Posted on 09/09/2007 2:35:10 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Sant S. Chatwal, an Indian American businessman, has helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaigns, even as he battled governments on two continents to escape bankruptcy and millions of dollars in tax liens. The founder of the Bombay Palace restaurant chain, Chatwal is one of a growing number of fundraisers in the 2008 presidential campaign whose backgrounds have prompted questions about how much screening the candidates devote to their "bundlers" while they press to raise record amounts.
Chatwal's case reached from his native India to New York City. The IRS pursued him for approximately $4 million in unpaid business taxes, while New York state placed a lien seeking more than $5 million in taxes. He forfeited a building to New York City on which he was delinquent on property taxes and was sued by federal regulators seeking to recoup millions of dollars in loans from a failed bank where he served as a director.
Across the ocean, three Indian banks forced him into U.S. bankruptcy, and he was charged with bank fraud. He was out on bond when he showed up in India in 2001 during a visit by his longtime friend Bill Clinton.
Yet none of the legal and financial woes -- occasionally touched on in American or Indian newspapers or highlighted by political opponents -- raised red flags inside Hillary Clinton's fundraising operation. Chatwal recently said he plans to help raise $5 million from Indian Americans for Clinton's presidential bid.
Asked whether anything in Chatwal's background caused concerns about his activities on behalf of the campaign, Clinton spokesman Phil Singer answered, "No." He declined last week to be more specific, saying only that major fundraisers are routinely vetted "through publicly available records."
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“Clinton spokesman Phil Singer answered, “No.” He declined last week to be more specific”
Next weeks headline:
Clinton Spokesman resigns because he never vetted Sen. Cliton’s contributers.
The week after’s headliine:
Former Clinton Spokesman Phil Singer killed in one car accdent.
Isn't Vikram Sant's son? Pardaman any relation, anyone know?
Ruh Roh!
When it rains it pours.
I hope she doesn’t melt.
ANY and ALL people near the Clintons are DIRTY!!! The Clintons are DIRTY and DIRTY people LOVE THEM!!
Obviously Phil Singer is in the DIRTY CIRCLE of CLINTONOIDS.....he WON”T be ARKANCIDED.
Isn’t there ANOTHER Tsx Cheat Fundraiser for the Clintons besides this guy, and HSu....is his name SHEN??? or CHEN??
Not until he agrees to ake the fall to protect Queen Hillary. Then a radio will fall into hisbathtub to make sure Mr. Singer does not.....Sing.
What a surprise. But they had absolutely no idea. None. Nada. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Her friggin majesty didn’t know that Slick was having his general and two colonels slobbered on in the White House. RIDICULOUS!!!!!!
Having crooks donate illegal money is NEVER a problem with the Clinton Campaign.
The credit reports which can be punched up by any salesman in a plaid sport coat and chewing on a toothpick, would reveal those things. Is the entire staff of Hillary! for Senator-President-Queen less competent than the entire staff of every car dealership in the known universe?
Nope. The only logical conclusion is that Hillary! and her henchmen don't give the least particle of a tinker's dam about the legitimacy of her major donors. If the body's warm, and the check is good, they're in like Flynn.
Congressman Billybob
Latest article, "Support the National Party of the United Race?"
Not just the Toons....
There seems to be no one associated with a Clinton that isn’t a crook.
Do people really want a crook for President again?
I hope this bozo didn’t donate to any Republicans. If he did, it would send the MSM into another feeding frenzy. With Slick Willie’s wife, it’s no big deal. Crooks, thieves and swindlers are expected to finance DemocRATS trying to get elected.
Ask yourself the following question:
WHY DOES HILARY ATTRACT THIS TYPE OF CROWD??
Great comment, John.
Chatwal is the president of the boutique division of his father’s company, as well as “creative consultant.” But it’s strictly a day job. He’s also a Bollywood actor, better known for dating Gisele—he got a G tattooed on his arm—and hitting New York nightclubs in a red or white turban with P. Diddy and Naomi Campbell.
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