[AmericanInTokyo]

[Japanese]: "Dennisu Kusinichu wo amerika no daitoryo ni!"

[English]: "Let's Make Dennis Kucinich the American President!"

[Japanese]: "Dennisu Kusinichu shi no homupaiji --eigo ban"

[English]: "Link to the English Homepage Site for Dennis Kucinich"

[Japanese]: "Amerika no heiwa daitoryo ni. Campaign"

[English]: "Campaign for American Peace President!"

[Japanese]: "Nihon kara America daitoryo senkyo ni oenshimasho!"

[English]: "Even from Japan, let's support (his) election as American President!"

Further, there are links to three sites. One is put up by a Japanese citizen, Takeshi Kawagoe, stating it is a "support site for the American candidate for peace."

The Federal Election Commission Smoking Gun:

On hitting one of the links, you are directed to a page which SPECIFICALLY solicits a backdoor way to raise funds overseas for the Kucinich Presidential Campaign in Japanese. It is done under the guise of selling his books, and the organizer even recognizes that contributions by foreigners to a presidential campaign is illegal, however, he has arranged for a way for them to get around it via the Kucinich books. He clearly shows the sales of the books assists the presidential campaign and heralds that there has been good success recently in the book sales. Japanese readers are told how much money to send, and are provided a SPECIFIC Japanese bank account number to make their cash donations to the Kucinich Campaign.

The Dennis Kucinich bank account to receive foreign funds from Japanese is: "Harmonix Life Center, Japan Postal Account # 00110-1-114224".

FReepers, conservative American radio talk show hosts, legal lurkers, FBI, FEC, (whomever), have at it, go at it!

[Consort]

"Goodbye, I'm toast."

[FairOpinion]

Great find!

Soeone needs to do some real digging.

Somebody needs to e-mail the link to this thread to Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, the RNC, and everyone else, maybe some journalist will dig into this more.

[reagan_fanatic]

"What me worry about ethics?"

[Glenn]

If Dennis the Menace wins even so much as the nomination, I'm moving to a foreign country. Probably California.

[Las Vegas Dave]

FYI pings.

[Matchett-PI]

Did any of you think I was kidding yesterday when I wrote this?:

"I wonder how the DemocRATS will attempt to launder their illegal foreign campaign donations this time. Will they try it through Buddhist Temples again --- or will the radical Islamic Mosques be one of the alternative front organizations?"

HERE

[ladyinred]

It is my understanding that this is not legal, but since when do democrats have to obey the law? They don't, and get away with it over and over again.

[sdk7x7]

To whom it may concern:

I am an intern with one of America's great news networks. If someone can confirm that FEC laws are being broken here, I *may* be able to bring this to somebody's attention that could bring this to the public spotlight.

Keep me posted... sdk7x7@aol.com
-sdk

[arasina]

BTTT

[Quix]

I thought it was illegal to receive foreign money for a political campaign--especially Federal????

[Lady In Blue]

ping!

[Sloth]

Nice find, AIT... This rivals William McKinley's outing of 'Terry Wilkinson.' :)

BTTT

[hellinahandcart]

good work, AIT!

[PGalt]

bttt

[redbaiter]

Outstanding!

[judicial meanz]

ping

[<1/1,000,000th%]

For the Dems there's no governing legal authority for campaign finance laws.

[arasina]

I just saw the tail end of a report by Carl Cameron on Fox News Channel regarding campaign funds/"war chests". I heard him mention that Kucinich has such and such amount and still has a million in the bank, or something like that. Anyway, I emailed him regarding this thread, provided the URL and the opening statements of your post.

Carl is a very good reporter IMO and has done some decent investigative reports in the past. I told him you had done most of the preliminary investigation (good job!) and that this could be "nothing" (doubtful) or a BIG story. Hope he looks into it!

[ruoflaw]

Ping!

[arasina]

Hey arasina, why don't you BUMP this thread today? Okay. I will.