[Timeout]

Funny how all these "foreign businessmen" keep coming up with all that cash while supposedly losing their shirts. One would almost think someone was funneling cash through them....nah!

And the coincidences are remarkable: he's in trouble with the FDIC, hosts a fundraiser for the then-president's wife, and - voila! - the FDIC (just as said president is leaving office) settles a $12 million case for only $125k. Amazing.

Lastly, these reporters never tell us anything about how these "businessmen" came to America. Chatwal appears to be a citizen (referred to as an "Indian American"). But, like Hsu, it would be interesting to know more about the process they went through to get here.

[ml/nj]

The founder of the Bombay Palace restaurant chain, Chatwal is one of a growing number of fundraisers in the 2008 presidential campaign whose backgrounds have prompted questions about how much screening the candidates devote to their "bundlers" while they press to raise record amounts.

All of a sudden we are hearing about "bundlers." (I had never heard this term used before a week or two ago.) Do the Republicans have "bundlers" too, or only the Democrats? Maybe the Commodities Scam Queen could provide a list of her "bundlers" to the doting press? Or maybe one of her staff members who must be monitoring FR could post her list of "bundlers" right here on FR?

ML/NJ

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[EdReform]

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