Jordanian indicted in Republican campaign scam

[Peejay]

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles on Wednesday indicted a Jordanian businessman with connections to the Florida Republican Party on charges of funneling illegal contributions to three former presidential candidates and Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida.

More Politics NewsThe indictment of the businessman, Ala’a al-Ali, 37, shines a spotlight on the role of a business associate who the complaint asserts helped collect the donations. The associate, Harry Sargeant III, is a major Republican fund-raiser who owns an oil company with government contracts in Iraq and who recently resigned as finance chairman of the Florida Republican Party. Mr. Sargeant raised more than $500,000 for the 2008 Republican presidential campaign of Senator John McCain.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/us/politics/26donate.html?ref=politics


Could there be a terrorist link here? The Republican party took a half million dollars in campaign contributions from Ala'a al-Ali, collected from sources in the middle east. Does anyone have more information about this scandal?

 

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Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles on Wednesday indicted a Jordanian businessman with connections to the Florida Republican Party on charges of funneling illegal contributions to three former presidential candidates and Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida.

More Politics NewsThe indictment of the businessman, Ala’a al-Ali, 37, shines a spotlight on the role of a business associate who the complaint asserts helped collect the donations. The associate, Harry Sargeant III, is a major Republican fund-raiser who owns an oil company with government contracts in Iraq and who recently resigned as finance chairman of the Florida Republican Party. Mr. Sargeant raised more than $500,000 for the 2008 Republican presidential campaign of Senator John McCain.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/us/politics/26donate.html?ref=politics


Could there be a terrorist link here? The Republican party took a half million dollars in campaign contributions from Ala'a al-Ali, collected from sources in the middle east. Does anyone have more information about this scandal?

reading for comprehesion seems to be a problem for you. nowhere in the article does it say that the repubs took $500k from al-ali; it took $500k from sargeant. do you read this stuff before you post it?
dope.

from your link...
"People briefed on the case say prosecutors charge that Mr. Ali arranged a total of $60,000 in illegal donations to the campaigns of Mr. McCain, Rudolph W. Giuliani and Hillary Rodham Clinton, and $5,000 to Mr. Crist."

when did hillary become a republican, stooge?

 

[manu1959]

get in line.....

Obama receives illegal funds from 'terrorist hotbed' (OneNewsNow.com)

According to Federal Election Commission filings, Barack Obama has received illegal donations from Palestinians living in Gaza, a hotbed of Hamas terrorists.

Obama received more than $24,000 in campaign contributions over a period of two months last fall from three Palestinian brothers from the "Edwan" family in Rafah, Gaza, which is a Hamas stronghold along the border with Egypt. The story was uncovered by Pamela Geller of the Atlas Shrugs blog. (see Federal Election Commission report)

 

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