Nobody warned Rosen that his new partners had such colorful pasts, he said. To avoid embarrassing liaisons, Rosen said, Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign staff submitted a donor's name to a three-member vetting committee of high-ranking campaign officials. The campaign also forwarded the name to the Washington law firm of Ryan, Phillips, Utrecht & MacKinnon to be further researched, he said. Donors preparing to host an event -- and emblazon their name on the invitations -- received the closest scrutiny, Rosen said.
Tonken and Paul were vetted and passed, Rosen said. The instructions he received regarding Paul, he said, were: "No remarkable information found. Proceed."
Oh, really? I asked a FReeper, who had access to a university computer, to do a Lexis-Nexis search for info on Peter's court case in Miami in the Castro deal. I had the court case FReepmailed back to me in a very short time. I guess the lesson to be learned is that you don't need to go to a lawfirm to vet someone --- JUST GO ASK SOMEONE FROM FREEREPUBLIC FOR HELP AND SAVE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN LEGAL FEES!
FR is the ultimate information vetting tool.