Texas CEO Who Loaned Trump a Jet Has 'No Comment' on Funding Canada's Anti-Vax Truckers Ben Pogue, an apparent Freedom Convoy donor, was among 90,000 names included in leaked GiveSendGo donation data https://gizmodo.com/texas-ceo-ben-pogue-named-in-freedom-convoy-donation-da-1848542825 The CEO of a Texas construction company, who once loaned Donald Trump’s re-election campaign the use of a private jet, only to secure a presidential pardon for his father later, has declined to discuss the $20,000 donated in his name to Canadian truckers—a 19-day blockade of international trade routes that caused production delays and reduced hours for auto workers at several North American plants. GOP donor Benjamin Pogue, owner and CEO of Pogue Construction, is among the more than 90,000 people whose names are listed on a leaked copy of a GiveSendGo donation list tied to the Canadian “Freedom Convoy,” whose main objective is to undermine public health measures meant to curb the spread of covid-19. Pogue is listed among the top ten donors to the movement through the Christian-oriented website GiveSendGo, which has suffered a series of cybersecurity issues over the past few weeks. GiveSendGo’s website was compromised Sunday evening by an unknown hacker who then circulated an internal list of donations intended for the Canadian convoy. Gizmodo reached out to Pogue on Monday regarding a $20,000 donation linked to his company email account. A zip code provided alongside an American Express number places Pogue in McKinney, Texas, where Pogue Construction is headquartered. “Mr. Pogue does not have any comment concerning this issue,” a spokesperson at the crisis communications firm Prexperts said in an email Tuesday. The Dallas Morning News reported on Pogue’s inclusion on the donor list Tuesday but said it had yet to receive a response from Pogue or his company. Gizmodo acquired the leaked GiveSendGo data from DDoSecrets, a journalist collective that works to provide reporters with access to newsworthy leaks, which had saved a copy of the data before GiveSendGo’s site went dark Sunday night. The Associated Press previously reported that Pogue provided President Donald Trump the use of a private jet during his reelection campaign in the fall of 2020. (The loan of the jet—believed to be a Gulfstream IV—accounted for more than $100,000 of Pogue’s total $385,000 donation to the Trump campaign, according to the AP.) “Like more than a dozen other big Republican donors, many whose businesses are affected by Trump administration policy, he found a way to gain influence beyond simply writing a check. And, like many of them, he received some form of payback,” the AP wrote. Pogue’s father, Paul Pogue, was convicted on a felony tax fraud charge in 2010 after failing to report more than a million dollars in income over three years, according to the McKinney Courier-Gazette. He received three years probation, a $250,000 fine, and was ordered to pay $473,000 in restitution. White House records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum were among those who support Pogue’s request for clemency. According to the OpenSecrets database maintained by the Center for Responsive Politics, Pogue Construction employees also donated to Santorum on five occasions, in amounts ranging from $1,000 to $2,700. Donations to Republican candidates linked to the company exceed $300,000, including a $43,000 donation to the Republican National Committee in 2019. Records also show Pogue Construction has received a combined $6.09 million from the federal government through the Paycheck Protection Program. On Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, assuming powers that—among other things—would allow authorities increased powers to dispel public assembles and restrict travel, as well as force crowdfunding sites and payment providers to share transactions related to the convoy’s funding. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ottawa convoy spokesperson Tamara Lich said the participants will not be swayed. “We will hold the line. There are no threats that will frighten us,” she said. That remains to be seen, however, as the paper also reported that Canadian police have broken up a similar protest blocking a key border crossing between Montana and Alberta. Analysis of the leaked GiveSendGo donation files by Gizmodo on Monday found that, like Pogue, a majority of the Freedom Convoy’s financial supporters reside in the United States. Efforts to fully authenticate the donor list have been hampered by GiveSendGo’s refusal to answer questions about the apparent hack of its website. Nevertheless, reporters in Newfoundland and Labrador managed to verify a donation attributed to a former Canadian politician Monday night.
GQP'ers exacerbating inflation by funding the blocking of trade routes? Clear case of Biden Derangement Syndrome. Why do cons hate America so much?
Commissioner says Fredericton COVID-19 protest included racist symbolism and imagery https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/commiss...cluded-racist-symbolism-and-imagery-1.5782390
Alt-right sedition supporters can send as much Bitcoin as they want... but it ain't gonna help the Freedum Convoy. Of course... we are just counting down the hours until it is all seized by the Canadian government. ‘Freedom Convoy’ Truckers Struggle to Cash Out Bitcoin Worth $1 Million Bitcoiners jumped to donate to the anti–vaccine mandate protests in Canada, but now they have to figure out how to cash out. https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3n...gle-to-cash-out-bitcoin-worth-dollar1-million
GiveSendGo leak #3. Donation site used by Freedom Convoy suffers 3rd data leak in two weeks The Christian fundraising website has suffered 3 leaks in just the last 2 weeks. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/givesendgo-trucker-convoy-hack-leak/ GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding service used by the Canadian trucker protest, has suffered yet another leak of internal data. The journalism collective DDoSecrets announced on Tuesday that it had been provided with five gigabytes of new data related to the Freedom Convoy’s fundraising efforts as well as a separate campaign known as “Adopt a Trucker.” The Freedom Convoy, which has led to blockades along the U.S.-Canada border, began in late January in protest of COVID-19 health measures. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked on Monday the country’s Emergencies Act, which can be used to temporarily suspend citizens’ rights to assembly, in an effort to thwart the movement. The new leak, which reportedly came after GiveSendGo was targeted by hackers, also includes “a full 2.5 GB MySQL database dump, source code for their Bitbucket repo, information from their customer service systems” as well as limited credit card data from donors. Given the sensitive nature of the leak, DDoSecrets is opting to only provide the data to journalists and researchers. The Daily Dot, which was able to secure a copy of the leak, confirmed that the last four digits of credit card numbers, as well as expiration dates, are present in the data. GiveSendGo did not respond to inquiries from the Daily Dot regarding the latest leak. The new leak came just minutes after GiveSendGo finally responded to a previous leak from Sunday night which saw a list of more than 92,000 donors to the Freedom Convoy exposed. In its statement on the matter, GiveSendGo claimed that no credit card data had been accessed. “There was a broadcasted breach showing one such actor illegally hacking into GiveSendGo and distributing the names and emails of donors of the Freedom Convoy Campaign,” the company wrote. “However, no credit card information was leaked. No money was stolen.” The Daily Dot was the first to report on Sunday that donor data had been leaked. The hackers were able to redirect visitors to GiveSendGo’s website to a separate domain that included a video from the Disney film Frozen II as well as a long manifesto condemning the company and its supporters. The hackers’ website was ultimately suspended and GiveSendGo took its own site offline as well in an effort to investigate the breach. Yet Sunday’s leak wasn’t even the first security issue for GiveSendGo. On Thursday, the Daily Dot revealed that GiveSendGo had failed to fix an issue with its server that exposed sensitive information regarding those who ran donation campaigns. Everything from photos of driver’s licenses and military IDs to birth certificates and health insurance cards were publicly accessible on GiveSendGo’s website. TechCrunch had reported on the issue with the server last Tuesday and initially believed that the problem had been fixed. Incredibly, a cybersecurity researcher had even left a note on GiveSendGo’s server back in 2018 warning the company that it had numerous security issues. The note was still present as of this month. When contacted by the Daily Dot regarding the exposed IDs, GiveSendGo CEO Jacob Wells claimed that such allegations were “fake news” and part of an “intentional hit job” against his company. After the Daily Dot provided numerous links to the exposed data, Wells stopped responding. Donor data from GiveSendGo had also been leaked in February of last year, showing that the crowdfunding website had been helping raise funds for those involved in the Jan 6. riot at the Capitol.
Trudeau's draconian moves would have killed the entire civil rights movement in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world. Yeh sure, breaking the law, not giving up your seat for the white man. THAT'S THE LAW. Marching in the streets where cars are supposed to be. Disagreeing with the government and advocating "unacceptable views." Maybe that would be okay with Prime Minister Blackface.