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To: Carolina
Geez, I didn't know that mags and newspapers had to pay an author to run excerpts of their book. (or is that an excuse?) Shouldn't the author pay the mag or newspaper? After all they're helping to sell the book.

I wonder what the real story is with this murder-suicide.

DAVIE, Fla. -- A prominent Democratic fund raiser and his business partner were found shot to death Tuesday in a banquet hall they owned, police said.

Jerome Berlin and his business partner, Michael Pecora, were found dead in a locked office on the second floor of the Signature Grand banquet hall in Davie, police said. Police believe the deaths were a murder-suicide.

Dating back to 1997, Berlin aided such well-known Democratic senators as Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Bill Nelson of Florida, according to Federal Election Commission fund-raising records.

He was acquitted in 1991 of federal charges that he and another lawyer conspired to defraud a securities investment firm in 1985. Full story

6 posted on 04/30/2003 5:17:04 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
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To: BigWaveBetty
I wonder what the real story is with this murder-suicide.

Hmmmm...very interesting. Good morning, all. Can't believe it's the last day of April!

8 posted on 04/30/2003 5:27:29 AM PDT by FoxGirl
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To: BigWaveBetty
I wonder what the real story is with this murder-suicide.

Interesting connections there. Makes you go, "hmmmmmm."

12 posted on 04/30/2003 6:08:26 AM PDT by Carolina
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To: BigWaveBetty
No motive for the shootings has been confirmed, but police said Berlin had fired Pecora's wife, Arlene, from her job as catering director at the Signature Grand banquet hall on Monday night. The men had been arguing since the firing, police said.

That's interesting. If they were partners, how did Berlin have the authority to "fire" his partner's wife from the business they jointly owned and operated? Maybe this isn't another of the x42-related "suicide by shotgun to the back of the head, twice"-type of incidents, after all! Do you have to be emotionally unstable to be a Dem supporter? Anyway, here are some of the late Mr. Berlin's diverse and mostly crooked beneficiaries, according to the FEC:

DORGAN, BYRON L VIA FRIENDS OF BYRON DORGAN 03/13/1998 1000.00

HILL, BARON P. VIA FRIENDS FOR BARON HILL 06/29/1998 1000.00

NELSON, BILL VIA BILL NELSON FOR U S SENATE 01/25/2000 1000.00

CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM VIA HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON FOR US SENATE COMMITTEE INC 07/19/2000 1000.00

LEVIN, CARL VIA FRIENDS OF SENATOR CARL LEVIN 04/27/2001 1000.00
05/02/2001 409.00

LEVIN, SANDER VIA LEVIN FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE 10/27/1998 500.00

STRICKLAND, THOMAS LEE VIA STRICKLAND FOR COLORADO INC 07/10/2002 1000.00
07/10/2002 1000.00

JOHNSON, TIM VIA TIM JOHNSON FOR SOUTH DAKOTA INC 10/15/2002 1000.00

REID, HARRY VIA FRIENDS FOR HARRY REID 06/13/1997 1000.00

LAUTENBERG, FRANK R VIA LAUTENBERG FOR SENATE 10/11/2002 1000.00

SCHWEITZER, BRIAN DAVID VIA SCHWEITZER FOR US SENATE 09/18/2000 1000.00

TORRICELLI, ROBERT G VIA TORRICELLI FOR U S SENATE INC 03/14/2002 1000.00
03/14/2002 1000.00

LIEBERMAN, JOSEPH I VIA FRIENDS OF JOE LIEBERMAN 05/17/2000 1000.00

DASCHLE, THOMAS A VIA A LOT OF PEOPLE SUPPORTING TOM DASCHLE INC 06/09/1997 1000.00

BOXER, BARBARA VIA FRIENDS OF BARBARA BOXER 02/20/1997 977.00
04/03/1997 1000.00

BLOOM, ELAINE VIA ELAINE BLOOM FOR CONGRESS 03/01/2000 1000.00
03/01/2000 1000.00

LANDRIEU, MARY L VIA FRIENDS OF MARY LANDRIEU INC 06/11/2001 1000.00

BERKLEY, SHELLEY VIA BERKLEY FOR CONGRESS 06/11/1998 1000.00
06/28/1999 1000.00

HASTINGS, ALCEE L VIA HASTINGS FOR CONGRESS 06/15/1998 500.00

LICHT, RICHARD A VIA LICHT 2000 COMMITTEE 03/27/2000 1000.00

NELSON, BILL VIA BILL NELSON FOR U S SENATE 12/08/1999 1000.00

BAYH, EVAN VIA EVAN BAYH COMMITTEE 11/18/1997 1000.00

CARPER, THOMAS R VIA CARPER FOR SENATE 10/03/2000 1000.00

GILMAN, BENJAMIN A CONGRESSMAN VIA CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR GILMAN FOR CONGRESS 06/09/1999 250.00

GRAHAM, BOB VIA FRIENDS OF BOB GRAHAM COMMITTEE 06/02/1998 1000.00

BAUCUS, MAX S VIA FRIENDS OF MAX BAUCUS 07/19/2001 1000.00

BRAUN, CAROL MOSELEY VIA CAROL MOSELEY-BRAUN FOR US SENATE 1998 INC 04/18/1997 1000.00

PRITZKER, JAY ROBERT VIA PRITZKER FOR CONGRESS 06/23/1997 1000.00

SIGNATURE GARDENS BRAUN, CAROL MOSELEY VIA CAROL MOSELEY-BRAUN FOR US SENATE 1998 INC 04/18/1997 1000.00

KIRK, RONALD VIA RON KIRK FOR U S SENATE 10/10/2002 1000.00

RESPONSIBILITY OPPORTUNITY COMMUNITY PAC 10/20/2002 1000.00

BERKLEY, SHELLEY VIA BERKLEY FOR CONGRESS 05/26/2001 500.00
05/26/2001 500.00

WEILAND, RICHARD PAUL VIA PEOPLE FOR RICK WEILAND 06/25/2001 1000.00

DEUTSCH, PETER R VIA PETER DEUTSCH FOR CONGRESS 04/22/1997 1000.00

GORE, AL VIA GORE 2000 INC 12/14/1999 1000.00

37 posted on 04/30/2003 10:11:33 AM PDT by mountaineer
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To: BigWaveBetty
"People know better than what they hear and what they see."

Think maybe this statement by the stinky one may pertain to the murder/suicide story you posted?
Not sure exactly what the heck she means by this, but when I saw the story last night, I wondered if another Arkincide had taken place. How many people involved with the Clintons' have died now I wonder?

75 posted on 05/01/2003 8:25:50 PM PDT by ladyinred
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