FC: Porn sites, CyberCash entangle Virginia candidates for governor

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 12:12:27 -0400
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <amicus () well com>
Subject: Caesar's wife alleged in link to porn sites...

It's worth noting here the bizarre little tiff between Virginia 
gubernatorial candidates Mark Earley and Mark Warner.

Earley returned a campaign donation from Bruce Waldack; he's urging Warner 
to return a donation from Bill Melton.  Earley returned the Waldack 
donation because Waldack's current company, Thruport Technologies, has sold 
ad management software to a porn site; Waldack made his big money as the 
founder of digitalNation... Thruport's products are pretty catholic, as 
everyone from porn to county government sites use ad management 
software.  Melton, of course, was the founder of CyberCash... Earley 
apparently has it on good authority that CyberCash's electronic payment 
services have been used by (brace yourself) porn sites!

Most recent Washington Post coverage:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38931-2001Jun7.html

It's only fair to note that many of us here in the DC-area may have 
attended netpreneur-related events sponsored by either of the two ruffians 
(not Earley and Warner: Waldack and Melton) cited above; if you're a 
regular NPR listener, you've probably been tainted by Waldack's sponsorial 
largesse in that department as well.

You might wish to make a note of these possible controversial 
entanglements, for disclosure as warranted by future political ambitions.

Ross 




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