Split: Questions/concerns about the Kent Snyder chip-in

[yongrel]

So, are you actually saying that Kent Snyder had *personal credit* available to prepay/charge $75K of charges *in one month*? Or more than a *quarter million dollars* in total?

On a $71K salary? That simply doesn't compute for me.

At a minimum, wouldn't that have totally destroyed his credit rating/FICO score?

Why wouldn't the hotels bill the HQ organization directly for blocks of rooms as they routinely do with other businesses? Or are Presidential campaigns considered to be "high risk", so payment in advance is required?

Given the fact that there are numerous amended files on the FEC site, are the numbers posted in this thread the original numbers or the amended numbers?

Question: With the amended numbers, were any reimbursed expenses reclassified as salaries for any of the salaried HQ personnel?

If so, how much and why?

 

[Sally08]

So, are you actually saying that Kent Snyder had *personal credit* available to prepay/charge $75K of charges *in one month*? Or more than a *quarter million dollars* in total?

On a $71K salary? That simply doesn't compute for me.

At a minimum, wouldn't that have totally destroyed his credit rating/FICO score?

Why wouldn't the hotels bill the HQ organization directly for blocks of rooms as they routinely do with other businesses? Or are Presidential campaigns considered to be "high risk", so payment in advance is required?

Given the fact that there are numerous amended files on the FEC site, are the numbers posted in this thread the original numbers or the amended numbers?

Question: With the amended numbers, were any reimbursed expenses reclassified as salaries for any of the salaried HQ personnel?

If so, how much and why?

The replies have been very interesting. So much for getting any answers to legitimate questions.

And CFL is *irrelevant* to these questions.

These are legally required, publicly available filings by *HQ* with the FEC. So how are they *speculation*?

Apparently, I should be contacting the FEC directly to get reliable answers to my questions?

NOTE: What are the identity theft risks when the FEC publicly displays on the web the full name and address of all contributors (more than $200?) Pick a name, any name, and do a search on www.pipl.com for that name/state-

And thanks for the "pop tops". More than 2500 views of this thread-

 

[constituent]

i don't see how you guys keep track of all this shit.

 

[Sally08]

i don't see how you guys keep track of all this shit.

It's that "level of detail" that I have been paid salary or consulting wages to deal with for my entire business career.

It's all about the "patterns"-

And my nose is "twitching"- (Have an appropriate picture of that?)

 

[constituent]

It's that "level of detail" that I have been paid salary or consulting wages to deal with for my entire business career.

It's all about the "patterns"-

And my nose is "twitching"- (Have an appropriate picture of that?)

i might in the morning.

you certainly have a talent for what you do, it's amazing really.

 

[WRellim]

It's that "level of detail" that I have been paid salary or consulting wages to deal with for my entire business career.

It's all about the "patterns"-

And my nose is "twitching"- (Have an appropriate picture of that?)

This one?

Or maybe this one? (Tabitha actress grown up.)

BTW, the "detailed breakdown" of those expense reimbursements *IS* supposedly filed with the FEC... but they are filed as addendum's to the "categorized" database entries, and (AFAIK) are not available on a bulk basis (I believe the breakdowns are actually filed as paper or scans of paper documents rather than numeric data = an INSANE amount of work to request and process the data in them).

And while doubtless the leaders of the campaign (Snyder, Moore, etc) WERE in fact charging a LOT of miscellanea on their personal credit cards it is still a BAD management practice. (And in those amounts, it is a BIG RED FLAG to professional auditors because it is SOOO easy to hide fraud and embezzlement and... well "bury" just about ANYTHING in those "reimbursements" -- Likewise it ticks off analysts and accountants as well, because such activities really "skew" the organizations expense numbers and make the job of figuring out "what was spent where" a thousand-fold more difficult than it needs to be.)

Also, those who say they must have charged "big blocks of hotel and airfare charges" ...well maybe, but there are already SIGNIFICANT other "categorized" charges for those exact things, and the fact is that people should NOT have to "speculate" on such large dollar amounts; it may be acceptable to the LETTER of the law, but it definitely violates the SPIRIT and the ETHICS of transparent accounting.

 

[AmericaFyeah92]

this is getting out of hand. 305 posts? christ

 

[WRellim]

this is getting out of hand. 305 posts? christ

Yeah, but a significant number of those posts are "LOL's" or "STFU's" or other inane comments with little or no substance.

 

[Sally08]

(And in those amounts, it is a BIG RED FLAG to professional auditors because it is SOOO easy to hide fraud and embezzlement and... well "bury" just about ANYTHING in those "reimbursements"...)

Considering I used to be a professional auditor for a (then) Big Eight CPA firm

Thanks for the "nose twitch" pictures!