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Politically connected consultant gets 12 months The Associated Press November 29. 2005 4:52PM Raymond Reggie, a media consultant and son of a politically prominent former Louisiana judge, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 months in prison for bank fraud. Reggie pleaded guilty earlier this year to one count of bank fraud and one count of bank fraud conspiracy involving a scheme to cheat banks in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier gave Reggie 12 months on each charge, and ordered the sentences to be served at the same time. Reggies also was ordered to serve three years...

EXCERPT FROM --- HOUSE OF CARDS House Of Cards What do Cher, a Hollywood con man, a political rising star and an audacious felon have in common? Together they gave Bill and Hillary Clinton a night they'll never forget -- no matter how hard they may try By April Witt Sunday, October 9, 2005; Page W10 The caller lied easily. He'd had practice. It was Raymond Reggie, a New Orleans businessman and Democratic activist who happened to be Sen. Edward Kennedy's brother-in-law. He also happened to be in a lot of trouble.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's brother-in-law testified Thursday that he wore a concealed device to record a conversation with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's former finance director, David Rosen, in advance of Rosen's indictment on campaign finance charges. Rosen is on trial in Los Angeles on charges of underreporting several hundred thousand dollars in costs for a lavish Hollywood fundraiser in 2000.At the outset of his testimony, Raymond Reggie, a member of a politically prominent Louisiana family, acknowledged having pleaded guilty last month to federal check kiting and conspiracy charges. Reggie, whose sister is married to Kennedy, said he hoped to win...

Secretly recorded audiotapes that helped drive the prosecution of Hillary Clinton's one-time finance director David Rosen have prompted investigations into the fund-raising activities of other top Democratic figures, a newspaper familiar with the contents of those tapes reported on Friday. Ted Kennedy brother-in-law Raymond Reggie agreed to wear a wire for the FBI in 2002 while facing bank fraud and conspiracy charges in another case. It was Reggie's tapes that captured Rosen making incriminating statements about his role in an August 2000 gala fund-raiser for Mrs. Clinton. But according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Reggie's tapes have helped instigate at...

HILLARY CLINTON Hollywood event a flop in '00. One of Hillary Clinton's top aides threw a hissy fit over the high costs of an extravagant Hollywood fund-raiser .......... Ray Reggie, the brother-in-law of Sen. Ted Kennedy, testified..... that Clinton aide Kelly Craighead was upset days before the August 2000 soiree. Craighead and Rosen argued "pretty hard" about the lavish fund-raiser, said Reggie, who got involved in raising cash for the campaign at the behest of then-President Bill Clinton. "Kelly was concerned about how much money was going to be made at the event," Reggie testified....... Rosen, who is charged...

-- Sen. Edward Kennedy's brother-in-law testified in federal court Thursday against the former national finance director of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2000 campaign, who is accused of lying to regulators about the cost of a lavish Hollywood fundraiser. Raymond Reggie, a prominent political consultant whose sister is married to Kennedy, testified that David Rosen said event producers were charging $500,000 _ $100,000 more than was reported to the Federal Election Commission.Rosen, 38, is accused of lying to the Federal Election Commission about the true costs of the August 2000 gala that drew celebrities, including Cher, Diana Ross, Brad Pitt, Jennifer...

In a surprise move that shocked even the judge at the trial of Hillary's Clinton's former finance director, David Rosen - prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg announced yesterday that he would not introduce the government's strongest evidence that Rosen was guilty - the Hillary aide's own tape recorded admission implicating him in election fraud. "The government does not intend to introduce the tape or elicit any testimony from the witness about that conversation," Zeidenberg told Judge A. Howard Matz. Judge Matz was stunned by Zeidenberg's announcement, and hinted that the Bush prosecutor was throwing away his case. "You couldn't keep [the tape]...

HILL AIDE'S FUND TRIAL DEBUGGED By KENNETH LOVETT May 18, 2005 -- LOS ANGELES — In a courthouse shocker, Sen. Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law won't be asked about a conversation he secretly recorded for the FBI when he testifies today against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's former chief fund-raiser, a prosecutor revealed yesterday. "The government does not intend to introduce the tape or elicit any testimony about that conversation," federal prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg told a judge before the trial of ex-Clinton fund-raiser David Rosen resumed yesterday after a four-day break. While Zeidenberg did not mention Kennedy's brother-in-law, Ray Reggie, by name, he...

A mounting number of aides, advisors and fundraisers for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton have faced criminal prosecution in recent months, conjuring up memories of her ethically challenged past just as Democrats begin to focus on the former first lady as their probable 2008 presidential nominee. Though press coverage of the trial of Sen. Clinton's finance director, David Rosen, was sparse last week, the case has brought attention to the prosecutions of at least three more Clinton fundraisers. And that's on top of the plea bargain reached with the Justice Department in March by a senior foreign policy advisor to...

Judge tosses impersonation charge against Reggie By The Associated Press GRETNA -- A judge has dismissed a police impersonation charge against media consultant and Democratic Party operative Raymond Reggie, ruling that prosecutors waited too long to bring him to trial. Reggie, the brother-in-law of U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, had been accused of stopping three women in Metairie by using a blue police light. The charge carried up to two years in prison. State District Judge Robert Murphy ruled Monday that Reggie's trial on the charge, filed in 2002, should have taken place by July 14, 2004. Defense attorney Mike Ellis...

Audiotapes recorded by Kennedy in-law Raymond Reggie while cooperating with an FBI probe into an August 2000 gala fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton could be devastating for the Democratic Party, according to Louisiana's Times Picayune, which has obtained transcripts of the Reggie tapes. The paper reports that a Sept. 4, 2002 tape of Reggie talking to Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate race finance chairman David Rosen "captures a conversation rife with gossip about the seamy side of political life, including the sex, drugs and prostitutes enjoyed by big-name Democratic stalwarts." Rosen is set to go on trial Tuesday in U.S. District Court...

Hotshot political fund-raiser David Rosen didn't hesitate when an old friend, visiting Chicago, called to invite him to a pricey meal at Morton's steakhouse. What Rosen didn't know was that his buddy, Democratic Party operative Ray Reggie of New Orleans, was working with FBI agents to record secretly the entire conversation, a tape that is expected to be key evidence as one of the hottest political trials of the year begins Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

GRETNA, La. A judge will rule later on whether to toss out a charge of impersonating a police officer against the brother-in-law of U-S Senator Ted Kennedy.New Orleans media consultant Raymond Reggie has asked state District Judge Robert Murphy to quash the charge, saying the prosecution had waited too long to bring him to trial. Reggie pleaded guilty last month to federal bank fraud charges.Yesterday, Reggie's attorney, Michael Ellis, argued that his client should have gone to trial within two years of his arrest on June 14th, 2002. But prosecutor Kim McElwee argued that there are exceptions to the statute...

Reggie trying to get officer impersonation charge tossed By The Associated Press TGRETNA -- A Democratic Party operative who is the brother-in-law of U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy has asked a state judge to throw out a charge accusing him of impersonating a police officer in suburban New Orleans in June 2002. Raymond Reggie's attorney, Mike Ellis, contends in court documents that the two-year time limit to bring the case to trial expired June 21. But prosecutor Kim McElwee said she has until October to try the case. At issue is what court events stop the clock on Reggie's right to...

Teddy Kennedy’s brother-in-law pleaded guilty to fraud charges in federal court last week. Moreover, it appears as though the man is also a confidential informant in a case against a former Hillary Clinton aide. This story has gotten little play in the media, which is too busy cranking out articles and impassioned editorials about Tom DeLay to notice much else. You’d think that when a major Democrat player who has worked in the Clinton, Gore, and Kerry campaigns begins to sing like a birdie for the Feds, it would be newsworthy. You’d be wrong. Kennedy’s brother-in-law, Raymond Reggie, is the...

Taxpayers Put Millionaire Kennedy Wife Through College: Reggie Family Cost Americans Millions Through Years Of Fraud And Abuse Breaking News by Dan Riehl After reading this piece (http://vodkapundit.com/archives/007801.php) on Raymond Reggie at Vodkapundit, research into Raymond Reggie's past turned up more than just one previous family scandal which have already cost taxpayers millions of dollars - and also involve Victoria Reggie, current wife of Senator Ted Kennedy (D) MA. Reggie family patriarch, Judge Edmund M. Reggie, has a distinguished history which includes being a former Tulane Board Member, a "king-maker" in Louisiana Democrat circles, a convicted criminal whose misdeeds cost...

Kennedy Relative Tied to Fund-Raising Case By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ Published: April 23, 2005 WASHINGTON, April 22 - A brother-in-law of Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts has been working as a confidential informant in a criminal case against Hillary Rodham Clinton's former fund-raising director, according to people involved in the case. The brother-in-law, Raymond Reggie of Louisiana, has apparently been acting as an undercover informant in the case and secretly recorded a conversation he had with Mrs. Clinton's former fund-raising director during a steak dinner. In that conversation, the two discussed a 2000 fund-raiser for Mrs. Clinton that is at...

A New Orleans political consultant who is Senator Kennedy's brother-in-law, Raymond Reggie, has been operating in Democratic circles for the last three years as an undercover informant for the FBI, sources close to the matter said yesterday. At a federal court hearing yesterday morning, Reggie, 43, who organized fund-raisers for President and Mrs. Clinton, pleaded guilty to two felony charges, bank fraud and conspiracy. Prosecutors described check-kiting and loan fraud schemes he operated involving three Louisiana banks, but they did not publicly detail his cooperation with the government. -snip- When Mrs. Clinton traveled to New Orleans in May 2000 to...

Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law pleads guilty to bank fraud charges Thursday April 21, 2005 NEW ORLEANS (AP) A prominent political consultant who is Sen. Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law pleaded guilty Thursday to fraud charges in a scheme to cheat banks out of money. In a plea bargain, Raymond Reggie admitted to one count of bank fraud and one count of bank fraud conspiracy. Judge Carl Barbier set sentencing for Oct. 26. The conspiracy count carries up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, while the bank fraud charge carries up to 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine....

Federal authorities in Louisiana have charged the brother-in-law of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy of committing millions in bank fraud. A bill of information filed Wednesday in New Orleans federal court claims Raymond Reggie, 43, of New Orleans submitted fake documents to get a loan from Hibernia National Bank in December 2000. In the bill of information, federal authorities said Reggie “submitted fictitious documents purporting to be a contract” between his company, Media Direct, and the U.S. Census Bureau. A separate bill of information also filed Wednesday in Baton Rouge federal court charges him with a check-kiting scheme in which he...