Over at Reverse Spin, Dan Curry notes that Hillary Clinton has yet to return $150,000 in donations from an Illinois company that… well, let the New York Times lay out the portrait:
A disbarred New York lawyer with a criminal record for attempted larceny and patronizing a 16-year-old prostitute, Mr. Burgess owns International Profit Associates, a management consulting company in Illinois.
Federal authorities are pressing a sexual harassment suit against the company on behalf of 113 former female employees.
Wait, there’s more. The state is investigating accusations of deceptive marketing tactics, and the Better Business Bureau received 470 complaints from 2004 to 2006.
Back in 1999, former president George Bush spoke at a company banquet, former President Clinton spoke in 2001, and Sen. Clinton spoke in 2004. They denied knowing about the company’s problems.
But in the Times story from a year ago, we learn that quite a few lawmakers had already smelled trouble and returned donations from the company and its employees – Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and his state attorney general, and then-candidate for New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo. Back in May 2006, Hillary’s campaign was “reviewing” the circumstances.
Dan wonders if the National Organization of Women, which just endorsed Hillary, knew about Hillary keeping donations from a company with 113 former employees claiming sexual harassment.






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