As the co-founder company that conducts background checks for employment screening, I am always curious about interesting articles regarding background screening of any sort. So it is hard to pass up comment on Sarah Palin’s contention that the John McCain presidential campaign billed her $50,000 for background checks that vetted her as the Vice Presidential Candidate. According to the Los Angeles Times, Palin has made this claim in her new book, “Going Rogue.”
Now, as I am not here to either confirm or refute Palin’s claim about the cost of her vetting, the first thing that goes through my mind is that it’s a heck of a price for a background check. For fifty grand, they should have been able to not only conduct background searches on Palin and family but on her ancestors going back to the time they first landed in America. Maybe even before that. If that’s the case, and the true cost was $50 Thousand, someone’s making money.
Palin claims she was never reimbursed for any legal expenses, including her background checks and her vetting. She claims the McCain campaign promised to reimburse her is McCain won the presidential election. As we all know, he didn’t thus leaving Palin to make good for the money.
I would think that in the next few days, at least one of Senator McCain’s former campaign managers will confirm or deny the report. It seems that former campaign staff members are working overtime to nullify Sarah Palin’s various allegations.
Still, Fifty grand for a background check? Really.
