In a new documentary series, two former workers in a “scam PAC” call center reveal the practices of an industry facing growing legal scrutiny.
Earlier this year, The Daily Beasta secret call center website whose PAC clients had raised more than $140 million over the last two election cycles alone. Almost all of those groups appeared to bear ties to Zeitlin or Piaro.
He means that literally. Lipman-Stern and his sidekick Patrick J. Pespas met on the job, when both worked the phones for the since-shuttered Civic Development Group, raising money on behalf of fraternal orders of police officers and fake cancer charities. He pointed to the Houston Fraternal Order of Police, whose president at one time had his own telemarketing company. “And we learned that they were literally cooking meth in the office,” Lipman-Stern said.
“And even David Vladeck told us that they were scared, too—‘No one wants to be on the wrong side of the Fraternal Order of the Police,’” Lipman-Stern recalled. “It became really apparent that that was the new loophole. They have to disclose less information, they can keep more of the money, and they don’t have to tell donors what the percentages are,” Lipman-Stern explained.
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