Title: Money laundering in politics

Original CoS Document (slug): [[https://conventionofstates.com/money-laundering|money-laundering]]

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Created: 2020-07-21 14:54:54

Updated: 2025-02-18 23:03:37

Published: 2020-11-18 03:00:00

Converted: 2025-04-14T21:06:11.611712796


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I thought it would be interesting to look at money laundering on a grand scale.\\
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Planned Parenthood received about $544 million between July 2016 to June 2017 from U.S. 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 of those candidates were Republicans. It makes one wonder why the Republicans continue to vote for bills that fund Planned Parenthood.\\
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Now, let us examine Barack Obama’s book deal. Obama gave Pearson Publishing $350 million in taxpayer dollars to create the Common Core curriculum and textbooks. After a couple of mergers, Pearson gave Obama $65 million for a book deal. \\
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Senator Feinstein’s husband owns 5% of a company that won a contract to sell “excess” property owned by the U.S. Post Office. These deals culminated to be worth 6% of billions of dollars to the very same real estate company. Handy the company partially owned by a U.S. Senator got the contract, isn’t it?\\
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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 okay!\\
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Here is a chart showing companies that live on tax dollars and the total amount of their contributions to political parties and politicians:\\
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**                                          Contributions       Total       Dem%     GOP%     Total**

|Northrop Grumman             |$4,267,572|$4,261,108|45.4%|53.3% |$4,863 |
|Boeing Co.                   |$3,747,915|$3,727,429|48.1%|51.5% |$18,215|
|Lockheed Martin              |$3,490,334|$3,476,803|40.1%|59.4% |$11,498|
|General Dynamics             |$2,440,041|$2,437,184|43.2%|54.1% |$7,054 |
|Raytheon Co                  |$2,375,248|$2,365,406|43.2%|56.0% |$8,925 |
|United Technologies          |$1,167,870|$1,166,819|45.9%|53.2% |$1,000 |
|Harris Corp                  |$1,153,083|$1,152,333|57.4%|42.6% |$550   |
|Leidos Inc                   |$946,879  |$942,605  |45.2%|54.7% |$3,673 |
|BAE Systems                  |$812,876  |$811,571  |40.5%|59.0% |$1,050 |
|Huntington Ingalls Industries|$743,788  |$743,783  |42.2%|57.1% |$0     |

|L3 Technologies            |$663,692|$661,559|38.3%|61.7%|$1,900 |
|Veterans Evaluation Service|$502,807|$477,807|0.5% |99.5%|$25,000|
|SAIC                       |$400,781|$398,676|41.4%|58.5%|$1,977 |
|Emergent Biosolutions      |$326,489|$326,489|23.1%|76.9%|$0     |
|Sierra Nevada Corp         |$326,047|$326,042|20.2%|79.7%|$0     |
|Cubic Corp                 |$324,173|$324,168|27.6%|72.4%|$0     |
|General Electric           |$319,000|$319,000|44.0%|54.7%|$0     |
|Leonardo DRS               |$288,878|$288,478|38.9%|61.1%|$400   |
|MITRE Corp                 |$199,668|$198,256|93.7%|5.7% |$840   |
|General Atomics            |$184,400|$184,400|26.6%|73.4%|$0     |

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Do you think they have a reason to give money to politicians and parties? 

Join me at the Convention of States to stop this sort of abuse.

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