Senator Clinton May Have A Problem!

[Annie]

Let's hope this heats up!

http://www.nysun.com/article/12574

Clinton Case Mystery
BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
April 21, 2005

A Democratic fund-raiser involved in Senator Clinton's 2000 campaign has offered a guilty plea to bank fraud charges and is likely to become a government witness at the upcoming federal trial of a top finance aide to Mrs. Clinton, David Rosen, court records obtained by The New York Sun show.

As part of an FBI investigation into alleged campaign finance reporting violations by Mrs. Clinton's campaign, the mystery witness secretly taped a conversation with Mr. Rosen in September 2002 and apparently tried to elicit statements from the former Clinton staffer about financial irregularities involving an August 2000 Hollywood fund-raising event.

Allegedly inaccurate reports about that event filed with the Federal Election Commission led to Mr. Rosen's indictment on four counts of causing false statements to be made to federal authorities. One count was dropped by a judge last month, but Mr. Rosen is scheduled to go to trial on the remaining charges at Los Angeles on May 3.

In the documents reviewed by the Sun, the name of the FBI informant is not disclosed. However, the records offer intriguing clues that suggest the mystery witness operated at the highest echelon of Democratic politics.

"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 will become the subject of intense media attention," prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg wrote in a November 2004 memo asking a federal magistrate to keep the relationship under wraps.

An affidavit filed by a Los Angeles-based FBI agent, David Smith, said the informant began working with the FBI in July 2002."The CW states that s/he is active in fundraising for the Democratic Party. CW assisted in the U.S. Senate campaign of Hillary Clinton. S/he was involved in the planning of the Clinton Gala," Mr. Smith wrote in January 2003. "The CW is the target of an FBI investigation on unrelated bank fraud charges. S/he has since signed a plea agreement, and has agreed to cooperate in this case."

Mr. Zeidenberg declined to comment for this story. Mr. Smith referred questions to an FBI spokeswoman.

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The theory of the government's case is that by underreporting the costs of the event, the campaign maximized the amount of "hard money" raised and minimized the amount of "soft money." Under the laws then in effect, campaign officials generally preferred hard money, because it could be spent with fewer limitations.

Mr. Rosen indicated to the informant that the high event costs caused problems for the campaign. "You rarely wanna do fifty cents to raise a dollar," he is quoted as saying. "You have to pay the percentage out of the income. So we would have to move hard to soft. Not the other way around."

Mrs. Clinton's campaign has claimed that the August 2000 event cost about $600,000, up from lower figures in earlier reports. In the September 2002 recorded conversation, Mr. Rosen allegedly said, "We probably spent a million, which is 400,000 more."

The government filing also stated that Mr. Rosen said he could not be convicted because he was only a "staffer."

The court records do not indicate whether the informant who taped Mr. Rosen was ever asked to tape Mrs. Clinton. However, Tonken, who also claims to have worked as an FBI informant in the case, told the Sun he was asked by the FBI to tape phone conversations with Mrs. Clinton. The agent who made the request, Tonken said, was Mr. Smith, the same one who described the agency's relationship with the mystery witness.

 

[fuzzykitten99]

in the words of Filch "Oohh, my, we are in trouble..."

 

[Annie]

in the words of Filch "Oohh, my, we are in trouble..."

Let's hope so!

 

[SmarterThanYou]

clinton and delay. two peas in a pod.

 

[dilloduck]

clinton and delay. two peas in a pod.

and Bill make three !

 

[fuzzykitten99]

and Bill make three !

that's bill's fantasy---a trio! not exactly his pick in people for the other 2 participants though...

 

[no1tovote4]

clinton and delay. two peas in a pod.

It appears so. So now who do we think will run for the Dem nod for President now?

 

[dilloduck]

It appears so. So now who do we think will run for the Dem nod for President now?

I've been getting this wierd feeling that Hillary is going to officially inaugerate the Progressive Party.

 

[no1tovote4]

I've been getting this wierd feeling that Hillary is going to officially inaugerate the Progressive Party.

Now that would kill the Left's chances at all. Like Ross Perot took voters from the Repubs, so will the "Progressive Party" take from the Dems.

Slick Willy would never have won at all if Little General Big Ears wasn't mucking up the soup.

 

[dilloduck]

Now that would kill the Left's chances at all. Like Ross Perot took voters from the Repubs, so will the "Progressive Party" take from the Dems.

Slick Willy would never have won at all if Little General Big Ears wasn't mucking up the soup.

I think it may make the dem party fold-----new name--new image---

just guessing