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Obama SuperPAC Fires Hillary Clinton Finance Director for Trying to Sell Access to Pakistani
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On March 5, 2014 @ 9:07 pm In The Point | No Comments
Munr Kazmir, the Pakistani potential donor in question is saying that Obama’s SuperPAC, Organizing for Action, is throwing its own fundraiser under the bus. Samantha Maltzman was a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign finance director.
Organizing for Action is revamping its fundraising practices and fired a fundraiser amid questions about whether the group was promising access to Obama administration officials in exchange for donations.
Samantha Maltzman, a top fundraiser for the Democratic group with strong ties to President Obama, resigned from the organization after NBC News obtained emails between her and Dr. Munr Kazmir, a New Jersey businessman, explicitly listing prices to attend a summit last week with the president.
Kazmir was reportedly seeking relief from a court judgment for failure to make payments on a $2.5 million loan to launch an American school in Pakistan.
While Kazmir ultimately did not donate to the group, the NBC News investigation revealed he did attempt to deliver a $100,000 donation from a New Jersey physician, Dr. Joseph Piacentile.
Maltzman returned the check because Piacentile has been convicted of Medicare fraud, but asked Kazmir to have him donate the money instead to America Votes, a partner organization that unlike OFA does not disclose its donors.
Kazmir said he believed Maltzman was being unfairly blamed because, he said, Carson was directly involved in soliciting the cash that came from Dr. Piacentile.
“They are throwing her under the bus,” said Kazmir. “They are covering up, Carson knew everything .”
Kazmir also said he got repeated phone calls and text messages from Maltzman about making a donation to OFA that he originally discussed with Carson over lunch in December. “They kept asking me, where is the money?” he said.
OFA is playing a double game here because they telegraphed this practice early on.
Leaders of Organizing for Action, President Obama’s new nonprofit advocacy group, are courting his top campaign bundlers to be part of a high-dollar fundraising network that will help finance the work of the nascent organization.
Bundlers will probably be asked to raised $500,000 to be part of the committee. Such top fundraisers will get perks in return. One reward that was floated as a possibility was an invitation to quarterly meetings with Obama.
OFA is denying that it’s their practice, but it’s clearly in their DNA. This is an administration that routinely violates the rules and refuses to be held accountable.
Munr Kazmir is of Pakistani origin, but not Muslim, and has usually been associated with the Republican Party making this story a bit stranger.
Maltzman
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