Posted on 08/09/2002 11:23:26 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Senator Hillary Clinton, who has attacked President Bush in the corporate corruption scandals, has at least one close connection with people who are in deep trouble because of the alleged corporate funny money games they've been playing while pumping cash into her campaign coffers.
Sam Waskal, the recently indicted CEO of ImClone, for example, gave the New York Democrat $27,000 which she refuses to return.
Waksal, indicted for insider trading, bank fraud and obstruction of justice, has been one of Hillary's financial angels - she's been the number one recipient of his generosity, according to the New York Post's ace political reporter Deborah Orin. In a story "Hill's Filthy Lucre" in todays Post, Orin lists Waksal's contributions to Hillary:
$20,000 to her soft-money committee for her 2000 Senate race;
Another $2,000 given directly to that campaign;
And $5,000 to HILLPAC, her political-action committee, in 2001. Orin reports that Waksal and his family have "funneled big bucks to a number of Democratic soft-money groups and candidates," noting that, Clinton also got another $15,000 from the Waksal family and top ImClone execs during the 2000 race.
Another big Hillary supporter, Martha Stewart, a Waksal pal is suspected of having used insider information to bail out of ImClone stock the day before news that the FDA was refusing to approve a widely touted anti-cancer drug made by the company.
Stewart has been a source of large contributions to Democrats. According to politicalmoneyline.com since 1999 she kicked in a whopping $155,000 plus to Democrats, including $1000 to Hillary's campaign fund on July 7, 1999.
As NewsMax.com has reported, during a Middletown, N.Y., appearance, Mrs. Clinton complained that neither the Bush administration nor the Securities and Exchange Commission had "shown much leadership" as the [corporate] corruption unfolded.
In a direct reference to the president's remarks during a press conference, Clinton charged, "I don't think it is adequate to just say there are some bad people and that we're going to go after them," according to Middletown's Times Herald-Record.
But it's O.K. to take their money and keep it.
"She [Clinton] has no plans to return the money at this time. So far as we know, he did not give us any money in 2002," Clinton spokeswoman Karen Dunn told Orin.
Unlike Hillary, some Democrats have already said they intend to return their Waksal donations, including Rep. Nita Lowey (D-Westchester), who is picking a charity for the $1,000 she got back in 1998, Orin reported, adding that Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is also giving to charity years of campaign donations he got from the Waksal family.
On the other hand, a spokeswoman for the New York State Democratic Committee Serena Torrey told Orin that the party is keeping the money because Sam Waksal "has not been convicted of a crime, and he was a strong supporter of the Democratic Party long before this."
Not surprisingly, The Democratic National Committee, busy trying to blame the corporate misdeeds on the Bush administration has said it intends to keep Waksal's money because it goes back to 1999-2000.
When Clinton's husband was still president, you see. Those were the days when anything shady was allowed. Anything.
They have always had someone else pay their bills, or they have stolen the money to pay them.
I can't think of more worthless POS'S.
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