Money Laundering

I thought it would be interesting to look at money laundering. On a grand scale.

Let us start with Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood received about $544 million between July 2016 to June 2017 from the US taxpayers. Between 2012 and 2016, Planned Parenthood’s PACs, employees and families of said employees gave $33.9 million to political parties and candidates. Interestingly enough, none to any republicans. Kinda makes one wonder why the republicans continue to vote for bills that fund planned parenthood, doesn’t it?

Now, let us examine Barrack Obama’s book deal. Obama gave Pearson Publishing $350 million to create  the Common Core curriculum and text books. After a couple of mergers and what have you, and after Obama left office, they gave him $65 million for a book deal. That was $350 million TAX dollars.

Senator Feinstein’s husband owns 5% of a company that won a contract to sell “excess” property owned by the US Post Office. These deals were worth 6% of BILLIONS of dollars to the real estate company. Handy the company partially owned by a US Senator got the contract, isn’t it?

IN his 2016 presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders ran $62 million through a company run by his wife’s colleagues. Now, we know it is illegal to use campaign money for personal use, don’t we? Of course, if it is run through an advertising company, it is OK!

Here is a chart showing companies that live on tax dollars and the total amount of their contributions to political parties and politicians:

			To Candidates and Parties			To Outside Spending Groups
Rank	Contributor	Total Contribs	Total	Dem%	Repub%	Total
1	Northrop Grumman	$4,267,572	$4,261,108	45.4%	53.3%	$4,863
2	Boeing Co	$3,747,915	$3,727,429	48.1%	51.5%	$18,215
3	Lockheed Martin	$3,490,334	$3,476,803	40.1%	59.4%	$11,498
4	General Dynamics	$2,440,041	$2,437,184	43.2%	54.1%	$7,054
5	Raytheon Co	$2,375,248	$2,365,406	43.2%	56.0%	$8,925
6	United Technologies	$1,167,870	$1,166,819	45.9%	53.2%	$1,000
7	Harris Corp	$1,153,083	$1,152,333	57.4%	42.6%	$550
8	Leidos Inc	$946,879	$942,605	45.2%	54.7%	$3,673
9	BAE Systems	$812,876	$811,571	40.5%	59.0%	$1,050
10	Huntington Ingalls Industries	$743,788	$743,783	42.2%	57.1%	$0
11	L3 Technologies	$663,692	$661,559	38.3%	61.7%	$1,900
12	Veterans Evaluation Services	$502,807	$477,807	0.5%	99.5%	$25,000
13	SAIC	$400,781	$398,676	41.4%	58.5%	$1,977
14	Emergent Biosolutions	$326,489	$326,489	23.1%	76.9%	$0
15	Sierra Nevada Corp	$326,047	$326,042	20.2%	79.7%	$0
16	Cubic Corp	$324,173	$324,168	27.6%	72.4%	$0
17	General Electric	$319,000	$319,000	44.0%	54.7%	$0
18	Leonardo DRS	$288,878	$288,478	38.9%	61.1%	$400
19	MITRE Corp	$199,668	$198,256	93.7%	5.7%	$840
20	General Atomics	$184,400	$184,400	26.6%	73.4%	$0

Do you think they have a reason to give money to politicians and parties? Think a bit. Join me at the Convention of States to stop this sort of abuse.