Posted on 07/28/2004 11:43:50 PM PDT by stockpirate
B O S T O N, July 28, 2004 — As Sens. John Kerry and John Edwards arrived in Boston today for the Democratic National Convention, so did the California man who is their single biggest contributor.
He is Stephen Bing, a wealthy film producer who, with little fanfare, has managed to steer a total of more than $16 million of his money to Democratic candidates and the supposedly independent groups that support them.
"To most of the people who track money and politics, they're like, who the hell is Steve Bing?" said Chuck Lewis, founder of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan watchdog organization.
Bing is perhaps best known for sparking a tabloid frenzy when he publicly expressed doubt that he was the father of actress Elizabeth Hurley's baby. (A paternity test proved he was indeed the father.) He repeatedly has refused to say why he is funneling millions of dollars to the Democrats.
Lewis thinks it is cause for concern.
"We can identify who the big donors are, but how much do we really know about any of them?" he said.
In fact, Democratic Party officials said they knew nothing about the man who law enforcement officials tell ABC News is Bing's friend and business partner — Dominic Montemarano, a New York Mafia figure currently in federal prison on racketeering charges.
Montemarano has a long criminal record and is known to organized crime investigators by his street name, Donnie Shacks.
"Donnie Shacks' main activity was murder. No question about it. That was his main function for the Colombo family and for organized crime in general. He was one of the top hit men in the New York area," said Joe Coffey, a former NYPD investigator.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Stephen L. Bing
March 5, 2001
Stephen Bing made his money the old-fashioned way: He inherited it. The millionaire grandson of New York real estate magnate Leo Bing, he stands to inherit an estimated $600 million from his father, Peter, who serves on the board of Stanford University.
Much of his money goes to support his lifestyle. A notorious playboy, Bing reportedly keeps a permanent room at the swank Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles and has been linked romantically in the media to actresses Farrah Fawcett, Uma Thurman, Sharon Stone, and, most recently, Elizabeth Hurley.
He is also linked financially to national politicians. In addition to the $759,000 he gave to support Democratic candidates, Bing contributed $1 million to help pay for the party's national convention. He also gave $1 million to help defeat a California referendum that would have cut cigarettes taxes and depleted programs to teach children about the dangers of smoking.
Professionally, Bing has been trying to make a name for himself as a Hollywood screenwriter, producer, director, and actor, lending his talents to television's "Married With Children," Sylvester Stallone's "Get Carter," and the Chuck Norris "Missing in Action" trilogy. In 1993, he wrote and directed "Every Breath," starring his brat-pack friend Judd Nelson. The Internet Movie Database summarizes the thriller's plot: "An unemployed actor gets involved with a strange woman who hangs out in lesbian nightclubs and her rich arms dealer husband."
-- Pam Smith
Doesn't Kerry pretty much smell like SH*T from every angle?
any man who would protest fathering a child with Liz Hurley is not a mensch.
i did read that although he has nothing to do with the child that he did establish a sizable trust....not as good as stepping up to the plate as dad but better than nothing.
..on second thought, with 600M that's not much of a sacrifice is it?
Well, lookie here.
http://store.publicintegrity.org/527/updates.aspx
WASHINGTON, April 20, 2004 -
"Driven by a surge in giving by wealthy individuals, political non-profits raised more than $59 million during the first three months of this year, with much of that money going to groups dedicated to defeating President George W. Bush in November, an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity shows.
Three individuals?film producer Stephen L. Bing, financier George Soros and insurance executive Peter B. Lewis?gave $11 million during January, February and March to several "527 organizations," so-called because of the section of the Internal Revenue Code under which they're organized. Five other individuals, all supporters of liberal causes, contributed at least $1 million each during the same period, according to the Center's analysis of reports filed with the Internal Revenue Service."
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The $11 million from Bing, Lewis and Soros during the first quarter boosted their combined total to 527 committees to $26 million since disclosure began in late 2000. Most of that money has come in the past 18 months. Bing's $5.1 million in contributions this year boosted his 527 contributions since 2000 to $9.8 million, second among individuals only to actress Jane Fonda, who gave more than $13 million?mostly in support of abortion rights?during 2000 and 2002.
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"Soros was the third-largest individual donor during the first quarter?giving $1.6 million?while Bing contributed nearly $5 million to the Joint Victory Fund and another $150,000 to a new organization called Americans for Progress & Opportunity, which drew heavy support from trial lawyers. APO raised $1.3 million in its initial filing with the IRS. Lewis, chairman of Progressive Corp., gave a combined $4.3 million to the Joint Victory Campaign, the MoveOn 527 and the Marijuana Policy Project Political Fund. (Full disclosure: The Center for Public Integrity has received funding from Soros' Open Society Institute.)"
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Makes ya think, don't it?
Why does this guy need a business partner?
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Stephen Bing, the sometime movie producer and real-estate heir who caddishly suggested he might not have been Hurley's up-close-and-personal sperm donor, confirmed Wednesday that he is indeed the father of her son, Damian Charles, born April 4.
Were I single, I would have been proud to claim the wee one and would step up to the plate.
Maybe I'm crazy but I can think of worse things than fathering a child with Hurley..lol
Read the article and you will find that the mob person is a mafia hit man!
huh?
At least you know what the Bingster looks like now.
Where is the money from Conservative heavyweights?
It comes from us.
The Democratic National Convention IS the mob!
"Donnie Shacks' main activity was murder. No question about it. That was his main function for the Colombo family and for organized crime in general. He was one of the top hit men in the New York area," said Joe Coffey, a former NYPD investigator.
With a litlle research, bet you'd find he had a close association with WJC too. A few names come to mind of people that met untimely deaths.
Both the Kennedy faction and the Clinton faction both have deep and old roots on organized crime. The Kennedy's Pop-pa Joe made the family fortune by running Irish whiskey into the US during Prohibition and returning weapons to the IRA. The Clinton's are from the Mafia playground of Hot Springs and cash cow of Chicago.
kerry, testimony before Congress, 22 April, 1971, kerry says, "I have been to Paris. I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government,...."*(not on any authorised mission by the U.S. Government or by the U.S. military, kerry and his VVAW group meets and negotiates with the then enemy).
*excerpted from the Official U.S. Congressional Record dated 22 April, 1971.
"revamp the U.S. military", read as kerry's plan to PURGE the U.S. Military of Pro U.S. Military Veterans and Republicans, make it totally dependant on U.N. forces support for any significant achievement capable military(similar to france,germany, etc.), Turn home based U.S. Armed Forces, Intelligence agencies and Law Enforcement agencies into the democratic party's{including CPUSA and DSA} Praetorian Guard!!!!
kerry stabbed U.S. in the back continually since his return from Viet Nam. How much more backstabbing from this 22 April, 1971 testimony(self confessed traitor) before Congress that he(kerry) met with the then enemy in Paris, are we supposed to stand????
Some More Interesting historical news about kerry:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091943/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1160580/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1165078/posts
Some of kerry's friends listed below:
http://www.cpusa.org/
http://www.dsausa.org/
DSA's "Progressive Caucus" Links below:
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp
They are the Enemy Within!!!!
I have at least one or two interesting posts about said such subject matter, below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1165983/posts
And see:
http://tonkin.spymac.net/hanoikerry1.html
More: Communist Party Backs the RATS!!!! below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1171176/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1172055/posts
More!!!! Socialists(DSA) backs kerry!!!! Below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179854/posts
More of the Enemy within!!!!
Even More!!!! Red China Backs kerry!!!! See Below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1180437/posts
Avoid the Socialists/Communists backed johns(not capitolised on purpose) like the Plague!!!!
BUSH/CHENEY 2004!!!!:-)
May God Continue to Bless America!!!!
Some other notables are Harold Ickes, Jr., who later would become the Clinton White House’s Deputy Chief of Staff and Ralph Scopo, former president of the Cement and Concrete Workers District Council, Laborers International Union. Scopo was the guy convicted with Donnie Shacks!
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