Free Republic

President Obama spent last night the way he spends many nights: hustling for $30,000 and $50,000 checks from wealthy donors at a fancy hotel. CNN passed along this detail from the White House: helping to introduce Obama is Ernie Green, a member of the "Little Rock Nine," a group of African-Americans who in 1957 were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Truly impressive. But CNN didn't include other seemingly relevant facts about Ernie Green. He was a director at Wall St. giant Lehman Brothers, where he worked on...

A federal judge Tuesday sentenced Ernest G. Green to 90 days of home detention and two years probation on a tax charge in the investigation of fund-raising practices in Bill Clinton's 1996 presidential campaign. Green pleaded guilty Dec. 21 before U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton to failing to declare and pay taxes on $30,000 from Charlie Trie, a central figure in the fund-raising investigation of the 1996 campaign. Green also will pay a $10,000 fine. The 27th person charged by the Justice Department's campaign task force, Green had come under scrutiny over allegations he may have been reimbursed for part...