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[Hillary] Clinton Won't Be Deposed in Fraud Case before November
CNS News Service ^ | April 29, 2008 | Fred Lucas

Posted on 04/29/2008 5:36:26 AM PDT by Zakeet

A fundraising controversy involving Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate run that has moved through California's courts for about five years probably will have no effect on the presidential race, given the latest court ruling.

Superior Court Judge Aurelio Munoz of Los Angeles ruled Friday that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, will not have to be deposed in the fraud lawsuit brought by Hollywood businessman Peter F. Paul against former President Bill Clinton until after the November 2008 elections.

The latest court ruling comes after an October 2007 decision by the California Court of Appeals (Second Appellate District) that said Sen. Clinton would not be a defendant in the lawsuit Paul initially brought against both Clintons.

So the recent court ruling -- barring appeal -- could effectively remove any possibility that Sen. Clinton would be deposed on the matter in the midst of a presidential campaign, were she to be the nominee.

Paul's lawsuit claimed that in exchange for producing a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton's Senate race, then-President Bill Clinton agreed to work as a rainmaker for Paul's company after leaving the White House but that he reneged on the agreement, causing investors to pull their money out of the company.

Sen. Clinton's firmest rebuttal of Paul's charges came in a written declaration on Apr. 7, 2006: "I have no recollection whatsoever of discussing any arrangement with him whereby he would support my campaign for the United States Senate in exchange for anything from me or then-President Clinton, and I do not believe I made any such statement because I believe I would remember such a discussion if it had occurred."

The Clinton campaign later admitted to under-reporting $721,000 in receipts from the Paul event.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; clinton; fraud; hillary

I like Rat judges!

1 posted on 04/29/2008 5:36:26 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

She won’t be deposed after Nov. either. She’ll be in the WH. Congratulations Rush and Texas.


2 posted on 04/29/2008 5:39:40 AM PDT by mimaw
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To: Zakeet

Is that a legit photo? I have seen her make these faces. She seems to be getting increasingly manic or on something.


3 posted on 04/29/2008 5:42:34 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: Zakeet

I would go right to the supreme court with the argument that politics should not impede the quest for justice in this case...! Even if the Supremes rejected it, it would put Hillary in the position of having to defend why, during an election season laws that would apply to the little guy don’t apply to her!


4 posted on 04/29/2008 5:42:55 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: doug from upland

ping.


5 posted on 04/29/2008 5:44:10 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Zakeet

Is anyone (media) going to ask the good judge why he’s postponing her deposition until after the election? No.


6 posted on 04/29/2008 5:44:31 AM PDT by Eurale
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To: Zakeet

> So the recent court ruling — barring appeal — could effectively remove any possibility that Sen. Clinton would be deposed on the matter in the midst of a presidential campaign, were she to be the nominee.

How does THAT work??? Aren’t ordinary people either Deposed-Or-Else? Don’t they kind of have the “handcuff-option” in reserve? Or is Hillary special?


7 posted on 04/29/2008 5:45:14 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Zakeet

WOW! What a COINCIDENCE!


8 posted on 04/29/2008 5:48:48 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't Blame Me, I voted for Kodos!)
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To: Zakeet

Isn’t that convenient. I expected nothing less.


9 posted on 04/29/2008 5:50:08 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: Zakeet

Then why should I, or anyone else, vote for her?


10 posted on 04/29/2008 5:50:15 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Please pass the arugula.)
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To: Nailbiter

ping


11 posted on 04/29/2008 5:53:01 AM PDT by IncPen (The liberal's reward is self-disgust)
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To: Zakeet

Figures. Clinton skates again.


12 posted on 04/29/2008 6:33:17 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: Sig Sauer P220

“Figures. Clinton skates again.”

It makes one wonder why Rush thought that she needed any of his help to win. She was going to win anyways, she always gets her way. I don’t know why everyone considered Obama such a big threat. The way it looks now, Hillary is telling Reverend Wright what to do, because he certainly isn’t voting for Obama, I bet that Wright will be voting for Hillary in the general, just like Rush told people to vote for Hillary in the Primaries. Good work Rush!


13 posted on 04/29/2008 6:41:53 AM PDT by rodeo-mamma
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To: rodeo-mamma
It makes one wonder why Rush thought that she needed any of his help to win

If Hillary Clinton ever lives in the White House again, Rush will have helped put her there.

14 posted on 04/29/2008 9:00:20 AM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("a wee bit silly." -Lord Trimble on Hillary Clinton's claim of foreign policy "experience".)
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To: rodeo-mamma

I don’t understand why Obama isn’t bringing this up. Or the segment of the MSM that doesn’t like Mrs. Clinton.

I don’t expect McCain to bring this up.


15 posted on 04/29/2008 9:20:13 AM PDT by Tymesup
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