Posted on 06/19/2007 4:24:58 PM PDT by doug from upland
(CNSNews.com) - A video tape shows New York Sen. Hillary Clinton committing felonies and should be admitted as new evidence in a California civil case, a forthcoming legal brief to be filed by Friday argues.
The tape shows Clinton - currently the leading Democratic presidential contender - speaking in 2000 with Peter Paul, a Hollywood mogul, and comic book icon Stan Lee about a massive fundraising event for her 2000 Senate race. Paul spent about $2 million of his own money to produce the event. The legal contribution limit to a candidate then was $2,000.
"The evidence is of that rare type that captures the very commission of a crime, namely, that of knowingly soliciting, coordinating and accepting federal campaign contributions far in excess of the legal limit of $2,000," says the brief to be filed by Paul's attorney with the Court of Appeal, 2nd Appellate District arguing in favor of including the tape as evidence.
Cybercast News Service first reported the existence of the tape in April.
A portion of the videotape captures the closing words of a lengthy conversation in which Paul was present.
The voice of Hillary Clinton is heard telling Lee that Paul and her chief campaign aide "talk all the time, so she'll be the person to convey whatever I need." She is then heard adding, "I wanted to call and personally thank all of you ... [and] tell you how much this means to me. It's going to mean a lot to the president, too."
Clinton and her supporters have maintained that she had no direct knowledge that the event violated campaign finance rules. In a written declaration for the California court filed on April 7, 2006, the senator said only that she didn't remember discussions with Paul about the fundraiser.
"I have no recollection whatsoever of discussing any arrangement with him whereby he would support my campaign for the United States Senate in exchange for anything from me or then-President Clinton," Clinton said in the declaration.
"I do not believe I would make such a statement because I believe I would remember such a discussion if it had occurred," she added.
The Federal Elections Commission already ruled that Clinton's 2000 campaign committee underreported cash it received at the fundraising event Paul sponsored. The FEC slapped the campaign committee with a $35,000 fine.
The fallout from Paul's Hollywood fundraising event also led to the federal indictment of David Rosen, the senator's campaign finance director, who was acquitted on charges of lying to the FEC.
Paul alleges this tape proves Clinton and her campaign were not truthful to either the FEC or the grand jury investigation that led to Rosen's indictment.
Neither Clinton's presidential campaign nor her Senate office returned phone calls regarding this story Tuesday. Likewise, Clinton's attorney David Kendall did not respond.
In recent briefs in the case, Clinton's attorneys point out that Paul pleaded guilty to manipulating the company's stock price. He has two previous felony convictions, pleading guilty to fraud in the 1970s and to a drug charge in the 1980s.
The U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York gave copies of 90 tapes to Paul on April 11. The office had taken possession of the tapes six years ago during an investigation of a securities case against Paul in 2001.
Paul was the majority partner with Lee in a multi-million dollar Internet venture in 2000 before the company collapsed.
Paul contends that President Clinton had agreed to work as a rainmaker for the company after he left the White House in exchange for the massive star-studded fundraising event in Hollywood which Paul produced that included Cher, Whoopi Goldberg, John Travolta, Brad Pitt, Sugar Ray, and Queen Latifah.
Trying to stay out of the lawsuit while she ran for reelection to the Senate and laid the groundwork for a presidential campaign, Clinton used a California statute intended to protect political candidates from frivolous lawsuits.
That's where this tape could be key, said election law expert John Armor, who has tried election laws since the 1960s.
"The tape shows her committing several crimes," said Armor, who is not a party to the case but will appear on camera for a documentary Paul is producing on the case. "The court either should accept it on appeal, or bump it back to the trial court."
Oral arguments will likely be made to the three-judge panel this summer on whether to release Clinton from the lawsuit, with a decision expected soon after. But the entire case could go on for much longer.
Past precedents have denied the introduction of new evidence into appeals proceedings because it either could have been introduced at the trial level, isn't conclusive or contains a factual dispute, said Wilson, Paul's attorney.
That would not apply here, she said.
"This is set apart. It's a wow case," Wilson told Cybercast News Service. "At the trial level, this would have changed everything."
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I’d like to get excited, but nothing is going to happen.
IF ONLY this would come to pass, we could be rid of these trailer park slimeballs forever.
The Appellate Brief is being filed this week. The judges will see compelling evidence why Hillary should be brought back into Paul v Clinton as a defendant. By September, we expect a decision. Then, we begin depositions. Hillary, Bill, Chelsea, Craighead, Wolfson, Rosen, Levin, McAuliffe, Rendell, Gray Davis, Larry King, Stan Lee, Streisand, etc.
You sound like David Kendall. He has been saying for six years that the case has no merit. He has been lying in public that they fully cooperated. This tape, which was withheld by an assistant US Atty, was not available as evidence in the Rosen trial, Senate Ethics review, or FEC investigation. We are in a new ballgame here.
Thanks for providing the information, doug from upland.
The impeached *Crintons are born felons. And I bet you'd still vote for her...
We may never hear about this again, unless updated by Doug from Upland.
Good news, bump!!!!!!!!
Some of you apparently do not realize the significance of having her under oath in a civil case that give wide latitude in depositions. We will have Wolfson and Craighead under oath. Chelsea and Bill. With Peter’s documents and home video, it is going to be very, very interesting.
doug...it’s just... look at Sandy Burgler vs Scooter Libby ...She a Dem and has a get out of jail free card...
I understand the frustration. She will never be convicted of anything. But she is going to be grilled under oath. Her partners in crime are going to be grilled under oath. Kelly Craighead should have been a key witness with the FEC and at the Rosen trial. She was never called. Now, she will be, and we know the questions to ask.
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Thanks Doug. You always hook us up with good stuff to read.
And then, it disappeared into the MSM’s Orwellian Memory Hole....
Wow, I missed this update. Long time coming and I PRAY this gets used in a court of law. Batter Up!
bump & a John Armor honorable mention ping
I'm no lawyer but new, "wow" evidence doesn't sound like grounds for appeal.
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