Crooked Claims About Clinton
DOJ press release, March 8, 2005: Subsequent to the filing of first (sic) indictment, Paul again refused the United States Attorney's Office demand that he return to this country. Accordingly, the government sought the assistance of law enforcement authorities in Brazil. On August 3, 2001, Paul was arrested in Brazil and jailed pending the outcome of extradition proceedings, which Paul contested for the next two years.
Campaign Cash Charges
Paul wasn't extradited to the U.S. until September 2003. Meanwhile, though, his attorneys at Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group that dogged the Clintons through the 1990s with a stream of document demands and related lawsuits, had met with Justice Department officials and given them some of Paul's documents having to do with the gala fundraiser. Prosecutors flew to Brazil to meet with him. They began an investigation.
But they didn't turn up much. The prosecutors secured an indictment against David Rosen, the Clinton campaign's finance director, alleging he caused false reports to be filed with the Federal Election Commission putting the cost of the gala at about $519,000, when Paul claimed to have spent $1.9 million to produce it. But the jury acquitted Rosen. His lawyers argued, among other things, that he had no motive to underreport the expenses, because the amount cleared by the Clinton campaign was unaffected by how much Paul spent. There were no other indictments.
Meanwhile, the FEC, mounting its own enforcement action in connection with the gala triggered by a complaint by Paul, couldn't find much to go after, either. It reached a conciliation agreement with New York Senate 2000 and its treasurer, Andrew Grossman, in December 2005. The settlement involved a payment to the FEC of $35,000 and required New York Senate 2000 to amend its disclosure report to reflect an additional $721,895 in in-kind contributions, bringing the total to $1.24 million. As to Hillary Clinton specifically, the agency voted 5-0 on a motion to "[f]ind no reason to believe that Hillary Rodham Clinton violated any provision of the [Federal Election Campaign] Act or regulations in connection with this matter and close the file as to her." Two of the votes were from Republicans and three from Democrats.
That's not part of Paul's video, either.
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Posted By: HILLARY! UNCENSORED @ 02/12/2008 7:38:35 PM
Comment: We are up to about 5 million hits. She just got decimated in Virginia, Maryland, and DC. Absolutely decimated. I guess the drive-by hit piece didn't have the desired effect.
Posted By: HILLARY! UNCENSORED @ 02/12/2008 1:26:15 AM
Comment: http://www.newsweek.com/id/109431 The drive-by hit piece by Viveca Novak is debunked.
Posted By: HILLARY! UNCENSORED @ 02/08/2008 11:52:34 PM
Comment: re performance of Cher- Viveca contends that Cher was not solicited by Hillary and that someone else had done that. Lack of knowledge about this case should be embarrassing to her (but it apparently isn't). Yes, Aaron Tonken indeed made the initial request. But there is more to the story. What Viveca did not tell you is that two of the performers, Cher and Diana Ross, required a direct phone call from Hillary. Hillary called both of them (she admitted on tape talking to Cher) and sealed the deal. Without Hillary acting as the closer, they would not have performed. Yes, she absolutely solicited them. The other performers were not solicited directly by her.