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From: LindyBill	10/6/2004 10:27:56 AM
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Hillary Under FBI Investigation By Captain Ed on Current Affairs The Washington Post reports that Senator Hillary Clinton is under investigation by the FBI for campaign irregularities involving fundraising for her 2000 Senate bid and her husband's use of the Presidential pardon. If you didn't see it in the paper, it's buried at A11 of the Post: The Justice Department is trying to secure the cooperation of an indicted businessman as it pursues Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign for possible fundraising violations, according to interviews and documents. The FBI told a U.S. magistrate in Los Angeles two years ago that it has evidence Clinton's campaign deliberately understated its fundraising costs so it would have more money to spend on elections. Prosecutors contend that businessman Peter Paul made donations because he wanted a pardon from President Bill Clinton. ... Paul is a three-time convicted felon who hosted a Hollywood fundraising event for Mrs. Clinton in 2000. He alleges he underwrote most of the costs for the event. Publicly, Paul claims that nothing untoward occurred, and Paul never did receive a pardon from Bill Clinton. However, his lawyers have spent the last couple of years negotiating with the Justice Department for his testimony, which makes it look like the DoJ has some evidence supporting this allegation which ties Paul to what amounts to money-laundering. The DoJ has tried three times this year to get an interview with Paul, to no avail, at least for now. Even if nothing else pans out from this negotiation, New York voters may be curious why the Clintons turned to a thrice-convicted felon to do their fundraising, especially in Hollywood. It's not as if Hollywood has a dearth of celebrities willing to raise money for Democrats.

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