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WASHINGTON - One of New York Sen. Chuck Schumer's top recent fund-raisers is a key figure in the Goldman Sachs fraud case, a review of federal campaign records reveals. John Paulson, leader of the $33 billion hedge-fund firm Paulson & Co., helped Democrat Schumer collect nearly $100,000 in the first three months of this year. Schumer is running for a third term in November. The Securities and Exchange Commission says Paulson's company helped assemble a bunch of bad mortgage securities for Goldman Sachs and bet they would tank, while Goldman found buyers who got soaked for $1 billion. The SEC...

SOME of the sharpest barbs at yesterday's Friars Club roast of Jerry Lewis were aimed at the proud nation of France, cheese-eating surrender monkeys have honored the 80-year-old Hollywood comic with their Legion of Honor. "We owe the French a lot," Stevie Stone told the crowd of 1,500 at the New York Hilton. "They gave us the Statue of Liberty. We gave them Jerry Lewis. At least people still pay to see the Statue of Liberty." Jeffrey Ross cracked, "The French don't even know they stink . . . It's a good thing you live in America, Jerry. If you...