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Even Hillary is Doing It. Shouldn’t You Be Ordering Background Checks?

By LARA JAKES JORDAN

 
 

WASHINGTON (AP) – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign said Monday it will return $850,000 in donations raised by Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu, who is under federal investigation for allegedly violating election laws.Clinton, D-N.Y., previously had planned only to give to charity $23,000 she received from Hsu for her presidential and senatorial campaigns and to her political action committee, HillPac.The FBI is investigating whether Hsu paid so-called straw donors to send campaign contributions to Clinton and other candidates, a law enforcement official said Monday.“In light of recent events and allegations that Mr. Norman Hsu engaged in an illegal investment scheme, we have decided out of an abundance of caution to return the money he raised for our campaign,” Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said in a statement Monday night. “An estimated 260 donors this week will receive refunds totaling approximately $850,000 from the campaign.”Wolfson said the Clinton campaign also will vigorously review its fundraisers, including thorough criminal background checks, in the future. “In any instances where a source of a bundler’s income is in question, the campaign will take affirmative steps to verify its origin,” he said.

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Even Hilllary is doing it now. Background checks, I mean. Corra believes this is a sound move and something that should have been done all along. Not just in Hillary’s case, but Corra is well aware of circumstances where less than savory people raise funds for political campaigns, education and charitable institutions. There was the case a couple of years ago where a fund raiser from UCLA was found to have a criminal past for fraud. Not a good thing on the record of a university fund raiser.

Corra suggests an array of background checks for fund raisers. Aside form the criminal background check, we recommend the comprehensive background check and business credit reports on the person’s company. These screening will reveal much about your fund raiser and how you determine is he an asset or a detriment to your business interests.

Check them out before you hire.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.