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* Senator John Kerry : Massachussetts senator. Accepted campaign funds from Vivian Mannerud, a Democratic campaign donor linked to cocaine trafficker Jorge Cabrera. Even when other Democrats returned such donations, he opted to keep them. Mannerud hosted an $18,000 Kerry fund-raiser, gave $1,000 in donations and arranged foreign travel for Kerry's staff as recently as April 2000. Though Kerry's advisors warned him that Mannerud's drug connection could prove troublesome, Kerry wasn't swayed. "We accept her word she had no knowledge of Mr. Cabrera's illicit activities," the Herald quoted Kerry spokesman David Wade as saying.- Boston Herald

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[petitfour]

This is an attempt to make Kerry look like he was poor at one time. (comparatively speaking) Where did he live? Who paid for it? (when was his divorce final?)

So Kerry was investigating Iran-Contra at the same time he was accepting $$$$$$$$$$ from drug runners? That's irony.

[aruanan]

The senator's campaign acknowledged Sunday that he accepted the speaking fees, but said he also gave several speeches a year for free.

Not quite the same as being paid for the speeches and then giving the money away.

[r9etb]

At the time of the 1987 speech to Metalbanc, Kerry was chairman of the Senate subcommittee that investigated drug trafficking and money laundering.

How convenient....

Kerry, now the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said he didn't learn about the drug connection to the company or its executives, who also gave him political donations, until The Boston Globe informed him of it in 1996. He donated several thousand dollars to charities to make amends.

LOL!!!! He didn't really "give the money to charity," then. In essence, all he did was pay off the Boston Globe.

All of this stuff is really quite interesting -- clearly somebody is going all-out to unearth Kerry's unsavory past. Now, who would do such a thing....?

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