Once upon a time, very recently, candidate for U.S. president Mitt Romney got three donations from three companies that were created solely to give Mitt Romney money.
The main stream media is focusing on a now defunct company named W Spann LLC. The property owner, where the company was supposedly located in New York, says no such company ever took up residence.
Now a man named Ed Conard comes forward and says he created W Spann LLC for the sole purpose of giving Mitt Romney money. Conrad “closed” down his company immediately after giving Romney the money. Why would you need to create a fake company to give someone money?
But this is just the tip of the iceberg, and the mainstream media seems to be ignoring the rest of the iceberg. The fact is that one of Romney’s super PACs called “Restore our Future” (an oxymoron of a title) got three, not one, but three mysterious million dollar contributions from three mysterious companies.
Ed Conrad claims he’s the creator of one of those companies, W Spann LLC. The other two are in Provo, Utah.
Interestingly the two companies in Utah have the same address. One company is known as Eli Publishing L.C., the other company is called F8 LLC.
Eli Publishing L.C. was founded by Steven J Lund. The address is 86 N University Ave Suite 420 Provo, Utah 84601. A local Fox news affiliate (Fox 13), in Provo, caught up with Lund and asked him why he created a company to give Mitt Romney money. Lund said there were accounting advantages in donating money to politicians through a corporation.
F8 LLC was founded by Jeremy S Blickenstaff. The address is 86 N University Ave Suite 420 Provo, Utah 84601. Blickenstaff is refusing to talk to the media.
Fox 13 news says they went to the address and found an accounting company at Suite 420, who’s employees claim to have no connection to Eli Publishing L.C., or F8 LLC. What Fox news didn’t point out is that the address, 86 N University Ave, is also the location of one of several Wells Fargo banks in Provo.
The corporate info on the companies can be found at utah.gov. There are other companies using the name Eli Publishing, so don’t confuse them.
The real issue here is that a politician named Mitt Romney wants to be elected president, on the grounds that there needs to be change in Washington DC (the usual reason), and that his experience with business finance makes him the right choice. But the problem in Washington DC is money, how it’s used, how it’s acquired, the corruption and shady deals. That’s why this country is facing financial disaster. Yet Mitt Romney has no problem with supporters setting up fake shady corporations for the sole purpose of donating shady mystery money to his campaign?
Sounds like with Mitt Romney you get the same ol’ Washington DC BS.
Official complaints have been filed with the Federal Election Commission, and the U.S. Department of Justice.