Posted on 05/23/2005 9:08:11 AM PDT by doug from upland
From the U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California, I received info from a source regarding the David Rosen trial. By now, most of you know that the Rosen trial is about his criminal involvement in the biggest campaign finance fraud case in history. Some people are pretending that Hillary Clinton had no involvement in the phony reporting to the FEC regarding her 2000 senate campaign.
IN THIS EPISODE, we learned that Gary Smith, the concert producer for the 2000 Hollywood Gala, met at Le Dome restaurant with Peter Paul, Aaron Tonken, and David Rosen for lunch. They discussed Smith's cost to put on the concert --- $850,000.
I spoke with the source and asked him to pass on to prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg that I was amazed Gary Smith was not called by the prosecution. I informed him that Smith was right there at lunch with Rosen telling him the cost of the concert.
What I was told next amazed me. Smith is actually on the list of witnesses for the defense. That is unbelievable. What can Smith say but that Rosen knew the cost of the concert alone was 850K? How can Smith help the defense?
I told the source that, unless Smith lies about it, he is going to be no friend of the defense. And, by the way, I added, tell Mr. Zeidenberg that Hillary Clinton got on the phone that night and negotiated with her friend Smith to lower the fee by 50K. If Hillary says she doesn't know what went on here, she is lying.
Perhaps this report will find its way into the Los Angeles Times or Washington Post or New York Times or Newsweek or Time Magazine. Perhaps not.
The proof is in the pudding, as they say. It'll all depend on what he says after being sworn on the stand!
Gary Smith is prepared to testify that he doesn't remember who was at lunch at Le Dome. How can he not remember with whom he discussed 850K and the final tribute to Bill Clinton and fundraiser for Hillary? 850K is not chump change.
I hope Mr Smith doesn't have any cats, that he likes anyway.......
Selective amnesia.........
Well, Gary, do you think you would remember a call from the first lady and senate candidate asking you to lower you 850K fee to 800K? Would that be a difficult one to remember. Phone records are an interesting thing.
Are you in contact with the prosecution attorney at all? If not, you should be.
I don't know if I missed the story but Hannity mentioned something on his radio show about someone spying for Hillary in the courtroom holding the Rosen trial. I have no idea what any of it means. I'm waiting to see if Hannity has anything else to say about it...
This story is getting more interesting.....and fast.
Probably worth its own post, here's the story on Hillary's trial watcher (who has a heck of a resume, in fact): http://www.nysun.com/article/14215
She is an attorney with Ryan, Phillips, Utrecht & MacKinnon - a law firm specializing in legislative, administrative, and election law.
Carolyn Utrecht is apparently cited in Z Magazine - Nicaragua 1989 - * Z Magazine 1989-12 (55)
Z Magazine, 18 Millfield Street, Woods Hole MA 02543, Tel: 508-548-9063, Fax: 508-457-0626. Subs: $30/year (11 issues).
Z Magazine is an intensely serious monthly journal of the post-Marxist U.S. left. Put out by a tiny staff of Boston-based activists, and with a circulation of 26,000, Z delivers a daunting amount of text for each subscription dollar. In each issue, long theoretical and cultural articles share space with more traditional political and investigative reporting. Instead of ads, Z runs its own satiric cartoons, plus notices of demonstra- tions and political events. Each issue, in its defiant anti-commercialism, thus implies a rebuke to this country's advertising-driven mainstream press -- and still more to the subliterate personality journalism pioneered here by USA Today and People Magazine. Virtually every issue of Z also contains investigative articles of the kind that end up in NameBase: e.g., Sara Diamond on the U.S. right, or Holly Sklar on U.S. dollar intervention in Nicaragua.
But be advised: the rather hardcore idiom Z usually employs will probably go down easiest with U.S. readers who got radicalized in the 60s, kept up with subsequent developments on the left, and never bought back in. Even sympathetic readers with different life histories may feel left out of Z's loop. -- Steve Badrich
CAROLYN UTRECHT
Ms. Utrecht specializes in the area of federal and state election, campaign finance, ethics and lobbying laws. Her practice includes representation of Members of Congress, political candidates, campaign committees, trade associations, membership organizations, labor organizations and corporations before the Federal Election Commission, Senate and House Ethics Committees and state election commissions. She is currently Counsel to Gore 2000, and General Counsel to Clinton/Gore 96 and 92, Hillary Rodham Clinton for Senate, and the Democratic Governors Association.
Prior to joining the firm, from 1976 through 1983 she was in the General Counsels office at the Federal Election Commission, from 1980 to 1983 as Special Assistant General Counsel. While at the Commission, Ms. Utrecht specialized in litigation, representing the Commission in numerous cases in federal district and appellate courts. In 1984, Ms. Utrecht became Deputy General Counsel of the Mondale presidential campaign, after which she joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips specializing in election and ethics matters. She was General Counsel to Americans for Harkin, the 1992 presidential campaign of Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa during this time.
Ms. Utrecht is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Election Law Section of the American Bar Association Administrative Law Division.
Ms. Utrecht holds an undergraduate degree from Yale University and Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Ce nter (cum laude). Ms. Utrecht is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland, and before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the District of Columbia, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits.
Perhaps more credibility here? I am telling the FReepers that I spoke with someone within the U.S. attorney's office. You may choose to believe me or not believe me. Either will have no effect on me.
Spoken like a died in the wool leftwing presstitute.
I apologize. I should have known better than to respond to you.
Maybe the fix is already in?
I don't know exactly what they are doing. The judge is a Clinton-appointed judge. The prosecutor is charged with getting Rosen convicted. Perhaps he thinks that a mention of Hillary's complicity will make it more political and prevent a conviction. I don't want to accuse a U.S. attorney of being involved in a fix. They are usually very competent and loyal public servants.
Sounds reasonable. That was in the back of mind about not making this a circus. Especially since Hitlery can bawl with the best of them. That is, only in public. We all know she is pretty hateful mostly in private.
"What can Smith say but that Rosen knew the cost of the concert alone was 850K?..."
DFU: I call that good question and raise you (and ALL FReepers) another: Who can document the prices headlining bands NORMALLY charge for shows? Anything less than those fees = in-kind contributions.
Bruce Springsteen, Whoopi Goldberg et al don't work cheap...
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