DIRTY MONEY

For Immediate Release
July 24, 2008

Sununu has accepted donations from the sub-prime industry, terrorist financiers, and has funneled even more dirty money through a shady, D.C. attack group

(Manchester, NH) - The Union Leader reports today that John Sununu has continued accepting dirty money to finance his campaigns, this quarter accepting $3,000 from Countrywide PAC, the political arm of sub-prime mortgage broker Countrywide Financial Corp. This donation continues Sununu's pattern of using dirty money to finance his campaigns -- last quarter, Sununu was forced to return donations from a suspected terrorist financier, and Sununu's longtime friends at Americans for Job Security continue to pump hundreds of thousands of dollars from undisclosed donors into the state in an attempt to influence the election.

"John Sununu will say and do anything to get reelected, including accepting campaign money from suspected terrorist financiers and the architects of the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and even asking his friends to break election laws by funneling money from undisclosed sources into the election," said Alex Reese, press secretary for the NHDP's Coordinated Campaign. "Sununu knows he can't run on his record of supporting George Bush's failed economic policies and voting with Bush 90% of the time, so he's taking money from anyone and anywhere to distract voters from his record. But Sununu can't hid the truth: he has supported Bush's policies that have led to $4 per gallon gas and a crumbling economy, and he's just part of the problem."

John Sununu & Dirty Money

• 2002: Sununu is forced to return money from a Hamas supporter. Sununu was forced to return $750 from Abduraham Alamoudi, who publicly declared himself a "Hamas supporter" at Washington D.C. rally and was later convicted and sentenced to 23 years in prison for financing international terrorist groups and participating in an assassination plot.

• May 22, 2008: Sununu is forced to return money from suspected terrorist financier Hisham Altalib. Sununu was forced to return the money because Altalib was the leader of "a Muslim group whose headquarters was raided in 2003 by federal agents investigating possible terrorist financing." [Union Leader, 5/22/08]

• July 24, 2008: Reports show Sununu accepted $3,000 from subprime crisis architect Countrywide PAC. Countrywide PAC was forced to shut down a month ago "amid a corporate buyout and ongoing inquiries into whether lawmakers got sweetheart deals from the California-based subprime lender." [Washington Times, 7/2/08] But before they shut down, Sununu managed to squeeze one more donation out of them: "Before it shut down earlier this month, Countrywide Home Loans PAC, the political arm of the embattled Countrywide Financial Corp., contributed $3,000 to Sununu, according to his latest financial disclosure." [Union Leader, 7/24/08] Sununu has accepted $10,500 from Countrywide in total.

• Sununu has yet to return the Countrywide donations or donations from DCI Group, the disgraced lobbying firm that represented the oppressive military junta in Myanmar. Sununu has yet to return $2,250 from disgraced lobbying firm DCI Group, which lobbied on behalf of the Myanmar military junta and advised on the illegal Republican phone jamming scheme in Sununu's 2002 Senate race. John McCain has publicly repudiated the group and fired its employees from his campaign.

• And Sununu's longtime political allies and friends continue to pump undisclosed money into the election through the D.C. attack group Americans for Job Security. AJS has spent an estimated quarter million dollars in support of John Sununu so far in this election, and they spent over $1 million for Sununu in 2002.