How Many Criminals Does Hillary Clinton Use For Fundraising?
Terry Trippany on Aug 30 2007 at 8:05 am | Filed under: Democrat Corruption, Election 2008, Linkfest
Read the latest news on this story : Hillary Clinton’s Fugitive Fundraiser Surrenders to California Authorities
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And Where Did The LA Times Version of the Story go?
It seems that Norman Hsu is not the first fugitive that Hillary Clinton is using to raise funds. Michelle Malkin is reporting (via Rantburg) that the LA Times ran a story back in May about another money maker who fled the country after the FBI sought him out for engineering $50,000 in illegal donations to Democratic committees. The fugitive is a Pakistani immigrant. (The LA Times version of the story is no longer vailable)
Clinton donor wanted by FBI in scheme to funnel money
Robin Fields and Chuck Neubauer,Los Angeles Times, March 3, 2007
A Pakistani immigrant who hosted fundraisers in Southern California for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is being sought by the FBI on charges that he funneled illegal contributions to Clinton’s political action committee and Sen. Barbara Boxer’s 2004 reelection campaign. Authorities say Northridge businessman Abdul Rehman Jinnah, 56, fled the country after an indictment accused him of engineering more than $50,000 in illegal donations to the Democratic committees. A business associate charged as a co-conspirator has entered a guilty plea and is scheduled to be sentenced in Los Angeles next week…
The case has transformed Jinnah from a political point man on Pakistani issues, a man often photographed next to foreign dignitaries and U.S. leaders, into a fugitive with his mug shot on the FBI’s “featured fugitives” wanted list. Jinnah’s profile peaked in 2004 and 2005 as he wooed members of Congress to join a caucus advancing Pakistani concerns and brought Clinton to speak to prominent Pakistani Americans, lauding their homeland’s contributions to the war on terrorism and calling relations with Pakistan beneficial to U.S. interests.
Jinnah and his family donated more than $100,000 to the Democratic Party and Democratic candidates. Now friends say they believe Jinnah has returned to Pakistan. Attempts to reach him and his relatives were unsuccessful. A “For Sale” sign stood in his yard on Thursday, and a neighbor said the family had not lived there for months.
Jinnah’s troubles appear to have begun when he attempted to circumvent election laws by reimbursing friends, business contacts and their family members for contributions made in their names, according to court records. Federal statutes set limits on contributions to federal campaigns and political action committees and bar donations made in the names of others. Authorities say that from June 2004 to February 2005, Jinnah directly or indirectly solicited contributions from more than a dozen “conduits,” reimbursing them with funds from his company, All American Distributing, a seller of cellphone service and accessories. Authorities said the scheme allowed Jinnah to get around limits then in effect on individual donors of $5,000 per year to PACs and $2,000 per election to candidates, as well as the ban on using corporate money for political donations.
Jinnah’s case has been handled with discretion by the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles, which recently lost a high-profile case against former Clinton campaign official David Rosen. Rosen was acquitted of charges of filing false reports about a Hollywood fundraiser given for Clinton in 2000…
According to the indictment, Jinnah arranged $30,000 in donations to HillPac by having Schoenburg, a Tarzana television producer, approach family members and others to act as straw donors. Schoenburg and five others contributed $5,000 apiece. Jinnah later reimbursed them with funds from his corporation, prosecutors say. In one instance, authorities allege, Jinnah and Schoenburg agreed to write “production” in a reimbursement check’s memo line, falsely indicating it was payment for production services…
The indictment says Jinnah also found 14 straw donors to give $28,000 to the 2004 reelection campaign of Boxer (D-Calif.). Among the contributors were five employees of Jinnah’s company, Schoenburg and several members of Schoenburg’s family, records show.
Think back to Hillary Clinton’s early lead in fundraising. We now have a pattern emerging with straw donors acting as fronts for criminal individuals. The facts in this case very much parallel that of the Hsu case and yet the press has been mostly silent through it all. But these events look a little too big to ignore. The New York Times is featuring the now famous Hsu handshake with a story.
You can always find a myopic golden quote in the New York Times and this story does not disappoint.
Some Clinton donors said yesterday that they did not expect the Hsu matter to hurt Mrs. Clinton unless a pattern of problematic fund-raising or compromised donors emerged, which would raise questions about the campaign’s vetting of donors.
Ooops. Leave it up the the staffers at the Times to be completely ignorant of a pattern that the Hsu case paints. Considering that the Schoenburg story appeared before the Hsu one I think we already have that pattern. But you know, small minds….
In any event the Democrats are using charity as the cleanser. Typical political backwash that somehow makes crooked politicians seem a little more palatable; a perfect excuse for the press to skip over their outrage and soften the blow.
Hsu is also acting surprised that skipping out on jail sentencing would become an issue.
Mr. Hsu issued a statement yesterday, saying he was “surprised to learn that there appears to be an outstanding warrant” and insisting that he had “not sought to evade any of my obligations and certainly not the law.”
“I would not consciously subject any of the candidates and causes in which I believe to any harm through my actions,” he said.
At some point, Mr. Hsu resurfaced in New York, where he was connected to several clothing-related businesses, according to campaign finance records, which list his occupation variously as an apparel consultant, clothing designer, retailer or company president. He also began to donate to the Democratic Party, and arranged for friends to do the same.
Isn’t it funny that brilliant fund raisers seem to get so stupid once they are caught in their illegal activities. The same goes for Democrats who would otherwise excoriate Republicans had the shoe been on the other foot.
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Norman Hsu, Hillary Clinton, Schoenburg
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