Sanders set up accounts to take money from naïve socialists and Democrats. Sanders raised millions.
Then Sanders got scammed for $242,000.
The article gives a great description of the sleazy Sanders accounts that were run by consultants who pocketed a share of the money.
Maybe the scam was just a money laundering scheme or an illegal payoff?
It's a sad day in the great socialist pyramid of lefty scams that is the Sanderverse as the scammers got scammed by scammers.
The political nonprofit launched by Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2016 lost nearly a quarter-million dollars to an email scam that year, according to new tax documents obtained by POLITICO.
Our Revolution “was the victim of a Business E-Mail Compromise scam that took place in December 2016 but was not discovered until January 2017, resulting in the loss of approximately $242,000 via an electronic transfer of funds to an overseas account,” the group disclosed in its tax forms covering the year 2017, which were filed earlier this month.
“Our Revolution worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Our Revolution's counsel and an independent cyber-security consultant in an effort to identify the thieves and to recover the funds but, unfortunately, these efforts were unsuccessful.”
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Then Sanders got scammed for $242,000.
The article gives a great description of the sleazy Sanders accounts that were run by consultants who pocketed a share of the money.
Maybe the scam was just a money laundering scheme or an illegal payoff?
It's a sad day in the great socialist pyramid of lefty scams that is the Sanderverse as the scammers got scammed by scammers.
The political nonprofit launched by Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2016 lost nearly a quarter-million dollars to an email scam that year, according to new tax documents obtained by POLITICO.
Our Revolution “was the victim of a Business E-Mail Compromise scam that took place in December 2016 but was not discovered until January 2017, resulting in the loss of approximately $242,000 via an electronic transfer of funds to an overseas account,” the group disclosed in its tax forms covering the year 2017, which were filed earlier this month.
“Our Revolution worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Our Revolution's counsel and an independent cyber-security consultant in an effort to identify the thieves and to recover the funds but, unfortunately, these efforts were unsuccessful.”
Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
