by starroute » Fri Sep 16, 2005 2:26 am
This first quote is from WorldNetDaily in 2000, and it has a lot on Rosen's involvement in Democratic funny money dealings under Clinton -- together with some right-wing paranoia from the likes of Larry Klayman, wondering why the Bush campaign would be employing Rosen and whether he could be some sort of Gore plant!<br><br>(It still isn't clear to me just what was going on in Greenberg Traurig in the 90's, but it looks like, at most, fairly low level corruption connected mainly with Democrats. Then Rosen goes over to Bush's camp in 2000, and suddenly you get a lot of high-powered Bush supporters like Abramoff coming into the firm and pumping the corruption level up into overdrive.)<br><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://w114.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=20786">w114.wnd.com/news/article...E_ID=20786</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Rosen, one of Greenberg Traurig's most prominent members, was instrumental in helping reelect Gore and President Clinton in the last campaign. But his fund-raising tactics got him in hot water.<br><br> * Rosen and his firm have been tied to illegal foreign donations from Miami Beach developer Thomas Kramer, a German citizen, and Mark Jimenez, a citizen of the Philippines.<br><br> * In fact, Greenberg Traurig in 1998 was fined $77,000 for soliciting an illegal donation from Kramer. The firm's fine ranks in the top 20 levied by the Federal Election Commission.<br><br> * As DNC finance chairman, Rosen supervised the activities of convicted fund-raiser John Huang, then DNC vice chairman of finance. After the '96 election, the DNC had to return about half of the more than $3 million raised by Huang, since it came from illegal foreign sources.<br><br> * Former Justice Department special prosecutor Charles LaBella targeted Rosen during his investigation into 1996 fund-raising abuses by the DNC and Clinton-Gore campaign.<br><br>On page 61 of his July 1998 interim report, LaBella said: "There are several incidents involving John Huang, Marvin Rosen, David Mercer and the DNC which are troubling.<br><br>"These incidents suggest at some level, certain DNC fund-raisers were actively engaged in conduct which had the effect of concealing questionable fund-raising conduct from the FEC and the public," he added. "The particulars are detailed below:"<br><br>But Attorney General Janet Reno redacted the details about Rosen and the others. The following two-and-half pages of LaBella's report are blank.<br><br> * Rosen also was one of the participants in a controversial White House meeting held on Nov. 21, 1995, in which DNC and Gore staffers discussed diverting part of donations into Clinton-Gore hard-money accounts, which are subject to federal election law. Gore also was there.<br><br>But he's told prosecutors under oath that he didn't participate in the hard-money discussions because he was in the bathroom at the time. Too much iced-tea, he says.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>John Huang, by the way, was working for the Lippo Group -- a name that also comes up in connection with both Pat Robertson and Joe Allbaugh (late of FEMA):<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/pryor1.htm">www.atheists.org/flash.line/pryor1.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Despite the ties of Lippo operatives like John Huang to the Clinton White House, Pat Robertson -- a solid backer of both Bush presidents and Attorney General Pryor -- is also part of the nexus, beginning with his friendship and business links to Mochtar Riady, the Lippo founder and patriarch. Robertson, along with son Timothy, have boasted of their high-level contacts within the Chinese state apparatus. And the Riadys teamed up with Robertson in a multi-million dollar deal to launch China Entertainment Broadcast Television, Ltd., a media network based in Hong Kong which soothed Chinese sensibilities by providing "no news, no sex, no violence" TV content throughout the region.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/fl.politics/browse_thread/thread/c7a2e01385aeb245/d48763bcd0469bea?lnk=st&q=%22joe+allbaugh%22+%22haley+barbour%22&rnum=4&hl=en#d48763bcd0469bea">groups.google.com/group/f...bcd0469bea</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Following G.W.'s election to the presidency, Allbaugh was named the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Interestingly, as reported by Judy Sarosohn in the Oct. 19, 2000, Washington Post, M. Diane Allbaugh, Joe Allbaugh's wife, registered with the U.S. Senate in September 2000 as a lobbyist on behalf of Entergy -- the same firm linked to indicted Chinese businessman James Riady and convicted felon John Huang. Entergy is not only also a big Clinton-Democrat supporter, but attempted to enter into a joint venture with the Lippo Group, Huang's and Riady's business enterprise. Huang and Riady are believed to be Communist Chinese agents, as the Lippo Group has known ties to Communist Chinese intelligence, as discovered by the Thompson Committee in 1997.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>Entergy is another firm that switched its allegiance over from the Democrats to the Republicans -- in their case, in 1998 when there was a change of CEO's. Entergy also happens to be a major energy company down in the New Orleans area and, like every other firm connected with Allbaugh, seems likely to do very well out of the current troubles down there. <br><br>All of this, in turn, seems to run parallel to the K Street Project -- the Republican attempt, starting when they took the House in 1994, to monopolize the DC lobbying trade. But if Scalia was bought off in 2000, it goes beyond the ordinary lobbyist brand of corruption and into something far more profoundly destabilizing. <p></p><i></i>