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To: geode00 who wrote (837)	5/21/2005 1:04:11 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 1449

Clinton Invites Iowa Supporters to D.C. By MARC HUMBERT, Associated Press Writer Fri May 20, 7:05 PM ET ALBANY, N.Y. - With a visit to Iowa not considered the politically smart thing to do just now, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is instead inviting Iowans to come see her in Washington. Clinton aides Friday confirmed that the former first lady — widely expected to seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2008 — is inviting supporters to her Washington home for a fundraiser. Campaign spokeswoman Ann Lewis declined to say when the event would be but said the sole purpose was to raise money for Clinton's Senate re-election in 2006, not to court support in a state that hosts the caucuses that kick off the presidential election cycle. "There is no other agenda," Lewis said. The Clinton camp has been careful to play down 2008 for now. "It's a strategic decision," said Hank Sheinkopf, a New York-based Democratic consultant who worked on President Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign. "It's hard to run for re-election while appearing too overtly to be running for president." Going to Iowa "would give her political enemies more to attack her with, and allow them to say her commitment to New York state is not what she wants it to appear to be," Sheinkopf said. The Washington-based newspaper Roll Call first reported the fundraiser for Iowa supporters, and noted that Clinton has held similar events at her Washington home for donors from Massachusetts and California.

To: geode00 who wrote (837)	5/21/2005 1:19:02 PM
From: StockDung	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1449

Witness: Hillary Aide Ordered Cover-up Thursday, May 19, 2005 9:41 a.m. EDT An event planner who worked on a blockbuster Hollywood fund-raiser for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton during her 2000 campaign for Senate testified Wednesday that Clinton's finance chairman, David Rosen, ordered that the full costs of the event be covered up. "I was instructed by David Rosen to take certain expenses off," Gretta Nock told jurors in Rosen's trial. Nock confirmed earlier testimony by Alan Baumrucker, whose company Black Ink Productions put together the concert portion of the event, which featured mega-stars Cher, Diana Ross, Paul Anka, Michael Bolton, Patti LaBelle and Melissa Etheridge. The Clinton event planner said she asked Baumrucker to supply a bogus invoice for $200,000 to cover up his real fee - $605,000. Baumrucker testified that he reluctantly complied with Nock's request. While Nock said she couldn't remember whether Rosen had instructed her to make specific cuts, she said it was clearly understood that "overall figures needed to project a lower cost." After cooking the expense records, the event planner said she forwarded the bogus numbers to Clinton's campaign headquarters for filing with the FEC. Though prosecutors say Mrs. Clinton was unaware of Rosen's financial shenanigans, Hollywood mogul Peter Paul, who paid for the gala event, alleges that she was personally involved in an effort to trim concert expenses. Paul contends that he hired Mrs. Clinton's friend Gary Smith to produce the gala's concert. And Smith used his "lend out" firm Black Ink Productions. When Smith submitted a fee of $850,000, Paul said he complained directly to the then-first lady, who contacted Smith and persuaded him to cut his bill by $50,000.