Posted on 04/19/2004 7:02:20 AM PDT by kattracks
Maybe,just maybe it was the information he had on Bush Sr at the time....just a guess....
Eternal Verities
The Los Angeles Times reported last week that the Federal Election Commission has joined a ballooning, multi-agency investigation focusing on an August 2000 Hollywood gala that raised more than $1 million in Senate campaign contributions for then-first lady Hillary Clinton.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department is continuing its public corruption inquiry into the activities of Chicago consultant David Rosen, who, as Mrs. Clinton's finance director, had a major role in organizing the Hollywood event, held on the eve of the Democratic National Convention and billed as a tribute to outgoing President Bill Clinton. The Justice Department is said to be concerned about possible false statements or other forms of obstruction by one or more witnesses. And a federal grand jury in Los Angeles is said to be examining evidence of related but much wider criminal wrongdoing by several people involved in the city's Clinton-friendly celebrity circuit.
One such person, fundraising impresario Aaron Tonken, has already pleaded guilty to fraud and has cooperated with federal investigators while awaiting sentencing. For instance: Tonken, whom Mrs. Clinton described as "my good friend" in a videotape broadcast at the August 2000 affair, is also a longtime friend of Denise Rich, and Tonken is reported to have talked to the FBI about President Clinton's controversial last-minute pardon of Rich's ex-husband, billionaire fugitive Marc Rich. For now, Tonken will say nothing about any of this publicly. But he may soon break his silence. At an April 15 creditors' session of his Chapter 7 personal bankruptcy proceeding, Tonken testified ...
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