ON DEADLINE: Hillary hides behind skirt?
Posted on 11/01/2007 12:17:34 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
It’s time to push.
The well entrenched boulder on the side of the mountain has been jarred loose (finally).
With more pushing, it may be possible to push it over the cliff.
Ping.
Likely illegal Chinese campaign contributions from likely illegal Chinese. A Clinton trademark. Another similarity between this and Swifty’s antics is that the MSM will ignore these little flare ups and worse until their gal is well on the road to the White House. Personally, I think there are going to be some mighty disappointed Clintonites and tons of wasted Chinese PLA dough come November of ‘08.
Other than showing up for a photo op, what 'particularly' did she do for them?
You know it, and I know it...
Why is the AP now reporting this old news? The only thing new about this story is that the Feds have begun looking.
Other than that this is old news.
Sure hope you’re right. It’s about time some aspiring journalist revealed all their dirty secrets.
Hillary Clinton fundraising scandal has a Utah connection
Campaign refunds $9,200 donated by a Salt Lake City couple
By Thomas Burr
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 10/27/2007
WASHINGTON - The campaign finance scandal triggered by a federal fugitive raising funds for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign has a Utah connection.
Clinton’s campaign has refunded $9,200 donated by Salt Lake City couple James and Sherlene Dean. Their contribution was among the $850,000 refunded because of the connection with fundraiser Norman Hsu.
Hsu was arrested and charged as a scam artist who allegedly bilked investors out of $60 million.
He had been a fugitive for 15 years.
Hsu’s company, Components Limited - which federal prosecutors say was a front for a Ponzi scheme - once paid a company controlled by the Deans, The New York Times reported this month, citing bank records obtained by the newspaper.
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The Deans donated the maximum amount, $4,600 each, for Clinton’s campaign in June.
Neither had given money to another federal candidate in the last six election cycles.
Sherlene Dean registered to vote last year as a Republican.
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James Dean declined comment this week to a Salt Lake Tribune reporter who visited his home in the Federal Heights area of the capital city.
The couple’s listed home phone number has been disconnected.
The Los Angeles Times reported recently that Clinton took in about 150 donations of between $500 and $2,300 each from dishwashers, street vendors and other low-wage workers.
Of those donations examined by the paper, one third of the donors couldn’t be found.
The Deans are registered agents for six businesses in Utah, ranging from Dean Bagley Associates to Lonetree Enterprises.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_7295684
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The smell of a bigger story MAY really be in the wind. May God richly bless us with her absence from power forever more.
How did the morning shows cover it? On Monday, October 22, only FNC’s “Fox and Friends” covered the story. The remaining shows, NBC’s “Today,” ABC’s “Good Morning America,” CBS’s “The Early Show,” and CNN’s “American Morning,” all covered for Senator Clinton, ignoring the story.
“Fox and Friends,” at the same day at 7:17 AM, interview “Wall Street Journal” columnist John Fund about the scandal. The entire transcript is below.
STEVE DOOCY: Okay, today on the “Power Block,” Hillary’s questionable campaign bonanza from the Chinese donors. Is it a bad sign of history repeating itself? Apparently there are a whole bunch of Chinese donors in Chinatown who nobody knows who they are, even though they say, according to documents, they gave cash to Clinton.
GRETCHEN CARLSON: “Wall Street Journal” columnist John Fund helps us take a closer look at the issue. Good morning to you John.
JOHN FUND: Good morning.
CARLSON: Alright, so we heard about this, we knew about this ten years ago in ‘96 when there was similar allegations with regard to campaign fund raising. What is the latest situation with Hillary?
FUND: Well, we have these Chinese waiters and dishwashers, people who don’t have a lot of money, who apparently gave $1,000 or even more in various fund raisers in New York’s Chinatown. “The LA Times” looked at this. They contacted 150 of these types of donors. Over a third of them could not be located. They had no address.
CARLSON: That’s a problem.
FUND: And most of those who could be located weren’t even registered to vote. Now, their contributions might have been legal because they were permanent residents of the United States, but many of them, apparently, were ordered to give this money by neighborhood associations that might have brought them to this country. So there’s an element of potential coercion here.
DOOCY: Uh huh, it does smack of the Hsu business of the past month.
FUND: That was just a couple of months ago. Remember Norman Hsu, the fellow who was the fugitive from justice who bundled all of this money. People were giving money that apparently he didn’t have any assets. And the Clinton people said “well we’re really sorry about this. We’re going to crack down. We’re going to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”
DOOCY: And they said “we’ll give the money back.” But in this case, with the Chinatown people, they, if the Clinton campaign gives them money back, the problem is, they can’t find the people.
FUND: Well, yes. And again, this goes back to 1996. And this is why there’s some suspicion here. In 1996 in the Clinton fund raising scandals, which involved a lot of foreign donors and people like that, over 100 people either took the Fifth Amendment of fled the country, so we never got to the bottom of it. But 24 who stayed did plead guilty to various charges.
CARLSON: The interesting thing here is that if Hillary is the candidate for the immigrant, because she said that she is in favor of giving them citizenship-
FUND: Absolutely
CARLSON: -then, in a way, she’s, she’s not, allegedly because if there is coercion going on here, then these are-they’re being given false promises, right?
FUND: Well, she can’t be held responsible for what she didn’t know about. But, again, the Clinton people said we are going to vet this very carefully. Now, Harold Ickes, Terry McAuliff, who were the people who were in charge of the ‘96 Clinton fund raising operation, are now in charge of Hillary Clinton’s fund raising operations. They can’t seem to get it done right. The due diligence seems to be lacking. So again and again, Norman Hsu just happened, they said it wouldn’t happen again and here we are.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/justin-mccarthy/2007/10/22/morning-shows-ignore-another-clinton-scandal
One address was a mahjong parlor. At another, a donor identified as a cashier could not be found, and the building superintendent said he had not heard of the person. Associates of some people listed as donors said they were in China and could not be contacted. Others did not return messages left with families.
All the addresses checked out, except the 25 out of 44 who could not be contacted. All the addresses checked out, if you are AP and trying to save Hillary's reputation.
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