FOX NEWS: Bush, Lieberman Polling Company Pleads Guilty to Fraud

[Bluebear]

Oh how it must gall them to have to report this. :rofl:

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BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut — The owner of DataUSA Inc., a company that conducted political polls for the campaigns of President George W. Bush, U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman and other candidates, pleaded guilty to fraud for making up survey and poll results.

Tracy Costin pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Costin, 46, faces a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 when she is sentenced Nov. 30.

As part of her plea agreement, Costin agreed to repay $82,732 to the unidentified clients for 11 jobs between June 2002 and May 2004. DataUSA is now known as Viewpoint USA.

According to a federal indictment, Costin told employees to alter poll data, and managers at the company told employees to "talk to cats and dogs" when instructing them to fabricate the surveys.

An FBI affidavit from 2004 quotes a supervisor of the company estimating that 50 percent of the data sent to Bush's campaign was falsified. FBI Special Agent Jeff Rovelli, who wrote the affidavit, said Thursday that investigators were not able to verify the claim related to Bush because that data was not located and analyzed.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,212764,00.html

[Drum]

1. Oh, SING it!!!

[Bluebear]

3. :)

[magellan]

2. Fraud happens in campaign polls but not in elections

Exit, anyone?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. Why would they hate to report it?

Bush and Lieberman were the ones being defrauded.

[Bluebear]

5. Because Bush/Lieberman poll results are now considered garbage!

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

6. Ah... that'd be their internal polling.

It has no bearing on public opinion polls whatsoever.

[11 Bravo]

7. Rush described the incident as one involving "crooked Democrat pollsters"

Someone should have just said no, now it's too late, his mind is gone.

[nicknameless]

8. Are these the same pollsters who claim that Lamont is trailing?

Wouldn't be at all surprised.

[BlueEyedSon]

9. which way did they skew the results?