Yep.
Posted on 10/02/2005 9:07:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid accepted donations from key Clinton Chinagate fundraiser John Huang - and later pushed for Senate confirmation of the judge who let Huang off with a slap on the wrist.
News of Reid's Chinagate donations resurfaced this week in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which detailed the top Democrat's relationship with a Nevada church whose pastor has been indicted for misusing federal grants obtained by the powerful Senate Democrat.
A federal grant of $423,000 was arranged by Reid for the Alliance Collegiums Association of Nevada, which was run by the Rev. Willie Davis, the longtime pastor of Second Baptist Church.
Reid - a Mormon - has attended Davis's church infrequently in recent years.
Prosecutors charge that Rev. Davis spent most of the money - $330,000 - on personal expenses.
But in addition to obtaining the grant for Rev. Davis' organization, Reid gave his church "$100 in December 1999, $500 in November 2002, $200 in September 2002 and $500 in February of this year from his campaign and political funds," the Nevada paper said.
At least some of that money came from Chinagate's Huang. Sen. Reid donated $250 he received from Huang to Rev. Davis's church in 1997, and another $250 of Huang's money to the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Las Vegas.
But Reid's relationship with the controversial Chinagate figure doesn't end there.
In June 1999, Huang's case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Richard Paez, who had six months earlier been nominated to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals by President Clinton.
Critics says the assignment presented a massive conflict of interest for Judge Paez, a concern fueled by the sentence he meted out to the Clinton donor in Aug. 1999.
Sen. Reid's former donor received a mere $10,000 fine, 500 hours of community service and one year probation.
When Paez's 9th Circuit nomination came up for Senate confirmation, Republicans cried foul.
Sen. Jeff Sessions complained that Paez had violated Justice Department sentencing guidelines that required Huang to serve jail time, calling the plea bargain "a dangerous agreement" and "a debasement of justice."
But Sen. Reid went to bat for Huang's judge, after being asked to reach out to other Mormon Senators by Mrs. Paez, a fellow Mormon.
"That's what I did," Reid told the New York Times.
The argument appears to have worked with Sen. Orrin Hatch, who told Utah's Deseret News, "I cannot accept, in the absence of any supporting evidence, that two branches of the government engaged in a conspiracy" to give Huang a light sentence.
The News reported that Paez won confirmation "thanks largely to a late conversion to his cause by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch. Ironically, Hatch, R-Utah, helped block votes on Paez last year."
Harry Reid will probably resort to his favorite tactic, name calling. So far he has called President Bush a "loser," Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an "embarrassment," and said that UN Ambassador John Bolton is "abominable, mean, unreasonable and bizarre." It won't surprise me a bit if he calls his accusers at Newsmax "poo-poo heads."
Totally agree. Since the Dems hounded Delay, I'd like to see some poetic justice and see the Pubs tackle Reid the way the Dims hounded Delay. I doubt the Pubs will do so. Reid, Teddy, Pelosi, etc., etc., etc., all seem to get a free pass for their [bleep].
Yes Ma'am.
Did you also see...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495242/posts?page=44#44 ...?
Just WOW, hadn't seen the Madison quote you link to in that editorial cartoon/photoshop.
Reid to a "T" As in treacherous, traitor.
Well then, maybe you'll like THIS one too...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495937/posts
Be well.
For lurkers:
U S Congressional Record/Senate
106th Congress
June 23, 1999
pgs. S7483-S7486
The Clinton National Security Scandal and Coverup
Senator James Inhofe
(right column-top)
Worth reviewing ie. hitlery
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In March 2001...
...Los Angeles Federal Court Judge CONSUELO B. MARSHALL also sentenced JOHN HUANG to a ChinaGate $8.6 Million fine & 400 hours of community service to be done in his home country Indonesia. With probation reports to go to the Long Beach, CA's Probation Dept.
Turns out Long Beach, CA was the home of a U.S. Navy Base that the CLINTON White House had tried to turn over to the Communist Chinese in exchange for the China Army Money then flowing thru the CLINTON White House.
Only to finally be stopped by local Long Beach Citizen Acitivsts & Sen. INHOFE (R) in Congress.
The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.
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Let's get this P.O.S. indicted already!!! Makes a ham and cheese sandwich look like a saint to a weight watcher!
I love the sound of your words! Do I dare say that he's a MORMON. I better watch out or the true believer thought police will be offended.
Thanks for the ping...
RE: "Worth reviewing ie. hitlery"
...pinging...
Wait a minute. The Clinton Administration is the most ethical in American history--and the Democrats are incorruptible. So said the impeached, disgraced ex-president himself. Of course, it all depends upon the definition of the word "is."
Bttt
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For more on the CLINTONS failed push to hand over our U.S. Long Beach Navy Base to the Communist Chinese in return for the China Army money flowing thru their palms in the White House...
...see the Book 'Reader Comments'
...for 'The Year of the Rat'
...on http://www.Amazon.com
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Thanks for the ping!
Thanks for the ping!
bill & hitlery klintoon/ treason -without a doubt / Bttt
Polite AND gentlemanly...
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