Dead woman donates to Tea Party Express 4 times over 2 years

[charlie]

Her uber-bagger husband says it wasn't him. Tea Party Express says, WTFLOL!!! not us either.

Time to lawyer up, chumps. Or call Sylvia Browne.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics' research, Joan Snyder Holmes of Guam made three donations in the autumn of 2009 to the group's political action committee -- known as the Our Country Deserves Better PAC. The donations together totaled $2,500.

The Tea Party Express' PAC furthermore reported receiving a lump-sum donation of an additional $5,000 from Joan Holmes in September, according to the Center's review of campaign finance records it filed with the Federal Election Commission.

Such activity would have been unremarkable had Joan Holmes not died of cancer on Feb. 1, 2007. She was cremated, and her ashes are now buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
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"If a committee deposits a contribution that appears to be legal and later discovers that it is prohibited (based on new information not available when the contribution was deposited), the committee must disgorge the contribution within 30 days of making the discovery."
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According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the maximum penalty for knowingly and willingly making illegal campaign contributions in the name of another is "five years in prison and a fine of not less than 300 percent of the amount involved in the violation and not more than the greater of $50,000 or 1,000 percent of the amount involved in the violation."...

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/01/political-gifts-from-beyond-the-grave.html

[gratuitous]

1. Aren't the Tea Baggers always yammering about voter fraud?

One thing's for sure: They won't return a dime of the dead woman's contributions.

[charlie]

3. Whoever the dumbass is

He'll have given his $7500 to Nairobi-on-the-Potomac. The baggers will have to cut a check for the US Treasury.

[formercia]

2. One case?

I doubt it.

See one cockroach and you can be sure there are loads behind the wall.