Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Is Sarah Palin money laundering?

Here’s a question that I’ve pondered for weeks: How has Sarah Palin’s book Going Rogue managed to stay on the best-sellers list week after week? Well, we may now have finally found a clue. According to new reports, Palin’s been using money from SarahPAC, her political action committee, to buy thousands of copies of her book to send to her donors. So how much did she spend on her own books? In the last half of 2009, SarahPAC gave only $43,000 to Republican candidates for federal office. In comparison, SarahPAC spent over $63,000 buying copies of Palin’s memoir. Come to think of it this process could this be construed as money laundering. She's taking campaign contributions and using the money to buy her books and then keeping the profits from her book sales.