Posted on 09/24/2004 3:43:47 PM PDT by Simmy2.5
Sacramento -- Two witnesses told federal prosecutors Thursday that they provided signed blank checks to people who later gave them to Kevin Shelley's 2002 secretary of state campaign, in return for reimbursement from a taxpayer- funded San Francisco nonprofit organization, according to sources familiar with the case.
At the time of the donations, neither Steve Chen nor Joseph Chen, the two witnesses who testified before a federal grand jury under grants of immunity, knew who Shelley was, according to a lawyer for one witness and another source familiar with the statements given to the government.
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You forgot to add DEMOCRAT to the title.
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