Posted on 09/15/2006 5:59:35 AM PDT by bitt
A mysterious $250,000 donation used to bankroll a political committee controlled by a potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, John Edwards, highlights a gap in federal laws requiring reporting of political contributions.
In June, a closely held company gave a quarter of a million dollars to the One America Committee, a so-called 527 organization affiliated with Mr. Edwards, who became the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in 2004 after making a spirited but ultimately unsuccessful bid for the presidential nomination.
A report that the committee filed with the Internal Revenue Service identified the donor as Oak Spring Farms, LLC, and listed an address of 160 Central Park South, which is the location of the Jumeirah Essex House Hotel. The firm's "occupation" was described as "investments/savings." No other details about the company were made public.
However, a search of Federal Election Commission records linked the firm to a Manhattan trust attorney, Alexander Forger. Reached at his midtown office Wednesday, the lawyer told The New York Sun that he was not a principal in Oak Spring Farms.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Corporations and labor unions are not permitted to give to traditional federal political action committees, while donations from individuals are capped at $5,000 each election cycle.'.........
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EDWARDS CAMPAIGN GETS $250K FROM FORGER!............film at eleven........
somethin' fishy?
Soros.
"Several clues uncovered by the Sun suggest that Oak Spring Farms may be a company tied to members of the family of a famous industrialist, Andrew Mellon. His son, Paul Mellon, who died in 1999, had a home in Virginia known as Oak Spring Farms. In addition, according to New York City property records, Mr. Forger, holds a power of attorney for Paul Mellon's wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon, 96."
Forgers and Melons..........
or one of the axis of evil nations?!
Check the list of recent slip and fall settlements ... perhaps you'll find the donor.
It could easily be foreign money. The trail stops with the forger.
Hmmmm ... it that was a firearms transaction, Bloomberg would be all over that straw donation. RICO violation? Laundering of money? Attempt to circumvent the election laws? Bring in some sunshine, sunshine!
$250,000?
That should keep Edwards in hair spray through the primaries.
Nothing to see here, please move along. Edwards is a Democrat, you see . . .
Tuh-RAYYYYZZZZAAAAAHHHHH
Oh this can't be. He is for the Little People. His daddy worked in a meyull.
Re: EDWARDS CAMPAIGN GETS $250K FROM FORGER!............
Why won't Dan Rather openly support John Edwards?
Chinese communists donating to the FOB's already?
I love it. That's money down the toilet.
This is great. - 250 large to position Edwards?
As I wrote, this is great.
Now bring on Bloomberg and Dean.
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