Posted on 11/29/2007 1:25:44 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Host Indicted, Clinton Fund-Raiser Canceled
Mary Jacoby reports on the presidential race.
A Dec. 15 fund-raising event for Hillary Clinton at the home of prominent Mississippi trial laywer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs is off, now that Scruggs has been indicted for bribery.
Bill Clinton was set to be the star attraction at the event at Scruggs’s Oxford, Miss., home. Hillary Clinton wasn’t scheduled to attend. It was the first event that Scruggs, who made a fortune suing the tobacco industry in the 1990s, had offered to host for Clinton, a campaign spokesman said. It was canceled on Wednesday, after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided his home and the federal indictment was announced.
Unlike Norman Hsu, the apparel executive who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the campaign before it was revealed he’d been charged in California with fraud, Scruggs was not a Clinton “bundler” funneling donations from friends and associates, the campaign said.
Over the years, Scruggs has been a generous donor to Democrats, but he’s also given money to Republican candidates. He gave $4,200 to Clinton’s Senate campaign in 2005 but hadn’t made a donation yet to her presidential bid. Scruggs’s brother-in-law is Sen. Trent Lott (R., Miss.), who just announced his intention to leave the Senate before the end of the year.
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And the legacy lives on. A more crooked couple (incapable of doing anything save for what they currently do) cannot be conceived. Gotta love it. Libocrats are so predictable.
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I don’t know why they cancelled it. He’d fit right in.
It's almost funny. Even Spitzer has been "exposed".
What a nest of VIPERS the Democrats are!!! DICKIE is Trent’s Brother in Law and he’s hosting a fundraiser and giving money to HILLARY??? WHAT LOYALTY TO YOUR FAMILY MEMBER! Man oh man....I have NO love for Trent, but this BIL is a MORON and a THIEF.
ANY and ALL connected to the Clintons are DIRTY!! This is just more PROOF!
LOL - another installment of the Klintoons.
ABC will expose this for all to see. Oh, wait....this was not a Thompson event....Never mind.
Did THIS relationship have ANY bearing on Lott’s miserable performance during the Clinton Impeachment???
No prob - CNN pollster Vinod Gupta will be hosting a fundraiser for her next week.
I’m sure he’s busy preparing his YouTube video for the next Republican debate.
hilarious
Probably. Just ANOTHER Clinton supporter going to prison.
Is that a joke? Isn’t GUPTA under indictment also??
At least Dickie hasnt joined the CBC...Clinton Body Count...
...yet
The Klintoon dog and pony show marches on!
The stench of corruption literally surrounds the Clintons and thier backers, yet our mainstream media utterly ignores it, from outright bribery, fraud and corruption, to rigging debates...
The parties are one in the same. Scruggs has given to the DNC, RNC, Clinton, BIden, McCain, Arlen Specter, RNC of Mississippi, and a half a dozen others.
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