Hillary’s New Campaign Cash Cows: Chinese Dishwashers and Illegal Aliens
Friday, October 26, 2007
By Tom Fitton
Judicial Watch President
I highly recommend that you read an editorial published
in this week’s Washington Post, entitled, “Dishwashers
for Clinton, Once Again a Zeal for Campaign Cash Trumps Common Sense.”
The article concerns the latest in a long line of campaign fundraising scandals
involving Hillary Clinton:
“Donors whose addresses turn out to be tenements.
Dishwashers and waiters who write $1,000 checks. Immigrants who ante up
because they have been instructed to by powerful neighborhood associations, or,
as one said, ‘They informed us to go, so I went.’ Others who say they
never made the contributions listed in their names or who were not eligible to
give because they are not legal residents of the United States. This is
the disturbingly familiar picture of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential
campaign presented last week in a report by the Los Angeles Times about
questionable fundraising by the New York senator in New York City's Chinese
community. Out of 150 donors examined, one-third ‘could not be found using
property, telephone or business records,’ the Times reported. ‘Most have not
registered to vote, according to public records.’”
So, to summarize:
A few weeks ago, the press outed Hillary’s top
fundraiser, Norman
Hsu, as a fugitive from justice. Hsu was recently charged with
creating a $60 million Ponzi scheme and using “straw donors” to illegally
contribute to political campaigns.
Then, it was discovered that another top fundraiser,
Indian American businessman Sant
S. Chatwal, is fighting governments on two continents to escape bankruptcy
and millions of dollars in tax liens.
Just last week, I wrote about new campaign finance
reports indicating that Hillary’s presidential campaign has been forced to cut
$1.3
million in Hsu-related refund checks to hundreds of donors since July 1 —
more than triple than any other Democratic candidate.
And now this: Chinese dishwashers and illegal
aliens donating tens of thousands of dollars to Hillary’s campaign.
Illegal? Probably. Suspicious? Without a doubt.
As the Washington
Post points out, it’s not that the Clintons don’t see the red
flags. (How could they not?) They simply choose to ignore
them. They allow the mad scramble for campaign cash to trump all other
considerations. And they will not stop until they are caught and punished
severely. (When questioned on these scandals, the Clintons throw their
hands in the air and say that under existing rules it is impossible to monitor
their campaign fundraising activity. Ridiculous. All they need is a
more stringent vetting process that focuses on red flags instead of
loopholes.) The Post does not mention that the Clintons’ penchant for
suspect Chinese-connected cash goes back to their days running Arkansas and now
through each one of their three presidential campaigns.
After following the news these past few weeks, there is
little doubt as to why Hillary is crushing her competition when it comes to
presidential campaign fundraising. It’s not quite as difficult when you’re
willing to cheat.
Until next week…
Tom Fitton
President
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