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To: longnshort who wrote (323992)	1/31/2007 6:57:25 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578012

"Carol Mosley Braun also ran for Pres. . Another 'dirty' black ????" Never heard of her. After googling her, she seems to attract controversy over her handling of campaign funds. Her term in the Senate was marked with controversy. Before her swearing in, it was alleged that she had rewarded several campaign workers with jobs at the Cook County Recorder of Deeds. Further controversy came when several of her campaign staffers allegedly accused her campaign manager and fiance, Kgosie Matthews, of sexual harassment; Moseley Braun supported Matthews against the allegations. To celebrate her 1992 victory, Matthews and Moseley Braun flew to Matthews' native South Africa using the Concorde for one leg of their trip. Meanwhile, several aides supposedly complained that they had not been paid. The most damaging allegation of illegal activity came when the Federal Election Commission began investigating $249,000 in unaccounted campaign expenditures in 1993. Charges had been made that Moseley Braun and Matthews had squandered the donations on trips and other personal expenditures. Numerous allegations of misappropriation were stated in various media reports. Following the nearly five-year investigation, on January 16, 2003, the Federal Election Commission found those allegations to be without merit.[citations needed] No fines or sanctions were ever levied against her or her campaign. On page 7, paragraph 2 of the Final Audit Report of the Federal Election Commission (AK007596, AR 93-32approved 5/6/96) it states: "Unless specifically discussed below, no material non-compliance was detected." Further, the Justice Department later rejected two requests from the Internal Revenue Service to investigate Moseley Braun for criminal misappropriation of campaign funds.[citations needed] In 1996, she traveled to Nigeria accompanied by Matthews, who was also a registered agent of the Nigerian government. In 1998, after George Will wrote a column reviewing the allegations of corruption against her, she responded to Will's comments, saying that "I think because he couldn't say nigger, he said corrupt."[1] She also compared Will to a Ku Klux Klansman, saying "I mean this very sincerely from the bottom of my heart: He can take his hood and put it back on again, as far as I'm concerned."[2] Later, Braun apologized for her remarks.[1] Opposed by a self-financed candidate and outspent by a margin of 3 to 1,[citations needed] she lost reelection by about 4% of the vote in 1998. In 1999, President Clinton named her special consultant to the Department of Education on school construction and nominated her to become the Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. Once the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee called a hearing on the nomination, she was confirmed by a vote of the full Senate of 98-2. As Ambassador her portfolio included New Zealand, Samoa, the Cook Islands, and Antarctica. She traveled extensively throughout the region and was very well received, becoming the first US Ambassador to be made an honorary member of the Te Atiawa Maori tribe. She describes this part of her public service as being "Ambassador to Paradise", a position she held until 2001. Braun was given the regular security clearance and was officially absolved of all of the insinuations of wrongdoing by all investigations previously undertaken.[citations needed] en.wikipedia.org True, she was absolved in most cases. But there is a serious taint there.