There’s a couple of guys who kinda hide out who have scammed tens millions of dollars from people who thought they were giving to political PAC with precious names like American Wounded Veterans PAC, Wounded American Veterans PAC, Security in America PAC, and Law Enforcement for a Safer America PAC.  I guess they forgot Poor Little Homeless Puppies With Guns To Their Heads PAC.

Alan Bohms and his lawyer, Matthew Fisher, have stayed in the shadows with putting together intricate schemes where people send them money that goes into advertising for more money and their pockets. Generally less than 1% of the money goes to politicians. Salon did a great job tracking down all the subsidiary companies these guys have set up to funnel the money.

Years ago, I was filing the financial papers with the Texas Ethics Commission for a Democratic Club in my county. We had raised and spent about $35,000, which was a whole lot in a Republican County.  I worked for hours trying to find $3.48 that I could not account for.  The numbers just didn’t match. I went back through all the receipts and I found $1.37 of it in an expenditure I mis-entered. The next night, deadline, I was still $2.11 short. I worked on it for another couple of hours and then I did what any self-respecting woman would do – I cried like a little girl. That was years ago, and those numbers still occupy a large space in my brain which I could really use for remembering something like my niece’s husband’s name.

For the treasurer of every legitimate political organization and every donor who trusts an organization to do right by their money, these guys should rot in hell.

If you get a chance today to tell somebody that Alan Bohms and lawyer Matthew Fisher are a couple of punks, do so.  Let’s make them famous.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.