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A jury sitting in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania convicted longtime political operative Kenneth Smukler, 58, of Villanova, Pennsylvania, today on charges of making and concealing illegal campaign contributions in two Congressional primary elections, and of obstructing justice in an investigation by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. “Today’s convictions demonstrate the Department of Justice’s commitment to ensuring a level playing field in the financing of federal elections,” said Assistant Attorney General Benczkowski. “We will hold...

During his fundraising trip to Los Angeles this weekend, President Obama began by privately meeting a dozen liberal donors at the home of DreamWorks Animation Chief Jeffery Katzenberg. Obama’s “defender-in-chief,” former President Bill Clinton also attended. When asked by reporters about the nature of the event, White House Traveling Press Secretary Jen Psaki would only say that it was a “thank-you event” “We have actually done meetings or events with high-dollar donors who have maxed out or contributed a high amount to the campaign around other events before, Psaki explained. “So this is one of those events; it’s a thank-you...

Since the Obama campaign has refused to disclose their complete contributor list (they continue to hide the identities of some 2 million donors), as the McCain campaign has done, Newsmax estimates that "Obama is financing his presidential campaign with anywhere from $13 million to a whopping $63 million from overseas credit cards or foreign currency purchases." Given the massive voter registration fraud committed by Obama's supporters, the fraudulent votes already cast in early voting by itinerant out-of-state voters, and the massive [alleged] crime involved in accepting tens of thousands of illegal foreign contributions, John McCain and Sarah Palin simply must...

CURRENT AND PREVIOUS WINNERS In this group of reporters, where is the one who will win the Pulitzer for reporting on how Hillary Clinton has so far escaped being brought to justice for the biggest campaign finance fraud on record? Who is going to step up to the plate and help save this nation? GOLDSMITH INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING PRIZE WINNERS AND FINALISTS 2005 Winner Diana Henriques The New York Times “Captive Clientele” Finalists Paul Donsky and Ken Foskett The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Wired for Waste” James Fallows The Atlantic Monthly “Blind into Baghdad” Steve Suo and Erin Hoover Barnett The Oregonian...

Photos, stories, documents, exhibits, civil lawsuit located at The Hillary Clinton Accountability Project -- HillCAP.org CIVIL SUIT LATEST NEWS DOCUMENTS NEWS ARTICLES GALA CONCERT BREAKING STORY FROM OCT. 3 Amazingly, not even Hillary Clinton could not stop it. The WASHINTON POST MAGAZINE on Sunday, October 9 is running an 8,000-word cover story about the largest campaign finance fraud on record. The fraud occured during the 2000 senate race between then First Lady Hillary Clinton and New York Congressman Rick Lazio. According to the government prosecutor's own numbers in the criminal trial of David Rosen, entrepreneur Peter Paul was induced to...

HOWARD WOLFSON KNOWS WHAT PETER CONTRIBUTED.....BUT HILLARY DOESN'T? WHAT B.S. MIDI - YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE SO NICE (scroll down to Lovin' Spoonful) Paul didn't have to be so nice...financially, stick out his neck He gave a million bucks in-kind...it's not like he gave a check Hillary sent a note of gratitude Bill shafted Peter and began the feud...legal feud Paul didn't have to be so nice...we would take what we could get The FEC got false reports...we hoped you would forget Hillary sent a note of gratitude Bill shafted Peter and began the feud...legal feud Paul didn't...

The man whose allegations spurred a four-year FBI probe into an August 2000 celebrity fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton's first Senate campaign is calling the top Democrat "an unindicted co-conspirator" - a claim that contradicts published reports that prosecutors do not consider Clinton a target of the investigation. "She is an unindicted co-conspirator in the true sense of the word," Mr. Paul told NewsMax in an exclusive interview on Friday. Referring to filings by Mrs. Clinton's campaign with the Federal Election Commission that understated the costs of the Hollywood event, Paul noted, "David Rosen was indicted for the same thing." Mr....