Posted on 05/11/2005 9:15:48 PM PDT by bitt
LOS ANGELES, May 11 - Before Hillary Rodham Clinton's former chief fund-raiser went on trial here for underreporting donations to her Senate campaign, political speculation has revolved around what if anything Mrs. Clinton knew about his alleged transgressions, as well as what if anything the trial would do to her presidential aspirations (assuming she has them).
A federal prosecutor tried to answer at least one of those questions in his opening statement on Wednesday in Federal District Court, when he told the jury, "You will hear no evidence that Hillary Clinton was involved in any way, shape or form."
Indeed, the prosecutor, Peter R. Zeidenberg, said that the fund-raiser, David F. Rosen, tried to keep Mrs. Clinton's campaign from discovering how much money was donated to cover the costs of the star-studded event at the heart of this criminal case. The reason, Mr. Zeidenberg said, is that Mr. Rosen was afraid he would be fired if the campaign found out how much money he had spent on the August 2000 event, the Hollywood Gala Salute to President William Jefferson Clinton.
Mr. Rosen, 40, is facing three counts of causing false statements to be filed to the Federal Election Commission, all involving the costs of the gala, a concert and dinner with President and Mrs. Clinton. The government says Mr. Rosen reported that the event cost at most about $400,000; prosecutors contend the real cost was $1.1 million. ..snip ...
Mrs. Clinton will not be called to testify in the case, the judge said. But in a brief exchange this morning, Mr. Sandler asked the judge not to tell the jury that Bill Clinton would not testify, either. "I do not know who my witnesses are," Mr. Sandler said, aside from ruling out Mrs. Clinton.
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I like how the prosecutor is ratcheting up the pressure on Rosen, right off the bat.
They're gonna have to put him in a Hannibal facemask before this trial is thru, he'll be singing so loud about Hitlary's 'non-involvement'. ;-)
"I don't recall.....I don't recall....I don't recall....."
The "smartest woman in the world" can't remember a damn thing when she's in court.
Hillary is a lawyer. She gets everyone else to do the dirty work for her. When they go to prison, she walks away squeaky clean. The evidence lands on her door step, but stalls there.
Yeah, and she was just lucky in cattle futures and had no idea Bubba was boinking what's her name('s).
Let's hope so. I think the American people would like that even better than Michael Jackson (ugh!) trial!
So, from what I am reading in Leslie's story, the federal prosecutor is giving Hillary a complete pass....? Basically saying that she is innocent, completely innocent....? I expected to read next that the prosecutor had proclaimed Hillary as pure as the driven snow.
So much for this trial tainting Hillary.
Unbelieveable that the Judge and the Prosecutor believe Hillary innocent before the trial starts and they state that they believe this .
I wonder if the prosecutor is going for a full-court press on Rosen and then expecting Rosen to finally rat out Hillary when it looks bleak. The defense should be calling Hillary if they were really interested in protecting him. We all know that Hillary told him what to do.
It sounds like it, but the trial hasn't even started yet!
Maybe after the trial starts and the facts come out they can charge her separately. That would be nice. It would definitely be earned. She's got allot of bad Karma to pay off.
They've prejudged her as innocent. Prejudged. How insulting. Why bother with a court system when we all know liberal elites are always innocent? The Mullahs in Iran are always innocent. According to the powerful in Iran. So were the killers under Stalin, according to the killers in power during that time. Power has a way, and until now it wasn't our way...
She doesn`t. Presidents are elected. With Hitlery there is always a backdoor.
If she were Hillary Bin Laden, NYC - the home of every unclean bird of the earth - would still give her a job.
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Clinton Judge Blasts Hillary's Accuser
NewsMax ^ | 5/11/05 | Carl Limbacher
Posted on 05/11/2005 2:51:01 PM EDT by wagglebee
It will come down to Rosen's lawyer. You know the drill - - a Clinton crony gets into trouble with the law, the Clintons provide a lawyer that they can control (and whose real job is to protect the Clintons), and the patsy takes the fall. How many times have we seen this?
So, what do we know about Rosen's lawyer?
....by Rosen's legal team, headed by the Clintons' scandal lawyer, David Kendall.
Nevermind.
Rosen is going to jail, and Hillary is walking on sunshine.
That's certainly not what Peter Paul said in regards to his conversations with Hitlery.
It's really nice of the prosecutor to try to clear her name on the first day. I guess she must have a thick file on him.
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