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Sen. Clinton accepts donations from troubled firm (refuses to return $170K in donations)
MSNBC ^ | Feb. 29, 2008 | By Lisa Myers and Jim Popkin, NBC News

Posted on 02/29/2008 7:11:55 PM PST by jdm

** EXCERPT **

Sen. Hillary Clinton has declined to return $170,000 in campaign contributions from individuals at a company accused of widespread sexual harassment, and whose CEO is a disbarred lawyer with a criminal record, federal campaign records show.

The federal government has accused the Illinois management consulting firm, International Profit Associates, or IPA, of a brazen pattern of sexual harassment including "sexual assaults,” “degrading anti-female language" and "obscene suggestions."

In a 2001 lawsuit full of lurid details, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims that 103 women employees at IPA were victimized for years. The civil case is ongoing, and IPA vigorously denies the allegations.

"This is by far, hands down, the worst case I've ever experienced," said Diane Smason, one of the EEOC lawyers handling the lawsuit. "Every woman there experienced sex harassment, they were part of a hostile work environment of sex harassment. And this occurred from the top down."

Sen. Clinton’s spokesman, Howard Wolfson, told NBC News in a statement that the senator decided to keep the funds because the lawsuit is "ongoing" and because none of the sexual harassment allegations has been proven in court. "With regard to the pending harassment suit, as a general matter, the campaign assesses findings of fact in deciding whether to return contributions," Wolfson said.

(Excerpt) Read more at deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corrupt90s; corruption; hillaryclinton; hillaryscandals; scandalridden; sexualharresment
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1 posted on 02/29/2008 7:11:59 PM PST by jdm
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To: jdm

How will she explain this to the feminists?


2 posted on 02/29/2008 7:16:38 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: jdm

I guess she figures if Obama Hussein Barrack can accept donations from a non-repentant, Weatherman bomber, then she’d be ok with this.


3 posted on 02/29/2008 7:17:31 PM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: rdl6989
How will she explain this to the feminists?

She'll send Bill out there to explain it. They fell for his explanations 10 years ago, no reason they won't do so again.

4 posted on 02/29/2008 7:22:19 PM PST by Numbers Guy
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To: jdm

Sounds like her husband was running the business!


5 posted on 02/29/2008 7:22:21 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Jeff Head

I hope she puts it to good use and makes Obama/Osama spend about 3 or 4 times as much to counter her!

The more rat dollars they spend now, the less they have for the general election.

6 posted on 02/29/2008 7:23:09 PM PST by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: jdm

“sexual harassment, and whose CEO is a disbarred lawyer” sounds like a normal democRAT guy to me:-()


7 posted on 02/29/2008 7:27:00 PM PST by geo40xyz ((McCain, NOname or Hillarybeast possibility of 4 Supreme Court Justices, Gore @UN. The WINNER is?))
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It’s almost too much, isn’t it?!


8 posted on 02/29/2008 7:33:11 PM PST by jdm
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Big deal. She still hasnt named the charity she gave Normans money to. Clintons and dirty campaign cash-a match as old as time..


9 posted on 02/29/2008 7:34:27 PM PST by cardinal4
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It’s almost too much, isn’t it?!

You have NO idea!

10 posted on 02/29/2008 7:35:27 PM PST by John123 (Socialism is the best choice for those too stupid to be liberals...)
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Give me a break. This is child's play for what the clintons have done in the past, and will disappear yesterday.

Let's talk about Norman Hsu.

Who's that?

11 posted on 02/29/2008 7:40:06 PM PST by Recovering Hermit ("A liberal feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.")
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To: geo40xyz
“sexual harassment, and whose CEO is a disbarred lawyer” sounds like a normal democRAT guy to me:-()

sounds like her husband.

12 posted on 02/29/2008 7:42:05 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
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To: jdm

Here is a story and picture of Abdul Rehman Jinnah, who just pled guilty in his laundering case of money to Hillary. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978628/posts


13 posted on 02/29/2008 7:46:48 PM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: jdm
HOWARD WOLFSON, LYING WEASEL
14 posted on 02/29/2008 7:51:01 PM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: jdm

HILLARY REFUSES TO HELP RAPE VICTIM - http://youtube.com/watch?v=JsO_8xSB_r4


15 posted on 02/29/2008 7:52:38 PM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: rdl6989
How will she explain this to the feminists?

What feminist would ask her to?

16 posted on 02/29/2008 7:54:58 PM PST by Fundamentally Fair (Experience Change!)
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What conviction?

I always thought it was the “seriousness of the charges” with the democrat/Pelosi group... Why change now? /S


17 posted on 02/29/2008 8:00:26 PM PST by az_gila (AZ - need less democrats)
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To: jdm
...contributions from individuals at a company accused of widespread sexual harassment, and whose CEO is a disbarred lawyer with a criminal record, federal campaign records show...sounds like the White House under Bill Clinton - no wonder she sees no reason to return the money......
18 posted on 02/29/2008 8:57:05 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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The federal government has accused the Illinois management consulting firm, International Profit Associates, or IPA, of a brazen pattern of sexual harassment including "sexual assaults,” “degrading anti-female language" and "obscene suggestions."

I don't understand. What's the problem? Sounds like a fun place to work. Where do I go to get sexually harrassed and get obscene suggestions? Nothing like that happens where I work and it's getting kind of boring.

19 posted on 02/29/2008 9:09:41 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: geo40xyz

Doesn’t that describe Bubba?


20 posted on 02/29/2008 9:33:15 PM PST by pankot
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