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Thursday Update on the East St. Louis Voter Fraud Trial...Former Belleview "Racist" Mayor is in the spotlight in today's testitmony.Dannita Youngblood 30, testified during the trial of five Democratic politicians in East St. Louis that one of the defendants, her former East St. Louis city hall boss Kelvin Ellis (who operated a prostitution ting from City Hall), told Kern during the October call that the price to pay a voter would have to be increased. In October, Kern (the former Belleville Mayor) was the Democratic candidate for the chairman's job.

WENATCHEE, Wash. - The judge hearing a challenge to Washington state's 2004 gubernatorial election agreed Tuesday to let Republicans introduce evidence that Democratic-leaning King County recorded several hundred more votes than it could account for. Republicans allege errors and possible fraud in the county, which includes Seattle, helped Democrats steal the election for Christine Gregoire, who beat Republican Dino Rossi by 129 votes out of 2.9 million cast. "The evidence is overwhelming that there was unbelievable neglect in King County and, we believe, outright fraud by high-ranking King County officials," GOP attorney Dale Foreman said Monday. Democrats had tried to...

Sandy Berger is caught cramming top-secret intelligence documents down the front of his pants. Dan Rather is caught using forged documents to try to influence a presidential election. John Kerry slanders a million of his "band of brothers" in bogus testimony before Congress and then continues to lie for the next 30 years, claiming that in 1968 he was sent by Richard Nixon (who wasn’t president yet) to Cambodia on Christmas eve (which never happened), hearing the Vietnamese "sing Christmas carols" (the Vietnamese are Buddhists and don't celebrate Christmas) and being fired upon by the Khmer Rouge (which didn't become...

Harrisburg – What do a bar, a vacant funeral home, an abandoned rowhouse and a Democratic Party headquarters have in common? They're all places that Philadelphia residents will be forced to vote in this year's primary election. Even after the illegitimacy of sixty-three polling places was brought to the attention of the Philadelphia County Board of Elections in 2004, the city's Democratic establishment continues to look the other way when it comes to providing a legal, safe, and fair vote. “This year's recently released list includes a whopping one-hundred and twelve polling places that are either illegal, inaccessible, or could...

NASHVILLE - State Sen. John Ford sharply criticized Wednesday both a state board that fined him $10,000 earlier in the day and Gov. Phil Bredesen, who said he will talk to the TBI about Ford's contacting him on a TennCare contract. Ford said the Registry of Election Finance was applying "a double standard" by levying a penalty against him for using $15,320 in campaign funds to pay part of his daughter's wedding expenses last year. He said the "stupid" decision will be appealed. Ford said Bredesen had made "two or three statements about me that are totally untrue. "I'm not...

Springfield , MO - Former Greene County Democratic Central Committee Chairman Steven Stepp has been sued in Federal Court for conspiracy to deny civil and political rights and interference with the right to equal access at a public political event. On his order, the Springfield Police Department handcuffed and detained Claire McCaskill supporters at a Greene County Democratic Event in 2003. Stepp is joined in the lawsuit by co-defendants Springfield Police Department and Choice Hotels. Choice Hotels is the parent company of the Clarion Hotel in Springfield as described in the law suit. According to the Civil Suit, Stepp was...

NASHVILLE (AP) -- The Tennessee Registry of Election Finance has found Sen. John Ford guilty of fraudulently using political campaign funds. The vote was 4-3. At a hearing Wednesday which Ford didn't attend, the Registry also fined him $10,000 for using campaign money on his daughter's wedding. The Memphis Democrat told the election finance board the spending was legal because roughly one-third of the wedding attendees lived in his Senate district. This marks the first official sanction against Ford in a recent swarm of ethical allegations. One of Ford's lawyers, Ed Yarbrough, said he would talk to his client before...

WASHINGTON — A top presidential fund-raiser for the Rev. Al Sharpton was convicted yesterday in a massive Philadelphia pay-for-play corruption trial. Sharpton was not implicated in the case, but the tapes did prompt the FBI to look into whether he'd failed to report any campaign donations, as the just-convicted La-Van Hawkins claimed. Hawkins, a fast-food millionaire, was found guilty of wire fraud, for funneling cash to ex-city Treasurer Corey Kemp, and of lying to the grand jury. He claimed to have helped raise $140,000 for Sharpton in exchange for certain favors. Hawkins and Philly powerbroker Ron White were caught on...

Updated: 03:24 AM EST Sen. Edward M. Kennedy got hefty tax breaks on his $4.5 million Washington, D.C., mansion for at least two years - even though he never met the basic residency requirement for the deductions. While Kennedy resides in Massachusetts, he received property tax credits in 2003 and 2004 on his home in a tony Washington neighborhood that were meant only for homeowners who call D.C. their principal residence. Of 22 senators who took the deduction, Kennedy stood to save the most money in the coming tax year - about $7,700 off the tax bill for his $4.5...

A Senate rider inserted in an emergency appropriations bill in the dead of the night which would close a rare window into political foul play at the Internal Revenue Service was quietly removed Tuesday in Senate-House negotiations. That offers full disclosure of a major scandal that has been percolating for a decade. The rider would have de-funded the investigation begun in 1995 of then-Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros by Independent Counsel David Barrett. The amendment was sponsored by three highly influential Democrats, purportedly to stop leakage of federal money in a run-on program and end persecution of a no-longer-prominent Democratic politician....

MIAMI — Former Broward County elections supervisor Miriam Oliphant said today she will sue Gov. Jeb Bush, claiming race was a factor in his decision to remove her from office amid allegations of negligence and a botched 2002 primary. "My civil rights have been violated and my constitutional rights have been violated by the state of Florida," Oliphant said. Oliphant and her attorney, Ellis Rubin, announced the plans for a federal lawsuit one day after the state Senate voted 32-7 along racial lines to uphold Bush’s 2003 decision to suspend Oliphant, who is black. Oliphant’s supporters in the Senate argued...

An exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation has discovered that millions of dollars -- your money -- went to companies with ties to a very powerful lawmaker. And he may not want you to know what's being done with it. How Memphis came to be known as home of the blues isn't much of a mystery.But what happened after it came to be home to millions of your tax dollars? That, it turns out, is a mystery -- even to the man who hands over the money."That's a question we ask," says Matt Kisber, commissioner of the state Department of Economic and...

In late 1996, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, engaged in a conference call with other Republican congressmen, including then-Speaker Newt Gingrich. Their conversation was illegally wiretapped by two Florida Democrats, Alice and John Martin, who, when caught, were tried and fined $500 apiece. Before they were caught and fined, these two wiretappers actually took their purloined tape recording to Washington, D.C., where they gave it to a then-member of the House Ethics Committee, Washington state's Democrat, James McDermott of Seattle. McDermott leaked this private conversation to the New York Times and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution – neither of which newspapers were ever...

Dems, Repubs enter dodgeball face-off by Elizabeth Skalka Contributing Writer A fierce dodgeball game between the College Democrats and Republicans got out of control last night at the Palladium gym after the Republicans claimed the Democrats cheated to secure their victory. Tensions ran high as accusations were spit across the court and players grew increasingly agitated. Sarah Chambers, social chair for the College Republicans, accused the College Democrats of recruiting suspected basketball players to serve as "ringers," better athletes who are not necessarily College Democrats. "They were cheating," Chambers said. "If you look at the [recorded] tape of the game...

NASHVILLE - Sen. John Ford joined all his Senate colleagues in giving final legislative approval Monday night to ethics legislation touted in some respects as the strongest in the nation. The Memphis Democrat voted after declaring the law would not apply to his much-questioned consulting fees. The 33-0 Senate vote sends the bill to Gov. Phil Bredesen, who has indicated he will sign it into law. The House passed the bill 92-3 last week. Under the bill, it becomes a crime from July 1 hence for elected officials, including those in state and local governments, to accept consulting fees from...

In Nevada, Reid Is the Name to Know Members of one lawmaker's family represent nearly every major industry in their home state. And their clients rely on his goodwill. By Chuck Neubauer and Richard T. Cooper, Times Staff Writers June 23, 2003 WASHINGTON — It was the kind of legislation that slips under the radar here. The name alone made the eyes glaze over: "The Clark County Conservation of Public Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002." In a welter of technical jargon, it dealt with boundary shifts, land trades and other arcane matters — all in Nevada. As he...

The media's out for DeLay's scalp BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I'm not crazy about doing this, either, but I have to. This media pile-on today, circling the wagons around Tom DeLay, the New York Times and Washington Post. Let's look at the Washington Post story. It's by Jeffrey Smith and James Grimaldi. "A six-day trip to Moscow in 1997 by then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was underwritten by business interests lobbying in support of the Russian government, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the trip arrangements. DeLay reported that the trip was sponsored by a Washington-based nonprofit organization....

(CNSNews.com) - While liberal groups press their attack on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, his fellow Republicans continue defending him and DeLay accuses the liberal media of joining the political effort to embarrass him.In a "Dear Member" email sent Wednesday, the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org wrote, "It is time to fire Tom DeLay as House Majority Leader." And the "progressive" Campaign for America's Future is running ads saying that "Tom DeLay can't wash his hands of corruption...but Congress can certainly wash its hands of Tom DeLay." The group also produced a new, full-page newspaper ad questioning DeLay's standards. The MoveOn.org...

Summary: Did taxpayers unknowingly help fund the 2004 election campaign to unseat President Bush? Ignored by the media, a Senate probe has found grants from the Environmental Protection Agency financing a host of anti-Bush political lobbies and activist groups. http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/FW0405.pdf

In what pundits are calling a quid-pro-quo for her hard line on the ethics of House majority leader Tom Delay, R-Tex., House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is under fire for an advisor’s nine-day, $4, 475 junket to Spain and Germany last April, a trip primarily paid for by a nonprofit transportation-research organization Pelosi had helped to secure Federal Transit Administration monies, according to a report in the Washington Times. -snip- Apparently there was little attempt at subterfuge -- with WestStart-CALSTART announcing just before the trip that Pelosi had helped the group secure $1 million from the Federal Transit Administration...

THE WASHINGTON TIMES House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi helped secure $3 million last year for a nonprofit transportation-research organization whose president gave money to her political action committee as the group was paying for a European trip for one of her policy advisers. Transportation adviser Lara Levison's nine-day, $4,475 trip to Spain and Germany last April to learn about hydrogen-fuel cells for buses was primarily paid for by WestStart-CALSTART. But just days before the trip, WestStart-CALSTART announced that Mrs. Pelosi had helped the nonprofit group secure $1 million from the Federal Transit Administration for a bus rapid-transit program. A month...

Anyone would think the Republicans had lost the 2004 elections, and the 2002 elections, and the 2000 elections. From every corner, concerned "friends" of the party rise to offer "friendly" advice. Norman Lear, who produced all those critically acclaimed issue-confronting heroine-gets-an-abortion '70s sitcoms that seem a lot more dated than "The Beverly Hillbillies" these days, has now produced a People For The American Way ad in which a man who identifies himself as a "common-sense Republican" objects to any attempt to end the Democratic filibuster of Mr. Bush's judicial nominees. As it turns out the "common-sense Republican" has so much...

TRENTON, March 31 - In a series of secretly recorded conversations, the Democratic power broker George E. Norcross III made threats, discussed patronage jobs and offered vaguely worded inducements to persuade a small-town councilman to fire a defiant municipal employee. The conversations were on audio tapes released on Thursday by the New Jersey attorney general's office. The tapes, which were recorded in early 2001 by a Palmyra councilman, John Gural, offer a rare glimpse of the volatile but media-shy Mr. Norcross flexing his political muscle: bragging about his access to powerful elected officials like United States Senator Jon S. Corzine...

From: [snip] Subj: 2004 military ballots didn't count Hey, all. Ready for this? Paper says nearly a quarter of all 2004 absentee ballots weren’t cast or counted =================================================== A new survey of nationwide election centers found that 24 percent of those who requested absentee ballots — mainly military personnel — didn’t cast a ballot or have their vote recorded in the 2004 election. The National Defense Committee, a nonprofit group that conducted the unofficial survey, said it’s unclear what happened to the no-show ballots. Some requested ballots may have gone unused, in some cases because the service member ended up...

Why would any person or organization professing to believe in clean democracy object to revealing the names of the people influencing its policy? One such is Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) — a self-important moniker if ever there was one — which has repeatedly refused to tell The Hill who sits on its board of directors, unlike all eight other members of the Congressional Ethics Coalition. CREW’s secrecy is hypocritical. Its avowed mission is to promote greater transparency in federal politics. Its website boasts, “Our aim is to encourage officials to be open about their values and...

Bloggers are swarming around a new target: the Terri Schiavo "talking points." Fresh from declaring victory over CBS News and its discredited National Guard memos about President Bush, some of the same bloggers are raising questions about a strategy memo, first reported by ABC News and The Washington Post, that cast the Schiavo right-to-die case as a partisan opportunity for Republicans to stick it to Democrats. "Fake but Accurate Again?" says the Weekly Standard headline on an article by John Hinderaker, an attorney and conservative blogger who had challenged the CBS documents. While there is no hard evidence that the...

Free and Honest elections are the very foundation..... Those who would work counter to this principle should be held to account and appropriate safeguards should be adopted to protect votes of all citizens.

Continuing its investigation into alleged penetration of Venezuelan solidarity groups in the USA, the Miami-based "El Nuevo Herald" newspaper accuses Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) US subsidiary, Citgo of bankrolling finances of the American Left. The piece has been highlighted in the domestic El Universal, which gleefully agrees 100% with the Heraldo. In the last of three articles, the Miami broadsheet has unveiled a "movement of North American intellectuals defending and broadcasting the virtues of the 'revolution' in Venezuela" and promoting political tourism in Venezuela. The motley crew of US citizens supporting and allegedly in the pay of the Venezuelan government...

Sen. Ken Salazar has backed off the position he took during his campaign last year that Democrats should not filibuster President Bush's judicial nominees. Republicans had been counting on Mr. Salazar, a Democrat from Colorado, as a key vote against the filibusters. His defection is a serious blow to the hopes of Senate Republicans who wanted more bipartisan weight behind their "nuclear option" to dislodge filibusters

JANISZEWSKI Took 100G in bribes. Photo: AP Robert Janiszewski, New Jersey chairman for Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign, who turned government informant after being confronted with his own misdeeds, was sentenced yesterday to 41 months in prison for taking bribes. The former Hudson County Executive was also ordered to pay a $40,000 fine by U.S. District Judge Joel Pisano. Janiszewski, whose influence once extended far beyond his Hudson County base, addressed the judge, apologizing and taking responsibility for his actions. But the judge, in an extraordinary departure from usual practice, denied a leniency motion by prosecutors, who said Janiszewski provided...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) Milwaukee County certified its election results in the 2004 presidential race without reviewing key documents required under state law to verify the vote count in the city of Milwaukee, the state's top election official said Thursday. The state Elections Board launched an investigation into why the state's largest county approved voting results without receiving the materials after the Nov. 2 election, said executive director Kevin Kennedy. The investigation could result in a legal challenge to the outcome of the presidential race because the state used incomplete information to certify the results, said state Sen. Joe Leibham, R-Sheboygan....

House Republicans are taking the offensive in the burgeoning ethics war on Capitol Hill by circulating research that details links among Democrats, George Soros and government watchdog groups that have criticized Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and the House ethics process. The research shows that members of these groups’ boards have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates and political organizations and several of their staff members have previously worked for Democrats. The groups have also accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Open Society Institute, an organization founded by Soros, who spent millions trying to defeat...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal judge dismissed a criminal charge against the former finance director of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2000 election campaign who is charged with filing false campaign statements. U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz dropped one of four charges in an indictment against David Rosen, ruling Wednesday that prosecutors used an invoice from a Hollywood gala as the basis for two counts. In January, Rosen pleaded innocent to charges of filing fictitious campaign reports with the Federal Election Commission that understated contributions for an August 2000 fund-raiser that honored then-President Bill Clinton. Prosecutors said the event...

The concentrated assault on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay by Democrats and their media allies haven't just happened - they are largely the work of a shadowy groups of liberal organizations all backed by one man: George Soros. Billionaire George Soros, working behind the scenes with liberal anti-Bush groups dominated by long-time Democrat activists. So say Republicans, who have uncovered the sinister Soros-backed conspiracy to undermine one of the GOP's most effective leaders and prevent him from concentrating on guiding his hated conservative "Red State” agenda through the House of Representatives. According to The Hill newspaper, Republican researchers have connected...

It's Rathergate all over again, and the same vigilant entities that brought about to the collapse of CBS News could now also cause heads to roll among Democratic Senate leadership staffers and further shame multiple news organizations that would appear to have fallen for another document hoax. Very quietly, Senate Republican leadership aides to both Sen. Rick Santorum and Sen. Mitch McConnell, as well as the Senate Republican Policy Committee, have been using the Senate recess break to reconstruct the purported distribution of a document that media outlets, including ABC News, the New York Times and a number of regional...

Five people, including the head of the East St. Louis Democratic central committee, were named today in a federal indictment alleging voter fraud in 2004. The indictment says the five took part in a conspiracy to pay voters for their votes in the Nov. 2, 2004, general election. Named in the indictment are Charles Powell Jr., head of the city's Democratic committee, along with Jesse Lewis, Sheila Thomas and Kelvin Ellis, Democratic precinct committeemen, and Yvette Johnson, a precinct worker. Ronald J. Tenpas, U.S. Attorney for southern Illinois, also announced that four people -- Leroy Scott Jr., Lillie Nichols, Terrance...

I arrived home to the following vmail on my answering machine. They're going all out to try to get rid of Tom. As a side note, Dave Reichert is my congressman and just got voted in last Nov, replacing Jennifer Dunn (I was sorry to see her leave) This is a verbatim transcription (or almost so) of the message: Hello. This is an ethics alert from We The People, a non-partisan group that fights against political corruption in Washington, DC. Last week, Congressman Dave Reichert voted to make it almost impossible for the Ethics Commitee to investigate the mis-conduct by...

House Republicans are taking the offensive in the burgeoning ethics war on Capitol Hill by circulating research that details links among Democrats, George Soros and government watchdog groups that have criticized Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and the House ethics process. The research shows that members of these groups’ boards have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates and political organizations and several of their staff members have previously worked for Democrats. The groups have also accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Open Society Institute, an organization founded by Soros, who spent millions trying to defeat...

TRENTON -- Republicans are asking elections regulators to issue an advisory opinion on whether a $37,500 campaign donation by the mother of U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine violated state election laws. The donation to the Bergen County Democratic Committee came during the same election cycle the Democratic gubernatorial candidate himself donated $37,500 to the organization. Tom Wilson, chairman of the Republican State committee, has called for the state Election Law Enforcement Commission to issue the opinion as a preliminary means of whether Corzine, D-N.J., used his mother as a proxy to skirt finance laws.

Republican state officials asked election regulators on Tuesday to examine campaign donations made by the mother of Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine. In a separate press release, they zeroed in on a $37,000 contribution she made to the Bergen County Democratic Organization on Oct. 14. The donation by 89-year-old Nancy Corzine was the maximum allowed under law. Her son, a candidate for governor, matched that contribution five days later.

The Oregon State Bar has cleared Clackamas County prosecutor Alfred French of ethics violations when he lied years ago to his former boss about an interoffice affair and when he participated in a presidential campaign ad last year that said Democratic Sen. John Kerry lied about his Vietnam War record. The bar's nine-member Professional Responsibility Board on Saturday put to rest its investigation, dismissing more than 60 complaints that French's actions involved dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation. The state bar is the regulating organization that licenses and disciplines attorneys in Oregon. The ruling means that the 59-year-old father of three...

Fraudulent voting is a cancer eating away at Lady Liberty. The White House and Congress should cure it — now. Last week’s Musings — done I must admit over a Manhattan instead of a martini, but at least the alliteration was preserved — described Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed redistricting reform as trumping all of his other proposals in importance because whether the other initiatives rise or fall, fair district lines make possible, and with time even likely, the election of a GOP majority or near majority that could then attend to any remaining issues. Without redistricting reform, an endless string...

HARRISBURG -- Federal agents have seized computer files from legislative offices of a powerful Philadelphia lawmaker whose role in directing public and private funds to community and nonprofit groups has been under investigation, according to published reports. The seizure occurred after a lawyer for Democratic Sen. Vincent J. Fumo unsuccessfully sought help from Senate leaders, arguing that Fumo's legislative computers should be out of the reach of federal authorities, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, citing unidentified sources familiar with the investigation. Federal authorities have been investigating how Fumo has helped direct funds to organizations including Citizens Alliance for Better Neighborhoods, a...

TALLAHASSEE- State Sen. Mandy Dawson of Fort Lauderdale asked lobbyists to help pay for a trip she took earlier this year, a move that may have violated state law as well as Senate rules. Calling it a ''once in a lifetime opportunity,'' State Sen. Mandy Dawson wanted to go with several fellow lawmakers on an economic development mission to South Africa in late January. But the Fort Lauderdale Democrat didn't have the $2,500 needed for the trip, so she turned to some of those who need help from her in Tallahassee: lobbyists. Dawson sent out letters on official Senate letterhead...

A former aide to U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing more than $400,000 in campaign funds partly to buy gifts for men he met through the Internet. Roger Blevins III, 34, a former assistant campaign treasurer for Biden, was sentenced in federal court Thursday after pleading guilty last year to two charges, including interstate transportation of stolen property. Assistant U.S. Attorney April Byrd said Blevins wanted to play "sugar daddy" to three Florida men he met online. Prosecutors alleged he made almost two dozen improper transfers or withdrawals from Biden's account in...

Omygosh! MoveOn.org, disgruntled Democrats and even PEST (post election stress trauma) sufferers were absolutely correct about vote fraud, especially in black neighborhoods, in Florida during last November's election. Mayor Buddy Dyer, a judge and two campaign workers surrendered Friday on a felony charge of paying for the collection of absentee ballots in last year's election. . . .The indictments had been issued a day earlier by a grand jury that was looking at whether Thomas had illegally collected absentee ballots in predominantly black neighborhoods before the March 2004 election. So, sadly it is true--once again, blacks down South are still...

ORLANDO, Fla., March 11 - Mayor Buddy Dyer turned himself in on Friday to face a felony charge of paying someone to collect absentee ballots before his election in a tight race last year. Gov. Jeb Bush swiftly suspended Mr. Dyer, as required by Florida law, in a case that has roiled this city for months and even caused a brief firestorm in the presidential election. A grand jury handed up sealed indictments on Thursday for Mr. Dyer and three others: Patricia Beatty Phillips, his campaign manager; Ezzie Thomas, who worked for the Dyer campaign as a get-out-the-vote consultant; and...

It's all spend but no tax these days for six state lawmakers who revenue officials say failed to file income tax returns while voting to spend billions of dollars paid by others.      The delinquent pols, all Democratic members of the House, include Rep. Byron Rushing (D-South End), a top lieutenant to Speaker Sal DiMasi, and Rep. David Linsky (D-Framingham,) a former prosecutor eying a run for Middlesex district attorney.      They were joined on the Department of Revenue non-filing list by fellow lawmakers Colleen M. Garry (D-Dracut), chairwoman of the Personnel and Administration Committee; Rep. Anne M. Gobi (D-Spencer), Rep. Sean...

A wealthy businessman who hosted a fraudulent fund-raiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton pleaded guilty yesterday to an unrelated federal securities fraud scheme..... Peter Paul, a potential key witness in the fund-raising case, faces 10 years in jail for stock fraud after deceiving investors who put money into his Stan Lee Media company.....to promote characters from Marvel Comics group. .....Paul vowed to testify against Clinton's former finance director, who was indicted for lying to authorities about the cost of a party Paul hosted for Clinton. David Rosen, a Chicago entrepreneur who was finance director of Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign, was...

Man in Clinton fund-raiser probe pleads guilty to unrelated charges Wedding Services Search By FRANK ELTMAN Associated Press Writer March 8, 2005, 6:09 PM EST NEW YORK -- A businessman involved in the investigation of alleged fund-raising violations during Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign pleaded guilty Tuesday to unrelated charges, prosecutors said. Peter F. Paul, 56, of Asheville, N.C., admitted committing securities fraud in an appearance before U.S. District Judge Leonard D. Wexler in Central Islip, on Long Island. The charge stemmed from Paul's role in manipulating the price of Stan Lee Media common stock, including transactions in which...