Questions Regarding the Clintons and Vin Gupta's company

he disclosure of the trips and the consulting fees is just a small part of a broader complaint about the way Mr. Gupta has managed his company. But for the former president, and for the senator who would become president, it offers significant new details about their relationship with an unusually generous benefactor whose business practices have lately come under scrutiny.

In addition to the shareholder accusations, The New York Times reported last Sunday that an investigation by the authorities in Iowa found that infoUSA sold consumer data several years ago to telemarketing criminals who used it to steal money from elderly Americans. It advertised call lists with titles like “Elderly Opportunity Seekers” or “Suffering Seniors,” a compilation of people with cancer or Alzheimer’s disease. The company called the episodes an aberration and pledged that it would not happen again.

Asked to describe Mr. Clinton’s consulting services, an infoUSA official said they were limited to making appearances at one or two company events each year. Jay Carson, a spokesman for Mr. Clinton, would not elaborate on what the former president does for infoUSA, but said that he shared the public’s concern about misuse of personal information.

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After Mr. Clinton left office, Mr. Gupta was one of two businessmen with whom the former president agreed to enter into consulting arrangements (the other was Ronald W. Burkle, a billionaire investor and major Democratic donor). In 2002, Mrs. Clinton began reporting her husband’s work for infoUSA on her Senate financial disclosure forms, but she does not have to disclose his income and it is not clear what he is paid.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/us/politics/26clinton.html?ex=1337832000&en=2c41543c11f9b7da&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

The mailing list sale by infoUSA and the mis-use of the mailing list after the sale is impossible to call a crime by infoUSA - customer checking is not expected by anyone to be as deep as an FBI background check. And moving from nothing on infoUSA as a crime to Bill Clinton as a consultant being paid is bad is so big a stretch I doubt even Fox will attempt it - but I could be wrong on how desperate Murdoch is.

The NYT story is good in that it puts all the GOP talking points, as weak as they are, on the table early before any group think bull shit can be developed by the media or sold to the media by their corporate controllers.

with a Chicago mobster. I think we should keep all the PAST relationships out of the news and just forget them.