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Remember when Jeffrey Thompson pled guilty to campaign finance violations after secretly spending more than a half-million on a secret get-out-vote effort for Hillary in 2008? Well it looks like another person intimately connected to her failed Presidential campaign has got himself in trouble. Earlier today, major Democratic fundraiser Sant Chatwal pled guilty to witness tampering and conspiracy to evade campaign finance laws in a Manhattan Federal Court. The candidates he broke laws for have not been identified yet. However, Chatwal was a bundler for Hillary Clinton in 2008 and planned to raise $5 million for her through a group...

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is probing what he sees as signs of an unseemly overlap between President Barack Obama’s official and political activities. In what could be considered the committee’s sharpest probe to date of the White House, Issa sent a letter to Obama’s top lawyer Monday evening asking for a slew of documents relating to what the California Republican termed as “an array of potentially illegal fundraising behavior.”

"In the message played in court Tuesday, then-Senator Clinton said Hsu's hard work nearly left her speechless. 'I've never seen anybody who has been more loyal and more effective and really just having greater success supporting someone than you,' she told him. 'Everywhere I go, you're there. If you're not, you're sending people to be part of my events. You know, we're going to win this campaign, Norman, because you single-handedly are going to make that happen.'..." http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/13/trial-prosecutors-play-tape-clinton-praising-hsu/

When he pleaded guilty to misconduct in office and circumventing state election laws in October, Chuck Chvala acknowledged he was giving up his right to a trial, although he told the judge he really wanted one. Just how badly the former Democratic Senate majority leader wanted to fight the charges filed against him three years ago was starkly evident in pre-sentencing papers filed Thursday in Dane County Circuit Court. Alternately combative and grudgingly contrite, Chvala admitted little more than giving legislative staffers the "impression" it was OK to work on campaigns on state time and taking the "risk" that secretly...

Presidential candidate John Kerry can count on the support of at least one group of Vietnam Veterans – and they're still in Vietnam. Following Kerry's denunciation of the ad by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, criticizing him for exaggerating his war record, a group of former U.S. soldiers gathered in Hanoi to express their support for Kerry and to call President Bush a "draft dodger" for his service in the Texas Air National Guard during the war. And they were selling T-shirts to tourists to raise money for Kerry's campaign. The $5 shirts sport a picture of President Bush with...

South China Morning Post December 2, 2002 SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 3 LENGTH: 478 words HEADLINE: Gore addresses mainland think-tank; Leading Democrat met Tung as part of low-key trip to the SAR and Shenzhen BYLINE: Glenn Schloss BODY: Former US vice-president Al Gore recently made a visit to Hong Kong and the mainland, where he is believed to have been paid to speak at a mainland government-linked think-tank and attended a lunch hosted by former Enron director Ronnie Chan Chi-chung. Mr Gore - who lost the presidential election in a close and controversial vote two years ago and is poised to...