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 Scruggss Oxford, Miss., home. Hillary Clinton wasnt 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 hed 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 hes also given money to Republican candidates. He gave $4,200 to Clintons Senate campaign in 2005 but hadnt made a donation yet to her presidential bid. Scruggss 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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