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Court brief alleges crime by Hillary: Cites fed code that carries possible 5-yr prison sentence
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | January 12, 2007 | Art Moore

Posted on 01/12/2007 3:04:49 PM PST by Mia T

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Friday, January 12, 2007



Court brief alleges crime by Hillary
Cites federal code that carries possible 5-year prison sentence


Posted: January 12, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

 

By Art Moore


© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

 


Peter Paul and Sen. Hillary Clinton (Courtesy Hillcap.org)

A brief filed yesterday in a civil fraud case alleges Sen. Hillary Clinton engaged in criminal misconduct, citing a violation of federal code that carries a possible five-year prison sentence.

Business mogul Peter Franklin Paul, who claims he was the largest contributor to Clinton's 2000 campaign, alleges the New York Democrat solicited and accepted his illegal contribution of more than $1 million and falsified statements to the Federal Election Commission.

Paul's attorney, Colette Wilson of the U.S. Justice Foundation, argues in the brief filed with the California Court of Appeal that Sen. Clinton's actions violated Title 2 section 437 of the U.S. federal code, which states: "Any person who knowingly and willfully commits a violation of any provision of this act which involves the making, receiving, or reporting of any contribution, donation, or expenditure aggregating $25,000 or more during a calendar year shall be fined under Title 18, or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both."

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The Clintons' longtime attorney, David Kendall, told WND yesterday afternoon he had not seen Paul's filing, but he offered a brief response to the charge Sen. Clinton violated the criminal statute.

"Any such allegation is totally false and totally unsupported," he said.


Clinton attorney David Kendall (PBS.org)

Arguing for the strength of his case, Paul asserted "even David Kendall can't argue with the application of the law."

"He's going to try to use some magic tricks to divert attention from it, but Hillary Clinton has never denied any of my allegations," Paul told WND. "Even when she filed a sworn declaration, which is her only comment about my allegations, there was not one denial."

Paul called the declaration "a new first in non-denial denials, in which Hillary Clinton has extended her trademark poor memory to stating that if she doesn't remember something happening, it didn't happen."

Nowhere in the declaration, Paul argues, "does she say Peter Paul was a liar."

Paul's new brief is an appeal pertaining to his civil fraud suit claiming Bill Clinton destroyed his entertainment company, Stan Lee Media, to get out of a $17 million deal in which the former president promised to promote the firm in exchange for Paul's massive contributions to Sen. Clinton's 2000 campaign.

The businessman claims he was directed by the Clintons and Democratic operatives to foot the bill for a lavish Hollywood gala and fund-raiser prior to the 2000 election that eventually cost about $2 million.

The brief filed yesterday is an appeal of an April 7, 2006, decision by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aurelio Munoz, granting Sen. Clinton her motion to be dismissed from the case based on the state's anti-SLAPP law, which protects politicians from frivolous lawsuits during their election campaigns.

But in the brief, Paul's attorneys argue Sen. Clinton violated the federal code and, therefore, according to the law, would not be covered by the anti-SLAPP statute.

In his April 2006 ruling, Munoz scheduled a trial to begin March 27 this year, but it was delayed when in September he ruled the discovery process ñ which likely would require the former president and his wife to testify under oath ñ could not proceed until the anti-SLAPP appeal is resolved.

Paul is asking that in the event the anti-SLAPP order is not reversed, the appeals panel allow him to proceed with limited discovery.

Paul's current appeal likely will further delay the trial date. Wilson told WND she estimated oral arguments for the appeal might not take place before fall.

Paul said he finds it "perplexing" that the Federal Election Commission, in all its investigation and analysis of the funding of the Hollywood gala, never referred to the specific statute cited in his brief.

In January 2006, responding to a complaint by Paul, the FEC issued a $35,000 fine to a joint fund-raising committee that included Clinton's campaign, New York Senate 2000, for failing to accurately report $721,895 in contributions from Paul.

In May 2005, Clinton's former top fund-raising aide, David Rosen, was acquitted for filing false campaign reports that later were charged by the FEC to treasurer Andrew Grossman, who accepted responsibility in a conciliation agreement. Paul points out the trial established his contention that he personally gave more than $1.2 million to Sen. Clinton's campaign, and his contributions intentionally were hidden from the public and the FEC.

He contends his new appellate brief is significant.

"This is the first time a court of competent jurisdiction ñ not a grand jury or prosecutor ñ will be reviewing a charge of criminal conduct against Hillary Clinton," he said.

Paul acknowledged, however, that the appeals court could rule in his favor without a finding on the alleged criminal violation.

Wilson said that if the court does find Sen. Clinton engaged in criminal conduct, the finding would not compel the FEC to take action.

But it would be "very persuasive," she said, and the FEC could refer the case to the attorney general for a criminal indictment.


 

Art Moore is a news editor with WorldNetDaily.com.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2000; 2000election; clinton; corruption; electionpresident; elections; fundraisers; paul; peterfranklinpaul; peterpaul; psychopathy; terrorism
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1 posted on 01/12/2007 3:04:53 PM PST by Mia T
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To: doug from upland

ping


2 posted on 01/12/2007 3:05:37 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T

Good


3 posted on 01/12/2007 3:07:19 PM PST by Seven Minute Maniac
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To: Mia T

I would have figured that guy that almost got ran over by her motorcade would have pressed charges.


4 posted on 01/12/2007 3:07:45 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Judges' orders cannot stop determined criminals. Firearms and the WILL to use them can.)
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To: jla

5 posted on 01/12/2007 3:09:01 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Centurion2000

Aginst who, the driver for almost running over him?


6 posted on 01/12/2007 3:14:20 PM PST by MilspecRob (Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
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To: Centurion2000

bump ;)

It's about time. She's been running people over all her adult (such as it is) life.


7 posted on 01/12/2007 3:14:56 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T

Let me turn on the TV and see what they have to say about this.......................hmmm............... /crickets


8 posted on 01/12/2007 3:15:32 PM PST by true_blue_texican (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: true_blue_texican

;)


9 posted on 01/12/2007 3:19:19 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Centurion2000

Arkancide, soon to happen.


10 posted on 01/12/2007 3:21:54 PM PST by hkp123
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To: Gail Wynand; All
HILLARY ON THE COUCH
IS MISSUS CLINTON MENTALLY FIT?






COPYRIGHT MIA T 2007



11 posted on 01/12/2007 3:22:57 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T

bump , Add another to the list of clintons dead friends ?


12 posted on 01/12/2007 3:25:08 PM PST by righthand man (WE'RE SOUTHERN AND PROUD OF IT)
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To: Mia T
"I have turned on CNN and am waiting for this to be reported by that fine, unbiased, neutral, upstanding, patriotic,..."

Heck, I can't continue that without barfing.

13 posted on 01/12/2007 3:32:19 PM PST by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: righthand man; All
our Putin poison...

There are a lot of ways to make a man's death look like an accident, suicide or a street crime. That wasn't the intent of whoever murdered former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London. By using such an exotic murder weapon — a radioactive isotope known as polonium-210 — his killers sent a message: Don't mess with the powers that be in Russia.

The identity of his murderers is likely to remain unknown, but in all probability Litvinenko was poisoned because of his campaign against Russian President Vladimir V. Putin and the KGB's successor, the FSB. He is only the latest to pay with his life for offending Russia's ruling clique. The list of prominent people murdered in the last few years includes crusading journalists such as Anna Politkovskaya (whose death Litvinenko was investigating), politicians, executives and government officials. Others, such as Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, have narrowly survived assassination attempts or have been exiled or silenced with threats of violence or legal charges.

Alleged tax evasion has been a favorite tool of intimidation. Wielding such dubious accusations, the Kremlin was able to consign Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, to a Siberian prison camp and to expropriate his giant oil company, Yukos. Whatever the state of his taxes, Khodorkovsky's real sin was to bankroll opposition to Putin.

Max Boot
Stop Petting Putin
Dec. 9, 2006
New York Post

THE POLITICS OF DUMPING HILLARY


by Mia T, 6.02.06



KARL ROVE'S MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION: MOI
HEAR HILLARY, CHRIS MATTHEWS ET AL.

by Mia T, 2.28.06
BEHEARTED KARL adapted from ilovekarlrove.com graphic


 

eputation, reputation, reputation. The clintons' reputation--specifically, their reputation for revenge--is, to paraphrase Shakespeare, the immortal part of them and what makes them especially bestial.

It precedes them: IRS audits (Where IS that unredacted Barrett Report already... and why was it REALLY redacted in the first place?), raw FBI files, trashed reputations, intimidation--both verbal and physical, and, oh yes, the deaths. It matters not one whit whether each and every item on this list is true. That it could be true is sufficient threat: Perception--reputation--IS reality.

So it is not surprising that it took the better part of a year for the Left to summon the courage to dump hillary. Dumping hillary is not a reversible act, you see. Dump hillary and you're on her hit list. For life. Yours... which won't be long and happy if hillary retakes the White House and her repertoire of revenge is for real....

So dumping hillary is not your ordinary finger-in-the-air, go-with-the-flow tactical maneuver. It is a lifetime commitment.

Chris Matthews, David Geffen, Mike McCurry and Leon Panetta were on the front lines making that commitment. They had the guts to dump hillary before dumping hillary was de rigueur.

It is not that they understood hillary clinton is a dud and everyone else on the Left did not. Everyone knows hillary clinton is a dud. It is that they put loyalty to party above loyalty to the clintons, and had the courage to act on that loyalty.

But now that "hillary clinton is not electable" is the conventional wisdom and dumping hillary is the Democrat plat du jour, all the weak-kneed, Bush-hating Leftists--which is virtually everyone to the left of John McCain (and would include John McCain except for the fact that he trounces the scold in the polls)--will join the dump-hillary ranks and the dump-hillary movement will grow exponentially from this day forth....

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14 posted on 01/12/2007 3:33:36 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: righthand man
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15 posted on 01/12/2007 3:33:49 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: hkp123

fyi
meant to include you. sorry.


16 posted on 01/12/2007 3:35:50 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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17 posted on 01/12/2007 3:36:17 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: Mia T

Nothing will come of this. Too bad.


18 posted on 01/12/2007 3:36:28 PM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Mia T

When questioned about the scandal, the smartest woman in America stated, "I don't recall."


19 posted on 01/12/2007 3:40:09 PM PST by proudpapa (Forget Rudy McRomney it's Duncan Hunter in '08!)
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I would not sell Peter Paul life insurance - and if I were his wife, I would try to buy some. He had better stay out of Ft. Marcy Park too.

20 posted on 01/12/2007 3:41:18 PM PST by Bon mots
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