Posted on 05/26/2005 4:32:44 AM PDT by Libloather
Ex-Clinton aide's fate in jury's hands
Rosen denies wrongdoing in reporting cost of gala to FEC
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 Posted: 11:53 PM EDT (0353 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Jurors in the federal trial of David Rosen, former finance director of Hillary Clinton's U.S. Senate campaign, will begin deliberating his fate Thursday.
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Defense and prosecuting attorneys finished their closing arguments Wednesday. The jury was to convene Thursday at 8:30 a.m. (11:30 a.m. ET).
Rosen's attorney, Paul Sandler, described his client as "courageous and truthful," adding that Rosen "has suffered for years with this sword of Damocles over his head."
Prosecutors have repeatedly characterized Rosen as a "liar."
"This case is about the public's right to know who is giving what to political campaigns," argued prosecutor Dan Schwager.
Rosen has denied wrongdoing, contending other people were in charge of tracking and documenting costs for the affair.
The fund-raiser, on the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, generated only $57,000 in "hard money" that Clinton could use for direct advertising in her Senate race.
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"I didn't inquire about any costs. If I did that, I wouldn't have had time to raise money," Rosen said.
Zeidenberg pressed him on whether "the production costs of this event had exceeded the budget that had been allotted."
Rosen replied that information he saw at the time indicated expenses were within the budget.
Rosen said he considers himself to be a "hands-on fund-raiser."
He blamed the problems on event organizers Peter Paul, a three-time convicted felon who underwrote the affair, and Paul's business partner, Aaron Tonken, who is serving a five-year prison sentence for fraud.
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Ping.
I met Chuck in the courtroom and let him read the 50-page civil lawsuit which, of course, he had not seen before. None of these reporters have done their jobs.
Wait for the civil trial. Rosen perjured himself when he denied having a meeting in Peter's office with Peter and general counsel for SLM David Madden. Madden made it absolutely clear that the event was not being underwritten by SLM. This was Paul's baby. The defense lied about that throughtout the trial and in closing arguments.
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