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    Obama got money from Hsu as well. That barely got a mention. Obama gave the money to charity and I would bet that he will be using that contribution as a tax deduction.

    Remember the Savings and Loan fiasco, a man committed suicide, some say he was murdered. it was Hillarys' fingerprints on the paperwork that was found.

    Also how is it that her file will remain sealed until after the election yet during the last elections Jack Ryan's Senate campaign began, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and WLS-TV, the local ABC affiliate, sought to have the records released. Both Jeri and Jack agreed to make their divorce records public, but not the custody records, claiming that their release could be harmful to their son.

    On June 22, 2004, the California judge (Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider) in the case agreed to release the custody files; the decision generated much controversy because it went against both parents' direct request and because it generally reversed the early decision to seal the papers in the best interest of the child. Although Jeri Ryan refused to comment on the matter during the campaign, the document disclosure led Jack Ryan to withdraw his Republican candidacy for an open United States Senate seat in Illinois which was eventually won by Barack Obama.

    How is a mans personal business more important than a candidates political business?

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    NBC’s Andrea Mitchell: Hsu Scandal Makes Bill Clinton a Drag on Hillary’s Campaign

    By Noel Sheppard | September 16, 2007 - 13:57 ET

    Since the Norman Hsu campaign finance scandal first broke weeks ago, conservatives have wondered when liberal media members will get concerned about how this might impact the presidential aspirations of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY).

    If Sunday's "The Chris Matthews Show" is a barometer, the news is not good for Hillary supporters.

    As The Anchoress accurately reported Saturday, NBC's Andrea Mitchell made a statement concerning the Clintons that was absolutely shocking:

    Up until now, Bill Clinton has been a complete plus among Democratic primary voters for Hillary Clinton. But now, with the Norman Hsu money-raising controversy, for the first time there's a real concern in the Clinton camp that this is real baggage from the Clinton White House years. There's a lot of stress, a lot of damage control, a lot of finger-pointing - and in fact, stress is so high that there was a shouting match observed among Clinton staffers in public last week.


    Contrast this with Mitchell's statements about former President Clinton on September 5's "Today' show as reported by the MRC's Tim Graham:

    Well experts in both parties say he is the best political strategist in the business and now he's got another book that is sure to be a bestseller. So how will that affect the political fortunes of his wife at a critical point in the campaign? He's not the typical candidate's spouse.

    [...]

    Barack Obama is attracting big crowds. But for Democrats, Bill Clinton has more star power than any of the candidates, perhaps even his wife.

    [...]

    And so far what he is doing is a big asset to his wife's campaign. In fact, Hillary Clinton is getting her biggest crowds when her husband is campaigning at her side. But her aides say that she is running on her own record, even if, for now, the former president is one of her biggest assets.
    What a difference ten days make, wouldn't you agree?

    This raises an important question: Does this scandal have the traction yet to really stick to Hillary, or will she prove just as Teflon-coated as her husband?

    Stay tuned....

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    HILL BILL FOOTED BY HSU
    VEGAS VICTORY BASH

    By LEONARD GREENE
    September 17, 2007


    Members of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign staff got a nice payoff last year for their work to get her re-elected - a trip to Las Vegas funded by her fugitive former fund-raiser.

    Among the Sin City guests of disgraced former fund-raiser Norman Hsu was Patti Solis Doyle, one of Clinton's most trusted advisers who now runs the senator's presidential campaign.

    According to The Los Angeles Times, Hsu - who raised more than $850,000 for Clinton before being jailed last month on charges related to an investment scheme - treated the senator's campaign staff to several days at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, complete with free show tickets and dinners at posh restaurants.

    Doyle was accompanied by two junior staffers and a New York-based fund-raiser, the report said.

    In April 2006, Hsu provided a hotel stay in Las Vegas for two other campaign workers.

    Doyle also received a coveted and pricey designer handbag from the disgraced moneyman, the newspaper said. But she returned it.

    The red-faced Clinton camp insists there was nothing illegal about the trip, according to the article, and stressed that Hsu never received any legislative favors in return for his generosity.

    Clinton last week returned the $850,000 Hsu raised, but not before taking a political beating on the fund-raising fiasco.

    Hsu went on the lam a couple of weeks ago after missing a California bail hearing, but was arrested in a Colorado hospital after witnesses said he was behaving erratically aboard a train bound for Chicago.

    Hsu remains locked away in a Colorado jail.

    The Clinton cash came from about 260 individual donors Hsu brought into the Clinton fold, some of whom never knew they were contributing to the campaign.

    Hsu also contributed at least $330,000 to state Democratic candidates and state party committees and ballot initiatives during the 2004 and 2006 elections.

    Gov. Spitzer and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said they would divest their campaigns of the donations they received.

    Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau has launched an investigation of Hsu, focusing on $40 million in "investment" cash that was given to him by Joel Rosenman - one of the four founders of the 1969 Woodstock Festival.


    http://www.nypost.com/seven/09172007...ted_by_hsu.htm


    A friend emailed me this that ran in the LA Times :

    As they look back, Clinton staffers say Hsu’s efforts to ingratiate himself seem painfully, embarrassingly obvious. In addition to the post-victory trip to Las Vegas in November 2006 for Solis Doyle, two junior staffers and a New York-based fundraiser, Hsu provided a hotel stay in Las Vegas for two other campaign workers in April 2006.

    While at the Mandalay Bay, Hsu took at least some of his guests to a favorite bar, Red Square. It features a huge statue of a decapitated Lenin at the entrance, and the top of the bar is sheathed in ice to maintain the chill of the caviar and exclusive vodkas.

    Clinton aides believed Hsu had gotten their rooms on a complimentary basis because he was a frequent visitor to Mandalay Bay, the aides said
    Among the Sin City guests of disgraced former fund-raiser Norman Hsu was Patti Solis Doyle, one of Clinton's most trusted advisers who now runs the senator's presidential campaign.

    Chicagoan runs Hillary's camp
    Senator says alderman's sister 'was the natural choice' to be presidential campaign manager

    June 14, 2007
    BY LYNN SWEET


    ARLINGTON, Va. -- Growing up, Patti Solis Doyle, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, could hear the rumble of the L train running in the alley behind her home at 1726 W. 21st. Today, Doyle is the manager of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, lives in an affluent Washington neighborhood and sends her two children to one of the best private schools in the city.

    Toiling in a business where it is rare for females to pilot major campaigns and minorities in key posts are even harder to find, Doyle started in Chicago's City Hall and made it to Hillaryland, where she became a charter member of the band of loyalists devoted to Clinton for the past 16 years.


    "I have complete confidence and trust in her as a person and as a professional," Clinton said. "She was the natural choice for me when it came to picking someone to run this campaign."

    "She just gets the politics of everything," said Ann Stock, a Clinton administration social secretary.


    Hand-me-downs

    Patricia Solis Doyle, 41, presides over the sprawling national Clinton operation, headquartered in this Washington suburb, from a corner office furnished with hand-me-downs from the Clinton family. Near the Clintons' old kitchen table is daughter Chelsea's armoire and love seat. Behind Doyle's desk -- from Staples -- are drawings by her 5-year-old son, Joseph, and 9-year old daughter, Solis.

    Her husband, Jim Doyle, a Harvard Law grad, worked for William Daley, Mayor Daley's brother, while he was commerce secretary during President Bill Clinton's second term. He's now at Penn, Schoen & Berland; the firm's Mark Penn is Clinton's pollster.

    She stayed out of the limelight for years, working as scheduler for Clinton during the 1992 campaign, taking on that same critical job in the first lady's office and helping run two New York Senate races and Sen. Clinton's political action committee.

    Now as campaign manager, she is taking on a public role and giving interviews as the campaign woos female and Hispanic votes. The bilingual Doyle is speaking at Hispanic events and has had a hand in nailing down key Hispanic endorsements.

    Doyle is one of six children of Santiago and Alejandrina Solis, natives of Monterey, Mexico. In Chicago, her father, now deceased, worked in a factory and her mother at an industrial laundry.

    Santiago Solis first came to the U.S. illegally, was sent back, returned with a visa and moved his family -- then four children, including Danny, now the 25th Ward alderman. Doyle was born in the U.S., attended St. Pius grammar school and was sent to Notre Dame girls' high school on the Northwest Side to get her out of their tough neighborhood. She recalls her father saying: "You are not going to be part of this."

    Northwestern graduate

    Her next stop was Northwestern University, where she was a scholarship student. Northwestern was a "big culture shock," said Danny Solis. While a sophomore, Doyle married Andy Jacobson -- Jewish and from Texas -- and dropped out for a time. She was divorced by age 21.

    After earning a Northwestern degree in communications, she landed in City Hall with brother Danny's clout. She moved on to work for then-city Treasurer Miriam Santos in "my first sort-of political campaign experience."

    She caught David Wilhelm's eye -- he was steering Daley's re-election bid -- and when Bill Clinton tapped him to manage his 1992 campaign, Wilhelm recruited Patti Solis to join him in Little Rock. "The first day there was a Hillaryland, Patti was a part of it," said Wilhelm.

    Doyle thrived for many reasons, in part because she had the political gift to "smell danger long before we encountered it," recalled Neel Lattimore, a former press secretary for the first lady.

    She also was loyal and kept her mouth shut.

    'A true friendship'

    Doyle said her toughest time while working in the White House was not the impeachment of President Clinton but the failure of Hillary Clinton's health reform plan in 1994, "because for me that was truly her thing and it was a tough time having to regroup."

    Hillary Clinton has been saying on the campaign trail she is the most famous person you don't know. What does Doyle see that the public does not? Her answer: A Clinton who "meddled" to get the Doyles married, did a reading at their wedding, called Santiago Solis when he was dying and showed up in the hospital when Doyle's children were born. "She gave me tips on breastfeeding." The two also share a passion for TV's "Grey's Anatomy."

    As campaign manager, Doyle talks daily, sometimes every few hours, with Clinton. The relationship between Doyle and Clinton has evolved through the years. Said Doyle, who has devoted most of her adult life to Hillary Rodham Clinton, "We have a true friendship."

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    Quote Originally Posted by hblueeyes View Post
    Obama got money from Hsu as well. That barely got a mention. Obama gave the money to charity and I would bet that he will be using that contribution as a tax deduction.
    Newsweek article about Hsu, which includes a description of a strategy memo from the Hillary campaign: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20790552/site/newsweek/

    With a Little Help From My Friends
    The Hsu scandal sheds light on how—and why—pols bail each other out when the going gets tough.



    Earlier this month, Hillary Clinton surrogates invited onto TV talk shows were issued “talking points” in anticipation of awkward questions about the mysterious Norman Hsu. … If asked how Hsu’s criminal record could have slipped through the cracks in the campaign’s vet-ting process for donors, the Clinton supporters were instructed to say they hadn’t participated in the vetting.

    If pressed, they were told to take a none-too-subtle swipe at Clinton’s chief rival. “Long before Hillary’s presidential campaign took money from Mr. Hsu, Mr. Obama’s senate campaign had as well as a bunch of others,” read the memo, given to NEWSWEEK by a Clinton supporter who didn’t want to be identified revealing internal campaign communications.



    Oh, that’s bulletproof. The Obamessiah got $8000 from Hsu. Hillary got $850,000.

    As for the Hillary surrogates on talk shows, and how they responded to questions about Hsu, I can just imagine Allahpundit right now frantically tearing through his TiVo’s memory, sobbing "Shrillary..say it ain’t so…"
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    Another dirty Democrat fundraiser:
    William Lerach pleads guilty to conspiracy

    September 17, 2007



    William Lerach.


    Does the name ring a bell? He was a deep-pocketed plaintiff lawyer who cozied up to the Clintons and donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats. And he got his money’s worth. Left-wing magazine Mother Jones recounted more than a decade ago: http://www.motherjones.com/news/spec...00/lerach.html

    Attendees at a private White House dinner on December 15 may have seen Bill Clinton and William Lerach speaking and shaking hands. What they probably didn’t notice was Lerach twisting the president’s arm.

    Four days later, the president vetoed the Securities Litigation Reform Act. The bill, which makes it more difficult for shareholders to sue their own companies for securities fraud, enjoyed wide bipartisan support, but Clinton startled his party with a last-minute veto. (In late December, Congress overrode the veto handily.)

    Clinton’s veto seems to have been a “good faith” gesture to Lerach, head of the San Diego office of law firm Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach. Milberg Weiss, the acknowledged leader in shareholder class-action litigation, secures annual settlements estimated at $225 million from this type of suit, according to the newsletter Securities Class Action Alert…

    …Lerach, wife Star Soltan, and other associates of Milberg Weiss…have poured more than $1 million into Democratic coffers since 1990. According to Forbes, Lerach is among the nations’ top-paid trial attorneys, taking home an estimated $7 million per year. He is also among the most loathed men in Silicon Valley, where vacillating stock prices open the door for shareholders to sue companies if executives make incorrect predictions of corporate success. Milberg Weiss has filed such suits agains the likes of Apple, Silicon Graphics, and Intel (five times in 1994 alone). “The high-tech industry needs someone to demonize,” Lerach once told the San Francisco Examiner. “I’m the Willie Horton of securities law.”


    Well, now Lerach may be headed to jail. The Washington Post reports tonight: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...701612_pf.html


    William S. Lerach, one of the nation’s best known and wealthiest plaintiff lawyers, is preparing to plead guilty as early as today to a single criminal conspiracy charge that could send him to prison for up to two years, according to sources familiar with the case.

    Lerach, 61, resigned from his California law firm last month after intense speculation about his personal exposure in a lengthy federal criminal investigation. At the time, he said he wanted “to focus single-mindedly on putting the matter behind me once and for all.”

    During his heyday, Lerach won settlements worth billions of dollars from major companies, including a record $7.3 billion payout from firms that helped Enron disguise its financial problems.

    For seven years, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have been probing allegations that Lerach and his former partners at the Milberg Weiss law firm enlisted people to buy shares in big corporations and then paid them to serve as plaintiffs in lawsuits. Government lawyers said that the payments, totaling more than $11 million, were not disclosed to judges or other investors and allowed Lerach and his team to arrive first at the courthouse to seize control of the class-action cases and to collect bigger slices of settlements or court victories.

    Lerach is to plead guilty in court papers to be released as early as this week, with a court appearance following over the next several days, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing.
    I know you won’t be surprised that there is no mention of Lerach’s political affiliation and prime benefactors in the WaPo piece.


    Another Lerach beneficiary? Yup, Edwards: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...n2686138.shtml

    [John] Edwards, a former trial lawyer and senator from North Carolina, led all other candidates in contributions from lawyers, with $4.9 million. One of the firms whose employees contributed significantly to his campaign was Lerach Coughlin, one of the most feared class action law firms on Wall Street. The firm, led by William S. Lerach, has filed hundreds of high-profile lawsuits on behalf of investors.

    Via Opensecrets.org, here’s Lerach’s 2008 donor record: http://www.opensecrets.org/





    And the Democrats screamed about the corruption of Enron- how widespread is Dhimmicratic abuse of the legal system to rainmake for its campaign system?

    Though I do not think the “left” will care where the $$$ come from as long as they come. It’s pretty apparent that ethics aren’t and never will be their thing. It’s becoming obvious that putting a Clinton in the White House will be more of the same.ie: play it as close to the line as possible–cross over when you think you won’t get caught. When you get caught, deny it. If that fails pull the contrite and sorry act. But, above all, never stop doing it. However, their constituency seems to admire this????

    BUT I though $2300 was the maximum contribution an individual could make. Yet he gave Biden $2300 + $400, and Edwards exactly double the max, $4600. ?????



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    Democratic fundraiser charged with fraud
    By PAT MILTON and DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press Writers
    31 minutes ago


    NEW YORK - Disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was charged Thursday with defrauding investors of more than $60 million through a massive Ponzi scheme and then using some of his profits to make illegal donations to political campaigns.

    A criminal complaint unsealed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York accused Hsu of taking millions from unsuspecting partners for a pair of companies that had no legitimate business operations.

    At a news conference, U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said the main purpose of the scheme was to support a "lavish lifestyle," adding that Hsu also gave money to political candidates — most notably Hillary Rodham Clinton — in an apparent attempt "to purchase a place on the celebrity campaign circuit."

    There was no evidence that the campaigns were aware of the scheme or acted criminally, Garcia said. The Clinton campaign has been cooperating with the investigation, he said, and Clinton has already announced that she would give back $850,000 raised by Hsu.

    According to the complaint, some of the campaign donations came from investors whom Hsu pressured into making contributions. Hsu also is accused of donating money in other people's names, which is a federal crime.

    Robert Emmers, a spokesman for Hsu, declined to comment. Hsu's lawyer in San Francisco, Jim Brosnahan, did not immediately return phone messages Thursday.

    In the criminal complaint, an FBI agent said Hsu had confessed to making phony deals. Investigators said they also had seized a suitcase from Hsu containing thousands of dollars in cash, financial records and handwritten ledgers of campaign contributions.

    The charges are the latest in a string of legal problems for Hsu.

    He was arrested in Grand Junction, Colo., on Sept. 6 after he failed to show up for a court appearance in California in an unrelated theft case. On Thursday, the Mesa County sheriff released him to officials from California, where he faces a 15-year-old felony theft conviction.

    In that case, state prosecutors accused him of fraudulently persuading investors to pump money into a clothing import business that didn't actually exist. He pleaded no contest, and left town before he could be sentenced. Investigators believed he fled to Hong Kong.

    The fraud case was largely forgotten when he returned to the United States and years later began aggressively raising money for Democrats, including Clinton.

    His more recent troubles began this summer when news reports revealed his criminal history and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Politicians including Clinton began returning his money.

    Investors in Hsu's business ventures also began claiming that they had been duped.

    Source Financing Investors, a fund run by one of the creators of the 1969 Woodstock rock festival, complained to Manhattan prosecutors that it put $40 million into Hsu business ventures that it now suspects were fraudulent.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070920/...5P29tnunSs0NUE
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    FBI: Clinton Fundraiser Confesses
    Shadowy Norman Hsu charged with fraud, election law raps
    SEPTEMBER 20--Norman Hsu, the disgraced Hillary Clinton fundraiser, confessed to the FBI last week that his purported business empire was nothing but a pyramid scheme and that he pressured the investors he duped into contributing to political candidates he supported. Hsu was named today in a three-count criminal complaint charging him with mail and wire fraud, and a violation of federal election law. According to the complaint, an excerpt of which you'll find below, Hsu contacted FBI agents last Thursday and said he "wanted to speak with them about his current criminal activity without his lawyers present." During a September 14 meeting with Hsu, who was imprisoned in Colorado on an outstanding warrant from California, the swindler waived his Miranda rights and admitted his operation of a multimillion dollar investment scheme. He also acknowledged that he "made implied threats to his investors to pressure them to contribute to political candidates he supported." But the complaint, which was unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, does not identify the federal candidates to whom Hsu steered money.



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    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...20072hsu1.html



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    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...20072hsu2.html
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    “The Devil Went Down To California”

    The devil went down to California .
    He was lookin’ for a million to steal.
    He was in a bind ’cause
    he was way behind, and he was willin’ to make a deal,
    when he came across this young man
    sawin’ on a laptop and typin’ it hot.
    And the devil jumped up on a hickory stump and said,
    “Boy, let me tell you what.

    I guess you didn’t know it but I’m a Hillraiser, too.
    And if you’d care to take a dare, I’ll make a bet with you.
    Now, you pay pretty good bundle, boy,
    but give the devil his due.
    I’ll bet a donkey of gold against your soul,
    ’cause I think I’m better than you.”

    The boy said, “My name’s Norman, and it might be a sin.
    But I’ll take your bet, you’re gonna regret,
    ’cause I’m the best that’s ever been.”

    Norman, rosin up your fingers
    and play your laptop hard,
    ’cause hell’s broke loose in California
    and the devil deals the cards.
    And if you win you get this shiny donkey made of gold.
    But if you lose, the Hillary gets your soul.

    The devil opened up his case and he said,
    “I’ll start this show.”
    And fire flew from his fingertips
    as he rosined up his Iphone.
    And he pulled the fingers across the keys
    and it made an evil hiss.

    Then a band of demons joined in
    and it sounded somethin’ like this:

    ( musical interlude )

    When the devil finished, Norman said,
    “Well, you’re pretty good, old son,
    but sit down in that chair right there
    and let me show you how it’s done.

    Fire on the mountain. Run, boys, run.
    The devil’s in the House of the Rising Sun.
    Hillary in the bread pan pickin’ out dough.
    Lanny, does your dog bite? No, child, no.

    The devil bowed his head
    because he knew that he’d been beat.
    And he laid that golden donkey
    on the ground at Norman’s feet.
    Norman said, “Devil, just come on back
    if you ever want to try again.
    ‘Cause I told you once, you son of a gun,
    I’m the best that’s ever been.”




    This is sung to the tune of
    Super-Cali-Fragi-Listic-Expi-Ali-Docious:

    Chorus

    Hsu-per California Donors Extradition Opus
    Every check that bore his name,
    it should have been suspicious
    His businesses and domiciles
    it turns out were fictitious
    Hsu-per California Donors Extradition Opus

    First Verse

    Norman Hsu had a technique,
    For fund-raising flimflam
    From Istanbul to Mozambique,
    It kept him on the lam
    He gathered filthy lucre
    in amounts you’d call absurd
    And laundered it to liberals
    from Clinton to Bob Byrd

    Repeat Chorus

    Second Verse

    He’d channel some cash through his friends,
    and bundle up the rest
    Supporting only Democrats
    became his whole life’s quest
    The Chi-Coms and George Soros
    funneled millions carelessly
    Hsu’d ask them who to give it to
    and both said Hillary!

    Repeat Chorus

    Third Verse

    Even though it’s not legal,
    there’s no need for dismay
    He gave it all to Blue Staters,
    there won’t be hell to pay
    Cause if you look at Democrats,
    the whole party is rife
    With people, if Republican,
    who’d probably serve life.

    Chorus
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    Donors Stir 'Bundling' Questions
    Clinton Campaign Vows To Check Contributions Solicited by Supporter

    By BRODY MULLINS and IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN
    September 20, 2007; Page A3


    BRISTOW, Va. -- When Hillary Rodham Clinton held an intimate fund-raising event at her Washington home in late March, Pamela Layton donated $4,600, the maximum allowed by law, to Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign.

    But the 37-year-old Ms. Layton says she and her husband were reimbursed by her husband's boss for the donations. "It wasn't personal money. It was all corporate money," Mrs. Layton said outside her home here. "I don't even like Hillary. I'm a Republican."

    DONATION TROUBLES


    • The Issue: A Clinton donor says her contribution was reimbursed by her husband's boss, a fund-raising bundler for the candidate.

    • The Response: William Danielczyk, founder of a private-equity firm, said he "did not and would not" reimburse employees or others for their political donations.

    • What's Next: Mrs. Clinton's campaign said it would return the donation and review contributions associated with Mr. Danielczyk.The boss is William Danielczyk, founder of a Washington-area private-equity firm and a major fund-raising "bundler" for Mrs. Clinton. Mrs. Layton's gift was one of more than a dozen donations that night from people with Republican ties or no history of political giving. Mr. Danielczyk and his family, employees and friends donated a total of $120,000 to Mrs. Clinton in the days around the fund-raiser.

    In an interview, Mr. Danielczyk said he "did not and would not" reimburse employees or others for their political donations. Such reimbursement would be illegal. Mr. Danielczyk said he was a co-host for the event at Mrs. Clinton's home. "Everybody was asked to contribute," he said, "some said yes and some said no." He added, "No arm was twisted."

    The episode adds to growing questions about the practice of "bundling" donations, in which ambitious fund-raisers collect money from friends, colleagues and sometimes employees to send to a campaign. Every major presidential campaign now relies on the practice to raise large sums. It is an especially important strategy for Mrs. Clinton. She has formed a group of "HillRaisers" who get special recognition for sweeping in more than $100,000 for her campaign.

    Mrs. Clinton's campaign isn't the only one to be touched by suspicions about bundlers. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan last month indicted Geoffrey Fieger, a politically active attorney. Mr. Fieger is accused of laundering $127,000 in illegal campaign contributions through dozens of employees to the 2004 presidential campaign of Democrat John Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina, who is running again for president. Mr. Fieger denies wrongdoing and says he was set up by the Bush administration.

    Asked about the donations bundled by Mr. Danielczyk, Mrs. Clinton's campaign said yesterday it would return the $9,200 donated by Mr. and Mrs. Layton.

    Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, said: "These allegations are troubling and we will again ask each of the individuals solicited by Mr. Danielczyk to affirm that their contributions were given with their own funds." Mr. Wolfson said the campaign will return any contributions that didn't come from the donor's own money.

    Mr. Wolfson also said the campaign provides information to its donors that "clearly spell out that donations must be from personal funds."

    THE DONATIONS

    See a sortable table of campaign donations from Norman Hsu and other donors whose giving pattern correlates with his.The Justice Department says it has seen an increase in the number of prosecutions against individuals who seek to reimburse employees and others for political donations. The increase began after Congress approved changes to campaign-finance laws in 2002. The new laws barred individuals from donating six-figure amounts to political parties.

    Individuals can give a maximum of $4,600 per election cycle. The laws make it harder for donors who wish to influence elections or become close to a candidate to make their impact felt.

    Last month, The Wall Street Journal reported that donations raised by businessman Norman Hsu tracked contributions from a family in Daly City, Calif. The Justice Department later announced that it was investigating the matter. Mrs. Clinton and more than a dozen other Democrats who received money from Mr. Hsu and his fund-raising network have said they will return the money to donors or give it to charity.

    Mr. Danielczyk, 46 years old, founded a private-equity firm called Galen Capital five years ago and began investing in companies. In 2003, Mr. Danielczyk took over FractionAir Inc., a Nashville, Tenn., company that sells partial ownership of private jets. He became chairman of FractionAir in September 2004.

    The company went out of business last year after the Federal Aviation Administration asked FractionAir to voluntarily turn over its license. An FAA spokeswoman said the agency became concerned when the company wasn't able to produce documents to verify that pilots had completed their training.

    "You have to have setbacks and failures in life," Mr. Danielczyk said in an interview. "You learn from that and move on."

    Election records show that Mr. Danielczyk made his first political donation in June 2004 to former Sen. Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican. Mr. Danielczyk donated $2,100 to Mrs. Clinton in July 2006 and the same amount that September. He also gave $15,000 to the Clinton Global Initiative, a charitable organization run by her husband, according to public records.

    This year, Mr. Danielczyk says he wanted to do a fund-raiser in April, but was "encouraged" by the Clinton campaign to do it before March 31, the close of the first important fund-raising period.

    "I've never done this before. I'm new to political fund raising," Mr. Danielczyk said. "It's hard to believe in this day and age, I'm not looking for any favors."

    About 100 people attended, though it's not clear how many of those were invited by Mr. Danielczyk, according to people there. Donors mingled in Mrs. Clinton's kitchen and outdoor patio and munched on simple appetizers. Mrs. Clinton made brief remarks, took pictures with donors and chatted for more than an hour, according to attendees. At a table, campaign aides collected donations.

    One person at the event was a Washington-area investor who was considering putting some money in one of Mr. Danielczyk's ventures. The investor, a registered Republican, said he was invited by Mr. Danielczyk and a colleague who were wooing him to invest at least $125,000 in one of their companies.

    The investor, who spoke on condition of anonymity, says he didn't donate any money to Mrs. Clinton. Campaign-finance records show that the investor contributed $4,600 on March 30 to Mrs. Clinton. The reason for the discrepancy isn't clear.

    Mrs. Layton, who lists her occupation as dental instructor at a wellness center, is a Republican, and her husband, Philip, has supported Democrats in the past. Mr. Layton is the information technology director at Galen Capital, according to the company's Web site.

    "I was invited but I didn't want to go," Mrs. Layton said.

    Other Republican voters who contributed the maximum amount to Mrs. Clinton at this event included Mr. Danielczyk's mother, sister, personal assistant and a half-dozen employees or their spouses. Most of the donors had never made a political donation before contributing $4,600 to Mrs. Clinton, according to fund-raising records.

    Mr. Danielczyk said some of the attendees were Republicans, but "they may vote for her [Mrs. Clinton] now." He added, "It's odd ... You try to get involved in the political process and you come under scrutiny."

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119025305222133413.html
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    HILLARY'S $30,000 FANS ARE HER 'CULT' FOLLOWING
    By CHARLES HURT and JEANE MacINTOSH

    October 1, 2007




    A purported pyramid-scheme operator who was run out of Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor has reinvented himself as the head of an upstate group accused of being a "cult" - and his devotees have pumped thousands into Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential run.

    Executives and top associates of the Albany-based NXIVM group - along with their family members - donated $29,900 to Clinton's presidential campaign, according to federal records.

    On March 14 and April 13, records show, more than a dozen contributions poured into Clinton's coffers from NXIVM, an executive and group-awareness training organization led by Brooklyn-born Keith Raniere, 47.

    Most were from first-time political donors, each giving the $2,300 maximum.

    The revelation comes on the heels of the arrest of Norman Hsu, who raised $1.5 million in campaign contributions for the Clintons and other Democrats, even though he was technically a fugitive from fraud charges in California.

    Hsu jumped bail in early September but was nabbed and is currently locked up in California.


    In his previous incarnation, the Svengali-like Raniere ran a $30 million multilevel marketing business that imploded after federal agencies and regulators in 23 states alleged it was an illegal pyramid scheme.


    He has managed to attract famous names to NXIVM.

    Three of the March and April Clinton pledges came from Raniere's most high-profile followers: Seagram heiresses Clare and Sara Bronfman, and Pamela Cafritz, daughter of D.C. A-listers Buffy and Bill Cafritz.

    Cafritz shares a condo with Raniere.

    The Bronfman sisters are also deeply involved with NXIVM and, according to a 2003 article in Forbes magazine, have loaned millions to the group and provided use of their jet.

    Their father, Edgar Bronfman Sr., once took NXIVM classes but soon severed ties, telling Forbes, "It's a cult."

    The Clinton campaign downplayed the significance of the NXIVM-related contributions.

    "Over 100,000 people from across the country have contributed to Sen. Clinton's campaign for change, and regardless of who supports her, she will always continue to stand up for what she feels is right," said campaign spokesman Blake Zeff.

    Hillary isn't the only Clinton NXIVM officials are attracted to.

    At least three of them - group President Nancy Salzman and the Bronfman sisters - are members of Bill's charitable organization, the Clinton Global Initiative. Membership is by invitation only and requires at least a $15,000 donation per person for one year.


    NXIVM spokesman Frank Roberts told The Post the organization doesn't have a presidential candidate it is officially backing.

    Last month, the Albany Times Union reported that NXIVM associates gave $31,600 to the state Republican Senate Campaign Committee and provided $34,763 worth of air transportation.

    The recent campaign contributions led one close observer of NXIVM to speculate that the group is trying to curry favor for its effort to expand training centers upstate.

    In the 1990s, several states investigated the Raniere-run Consumer Buyline Inc., a marketing firm in which members were paid commissions for recruiting new members.

    A 1992 Arkansas lawsuit filed by Bill Clinton's then-attorney general, Winston Bryant, charged Raniere, Cafritz and two others with fraud and business deception. Soon after, then-New York AG Robert Abrams sued CBI, branding it "illegal."

    Raniere didn't admit wrongdoing, but agreed to pay hefty fines in both states.

    After closing the Albany-based CBI, he became involved in a health-food and vitamin venture that led him to Salzman. Sharing a passion for motivational training, the pair launched NXIVM.

    At NXIVM - according to court papers, cult watchdogs and relatives of members - Raniere has defrauded devotees, shattered families and drove at least one person to suicide.

    After four months attending NXIVM's expensive, "intensive" studies, Alaska resident Kristin Marie Snyder grew angry, depressed and irrational.

    In winter 2003, she disappeared. Her family believes she drowned herself. Her body was not recovered. Snyder was last seen leaving a NXIVM course, and police released a note she left behind.

    "I was brainwashed and my emotional center of the brain was killed/turned off," Snyder scrawled in a spiral notebook.

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    Here's a clip from back in August, of Sen. Hillary Clinton addressing the YearlyKooks, I mean Kos, convention. In it, she brags about starting and supporting Media Matters for America. Isn't that the NonProfit, Tax-Exempt Media Matters? The one that is supposed to not get involved in politics?

    “…putting together a network in the blogosphere and a lot of the new progressive infrastructure, institutions that I helped start and support like Media Matters and the Center for American Progress…”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbzC6-N9mwM&eurl=


    Doesn’t that make them an adjuct part of her campaign for the presidency? What does McCain-Feingold have to say about this arrangement? And has Norman Hsu’s Ponzi scheme money funded any part of Media Matters? These are the questions that the MSM that regurgitates Media Matters press release attacks as if they’re actual news will not ask and doesn’t want answered.

    Hm. How many “progressive” blogs are part of this network? What roles do they play? How does this network work?

    If Newt’s association with the group he started is enough reason for him to pull out the presidential race wouldn’t the same rules apply to Hillary?

    Media Matters has repeatedly denied any connection to Clinton or her campaign. Either they or Clinton is lying. Media Matters has established a record of lying; Clinton still has dirty Hsus laying around and a possible felony floating around out there.
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