The controversy and scandal littered on the American landscape by the Clintons are unparalleled.
Deserved or not, the list is long: Bill's reckless sexual flings with at least four women and his lie under oath about one of them; Hillary's eyebrow-raising profit of $100,000 in 10 months after a $1,000 commodity-trading investment; Hillary's "losing" 10 years of records from her lawyer days with the Rose Law Firm, which were then "found" in the White House family quarters; Bill's criminal pardons before leaving the presidency, including one for international fugitive swindler Marc Rich after his ex-wife donated lavishly to the Clintons.
Now they've done it again, embracing a "friend" who's also a notorious peddler of lists used by telemarketers to bilk the elderly and ill, and who has literally bought his way into the Clintons' personal and political lives with millions of dollars.
This shadowy, sleazy figure is Vinod Gupta, an immigrant from India, who built a $400-million company, infoUSA, into a consumer information giant.
Iowa investigators say infoUSA sold consumer data to telemarketing criminals who steal from the elderly. One list was titled "Suffering Seniors."
How the Clintons allegedly profited from Gupta is revealed in a lawsuit filed by infoUSA shareholders who allege Gupta:
· Spent $146,866 to jet the Clintons to Acapulco and back for vacation.
· Paid Bill Clinton $2 million over four years for "consulting."
· Spent $900,000 on a jet to ferry Bill Clinton on global speaking engagements and Hillary Clinton to political events.
· Donated $1 million to Bill Clinton's foundation.
· Provided a corporate jet for Hillary Clinton when she pleaded she was "in desperate need of a plane" to make political stops in New York, Michigan and Florida.
Shareholders accuse Gupta of wasting corporate funds to "ingratiate" himself with the Clintons.
The Clintons were appreciative: Bill appointed Gupta to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, invited Gupta to spend a night in the Lincoln Bedroom, offered two ambassadorial posts (Gupta declined) and posed with Gupta in Aspen, arm-in-arm on a golf course.
They don't need this largesse from the cheesy Gupta. The Clintons are worth an estimated $50 million, fully able to charter their own jets and pay for their own Acapulco reveries.
It's as if the Clintons are for sale, peddling their personas for vacations, jet airplane trips and donations from a man who might need a presidential pardon someday if Hillary were president.
After what the nation has been through for the past six years, Americans don't need another president who puts friends above country and can't be trusted.
