Hillary Campaign Finance Felonies Caught On Video
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What happened :
Mr. Paul, founder of a $300 million Hollywood based Internet company with Spider Man creator Stan Lee, was induced by Bill Clinton to pay for and produce the Farewell Gala for then President Clinton, which became the largest event ever produced for a US President in Hollywood, as a down payment on Paul's one year post White House employment deal with Clinton to serve as a Rainmaker for Paul's companies.
Paul agreed to promote the event and in exchange Clinton agreed to act as a rainmaker for Paul's company, compensated through stock, cash options and massive contributions to his wife's 2000 Senate campaign. Paul has contended in a landmark civil fraud suit, an FEC complaint and charges lodged with then Attorney General Ashcroft, that he was directed by the Clintons and Democratic Party leaders to foot the bill for the lavish Hollywood gala and fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign prior to the 2000 election. He maintained, and the government investigations into his claims established, that he eventually paid “more than $1.2 million”. Mr. Paul has maintained that his “more than $1.2 million was closer to $2 million and that federal election law required it to be deemed an illegally excessive “hard money” contribution to Hillary’s campaign because Hillary and her agents solicited it from him and then coordinated it— one that far exceeded the legal $2,000 cap on such contributions.
What is illegal:
Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign misrepresented the amount and source of the monies used to pay for the event — its largest fundraising activity — to the Federal Election Commission as required by Federal law in four separate FEC reports beginning in October, 2000 extending through January, 2006.
The smoking gun video tape was withheld by the courts and the FEC from 2001, until it was released to Paul's attorneys at the US Justice Foundation on April 11, 2007. The tape was made by Paul in his office on July 17, 2000, three days after Bill Clinton agreed to work for Paul as a rainmaker after he left the White House, if Paul would underwrite and produce the largest fundraising event for Hillary's Senate campaign.
What Hillary says:
"I have no recollection whatsoever of discussing any arrangement with him whereby he would support my campaign for the United States Senate in exchange for anything from me.” or then-President Clinton," Clinton said in the declaration. "I do not believe I would make such a statement because I believe I would remember such a discussion if it had occurred," she added. I also have no recollection whatsoever of talking with him about any future business arrangement of any kind between him and then President Clinton”.
The video:
After almost seven years of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s denial of receiving and failing to report $2 million in campaign contributions, a recently released “smoking gun” videotape reveals that Senator Clinton not only had direct knowledge of Mr. Peter Paul’s planning and funding of her 2000 Senate campaign, she and her White House staff liaison with her senate campaign acted as co-producers and talent coordinators of the largest fundraiser of her campaign.
In the video, Hillary indicates that she played a personal role in “selling” Cher on the idea of performing at the gala. By so doing, she personally helped solicit a direct contribution to her campaign, which far exceeded in value the legal $2,000 cap.
The clear audio of Hillary Clinton is heard telling Lee that Paul and her chief campaign aide "talk all the time, so she'll be the person to convey whatever I need."
She is then heard adding, "I wanted to call and personally thank all of you ... [and] tell you how much this means to me. It's going to mean a lot to the president too."
What happens now:
Election law expert and US Supreme Court/Constitutional Lawyer John Armor determined on June 14, 2007, after analyzing the video of Hillary Clinton on a conference call with Peter Paul, Stan Lee, that the video captures Hillary engaged in at least four or five felony violations of the law.
Colette Wilson of the U.S. Justice Foundation filed an appellate brief today, in the civil lawsuit alleging Clinton's violation of a federal code that carries a possible five-year prison sentence. Wilson argues in the brief filed with the California Court of Appeal that Sen. Clinton's actions violated not only the $2,000 limit but Title 2 section 437 of the U.S. federal code, which states: "Any person who knowingly and willfully commits a violation of any provision of this act which involves the making, receiving, or reporting of any contribution, donation, or expenditure aggregating $25,000 or more during a calendar year shall be fined under Title 18, or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both."
Please go directly to jail
***UPDATE 6/26***
Thanks to DougFromUpland for this video that breaks down the Hillary video.
