Posted on 08/27/2007 11:43:40 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
DALY CITY, Calif. -- One of the biggest sources of political donations to Hillary Rodham Clinton is a tiny, lime-green bungalow that lies under the flight path from San Francisco International Airport.
Six members of the Paw family, each listing the house at 41 Shelbourne Ave. as their residence, have donated a combined $45,000 to the Democratic senator from New York since 2005, for her presidential campaign, her Senate re-election last year and her political action committee. In all, the six Paws have donated a total of $200,000 to Democratic candidates since 2005, election records show.
That total ranks the house with residences in Greenwich, Conn., and Manhattan's Upper East Side among the top addresses to donate to the Democratic presidential front-runner over the past two years, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal of donations listed with the Federal Election Commission.
It isn't obvious how the Paw family is able to afford such political largess. Records show they own a gift shop and live in a 1,280-square-foot house that they recently refinanced for $270,000. William Paw, the 64-year-old head of the household, is a mail carrier with the U.S. Postal Service who earns about $49,000 a year, according to a union representative. Alice Paw, also 64, is a homemaker. The couple's grown children have jobs ranging from account manager at a software company to "attendance liaison" at a local public high school. One is listed on campaign records as an executive at a mutual fund.
The Paws' political donations closely track donations made by Norman Hsu, a wealthy New York businessman in the apparel industry who once listed the Paw home as his address, according to public records. Mr. Hsu is one of the top fund-raisers for Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign.
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Did you sign up as doug from upland?
Franklin Resources is a well known Mutual Fund house, IIRC.
Rudy did not have cancer during the last election.
Interesting. Maybe because you came from an FR link? I’ve never bothered to register there.
From Hsu’s Lawyer, who apparently has excellent access to the Paw’s “financial records.” Usually, people don’t have financial records so well prepared for some other guy’s lawyer....
“The WSJ reporter contacted Norman late last week. Norman asked me to respond to them on his behalf. I made several attempts to reach the reporter, none of which were returned until yesterday (Monday) afternoon. I told the reporter and his editor that I had reviewed the Paw’s financial records, which clearly demonstrated that they easily had the financial wherewithal to make any level of contributions.”
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/8/28/12190/3305
I’m interested in donations to Gillibrand.
The Clintons are untouchables.
HEAVY SARCASM
BTW, just tried using the state of CA's campaign finance site. What a mess. Couldn't get anything to finish downloading. But I'm wondering if at least one of the Paws made a donation to Peter Angelides. If so, what the heck did these folks live on if they weren't re-imbursed?
In hiring lawyers and lobbyists in the United States to help it deal with its problems, BCCI did not think small. BCCI's cadre of professional help in Washington, D.C. alone included, at various times a former Secretary of Defense (Clark Clifford), former Senators and Congressmen (John Culver and Michael Barnes), former federal prosecutors (Raymond Banoun, Lawrence Barcella and Lawrence Wechsler), and former Federal Reserve attorneys (Baldwin Tuttle and Jerry Hawke).
Wonder if this is Norman Hsu's lawyer, a hooked up guy....
Larry Barcella
Larry Barcella is a former Assistant US Attorney who gained national prominence for his successful prosecution of Edwin Wilson, the American convicted of selling secrets to Lybia. Barcella was brought onto the BCCI case shortly after the October 1988 indictment of BCCI in Tampa, Florida. Larry Wechsler, with whom Barcella had practiced law in the US Justice Department recruited him to coordinate the bank’s defense.
Although the full extent of Barcella’s activities on behalf of BCCI remains unknown, he did engage in the following:
— In 1988 Barcella tried to persuade his firm’s lead partner, former US Senator Paul Laxalt, meet with Swaleh Naqvi, BCCI’s CEO, in London, and to engage in lobbying on behalf of the bank on Capitol Hill. The Subcommittee has been unable to determine what, if any, services Senator Laxalt performed on behalf of BCCI.
— In 1989 and 1990 Barcella joined John Vardaman, a partner at Williams and Conolly and Robert Altman in warning Larry Gurwin, a freelance journalist writing an article about BCCI and First American Bank for Regardie’s magazine, that it would be improper to write anything that linked the two institutions. Barcella has called Gurwin’s allegations “absurd”.(1)
- In early 1990, after BCCI pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in Tampa, Florida, several members of the US Congress criticized the plea bargain as to lenient on the bank. Documents obtained by the Subcommittee show that Barcella met with Senator Dennis Deconcini, one of the critics of the plea bargain, in an effort to persuade him that BCCI was not the corrupt institution that he and others had claimed.
Most recently, of course, Barcella has been hired by the House Foreign Affairs Committee to investigate the “October Surprise”, the allegations surrounding a political deal for release of the US hostages held in Iran in 1980. On leave from the Justice Department to assist Barcella in his investigation is Greg Kehoe — the Justice Department official with whom BCCi lawyers, including Barcella, negotiated the bank’s plea agreement in Tampa.
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/17law.htm
Thanks for the ping!
Everyone's supposed to take this guy's word for it, eh?
...which clearly demonstrated that they easily had the financial wherewithal to make any level of contributions.”
Even if true, doesn't address whether it was the Paws' money to start with and/or whether they were re-imbursed.
Another non-denial denial.
For a guy who didn’t do anything wrong, Mr. Hsu sure has hired some top legal talent. Wonder where he gets the cash?
E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr. has extensive experience in every area of white-collar criminal litigation, and chairs the firm’s White Collar Corporate Defense practice. He has been involved in directing major investigations and litigation in the prosecution and/or defense of cases involving charges of bribery, ethics offenses, political corruption, fraud and government contract violations, health care fraud and abuse, securities violations, money laundering and banking offenses, tax violations, and export violations. He has represented numerous companies as well as several senior government officials and corporate officers, as well as members of corporate Board of Directors on a wide range of matters including those relating to ethical conduct and breach of fiduciary duty issues. He has also assisted numerous companies in the development and implementation of compliance policies and procedures, as well as conducting numerous internal investigations for companies. He has substantial experience with intelligence-related cases under the Classified Intelligence Procedures Act and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Additionally, Mr. Barcella received national and international recognition for matters he handled both as a prosecutor and defense attorney. Mr. Barcella also has extensive experience dealing with legal systems and officials in more than a dozen foreign countries, where his work has encompassed depositions, letters rogatory, internal investigations, treaty negotiations, extraditions, and fugitive recovery. He has represented several high profile corporate clients, including high ranking former government officials, involved in Congressional investigations and has testified before Congress on behalf of clients. His Congressional and judicial experience includes serving as Chief Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives “October Surprise” Task Force and as Special Master to two federal judges regarding sensitive law office search issues.
Mr. Barcella is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. He served in a variety of positions during 16 years there, including Deputy Chief of that Office’s elite Major Crimes Division. He was selected by the Attorney General as Senior Litigation Counsel, a position reserved for only the most experienced and qualified federal prosecutors. His handling of many complex criminal and allied civil fraud matters has brought Mr. Barcella national recognition as both a trial lawyer and skilled investigator. The many awards he has received during his career include the John Marshall Award, the United States Department of Justice’s highest award for litigation. He has lectured nationally on a wide variety of litigation-related topics. He has published articles on topics such as handling complex internal corporate investigations, joint defense agreements, and money laundering. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and a variety of federal and local courts. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and The American and District of Columbia Bar Associations, as well as the Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association’s White Collar Crime Committee of the Criminal Justice Section and the Litigation Section’s Complex Crimes Committee. Mr. Barcella is also a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Mr. Barcella received his A.B. degree from Dartmouth College in 1967 and his J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1970.
PAW, DIMPLE DALY CITY
CA 94014 09/23/2006 500.00 RESCARE/COMPUTER ADMINISTRATOR 26960523707
PAW, MARINA J DALE CITY
CA 94105 06/06/2007 2300.00 ACTUATE CORP/FINANCE 27930938414
PAW, NELSON DALY CITY
CA 94015 09/23/2006 500.00 SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTR 26960523707
PAW, VIVIAN L DALY CITY
CA 94015 06/06/2007 2300.00 N/A/HOMEMAKER 27930938414
PAW, WINKLE DALY CITY
CA 94015 06/06/2007 2300.00 NEXT COMPONENTS LTD./MANAGING DIRE 27930938415
Whoops, sorry. Paw money for Gillibrand listed above, per the FEC.
Can anyone get a line on Norman Hsu’s companies?
I can’t find a thing, except the words “apparel,” and his arguments in the past for more free trade with China.
Which brings to mind sweatshops, not that I’m suggesting he is known to have any. But it would be nice to know something about his businesses, which are all opaque, quite the odd situation for such a moneyed fellow. Most every company is accessible in some way on the ‘net, but none of his are.
Oh man...how about a little warning next time, will ya?
Now I smell like a sewer.....
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