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FEC: Nancy Pelosi's PACs Broke the Law
newsmax.com ^ | Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005 10:35 a.m. EDT

Posted on 10/01/2005 12:06:55 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch

Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005 10:35 a.m. EDT FEC: Nancy Pelosi's PACs Broke the Law

Two political action committees linked to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have been charged with attempting to circumvent to legal limits on campaign giving, the Federal Election Commission has ruled.

According to the March 2004 FEC finding, Pelosi appears to have violated the same kind of arcane campaign finance regulation that spurred the indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay this week.

The San Francisco Chronicle explained at the time:

"The FEC ruled that two Pelosi political action committees created to help Democrats in the 2002 elections were related instead of being independent and therefore violated a rule against giving more than the maximum $5,000 annual contribution."

Mr. DeLay, by then under investigation for his own campaign finance problems, reacted sharply to the news about Pelosi's campaign finance irregularities, saying: "She has violated the law. It's in the facts."

Pelosi operated two PACs: Tean Majority and PAC to the Future.

According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Team Majority reported 16 contributions of $5,000 each from donors who had already given the maximum to Pelosi's other PAC. Five of the donors gave to both PACs on the same day.

Rather the refer the case to the Justice Department for prosecution, however, the FEC allowed Pelosi's two committees to negotiate "conciliation agreements" under which they were fined a total of $21,000.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: 109th; corruptdems; fec; hypocrite; lawbreakers; pac; pelosi
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To: NormsRevenge

Pelosi Facing Federal Probe of PAC Fundraising ^
11/15/2002
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/790022/posts


41 posted on 10/01/2005 2:53:16 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: NormsRevenge
Indite Nancy and make her step down from her leadership position...NOW !
42 posted on 10/01/2005 2:54:11 PM PDT by nopardons
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43 posted on 10/01/2005 2:55:25 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: InvisibleChurch
Please let Lola keep her job!! She is the perfect Rat leader.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighting Troops

44 posted on 10/01/2005 2:57:57 PM PDT by bray (Pray for the Freedom of the Iraqis from Islam)
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To: InvisibleChurch

I want that woman pilloried, drawn and quartered, run out of town on a rail - whatever can be arranged. Not because she's guilty but because she was probably the nastiest of all dim pols re Delay and the "corruption of the GOP".

She also deserves whatever she gets for being just plain STUPID. She had to know she was being investigated for the same allegations.

Just like junketgate - she was the first to demand Delay's head and then we learned that he at least had filed the proper paper work while she had taken trips on lobbyist/special interest tabs but was too dumb to file properly. From now on whenever "Miss America" accuses her political enemies of anything we can be sure it's something she's doing.

How far the house dims have fallen to exchange Gephardt for that. She makes Blank-O look like Maggie Thatcher.


45 posted on 10/01/2005 3:03:21 PM PDT by Let's Roll ( "Congressmen who ... undermine the military ... should be arrested, exiled or hanged" - A. Lincoln)
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To: NormsRevenge

46 posted on 10/01/2005 3:07:50 PM PDT by Itzlzha ("The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote")
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To: InvisibleChurch

Wonder if Russert will have Pelosi on and ask her the hard questions. NOT!!


47 posted on 10/01/2005 3:50:14 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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To: InvisibleChurch
Gee Nancy ... where you involved with money laundering??
48 posted on 10/01/2005 3:57:50 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: InvisibleChurch

This is the last place you'll ever see this article again. This will be uber-zotted by the MSM as fast as a Marxist illiterati is on a Breaking News post.


49 posted on 10/01/2005 4:02:22 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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bookmarking


50 posted on 10/01/2005 4:10:58 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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To: Mister Baredog
Not really a double standard. The FEC (a federal agency) has common sence and often enters into conciliation agreements to resolve contribution violations.

Bid Earle in Texas is a State DA with a vendetta.

Big difference.

Of course, Pilosi is a hypocrite!

51 posted on 10/01/2005 4:13:48 PM PDT by CWW (Mark Sanford for President on 2008!)
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To: InvisibleChurch
The press will only run this story, if there is nothing else sensational enough to obscure Saddam's trial

Libs can't stand the thought that Americans might hear about Saddam's crimes.

52 posted on 10/01/2005 5:29:17 PM PDT by syriacus (Galloway blusters w/ such a "cute" accent. Did Germans think Hitler's Austrian accent was cute?)
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To: CWW
Rather the refer the case to the Justice Department for prosecution, however, the FEC allowed Pelosi's two committees to negotiate "conciliation agreements" under which they were fined a total of $21,000.

No good deed goes unpunished.

53 posted on 10/01/2005 5:45:07 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Sauce, Goose, Gander.


54 posted on 10/01/2005 5:49:29 PM PDT by pepperdog
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To: randita

You've missed DeLay's larger point here. If he's going down for this kind of "laundering," everybody in Congress who does it is going down--and a lot more Dems do it than Reps.


55 posted on 10/01/2005 7:41:53 PM PDT by I8NY
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To: NormsRevenge

LOL! Thanks, Norms.


56 posted on 10/01/2005 7:43:13 PM PDT by I8NY
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To: Terabitten
There is only one answer to this incredible waste of taxpayer dollars: Eliminate ALL "campaign finance" laws NOW.

No, you have to leave the laws prohibiting foreign campaign contributions.

57 posted on 10/01/2005 8:39:20 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1 (Lock-n-load!)
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To: CWW
Not really a double standard.

The double standard is in how the MSM treats various players, OBVIOUSLY UNFAIRLY.

58 posted on 10/01/2005 10:52:46 PM PDT by Mister Baredog ((Minuteman at heart, couch potato in reality))
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To: InvisibleChurch
Pelosi appears to have violated the same kind of arcane campaign finance regulation that spurred the indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay this week.

The old saying applies....."Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"!

59 posted on 10/02/2005 12:52:27 AM PDT by AnimalLover ( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
No, you have to leave the laws prohibiting foreign campaign contributions.

Okay, I'll grant you that one, but it still leaves the same problem.

Foreigners can't invest in US elections.

Foreigners can give money to US individiuals.
US Individuals can give money to campaigns.

I'm not saying that foreign interests should be allowed to donate. I just don't see a way around this sort of loophole.

60 posted on 10/02/2005 5:49:10 AM PDT by Terabitten (God grant me the strength to live a life worthy of those who have gone before me.)
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