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BACKGROUND: http://hillcap.org NEW YORK SUN ARTICLE, Feb. 2005 Pursuant to the above referenced article, Aaron Tonken was wearing a government wire for evidence gathering in the Hillary campaign finance fraud that began in 2000 and continues to this day. When discovery in Paul v Clinton finally begins later this year, much light is going to be shed on those who want certain information to remain hidden. When the Paul and Clinton saga began, Ed Rendell was then the chairman of the DNC. On Jan. 31, 2003, he was sworn in as Governor of Pennsylvania. Overlooked in any of the mainstream...

EXCERPT FROM --- HOUSE OF CARDS House Of Cards What do Cher, a Hollywood con man, a political rising star and an audacious felon have in common? Together they gave Bill and Hillary Clinton a night they'll never forget -- no matter how hard they may try By April Witt Sunday, October 9, 2005; Page W10 The caller lied easily. He'd had practice. It was Raymond Reggie, a New Orleans businessman and Democratic activist who happened to be Sen. Edward Kennedy's brother-in-law. He also happened to be in a lot of trouble.

Ex-Clinton aide's fate in jury's hands Rosen denies wrongdoing in reporting cost of gala to FEC Wednesday, May 25, 2005 Posted: 11:53 PM EDT (0353 GMT) LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Jurors in the federal trial of David Rosen, former finance director of Hillary Clinton's U.S. Senate campaign, will begin deliberating his fate Thursday. **SNIP** Defense and prosecuting attorneys finished their closing arguments Wednesday. The jury was to convene Thursday at 8:30 a.m. (11:30 a.m. ET). Rosen's attorney, Paul Sandler, described his client as "courageous and truthful," adding that Rosen "has suffered for years with this sword of Damocles over...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday refused to answer questions about the indictment last week of her 2000 Senate campaign finance director. Clinton's former aide, David Rosen, was charged with filing false reports to the Federal Election Commission to cover up the true cost of a lavish Hollywood fund-raiser held on Clinton's behalf Aug. 12, 2000. When asked about Rosen by reporters at a press conference, Clinton said: "I have nothing to add to the statement that was issued last week." In that statement, released Friday night, Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall, said the senator's camp believed Rosen would be cleared once...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's former campaign finance director pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges he deliberately underreported the amount raised at a Hollywood gala for the senator in 2000. David Rosen, 40, of Chicago was released for a trial March 22 in Los Angeles. But his attorney, Paul Mark Sandler, said he planned to ask that the case be moved to Washington. Rosen is charged with four counts of filing false reports with the Federal Election Commission. Each count carries up to five years in prison and $250,000 in fines. Sandler said after the hearing...

U.S. Defends Sealing Charges Against Former Clinton Aide By IAN URBINA Published: March 2, 2005 Correction Appended Federal prosecutors are battling attempts to dismiss their criminal case against Hillary Rodham Clinton's former fund-raising director, claiming in a court motion that they kept the indictment of him secret for more than a year to protect the identity of a witness cooperating in a separate investigation. The defendant, David Rosen, is charged with failing to report in-kind contributions and producing a false invoice in connection with an Aug. 12, 2000, fund-raiser for Mrs. Clinton, according to an indictment unsealed in January. He...

A Democratic fund-raiser involved in Senator Clinton's 2000 campaign has offered a guilty plea to bank fraud charges and is likely to become a government witness at the upcoming federal trial of a top finance aide to Mrs. Clinton, David Rosen, court records obtained by The New York Sun show. As part of an FBI investigation into alleged campaign finance reporting violations by Mrs. Clinton's campaign, the mystery witness secretly taped a conversation with Mr. Rosen in September 2002 and apparently tried to elicit statements from the former Clinton staffer about financial irregularities involving an August 2000 Hollywood fund-raising event....

Sen. Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law is the mystery witness who raised $100,000 for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and then went undercover and wore a wire to help the feds nab one of her top moneymen on charges of fund-raising-fraud, The Post has learned. The witness, Ray Reggie, 43, has a sister, Victoria, who married Kennedy in 1992, and prosecutors say Reggie secretly recorded "incriminating" statements made by David Rosen, a top Clinton fund-raiser. Reggie was close enough to Bill and Hillary Clinton to sleep over at the White House in 2000 and stay up chatting with the first couple into the...

Kennedy Relative Tied to Fund-Raising Case By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ Published: April 23, 2005 WASHINGTON, April 22 - A brother-in-law of Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts has been working as a confidential informant in a criminal case against Hillary Rodham Clinton's former fund-raising director, according to people involved in the case. The brother-in-law, Raymond Reggie of Louisiana, has apparently been acting as an undercover informant in the case and secretly recorded a conversation he had with Mrs. Clinton's former fund-raising director during a steak dinner. In that conversation, the two discussed a 2000 fund-raiser for Mrs. Clinton that is at...

HILL: MY $$ MAN 'WILL BE CLEARED' April 23, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday stood behind her indicted former fund-raiser after prosecutors said Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law taped him making "incriminating" statements about her Senate campaign's Hollywood gala. "The Senate campaign committee fully cooperated with the investigation. [David] Rosen worked hard for the campaign and we trust that when all the facts are in, he will be cleared," Clinton lawyer David Kendall said in an e-mail to The Post. Rosen goes to trial May 3 on charges of falsely underreporting the costs of the August 2000 gala...

In-law fraud case stings Ted K, Dems By Noelle Straub Saturday, April 23, 2005 - Updated: 07:45 AM EST WASHINGTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's embattled brother-in-law - fingered as the FBI informant who secretly taped conversations for a case against a top fund-raiser for Sen. Hillary Clinton - donated money to the Bay State senator and boasts deep political ties to his family. New Orleans political consultant Raymond Reggie, 43, became Kennedy's in-law in 1992 when his sister Victoria married the senator, and had also enjoyed a friendship with the Clintons. But facing unrelated charges of fraud against three...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday stood behind her indicted former fund-raiser after prosecutors said Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law taped him making "incriminating" statements about her Senate campaign's Hollywood gala. "The Senate campaign committee fully cooperated with the investigation. [David] Rosen worked hard for the campaign and we trust that when all the facts are in, he will be cleared," Clinton lawyer David Kendall said in an e-mail to The Post. Rosen goes to trial May 3 on charges of falsely underreporting the costs of the August 2000 gala — thus inflating the amount of campaign cash ostensibly raised for Clinton at...

<p>David Rosen - Chicago whizkid and Hillary campaign finance director who wanted to be a big time player in DemocRAT politics. Charged in January in a 10-page felony indictment. He filed false reports and amended false reports to the FEC and had another person create a fictitious receipt. So far, he has not turned on Hillary. If it starts getting too hot for him, will he make a deal?</p>

Note: this is the first in a series of stories regarding the events surrounding the business relationship of entrepreneur Peter Paul, William Jefferson Clinton, and Hillary Rodham Clinton. It is a story that Hillary does not want you to know. Intro to the series: DFU’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE WITH PETER PAUL ================================================================= Entrepreneur Peter Paul spent almost two million dollars of his own money in 2000 for a gala Hollywood farewell to Bill Clinton and fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. It was the largest fundraiser for her senate campaign. Paul will be appearing today on the Sean Hannity Show in his first...

Rosen goes to trial May 3 on charges of falsely underreporting the costs of the August 2000 gala — thus inflating the amount of campaign cash ostensibly raised for Clinton at the event.

Note: this is the second in a series of stories regarding the events surrounding the business relationship of entrepreneur Peter Paul, William Jefferson Clinton, and Hillary Rodham Clinton. It is a story that Hillary does not want you to know. SERIES INTRO No. 1 Peter Paul appeared briefly on the Hannity and Colmes Show to announce the launch of the Hillary Clinton Accountability Project and the website hillcap.org. Paul wants Hillary to finally take responsibility for her massive campaign finance fraud in 2000. Alan Colmes was on hand to reprise his almost legendary role. He was still shilling for the...

FReepers, it is an amazing thing to witness. I'm about an hour from Los Angeles and plan to go to the David Rosen trial on Tuesday. I have been on the phone calling radio news stations and local TV affiliates in Los Angeles to see if they were covering the story. No one knows about the story. How can that be possible? Not even KFWB knows, the main news radio station in Los Angeles. The mainstream media is going to have to be dragged kicking and screaming into covering this story. It has the potential to derail Queen Hillary's run...

LOS ANGELES—A lavish politics-goes-Hollywood fundraiser that helped propel Hillary Clinton into the U.S. Senate is the main event at the pending federal trial of the New York Democrat’s former campaign finance director. ... It’s rare for alleged federal campaign finance violations to go to trial. But that is what’s scheduled to happen Tuesday in federal court here, with witnesses including Sen. Edward Kennedy’s brother-in-law, who wore a wire for the government. Based on that conversation and allegedly false federal filings, prosecutors charged finance director David Rosen with deliberately lowballing the cost of the August 2000 gala. An FBI agent has...

May 10, 2005 -- THE Justice Department case against David Rosen, national finance chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate race, is getting stronger, increasing the odds the aide will start cooperating with the government — which could be disastrous for the senator's ambitions. Rosen has been indicted for deliberately reporting that the cost of an August 2000 Hollywood fund-raising gala was only $400,000 when the actual tab was $1.2 million — a step that let Mrs. Clinton spend $800,000 more in "hard money" for her campaign. (After Hillary and opponent Rick Lazio agreed to ban soft money, both camps were...

(1010 WINS) LOS ANGELES A federal criminal trial involving a former finance director for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will be watched by Republicans seeking to derail her re-election next year and potential 2008 bid for the White House. Jury selection was scheduled to begin Tuesday for the trial against Clinton's former finance director, David Rosen. He is accused of filing false campaign finance statements in connection with the fundraiser for Clinton's successful 2000 senatorial campaign. Rosen has pleaded not guilty to the charges. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and up to $250,000 in...