Tape Shows Lawmaker (Congressman) Taking Money (D-La)

In May 22, 1995's "Secret Swiss link to White House death," Evans-Pritchard details revelations that Foster made unusual trips to Switzerland.

Foster flew to Switzerland November 1, 1991 (during early stages of Bill Clinton's presidential bid), returning November 3, giving him just one day on the ground. A year later, he did the same thing, flying to Switzerland December 7, 1992 (during Clinton's presidential transition period) and returning December 9. On July 1, 1993, he purchased another ticket to Switzerland, but never went. He received a refund for the unused ticket on July 8. He died less than two weeks later.

The Switzerland trips were just some of Foster's frequent flying. At the time of his death he had acquired over 500,000 freqent flyer miles.

Coincidently, the $250 million given to Foster in Switzerland, verified by U.S. Treasury agent Leo Wanta, was never tracked down, as recent investigations have uncovered it was headed for the Childrens' Fund, a covert fund created by an executive order and chaired by Hillary Clinton, who supposedly used it as her own personal slush fund.

Pres Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton sign contract to buy $1.7 million, 11-room Dutch Colonial home in Chappaqua, NY, suburb of Westchester County; choice of home in New York removes one of chief obstacles in Hillary Clinton's path as she prepares for run for United States Senate; Pres Clinton's chief fund-raiser, Terry McAuliffe, personally secured $1.35 million bank loan to enable Clintons to buy house; Clintons are indebted by over $5 million in legal bills from investigations that have marked Clinton Presidency; house they are buying belongs to Dr Jeffrey Weisberg and his wife; closing date is Nov 1.

If you believe Bill & Hillary Clinton had 'friends' who were mostly criminals taking money from any place and every place they could put their greedy little hands but the Clintons were pure as the driven snow I have some Whitewater land for sale in Little Rock, Arkansas to sell you.

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According to The Washington Times, by the time of the hush money phone calls, Hubbell had been tied in the press to: 1) An Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) probe into work the Rose Law Firm did for Jim McDougal's Madison Savings and Loan and for the federal government (The Rose Law Firm represented Madison and then turned around and represented the federal government when it sued Madison.); 2) An ethics complaint filed in Arkansas by his ex-Rose Law Firm partners over questionable billing practices; 3) Questions of conflict-of-interest that were raised by the FDIC and Resolution Trust Corp. (RTC) about government work related to his father-in-law, Seth Ward (the same guy who worked with Hillary on the "sham" Castle Grande real estate deal.); 4) An federal probe into whether Hubbell lied about his role in the Madison probe; 5) An FDIC and RTC probe into Hubbell's Rose Law Firm billings.

No congressman with a cookie jar refuses to reach in from time to time, and every congressman has a cookie jar.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21595

On Jan. 20, President Clinton gave Rich a chance for a third "do-over." Clinton wiped all the criminal charges off of Rich's record with a presidential pardon on his last day in power. The Rich pardon has received special attention because Denise Rich raised and donated more than $1 million to the Democratic Party in recent years and also provided the Clintons directly with a $10,000 contribution to their legal defense fund and $7,300 worth of furniture.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/jan-june98/china_5-19.html

The New York Times has reported that controversial Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung funneled $100,000 of Chinese money into DNC coffers during the 1996 campaign. Following a background report, two members of Congress debate the latest allegations.

JIM LEHRER: The possible Chinese connection to Democratic Party fund-raising and to Margaret Warner.
Sen. Thompson: "The committee believes that high-level Chinese government officials crafted a plan to increase China's influence over the U.S. political process."

MARGARET WARNER: Last year, Senator Fred Thompson, Chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee, opened his investigation of campaign fund-raising abuses by making a startling charge.

SEN. FRED THOMPSON: The committee believes that high-level Chinese government officials crafted a plan to increase China's influence over the U.S. political process. The Committee has identified specific steps taken in furtherance of the plan. Implementation of the plan has been handled by Chinese government officials and individuals enlisted to assist in the effort. Activities in furtherance of the plan have occurred both inside and outside of the United States.

MARGARET WARNER: But the hearings ended last October without establishing a Chinese government connection to various illegal contributions made during the 1996 election season.

Then, last Friday, The New York Times reported that Justice Department investigators believe they have established such a link, based on testimony provided by California businessman Johnny Chung. Chung, who made hundreds of thousands of dollars in questionable contributions to the Democratic National Committee, began cooperating with the Justice Department after pleading guilty to campaign-related bank and tax fraud charges in March. Chung reportedly told investigators that a significant portion of his 1996 contributions came from China's People's Liberation Army by way of Liu Chao-Ying, a lieutenant colonel who also is a top executive of Beijing's state-owned aerospace company, China Aerospace. That same year, the Clinton administration was making it easier for American commercial satellites to be launched by Chinese rockets--a move that benefitted Liu's company. Such launchings had been tightly restricted in the past out of concern that they would give China access to technology that could be used for military purposes.

Jewish World Review Feb. 8, 2001 / 15 Shevat, 5761
Michael Kelly

Oops, they almost converted

http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- THE WORD "conversion" has a number of definitions, but only one that is legal. In the parlance of the law, a conversion is, as the new edition of the American Heritage Dictionary succinctly puts it, "(a) the unlawful appropriation of another's property; (b) the changing of real property to personal property or vice versa." To convert something is "to appropriate (another's property) without right to one's own use." There is a fine line between converting and stealing. To steal, says the dictionary, is "to take (the property of another) without right or permission."

The only real difference is one of class and manners. A pickpocket steals. A person to whom, by virtue of position, respect is accorded, converts. It's more genteel-like. It's also not necessarily a crime, which is helpful in the gingerly matter of dealing with a light-fingered person of position; one may "convert" property by accident -- for example, if one mistakenly thought that one actually owned the property.

This issue of manners and semantics and intent arose this week in connection with, of course, Bill and Hillary Clinton. The Post reported on Monday that the world's most entertaining former first couple had removed from the White House and taken unto themselves some $28,000 worth of furniture that did not belong to them: two sofas, an easy chair and an ottoman, a kitchen table and four chairs, another sofa, some lamps and a needlepoint rug. All of these items had been donated to the National Park Service as contributions to the 1993 redecoration of the White House residence.

In other words, it seems the Clintons engaged in "the unlawful appropriation of another's property," in this case property that belonged to the U.S. government.

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Frankly, in my opinion, if he had just not sold secrets to the Chinese that endanger me and my kids, he could have kept the White House furniture. But that's just me.

If he can stay out of the slammer, this stuff will get him re-elected in New Orleans.

It is a resume enhancer for dems. I have seen it in action in a nearby city.

Jefferson puts his D.C. house up for sale -
Aide says he doesn't plan to leave city
Times-Picayune, The (New Orleans, LA)
March 30, 2006
Author: Bill Walsh
Washington bureau
Estimated printed pages: 2

excerpt
http://www.nola.com

WASHINGTON -- His Capitol Hill home is on the market, but Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, says he doesn't plan to leave Washington anytime soon.

Jefferson is asking $799,000 for the three-story, sandy brick town house he and his wife, Andrea, bought in 1998 for $164,803, a potentially generous return not uncommon in a Washington real estate market that, despite a recent slowdown, continues to sizzle.

Jefferson's spokeswoman said Wednesday that the sale has nothing to do with a federal criminal investigation swirling around Jefferson. In January, a former aide pleaded guilty in federal court, saying Jefferson sought bribes to push through a telecommunications deal in Nigeria. Jefferson has denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged with a crime.

The house went on the market Saturday, according to real estate listings. Homes tend to be pricier the closer they are to the Capitol. Jefferson's is a good hike at 13 blocks away.

Still, the house has a lot going for it. It is relatively new, having been built in 1990, and, being an end unit, it gets a lot of light. It has a garage and 2,700 square feet of living area, including three bedrooms and three full bathrooms. Its fully finished basement has access to a private patio. The whole place has new paint and carpet.

This Office investigated whether President Clinton gave knowingly false testimony when he testified in the 1996 trial of Mr. McDougal, Ms. McDougal, and Governor Tucker that he "never borrowed any money from Madison Guaranty," "[n]ever caused anybody to borrow any money for [his] benefit," and "[n]ever ha[d] any personal loan with Madison Guaranty at any time."

* At Susan McDougal's 1999 trial for criminal contempt (18 U.S.C. § 402) and obstruction of justice (18 U.S.C. § 1503) for her refusal to testify about matters that included an alleged $27,600 Madison Guaranty loan to President Clinton, the government introduced two checks as evidence of the alleged loan. The first check was an actual Madison Guaranty cashier's check, dated November 15, 1982, made out to "Bill Clinton" in the amount of $27,600 that was found, by happenstance, among other Madison Guaranty records in the trunk of a car in July 1997 following a tornado. The second check was a microfilm copy, dated August 1, 1983, from the James B. McDougal Trustee account in the amount of $5,081.82 made out to Madison Guaranty. The latter check was signed by Susan McDougal, and the government presented testimony at trial that the amount of the check was precisely equal to the amount of principal and interest remaining due on the alleged loan at the time. The memo line of the check contained the words "Payoff Clinton."

Thanks for the info. I am aware of all those matters. Brings back memories at this site! Most of those matters , though involved political money to the Dem Party and legal defense funds etc which is not what I was referring to. I'm not going to repeat the distinction again.

You think Vince Foster was making trips to Switzerland for fun?

Account code name included "Chelsea Jefferson"

Chuck Hays, CIA contract operative, was supposed to be on the ValuJet
that crashed in May. He was the one who broke the news that Vince
Foster had received $2.73 million from Switzerland just before his
death. It was put into a U.S. slush fund bank account that he
controlled, but it was designated as a "U.S. Treasury Escrow Account."

Yours is a distinction without meaning so please don't repeat it.

First of all converting government property to personal use is exactly the kind of personal prostitution that you were referring to. And for the money for the Rich pardon, one also wonders how much of that defense fund ended up not being spent on defending Clinton's honor but dumped into the old slush fund.

At a higher level yours is a distinction without meaning. Corruption is corruption is corruption is corruption. Whether it benefits via monetary value or via untrammeled power, it hurts the body politic. Did Nixon gain personally from his abuse of office?

There are those who have said that Enron, Global Crossing and all the other corporate scandals were the result of the climate of anything goes that started at the Clinton White House. Our country is worse off for the off-the-charts corruption of the Clintons. Perhaps you need to be an apologist for some one else.