From what I can re-create of the disaster, my social security number was used to get the card. This card had a balance of roughly $150,000 in charter fees at any time. At the end of 2003, we wanted to show a lot of cash on hand in our campaign bank accounts—a sign of viability when the numbers are publicly released at the end of each quarter—so we did not pay the air charter bill for about two months. This meant that for more than 60 days, I had an outstanding balance of about $500,000. It completely destroyed my personal credit, and I only found out months later,
The Kerry 2004 campaign used co-signed employee SSNs to obtain huge amounts of credit and then stuck them with the dings.
