Hillary Clinton Refuses to Give Back All the Money She Received from Convicted Felon/Fugitive Norman Hsu
In case you haven’t read about this yet, Hillary Clinton is involved in another campaign violation controversy. The main steam media is too wrapped up in the Larry Craig gay sex scandal to bother reporting this but you can read the story here.
The latest in this scandal is the fact that Hillary is refusing to give back all the money she received from Hsu.
Though Clinton’s campaign said the $23,000 that Hsu donated over the years to her presidential and Senate campaign and political action committee will be given to charity, she is not giving away the bundled money that Hsu raised.
Bundling is a term used to describe one person gathering a large number of political contributions under the names of many people. It is often done by heads of companies and other organizations who gather donations from employees to contribute to a candidate.
However, this is sometimes done to circumvent the individual contribution limits.
That last line is where the real problem is. Hsu used the Paw family to donate $200,000 to Hillary’s campaign for president and senate, yet she won’t give it back. Not to mention the fact that while it looks good that she is giving SOME of the money to charity, let’s not forget that charitable donations are tax deductible. She is giving nothing back. This is so transparent, yet it is ignored by the media.
But the Paw’s weren’t the only family that somehow manage to donate a large sum of money to Hillary, and to other Democrats as well.
Another example was the Lee family in New York that ran a plastics packaging plant in Pennsylvania. They gave more than $200,000 to Democrats in the last three years. Nearly $40,000 of that went to Clinton’s presidential or Senate campaigns.
Of coarse the Clinton’s are no strangers to campaign finance violations.
The 1996 Clinton fundraising scandal, often called “Chinagate” involved numerous anecdotes but never produced a smoking gun. Reported events included the following:
– Clinton friend Yah Lin “Charlie” Trie pleaded guilty to charges of violating campaign finance rules in exchange for having pending indictments dropped against him in Washington and Arkansas.
– According to news reports in 1997, Democratic donor Johnny Chung received a $150,000 transfer from the Bank of China three days before he handed then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff a $50,000 check.
– Then-Vice President Al Gore received political donations from Buddhist nuns who had taken a vow of poverty.
– President Clinton admitted in 1997 that he invited major campaign donors to spend the night in the White House. The Clintons hosted 404 overnight guests.
– During the investigation by the Department of Justice, about 120 people connected to “Chinagate” either fled the country or pleaded the Fifth Amendment to prevent testifying.
After fugitive Marc Rich’s ex-wife and a Rich friend donated a combined $1.45 million to the Clinton Presidential Library, he was granted a presidential pardon just before Clinton left office in January 2001. Rich fled the United States after he was convicted of tax evasion.
Also, Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign was involved in an illegal in-kind contribution from Hollywood mogul Peter Paul. That incident resulted in a $35,000 fine by the Federal Elections Committee and the indictment and later acquittal of her finance director, David Rosen.
And now Hillary’s campaign slogan calls for change, but it appears the more people change, the more they stay the same.
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