Posted on 09/17/2003 8:38:32 AM PDT by jmstein7
Peter Paul is back in the United States. If you don't know who is is, read this from Newsmax on September 7th, and then read on to find out how YOU can help finish off the Clinton's once and for all:
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The Bush administration has quietly done an about-face on allegations that New York Sen. Hillary Clinton broke campaign finance laws in 2000 - with the Justice Department preparing to extradite one-time Clinton fund-raiser Peter Paul to the U.S. as part of a plea deal for his testimony.
Facing charges of stock fraud in the U.S. himself, Paul told reporters in 2001 that Sen. Clinton failed to report $2 million in in-kind contributions to her 2000 Senate campaign - expenses he incurred producing a gala August 2000 fundraiser-tribute to Bill and Hillary in Los Angeles.
Upon his indictment in June 2001 Paul fled to Brazil, where he was promptly arrested by local law enforcement. He has languished in jail there ever since, trying through his lawyers at Judicial Watch to arrange a plea bargain in exchange for his testimony against the New York Democrat.
In a troubling development, Paul was relocated last month to Brazil's maximum-security state penitentiary in Brasilia, where he was placed in the infamous Block F, also known as the "Corridor of Death."
Judicial Watch complained to the Justice Department last week that Paul's life was now in danger. The group's president, Tom Fitton, warned that 16 prisoners have been killed in Block F in the last year alone and that Americans are not very popular among Brazil's most hardened inmates.
"He's already been threatened," Fitton told the New York Post on Sunday.
"It's a mystery why Paul remained in a Brazil jail even after that country's Supreme Court decided he should be extradited last December," the paper noted. "After that, Fitton says he continually pressured officials at the U.S. Embassy to fetch Paul, but they told him they needed 'official' notice from the Brazilian foreign minister before they could do so."
When official notice finally came in mid-August, however, authorities didn't release Paul. Instead he was transferred to the Brasilia lockup while U.S. authorities declined yet again to intercede on his behalf.
But now, apparently fearing a repeat of what happened to key to Whitewater witness James McDougal, the Bush Justice Department has turned on a dime.
McDougal's testimony was to be the basis for an indictment of Mrs. Clinton in 1998. But he died in prison after guards confiscated his heart medication and threw him into solitary confinement, where he suffred cardiac arrest.
The sudden action on Paul's case comes just weeks after reports surfaced that former Hollywood fund-raiser Aaron Tonken has supplied damaging testimony about Hillary Clinton's fund-raising practices.
"I'm a star witness against President and Mrs. Clinton," Tonken claimed in a recent report on his case in Vanity Fair magazine, explaining that prosecutors wanted his testimony about" "fundraising activities that I've done on behalf of the Clintons."
The exact nature of Tonken's allegations against Sen. Clinton remains secret, the magazine said. But the celebrity moneyman is known to have been involved in the August 2000 fund raiser that is at the heart of Peter Paul's allegations.
Paul's extradition to the U.S. is set for Sept. 12 - "if he lives that long," says the Post.
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Well, he lived that long, and now he is back in the USA.
EVERYONE call Judicial Watch (I already have), and tell them to get on this one immediately! The more people who call, the more pressure, the quicker and more effectively they will act.
The CORRECT number (not the number you find on their site) is:
202-646-5172
That is not the contribution number, it is their actual Washington office number. Again, it is:
202-646-5172
Call them and tell them:
1) To put out a more detailed press release
2) To hop to it and start proceeding with the rest of the case
3) To look for bookings on major news shows (I bet O'Reilly would be up for this one -- he HATES Hillary)
202-646-5172
The faster we do this, the faster we get rid of Hillary. Now, I know that there are doubters who will no doubt post doom-and-gloom replies about how it is not worth bothering and how CLinton will somehow manage to slide, but that is absolute defeatist nonesense not becomeing FR members.
If we don't act at all, we can be assured that nothing will be done. Inaction is not an option. Call now!
I just spoke with them, and unfortunately, Peter Paul has not yet been extradited. They are working as hard as they possibly can. The man I spoke to said that it was "in a lot of people's best interests that we get him back here A.S.A.P."
I've read sources saying that he has, now. I might've heard the lawyer wrong, but I'm pretty sure I didn't. You guys let me know what you find out.
Amen to that ... as a former contributor to JW I finally gave up on them (about 3 years ago) because the hype far exceeded their results.
I'm not sure. That's why I wrote "perhaps"...
Hillary, of course, belongs 90 miles south of Florida.
Okay; thanks. I need a CT scan.
Against Clinton personally? 43 that I count with no victories. Add another 50 or so against the administration (FBI IRS. etc) with 0 victories. Klayman is a pathetic schieter. He will will an injunction here or there and thinks he's won the war. In reality he's as effective as a enuich with a lifetime perscription of viagra!
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