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..."The largest fine, $120,000, was paid by the International Buddhist Progress Society, which operates the Hsi Lai Temple in California, the site of an April 1996 luncheon attended by Vice President Al Gore. The national committee paid a $115,000 fine and agreed to turn over to the Treasury $128,000 it had received in illegal contributions. The Clinton/Gore '96 Primary Committee paid a $2,000 fine, the records also show."...

So let me see if I understand this. Maria Hsia spent time in jail but her pals at the Buddhist temple paid a $120k fine, the DNC coughs up another $115k in fines and returns the $128k it received in donations, and Slick/Whore pitch in a paltry $2k.

It's early, but if there's a controlling criminal authority for Ms Hsia why is there only a controlling civil authority for the DNC and Slick/Whore? Second, the facts in the case seemed clear enough in 1998 for Ms Hsia to go to jail. Why did it take this long for FEC to make its ruling? Wouldn't it have be better for our democracy to inform the voters in 2000 about AlWhore's illegal activity from his 1996 campaign?

Fred Thompson's commitee was steam-rolled and this proves it. John Glenn is a pimp. The whole thing stinks and leads me to think we won't know the whole story on the Marc Rich pardon crime until sometime in 2010.

Pathetic.

Where is Maria Hsia now?

SNIP ... Here's the rest of the story that the mainstream media has yet to report. On Feb. 6, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman finally handed Hsia her sentence: a puny 90 days of home detention and three years of probation, along with a fine and assessment of $5,300.

Judge Friedman's slap on the wrist is no surprise. A Clinton appointee, he was assigned to the Hsia case by Norma Holloway Johnson -- another Clinton appointee who serves as the chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Johnson bypassed the court's usual computer-randomized assignment system and somehow miraculously ended up assigning fellow Clinton judicial appointees to oversee six criminal cases involving Democratic fund-raisers and Clinton crony Webster Hubbell... SNIP ...