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Fund-Raiser's Fall Could Put Damper on Clinton's Hopes for 2008 [Peter Paul]
NY SUN ^ | 2-24-05 | JOSH GERSTEIN

Posted on 02/24/2005 6:41:33 AM PST by OXENinFLA

TAFT, Calif. - Five years ago, Aaron Tonken was riding high, hobnobbing with Hollywood celebrities and helping to raise millions for the Senate bid of first lady Hillary Clinton.

Tonken's life these days is neither flashy nor frenetic. Since September, he's been in a federal prison north of Los Angeles serving a 63-month sentence for mail and wire fraud.

The abrupt end to Tonken's career as an organizer of charity fund-raisers delivered a financial blow to the foundations he worked with and a public relations headache for the entertainers he accused of profiting from ostensibly charitable events.

Now, however, there are new signs that Tonken's demise could become a thorny political problem for Senator Clinton as she prepares to run for reelection and considers a bid for the presidency in 2008.

(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2008; cfr; clinton; corruptdems; democratscheat; fraud; hillary; hillary2008; peterpaul; pitviper; soros; tonken
And on and on and on it goes...............
1 posted on 02/24/2005 6:41:35 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: Mo1; Howlin; Peach; BeforeISleep; kimmie7; 4integrity; BigSkyFreeper; RandallFlagg; ...
PING...
2 posted on 02/24/2005 6:41:54 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: OXENinFLA

Expect to see a 60 Minutes segment on this shortly ; >)


3 posted on 02/24/2005 6:52:15 AM PST by Ben Hecks
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To: OXENinFLA

Not to worry, her heinous has Soros and the rest of the America hating left to send her dollars.


4 posted on 02/24/2005 6:52:45 AM PST by OldFriend (America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
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To: OXENinFLA
Oh come on.
It's well known that Aaron Tonken was a Karl Rove plant to bring Hillary down.




5 posted on 02/24/2005 6:56:14 AM PST by Condor51 (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Gen G Patton)
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To: OXENinFLA

And yet another WANNABE learns too late that the first
thing you have to know when playing with the Big Boys:

The Big Boys look out for themselves, regardless of the
number of bodies they have to step over! And not only
do they NOT respect loyalty, they consider such a person
an idiot who deserves to be taken advantage of.


6 posted on 02/24/2005 6:56:43 AM PST by Grendel9
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To: Ben Hecks

"...60 Minutes segment..."

Too bad Mr. Jennings is so busy investigating that all-so-important UFO story. I'm sure he's disappointed that other Earth shattering news has taken him away from this.


7 posted on 02/24/2005 7:10:06 AM PST by Socratic (Ignorant and free? It's not to be. - T. Jefferson (paraphrase))
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To: OXENinFLA
However, by the time the FBI's equipment was in place, Mrs. Clinton and the others stopped taking his calls.

I wonder who gave Hillary! the heads-up.

8 posted on 02/24/2005 7:13:59 AM PST by Bahbah
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To: Ben Hecks

Yeah, Right!


9 posted on 02/24/2005 7:15:50 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: OXENinFLA

Why does "he is so dead" keep popping into my mind?


11 posted on 02/24/2005 7:24:17 AM PST by Richard Kimball (It was a joke. You know, humor. Like the funny kind. Only different.)
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To: OXENinFLA

Hillary will be the Dem nominee in 2008, count on it.


12 posted on 02/24/2005 7:25:59 AM PST by kabar
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To: Richard Kimball
He is NOT "so dead", because he followed the Web Hubbell
example of saving his neck, by shutting his mouth
and going to jail...............AKA "rolling over".
13 posted on 02/24/2005 7:29:16 AM PST by MamaLucci (Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
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To: OXENinFLA

Look for him to turn up dead in his cell, just like jim mcdougal.


14 posted on 02/24/2005 7:31:09 AM PST by weezel
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To: Bahbah
I wonder who gave Hillary! the heads-up.

Exactly the first thought I had.

15 posted on 02/24/2005 7:38:27 AM PST by mombonn ( ¡Viva Bush/Cheney!)
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To: OXENinFLA

I wonder if this means that the Department of Justice is finally more interested in justice than in protecting the Clintons' butts?


16 posted on 02/24/2005 7:40:14 AM PST by nightdriver
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To: OXENinFLA

I love the names of the Clinton White House staffers that came up: Capricia Marshall, Minyon Moore - obviously one of Hillary's minions!


17 posted on 02/24/2005 7:51:09 AM PST by ghost of nixon
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To: Baynative
Man!

They either used a "soft focus" filter on that photograph, or else it's got more airbrushing than an entire year of Playboy magazines.

18 posted on 02/24/2005 8:04:36 AM PST by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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To: OXENinFLA

There is no way any of this will be reported or any of this will stick. Hillary will just claim it's a right-wing conspiracy and that will be the end of it.

The fat pig lives another day.


19 posted on 02/24/2005 10:51:57 AM PST by GianniV
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To: prairiebreeze

bump later read


20 posted on 02/24/2005 11:38:25 AM PST by prairiebreeze (Blogs have a strangle hold on the MSM. The MSM is kicking out the windshield.)
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