RED ALERT: BEWARE "THETEAPARTY.NET"

This is suspicious, to say the least.

Loew picks apart the FEC filing of this group, which also lists all these mega-donors, and this is the astounding find:

• They raked in nearly $500K, $469K to be exact, from January 2010 to October of 2010, the most of any Tea Party in Arizona.
• $4,500 for company travel.
• $23K for office expenses.
• $16.5K for pens, books and videos for donors
• $181,759 for marketing: Google, FaceBook and other ad companies, so every time you “google” “tea party US” they are the first to pop up.
• Not one DOLLAR spent on rallies or campaign expenses for Tea Party candidates.

And that’s not all. Thousands have logged into this group and typed in their personal information and credit card information and the group that runs the website is also into the “data collection” business. One of the companies they own sells people’s personal information to ReverseLeadClub.com in an attempt to sell reverse mortgages.

Reporter Loew attempted to interview Cefaratti however he refused and jumped into his Escalade. Note at the 4:20 mark on the video Cefaratti’s license plate reads “TEAPARTY1.”

While this might not be conclusive legal evidence of an outright scam, I would personally steer well clear of this site, and its sister/clone JoinTheTeaParty.us.  Caveat emptor.