Obama Campaign: Made in China

Obama.com Owned by Bundler in Shanghai with Business Ties to Chinese Government.

In an explosive report set to send shockwaves through official Washington, the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) released a 108-page GAI investigation into the threat of foreign and fraudulent Internet campaign donations in U.S. federal elections (visit campaignfundingrisks.com to download the full report).

Breitbart News obtained an advance copy of the bombshell report which reveals that the Obama.com website is not owned by the president’s campaign but rather by Obama bundler Robert Roche, a U.S. citizen living in Shanghai, China. Roche is the chairman of a Chinese infomercial company, Acorn International, with ties to state-controlled banks that allow it to “gain revenue through credit card transactions with Chinese banks.”

There’s more.

The unusual Obama.com website redirects traffic directly to a donation page on the Obama campaign’s official website, my.barackobama.com, which does not require donors tob enter their credit card security code (known as the CVV code), thereby increasing the likelihood of foreign or fraudulent donations. The website is managed by a small web development firm, Wicked Global, in Maine. One of Wicked Global’s employees, Greg Dorr, lists on his LinkedIn page his additional employment with Peace Action Maine and Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights. According to the GAI report, 68 percent of all Internet traffic to Obama.com comes from foreign visitors.

So, essentially anyone can give unlimited contributions to the Obama campaign, regardless of whether or not they are US citizens, provided they do it using credit or cash cards with different names, and they do it in increments of less than $250.  I imagine a wealthy person with enough funds could pay to have that process automated, especially one who owns at company that specializes in credit card transactions

Curiously, of the $181,000,000 donated to the Obama in September, only 2% can be traced to a source.

Of course, we know the same thing was going on in the 2008 Obama campaign, when the CVV code verification was turned off on the Obama campaign donation site, and such people as "DooDadPro" and "OJ Simpson" donated to his campaign.