Posted on 05/18/2005 7:48:40 PM PDT by Libloather
Planner says ex-Hillary Clinton aide hid costs of fundraiser
LOS ANGELES The trial of Hillary Clinton's former national finance director continued today in Los Angeles with an event planner testifying she was ordered by David Rosen to obtain a fake invoice connected to a Hollywood fundraising gala.
Bretta Nock told jurors that Rosen told her to get a 200-thousand dollar invoice for the concert portion of the celebrity bash, when the actual costs were much higher.
Rosen has pleaded not guilty to three charges of filing false financial statements connected with Clinton's 2000 Senate run. He's accused of under-reporting donations from the event, which drew such stars as Cher, Diana Ross and Brad Pitt.
Hillary corruption bump...
Rosen probably already getting calls on how he needs to "do his time" for "La Clinton Nostra"...or else.
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or else someone's waiting for him with a $uitca$e full as long as keeps his mouth shut
Planner says ex-Hillary Clinton aide hid costs of fundraiser
PAUL CHAVEZ
Associated Press
Posted on Wed, May. 18, 2005
LOS ANGELES - An event planner testified Wednesday that she was ordered by the former national finance director of Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign to obtain a fake invoice connected to a Hollywood fundraising gala.
Bretta Nock told jurors that ex-Clinton aide David Rosen told her to get a $200,000 invoice for the concert portion of the event when the actual costs were much higher.
Rosen, 38, is accused of lying to the Federal Election Commission about the true costs of the August 2000 gala that drew celebrities, including Cher, Diana Ross, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston and Muhammad Ali. Prosecutors contend that Rosen deliberately caused campaign finance reports to be filed that claimed "in-kind" contributions of $400,000 for the Hollywood gala, when he knew that contributions exceeded $1.1 million.
Rosen has pleaded not guilty to three charges of filing false statements with the government. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, plus fines.
The case has been closely watched by Republicans hoping to scuttle Clinton's Senate re-election bid in 2006 and a potential 2008 run for the White House.
Clinton has not been charged in the case.
Peter Zeidenberg, of the Justice Department's public integrity division, presented evidence Wednesday showing that production costs for the concert had been budgeted at $400,000, but the amount was later reduced to $200,000 after the event.
Nock testified that Rosen told her to get a fake invoice for $200,000 and that he also eliminated or reduced the amounts of other costs, such as invitations, floral arrangements and decorations, after the event.
Defense attorney Paul Mark Sandler on cross-examination elicited testimony from Nock in which she acknowledged telling an FBI agent a different story.
Sandler showed Nock a transcript of a January 2002 interview with the FBI in which she said that a campaign finance compliance officer, instead of Rosen, told her the $200,000 invoice was needed.
She also acknowledged telling an FBI agent in October 2001 that she and Rosen had never discussed the final costs of the event, billed as a "Hollywood Gala Salute to President William Jefferson Clinton."
The event was bankrolled by Peter F. Paul, a three-time convicted felon who pleaded guilty in March to unrelated securities fraud charges.
It also was co-organized by Aaron Tonken, who is serving a 63-month prison sentence for unrelated charges of defrauding charities of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Rosen's defense team has been trying to persuade the jury that Tonken and Paul concealed information from him about the event's actual costs.
Prosecutors this week plan to call Raymond Reggie, a prominent political consultant whose sister is married to Sen. Edward Kennedy, to the stand. Reggie, who pleaded guilty last month to unrelated bank fraud charges in Louisiana, secretly recorded a conversation with his friend Rosen at a Chicago restaurant.
BUMP
Knock, Knock
Who's There?
Old Crusty
I bet Hillary is watching Rosen through a 'scope, and it's not a microscope i'm talking about LOL.
INTRO
1 - Peter Paul to Make Big Announcement on Hannity
2 - Sorry, Alan Colmes, You Will Not Stop HillCAP.org or the truth
3 - Hillary's Favorite Foreign Donor, Tendo Oto (Part 1)
4 - Hillary's Favorite Foreign Donor (Part 2)
5 - Smoking Gun Demand Letter
6 - Gary Smith, the Concert, and Another Smoking Gun
7 - Home, Home at Le Dôme
8 - Four Dreaded Words for Mike Wallace - FreeRepublic Is Here
9 - Hillary Responds Through Official Mouthpiece in WASHINGTON POST
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Hollyweird moguls are always looking for vehicles to evade the IRS, SEC, and banking laws. So when the Hollywarped crowd cranked up its usual financial hanky-panky machine----and began using the gala as a money-launder----Rosen was scared to refuse b/c it might ruin his chances for a high level job.
How easy it would be to transfer funds----in the form of contributions to the gala, that would be illegally converted, them deposited offshore out of the sight of the IRS, FEC, SEC, and banking regulators.
Classic money-laundering schemes work like this: the gala might solicit a donor to write a check for say $150,000. Rosen would be instructed to then deposit a percentage for the gala, then illegally convert the remainder to another account----perhaps to a putative “vendors” account-----where the donor’s money would be fraudulently converted, then redeposited offshore or into a foreign bank, so that the donor would have access to the funds later out of sight of the IRS, SEC, FEC, and US banking laws.
In another conversion scheme, the gala might solicit donors to write checks for $50,000, then deposit the check into a subsidiary bank account perhaps for “printing costs.” The bank would then illegally convert the monies and redeposit them into a personal, or to a campaign account designated by the donor, out of sight of the SEC, IRS, FEC and bank regulators.
Another scam is when officers of publicly-held corporations provide signed blank business checks to campaign personnel who deposit them in campaign accounts, and later illegally reimburse the donor from other accounts.
Donations can also be transferred to casino accounts, then easily laundered, and illegally converted, by signing up for "high roller" programs.
Did either Hill/Billy visit the Cayman Islands during this time period?
And there goes any real chance of proving Hillary knew anything about it.
This just in. The body of David Rosen has just been found in a dumpster behind the Dave & Buster's of Little Rock. He had one bullet behind his right ear and five more in the back. The Medical Examiner has ruled it a suicide.
| And there goes any real chance of proving Hillary knew anything about it.
Stop saying that it is impossible to prove that "Hillary knew." We can prove that Hillary knew. There is other proof as well, in the form of witness testimony. Hillary is not on trial here. Her trial starts later, also in Los Angeles, in a civil suit brought by Peter Paul. Cool yer jets. One felon at a time. She's going down on this, one way or another. |
I didn't see your link, and will go into my pings to find it before I respond.
A civil suit. A couple bucks here & there & no time for Hillary. In fact, her stock will be up by the sympathizers. You,ve got to get a crip & move on. Nothing is going to happen to these two felons. Nothing. They still have "theirs" in place in important places.
Hey! I STARTED that thread! Rosen better start whithering. Otherwise he'll have a cell mate for the next 15 years. I don't think he cooked the books out of the kindness of his heart. If he did, those above him should've had a cow. Not only did they NOT have a cow, they spent the loot. It doesn't sound like the corruption trail ends here...
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What is the deal with you, man? Yesterday I sent you a link to a letter that was served on Hillary Clinton two weeks before her campaign filed its last report with the FEC. There exists a proof-of-service demonstrating that Hillary Clinton was informed of the "errors" in her campaign reports weeks before they were filed.