Posted on 04/22/2005 9:41:54 PM PDT by kcvl
In-law fraud case stings Ted K, Dems By Noelle Straub Saturday, April 23, 2005 - Updated: 12:06 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 banks in Louisiana, Reggie secretly helped the FBI by recording talks with David Rosen, finance director of Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign.
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Federal Election Commission records show Reggie and his wife, Mary Michelle Reggie, each donated $2,000 to Kennedy's Senate campaign in 1998 and another $1,000 each in 1994. But ties between the Reggie and Kennedy clans extend back to 1956, when Reggie's father, Edmund Reggie, helped persuade the Louisiana delegation at the Democratic convention to support Sen. John F. Kennedy's unsuccessful vice-presidential bid.
Last year, the senior Reggie rented an apartment in Boston at the Bay State senator's request and brokered a deal among the state's warring pols in order to create the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. Records show Edmund Reggie donated $250 to the senator's nephew, former U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy, in 1989.
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Between this story and John Kerry pushing an ammendment to a spending Bill that would stop the final report of a ten year investigation on illegal activities and the abuse of power during Bill and Hill's disgraceful 8 years in the White House
The RATS have been given a pass for their Criminal Enterprise for far too long. Between their election fraud and their illegal fund raising practices, they have managed to dumb down the standards we expect our elected officials to govern by. Nobody did more to dumb down these standards than Bill and Hillary when they lived in the White House and disgraced this country for the entire 8 years they were there
Hey Teddy...do you feel the water closing in???...glug...glug...glug!
"Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my gun." That's the bumper sticker on my car. Ha!
Yes, this is a big scandal,,,,and the MSM will respond to it with the sound of chirping crickets.
Now the Pubs have the opportunity to deal the rats a stunning blow. I hope they hit fast and hard.
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