Posted on 04/22/2005 2:34:20 AM PDT by Liz
Sen. Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law is the mystery witness who raised $100,000 for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and then went undercover and wore a wire to help the feds nab one of her top moneymen on charges of fund-raising-fraud, The Post has learned.
The witness, Ray Reggie, 43, has a sister, Victoria, who married Kennedy in 1992, and prosecutors say Reggie secretly recorded "incriminating" statements made by David Rosen, a top Clinton fund-raiser.
Reggie was close enough to Bill and Hillary Clinton to sleep over at the White House in 2000 and stay up chatting with the first couple into the wee hours.
Sources tell The Post that he is the "cooperating witness" — described but not named in recent court papers — and that he is likely to testify at Rosen's May 3 trial as part of a plea deal struck with federal prosecutors.
The well-connected Reggie stayed undercover for nearly 21/2 years, helping the feds on multiple probes, and was still wearing a wire and making secret tapes as recently as last December, federal documents show.
Reggie hobnobbed at the very top Democratic levels. A month after he'd raised $100,000 for Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign in 2000, Bill Clinton invited him to a state dinner for the king of Morocco — and a sleepover at the White House.
Reggie told The Times-Picayune of New Orleans that he and his wife later got a post-midnight knock on their bedroom door. The Clintons had come to chat.
Yesterday, Reggie, a Democratic campaign consultant who worked for both Clintons and for Al Gore, pleaded guilty in New Orleans to unrelated multimillion-dollar bank-fraud charges.
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This is absolutely amazing!
Prison ain't a safe place...
Well, you have a point. I am just fascinated with this story.
It's a great good morning in SC. With all the newz on the Demo-crooks, maybe SC Governor Sanford will get the honor of clasping the cuffs on BJC. Hope it is while he's 3-puttin' on the 13th hole at Kiawah. Then Big AL, then the Hill, then Teddy, then Spitzer, then Howie....eowwee!! Satan's cats will be screechin'. One can only dream of such glorious sights!
Yup..also..this is being carefully leaked...in an escalating manner, designed to put pressure on more people to come clean and roll over..Look..this guiy was out there as a CW for the feds for more than 2 years..the knows, and met with probably thousands of highly connected people..pols, business types..over that time..probably taped them all..Today, they are all rackign their brains to remember what they talked about, and everyone is calling his/her lawyer...You can expect many to come forward and proffer stuff to the feds..
OMG, y'all have to read this!
W-O-W!
Sorry..my #25 was for you also...
Is this called a bomb shell or the mother lode?
Wow, two crime families going at it. One fighting dirty by rolling over for the Feds.
We need to see if little stories appear about certain people meeting with the feds.
IIRC, Victoria's father was a rather prominent judge in Louisiana. If the old guy is still living, I bet he advised his son to cooperate.
How do we know the gov't insisted on heavy jail time? Did I miss something in the article? Thanks.
bump
Nice take........it's a rib-tickler thinking about all the Dumbocrats racking their, uh, brains, trying to remember what incriminating stuff they might have said to Reggie.
You won't hear about those publicly for a while..
No doubt-------I guess it's wishful thinking to think Reggie spied b/c he hated the Clintons.
In one of the the articles, I believe it said jail time..(though it was pretty early when I read it)...Usually, in cases like this, he'll plead guilty, accept the fine and the jail term..then, after he's through cooperating and testifying, the feds will make a motion for a reduced sentence because of his cooperation..but they won't give it to him BEFORE..IOW..he has to earn it..this keeps the CW honest, and also makes it harder for the defendants to discredit him..
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
We may indeed see justice.
........the Dim Domino Effect......
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