ObamaPhones profiting ObamaDonors

Remember the 'Obama phone' lady? How could you ever forget...



Well, thanks to her insistence, we've discovered yet more brewing in the arena of donor scandals tied to the Obama campaign...

FreeBeacon: A wireless company profiting from the so-called “Obama phone” giveaway program is run by a prominent Democratic donor whose wife has raised more than $1.5 million for the president since 2007.

Last week a video of a President Barack Obama supporter in Ohio claiming to have received a free phone from the president—“[Obama] gave us a phone!”—went viral, prompting media outlets to investigate.

Yeah, I was shocked too that media outlets actually investigated! And there's more...

One of the major providers of the free cell phones—3.8 million subscribers as of late 2011—is Miami-based TracFone Wireless, a company whose president and CEO, Frederick “F.J.” Pollak, has donated at least $156,500 to Democratic candidates and committees this cycle, including at least $50,000 to the Obama campaign.

Pollak’s wife, Abigail, is a campaign bundler for Obama who has raised more than $632,000 for the president this cycle, and more than $1.5 million since 2007. She has personally contributed more than $200,000 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2008.

TracFone, which did not return a request for comment, is the U.S. affiliate of America Movil, one of the largest phone service providers in Latin America.

America Movil is one of many business ventures controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, currently the world’s richest man, according to Forbes. Slim’s stake in the firm accounts for more than half of his $70 billion net worth.

So we've got cronyism, campaign bundling, and foreign influence all wrapped up into one big corruptible...well, 'bundle' would be the appropriate word for it. And here I was thinking Obama had something against the rich. I'm sure AG Holder will get right on this one. (/sarcasm)