Hillary Treasurer Grossman Admits Filing False FEC Reports Hiding Paul's $1.2 Million Contribution

Peter Paul ^ | 1-4-06 | Peter Paul

[Rebelbase]

Hillary remain a spotless lamb throughout this entire investigation.

[cibco]

Tony Snow wanted you to call in on this to his show this AM.

[cgk]

HILLARY'S HOLLYWOOD FUNNY MONEY

By Michelle Malkin   ·   January 05, 2006 10:08 AM

Josh Gerstein of the NYSun reports:

A fund-raising committee for Senator Clinton's 2000 campaign has agreed to pay a $35,000 civil penalty and to concede that reports it made to the federal government understated by more than $700,000 donations to a California celebrity gala held to benefit her Senate bid.

The agreement between the committee, New York Senate 2000, and the Federal Election Commission ends the campaign finance regulation agency's inquiry into a complaint filed in 2001 by an entrepreneur who financed the fund-raising concert, Peter Paul.

"The civil payment assessed to New York Senate 2000 resolves the question of underreported in-kind contributions, and there will be no further action on this matter," an attorney for the fundraising committee, Marc Elias, said.

The conciliation agreement, ap proved at a Federal Election Commission meeting last month, has not yet been made public. However, three sources with knowledge of the terms outlined the deal to The New York Sun.

Under the agreement, the committee will amend its public reports to show that Paul's in-kind gifts to the fund-raising concert were understated by $721,895. The committee and its treasurer, Andrew Grossman, agreed that there was probable cause to believe that the filings violated federal campaign finance law. However, the committee claimed that it relied on "reasonable processes" to verify the data it filed.

A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, Philippe Reines, said the senator was not available for an interview yesterday.

Peter Paul comments on his blog:

This amounts to a civil indictment of Hillary's Joint Fundraising Committee and its treasurer for filing false FEC reports for Hillary Clinton. Grossman's agreement with this finding of probable cause by the FEC, that he did file false reports that hid more than $720,000 in contributions made by Peter Paul to Hillary's campaign, amounts to his admission to violating the criminal statute Title 18 Sec 1001, making false statements to government agencies, which Hillary's finance director David Rosen was indicted and tried for in May,2005.

Hillary must now be compelled to explain why, as a candidate who was notified that false reports had been filed by her campaign relating to the largest contribution to her campaign and the identity of her largest donor, she refused to cause the false reports to be amended or footnoted, and why she allowed yet a third false report to be filed by Grossman weeks after she received various sworn pleadings and statements accompanied by checks and invoices.

This third false report, made in direct response to an inquiry by the FEC regarding earlier reports on Event 39- the Hollywood Farewell Gala Salute to President Clinton - was clearly an intentional false statement made with wanton disregard for its truthfulness, with the full knowledge, complicity and collusion of Hillary Clinton and her counsel, David Kendall. (This fact is confirmed by the affidavit of service of process of the civil suit Paul v Hillary R Clinton et al filed on June 18, 2001 and served on David Kendall on July 11, 2001).

Hillary will attempt to spin the finding by the FEC as an exoneration of her other Senate campaign committee and herself, because she was not found to be liable under FEC law. She will not refer to the fact that the FEC has no jurisdiction over Title 18 of the US Code. Her potential criminal liability based on Title 18, for aiding and abetting, conspiring, colluding with and misprisoning Mr Grossman's filing of material false statements to the FEC and the IRS, and then obstructing the federal investigation of those actions that led to the indictment and prosecution of her finance director, is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Justice Department.

Just thought you should know.

[cgk]

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[yoe]

***The FEC found "there was probable cause to believe New York Senate 2000 and Andrew Grossman, in his official capacity as treasurer, violated 2 U.S.S Sec 434(b) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 and 11 C.F.R. Sec 102(c)(8)(i)(A). On December 13, 2005*** (a civil indictment of Hillary's Joint Fundraising Committee)

Couple that with this:(the David Barrett report on Henry Cisneros yet to be released)

....and maybe the Clintons will lose even the MSM to cover for them.

[doug from upland]

Thanks. I found out too late and a bunch of FReepers were yelling at me for not listening and being on the Snow thread this morning. My daughter is here for a short after Christmas visit and I guess I was busy. I hope Tony can have Peter on the show tomorrow.

[doug from upland]

bump

[Arizona]

. . . the necessity is to slime Lady Macbeth so thoroughly that, like Teddy Kennedy in Massachusetts, she might continue to infest the Senate from her "home" state, but will never again be seriously considered for President. That's the goal . . .

Thank you. THIS cannot be repeated enough.

az

[balrog666]

Does anyone expect Ms. clinton to reply truthfully about this? Keep the facts handy as the woman (?) will deny any involvement - 'ya know......................

Expect another puff-piece "Pretty in Pink" non-press conference.

[AGreatPer]

So this is where Peter's effort stops?

I am beginning to understand the meaning of "old news". It can be 2 days old or 20 years old.

Why does Grossman get all the blame when the bitch had to sign off on it?

[doug from upland]

PETER PAUL AND HILLARY, NO. 26

Absolutely not. Peter is getting ready for the civil trial. For five years he has been claiming that they underreported and violated the law. Even though the FEC numbers are off (the FBI documented $1.2 million in the Rosen criminal trial), is has been shown that Peter was telling the truth all along. Now it is time for the Justice Department to do what they should have before --- indict Andrew Grossman for these crimes.

[mcenedo]

bump (;>)

[aShepard]

Gee, I wonder what would have happened if she took $700,000 from Indian tribes. Maybe a slap on the wrist and forfeiting one of her "get out of jail" Monopoly cards??