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INTRO 1 – Peter Paul to Make Big Announcement on Hannity 2 - Sorry, Alan Colmes, You Will Not Stop hillcap.org or the Truth 3 - Hillary’s Favorite Foreign Donor, Tendo Oto (Part 1) 4 – Hillary’s Favorite Foreign Donor, Tendo Oto (Part 2) =============================================================== Note: this is the fifth episode in a series of stories regarding the events surrounding the 2000 Fundraiser and the business relationship of entrepreneur Peter Paul, William Jefferson Clinton, and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Dick Morris appeared on the Tony Snow radio show this morning and discussed Hillary Clinton's very serious problem regarding the trial...

May 11, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — As the trial of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's former chief fund-raiser opened yesterday, it was revealed that one of her closest aides — always by her side when she ran for Senate — could be a key player in the case. She's Kelly Craighead, who was Clinton's ever-present travel director and close pal — so close that the former first lady performed the 2001 civil ceremony when Craighead wed Erick Mullen, a former aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer. Craighead's name surfaced as jury selection began in the federal trial in Los Angeles of Clinton's...

LOS ANGELES, May 11 -- David F. Rosen deliberately and illegally underreported the costs of a star-studded Hollywood fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign, federal prosecutors said Wednesday at Rosen's trial here. Rosen, who was Clinton's finance director at the time, intentionally underreported the cost of the August 2000 gala by two-thirds, prosecutor Peter R. Zeidenberg told jurors in his opening statement. Rosen did so, the prosecutor said, because as the price of the gala began to spiral out of control, "he knew that there was going to be outrage in the campaign and at headquarters." Rosen, 40,...

-- 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...

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...

HILL PAL IS CASH COWED By NICOLE CAMPBELL May 21, 2005 -- LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors in the trial of Hillary Rodham Clinton's former top fund-raiser David Rosen closed their case yesterday by driving home the point that an extravagant Hollywood gala cost three times as much as was reported to the Federal Election Commission. **SNIP** After the prosecution rested, Rosen's attorney, Paul Sandler, quickly filed a motion to dismiss each of the counts in the case. Judge A. Harold Matz said he would rule on the motion when the case resumes on Tuesday. Matz said he expected the jury...

Clinton Has Eyes at Rosen Trial BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun May 23, 2005 LOS ANGELES - Since the criminal trial of a top fund-raising official on Senator Clinton's 2000 campaign began here nearly two weeks ago, a middle-age woman has been quietly perched on one of the wooden benches in the back of the courtroom. She jots down her observations in a small notebook and regularly consults with defense lawyers, but does not socialize with the handful of journalists covering the trial. The unobtrusive and taciturn woman is the general counsel for Mrs. Clinton's campaign,...

Prosecutors attack David Rosen's credibility LOS ANGELES Hillary Rodham Clinton's former national finance adviser says he may have used bad judgment when he failed to report allowing a donor to pay a ten-thousand-dollar Beverly Hills hotel bill and loan him use of a Porsche. But David Rosen says he never tried to hide anything. Rosen said on the stand this morning that he thought use of Aaron Tonken's Porsche while he was in Los Angeles to help organize a lavish 2000 gala with Hollywood stars was a personal gift. Rosen said, "I didn't think there was any campaign expense....if I...

Hillary Clinton aide reportedly taped Kennedy in-law said to aid the FBI By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | April 24, 2005 WASHINGTON -- Senator Edward M. Kennedy's brother-in-law secretly taped at least one telephone conversation as part of an FBI investigation into a former aide to Senator Hillary Clinton, according to published reports. ================================================== The BOSTON GLOBE has the story. Legs. Entire story: CLICK.

Inspector Columbo, we don't need you. The crime has been solved. For anyone having difficulty understanding the felonies surrounding the 2000 fundraiser, it can be very easily explained in song. Hillary needed hard money to fight Rick Lazio in New York. He had lots to spend. By underreporting regarding the combo Goodbye Scumbag/Hello Senator Clinton Fundraiser in Hollywood, she was able to raise more of the hard money she needed for the fight. David Rosen filed false reports. He has been indicted. Aaron Tonken told her chapter and verse what was going on. Hillary claims she didn't know. Another witness...

LINK TO VIEW THE INDICTMENT Hillary Campaign Finance Director Indicted Rosen charged with fudging numbers for 2000 Hollywood fundraiser JANUARY 7--The finance director for Hillary Clinton's 2000 U.S. Senate campaign was indicted today on federal charges of filing bogus financial reports with the Federal Election Commission. According to the below indictment, David Rosen reported the false numbers in connection with a "Hollywood tribute" honoring Clinton. Investigators allege that a "wealthy individual" paid more than $1.1 million to underwrite the Clinton gala and that those payments were delivered through "several corporate entities controlled by him." While that whopping sum should...

A relative of an "extremely well-known" Democrat is set to testify in the upcoming trial of Hillary Clinton's former finance chairman David Rosen. This "well-known" Democrat secretly tape recorded Rosen in a bid to get incriminating evidence about an August 2000 Hollywood fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and her Senate campaign. Court documents obtained by the New York Sun say that while the informant's identity is being kept secret, "The CW [confidential witness] is related to an extremely prominent and well-known political figure. It can be expected that the fact that CW was working in an undercover capacity for the FBI...

This week's media attack on Tom DeLay has a top Washington lobbyist telling Newsweek magazine that the Republican House leader "knew everything" about allegedly shady fundraising on DeLay's behalf. But if the claims of former fundraisers are the standard by which political trouble is measured, Sen. Hillary Clinton's problems are much bigger than DeLay's. For years Jack Abramoff, who is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe, raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for DeLay's political causes and hired DeLay's aides, reports Newsweek. For his part, DeLay and his aides say he knew nothing about the suspicious fundraising. That...

Peter F. Paul writes Senator Hillary Clinton Posted by Senior Editor on 2005/2/26 1:17:22 Senator Hillary Clinton U.S.Senate Washington, DC Via Hand Delivery Dear Hillary: It is with profound regret and extreme disappointment that I am forced to write this letter to you reminding you of your responsibility as a Federal elected official to comply with the laws and regulations of the United States that you have sworn to defend and protect, and as a citizen, the same laws and regulations that govern your individual conduct. As you are personally aware, in May, 2000, I was induced by your National...

TAFT, Calif. - Five years ago, Aaron Tonken was riding high, hobnobbing with Hollywood celebrities and helping to raise millions for the Senate bid of first lady Hillary Clinton. Tonken's life these days is neither flashy nor frenetic. Since September, he's been in a federal prison north of Los Angeles serving a 63-month sentence for mail and wire fraud. The abrupt end to Tonken's career as an organizer of charity fund-raisers delivered a financial blow to the foundations he worked with and a public relations headache for the entertainers he accused of profiting from ostensibly charitable events. Now, however, there...

TAFT, Calif. - Five years ago, Aaron Tonken was riding high, hobnobbing with Hollywood celebrities and helping to raise millions for the Senate bid of first lady Hillary Clinton. Tonken's life these days is neither flashy nor frenetic. Since September, he's been in a federal prison north of Los Angeles serving a 63-month sentence for mail and wire fraud. The abrupt end to Tonken's career as an organizer of charity fund-raisers delivered a financial blow to the foundations he worked with and a public relations headache for the entertainers he accused of profiting from ostensibly charitable events. Now, however, there...

Borrowing a page from President Bush, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton told a Boston audience this week that prayer has always played a meaningful role in her life - though accounts from her days as a student radical suggest that's probably not true. "I've always been a praying person," Clinton told a crowd of more than 500, including many religious leaders, at Boston's Fairmont Copley Plaza. According to the Boston Globe, the newly religious former first lady "invoked God more than half a dozen times" as she urged society to accommodate religious people who "live out their faith in the...

You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends tell us that the two are cheering Sis on and say she's making all the moves to get ready for the race--presuming she is re-elected by New Yorkers in 2006.

On the eve of President Bush's second inauguration, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is blasting him as the "fear factor" president who tries to sell his irresponsible agenda by scaring the voters. "The fear factor has become the overriding strategic approach that this administration uses," Clinton complained to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The likely 2008 presidential candidate told the paper that Bush has used scare tactics to rally public support on issues ranging from U.S. policy in Iraq to privatization of Social Security. On Iraq Clinton griped that Bush had even botched the election process, saying that regional balloting...