Sunday, September 28, 2008

Lying Sack of Shit update

Newsweek and Josh Marshall discover that Rick Davis is a master of Ponzi Schemes when it comes to getting money to lobby.

Even if it comes directly from the McCain Campaign for a an incredible joke of a "web design" enterprise.

From Marshall:

...3eDC is pretty closely tied to Davis Manafort. Not only, as Newsweek notes, does the company share an address with Davis Manafort. Last year, US News got Davis to admit that the company has two owners -- Rick Davis and Paul Manafort.

And there's a bit more. According to a July 2007 article in the Wall Street Journal, 3eDC was a "start-up ... with one customer -- the [McCain] campaign." The Journal further reported that within the campaign it was understood that 3eDC was essentially a pass-through, that it had a series of other 'partner firms' that did the actual work.

Perhaps not surprisingly, in June, the Post's Matthew Mosk reported that shortly after McCain took over the Republican National Committee in his role as de facto nominee, 3eDC resurfaced with its second client to date -- the Republican National Committee -- with a contract potentially worth as much as $3 million.

Un-fucking-believable.

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