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Dear Heart GiovannaNicoletta, et al . . . It occurs to me I might should comment yet again but in a bit of a different way on a recurring feature of these fun threads . . . 1. I can't think of a single FREEPER I don't greatly care for and wouldn't be willing to die for, if God called me to do so. 2. Of course, for some of us, living with one another can be more difficult than dying for one another! LOL. However, on that score, too, I find the tableau of individual personalities hereon very...

(IsraelNN.com) Iranian anti-regime activists are hoping for an Israeli technological hand to help them fight the Islamic Republic. As of now, hundreds of protesters have been killed by the regime, which is evidently using Arabic-speaking armed thugs from Hizbullah to help perpetrate the violence. "Dear Israeli Brothers and Sisters," writes Iranian dissident Arash Irandoost, "Iran needs your help more than ever now. And we will be eternally grateful

A mysterious sighting in Washington County has area officials and residents bewildered, bemused and amused. A man contracted by the Department of Natural Resources to pick up road kill came to the Washington County Sheriff’s Department to report a 7-foot-tall “animal” had taken a deer out of the back of his pickup truck at about 1 a.m. Thursday, Sheriff Brian Rahn said. According to the report, the man loaded a deer carcass into the back of his truck on Highway 167 near Station Way, got into the cab and prepared to drive away when a large black animal, very wide...

www.HillCAP.org INTRO and EPISODES 1-10 11- $2,000 Returned, We Keep the 2 Mil, Meet Bill on AF One with More 12 – Hillary’s Laundromat at 88 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY NOTE: This is the 13th episode in a series of stories regarding the events surrounding Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Hollywood fundraiser, and the business relationship of entrepreneur Peter Paul, the impeached William Jefferson Clinton, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, perpetrator of the largest campaign finance fraud in the history of Western civilization. In 1985, Sally Field won her second Academy Award in five years for her work on Places in the...

Listen While You Freep! All programs are replayed for 23 hours and again on weekends so tune in when it’s convenient for YOU! Call In Number - 866-884-TALK (8255) Heating the EDGE of a New Media! 1pm EST - Hillary Clinton's campaign pals and fundraisers are being indicted and going to jail in record numbers; yet you would not know it by the mainstream media coverage. Well you'll hear about them here. Newsweek has once again reinforced what many already knew -- fair and accurate reporting is an oxy-moron when it comes to them. Joining me today for a forthright,...

SHREDDED REVIEWSThe CBS News panel that performed the independent review of the "60 Minutes Wednesday" report on President George Bush's National Guard record destroyed almost all of the working drafts of the report that former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and former Associated Press President Louis Boccardi worked on and reviewed over the past six weeks. Those drafts would be interesting to review, if only to see the evolution of positions the pair took on the forged documents, as well as the varying stories presented by the four CBS employees identified by Thornburgh and Boccardi as the key individuals in the...

'His way,' exposed Sunday, January 16, 2005 WASHINGTON -- The adage about these being "the best of times and the worst of times" could not be truer as we await the second inauguration on Thursday of President George W. Bush. We read in the papers about the destruction of wonderful coastal villages and towns in Asia together with a mind-shattering loss of lives by a series of tsunamis. Then we read moronic nonsense of how the Democrats in Congress attempted to derail the electoral results in Ohio and deny Bush the presidency using a 1877 ruling. On the positive side,...

LOS ANGELES - As the trial of a top fund-raising official on Senator Clinton's 2000 campaign got under way in federal court here yesterday, the judge hearing the case vowed not to allow the proceedings to become a referendum on Mrs. Clinton, her politics, or her personal life. "This isn't a trial about Senator Clinton," Judge A. Howard Matz said, as lawyers discussed written questionnaires filled out by potential jurors in the case. "Senator Clinton has no stake in this trial as a party or a principal. ... She's not going to be a witness," the judge said. David Rosen,...

RUSH: You know, there is a trial that started yesterday. I don't know if you people have heard about this, because the media would much rather talk about what's going on with Tom DeLay, but the criminal trial of David Rosen, a former staffer of Senator Clinton began yesterday, but who would know? "Certainly," as the Investor's Business Daily editorial today says, "not a public that's been swamped with news of representative Tom DeLay's troubles. But what laws has DeLay broken and what laws has he been accused of breaking? While it's not possible to answer the former with any...

Potential jurors in the trial of Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign finance chief were asked yesterday about their politics and their opinions about New York's junior senator. Clinton is not on trial - or accused of knowing of any misdeeds - but she was all over the 16-page questionnaire given to the jury pool. The potential jurors were asked if they had any strong feelings about her and whether they had heard of any wrongdoing in her 2000 campaign for Senate. The Los Angeles court also wanted to know what the jurors' politics were, if they had ever worked for a...

LOS ANGELES, May 11 - Before Hillary Rodham Clinton's former chief fund-raiser went on trial here for underreporting donations to her Senate campaign, political speculation has revolved around what if anything Mrs. Clinton knew about his alleged transgressions, as well as what if anything the trial would do to her presidential aspirations (assuming she has them). A federal prosecutor tried to answer at least one of those questions in his opening statement on Wednesday in Federal District Court, when he told the jury, "You will hear no evidence that Hillary Clinton was involved in any way, shape or form." Indeed,...

LOS ANGELES - As the trial of the top fund-raiser on Senator Clinton's 2000 campaign, David Rosen, opened in federal court here yesterday, a prosecutor accused Mr. Rosen of "deliberately lying" about fund-raising costs to maximize the campaign's financial flexibility in the final weeks before the election. Mr. Rosen, 40, is facing three felony counts of causing the filing of false campaign finance reports in connection with a celebrity-laden gala fund-raising concert held in Los Angeles on August 12, 2000. He has pleaded not guilty. In his opening statement, prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg said the $1,000-a-ticket concert came at a critical...

Hillary Rodham Clinton's former chief fund-raiser flew into a panic as costs for a star-studded Hollywood gala spiraled out of control — with coddled celebs making outrageous demands...... Former Clinton finance chief David Rosen was authorizing checks so quickly that he feared he'd be fired over the Aug. 12, 2000, extravaganza...... ......Cher, Melissa Etheridge, Toni Braxton, Diana Ross and Michael Bolton agreed to perform for free, but that didn't come cheap...... Several wanted private jets — including Cher, who specified the exact model. Others were content with first-class plane tickets, but wanted their entourages, including hairdressers and makeup artists. It...

Ex-president Bill Clinton might be called to testify at the trial of his wife's one-time finance director, David Rosen, Rosen's lawyer said Wednesday. Judge A. Howard Matz announced on Tuesday that Sen. Hillary Clinton would not be called to testify in the case, despite allegations by two key witnesses that she was complicit in Rosen's crimes. But Rosen's lawyer, Paul Mark Sandler, asked Judge Matz not to announce that Mr. Clinton wouldn't be called. In a brief exchange Wednesday morning, Sandler asked the judge not to tell the jury that Bill Clinton would not testify, the New York Times said....

A former strip club owner and close personal friend of ex-President Clinton has flipped on Hillary Clinton's finance chairman, David Rosen, testifying for the prosecution against Rosen on Thursday in a surprise move sure to cause consternation in the Clinton camp. Levin spent the night at the White House at least twice in 2000. Now a fence company executive, the government witness contributed $1 million to Clinton's presidential library. "He wasn't particularly political before I became president," Mr. Clinton said in 2000, speaking of Levin to a New Jersey fundraiser. "[But] we got to be very close," he added. The...

In a stunning development in the criminal trial of David Rosen in Los Angeles, whistleblower Peter Paul has said that he believes Andrew Grossman committed perjury in his testimony. It was Grossman's job to take the campaign info and make the official filings to the FEC. On the stand, Grossman claimed that he never before heard of an event costing a million dollars. Paul says that such is not true. On June 18, 2001, Grossman was served with a civil suit by Paul. Paul gave him details and copies of checks to advise him on the cost of the event....

HILL AIDE'S FUND TRIAL DEBUGGED By KENNETH LOVETT May 18, 2005 -- LOS ANGELES — In a courthouse shocker, Sen. Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law won't be asked about a conversation he secretly recorded for the FBI when he testifies today against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's former chief fund-raiser, a prosecutor revealed yesterday. "The government does not intend to introduce the tape or elicit any testimony about that conversation," federal prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg told a judge before the trial of ex-Clinton fund-raiser David Rosen resumed yesterday after a four-day break. While Zeidenberg did not mention Kennedy's brother-in-law, Ray Reggie, by name, he...

In a surprise move that shocked even the judge at the trial of Hillary's Clinton's former finance director, David Rosen - prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg announced yesterday that he would not introduce the government's strongest evidence that Rosen was guilty - the Hillary aide's own tape recorded admission implicating him in election fraud. "The government does not intend to introduce the tape or elicit any testimony from the witness about that conversation," Zeidenberg told Judge A. Howard Matz. Judge Matz was stunned by Zeidenberg's announcement, and hinted that the Bush prosecutor was throwing away his case. "You couldn't keep [the tape]...

Planner says ex-Hillary Clinton aide hid costs of fundraiser LOS ANGELES The trial of Hillary Clinton's former national finance director continued today in Los Angeles with an event planner testifying she was ordered by David Rosen to obtain a fake invoice connected to a Hollywood fundraising gala. Bretta Nock told jurors that Rosen told her to get a 200-thousand dollar invoice for the concert portion of the celebrity bash, when the actual costs were much higher. Rosen has pleaded not guilty to three charges of filing false financial statements connected with Clinton's 2000 Senate run. He's accused of under-reporting donations...

From the U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California, I received info from a source regarding the David Rosen trial. By now, most of you know that the Rosen trial is about his criminal involvement in the biggest campaign finance fraud case in history. Some people are pretending that Hillary Clinton had no involvement in the phony reporting to the FEC regarding her 2000 senate campaign. IN THIS EPISODE, we learned that Gary Smith, the concert producer for the 2000 Hollywood Gala, met at Le Dome restaurant with Peter Paul, Aaron Tonken, and David Rosen for lunch. They discussed Smith's...

Peter Paul, the whistleblower who threatens to derail Hillary Clinton's presidential bid, will be interviewed by Frank Beckmann on Thursday, May 5 at 10:30 am Eastern. Beckmann is on WJR, the ABC radio affiliate in Detroit. LISTEN ONLINE: CLICK. Paul made appearances on Wednesday with Tony Snow and Sean Hannity. The interviews were in-depth and did an excellent job of explaining Hillary Clinton's problem with her Hollywood fundraiser put on by Paul in 2000. Had Hillary's campaign finance director David Rosen reported accurately to the FEC, it would have cost her dearly in hard money and threatened her campaign with...

FReepers, as the criminal activity regarding the Hillary Clinton 2000 fundraiser starts to heat up, we need your help. The website HillCAP.org was launched two days ago and announced the Hillary Clinton Accountability Project. We are working on the project from many angles. David Rosen goes to trial this month, Peter Paul continues his civil suit against Bill and Hillary, and we are going to use talk radio and the internet to get out the message. We need some help. Millions and millions of people saw the very funny songs/graphics produced by JibJab. Does anyone out there have the ability...

Former Hollywood mogul Peter Paul is planning to produce a "Fahrenheit 9/11"-style documentary detailing his election fraud allegations against New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. Asked about whether the rumored project was true, Paul told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity: "Absolutely. I've got four hours of home video and other video that will be very illuminating to the public." The leading Clinton accuser, whose testimony formed the basis for the indictment of Sen. Clinton's campaign finance chairman earlier this year, says his relationship with the first family was "intense" for about six months. But he told Hannity that he had "interacted...

A top fund-raising official on Senator Clinton's campaign, David Rosen, plans to defend himself against federal felony charges by arguing that he was tricked by two "self-confessed 'con men'" involved in planning an August 2000 fund-raiser. Mr. Rosen, a Chicago political consultant, faces trial in Los Angeles next week on an indictment alleging that he caused the filing of false campaign finance reports that understated the cost of the star-studded gala by $500,000 or more. In a motion filed Tuesday, Mr. Rosen's lawyers disclosed that they plan to claim that their client was deceived by a businessman who was the...

Here is the link to a story about the Hillary Clinton fundraising scandal of 2000 that appeared yesterday. Peter Paul has demanded a correction. TIMES PICAYUNE STORY -- CLICK. Your article in the New Orleans Times Picayune May 7, 2005http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1115447139105270.xml I take issue with the following quotes: "As his civil case loses ground in court, Paul has seen his legal problems mount." ..a meritless civil suit brought by Peter paul, and have succeeded in having most of that suit dismissed." If you will review the narrative on www.hillcap.org, you will see the facts surrounding the progress of Paul v Clinton...

<p>NOTE: This is the 11th episode in a series of stories regarding the events surrounding Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Hollywood fundraiser, and the business relationship of entrepreneur Peter Paul, the impeached William Jefferson Clinton, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, perpetrator of the largest campaign finance fraud in the history of Western civilization.</p>

INTRO AND EPISODES 1-10 No. 11 - $2,000 Returned, We Keep the 2 Mil, Meet Bill on AF One with More NOTE: This is the 12th episode in a series of stories regarding the events surrounding Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Hollywood fundraiser, and the business relationship of entrepreneur Peter Paul, the impeached William Jefferson Clinton, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, perpetrator of the largest campaign finance fraud in the history of Western civilization. The address is 88 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. It is not unfair to describe it as a laundromat, although the personnel inside the property would probably disagree....

The Inquisition welcomes Peter Paul, the man who was the largest financial contributor to Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign. After the Clinton campaign failed to either declare or repay his multi-million dollar expenses, Paul filed suit against the Clintons. Paul's evidence formed the basis for the ongoing trial of Clinton finance director David Rosen on 3 felony counts, carrying a possible penalty of 15 years in the slammer. We'll ask Peter Paul what Hillary knew, and when she knew it.

Listen While You Freep! All programs are replayed for 23 hours and again on weekends so tune in when it’s convenient for YOU! Call In Number - 866-884-TALK (8255) Heating the EDGE of a New Media! 1pm EST - "THE BUZZ CUT:" The military voice libs love to hate. Buzz is back from assignment with another great and jam-packed hour of talk. Why does the elite media hate the military? Buzz has the answers. Also, Professor Tom Woods, author of 'How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization' joins Buzz. Ask anyone about their views of the Catholic Church and they...

Peter F. Paul writes Senator Hillary Clinton Posted by Senior Editor on 2005/2/26 1:17:22 Senator Hillary Clinton U.S.Senate Washington, DC Via Hand Delivery Dear Hillary: It is with profound regret and extreme disappointment that I am forced to write this letter to you reminding you of your responsibility as a Federal elected official to comply with the laws and regulations of the United States that you have sworn to defend and protect, and as a citizen, the same laws and regulations that govern your individual conduct. As you are personally aware, in May, 2000, I was induced by your National...

Ex-Stan Lee Chief Paul to Plead in Securities Case Mon Mar 7, 2005 05:20 PM ET By Gina Keating LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Stan Lee Media co-founder Peter Paul said on Monday that he would plead guilty to a federal securities charge. However, Paul said the plea was not part of an agreement to cooperate with prosecutors probing alleged campaign finance violations by Sen. Hillary Clinton's staff. Paul told Reuters he would plead guilty on Tuesday in New York federal court to one count of manipulating the share price of Stan Lee Media, an online entertainment company he founded with...

LINK TO VIEW THE INDICTMENT Hillary Campaign Finance Director Indicted Rosen charged with fudging numbers for 2000 Hollywood fundraiser JANUARY 7--The finance director for Hillary Clinton's 2000 U.S. Senate campaign was indicted today on federal charges of filing bogus financial reports with the Federal Election Commission. According to the below indictment, David Rosen reported the false numbers in connection with a "Hollywood tribute" honoring Clinton. Investigators allege that a "wealthy individual" paid more than $1.1 million to underwrite the Clinton gala and that those payments were delivered through "several corporate entities controlled by him." While that whopping sum should...

Sen. Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law, who pled guilty to bank fraud charges yesterday in New Orleans, secretly tape recorded former top Hillary Clinton campaign aide David Rosen - and may have taped Hillary herself - as part of an FBI probe into an Aug. 12, 2000 gala fundraiser for Mrs. Clinton's Senate campaign. Ray Reggie, the brother of Kennedy's wife Victoria Reggie, was identified by prosecutors yesterday as the confidential witness who had been cooperating with investigators for three years as part of his bank fraud plea bargain. "I wasn't sure if anybody made any of these connections yet or not,"...

INTRO EPISODE 1 EPISODE 2 Note: this is the third episode in a series of stories regarding the events surrounding the 2000 Fundraiser and the business relationship of entrepreneur Peter Paul, William Jefferson Clinton, and Hillary Rodham Clinton. ========================================================================= Does this excerpt from the WASHINGTON POST on 9-21-02 sound familiar to anyone?: The Federal Election Commission disclosed yesterday it has imposed a record-setting $719,000 in fines against participants in the 1996 Democratic Party fundraising scandals involving contributions from China, Korea and other foreign sources. The year 2000 changed little in the modus operandi. Somehow, this quote attributed to former...

Audiotapes recorded by Kennedy in-law Raymond Reggie while cooperating with an FBI probe into an August 2000 gala fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton could be devastating for the Democratic Party, according to Louisiana's Times Picayune, which has obtained transcripts of the Reggie tapes. The paper reports that a Sept. 4, 2002 tape of Reggie talking to Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate race finance chairman David Rosen "captures a conversation rife with gossip about the seamy side of political life, including the sex, drugs and prostitutes enjoyed by big-name Democratic stalwarts." Rosen is set to go on trial Tuesday in U.S. District Court...

Today Sean Hannity had Peter Paul on his show. Who is Peter Paul? Well you may ask, he is the primary organizer of the August 12, 2000 Hollywood Gala Salute to President Clinton. According to the website Hillcap this was a combination Salute and Fundraiser for Hillary's 2000 Senatorial campaign. The gala ended up costing Paul 1.2 million dollars and raised one-million dollars in hard money for Hillary's coffers. The problem, Hillary's campaign only declared a cost of $400 thousand resulting in a net additional $800 thousand of "in kind" contribution by Paul. Why is this a problem? Because under...

A tape secretly recorded for the FBI by Sen. Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law has Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's fund-raiser admitting that a Hollywood gala may have cost way more than her filings said......... Clinton fund-raiser David Rosen told Kennedy in-law Ray Reggie over dinner that a donor is claiming "he spent $2 million on an event that raised $1.4. . . . He may have," The Times-Picayune of New Orleans reported. Reggie — whose sister Victoria married Kennedy in 1992 — wore an FBI wire and taped what prosecutors call an "incriminating" chat with Rosen over dinner in Chicago in 2000....

<p>Peter Paul, the whistleblower who has the smoking gun(s) on Hillary Clinton regarding her 2000 gala fundraiser, will make a return trip to the Tony Snow Show on Monday at 6:20am, Eastern.</p> <p>If you don't get Tony on a local radio affiliate, you can hear a live stream from his website --- www.tonysnow.com.</p>

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Campaign donations made more than four years ago at a celebrity-studded Hollywood gala have led to a federal criminal trial against a former finance director for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton that could hamper her future campaigns. The trial set to open tomorrow focuses on a lavish August 2000 political party at a tony Brentwood estate that drew dozens of A-list guests and performers, including Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Cher, Diana Ross and Muhammad Ali.

INTRO 1 – Peter Paul to Make Big Announcement on Hannity 2 - Sorry, Alan Colmes, You Will Not Stop hillcap.org or the Truth 3 - Hillary’s Favorite Foreign Donor, Tendo Oto (Part 1) ================================================================================= Note: this is the fourth episode in a series of stories regarding the events surrounding the 2000 Fundraiser and the business relationship of entrepreneur Peter Paul, William Jefferson Clinton, and Hillary Rodham Clinton. In our last episode, we introduced Japanese businessman Tendo Oto, who gave 27 grand to the 2000 Fundraiser so that he could join the big party with the Clintons and the...

Sen. Clinton's former aide could be used against her By Kenneth R. Bazinet New York Daily News WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton isn't on trial in Los Angeles on Tuesday - but as far as her political adversaries are concerned, she may as well be. Her former finance director David Rosen has been charged with concealing the real cost of a star-studded Hollywood fund-raiser for Clinton in August 2000 - and if he's convicted, her enemies plan to exploit it to the maximum. ''If it was any other senator, it might not be an issue, but with her past it will...

Hillary Trial Starts Tuesday May 9, 2005 RUSH: Well, tomorrow is a big day in American fund-raising circles. (Story) "The trial of a key financial officer on Senator Hillary Clinton's 2000 campaign is set to open tomorrow. That trial and secretly recorded audiotape by the brother-in-law of Ted Kennedy, Raymond Reggie, is at the core of the case, and it could prove embarrassing to politicians, political operatives and wealthy donors to the Democratic Party. This is the trial of David Rosen. He faces three felony counts of causing the filing of false campaign finance reports in connection with a celebrity...

Hillary-haters seize on trial of fundraiser in bid to smear Clintons By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 10 May 2005 A former fund-raising director for Hillary Clinton goes on trial in Los Angeles today to face accusations of campaign finance irregularities that political opponents of the former first Lady turned US senator hope will help dent her chances of a successful run for the presidency in 2008. To the growing band of Hillary-haters who have set up websites and political action committees to try, again, to stop her political career in its tracks, the case has all the hallmarks of...

Campbell Brown recently made a spectacle of herself defending Hillary on NBC. She was with Matt Lauer and made it very clear that Hillary Clinton had absolutely, positively no role whatsoever in the fundraising scandal of 2000 for which David Rosen is being prosecuted. She warned the viewers not to think that Hillary did anything wrong. What was the tag on the screen? "Campaign Against Hillary." There are a few smoking guns in this case. SMOKING GUN DEMAND LETTER and GARY SMITH AND THE CONCERT Just as the demand letter was delivered to Hillary's office by courier, we need a...

INTRO 1 – Peter Paul to Make Big Announcement on Hannity 2 - Sorry, Alan Colmes, You Will Not Stop hillcap.org or the Truth 3 - Hillary’s Favorite Foreign Donor, Tendo Oto (Part 1) 4 – Hillary’s Favorite Foreign Donor, Tendo Oto (Part 2) 5 – Smoking Gun Demand Letter 6 – Gary Smith, the Concert, and Another Smoking Gun =============================================================== Note: this is the seventh episode in a series of stories regarding the events surrounding the 2000 Fundraiser and the business relationship of entrepreneur Peter Paul, William Jefferson Clinton, and Hillary Rodham Clinton. First, we need to clear...

INTRO 1 - Peter Paul to Make Big Announcement on Hannity 2 - Sorry, Alan Colmes, You Will Not Stop hillcap.org or the Truth 3 – Hillary’s Favorite Foreign Donor, Tendo Oto (Part 1) 4 – Hillary’s Favorite Foreign Donor, Tendo Oto (Part 2) 5 - Smoking Gun Demand Letter 6 - Gary Smith, the Concert, and Another Smoking Gun 7 - Home, Home at Le Dôme =============================================================== Note: this is the eighth episode in a series of stories regarding the events surrounding the 2000 Fundraiser and the business relationship of entrepreneur Peter Paul, William Jefferson Clinton, and Hillary...

Hillary gets a pass, DeLay is assailed Posted: May 14, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern WorldNetDaily.com It's really a good thing that Sen. Hillary Clinton is a Democrat. If she were a Republican, she would have been the topic of dire front-page headlines in the New York Times and at the forefront of "CBS Evening News" broadcasts over the past several days with her name being connected with a shadowy political fund-raising imbroglio. What's that? You say you weren't aware that Mrs. Clinton was at the center of a significant controversy? No surprise there. Like I said, she's a Democrat. So...

INTRO 1 - Peter Paul to Make Big Announcement on Hannity 2 - Sorry, Alan Colmes, You Will Not Stop hillcap.org or the Truth 3 – Hillary’s Favorite Foreign Donor, Tendo Oto (Part 1) 4 – Hillary’s Favorite Foreign Donor, Tendo Oto (Part 2) 5 - Smoking Gun Demand Letter 6 - Gary Smith, the Concert, and Another Smoking Gun 7 - Home, Home at Le Dôme 8 – Four Dreaded Words for Mike Wallace – FreeRepublic Is Here =============================================================== Note: this is the ninth episode in a series of stories regarding the events surrounding the 2000 Fundraiser and...

The trial of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's former fund-raiser has revealed the pampering demanded by Hollywood stars to attend political benefits. Cher, Diana Ross, Patti LaBelle, Muhammad Ali and even civil-rights hero Rosa Parks all sought special perks to attend a 2000 Hollywood gala designed to raise money for Clinton's campaign. Invoices, testimony and other evidence at the trial of David Rosen help explain why the event, according to prosecutors, cost more than $1.1 million, yet yielded the Clinton campaign only $57,000. "It was a major problem with the celebrities," testified Blossette Kitson, a consultant hired to book artists for...

<p>So this guy, David Rosen, has to put on a political fundraiser for his boss, a certain would-be junior senator from New York. And he's sweating, because the whole affair, a Hollywood tribute to the would-be senator's husband, Bill, is threatening to become so expensive that it can only lose money. So Rosen takes the actual cost of the event—more than $1.1 million, donated by another guy, Peter Paul, a thrice-convicted felon—and marks it down in the campaign's federal finance reports to about $400,000.</p>