If it were not a good company. the President would not have invited us to dinner." Soon. investors were lining up to buy worthless beads to assemble into necklaces. which the company promised to market to retailers. At one point. when Unique Gems was using the Presidents picture most extensively. it was raking In $1 million a day. By the time the operation was shut down. 15.000 people had been bilked. most of whom were new immigrants hoping to turn their $3.000 investment into a small fortune. The Democratic National Committee bilked new immigrants indirectly through this type of scheme. Unique Gems apparently used third parties to donate $85.000 to the DNC. despite Federal law prohibiting such donations. Four of Unique Gems principals. who have. surprise. surprise. left the country. are foreign nationals prohibited by law from donating to U.S. campaigns.
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