Hillary ex-aide indicted in false campaign filings

Washington Times ^ | 1/08/05 | Jerry Seper

[kattracks]

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The affidavit said the true cost of the event "was deliberately understated in order to increase the amount of funds available to New York Senate 2000 for federal campaign activities."

Mrs. Clinton was first lady at the time of the gala.

    The indictment comes at a time when Mrs. Clinton is considered a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2008, and faces potential challenges in 2006 for her Senate seat from former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani or New York Gov. George E. Pataki.

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Two of the event's organizers were Hollywood producer Peter F. Paul and charity fund-raiser Aaron Tonken.

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A sworn statement by Paul in a pending lawsuit against the Clintons, Mr. Rosen and Tonken said a host of Hollywood celebrities attended the Clinton gala, including Shirley MacLaine, John Travolta, Cher, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Swayze, Larry King and George Hamilton.

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During the Clinton administration, a Justice Department campaign finance task force brought charges against more than two dozen persons — mostly Democrats — and two corporations for fund-raising abuses during the 1996 election presidential campaign.
    Mr. Rosen, in addition to working for New York Senate 2000, has raised money for several other high-profile Democratic candidates, including former presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark.

[BradyLS]

Golly, how big is the list of people who wound up in prison instead of the Clintons? Gotta' be long!

Agreed. Clinton friend/associate = Human ablative armor.

[freedomfiter2]

Bad company corrupts good morals. You can't expect people to associate with the Clintons and not be corrupt.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

You could say that everyone who associates with them is stained with their corruption.

[newzhawk]

Why do these Clintons know so many felons? Because they are criminals themselves! Between the illegal stock brokers, theives, campaign finance shakedown artists,and document destroyers- it is hard to keep track of all the associations of these hillbillies from Hot Springs and Chicago- hope the new attorney general goes after them.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

They're so crooked...

How crooked are they?

They're so crooked they make a pretzel look like a ruler.

[libstripper]

"Mr. Rosen, in addition to working for New York Senate 2000, has raised money for several other high-profile Democratic candidates, including former presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark."

Looks like Rosen was one of the Clintons' favorite fund raisers. He even did it for thier shill, Wesley Clark.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I don't understand how this scheme worked. The fund-raiser is charged with understating the true cost of the event in order to make more funds available for the campaign. But assuming the true costs represented bills that were actually paid, how did understating the costs make more funds available for the campaign?

Can anyone elucidate?

[cpdiii]

With the exception of Monica, Bill and Hill have always keep a "cut out" between them and their crimes. The cut out takes the fall and the Clintons, "do not recall, do not remember, were not aware of etc etc etc."

The Clintons are very accomplished criminals.

[Tuba Guy]

Oh yeah, that's theHildebeast all right. How can one look at that picture and not wonder who she is plotting against?