God Bless the Kennedy's
Hasn't that family suffered enough?
Posted on 04/23/2005 2:57:02 PM PDT by doug from upland
In-law fraud case stings Ted K, Dems By Noelle Straub Saturday, April 23, 2005 - Updated: 07:45 AM EST
WASHINGTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's embattled brother-in-law - fingered as the FBI informant who secretly taped conversations for a case against a top fund-raiser for Sen. Hillary Clinton - donated money to the Bay State senator and boasts deep political ties to his family.
New Orleans political consultant Raymond Reggie, 43, became Kennedy's in-law in 1992 when his sister Victoria married the senator, and had also enjoyed a friendship with the Clintons. But facing unrelated charges of fraud against three banks in Louisiana, Reggie secretly helped the FBI by recording talks with David Rosen, finance director of Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign.
Rosen faces charges he underreported the cost of a 2002 star-studded gala for her in Hollywood. Clinton has not been charged, and her lawyer has said they expect Rosen to be cleared. But the trial could provide fodder for Republican critics as Clinton tops the list of potential 2008 Democratic presidential candidates. Kennedy declined to comment on his brother-in-law or the case yesterday.
Federal Election Commission records show Reggie and his wife, Mary Michelle Reggie, each donated $2,000 to Kennedy's Senate campaign in 1998 and another $1,000 each in 1994. But ties between the Reggie and Kennedy clans extend back to 1956, when Reggie's father, Edmund Reggie, helped persuade the Louisiana delegation at the Democratic convention to support Sen. John F. Kennedy's unsuccessful vice-presidential bid.
Last year, the senior Reggie rented an apartment in Boston at the Bay State senator's request and brokered a deal among the state's warring pols in order to create the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. Records show Edmund Reggie donated $250 to the senator's nephew, former U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy, in 1989.
Because of the younger Reggie's family relation to the Kennedys and ties to the Clintons, federal prosecutors in the Rosen case sought to shield his identity and have not named him publicly.
Rosen's trial is scheduled to begin May 3 in Los Angeles. He is charged with failing to report in-kind contributions and producing a fraudulent invoice in connection with the Clinton gala but has pleaded not guilty. Rosen's attorney, Paul Mark Sandler, declined comment.
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Reggie had close ties to the Clintons before becoming an FBI informant. He helped raise $100,000 for Clinton's New York Senate campaign. Reggie and his wife were invited to a state dinner for the king of Morocco and an overnight stay at the White House as guests of the Clintons in 2000. He also planned fund-raising dinners and dined with President Clinton when he visited New Orleans, worked on Al Gore's 2000 presidential bid and helped raise money for U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry.
Reggie is expected to face up to five years in jail and fines after pleading guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of bank fraud conspiracy in federal court.
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Kennedy Relative Tied to Fund-Raising Case
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God Bless the Kennedy's
Hasn't that family suffered enough?
Adjacent to the Joan Bennett Kennedy Gutter.
About lost it when I saw this one pal,
Shouldn't it say, Haven't the Kennedys inflicted enough suffering.
Hmm. We've been saying that Reggie would have to roll over for the clintons, just like Webb Hubbell. And I certainly don't expect to see hillary go to jail any time soon. But I wonder. Can the clintons force a Kennedy to roll over without heating up the Kennedy-Clinton feud past the boiling point?
Questions, questions. Pass the popcorn.
Kerry is angry that Dayton recently introduced Hillary as the next prez. Behind the scenes, perhaps the Kerry/Kennedy axis can do her some damage.
That's the way I see it.
Kerry is the winner here, and Reggie gets a lighter sentence.
A win/win for the Kennedy/Kerry team.
At some point the Clintons are going to see a payday. "Be sure your sins will find you out"
HILL: MY $$ MAN 'WILL BE CLEARED'
April 23, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday stood behind her indicted former fund-raiser after prosecutors said Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law taped him making "incriminating" statements about her Senate campaign's Hollywood gala.
"The Senate campaign committee fully cooperated with the investigation. [David] Rosen worked hard for the campaign and we trust that when all the facts are in, he will be cleared," Clinton lawyer David Kendall said in an e-mail to The Post.
Rosen goes to trial May 3 on charges of falsely underreporting the costs of the August 2000 gala — thus inflating the amount of campaign cash ostensibly raised for Clinton at the event.
Sen. Kennedy's brother-in-law — New Orleans operative Ray Reggie — was the mystery witness who went undercover for the FBI for 21/2 years and wore a wire to tape Rosen.
Sources told The Post Reggie never taped either Bill or Hillary Clinton during the time that he was working undercover for the FBI, from July 2002 through last December.
Deborah Orin
I sure hope so. Hillary certainly has never hesitated to damage other Democrats when they get in her way.
HILL: MY $$ MAN 'WILL BE CLEARED'
Thats what she and others said about Bill before he was impeached.
This one will have to be carried by the new media. The ratmedia will not say very much about evil donkey corruption. Nevertheless, this has great potential, great potential indeed. The FBI does not keep somebody wired for three years if they are not getting anything. Imagine what this reggie character got!
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