Posted on 09/06/2007 4:17:28 PM PDT by PilloryHillary
Among the 11 public officials arrested in an F.B.I. corruption sting in New Jersey today was a leading Democratic supporter of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign in that state, Mayor Samuel Rivera of Passaic. It was the latest legal embarrassment involving an ally of the Clinton campaign, coming only one day after a wealthy Clinton donor, Norman Hsu, missed his court date in a California fraud case and apparently disappeared. Clinton advisers this spring and summer have been aggressively touting their long list of endorsements from elected officials and prominent Democratic donors, to indicate the breadth of establishment support that Mrs. Clinton enjoys. Yet, in the case of Mr. Hsu and now Mayor Rivera, the criminal allegations indicate a cost that can come with quickly rounding up political support from far and wide. The Clinton campaign has severed ties with Mr. Hsu; as for Mayor Rivera, he remains a member of Mrs. Clinton’s Mayors Council as of this afternoon, but a campaign spokesman said that the charges were “serious” and will be monitored closely. Update: Blake Zeff, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, just e-mailed to say that Mayor Rivera stepped down from Mrs. Clinton’s Mayors Council today. According to the criminal complaint filed in Federal District Court, Mayor Rivera allegedly promised to deliver a majority of votes on the Passaic City Council to steer city insurance brokerage business to a dummy company set up by the F.B.I. Federal agents posing as company executives offered a $50,000 payment to Mr. Rivera in return for the business, according to the complaint; Mr. Rivera allegedly accepted an initial installment of $5,000. Mr. Rivera, according to a transcript of secretly recorded conversations laid out in the complaint, boasted profanely of essentially controlling the seven-member city council.
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ML/NJ
Wow, Hillary sure dumped Rivera quickly....
Only one?
That is interesting news.... Could someone be even more devious than Hillary? It can’t be Edwards because he is a blathering idiot. Obama???
Yet, in the case of Mr. Hsu and now Mayor Rivera, the criminal allegations indicate a cost that can come with quickly rounding up political support from far and wide.
I thought she's known Hsu for years?
How many more scumbag supporters will be outed for their corruption before the msm gets a clue????
Just goes to prove that 10 of 11 Democrats are honest.....well doesn't it? Oh...unh huh. Yeah, unh huh...ahhhh. Now I understand....Ok, OK, so it doesn't work that way.
I can’t believe the NY Times ran this story; albeit on their blog.
If she gave back every dime that came from a corrupt source she would have total of nickle 98.
anybody know if the Clintons will still appear tomorrow for the court hearing in L.A.?
I’m waiting for the other Hsu to drop
And dougfromupland will be in court to observe Paul v. Clinton in the morning. The Clinton Corruption will only end when Hillary is defeated once and for all.
Where is the OUTRAGE over corruption NOW? I am outraged that Mrs. Clintons ongoing abused and ILLEGAL CONTRIBUTIONS don’t merit the same sensure that a republican senator gets for standing in a toilet stall and tapping his toes! COME ON! SHE should be run out of Washington and disbarred from public service ever again! WHERE OH WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE!
LOL! Check it out:)
They already have a clue. That’s why you don’t see any front page headlines. I went after the managing editor of my local paper last week for not printing one story about Hsu. I told him it was a golden opportunity to prove the paper wasn’t shilling for the Democrats. Needless to say, there has still not been one article. Not one.
BTTT
DemocRAT “culture of corruption”
Let’s see the MSM devote the same attention to all of the current ‘RAT scandals that they did to portraying Abramoff’s BI-partisan corruption as a solely Republican scandal....
Yeah, when hell freezes over....
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