Posted on 09/23/2007 7:43:11 AM PDT by khnyny
No phony businesses or great train escapes in this one, alas, but on the upside it’s much easier to follow the money. One HillRaiser suspected of laundering contributions through frontmen is a fluke; two is a pattern.
When Hillary Rodham Clinton held an intimate fund-raising event at her Washington home in late March, Pamela Layton donated $4,600, the maximum allowed by law, to Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign. But the 37-year-old Ms. Layton says she and her husband were reimbursed by her husband’s boss for the donations. “It wasn’t personal money. It was all corporate money,” Mrs. Layton said outside her home here. “I don’t even like Hillary. I’m a Republican.”
The boss is William Danielczyk, founder of a Washington-area private-equity firm and a major fund-raising “bundler” for Mrs. Clinton. Mrs. Layton’s gift was one of more than a dozen donations that night from people with Republican ties or no history of political giving. Mr. Danielczyk and his family, employees and friends donated a total of $120,000 to Mrs. Clinton in the days around the fund-raiser…
One person at the event was a Washington-area investor who was considering putting some money in one of Mr. Danielczyk’s ventures. The investor, a registered Republican, said he was invited by Mr. Danielczyk and a colleague who were wooing him to invest at least $125,000 in one of their companies.
The investor, who spoke on condition of anonymity, says he didn’t donate any money to Mrs. Clinton. Campaign-finance records show that the investor contributed $4,600 on March 30 to Mrs. Clinton. The reason for the discrepancy isn’t clear…
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What the Hell is this?
Where's the DOJ? They should be all over this.
Where's the FEC? They should be jumping on this with both feet.
LOL. Good questions. I’m hoping this story “gets legs”.
The FEC is a JOKE....the DoJ is a JOKE....the FBI is a JOKE....William Jefferson is chairing a COMMITTEE spending OUR money when found with $90,000.00 in his FREEZER!
“I’m hoping this story “gets legs”.”
It has them, but is trudging along oh so slowly. It’s up to us. I’ve been researching attorneys with Mo-Fo who are representing Hsu. Big Dem contributors of course, with offices in Beijing. I want to know WHO is paying for Hsu’a attorney.
Hsu’s ...sorry
Two paragraphs of particular interest are:
"He wowed one investor in Orange County, Calif., during a meeting in which he had Clinton join them "live" via videoconference. From a huge screen, the New York senator greeted Hsu warmly, and called him a 'good friend and trusted associate.' "
"Trying to impress would-be investors, he also dropped names like supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, Sen. Ted Kennedy, "Spider-Man" star Toby Maguire and movie director Steven Spielberg."
Frankly, this article doesn’t really ring true for me. It is more of the same stuff that has been written over the past week to direct all of the blame to Hsu.
“It wasn’t personal money. It was all corporate money,” Mrs. Layton said outside her home here. “I don’t even like Hillary. I’m a Republican.”
Yes, even with obvious patterns being established, the media and DOJ will ignore Hillary.
As they did for her senate election and pardongate.
Law Firms have been doing this for YEARS.
In addition consider Judges who run for office. If you make a donation to his/her campaign YOU WILL BE REPAID with a conflict attorney appointment. (ie when the public defender’s office can’t represent co defendants in a criminal case)
This “name off a tombstone” donor scam is older than chicago vote counting.
You mean Hillary is “cooking the books?” SWEET!
It just occured to me that I put this on the wrong Hsu thread. Talk about legacies that never go away...
http://www.newsmax.com/smith/clinton_donors/2007/09/24/35133.html
Excerpt:
The Clintons have been linked before to donors who used them as an access point to acquire more money, power and political favors. For example, there is the story of Roger Tamraz, a Lebanese oil financier, who was wanted by Interpol for embezzling nearly $80 million dollars from a Middle Eastern bank.
Documents from the files of Ron Brown show that Roger Tamraz was inside the Clinton administration as early as 1994 — two years before he met Bill Clinton in the White House.
In 1994 Tamraz was authorized by Bill Clinton to travel with Ron Brown on the Presidential Business development mission to Russia. The document, an unclassified March 1994 telegram to U.S. Commerce representatives in Russia, orders them to arrange meetings between Tamraz and the Russian First Deputy Minister of Fuels and Energy.
Two years later, in April 1996, Tamraz used his influence to get into the White House. National Security Council (NSC) staffers did not want Tamraz to meet the president because of his outstanding Interpol warrant on the fraud charges.
In the end Tamraz got his meeting and managed to donate over $300,000 in total to the DNC. Tamraz met with Clinton six times, including a long coffee session in April 1996. When asked by a senator if he would do it again, Tamraz replied that he would “donate $600,000” next time.
The Clintons have been linked before to donors who used them as an access point to acquire more money, power and political favors. For example, there is the story of Roger Tamraz, a Lebanese oil financier, who was wanted by Interpol for embezzling nearly $80 million dollars from a Middle Eastern bank.
Documents from the files of Ron Brown show that Roger Tamraz was inside the Clinton administration as early as 1994 — two years before he met Bill Clinton in the White House.
In 1994 Tamraz was authorized by Bill Clinton to travel with Ron Brown on the Presidential Business development mission to Russia. The document, an unclassified March 1994 telegram to U.S. Commerce representatives in Russia, orders them to arrange meetings between Tamraz and the Russian First Deputy Minister of Fuels and Energy.
Two years later, in April 1996, Tamraz used his influence to get into the White House. National Security Council (NSC) staffers did not want Tamraz to meet the president because of his outstanding Interpol warrant on the fraud charges.
In the end Tamraz got his meeting and managed to donate over $300,000 in total to the DNC. Tamraz met with Clinton six times, including a long coffee session in April 1996. When asked by a senator if he would do it again, Tamraz replied that he would “donate $600,000” next time.
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Whoops! This somehow doesn’t sound like good news for the Dems or, in particular, Hillary. If ANYTHING will bring this *itch down, it will be her insatiable GREED! Yeah, I know...they’ve gotten away with it too many times...but that’s the point. The proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back.
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