Posted on 08/24/2007 3:26:56 PM PDT by doug from upland
Breaking news for you, FReepers. In this sworn declaration presented to Judge Aurelio Munoz in Los Angeles Superior Court on April 7, 2006, Hillary Clinton declared that she knew of no arrangement for her husband to work for Peter Paul's company, Stan Lee Media. Well, what a surprise. She lied. Perhaps Robert Ray would call it being "factually innacurate." That is how he described her testimony before the grand jury when she was first lady.
In connection with a film about Hillary that is currently in production, (not our documentary film), Peter was on camera today taking a polygraph test. The test was administered by a man who was trained by the Department of Defense for the Postal Inspector's Office. That is the premier training available.
Peter passed with flying colors. Despite Hillary's denials, Peter was shown to be telling the truth about the Spago luncheon in which he discussed his plans to support her campaign if Bill would come aboard Stan Lee Media.
He passed when he said he discussed it with her at the Streisand brunch on Aug. 12, 2000, the day after the Hollywood Gala. He passed when he said that he discussed it with Bill at length at the Gala.
Okay, Hillary, it is your turn. Take a polygraph from the same man. Peter has told the truth all along. Your sworn declaration to the court was false.
Let's get ready to roll. Hillary Clinton has been lying all along. She has done it under oath. She participated in destroying Stan Lee Media and directed the greatest campaign finance fraud in history. We have her on tape in the solicitation and coordination of an illegal $1.6 million hard money, in-kind donation. With your help and the help of the armada of bloggers, the Truth Boating Hillary is going into high gear.
Hillary, dear, they finally got Al Capone on tax evasion. Your time is almost up.
Be fair guys. No one has ever gotten this close to throwing this woman out. Congrats Doug. That’s wonderful news.
The boss or the politician?
And btw, I have noticed that you have been very active getting the news out on Hillary via FR and youtube.com. And I am just curious about what exactly you do? Are you in politics or is this a grassroots issue that you have taken heart to? And if this is something you are not comfortable talking about on this FR forum... that's ok. I understand...
I’m sure that Hiliarly will be indicted and put on trial in the same week that John F’in Kerry is finally indicted for violating the Logan Act when he went to Paris to conduct private negotiations with the North Vietnamese Commies while still a naval officer.
Polygraphs are totally meaningless, though.
Bob Dole’s Vice Chairman Pleads
Guilty to Election Fraud!
Dole’s Man Caught in Election Fraud
By JOE STEPHENS Staff Writer[c]
Kansas City Star
Date: 07/10/96 22:18
A former vice chairman of Bob Dole’s presidential campaign agreed Wednesday to pay a record $6 million in fines for using workers to funnel illegal political contributions to Dole’s campaign and other political committees.
Boston businessman Simon Fireman and his company, Aqua-Leisure Industries, will plead guilty to felony charges under a plea bargain reached with federal prosecutors. The fine will be 10 times larger than the previous record in a campaign-finance case.
Prosecutors also will recommend that the 70-year-old New England millionaire spend 6 months in prison.
“This was a repeated effort to thwart the basic principles of our campaign-finance system,” said Joe Savage, the lead prosecutor.
Fireman resigned as a national vice chairman of finance for Dole last month after The Kansas City Star reported that employees at Aqua-Leisure had been repaid for their contributions to Dole. The scheme camouflaged the true source of the money - - Fireman — and circumvented federal laws that limit contributions from individuals to $1,000.
On Wednesday federal prosecutors in Boston filed 74 felony charges against Fireman, his pool-toy manufacturing company and Fireman’s executive assistant, Carol Nichols.
Current Election Fraud - Dole caught Cheating
Election Fraud History - Not the first time Dole Cheats
They charge that last year Fireman and Nichols used a Hong Kong company to channel $69,000 to their relatives and co-workers, who in turn sent individual donations to Dole’s campaign. The scheme transformed Fireman’s small company of 35 employees into perhaps the largest single identifiable source of contributions to Dole’s campaign.
Fireman and Nichols used a similar scheme to filter $24,000 to the Republican National Committee in 1992, $21,000 to George Bush’s 1992 re-election campaign and $6,000 to Joe Kennedy II’s 1993 congressional campaign.
In all, the illegal contributions totaled $120,000. Prosecutors called it one of the largest campaign money-laundering operations in U.S. history.
Fireman gave to the Dole camp in hopes of buying a high government post, said Savage, an assistant U.S. attorney in Boston.
“He was not restricting himself to an ambassadorship, but an ambassadorship was one of the options,” Savage said. “There is no evidence he communicated his desire to the Dole campaign.”
Dole and Jo-Anne Coe, his campaign finance director, apparently knew nothing about the money laundering, Savage said. But public watchdog groups noted that the scheme was similar to one engineered in the late 1980s by Dave Owen, who was the top fund-raiser for Dole’s 1988 presidential bid.
Nelson Warfield, Dole’s press secretary, said in a written statement that the campaign would transfer the illegally collected donations to the U.S. Treasury.
The plea bargain, Warfield said, “not only brought swift justice, but also underscores that the Dole campaign, which fully cooperated with the investigation, was not involved in Mr. Fireman’s pattern of improper contributions to both Republicans and Democrats....
“While we clearly would have liked to have avoided this incident, we are proud of how this matter has been handled.”
Clinton spokesman Joe Lockhart called on Dole to provide details about his personal relationship to Fireman.
“Bob Dole also needs to tell us what steps he’s taking to make sure criminal behavior no longer happens in his campaign,” Lockhart said. “There’s a serious issue of criminal activity within the Dole for President campaign.”
The plea bargain requires Fireman to plead guilty to 11 out of 74 felony counts and personally pay a fine of $1 million. The deal allows prosecutors to recommend to a judge that Fireman be sentenced to 6 months in prison.
Aqua-Leisure agreed to plead guilty to 70 felony counts and pay a fine of $5 million. Nichols plans to plead guilty to one felony charge and pay a fine of $7,500. She could be jailed for up to five years, although prosecutors agreed to recommend a less er period of home confinement.
“I am stunned at the breadth of that agreement,” said Ellen Miller, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington watchdog group.
“An agreement of this size should send a chilling effect down anybody’s spine.”
If a federal judge approves the plea, as expected, it would mark the most severe penalty ever in a campaign-finance case, experts said.
The largest previous fine apparently came earlier this year in California, when Hyundai Motor America agreed to pay $600,000. It admitted using employees to funnel illegal contributions to U.S. Rep. Jay Kim of California.
Fireman still faces investigation by the Federal Election Commission, which can levy its own fines. The largest commission penalty to date was $550,000, against Prudential Securities Inc. No criminal charges were brought.
The plea agreement also was notable for its speed, coming just 10 weeks after The Star revealed the payments. Most investigations into campaign-finance violations stretch out for years.
Fireman’s response
Aqua-Leisure workers gave sighs of relief when told of the deal. Many feared that Fireman, who has a history of filing lawsuits against adversaries, might emerge from the investigation unscathed and then seek revenge for their testimony before a Boston grand jury.
Wednesday morning Fireman met with his workers and distributed a personal memo at his plant headquarters in the outskirts of Boston.
A source close to Aqua-Leisure who attended the meeting said Fireman assured workers the fine would have no significant effect on the company.
Fireman declined to answer questions Wednesday. But in a written statement, he said he was “eager to move forward.”
“I have accepted this agreement,” Fireman said, “to end the pain and suffering of my wife, other family members, my dear friends and Aqua-Leisure and its employees.
“In addition, I cannot further endure being used as a political tool.”
His attorney, Thomas Dwyer Jr., called it “a hypertechnical case” with an oversized fine. He said Fireman would ask to serve any resulting sentence at home.
Savage, the prosecutor, responded with sarcasm: “The only thing hypertechnical here is the length Mr. Fireman went to hide the contributions. It’s hard to get it more secret than this.”
Fireman, he said, erected an elaborate scheme to disguise the source of the money.
In 1985, Fireman used his employees to set up a front company in Hong Kong named Rickwood Ltd. The company established a secret trust at a U.S. bank and then used wire transfers from Rickwood to fill it with millions of dollars.
Fireman’s employees in Boston withdrew the cash in small amounts to evade laws requiring that large cash transactions be reported to federal officials. Nichols then distributed the cash to Aqua-Leisure’s employees, its sales representatives and their families. They in turn wrote personal checks to the political campaigns.
The formal charges against Fireman include conspiracy to violate federal law, contributing in the name of another, contributing more than $1,000 to a campaign, contributing more than $25,000 in a single year and giving on behalf of a corporation.
Fireman’s scheme became public in April after The Star conducted a computer-aided study of tens of thousands of individual campaign records. The study identified an unusual pattern of giving among Aqua-Leisure employees and their families.
The Star found that persons linked to the Avon, Mass., company sent 55 checks to the Dole campaign between February and September of last year. At least 14 Aqua-Leisure workers contributed, as did 11 of their family members.
Each gift was for $1,000 — the legal maximum. And the gifts came not only from company executives, but also from secretaries, a bookkeeper, a receptionist and a warehouse manager.
Please go find anywhere where I have claimed that she will be indicted. I am trying to make her unelectable by showing her fraud. I have said it often that we will never see her in an orange jumpsuit. If you want to be negative, that is your choice, but I would rather have your help in advancing the story.
'Too late smart' here is not a good option.
Meantime, kudos to Ann Coulter who perhaps, exclusively. . .does her best to remind all; just who these people are.
excerpt of 'brave talk':
HANNITY: Why are they all afraid to mention Hillary Clinton by name when they have, you know, differences with her?
COULTER: Because if you attack Ann Coulter, you don't end up with your cat killed or your tires slashed. Or being audited by the IRS, as happened to, oh, Kathleen Wiley, Paula Jones, all the other ones who attacked the Clintons. Of course they're afraid.
HANNITY: . . .They interviewed 40 prominent Democrats, every region of the country. . . .(save for one. . .) they don't want to attack Hillary Clinton or the Clinton machine publicly. I mean, they seem to instill real fear in people.
COULTER: Right, and if you attack the Clintons publicly, make sure all your friends know that you are not planning suicide, that you're not careless when you drive a car.
Cutting edge truth. . .in cutting edge humor. . .and 'thank-you, Ann' ;^)
The value of a polygraph lies more in a person’s willingness (or unwillingness) to take one than in the results. Paul was willing to take one. That says a lot. He passed with flying colors. That says even more.
Hillary is not even willing to be asked about these incidents by the press, much less submit to a polygraph.
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Excellent assessment.
Tell that to anyone who has ever failed one.
I’m a commercial real estate broker who specializes in exchanging, consulting, and problem solving. I taught at the college level for 10 years. And, yes, I have been known to do a little writing and activism.
BREAKING HARD ON FR... But did Peter Paul pass the polygraph while picking a peck of pickled peppers?
The passing of the test simply adds more credibility.
Continued good luck on this Doug.
Typically, the boss who laundered the money through the employees is the one in trouble if the scheme if caught.
On Sept. 7 I’ll see David Kendall in the courtroom as the lying weasel presents oral arguments and tries to convince a 3-judge appellate panel that his client is not a felon.
That night, I’ll be in Temecula speaking before a California Republican Assembly group and showing our film trailer.
I’m speaking with two journalists from two major newspapers, one of who is already working on a story. The other is vetting the info and is very, very interested.
Hillary under oath is kind of like enjoying the smell of napalm in the morning. Peter has several hours of home video to show that she turned in a false declaration to the court.
So what if the Hildabast is lying while her pantsuit is on fire. This wont matter one bit. There is no doubt that the Hildabeast will be the Rat Nominee. Once that occurs, the Rat media will do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING in its power to see that she wins. You will never read about Peter Paul again...except his obituary after he either commits suicide in Fort Marcy Park or is accidentlally run over by a train while playing on the railroad tracks.
I guess your screen name says it all.
Wonderful—wake me up when this appears on the MSM.
As said above it adds credibility.
Good on ya, Doug... keep it up.
One of these straws has to break a camel’s back eventually (God willing!).
where is the msm on this???????????????
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