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To defend and burnish Tulsi Gabbards image as her political star was rising, her congressional campaign hired a public-affairs firm in 2017 that tried to suppress coverage of an alleged pyramid scheme connected to her Hindu sect, according to interviews, emails and Federal Election Commission records.
Gabbard, a former House member who is now President Trumps nominee for director of national intelligence, was raised in the Science of Identity Foundation, a sect tied to a direct-marketing firm accused of running a pyramid scheme in several countries. Neither Gabbard, the sect nor the firm, QI Group, wanted the relationships scrutinized.
Gabbards campaign paid Washington, D.C.,-based Potomac Square Group for the PR cleanup, trying to mask the connections. But the operation was directed by a Science of Identity followerand longtime Gabbard adviserwho sits on the board of a QI subsidiary. The revelations shed further light on Gabbards ties to the religious grouppublicly described by some former followers as a cult that demands total loyalty to its founderand to the Hong-Kong based QI, which has been a target of criminal and civil cases alleging fraud and racketeering in at least seven countries.
Lawmakers have looked closely at Gabbards connections with Science of Identity and QI ahead of her confirmation hearing Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to people familiar with the matter. Gabbards ties raise questions about her judgment and loyalty, congressional staffers said.
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Initech
(103,113 posts)Out them all. Follow the money.
Bread and Circuses
(395 posts)Cha
(306,528 posts)when she was running for Congress in Hawaii.
I would say things on DU about it but she was supposedly a "dem:" and she had some fans.
Dorian Gray
(13,754 posts)have been known for years. The MLM aspect of the groups associated with it... I wasn't aware of. That's very Falun Gong/Unification Church of them.
Cha
(306,528 posts)not some of us.
I voted for her opponents since 2014 and then she Dropped out.
She's a fucking snake.