Chinese-Americans Give Money To Clinton: The Horror. The Horror.

If it kind of worked once, keep trying it again and again. So once again, the Right is reviving the tired 90s Asian-donations smear on the Clintons.

Headlined at the Drudge Report, the Wall Street Journal has Big Source of Clinton's Cash Is an Unlikely Address:

It isn't obvious how the Paw family is able to afford such political largess. ...

Did you ask them? Is it your business? Actually they did ask them:

But he added: "I have been fortunate in my investments and all of my contributions have been my money."

But they have a Chinese name, so let's do a big story on it.

The Paws' political donations closely track donations made by Norman Hsu, a wealthy New York businessman in the apparel industry who once listed the Paw home as his address, according to public records. Mr. Hsu is one of the top fund-raisers for Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign.

And now we get to the root of the big scandal - (queue horror-movie music) Someone is CHINESE-American!

William and Alice Paw are of Chinese descent..

That's the whole story. There are no accusations of any wrongdoing. Just an American family with a Chinese name is raising a lot of money for Senator Clinton.

In the 1990s the Republicans ran a smear campaign for years, accusing the Clintons of passing nuclear-weapons secrets to China in exchange for campaign donations. There was never anything to back it up, of course, but the racial hatred aspect got them votes. It plays big in the South, we guess.

In case people don't get it, the Right's echo chamber cranks up the noise. No subtle implications need apply: Laundering for Hillary?

The little green house at 41 Shelbourne Ave. in Daly City, Calif., (shown right) may spell big trouble for Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York as she pursues the presidency.

And there they go again. The Republicans are gearing up for Senator Clinton's Presidential run. It won't be pretty, it won't be honest, but it will be, sadly, very predictable.

Comments

[sdw2is]

Unfortunately HSU is a fugitive from justice (sentenced to three years prison). He is also a campign fund bundler. Unless Mr. Paws (the postal carrier has significant other assets and a clean trail of not ever having accepted money for donations) the US Postal carrier has also committed a felony.

Am a registered democrat. Obviously a blue dog/Scoop jackson/Li­eberman/JF­K/RFK hybrid.
Larry Craig should go this second. This wasn't gay it was borderline pedophiliac trolling.

Out of the middle east completely now.
No illegal immigrants- deported now.
Put americna underemployed blue collar workers to work building nuclear power plants, infrastructure and drilling and mining american energy.(to blank with ELF and the Sierra Club). Become an energy exporter.

Reverse the balance of trade deficit.
Make the dollar drop through the floor. Cut capital gains down to the bone.
Heavily restrict foreign investment (like Japan and China.)Lik­e JFK and RFK halt communists, and corrupt labor union leaders.

[sunwolf78]

Imply that your opponents are sexist. Paint those who expose your dirty fund-raising habits as racist. Cover up the truth at all costs. Is anyone else sick and tired of the Clintons and their minions?
http://unitedagainsthillary.wordpress.com

[Baukunin]

Indictments In DeLay PAC Probe
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 22, 2004
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(CBS/AP) Three consultants to a PAC formed by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay were indicted by a Texas grand jury and charged with making illegal campaign contributions.

Also charged were eight corporate donors, including Sears and Cracker Barrel.


"This has been a dragged out 500-day investigation, and you do the political math. This is no different than other kinds of partisan attacks that have been leveled against me that are dropped after elections," the Texas Republican said.

The grand jury investigated whether $2.5 million in corporate funds were used illegally to help Republican candidates win elections in 2002 giving the GOP a majority in the Texas House for the first time since Reconstruction. The GOP later used its majority to redraw Texas' congressional districts to favor Republicans.

Texas law prohibits the use of corporate money for political activity.

The Austin American-Statesman reports that those charged include John Colyandro, the executive director of DeLay's PAC, Texans for a Republican Majority; James Ellis, a key aide to DeLay; and Warren Robold, a Washington, D.C., fund-raiser.

Ellis was charged with money laundering. Colyandro and RoBold were charged with unlawful acceptance of corporate political contributions. The eight companies were charged with making illegal political contributions.

Sears spokesman Chris Brathwaite said the company was "surprised by the indictment because Sears' contribution to this PAC followed all applicable state and federal laws."

DeLay was not questioned or subpoenaed as part of the investigation. The second-ranking House member dismissed as frivolous a complaint filed with the House ethics committee that alleges he abused his office for political purposes.

Leaders of the House ethics committee said they soon plan to present to committee members information they've obtained on a three-part complaint.

The 10-member committee, equally divided by party, could send the allegations to an investigative subcommittee, dismiss some allegations while ordering a probe of others or throw out the complaint.

"I think people see this for what it is, at least that's what I've seen," DeLay said.

[Baukunin]

Libby Dole’s Dirty Money
Misery loves company. Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) joins Tom DeLay with investigations into illegal corporate contributions to her 2002 campaign committee:

Federal auditors said a campaign committee for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., should return $81,320 in unlawful corporate contributions from her 2002 campaign. … A federal audit of the Dole North Carolina Victory Committee, a joint fund-raising effort between Dole and the North Carolina Republican Party that [Earl Allen] Haywood helped manage, determined that it had deposited 31 checks received from the general funds of corporations. Such donations are unlawful.

Like DeLay’s PAC, Dole’s committee is trying to point fingers and blame Haywood, who last year admitted to stealing money from the committee. But the FEC isn’t biting:

Regardless of Mr. Haywood’s reputation, in the opinion of the Audit Staff, the lack of basic internal controls (e.g. separation of duties) and oversight by DNCVC created an environment that contributed to the misappropriation of funds and the misreporting to the Commission.

The FEC also concluded that Dole’s group “bears the responsibility for the return of the prohibited contributi­ons.”

[Baukunin]

Noe gets 27 months in federal prison for illegal Bush contributions

By MIKE WILKINSON
BLADE STAFF WRITER

Tom Noe, the GOP fund-raiser at the heart of Ohio's biggest political scandal in a generation, was sentenced today to 27 months in a federal prison for illegally funneling money into President Bush’s re-election campaign.

U.S. District Court Judge David Katz also ordered Noe to pay $136,200 in fines for sending more than $45,000 into a 2003 Bush fund-raiser by using two dozen friends and associates — including several current and former local Republican elected officials — in violation of federal election laws.

Noe, 52, remains free on bond until the conclusion of his trial next month on 46 felony counts in state court related to allegations that he stole millions from a $50 million rare-coin fund that he managed for the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation.

Noe, a former Maumee rare-coin dealer whose large donations made him a powerful political figure, apologized in court for the scheme to give friends money to donate to Bush to fulfill his promise to generate $50,000 for a presidential fund-raiser.

Noe said he arranged the scheme because “in 2003 I was pressured by Bush-Cheney officials to become a Pioneer,” a name the campaign gives to people who raise $100,000.

The campaign money-laundering scheme was the largest prosecuted under the 2002 campaign finance reform law, which set limits on donations, prosecutors said last October.

[mike53]

Shady finances..­Clinton? I am shocked. What next? A male intern and a stained pantsuit?

[NABNYC]

Remember when George Bush asked his wealthy supporters to raise $100,000 each, so they could become "Pioneers" in his campaign?

Well, Hillary is asking her supporters to raise $1.0 million each.

If those supporters comply with the campaign finance laws, they have to go out and find 434 people to each give $2300. For the wealthier supporters, it would be so much easier to just write the check themselves.

So that's the question. By asking each supporter to raise $1.0 million, is Clinton encouraging money-laundering to avoid campaign finance laws?

And better still, what is this wealthy man trying to buy from Hillary Clinton? I'll bet it's a favorable trade policy to continue sending U.S. jobs to China. Just like her husband started, and GWB supported, Hillary will continue economic policies that destroy working people in this country.

Most of whom, by the way, do not have an extra $2,300 sitting around to give to a politician. That's why people like Hillary Clinton, in the end, do not do anything to help working people. Because they cannot afford to buy politicians.

We need a simple law that prohibits candidates, politicians and their spouses from taking anything of value from anyone. This is straight up corruption and bribery. And we need to set limits to when campaigns begin, because this never-ending campaign nonsense is just further enriching a small yet useless percentage of the population.

[mbafromharvard]

Ha ha Boyce!! Try as you might, we're going to swiftboat the living shit out of Hillary and there's nothing you can do about it. Keep on posting! No effect. You're preaching to the choir here. We're going to push this in the heartland, over and over and over!!

High Fives all around!!!

[bff426]

On September 30, 1998, Democratic fund-raiser Mark B. Jimenez was indicted in Washington, D.C. on 17 counts of organizing, making and concealing illegal conduit contributions to a number of Democratic campaigns, including the Torricelli Campaign. In December 1998, Future Tech International, Jimenez's Miami based computer sales company, pleaded guilty to tax offenses resulting from its illegal deduction of a $100,000 contribution to the DNC and employee campaign contributions reimbursed through the company's payroll. On April, 15, 1999, Jimenez, who is now in the Philippines, was indicted in Miami on additional charges of tax evasion and fraud. The Criminal Division of the Department of Justice will continue to pursue Jimenez's extradition from the Philippines. In the event of Jiminez's return to the United States, the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division has the responsibility for the prosecution of the case.

In 1997, the Task Force obtained guilty pleas from Democratic fund-raisers Nora and Gene Lum, and their daughter Trisha, and Michael Brown for illegal fund-raising activities after their cases were referred from Independent Counsel Daniel Pearson. In August 1998, Gene Lum pleaded guilty to filing a false 1994 tax return and falsely preparing Nora Lum's 1994 tax return. After cooperating with the government, he was sentenced in June 1999, to two years in prison. Nora Lum was sentenced to 5 months in a halfway house, 5 months in home detention, and ordered to pay a $30,000 fine, a sentence which Gene Lum also served separate and apart from the sentence he received for his tax-related conviction. Trisha Lum and Michael Brown each received probation, a $5,000 fine, costs of more than $7,000, and were ordered to perform 150 hours of community service.

[bff426]

On September 15, 1999, Lawrence Penna, the former President of a now-defunct New Jersey securities firm, was charged with violating election laws by funneling illegal campaign contributions to the 1996 federal election campaigns of President Clinton and Senator Torricelli. Penna's case was transferred by agreement to the Southern District of New York, where charges relating to his violation of United States' securities laws were pending.

On August 16, 1999, a federal judge sentenced Robert S. Lee to three years of probation and 250 hours of community service for aiding and abetting the making of an illegal foreign campaign contribution to the Democratic National Committee.

On August 12, 1999, former Lippo Executive John Huang pleaded guilty to a felony charge, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, that he conspired with other employees of the Indonesia-based Lippo Group to make campaign contributions and reimburse employees with corporate funds or with funds from Indonesia. He was sentenced to one year of probation, 500 hours of community service, a $10,000 fine and directed by the judge to continue cooperating with the investigation as a condition of his probation.

In June 1999, Berek Don, former GOP party leader in Bergen County, NJ, pled guilty to another conduit contribution scheme to the Senator Torricelli Campaign. On December 1, 1999, Carmine Alampi, a Bergen County New Jersey attorney, pleaded guilty to the same scheme. Alampi was fined $5,000, with no probation, for his misdemeanor violation.

On March 23, 1999, Juan C. Ortiz, the Chief Financial Officer of Future Tech International, Inc., was sentenced to two years probation, $20,000 in fines, and 200 hours in community service for acting as a conduit for an illegal campaign contribution and participating in the reimbursement of eight other conduit contributions.

On December 14, 1998, Johnny Chung was sentenced to probation and 3,000 hours of community service for bank fraud, tax evasion and two misdemeanor counts of conspiring to violate election law.

On November 24, 1998, Howard Glicken, a fund-raiser for the Democratic party, was sentenced to 18 months probation, an $80,000 fine.

[bff426]

On June 1, 2000, Cha-Kuek Koo, a Korean national residing in New Jersey, pled guilty to violating federal election law by making illegal contributions to Senator Torricelli's campaign. Koo admitted to assisting David Chang in making conduit contributions using Koo's employees at LG Group, Executive Office of the Americas. Koo's sentencing has also been set for February 7, 2002.

On April 5, 2000, a federal grand jury indicted two Buddhist nuns, Venerables Yi Chu and Man Ho, with contempt of court for failing to appear as witnesses in the government's criminal trial against Maria Hsia. Yi Chu and Man Ho remain fugitives. The Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division has the responsibility for this case and will handle the prosecution in the event either of the defendants, or both, return to the United States.

On March 2, 2000, Maria Hsia was convicted in federal district court in Washington, D.C., on charges of causing false statements to be submitted to the FEC. The trial had been postponed pending an appeal of a ruling by the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., which had dismissed some of the false statement counts. In May 1999, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. overturned the ruling and reinstated those counts. The task force dismissed a second indictment on tax charges after a jury in Los Angeles failed to reach a verdict. The Hsia case is before the U.S. Court of Appeals on the defendant's appeal.

On December 17, 1999, Yogesh Gandhi was sentenced to one year in prison for mail fraud, tax evasion, and violating federal election laws by aiding and abetting the making of a political campaign contribution by a foreign national.

On November 1, 1999, Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie, a Little Rock, Arkansas businessman, was sentenced, after pleading guilty, to a two-count information filed in Little Rock, Arkansas, to three years probation, four months home detention, and a $5,000 fine for violating federal campaign finance laws by making political contributions in someone else's name .

[bff426]

In April, 2001, Pauline Kanchanalak, a Thai national, and her sister-in-law, Duangnet Kronenberg, were sentenced to campaign financing-related charges in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. before Judge Paul L. Friedman. In June, 2000, Kanchanalak pled guilty to felony conspiracy and misdemeanor campaign financing charges and Kronenberg pled guilty to one count of making an illegal $10,000 corporate political contribution to the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) federal account. Kanchanalak was sentenced to three years probation, six months home confinement with electronic monitoring, a $3,000 fine, and 200 hours of community service. Kronenberg received 18 months of probation and a $1,500 fine.

In January 2001, James Tjahaja Riady paid a record $8.6 million in criminal fines and pled guilty to a felony charge of conspiring to defraud the United States by unlawfully reimbursing campaign donors with foreign corporate funds in violation of federal election law. In addition, LippoBank California, a California state-chartered bank affiliated with Lippo Group, will pled guilty to 86 misdemeanor counts charging its agents, Riady and John Huang, with making illegal foreign campaign contributions from 1988 through 1994.

On June 6, 2000, Audrey Yu, an employee of David Chang, pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., to conspiring to obstruct justice by providing a false document to a federal district court during the grand jury's investigation into campaign financing violations in New Jersey. Yu is scheduled to be sentenced on February 7, 2002.

On June 2, 2000, David Chang pled guilty to charges that as a principal of Nikko Enterprises, Bright & Bright Corporation, Panacom Inc., and Hudson Terrace Realty Management Corporation, he conspired to funnel illegal campaign contributions to Senator Robert Torricelli's 1996 campaign. Chang also pled guilty to four violations of the FECA for his role in funneling illegal campaign contributions in others names. Chang further pled guilty to corruptly attempting to persuade a grand jury witness to give false statements related to a financial transaction which was material to the grand jury investigation. Chang's sentencing date is set for February 7, 2002.

[BrainWashedSheeple]

Was my comment too abusive?

I'm so sorry.

The "Oh noes~! The GOP is attacking people based solely on race" angle is a pure red herring, and you both know it. Shame on you and your "journalistic integrity".

[BrainWashedSheeple]

Go ahead, guys... ignore the issure because it's a negative story about "your guy" (or girl, as it were)

See, you're betting that your readers are too stupid to recognize a blatant red herring when they see one.

Everyone knows that the story isn't that the donations came from an asian family... the story comes from the fact that family has contributed the 3rd largest amount of money per address in this campaign cycle (slightly ahead of the Maloofs... you know, the guys that own the Palms hotel and casino in Las Vegas, and the Sacramento Kings basketball team) and we know for a fact that if this had been revealed about Romney, or Giuliani or Thompson, that you would've been all over them, regardless of the race of the donators.

[Nah]

Whats horrible is your trying to spin this into a Racial Hatred issue. Horrible and also all too predictable.