{"id":703662,"date":"2010-03-29T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.opensecrets.org,2010:\/news\/\/8.1449"},"modified":"2010-03-30T01:05:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T05:05:50","slug":"norman-leboon-accused-of-threating-to-kill-rep-eric-cantor-donated-to-barack-obamas-presidential-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/703662","title":{"rendered":"Norman Leboon, Accused of Threating to Kill Rep. Eric Cantor, Donated to Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"normanleboon.jpg\"<\/a>A man accused of threatening to kill<\/a> House Minority Whip Eric Cantor<\/a> (R-Va.) appears to have twice donated money to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, the Center for Responsive Politics<\/a>‘ research indicates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Federal records indicate a Norman Leboon Sr. of Philadelphia donated $255 to Obama’s campaign on June 20, 2008, followed the next day by a $250 donation. They are the only federal-level donations made by a person with the surname “Leboon” on record.<\/p>\n

FBI officials on Saturday arrested Leboon at 1653 Benner St. in Philadelphia — the same address listed in conjunction with the two donations. Campaign finance disclosure documents list Leboon’s occupation as “disabled\/retired.”<\/p>\n

Leboon refers to himself in numerous videos posted on the Internet as “Norman Leboon Sr.”<\/p>\n

Capital Eye<\/em>‘s calls to the White House and Democratic National Committee about the donations, and what — if anything — the president plans to do with them, were not immediately returned.<\/p>\n

Obama received more than three million individual campaign donations during his presidential bid<\/a>, which set federal fund-raising records for a single candidate.<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Inquirer <\/em>reports<\/a> that an FBI affidavit<\/a> quotes Leboon as saying in one recent YouTube video: “Remember Eric \u0085 our judgment time, the final Yom Kippur has been given. You are a liar, you’re a Lucifer, you’re a pig, a greedy f—— pig. You’re an abomination. You receive my bullets in your office. Remember they will be placed in your heads. You and your children are Lucifer’s abominations.”<\/p>\n

(Originally appeared in the OpenSecrets.org’s Capital Eye Blog<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A man accused of threatening to kill House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) appears to have twice donated money to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, the Center for Responsive Politics‘ research indicates. Federal records indicate a Norman Leboon Sr. of Philadelphia donated $255 to Obama’s campaign on June 20, 2008, followed the next day by a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2X3o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}