http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/13/1277252/-This-is-How-Citizens-United-Dies?detail=email#
In the wake of the Citizens United case, critics of the ruling, which lifted prohibitions on direct campaign spending by corporations, raised the prospect of this allowing foreign nationals to influence US elections.
Very serious people dismissed this trusting the our "robust" election laws would be up to the task of keeping foreign influence out of US elections. They were dead wrong.
In a first of its kind case, federal prosecutors say a Mexican businessman funnelled more than $500,000 into U.S. political races through Super PACs and various shell companies.
The alleged financial scheme is the first known instance of a foreign national exploiting the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in order to influence U.S. elections. If proven, the campaign finance scandal could reshape the public debate over the high court's landmark decision.Until now, allegations surrounding Jose Susumo Azano Matsura, the owner of multiple construction companies in Mexico, have not spread beyond local news outlets in San Diego, where he's accused of bankrolling a handful of southern California candidates.But the scandal is beginning to attract national interest as it ensnares a U.S. congressman, a Washington, D.C.-based campaign firm and the legacy of one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in a generation.
i keep saying we don't know who actually owns America it could be Iran's Ahmadinejad as long as the supreme court stays tilted we will be subject to only God knows what.
and it's all about directing those funds to favorable politicians who are willing to sell their country out for more money for more power, but is that power really theirs or the one who bought them?
Matsura was able to evade US law by using a shell corporation in order to funnel the donations to US candidates. Pre Citizens United this would have involved finding a large number of US citizens willing to act as straw men. Now these shell games are able to be played by corporations, where determining ownership, let alone citizenship, can be a massive task.
this is the unfairness the scotus has unleashed on Americans along with lifting restrictions on those states who disenfranchise voters not republican. and still we beat them twice, this time they will be a little less cocky but still anti American,
it is a life or death situation and we need to turn out like it's 2008 in Nov. on the 4th all of us i'm in a wheelchair but i have absentee ballots mailed to me every election local and nat'l, if you have a challenge notify you board of elections and put in for that status time is running out, those who are able must turn this around way to do it vote.
