Palin's Pie Spy Business Revealed In New Financial Filing

Sarah Palin is the owner of a small marketing business called "Pie Spy" that was founded during her last few months as Alaska governor, according to financial records released on Tuesday.

Pie Spy is described as a business involving "Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities" in documents filed with the Alaska Department of Commerce. According to the Anchorage Daily News, the LLC's address is that of Palin's Anchorage lawyer Thomas Van Flein.

Pie Spy is listed in the same disclosure statement that revealed Palin's $1.25 million advance from HarperCollins for her upcoming memoir Going Rogue. The filing covers her family's finances from Jan. 1 to July 27, her last months in office.

Politico's Ben Smith reports that Pie Spy was incorporated in March and that Palin's spokeswoman Meg Stapleton and lawyer Thomas Van Flein did not respond to questions about the business.

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[twopac]

12:35 AM on 10/30/2009

(P)alin (I)s (E)vil (S)he'll (P)illage (Y)ou

PIE SPY

[NoFooling]

07:26 PM on 10/29/2009

Get your lawyers ready Sarah. There's already a PieSpy:
http://www.jibble.org/piespy/

A nice Trademark lawsuit should wrestle out a few details about her little venture. I bet it has nothing to do with elderly or disabled people. If it did, her spokespeople would be promoting it like crazy.

[Thefirstone]

04:50 PM on 10/29/2009

OK...here is the second half of my post...sorry

What do we do? How can we tell our leaders that they are there for us and not big business. It seems that we have become so big and splintered that you don't know who is telling the truth. Those who we depend on - the media - to keep our government honest and keep us informed are owned by people who have their own agenda and an ego the size of Texas. I feel so frustrated...I do not believe that our government has grown out of our control. I think this is the greatest country in the world and the free enterprise is the best system but both have one major flaw....they are run by humans. Our founding fathers realized this fact which is why they devised a system with checks and balances but I don't think even our founding fathers could foresee the magnitude of our greed and lust for wealth and power.

OK...boy that was invigorating. You need to understand that the above was a lifetime I got off my chest. I hope to continue to post here and promise that all that follow will be much shorter....thank you for your patience, this has been therapeutic.

[Thefirstone]

04:49 PM on 10/29/2009

Wow...yesterday was the first post I have ever done....I was a little apprehensive in sending it as I do not want people to think I am on the fringe. I am a 55 year old white man who lives in a rural area of NH. I have never had the confidence in myself to put myself out there in the political world....but....I can not stand by any more. I have three children and two grandchildren now and I look at them and become tearful for the world we are leaving them. A world where your leaders care more about their career then the people who elected them. A world where "free enterprise" has gone from making a reasonable profit to getting "what the market will bear" - which means squeezing the rock until there is only a slow flow of blood drops. A world where your worth to society is measured by how much profit you generate. A world where lying -oh excuse me - "rhetoric" is accepted as the norm. A world where someone like Sarah Palin was almost our vp and a heartbeat away from the top job and a significant number of people believed she was qualified. A world where people are willing to blow themselves and innocent woman and children up over religion. I guess I could go on and on but you get my point.

Seems that I have been too wordy so the remainder of this thought is on my next post.

[BeltwayBandit]

02:55 PM on 10/29/2009

I cant help but wonder what Pain is hiding?

[den1953]

12:19 PM on 10/29/2009

Sarah's witch doctor told her to do it!

[grammy11]

11:53 AM on 10/29/2009

This is a big joke. While 264 seniors and disability patients died because the Palin administration failed them, Ms Sarah forms this company to get the money that must be donated to a charity of her choice when her Alaskan Fund Trust donations end. Why isn't law enforcement looking at this?

[madisonhack]

11:42 AM on 10/31/2009

I.R.S.

[ImaLibDem]

11:37 AM on 10/29/2009

There are those companies and fraternal groups who require that you sign over all of your property of value (eg. cars, houses) in order to receive their housing and perpetual care. The name might suggest the modus operandi here. Employees scoping out the elderly with means (spy), in order to strike a similar scenario so Sarah can get their Pie. Makes you wonder.

[trisha08]

11:20 AM on 10/29/2009

Here is something to ponder. At the same time that Palin created this business to check in on the elderly and disabled, she allowed the state health program for elderly and disabled (home care) to crumble so badly that the federal goverment had to step in because people were dying.

Did she create a business that would fill the void of home care knowing full well that these people were not getting their basis needs met?????

SHE was fully aware of the problem, yet, as Gov, she didn't work to solve the problems with the state program....she created a money makin' business.

Seems odd to me since she KNEW the feds had to take over the state program because if was poorly run. In fact, it's the only program in the country that where the federal goverment had to step in.

So what does Palin do? She creates a business to profit off of "checking in on the elderly and disabled".


Sounds fishy to me. What a scam artist.

[studioh!]

11:04 AM on 10/29/2009

Oh there are SO many ways to go with this story, I don't know where to begin...

I'll have mine a la mode!

[MrGovtCheese]

12:29 AM on 10/29/2009

This probably has something to do with the layoffs at KAOS, THRUSH, and SPECTRE.

[mollysgran]

11:41 PM on 10/28/2009

I seem to remember that Ms. Palin had some phony businesses set up for tax purposes before she was Half-Governor. They were tax shelters, and she got in a wee bit of trouble because of them. One of them had a psuedo French name.

[trisha08]

11:13 AM on 10/29/2009

Yes. The spuedo french name translates to Red Neck. No joke.

[MixinUpMedicine]

11:41 PM on 10/28/2009

Offshore tax shelter. Someone doesn't wanna share the wealth.

[SaddieMcCall]

11:40 PM on 10/28/2009

It is probably a fake business to cover expenses that she pays for the care of the "elderly" parents and her son with a disability, maybe she will be raising donations from the public which will be used to benefit her own family. It's her pie in the sky dream to have taxpayers continue to pay for her family member's expenses, and maybe she'll hire another family member or two to "run" the business with a hefty salary.

[Thefirstone]

11:36 PM on 10/28/2009

I was reading some of the posts when I stopped and pondered on one of the posts which asked the question; "why would a MARKETING company be working on services for the elderly and disabled?" Then I had a thought....tax deductions....child with Downs.....mmmmmm......"services to disabled" My God is she going to use her care of this child as a business expense? Please someone tell me I am full of it......please!

[SaddieMcCall]

12:04 AM on 10/29/2009

And her elderly parents. When she spoke about Obama's "death panels" - she mentioned her elderly parents and son with Down's Syndrome as being at risk. She probably wants to set this up, to cover expenses of her own parents and son.

[KathrynLW]

12:23 AM on 10/29/2009

you're not the only one with those thoughts. check out this Alaska blog--she's knowledgeable about Sarah's Trust Fund and other Alaska/Palin activities: sarah can transfer the trust funds to herself


http://divasblueoasis.com/

[ProChoiceGrandma]

01:43 AM on 10/30/2009

"Knowledgeable" is an understatement. Celtic Diva is a wealth of knowledge on this subject!