hillary... on TAPE??? God, please oh please oh please oh please oh please.......
honest... i've been a good boy... please???
Just another flunky who will fall on the sword at the alter of the Clintons.
PING!!!!!
Wonder if he was drunk.....
The Democrats love corporate whistleblowers.. I wonder how they think about political whistleblowers against them..
I am waiting and predicting that there will be a big name dem/moderate that blows the whistle on the dems strategy meetings soon...
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I'm looking forward to this as the lead piece on tonight's CBS newscast.
An article from New Orleans has a source that says Reggie did NOT tape HRC.
Link to the New Orleans article is at post #4 on the first thread I linked here.
The Sun has the best investigative reporters! Bar none!
08/24/04 – A HOLLYWOOD fundraiser who organised events featuring such celebrities as former US president Bill Clinton was today jailed for more than five years for fraud. Aaron Tonken, 38, was sentenced to 63 months behind bars after admitting fraudulently diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars destined for charity galas and using the cash to pay off his own credit card bills. <…snip…>During his time as a top fundraiser, Tonken helped arrange events for Mr Clinton and his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in August 2000. Tonken struck a secret plea deal with prosecutors that resulted in today's sentencing by US District Judge Dale Fischer in Los Angeles.
04/19/04 - The Federal Election Commission has opened a formal probe into a star-studded Aug. 12, 2000 Hollywood fundraiser for then-first lady Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign, Fox News Channel reported on Sunday. And some say the development is at least partly responsible for Sen. Clinton's claim that she's not interested in joining John Kerry's presidential ticket.
The allegations themselves are not new: Two of the event's organizers, Hollywood producer Peter Paul and charity fundraiser Aaron Tonken, have detailed a series of transactions undertaken in conjunction with Hillary's campaign that could violate FEC regulations, with Paul charging that the campaign failed to report nearly $2 million he spent producing the event.
But months before Paul was returned to the U.S. to stand trial in the stock case, Hollywood fundraiser Aaron Tonken began cooperating with federal probers. Tonken has said that he's a star witness against the Clintons in a federal grand jury probe in New York into Mr. Clinton's Marc Rich pardon - and has been cooperating with the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles who's probing his fundraising activities.
FEC Heat Hurts Hillary's VP Chances
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton surely hopes that history isn't repeating itself with the raid conducted by the FBI last month on another warehouse; this one chock full of documents from her 2000 Senatorial campaign."The documents were seized in a May 30 raid of a California storage facility containing documents of Peter Paul, the entrepreneur who funded Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign with over $2 million dollars in direct, in-kind contributions which were never reported by Hillary Clinton or her Senate campaign, as required by law," revealed the public interest law firm Judicial Watch in a press release late last week.
FBI Raids Hillary's Warehouse in Whitewater Deja Vu
The Bush administration has quietly done an about-face on allegations that New York Sen. Hillary Clinton broke campaign finance laws in 2000 - with the Justice Department preparing to extradite one-time Clinton fund-raiser Peter Paul to the U.S. as part of a plea deal for his testimony. The sudden action on Paul's case comes just weeks after reports surfaced that former Hollywood fund-raiser Aaron Tonken has supplied damaging testimony about Hillary Clinton's fund-raising practices.
"I'm a star witness against President and Mrs. Clinton," Tonken claimed in a recent report on his case in Vanity Fair magazine, explaining that prosecutors wanted his testimony about" "fundraising activities that I've done on behalf of the Clintons." The exact nature of Tonken's allegations against Sen. Clinton remains secret, the magazine said. But the celebrity moneyman is known to have been involved in the August 2000 fund raiser that is at the heart of Peter Paul's allegations.
Peter F. Paul, the flamboyant Hollywood entrepreneur who says Hillary Rodham Clinton has hidden almost $2 million of in-kind contributions he made to her campaign in 2000, is back from Brazil and promising to raise a ruckus about the New York senator as he fights bizarre securities and bank-fraud charges on which he's been indicted. Aaron Tonken, a political operative in Hollywood and a former protégé of Paul under indictment for a variety of alleged sharp deals with the rich and famous, also is promising to tell everything he knows about behind-the-scenes shenanigans of Clinton and many others.
Clintons' Fall Guy May Turn the Tables (Peter Paul)
Mr. Paul has substantial, documentary evidence detailing his close relationship with the Clintons and his funding of the Hollywood tribute, including cancelled checks, hand-written thank you notes from the Clintons, and photographs. Also named in the complaint is Clinton fundraiser David Rosen, Clinton friend James Levin, and Hollywood celebrity fundraiser Aaron Tonken, who currently is under criminal investigation for his role in other Hollywood fundraisers. As a result of Mr. Paul’s disclosures, federal authorities have launched an investigation into the Clintons and other matters. Mr. Paul, who is facing alleged (and related) stock and bank fraud charges, remains eager to cooperate with federal authorities.
Clinton Accuser Peter Paul Cleared to Testify Ex-Stan Lee Chief Peter Paul to Plead in Securities Case (demands Hillary to "take responsibility")
You can be damned sure of two things - Hillary will have that tape destroyed and the DNC will villify the justice dept. as racist, homophobe, etc... for taping her - Expect JJ, NAACP, moveon, NOW and every other loony lib to come out and attack the GOP - watch the GOP crumble and ask to be forgiven for something they didnt do.
You can be damned sure of two things - Hillary will have that tape destroyed and the DNC will villify the justice dept. as racist, homophobe, etc... for taping her - Expect JJ, NAACP, moveon, NOW and every other loony lib to come out and attack the GOP - watch the GOP crumble and ask to be forgiven for something they didnt do.
hillary... on TAPE??? God, please oh please oh please oh please oh please.......
honest... i've been a good boy... please???
So Victoria Reggie's brother is a felon. Her father was one too. And she's married to a non-convicted killer. That's gotta be embarassing.
All of these witnesses better have 24 hour bodyguards as we know what has happened to other Clinton witnesses in the past.
Paging Jim McDougal's doctor! Code Blue! Well, it will be...Ok, what's Dr. Malik doing?
How many Freepers think any of this will actually come to something?
They have enough on both clintons to put them away for a thousand years. But the clintons have blackmail information on virtually every important person in the country, including folks at the top levels of the FBI.
It was publicly admitted that hillary stole 900 FBI files on important policitians. Anyone who thinks she stopped there is extremely naive. No, the clintons put their corrupt agents at the top levels of the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, the Federal Attorneys' offices, and every other branch of government, first thing after getting into office, and you can be sure that they transferred tons of electronic files into their own storage facilities.
Now we know why they're making such a noise - not only to get rid of DeLay because he will "delay" their power plans, but to provide a smoke screen for hitery's mess to hide behind
I see criminals run his wife's family too. Victoria's father (former Louisiana Judge) is also a criminal that the BAR ASSOCIATION honored a few years ago.
Here is more on Ray Reggie...
Ray Reggie, a businessman and Democratic operative with close ties to prominent politicians ranging from former President Clinton and U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy to former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, was charged by federal prosecutors Wednesday with attempting to defraud three banks of millions of dollars.
Reggie, 43, known for his web of political contacts at all levels of government, is a member of one of Louisiana's pre-eminent political families, and until 2002 ran one of the largest advertising-placement firms in the state.
That company, Media Direct LLC, is at the heart of the charges filed Wednesday in parallel bills of information in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
While the charges appear to have no direct tie to the ongoing probe of contracts awarded during Morial's administration, sources close to the City Hall probe said prosecutors, aware of Reggie's links to Morial's inner circle, have been prodding him to provide information about members of the group.
Reached at his home, Reggie said Wednesday that on the advice of his attorney, Mike Ellis, he had no comment.
"But I will be commenting shortly," he said.
Media Direct shut its doors abruptly in April 2002 amid speculation that its financial problems were dire. The company employed about 40 people, and at its peak in 2000 posted about $60 million in annual revenue.
At the time, Reggie said he was shutting down for personal reasons and declined to discuss the company's finances. But lawsuits from creditors and clients soon followed, thrusting Media Direct's debts at least partially into the public spotlight.
The most significant lawsuit was brought by Hibernia National Bank, claiming that Reggie had defaulted on a $6 million loan. That loan, and a second loan from a Baton Rouge bank, play a central role in the bills of information filed Wednesday.
Prosecutors allege that between June and October 1999, Reggie engaged in a check-kiting scheme using Media Direct accounts at Union Planters Bank in Baton Rouge and Whitney National Bank in New Orleans. The bill of information, filed by U.S. Attorney David Dugas in Baton Rouge, said Reggie moved money from one account to the other to make it appear there was a substantial amount of money in both accounts, when, according to prosecutors, the balances in both accounts were insufficient.
The bank loans
Then in December 1999, Reggie applied for a $4.3 million loan at Union Planters to cover losses at that same bank that had resulted from the check-kiting scheme, according to the charges.
As collateral, Reggie pledged $2.1 million in accounts receivable by Media Direct, money prosecutors claim he knew was not owed to the company.
A year later, in December 2000, Reggie applied for a $6 million loan from Hibernia to pay off $2 million in debts to Union Planters and $1.5 million owed to a second commercial lender, Biz Capital, according to a second bill of information filed by acting U.S. Attorney Jim Letten in New Orleans. As collateral for that loan, Reggie pledged Media Direct's interest in an $18.5 million contract he claimed to have won with the U.S. Census Bureau, the bill states.
That contract was fabricated, prosecutors allege. And to make the problem worse, prosecutors claim, Reggie went to great lengths to make it appear that the Census Bureau signed off on Media Direct's use of the contract as collateral.
Reggie leased a mailbox at Mail Boxes Etc. to receive mail postmarked to an address in Washington, D.C., the bill states. He also had one of his employees impersonate a census bureau contracting officer, using the alias Michelle A. Dinkins, prosecutors say.
That employee, who is not named in the bill of information, altered a copy of her driver's license at Reggie's direction and signed bank papers seeking approval from the Census Bureau for the loan to be used as collateral, prosecutors allege.
Census Bureau spokesman Mark Tolbert said neither Reggie nor Media Direct have had a contract with the bureau. Officials from all three banks declined to comment, citing client privacy.
Deal suspected
Legal observers say it's significant that prosecutors decided to file bills of information in this case. That's because felony charges can be prosecuted in federal court by a bill of information only if a defendant waives his constitutional right to a grand jury indictment.
"Generally speaking, the government only files a bill of information on a felony charge if they've already reached a plea agreement with a defendant," former federal prosecutor Shaun Clarke said.
"There are times when the person may be cooperating in other matters," Clarke said of someone charged in a bill of information. "It may also simply mean he wants to resolve the case.
"If you think the government can prove its case against you, you're better off pleading guilty, irrespective of whether you're cooperating with any other investigation."
If convicted, Reggie faces up to 35 years in prison and a $1.25 million fine on the bank fraud and conspiracy charges. Loyola Law School professor and defense attorney Dane Ciolino said the penalties are likely to be considerably less than that, depending upon the extent of the financial losses.
Family, friends
Reggie is a native of Crowley, an Acadiana hamlet that has produced an improbable number of Louisiana's best-known political figures, among them former Gov. Edwin Edwards, former U.S. Sen. John Breaux, former U.S. Rep. Chris John and New Orleans lawyer William Broadhurst.
Reggie has lived in New Orleans for years. His father, Edmund Reggie, is a former Crowley city judge, a close pal of Edwards and a friend of the Massachusetts-based Kennedys going back to the 1950s. In 1992, Ray Reggie's sister Victoria married U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, cementing the already close bonds between the two families.
Like Edwards, Edmund Reggie was a longtime target of federal prosecutors. In 1993, he was fined $30,000 and sentenced to four months of home confinement after he was convicted on one count and pleaded no contest to another count of misusing bank funds.
As a political consultant, Ray Reggie has worked on the campaigns of several well-known Democrats, among them Clinton and U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, as well as the presidential campaign of former Vice President Al Gore. Locally, he worked on the mayoral campaigns of Morial and former New Orleans Police Superintendent Richard Pennington.
Reggie has served in a variety of campaign roles, helping to coordinate fund-raisers, working on strategy and placing advertising.
While Edmund Reggie is the only member of the family to have held political office, both he and Ray Reggie have acquired reputations as talented political fixers.
Two years ago, for instance, the Kennedy family asked Edmund Reggie to broker an agreement between warring political factions so that green space resulting from the Big Dig project in Boston could be dedicated to a park honoring the Kennedy matriarch, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. The senior Reggie took an apartment in the city and got the deal done.
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