WP: House Of Cards ( "A Fundraiser the Clintons Will Never Forget")

[Pirate Smile]

House Of Cards
What do Cher, a Hollywood con man, a political rising star and an audacious felon have in common? Together they gave Bill and Hillary Clinton a night they'll never forget -- no matter how hard they may try

By April Witt

Sunday, October 9, 2005; Page W10

The caller lied easily. He'd had practice. It was Raymond Reggie, a New Orleans businessman and Democratic activist who happened to be Sen. Edward Kennedy's brother-in-law. He also happened to be in a lot of trouble.

Reggie was calling for David Rosen, a Chicago-based political fundraiser. When Rosen's receptionist asked his name, Reggie responded, "Tell him it's his only friend in the whole wide world from Mardi Gras Town, U.S.A."

Reggie wasn't David Rosen's friend. Rosen just didn't know that yet.

This was August 29, 2002. Reggie was telephoning at the request of the FBI, to which he was beholden because of a spectacularly unsuccessful attempt at bank fraud. The bureau had Reggie on a hook and was using him as bait to try to prompt Rosen, a top fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, to implicate himself in a violation of federal election law. Rosen had no idea the FBI was secretly recording the call when he came on the line and heard his purported pal joke about the piped-in radio programming he'd endured on hold.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/04/AR2005100401150.html

It is a five page article.

[stillcool]

1. What is this?...

Jeez its like a frigging novel. Does it take that much horse-crap to do a drive-by tit-for-tat job?

[Old and In the Way]

2. Was Freeh still in charge of the FBI?

Sounds like entrapment to me...

[Wickerman]

3. hmmm, a lot of nothing, just like Whitewater

"Witnesses for the defense and prosecution agreed, ironically, that Hillary Clinton's campaign didn't, in the end, benefit financially from underreporting of gala costs. Her campaign netted a paltry $57,000 out of $1.1 million raised."