Posted on 09/13/2007 11:43:01 PM PDT by doug from upland
MSNBC WEIGHS IN: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/14/361650.aspx
Oh-eight (D): SEIU about to endorse? Posted: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:05 AM by Mark Murray
Categories: Democrats, 2008
CLINTON: Perhaps this was inevitable, but the Wall Street Journal takes a look at the fundraising controversy that shadowed Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign. “Clinton’s entanglement with a thrice-convicted felon named Peter Paul is proof of how long campaign-finance problems can haunt a public official. Mr. Paul became a problem for Mrs. Clinton when his criminal past became public shortly after he helped organize and finance a gala Hollywood fund-raiser for her in August 2000. Rather than drift away, Mr. Paul has been on the attack against Mrs. Clinton ever since. In a lawsuit in California state court that has been grinding along for years, Mr. Paul accuses Mrs. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton of deceiving him into spending well over $1 million on the fund-raiser for her Senate campaign. Mr. Paul contends the Clintons obtained the money by falsely promising that Mr. Clinton would become Mr. Paul’s business associate after leaving the White House in January 2001. Mr. Paul also maintains that Mrs. Clinton and her campaign violated federal election law in connection with the fund-raiser.”
The Clintons have denied any wrongdoing.
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Norman Hsu, who was on the run from sentencing in a 15-year-old, $1 million fraud case in California, is at the center of two more sets of allegations, one involving $40 million in New York and another involving $33 million in California.
Hsu’s attorney dismissed the new information as “rank hearsay” during a hearing on Thursday.
Mesa County District Attorney Pete Hautzinger told Mesa County Judge Bruce Raaum of the allegations surrounding Hsu as he sought a $50 million bond for Hsu, a high-flying fundraiser for top-level Democrats until last week.
Raaum set bond at $5 million.
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ROFL/.....Lovely!
Bump!!!
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Reading back through some (hours)older threads - Peter’s life story sounds like a Hollywood script itself! Who has movie rights? :o)
It has indeed been quite a remarkable life. If he can stop Hillary, I want the movie rights. :)
DFU! You magnificent bastard!
Thank you!
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