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FBI looks for man who held Clinton, Boxer fundraisers
The Baltimore Sun ^ | March 3, 2007 | ROBIN FIELDS AND CHUCK NEUBAUER

Posted on 03/03/2007 2:00:22 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

WASHINGTON // A Pakistani immigrant who hosted fundraisers for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is being sought by the FBI on allegations that he funneled illegal contributions to Clinton's political action committee and to Sen. Barbara Boxer's 2004 re-election campaign.

Authorities say Northridge, Calif., businessman Abdul Rehman Jinnah, 56, fled the country shortly after being indicted on charges of engineering more than $50,000 in illegal donations to the Democratic committees. A business associate charged as Jinnah's co-conspirator has entered a guilty plea and is scheduled to be sentenced in Los Angeles next week.

...The case has transformed Jinnah from a political point man on Pakistani issues, a man often photographed next to foreign dignitaries and U.S. leaders, into a fugitive with his mug shot on the FBI's most-wanted list.

Jinnah's profile peaked in 2004 and 2005 as he wooed members of Congress to join a caucus advancing Pakistani concerns and brought Clinton to speak to prominent Pakistani-Americans, lauding their homeland's contributions to the war on terrorism and calling relations with Pakistan beneficial to U.S. interests.

...Authorities say that from June 2004 to February 2005, Jinnah directly or indirectly solicited contributions from more than a dozen "conduits," reimbursing them with funds from his company, All American Distributing, a seller of cell phone service and accessories.

The scheme allowed Jinnah to get around limits then in effect on individual donors of $5,000 per year to PACs and $2,000 per election to candidates, as well as the ban on using corporate money for political donations.

...The indictment, handed down last May without a press release, mentions only the initials of the committees that received the illegal donations, referring to them as "HP" and "FB." However, the charging document filed against Jinnah's co-conspirator, Stuart Schoenburg, identifies one of the committees as HILLPAC, ..

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; 200406; 2005; 200502; aad; barbaraboxer; boxer; bundlers; cellphones; clinton; clintonfoundation; clintonscandals; democrats; donations; donors; fundraiser; fundraising; hillary; hillaryclinton; hillaryscandals; hillpac; hsu; jinnah; lacell; lobbyists; london; losangeles; pakistan; pakistani; rop; schoenburg; stuartschoenburg; uae
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To: Lancey Howard
Funny, but when I twice voted for George W. Bush it never occurred to me that he would preside over, and actually enable, one of the most corrupt Justice Departments in the history of the United States. It is an absolute disgrace - - makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

Sad, isn't it???
Due to the Bush administration's TOTAL lack of cleaning
up the garbage from the preceding administration,
one is left to only surmise that the Clinton mob's
"scorched earth policy" is alive and well in DC,
and that many in the GOP have too much to lose
to let justice prevail.
Consequently, I have zero faith in ANY politician.

61 posted on 03/04/2007 3:43:24 PM PST by MamaLucci (God Bless Our Troops)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance; Alamo-Girl; Cincinatus' Wife; potlatch; devolve; PhilDragoo; Cindy; ...

A Google search using the words BCCI Pakistani Clinton yields many fascinating things. This Alamo Girl article popped up first: http://www.alamo-girl.com/0336.htm


62 posted on 03/04/2007 8:39:53 PM PST by ntnychik
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To: ntnychik
Thanks.........I had the pleasure of reading her stuff in "real time", so to speak.
THOSE were the days here at FR.....when most of us still
believed that eventually the Clintons' would be made to pay for their many crimes.
63 posted on 03/04/2007 8:52:30 PM PST by MamaLucci (God Bless Our Troops)
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To: ntnychik; Alamo-Girl

Thank you!


64 posted on 03/04/2007 8:53:50 PM PST by Seadog Bytes (OPM - The Liberal 'solution' to every societal problem. (Other People's Money))
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Thanks for the ping!


65 posted on 03/04/2007 9:05:09 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: ntnychik

Thanks for linking the DSL!


66 posted on 03/04/2007 9:10:51 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: ntnychik; Alamo-Girl

Thank you for the ping ntnychik and thank you for the info alamo-girl.


67 posted on 03/04/2007 9:12:10 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Alamo-Girl

SO nice to see you here! Hope all is well with you.


68 posted on 03/04/2007 9:12:34 PM PST by MamaLucci (God Bless Our Troops)
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To: Cindy

You are quite welcome of course!


69 posted on 03/04/2007 10:09:14 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: MamaLucci

Everything is fine here! I pray all is well with you, too.


70 posted on 03/04/2007 10:09:36 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: ntnychik; Alamo-Girl
A Google search using the words...
A wide variety of keywords brings up Alamo-Girl's DSL.

Alamo-Girl is, IMO, the very definition of Civilian Recorder.

71 posted on 03/05/2007 12:09:16 AM PST by philman_36
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To: philman_36

Thank you oh so very much, dear philman_36! Hugs!


72 posted on 03/05/2007 8:07:55 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Interesting. Thank you for the ping.


73 posted on 03/05/2007 9:29:03 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

bump


74 posted on 03/05/2007 9:50:42 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: Mia T; backhoe; nutmeg; Dutchy

BTTT


75 posted on 03/05/2007 4:03:12 PM PST by StarFan
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Jinnah's case has been handled with discretion by the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles,...

Well, isn't that special. Of course the case was handled with discretion (including trying to hide the identity of the recipients).

I'm sure it would have been handled the same way if the recipient was a Republican (NOT).

76 posted on 03/06/2007 6:23:25 PM PST by mcenedo (lying liberal media - our most dangerous and powerful enemy)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"Shhhhhhshhhhhh *@%#... blankety, blank! Heads are gonna roll for this one! What in tarnation is an American newspaper doing reporting this? Someone's gonna pay for this leak, I tell ya.... That's a durn promise!"

< /Hillary kintucky fried accent>

77 posted on 03/06/2007 6:57:34 PM PST by demkicker (In the minority or majority, I'll never stop kicking dems)
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To: mkjessup

Exactly. Double standards.


78 posted on 03/07/2007 5:09:56 AM PST by Donna Lee Nardo (DEATH TO ISLAMIC TERRORISTS AND ANIMAL AND CHILD ABUSERS.)
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To: Donna Lee Nardo; Cincinatus' Wife
Refresh time for this thread.......

Clinton defends efforts to vet fundraisers

79 posted on 09/05/2007 3:46:28 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: SpaceBar
It's always a wonder why the recipients themselves of illegal campaign contributions aren't held liable.

They are if they're Republicans.

80 posted on 09/05/2007 3:48:03 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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