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[hopalong]

Kinda like one of your heros!


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September 6, 2007, 4:57 pm
Clinton Supporter Arrested in N.J. Corruption Sting
By Patrick Healy

Update: Blake Zeff, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, just e-mailed to say that Mayor Rivera stepped down from Mrs. Clinton’s Mayors Council today.
Among the 11 public officials arrested in an F.B.I. corruption sting in New Jersey today was a leading Democratic supporter of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign in that state, Mayor Samuel Rivera of Passaic.
It was the latest legal embarrassment involving an ally of the Clinton campaign, coming only one day after a wealthy Clinton donor, Norman Hsu, missed his court date in a California fraud case and apparently disappeared.
Clinton advisers this spring and summer have been aggressively touting their long list of endorsements from elected officials and prominent Democratic donors, to indicate the breadth of establishment support that Mrs. Clinton enjoys. Yet, in the case of Mr. Hsu and now Mayor Rivera, the criminal allegations indicate a cost that can come with quickly rounding up political support from far and wide.
The Clinton campaign has severed ties with Mr. Hsu; as for Mayor Rivera, he remains a member of Mrs. Clinton’s Mayors Council as of this afternoon, but a campaign spokesman said that the charges were “serious” and will be monitored closely.
According to the criminal complaint filed in Federal District Court, Mayor Rivera allegedly promised to deliver a majority of votes on the Passaic City Council to steer city insurance brokerage business to a dummy company set up by the F.B.I.
Federal agents posing as company executives offered a $50,000 payment to Mr. Rivera in return for the business, according to the complaint; Mr. Rivera allegedly accepted an initial installment of $5,000.
Mr. Rivera, according to a transcript of secretly recorded conversations laid out in the complaint, boasted profanely of essentially controlling the seven-member city council. He said that securing a four-vote majority would be “easy, easy, easy,” and, at another point, said the deal was as good as done.
“I make the [expletive] decision. And the council. And believe me, I’ve got the four [expletive] votes on the Council. So let’s stop [expletive], and let’s get this thing rolling,” Mr. Rivera said, according to the complaint.
Mr. Rivera is one of about 100 members of Mrs. Clinton’s Mayors Council, which, according to a campaign press release in July, “will advise the campaign on policy and outreach.”
When Mr. Zeff was asked this afternoon about Mr. Rivera’s status with the campaign he replied, “These are serious charges and as the process moves forward we will be monitoring them closely.”
The 11 officials, who also included two Democratic state assemblymen, are scheduled to appear in Federal District Court in Trenton this afternoon

[hopalong]

Don't forget this one when pointing fingers about dishonesty!!

Hillary's biggest fundraiser is ARRESTED. This crook also raises funds for other Democrats!

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Now to those who cannot recall how Bill Clinton sold U.S. ICBM missle technology to the Chinese Government back in 1996, we now get another glimpse of the corrupt and devious Clinton world.

A shady Chinese megadonor to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has close ties to an aerospace mogul accused of placing his business interests before national security by sharing missile secrets with Beijing during the Clinton administration.

During the last Clinton campaign of 1996, the People's Liberation Army launched a massive campaign to buy influence in the Democratic Party and steer military hardware and technology Beijing's way.

Reports by federal investigators say the PLA used a host of Chinese agents living in the U.S. as bagmen to funnel cash to the Clinton-Gore campaigns and gain access to the White House and sensitive government agencies.

In 1998, in the course of plea bargaining with the Justice Department, a Chinese bagman by the name of Johnny Chung confessed that at least $100,000 of his contributions to the DNC and the Clinton-Gore campaign had come from a Chinese aerospace executive – a lieutenant colonel in the Chinese military – who had given him $300,000. It was the same Chaoying involved with Loral, who happened to also be the daughter of the PLA's top general and a key member of China's Communist Party leadership.

Chung later told prosecutors that the $300,000 had been ordered into his bank account by the head of Chinese military intelligence, whom he said he met through the lieutenant colonel.

During the 1996 election cycle, Chung was a regular White House visitor. All told, he visited 57 times. During one visit to the first lady's office, he handed Hillary Clinton's chief of staff a check for $50,000. Three days earlier, he had received a $150,000 wire transfer from the Bank of China.

Hillary Clinton posed for a White House photo with Chung and two Chinese officials, and later penned a personal note on a print of the photo for Chung: "To Johnny Chung with best wishes and appreciation – Hillary Rodham Clinton."



We now have one MORE of many scandals yet to unfold in the Clinton campaign.

When Norman Hsu turned himself in to authorities yesterday, I'm sure Hillary Clinton wasn't smiling.

Well, Hillary was smiling when this crook gave Hillary $850,000!! (see below how happy Hillary is at this money-launderer)



I doubt that others with Hsu's money in their campaign coffers, like Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, John Kerry, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Mary Landrieu and Al Franken, were happy. Add the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to the list, too.

It's not good to have a campaign donor turn himself in on a grand theft charge, appear in court, be handcuffed, and held on $2 million bail. Then, there's also that annoying FBI investigation into Hsu's campaign donations.

[Oldtimer]

Yep Ol Twoface (or is it 4 or 5 )- oops I mean Hoppy or are you into cartoon Characters today Knowing how you want to be so open and transparent- and fair and balanced- I thought I'd help you...You forgot one...

[hopalong]

Heck I would think with all your contacts with the FBI/CIA and all the SECRET meetings you have with them about national problems you could come up with some real DIRT!
Or are you too busy trying to impress your buddys at the local water hole, OPPPS you cannot impress them they already know you for what you are!!!
You are a whiner, and that is one of your good points, OPPPS that is your only GOOD point!
Speaking of cartoons, you make me laugh you are such a sorry old grumpy man, probabally got that way when you were spending all that time in the legislator or was it the senate, I forget which it was you were bragging about in another forum, the same on you threateoned to contact one of your FRIENDS/CONTACTS in the fbe to investigate someone who opposed something you said!
Or are you just bitter you only got to serve one term as sherriff in that one horse county you was sherriff in!

Go take your pills old whiner, "you know the ones that help your wife tolerate you!"

Oh I am disappointed in you, two posts and you failed to use your new found word of the year!!

edited to add last sentence!

[Oldtimer]

Lets see- we figured out you have been snoopy, queeksdraw, hopalong cowboy, maandpa,---today your paranoia must have your inner self thinking you are Old Grumpy....

[hopalong]

Is that your best comeback BUFORD!!!!

[hopalong]

Poor old whiner, I am picking on him so i guess i should be listening for the sound of a black helicopter and the knock on my door when he sends all his contacts to pick me up, or do they only use the black helicopter to transport you to them meetings?
Take your meds old timer, so you wife and kids can tolerate you.
You are so much fun

[CattleArmy]

[Oldtimer]

[hopalong]

Oh I know who I am and I also know what you are!!
And every post you make I gain more identities by your count!