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To: Elle Bee
Two interesting facts came from Janet Reno's Injustice Dept. in the very recent weeks preceeding the Dem convention. First a large union (forive me I can't remember which union) was told it was under investigation. This prompted immediate endorsement of Al Gore. Interesting bit of blackmail in my opinion. Next, Janet Reno has said that she is considering whether to appoint a special council to look into nun-gate. This is another bit of blackmail to make sure that Al Gore does not trash Bill at the convention.
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To: Elle Bee
Bump for a nice catch.
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To: OldFriend
You are likely remembering this:
Teamster-DNC Cash Swap Trial Before USDJ Griesa SDNY To Begin October 12, 1999 Has Been Ajourned One Week -- Just Beyond AFL-CIO Convention Free Republic 10.11.99
It's the entire AFL-CIO with the exception of Hoffa ~ who incidentally just happens to to be the only holdout
What do you think is going on here?
It's all connected:
Kickback Convicts for Clinton
November 30, 1999 The Washington Times Editorial Board
In 1996 the Teamsters Union did something a little unusual for an organization that was nearly bankrupt - it gave away more than $1 million.
The money went not to the organization's dues-paying members but to liberal activist groups, the Democratic Party and, it turned out, the re-election campaign of former Teamsters President Ron Carey.
In return for the contributions, you see, the lucky recipients were supposed to return the favor by making contributions to the Carey campaign. Several did.
The idea was to circumvent federal labor laws that bar unions from spending funds on individual candidates in union elections. Earlier this month a federal district court jury in New York convicted the Teamsters' former political director, William Hamilton, of embezzlement and fraud for his part in the kickback scheme. The question now is how many others were involved in it.
On Monday, this newspaper's Jerry Seper reported that law-enforcement officials are pressing U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White to seek indictments against high-ranking union and political officials, including some close to President Clinton.
Possible targets include former Teamsters head Ron Carey, AFL-CIO official Richard Trumka, former White House deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes and top Clinton fund-raiser Terry McAuliffe.
Mr. McAuliffe, readers may recall, was the man who just happened to have $1.35 million on hand when President and Mrs. Clinton initially came up a little short on the down payment for their new house in Chappaqua, N.Y. In the ensuing uproar over his part in the purchase, Mr. McAuliffe had to withdraw his generous assistance.
Mr. McAuliffe is also the man identified in the trial of William Hamilton who tried to get the Democratic Party in on the Teamsters kickback scheme.
Former Carey fund-raiser Martin Davis, who had already pleaded guilty for his own part in the scheme, testified that he told Mr. McAuliffe the union could be very good to the Democrats if they could find someone to contribute to the Carey campaign. Mr. McAuliffe appears to have gotten the message.
Former I>Democratic National Committee (DNC) finance director Richard Sullivan testified that the Clinton fund-raiser urged the party to find a big donor for the Carey campaign.
"Terry would generally say, `By the way, I still think we can get a large amount of contributions from the Teamsters if you can help find the donor," Mr. Sullivan testified.
The Clinton-Gore campaign subsequently sent over a list of state Democratic parties to which the Teamsters should contribute, and the union actually made as much as $236,000 in donations as requested, for which Mr. McAuliffe received credit from the DNC. The deal collapsed and the Teamsters contributions ended when Democrats were unable to find a big donor for the Carey campaign.
It wasn't for lack of trying.
The DNC found a woman willing to give $100,000 to Mr. Carey, but, alas, she was foreign, and U.S. law prohibited her from making the donation.
McAuliffe attorney Richard Ben-Veniste denies any wrongdoing on his client's part, saying that he never encouraged anyone to make such a deal, nor did the fund-raiser do so himself.
Evidently Mr. McAuliffe's old friends at the DNC and the Teamsters don't agree.
If it takes a court case to resolve the differences here, U.S. Attorney White should be ready to pursue it.
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If this story ever gets 'traction' the crowd could turn ugly.
Bill Hamilton was Planned Parenthood's 'on the Hill' lobbyist before Ca$h & Carey - Michael Ansera was the head of Harvard SDS in the 60's (the have snagged fellow travelers Paul & Heather Booth & Ira Arlook amongst others in this cash-swap [read embezzlement] scam, as well as the head of every major labor union that rushed to support and endorse ALGORE).
Searchable DNC/Teamsters Trial Testimony Online at the Republican National Committee's web site.
Gore Fundraisers, Union Cronies McAuliffe, McEntee and Trumka Implicated;
Nicholson: 'So Much for 'No Legal Violations'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- On the same day that Al Gore's toughest union lieutenants, Richard Trumka and Gerald McEntee, are organizing a mass rally following Gore's debate in Iowa with Bill Bradley, Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson announced today that he has put the entire 3,000-page transcript of the federal trial of ex-Teamsters Political Director William Hamilton on the "Gore Files" of the RNC's website, http://www.rnc.org .
The testimony implicates both Trumka and McEntee -- as well as Gore fundraiser Terry McAuliffe -- as participants in an illegal campaign money-laundering scheme during the 1996 election cycle.
"With Al Gore claiming there were 'no legal violations' in the 1996 election cycle, Americans can now judge for themselves whether he's telling the truth -- or whether this is another case of the Vice President's imagination getting away with him," Nicholson said.
"This sworn testimony convicted Ron Carey's number-two man at the Teamsters of 6 counts of conspiracy, fraud, embezzlement and perjury, and it implicates Al Gore's principal fundraiser, Terry McAuliffe, and his toughest union lieutenants, Richard Trumka and Gerald McEntee."
Hamilton, who was Teamsters' Political Director under disgraced former-President Ron Carey, faces up to 30 years in prison, plus fines of $1 million. His sentencing is scheduled for February 29, 2000.
Sworn testimony and exhibits in the trial tell the story of how McAuliffe, Trumka and McEntee were among those who helped carry out the illegal contribution swap schemes.
The transcript of the testimony, Nicholson said, "will be fully searchable, allowing online users to quickly and conveniently access portions of the transcript by witness, word or date the testimony occurred."
Nicholson said that the RNC will permit other groups and web pages to link directly to the testimony, "so that this incredible story gets the attention it deserves -- attention the elite media has denied it."
SOURCE Republican National Committee
******** See one of John Fund's editorial THE WALL STREET OURNAL. ------->> Gore's Guys
Please take a moment to thank WSJ.'s Editor, Bob Bartley, and the Writers at THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. for covering a story no one else wanted to cover and driving a case no one wanted to try, with a quick EMAIL <<<-----click here.
Freepers have made a difference here before and they can again.
DNC - Teamster Scandal's Scope Widens The Washington Times by Jerry Seper 11.28.99
Labor Pains from the far left Boston Phoenix December 20, 1999
Of Guns and Goons WALL STREET JOURNAL. Editorial 11.26.99
Laboring Against America RISING TIDE the RNC magazine's current issue by Michael Moroney
The Company He Keeps by Michael Kelly in the Washington Compost 11.24.99
The Teamsters Case NY Times editorial 11.23.99
Ms. White's Conviction WALL STREET JOURNAL. Editorial 11.22.99
Teamsters Seek Further Probe Of Fund Raising After Conviction WALL STREET JOURNAL. 11.22.99 by Glenn Burkins
Big Media's Silence on Hamilton Trial Pittsburgh Review-Tribune Editorial 11.19.99
Teamsters: Who Else Conspired? The Detroit News 11.23.99 editorial
DNC Co-Conspirator's Conviction 'Just the Beginning' Republican National Committee press release 11.19.99
Witness Says Clinton Friend Had Part in Teamster Money Scheme NYT 11.18.99 by S. Greenhousegas
Swap Schemes: Campaign Finance on Trial THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Editorial Page 11.15.99 by Micah Morrison WSJ. Editorial Page Writer THIS Byline piece drove the reluctant press corps and was the subject of a mistrial motion by Hamilton's defense. USDJ SDNY The Hon. Thomas Grisa said in denying the motion, that he thought the piece was accurate and well balanced. He's right.
A Campaign-Finance Trial WALL STREET JOURNAL Editorial 11.8.99
Trial of Teamster Ex-Aide to Begin; Other Union Officials Await Impact> The WALL STREET JOURNAL by Glenn Burkins 10.20.99
Nicholson to Reno: No Plea Bargain for Teamsters' Hamilton; 'The Facts Must Come Out About Hamilton and His Unindicted DNC Co-Conspirators' Republican National Committee 10.12.99
The Trumpka Card WALL STREET JOURNAL. Editorial 10.12.99 THIS Editorial drove this case to trial.
Teamster-DNC Cash Swap Trial Before USDJ Griesa SDNY To Begin October 12, 1999 Has Been Ajourned One Week -- Just Beyond AFL-CIO Convention Free Republic 10.11.99
Hoekstra Committee's Report US House of Representatives
Here's a cornerstone piece from over a year ago by Michael
Leedeen
The White House Joins the
Teamsters The American Spectator October 1998 by Michael Ledeen
Jerry Seper's front page story in the Washington Times of October 28, 1996 Teamster Slush Fund
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The cast of characters in this stink bomb is amazing, and a reason that this story should not be allowed to drop into a black hole.
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To: Elle Bee
bump
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To: Elle Bee
I hereby give you 4.7 attaboys(or girl as the case may be)
Attaboy
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Attab!
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To: Elle Bee
Nice work.
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To: Elle Bee
Thanks, I am forwarding this link to my brother-in-law who is the only person I know who admits to voteing for this bunch of thieves.
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To: Howie
Here's a better link to:
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To: Elle Bee
Much of this corruption has been going on for as long as I can remember. We used to get an Attorney General occasionally who would jump in and imprison some of the kingpins, but I don't see that happening in the near future?
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To: Howie
Now they use the AG & the DOJ to shake the unions down for campaign cash and manpower
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To: Howie
Larry Klayman for AG!
I wish.
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To: Elle Bee
Absolutely outstanding body of work, El. BUMP!
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To: Clinton's a liar
Remember this when you see old SDS-er Jerry McEntee (AFSCME) & Sweeney speak in prime time at this week's DNC convention
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To: Lady In Blue
BUMP
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To: *clintonscandals
17 Posted on 11/04/2001 16:36:27 PST by backhoe
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18 Posted on 01/18/2002 13:55:38 PST by a-whole-nother-box-of-pandoras
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To: Elle Bee
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19 Posted on 01/18/2002 14:19:01 PST by backhoe
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20 Posted on 01/18/2002 17:09:01 PST by carenot
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To: Elle Bee
I was there. He didn't apologize, not even to Web Hubbell.
21 Posted on 01/18/2002 17:15:09 PST by Clarity
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22 Posted on 01/18/2002 17:38:30 PST by backhoe
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23 Posted on 01/18/2002 20:40:32 PST by GOPJ
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24 Posted on 01/18/2002 20:40:44 PST by GOPJ
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To: GOPJ
I had those articles pinned to the door of my shop/office during my Wrecker Service days- the only problem was few people saw them! The ones who did read them were not favorably impressed.
25 Posted on 01/19/2002 03:07:45 PST by backhoe
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To: backhoe
Oh how wrong they were.....
26 Posted on 01/19/2002 03:48:40 PST by PogySailor
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27 Posted on 01/19/2002 03:57:29 PST by Senator Pardek
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28 Posted on 01/19/2002 04:04:18 PST by backhoe
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