What the Hell is this?
Where's the DOJ? They should be all over this.
Where's the FEC? They should be jumping on this with both feet.
Two paragraphs of particular interest are:
"He wowed one investor in Orange County, Calif., during a meeting in which he had Clinton join them "live" via videoconference. From a huge screen, the New York senator greeted Hsu warmly, and called him a 'good friend and trusted associate.' "
"Trying to impress would-be investors, he also dropped names like supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, Sen. Ted Kennedy, "Spider-Man" star Toby Maguire and movie director Steven Spielberg."
Law Firms have been doing this for YEARS.
In addition consider Judges who run for office. If you make a donation to his/her campaign YOU WILL BE REPAID with a conflict attorney appointment. (ie when the public defender’s office can’t represent co defendants in a criminal case)
This “name off a tombstone” donor scam is older than chicago vote counting.
It just occured to me that I put this on the wrong Hsu thread. Talk about legacies that never go away...
http://www.newsmax.com/smith/clinton_donors/2007/09/24/35133.html
Excerpt:
The Clintons have been linked before to donors who used them as an access point to acquire more money, power and political favors. For example, there is the story of Roger Tamraz, a Lebanese oil financier, who was wanted by Interpol for embezzling nearly $80 million dollars from a Middle Eastern bank.
Documents from the files of Ron Brown show that Roger Tamraz was inside the Clinton administration as early as 1994 — two years before he met Bill Clinton in the White House.
In 1994 Tamraz was authorized by Bill Clinton to travel with Ron Brown on the Presidential Business development mission to Russia. The document, an unclassified March 1994 telegram to U.S. Commerce representatives in Russia, orders them to arrange meetings between Tamraz and the Russian First Deputy Minister of Fuels and Energy.
Two years later, in April 1996, Tamraz used his influence to get into the White House. National Security Council (NSC) staffers did not want Tamraz to meet the president because of his outstanding Interpol warrant on the fraud charges.
In the end Tamraz got his meeting and managed to donate over $300,000 in total to the DNC. Tamraz met with Clinton six times, including a long coffee session in April 1996. When asked by a senator if he would do it again, Tamraz replied that he would “donate $600,000” next time.
The Clintons have been linked before to donors who used them as an access point to acquire more money, power and political favors. For example, there is the story of Roger Tamraz, a Lebanese oil financier, who was wanted by Interpol for embezzling nearly $80 million dollars from a Middle Eastern bank.
Documents from the files of Ron Brown show that Roger Tamraz was inside the Clinton administration as early as 1994 — two years before he met Bill Clinton in the White House.
In 1994 Tamraz was authorized by Bill Clinton to travel with Ron Brown on the Presidential Business development mission to Russia. The document, an unclassified March 1994 telegram to U.S. Commerce representatives in Russia, orders them to arrange meetings between Tamraz and the Russian First Deputy Minister of Fuels and Energy.
Two years later, in April 1996, Tamraz used his influence to get into the White House. National Security Council (NSC) staffers did not want Tamraz to meet the president because of his outstanding Interpol warrant on the fraud charges.
In the end Tamraz got his meeting and managed to donate over $300,000 in total to the DNC. Tamraz met with Clinton six times, including a long coffee session in April 1996. When asked by a senator if he would do it again, Tamraz replied that he would “donate $600,000” next time.
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Whoops! This somehow doesn’t sound like good news for the Dems or, in particular, Hillary. If ANYTHING will bring this *itch down, it will be her insatiable GREED! Yeah, I know...they’ve gotten away with it too many times...but that’s the point. The proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back.