweird speak up for McCain, and I adore everyone of them.(I would tell you what I really think about them, but then I’d appear as one of those women who just wants to ravage a man’s body. I respect a man’s mind, too. Honestly.
I just can’t help myself from time to time, it’s that primal instinct that comes out. OK it’s gone now.) Norris, Stallone. He said:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/24/605716.aspx
The MSM is busy sweeping this news under the rug…
They really want to know if Sarah Palin was indeed the Prom Queen in high school or if she was ever possessed by the Holy Spirit and can speak in tongues…
I heard that she flosses Religiously too… hope the MSM can control itself on these delicate matters of choice!
Wow if she’s possesed by The Holy Spirit well then she’s a huge challenge for The Messiah!
You know what I want to know..
Where is law enforcement? I feel like I’m living in lawless 3rd world.
Sometimes I think this country is just too big for any one to get “the man” to do anything.
Obama out spend Hillary 3 to1, He is outspending McCain also 3to1, HE IS A SUCH BIG SPENDER, AND THIS IS NOT AS GOOD SIGN AS ANY ONE THINK!!! If He would not get as such big money from OIL, and others incl. a big group of lobbiests, then Hillary would be the winner, and dont forget all those woman, like Operah, who are pouring millions to Obamas priovate bank accounts. After election He and that sweet Michelle, will be much richer then Clintons witch took them 8 years. He will do in just 2 years.
Well, why McCain is not attackin Obama, this is His FIGHT, what about Obamas Birth Certificate??? Is He USA born citizen???
What about Obamas connection with gay man in 1999??? . What is going on with McCan if know that , He should start attackin Obama from all over??? Or He has a lot of dirt in HIS resume to??? Come ON Mr.Maverick, this is You last chance this is YOU fight Mr.Maverick and Mrs. Palin!!!. Hillary will not Help You, her hands are tight!!!
So that’s where all that money that I sent to help out the rich Princess of the recently overthrown King of Nigeria went!
Yeah, I was told that if I just sent them my bank account # and SSN, that all that Nigerian money would be MINE. Does this mean that email was a lie?
Nigerian crooks scamming other Nigerians. Those are the cream of the criminal crop. The crooked, still admirable, like a master jewel thief.
Thanks BBC maybe some day our media can show some integrity and do their jobs properly.
Hey guys,
I just purchased this new book on Obama, its great!
Check it out, its called “The Accomplishments of Barack Obama”, it has a table of contents and a foreward, and the rest of the book is blank. I baught three of them for my friends in the office. Check out the website, I put the book on my coffee table and had a party this past weekend, everyone thought it was hilarious:
Obama Research
Someone is putting us on???
Who is Jeremy?
Click on his name….
I’ve seen about 5 of those already (by different people), LOL. I’ve been thinking of making my own, too, since it’s basically just an exercise in book cover design.
OMG! That’s hysterical! I want one of those to donate to my town library.
I am so ready for all of this crap about Obama to come out!
I am giddy with delight!
Then we clean house and get back on track.
I am still on the left!!!
Patience, Grasshopper…
I am so ready too!
I’m sure it’ll be up to the McCain campaign, his surrogates, and the republican 527s to bring out all the facts on obama.
Only then, and only if they feel like it, will the media even comment about it.
Such is the condition of our Fourth Estate.
Patience?
My popcorn is popped, salted and buttered!
I hate waiting! No more commercials—-I want the show!
I want it now.
I want it later.
I want during all of October!
and I want the finale on Nov. 4!
We should forward all of these Headlines to FoxNews. That’s what I do…
yourwordlive@foxnews.com
Does anyone go and read the articles which are linked to overseas journalists and news? Do you notice the quality difference in the writings when compared to our media? To say our media reporting and quality is lacking is an understatement. It appears American news is all along the lines and quality of the National Enquirer. Sad.
Don’t forget - the Enquirer printed the story on John Edwards when nobody else did.
so let party begin, and send all this info from BBC to National Enquirer!!!
Yes, I had noticed and it has gotten worse with every passing year. CNN used to be a news organization that broadcast news reports from other countries as well as 3rd party conventions.
Two of the most vivid events I remember were the GWB election and the Iraq invasion when foreign news was reporting large demonstrations that were never shown in this country. Quite the shock to realize that the country they were talking about was the same USA the media here was portraying as in agreement with Bush.
Haven’t believed anything they told me since; unless it was confirmed in the foreign press.
Hence the saying, 2008, the year that journalism died.
For many of us today is an embarrassment of riches…Keith and Chris go down…
and McCain leads by 10 points…
now that is rich!
This is FINALLY change I can believe in!
YES WE CAN!
YES WE CAN!
YES WE CAN!
Is the MSNBC shake-up real or only that Keith and Chris are behind the scenes for awhile?
Lets not count our riches too soon. The ethically challenged Dems have been working on this coup for a long time. No one seems to notice any fraud at the polls.
Matthews and Keithie still have their shows, apparently. It sounds as though this only applies to the election night anchor chairs.
Patience! Zucker has been so wrong in his thinking that the viewers like this sort of bias..that we like this kind of rabblerousing.
Wrong! MSNBC’s parent NBC (and GE) will dump both shows (Rachel Maddow should go, too, the arrogant man-girl who drips contempt for those of us who don’t support Obama. Strange, really, because he has shown NO support for the Lesbian and Gay causes) when their dollars start dropping.
Yes Chrissy and Keithie go DOWN, KARMA IS ALIVE AND WELL.
I also want to see Donna Brazile go up in a puff of smoke.I want to see her face when her boy loses and loses big.
I also want to see the “Whitey” tape come out and all of the other crap about Obama. I live to see the arrogant assholes Barack and Michelle tuck their tales and go back to Chicago or Kenya.
Yes, change that matters.
so, its only wrong if you get caught then Obama?
and then you simply disassociate yourself from the group…
after the 3r or 4th time Obama just looks like the typical sleazy politics as usual politician…
so much for change you can hope for…
on another note:
http://www.getsarahpalinonoprah.com/
hmm… not sure this is a good idea…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Let’s not help Oprah with her ratings by demanding Palin. She would just submarine Palin anyway. I say freeze Oprah out of her high and mighty spot.
Why bother going on a show that chants for the “one” - waste of time.
Ditto.
I don’t see Palin doing daytime talk shows anyway. It would be funny though if Ellen had her on after Oprah said no. haha
Ellen has had McCain so having Palin isn’t far-fetched, unless Palin has more of a problem with gays than McCain and prefers not to do that show.
I think she should go on Rachael Ray - isn’t she Oprah’s nemesis?
Operah said “NO” to Palin…
Well, we said NO to Oprah a long time ago in our house.
Oprah is a closet TUCC thinker.
I’m not going to sign it, why should I support Oprah?
Plus, the anointed one is still changing positions. That’s why he chose the word “Change” as his campaign phrase. He’s always changing his mind. Now it’s “my Muslim faith, thought about joining military, delay rescending tax cuts, abandon his party”. Sheesh. He says whatever he thinks the populace wants him to say. Attn: that’s called being “indecisive”. I’m sorry, but being able to make a firm decision is pertinent to the office of the POTUS.
Where i come from that’s called lying.
It is time for Republican to start their real fight. We Democrats or Independents are in the middle of our own fight…
Money from Nigeria and who knows from where else…
Nigeria has its reputation to keep up as the scam capitol of the world (or is that capital$$$?)
sigh! i just got another email about my pot of gold in a nigerian bank. and i was really jazzed about that. now i think all is over for me. i guess i’d better work today after all. (snark tag)
more rotten apples on Obama’s apple cart that the Republicans will be turning over in the coming weeks.
don’t live here, keep your nose out of our business. would they care if it was a white guy instead of a biracial one? I think not.
Who Vetted Obama for an FBI security ?
http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff247.htm
PewL
Thanks very much for this link. Author raises valid points in his discussion of this topic (Who Vetted Obama).
http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff247.htm
Although I may not agree with some of his positions on other topics that he has written about, I agree 100% with his position on the non-vetting of Sen Obama (Pres.candidate) and over-vetting of Gov Palin (VP candidate).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt58T4-lRvg
Please take a look at my new Sarah Palin video I hope you like it =)
I loved the pictures but it makes me so sad that Hillary isn’t The One taking it to the top!
I know me too, I kept saying it should have been Hillary- throughout Palin’s introduction speech..
now I am fighting for her the way I did for Hillary and the GOP could not have planned a better way to get a great big bunch of moderate Dems to their side for a generation
every time one of these schmucks in the bubble of Hollywood and media elitism makes a comment putting down hard working American people I see RED and I hope to see it all across the map of the USA on election eve
a giant swath of RED, as MAC PALIN SWEEP!!!!!
they better wise up and run Hillary in 2012 to try and get us back
MAC/PALIN 08
HILLARY 12
wonderful - glad you found the pic of Hillary and John.
Logan HRC-
nice video -emotional appeal- however producer should have included Geraldine Ferraro info in it too (HOPE NOT TOO LATE TO ADD THIS IN).
Also,
Not too sure that altered photo of Palin’s head on body of woman holding military weapon will go over too well with Hillary supporters …
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/08/palin-put-alaskans-ahead-of-big-oil-greens/?page=2
nancy!!
thank you for ANOTHER most excellent piece and for keeping on this story..
Gawd I hope we get a full slate for the FEC once MAC is in that will put an end to this shxt!
I dont want to go thru this again in 2012…
with all the terrorism laws I cant believe we dont ahve a stronger barrier and checks in palce on how FOREIGN MONEY is being used to influence our election process, it is a no brainer!!!!
The freezer full of cash was from the Nigerian VP. It was to secure bids for a software enterprise that has huge contracts with Nigeria. Look at iGate and its several partners.
Rep.Jefferson’s former staffer was chosen by a wealthy investor of the dot com boom to head a an investment venture that served as a cutout for working with the Nigerian telcomm contracts to iGate.
That staffer is doing eight years time now.
Interesting item. I went to the Scranton PA newspaper website http://www.scrantontimes.com/ and found these poll results:
Most talked about candidate where you work?
Obama
(38 Votes, 29%)
McCain
(9 Votes, 7%)
Biden
(8 Votes, 6%)
Palin
(75 Votes, 58%)
Scranton is a key district in this election. PA leans slightly Dem, but can go either way. Scranton is Hillary’s “second home” and it went for her 3-1 over Obama. It is a working class district, with lots of pro-life Catholics, and people up there fish and hunt for recreation. Knowing the people up there very well I think they will see Palin as one of them. This is just a small, unscientific sample, but suggests the Palin addition is going to counter Joe Biden quite effectively. The importance of Scranton is that the voting trends there are fluid.
Has anyone noticed that Oprahbama’s mags aren’t exactly flying off the shelves recently?
My local grocery store seems suddenly seriously overstocked.
Dear Most Esteemed Sirs,
My name is Barack Obama, and I am currently awaiting my coronation as boy King of the great Tribe of the United States of America. My position of influence and power has let em achieve a rock-star like status, adoration of millions, and riches that seem to fall from the heavens. Recently, however, a challenger to my ascent to the throne from the Alaskan tundra has usurped my spotlight, and it is now uncertain whether I will ever get to assume that which I deserve.
Fortunately, just after the Democratic Convention, my wife, in anticipation of an “October Surprise” that seems to have come a month early, made arrangements to secretly move the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Five Million Dollars(US$155,000,000.00) in donated oversees campaign cash for safe-keeping in a security vault. These funds have been in the vault since then and we feel that it is now necessary to move the funds out of the United States for fear of discovery and confiscation by the new regime in January 2009. We are therefore seeking a business partner with banking co-coordinates capable of accommodating such huge amounts and is able to manage or nominate trustees to manage these funds in the interim as we watch the political situation in the United States unfolds.
Your main responsibility would be to assist in receiving the funds, investment of same in worthwhile ventures you consider profitable and for obvious reasons and as such must insist that all arrangements are made in your name. For your assistance and confidentiality in these matters we would be willing > to offer to you 20% of the total proceeds, and a 5% inconvenience bounty.
I am absolutely positive that this arrangement will be of mutual benefit to both of us and I think that it is of utmost importance that you reach me through my > personal email address stating your telephone and fax numbers, as well as your bank account information and social security number for anonymous transfer of the funds. I will then give you a telephone call to discuss the matter further and if we reach an acceptable arrangement, then we can proceed further.
Finally, I crave your indulgence to treat this letter with utmost seriousness and I trust that this will be the beginning of a long lasting business relationship.
Best Regards,
Barack H. Obama, II
I started to laugh until I realized how scary and accurate this could be. That (expletive deleted) is capable of laundering campaign funds. Or anything else.
lmao….yea I have gotten many of those phising emails from that country. too funny thanks
Senator Obama doesn’t understand any law. He’s violated Logan’s Law more than once and our federal government has allowed him to do so! I haven’t heard anything about the FBI questioning him on it. He’s above our laws.
His threats to the new President of Pakistan should have done it. Don’t miss his (Barry’s)picture. Then ask yourselves is this the man you want with the “red button”
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/08/01/PH2007080102579.jpg
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/01/AR2007080101233.html
Obama Says He Would Take Fight To Pakistan
By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 2, 2007; Page A01
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama issued a pointed warning yesterday to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, saying that as president he would be prepared to order U.S. troops into that country unilaterally if it failed to act on its own against Islamic extremists.
well, is Obama an OUTLAW??? He knows in 1000% what He is doing, and WE are letting Him get off the hook, by not fighting harder against the worst candidate and politician in USA history!!! Who is covering up for HIM??? CNN.NSNBC,Progressive Radio, Move ON….???
test
tzada,
I think its interesting that Sen Obama’s mother worked in Pakistan during the early 1980’s (acc. to this Time/CNN article) . Her role was that of a micro finance specialist.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729524-2,00.html
Acc to article she helped to build a microfinance program in Indonesia (heavy duty banking).In addition,
Every so often, Ann would leave Indonesia to live in Hawaii—or New York or even, in the mid-1980s, Pakistan, for a microfinance job. She completed her Ph.D just before her death.
I am not sure what is going on here.
In the past (and to this date i think), Biden had CLOSE contact with Pakistani regime. Is this why Sen Obama chose him as VP running mate? What is Pakistan’s intended world role in the future?
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-3263
S. 3263: Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2008
A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to promote an enhanced strategic partnership with Pakistan and its people, and for other purposes.
Obama/Biden want to give money to Pakistan.
Many questions…maybe speculation? Dont know.
I am just a blogger. I have an excuse for saying that trying to figure what is going on here is definetely above my pay grade and knowledge base.
athy
It’s also curious how he was able to travel to Pakistan? If memory serves me it was martial law there. US citizens were not allowed to go there at that time. Wonder if he went there using an Indonesia passport?
Curiouser and curiouser….. and not in a good way.
Is he trying to grow a mustache? Make him look more mature? Make him look more macho? Make him look more like a one of his dictator friends south of th border?
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/08/01/PH2007080102579.jpg
http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080908/capt.cps.nnh63.080908145329.photo03.photo.default-512×344.jpg?x=400&y=268&q=85&sig=cphryKn80zJbFCSCzjpMIQ–
What a crock!! The MSM is a big Obama love fest. How they think for one minute that small town USA wants to hear their insidious crap is beyond me. Just call me clinging to my guns and Religion!!! From your typical white woman in small town America.
COUNTRY FIRST
MCCLAIN/PALIN 08
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH————–THE TOUGH VOTE PRESENT
Obama has been advertising heavily here in Florida. The ads are ridiculously dumbed down… I guess they think all of us here are “low educated”. Or just their target voter maybe. But there is something overlooked from these ads. I believe the underlying theme is racial in intent… though subliminally played. The ads show various pictures of Bush and McCain standing next to one another… with the large caption “SAME”. That seems to be the extent of the ad… as though a preschooler was looking at two red cubes or two round balls… and the caption reading “SAME”. On thinking through the ad and the subliminal effects the ad could have a covertly placed racial theme to it… and what it is in effect saying is both these men are Caucasian … “SAME”.
Liar-Liar pants on fire Obama.NOOBAMA EVER!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e…h?v=eL802U2PdgM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d…h?v=dfQ6DxZtaHc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R…h?v=RXXr9oLd9S4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J…h?v=J4pUee65wlc
Obama said he voted for this bill and he lied!Yet again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V…h?v=VIdbYjmbFzo
http://notetoselfdontdie.com/mem…embers/node/498
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1…h?v=13UsLpcemAE
BULL CRAP-Obama wasn’t even in the denate to vote or not to vote on the war.But yet he goes around telling people and in his ads that he was the only candidate who opposed the war.Liar Obama-You was not even in senate to vote!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N…h?v=NfaUeYXUDxU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A…h?v=A9Rf5eN9eYg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R…h?v=RXXr9oLd9S4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f…h?v=fV_h-XwchkY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a…h?v=aJrNQBUVMvo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a…h?v=aJrNQBUVMvo
And why Obama lie and said he only knew him at 8 years old.
When Obama and ayers worked togethere 1995 and up!Obama is a liar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e…h?v=eL802U2PdgM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J…feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E…feature=related
Obama can keep his change!Or give more to Bill Ayers.
The Democratic Party had totally out trashed themselves.
Donna Brazile you can take your party unity and put it where the sun don’t shine! As the rest of the suck ups!Cowards!
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Does anyone think Obama was set up by Rove and the Republicans?
Does anyone feel bad for him? Possibly he was courted to run for office and his ego was built up only to have him fall on his face.
Maybe Obama is a victim and we should have pity for him rather than contempt.
haha good one ….. wanna buy a bridge or swamp land?
I have a slightly different conspiracy theory.
I think a group of Democrats got sick of watching the Republicans win elections because they fought dirty.
It was the Republicans who gave us the words “Rovean” and “swiftboating”—both synonyms for the lowest form of politics. Everyone talks about the “Republican attack machine.”
In this scenario, a group of Democrats decided to give the Republicans a taste of their own medicine. Use huge amounts of money to smear your opponent. Threaten and intimidate. Bend and break the rules. Get the corporations and the media on your side. Rig the vote in any way you can. The voters won’t stand a chance.
We know these techniques work if you can bring them into play. The Republicans managed to put the Worst President Ever™ into office for two consecutive terms with these methods.
I think the Obama gang intend to steal the Presidential election. This also explains Obama’s apparently inept campaign. They are not campaigning effectively because they know they can’t lose.
Again, a conspiracy theory, offered for its explanatory value.
I ran across a photo of a banner in Nigeria. The photo is here:
http://willnevergiveup.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/nigeria-dinnernigeria-dinner/
It plainly says on the banner to support Obama and go to http://www.obamanigeria.org/
Also, according to the US Federal Elections Commission, the guidelines for “small donations” are less stringent.
http://willnevergiveup.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/equatable-press-coverageequatable-press-coverage/
I got an email from Nigeria about bringing over millions of dollars…I wonder if it is the same person? B. Hussein Obambi will get caught eventually. There is only so much b.s. we will take before the American people wake up and stop this despot in the making.
Nigerians aint dat bad eggs compared to the people in America,Better is the devil you know than the angel thats in abees. America has got hidden evil lurking at every poll of ther politics and rulership
majority of these natural disasters are resultant from american evil plots either on scientifical trials or non proven testings. Non theless the killings by named grasses and bill door what ever i didnt mension names. but the american rulership has to be checked for real they are the biggest threat to the world and vilest terrorist.
i know the hates alot of people have on obama cos he is black and thats why there are so much critics on his campaigne, but God will see him through and he will win for sure and make america a much more than better place for us all. He is cute intelligent sweet and strong, he is the perfect one for this regime i know you all believe me wen i say this. Vote Obama the Great!!!!!!!!!!