We really need a federal investigation into crowdfunding

I wish I could figure out how to spin a story to get a gofundme jackpot.

it seems too easy. I wouldn't even be greedy I'd just take $100,000

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Welcome to capitalism. If idiots want to pay someone for being a sky screamer then that is their right.

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if it's being used as a conduit for political bribery, needs to be investigated

How is it political bribery? Ford isn’t a politician and cannot make an official act in exchange for money.

I thought donating money to political causes was free speech?

I’d imagine so. I’m not a CPA, but I’m sure the IRS will want their cut

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How is it political bribery? Ford isn’t a politician and cannot make an official act in exchange for money.

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I know you like to be antogonistic, so I'm not 100% sure how much you're being intentionally naive or how much you're trolling.

To say Ford is not a politician is technically true, but only superficially relevant. Whether or not something happened to her 30+ years ago, she is acting in a political capacity, akin to a lobbyist.

The same could be equally applied to the Russian lady who was arrested not too long ago for spying. She wasn't technically a politician either, was she? Yet, she was acting in the sphere of politics to influence people... to the point that she was arrested. Would you argue that her not holding an office meant her involvement with other lobbyists or politicans, and exchange of either money or potential sexual favors in her case, was irrelevant?

Moving back to Ford...

It would be a b&w ethical issue if Soros put a newspaper add out to say he'd pay $1M to anyone who would fabricate a claim against Kavanaugh. (Do you disagree?) ... While this is obviously not the case, it is certainly known that Soros funds activists who happen to be univerally opposed to Kavanaugh. Every Kavanaugh accuser and attorney is no further than 2 degrees of separation to the man or his organizations... not a crime, of course, but it is noticeable. So, it is a legitimate concern that someone like Soros might have conversations through his people to encourage Ford and others to come forward and once they do, voila! ... a profitable gofundme emerges, and Soros, directly or indirectly can "donate" to their cause instead of giving them a more ethically questionable-- if not illegal-- payment.

So, in politically charged situations like this, I think transparency would be a good thing. And if Ford, really just got 100,000 donations from individuals that gave $5-$10 each, that's fine. If she got large donations from organizations, it should be considered overtly political. This would not prevent cheating the system in any case, but it isn't unreasonable to make donations transparent for big dollar gofundme accounts.